bironeaj

1 hour ago, H&T said:

-Wait until you get GC and living in that county for more than a year to get the in-state tuition. It just a year, so why we need to rush?

-Go to community college and finish the core class like History, Government, Arts...etc and save money.

-After about 2 year, you can transfer to another 4-year University.

24 minutes ago, Sarah&Facundo said:

My husband attends college right now as a regular student with in-state tuiition. We don't even have the EAD yet. You don't have to be an international student....

First off, the state tuition residency requirement is set by the school, not the state (ours was 2 years). Also, my wife only has 2 years of school left. She wants to start working - not drift for a year. We also didn't say you HAD to be an international student. My wife is considered an international transfer student because that's what she is. She started college in her country before coming here. You guys are missing the point of this article. We wrote this just to let people know that it is possible to attend college while on a K-1 and without an EAD or GC. We didn't know this was possible until months after she got here. We tried looking online if she was able to attend but there was a big lack of information. Also, the articles we found were ancient. We were just trying to give people tips on how to do this. 

I’m doing this post because we were looking for something to help us in this process and didn’t find anything super helpful. So, I’m gonna write the experience we had with going to college while waiting for my AOS. (I applied for my AOS already, now waiting for the interview.)

We thought I had to wait for the Green card, so we didn’t even worry about anything (basically money to pay for it). I went to the university just to talk about the possibilities and she said I could start next semester as an International Student and when I had the Green Card, I could give them a copy and they would consider me a transfer student.

Then, the next worry is a loan. We don’t have the right for government aid(FAFSA) since we don’t have a real status, so we need a private loan. (Or, if you’re rich, just pay for it yourselves lol) Searching on Google, we saw that Discover had the best reviews. My husband’s credit was approved (a cosigner is needed, and they need to have credit score ran and approved), but they did not accept the NOA1 for the adjustment of status (I-797C). On their website says that to approve you, they’d accept I-94 (which everyone has), but nope. Anyway, we spent like 3 weeks receiving emails saying something was missing on my application, calling and receiving calls trying to see what could work for them to accept my application). I uploaded my K1 visa, my passport, I-797C (which is all we have before the green card), my marriage certificate… None of this was enough, they needed at least my EAD (which we all know it also takes a while too).  I mean, it’s pretty stupid that you have a cosigner to pay for it (if you don’t) and don’t get approved. So my husband got pissed and decided to look for another company. And Sallie Mae, in 1 hour, approved everything. It’s not an ad, guys. It’s just what worked for us. And it happens their interest rates were even lower than Discover.

It’s important to know that it’s not every university that will accept you as an International Student, I think they have different rules regarding that. I mean, I can’t guarantee that all of them will, but mine did.

But then we need Toefl test (Or IELTS, or any other English proficiency the university might take). Search about that too.

If you guys have any doubts regarding this, message me. If I know the answer, I will be happy to help.

Vandressa 

On 2/9/2018 at 5:52 PM, bironeaj said:

Just got my NOA2 in the mail dated 2/5 and the website still shows no update. Just wanted to let you guys know. 

Just wanted to update you guys again. USCIS website still shows no update for my case even though paper copy of NOA2 was received on 2/9. Check your mailboxes today. I'm thinking the USCIS website tracker is totally inaccurate.

Just now, CaptainAmerica said:

Congratulations! Out of interest, did you have USPS tracking to see this coming?

Thanks. No, not available in my area. 

17 minutes ago, Impatiently said:

Hello - Just ignore the person who jumped down your throat. I clearly read what you posted and there was only asking how you could help. If you want to collaborate on something, I will work with you. I have coded a little but I am sure you can do this with your eyes closed.

Thanks for the offer. I will PM you with details. Anyone else wanting to help, let me know and I'll add you as a contributor to the GitHub repo.

4 minutes ago, Swissmiss82 said:

call me crazy but ehhhh - how long have u been on this forum?

 

since monthhhhhhs if not ages, there are some awesome people like @Naes that run a script that was made previously from another VJ member.

every month we had one guru that did run these numbers to update this forum...

so not sure why she has to explain in so much detail, as she's running the scan and not anyone else?

if there is a volunteer of the month of august, i'm sure she'll hand over as she's a sept filer and does all other kinds of calculations and things....

 

as this is all non personal information with these wac's she's running, there shouldn't be some comments like that.

 

what i find a bit disappointing, is you questioning her this way, when you (and i'm sure everybody else is already) should be thankful for someone like her running this for us. it is not only time consuming, but she dedicates a loooot of freetime in this stuff to please us and give us some comfort with these scans.

 

sorry to vent - but i found your message pretty disrespectful and i don't think @Naes should be questioned as she's been on this forum for about 150 days running scans and helping out, researching, giving answers and all that!

Who cares about how long I have been posting on this forum? I am here trying to help the community.  I think its ridiculous that everyone has to come to this forum waiting for 1 person to run a scan. While I do appreciate @Naes running the scans, this is a process that can be completely automated and posted to a website for anyone to view without human intervention. I was looking for a program I could start with and improve. Since @Naes doesn't want to give up the script, I have created my own. I am not trying to disrespect @Naes , I am simply trying to make it easier for people to see what dates are being processed. I honestly thought @Naes would be happy that he/she wouldn't have to run these things every day, but whatever. 

I already have the script done that does the scan. I am currently in the process of creating the website with cool graphs and stats on the cases. 

By the way, all of my code will be published to GitHub after I get this application running. Anyone will be able to download it and run their own scan.... Because sharing is caring

17 minutes ago, Naes said:

Hi

 

it is ok and it is not really tiring, and if someone had stepped up before I would gladly leave it but as it already started I'm doing it.

 

I already explained how I'm doing these, it is the same thing as case tracker but through computer and that's it. Just using a script made by a member.

 

the reason why we didn't share it with every one is because of the servers capacity. As this is a big bulk it takes time and when 3 different months are scanning around same time it makes it way slower. And on top of that everyone is using apps to check not just here but everywhere. So in order to keep servers not heavy loaded it is made by 1 person in each month so far. 

 

However as these results are private and i found that some people shared these with wac numbers on fb and as I do not want to be responsible for that at the moment I think less maybe better in this situation. A month only goes for 1 month the most 2 months so I don't think it's necessary to put it out to web.

 

i am not using case numbers submitted by anyone for that matter. These involves cases that are not vj members. And these are only to see which dates they are touching.

 

Also wac number order actually means nothing.  And we have quite a lot of proof from other months. So what's important is dates they touch. 

 

Also someone asking this 3-4 times won't change my mind, or just because you decided to ask it out here instead of a message this time won't change my answer either.

No problem, Naes. I am already working on a website that updates automatically. Thanks for your help.

I will be posting a link to my website after everything is up and running.

11 hours ago, Naes said:

So for 4 days now I wake up at 4-5 am to put the scan... I'm thinking of not doing it tomorrow.. Reverse psychology!! What do you guys think? 

 

 by the Murphy's law this can be the key to get those updates online!

Naes,

We really appreciate you posting the mid day scans. I totally understand how it can be tiring to run these everyday. I think it would be beneficial to everyone in the VJ community for you to write a detailed post on how you are running these scans, so that we can run our own. This way, you wont have to be the one doing it. Whoever is online can run the scan and post the results. 

I suspect you are running some kind of custom program to retrieve these results? I am a programmer for a living and am thinking about making a website that can do these scans automatically from a compiled list of case numbers submitted by users and or pulled from VJ timelines.

1 hour ago, MandW said:

this is like 3 days in a row they haven't updated anything so why is this? what are they doing??? I would figure they would be working on files but seems like they aren't doing anything.

and how to use the ap to see the scans?? haven't figured that one out yet

They probably found an annoying little fly buzzing around your file