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17 minutes ago, rachied26 said:

Just curious I know I'm thinking way ahead, but does anyone know how long it takes to receive AOS and are able to work and  travel out the country once were married? Thanks 

You are not allowed to travel outside the country until your AP is approved as a part of the AOS. You can't really work until the AOS is completed either. I think the average was 3-4 months, but this used to only be 3-4 months as well so I have no real good idea. We are planning to have the same lawyer we had do this application help with the Green Card and other papers.

Hopefully you haven't visited too many places in the US before and can take some time to wander.

In the mean time you of course are able to get your drivers license and all your other paperwork done.

9 minutes ago, K+D said:

Thanks, looks like you should be receiving your approval soon! Best wishes to you. 

Hopefully I will get good news in a couple hours.

7 minutes ago, K+D said:

Hello,

 

On Monday, September 25th, I was alerted via email that I had an RFE coming my way. I received it in the mail yesterday (28th) and sent it off the same day visa priority express mail such that USCIS should receive it today. I am wondering what (if any) the average times to get approval are after USCIS receives an RFE. I realize that, as with anything dealing with USCIS, there is a pretty large span of time, but I was hoping some of you may have experience with RFEs and could provide some insight! It was a pretty easy fix...they wanted my passport biographic information page to go with the scans of my passport stamps I sent in as evidence of meeting once in the last year. 

Been running 10-14 for an average. Some longer some a hair shorter.

8 minutes ago, spike198 said:

Nothing in Informed Delivery.... I am beginning to worry that the Tier 2 gave me some misinformation. I can't wait until the day that I no longer stress about this process. 

I am actually planning to call Tier 2 today given how long it was between flagging me for the RFE and when they actually mailed the letter last time. I wonder if you are in the same boat, flagged but the person hasn''t gotten the packet closed off to send to NVC or something silly.

3 minutes ago, Yace said:

Day 150... any day now... any other 150ers?

165 with an RFE involved. I know of at least two cases over 170 with no RFE no nothing.

Speed probably isn't happening at this point. I think several of us from April are migrating into this forum due to lack of anything. Sad part is when I started this back in April and looked at where things had been I figured she would be back by October at the latest. Right now I think we will be lucky if she is back before Thanksgiving, more likely just pray it happens before Christmas.

2 minutes ago, Lorimedo said:

I'm seeing several May approvals. But our case hasn't been updated since May 10th. Does anyone know why this might be?..

Please fill in your timeline, right now that is tough to answer. When was your NOA1, did you already get an NOA2 or not? Please also remember that there are a large percentage of April cases that are still sitting at NOA1 only. The very lucky from May are starting to get some updates, but that is a fraction of the population of applicants.

14 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

Official part 2 for the April forum here, as linked for the moderators on our old one:

Just trying to keep the family together

The humor is that the moderator linked the second part 2 thread created. Every post before your linked one was created before the part 2 thread we are using now was created.

10 minutes ago, BlueCinderella said:

I'm just beginning to experiment with informed delivery, I think some items arrive the day image shows up or the day after (at least so far it has been the case for me.) For instance my NOA2 said Saturday and it did show up in the mail on Saturday- but I had a few other random pieces of mail arrive on different days. I think this is a relatively new system. At least its good to know that your NVC letter is coming! *Yay* if its missing, click the missing link! Give it a day or 2 before you report it!

Some mail naturally has a deliver date on it that gets scanned. So I have had stuff arrive a day before it is supposed to be delivered (junk), but it gets scanned because of size sometimes.

4 minutes ago, MeliiGo said:

Which one is the one you guys chose?

 

I dont even know how to look for it on the Chase website, do they have a "common name" for this kind of accounts? All I can see is options for  opening accounts as a USA resident

In terms of the Chase account she opened it herself when she was studying here in the US. HSBC is probably the best bet from an international standpoint, British bank with branches in Latin America, the US, Europe, Asia.

https://www.us.hsbc.com/1/2/home/personal-banking/intl-relocation-services/moving-to-us

2 minutes ago, MeliiGo said:

I think this is the most close option for what I was thinking about doing, but not entirely sure how to!

Thanks so much!

Glad I can help. I would seriously look into Chase, Citibank, CapitalOne, HSBC, or Ally Bank to see which might be the best option given the international nature. I know CapitalOne has some options where they charge no foreign currency fees making it easier to travel back home etc.

48 minutes ago, MeliiGo said:

Question for everyone!

Im just wondering here, how you guys are gonna deal with the "money" of the beneficiary.... 

Let me explain what I mean, I have a little savings account, is not much money but I cant not move with it in cash, so I want to know what should I do?

 

Opening a bank account at the USA at this point is almost impossible, since I dont even have the K1 yet....

So maybe you guys have more insight in this?

Every answer is gonna be appreciated

You might also consider looking into some of the more international bank or online banking options that exist. There are some banks like Chase or others that have digital accounts that you could get the number ahead of time setup and transfer via a bank to bank draft transfer. I know Ally Bank is also a purely online only bank and may allow for the international options.

I know my fiance has moved some money that way, though she can't move a ton since Nepal strictly controls money in and out of the country.

6 minutes ago, Stela&Eli said:

Quick question to those already sent RFE to CSC, how did you send your package, any suggestions?

 

I got my stuff together, made a photocopy of the RFE blue page for my record and sent it plus my documents via Priority Express. Got there in one day and done. I did write my wac# on the top of the document they asked for as well just in case it got separated from the document set from the RFE.

7 hours ago, Scandi said:

Not sure how it works on Nepal but in Sweden your passport has nothing to do with the greencard. You just need to send in the right documents to the right agency so they can register your marriage and new surname, just like we wuld if we got married in Sweden.

Nepal should have an agency where you go to change your name, contact them and ask about the process. You might be able to do it via the embassy in the US. For Sweden all we needed to do was to send in a copy of our marriage certificate (signed by two other people attesting they were exact copies of the originals)), copies of both our passport bio pages for identification (also signed by two other people) and a form from the specific agency where I filled in my previous name, new name and an explanation as to why I wanted to change my name (because of marriage). I sent it off to the agency in Sweden and my marriage was registered and my name was updated in their system within 2 weeks. Very smooth. 

A couple of months later I got an appointment with one of the Swedish consulates here on the west coast to get a new passport via their mobile passport station. Showed them my marriage certificate and papers from the Swedish agency that proved my name change. Got the passport sent to the same consulate about three weeks later where I picked it up.

Very smooth process, I hope it's as easy or even easier for Nepal.

I suspect it won't be. I think the nearest Consulate is Chicago for us. Downside of living in the middle of the country I suppose.

Thank you for the information though. We will have to look into it more when she gets back.

4 minutes ago, Stela&Eli said:

Yeah that's our case...I hope it's some easy and fast fix. Will let you know as soon as I get it. How long does it take to receive the hardcopy? And "best delivery time" back to CSC?

For our RFE it arrived 5 days later, sent out on the 11th, arrived in the mail on the 15th. If it hadn't been for government offices being closed I would have had it back out the 16th, instead I mailed it back on the 18th using Priority Express and they received it on the 19th. $20 to get it there in one day from Ohio but worth every penny for me to just know they got back working as fast as possible.

Just now, Stela&Eli said:

As I was following Aprilites, I will post also here. Not so good news for us but... RFE sent today. Let's see what could be!

So you were the alert that came across today. Sorry to hear it.

I would recommend reading through the following guideline for how they calculate it. https://www.uscis.gov/i-864p

1 minute ago, Tunapiano said:

I have an odd question. As I posted yesterday I got my RFE. But I have read some things in the past about this... Getting your k1 visa and then having a child here before the adjustment of status and green card come through. Does the fiance ( now the spouse) and/or the baby have to stay in the US for a period of time or the baby loses its citizenship? 

 

Back when Trump was changing things around may and June I read somewhere that one of his changes was that a newborn born to a permanent resident new to the US had to stay here for a year and neither the mom or the child could leave or risk the baby losing citizenship status. Maybe this is the wrong forum post for this i don't know. 

Probably a better question in the general forum area. This is really just a congregation of the April filers alone. Maybe ask in the larger process and procedure section?

More a general question on my part. For my fiance, once she changes her last name on her US documents for her drivers license etc, what would she need to do with her original passport. I assume she would need to wait until she has her green card and then send it back through her own countries process. But I wanted to make sure we are approaching this properly. Any good articles/tips would be appreciated.

Continuation for the April Group.

7 minutes ago, Noemi27 said:

Just got my rfe its requesting more evidence i only have one airplaine tiket from 2015  i just got my passaport like 3 months ago  so no stamps their  ! I have airplane tikets from

one month ago also What can i do can someone help !!!! 

Any and all photographic evidence, any receipts of from the trips. Basically anything you can use to document that the two of you have met in the past two years, the more of it you have the better.

2 minutes ago, PadieNerkBrapone said:

It's funny to me, from the Timeline's I've seen, that it also takes around 3-4 months between the NOA2 and the Interview. Hurry up so I can wait again. But I've read you kind of need that time since it takes, for some, a few visits for the Med Exam and up to a month for the police cert.

You can typically start on the police certs and everything ahead of time. Once you have the WAC# in most countries you can get that done pretty easily. I have seen a lot of timelines that after NOA2 it is only 2 months and 2-3 weeks of that is waiting on the NVC to be able to schedule interview.

3 minutes ago, Ste&Sel said:

We are on day 198.

Are they telling you anything at 198? Any inquiry results etc? I mean that is a scary long wait.

36 minutes ago, Melodica256 said:

again, he's scared. "they said wait 6 months and the senate would just see that we havent waited 6 months and ignore it"

I got my senator to do an inquiry at 140 days no questions asked. They won't ignore your inquiry. It is your best bet to shake something loose. It also takes them about a week or more to get you the forms for information release to be able to inquire anyway. Ask now by the time you get done setting up the inquiry if you haven't gotten NOA2 it will be 6 months.

33 minutes ago, Melodica256 said:

Sorry to keep posting negativity but I broke down yesterday. Waiting for NOA2 is still driving me insane and I can't cope. No RFE request - no action since April 11 (NOA1). I dont know what to do. My fiance doesn't want to call them - last time (and only time) we got a NOA2 they called and told us to wait for the 6 month mark. He wants to just wait for that, because they'll have a note on our case that we were pestering and he doesn't want to give them any reason to deny but I literally cannot cope can someone help me out?

13 minutes ago, spike198 said:

I know the feeling... it's absolute hopelessness as you watch everyone zoom by.  I would suggest calling again and just being nice as pie. We called 3 times between now and NOA1. I got a Tier 2 each time without any issues (I had to wait for a call back but they transferred me willingly each time). Once you get the Tier 2, I always used the line about how the tracker isn't working and you haven't received any status updates on your case. Ironically, twice when I called our case had been updated and we hadn't received any notice so it's a true statement. They asked several questions and then told me where we stood. They couldn't give me any info beyond that though. For instance, we got an rfe and he told me that I had an rfe coming but couldn't tell me when it was going to be sent. It was about 2 weeks later). I would suggest calling one more time.. good luck!!

@Melodica256 I am going to second what @spike198 is saying here. I called them and talked to tier 2 twice already. The first time they didn't have anything. The second time I had questions and they told me an RFE had been flagged 10 days earlier but not mailed yet. The status changed and it mailed out that same exact day. Sometimes it seems like things get frozen or messed up there. Just be calm and polite but firm about talking to tier 2 and they will be helpful. But seriously a single talk to tier 2 is not excessive especially with how long you have waited. I am planning on calling on Friday again to see if the RFE is finished yet or not. Though I will admit I was jealous as all get out of the April poster who was already completely finished with Visa in 160 days or something.