Sav&Har

Hi, after busy months on my new job came back to see how you guys have been doing. I just stumbled upon your timeline and noticed you FINALLY! got an interview scheduled. Best of luck to both of you in the interview.

When my US fiancee and I began our relationship, she was still legally married to her ex-husband but physically separated, obviously. They were legally divorced a few months before we filed. We had no issues at all with the petition nor at the interview.

Also notice that not all SSA office staff is well documented to provide a SSN (without authorization to work) to K1 holders. And they might as well tell you, that you can't get one until EAD. That is not to say, you can't go and find out, however.

Had my AOS/GC interview on the 19th of June, 2019. 
 
Update on website: New Card is Being Produced
 
Thank God

My green card case status just changed to "New card is being produced"  Yay! 🎉🎉🎉 Glad we waited just one day for the decision since our interview!
 
Also, an advice to you - I remembered that the officer yesterday said that when people collect evidence, they should bring something showing for the whole period of marriage, not just grab bills from the counter for a current month. E.g. bring utility bills for all months and not just one recent bill. Every officer is a bit different but this made sense

Hey guys, so we had our interview today. 
 
I think the interview went pretty good. The officer went through our application with us and asked questions to confirm some of the things in it. He asked my husband my date of birth, otherwise most of the questions from the application were directed to me. 
 
Then he asked us about our relationship, how we met and when, when we moved from just dating to a relationship, how and when we got engaged. If my husband met my parents and speaks some of my language since he lived in my home country for a while, some questions about his stay there and when and why he decided to go back to the US. He asked some more details about us but nothing weird or tricky. The whole conversation felt natural, he talked both to me and my husband this whole part of the interview. 
 
He asked about what kind of evidence we brought so I went through all the documents and then through our photo album. As I was showing the evidence I kept asking him if he wants copies for this or that as I thought he may want to keep certain things (like our joint bank account) and others not that much (like a macys bill with my address on it). He just said it’s up to me and that he will make the decision based on these documents after the interview. So I just gave him copies of everything I had, for him to keep, just to be safe. 
I thought we had a lot of evidence and felt good about it but him being kind of vague about what he wants to see and his "show/give me what you have and then I’ll make a decision later” approach made me a bit nervous as I couldn’t tell from his behavior if it was good enough or not.
 
Nevertheless, he was very friendly and smiling the whole time. Explained how the 2 year GC works etc. and that we could either get a request for more evidence in the mail or the actual GC. So now we just have to wait. I’m not surprised as I’ve read that our office sometimes doesn’t give any decision on the spot. Even he said that he never decides on the spot as he doesn't want people to be disappointed if when reviewing the documents later he decides he needs more evidence. At least some sort of indication that everything was fine would be nice though.
 
Our case status changed to "Interview Was Completed And My Case Must Be Reviewed" later today. And now we wait again

Then another reason to stick to the CR1 route. You can plan multiple short trips while waiting.

Most yes. It means they don't need any further background checks or investigation, until the interview. Some people call it the "real wait". From there it might take 1 to uncertain amount of months depending on the field office. 

That's unfortunate.......but now it is time to move past the anger.  Set a goal, Develop a plan, take action, and move forward.........

I am glad I am not the only one noticing this. There is an obvious reason the first B1/B2 was voided in the first place. If they wanted him to keep the visa, they would had simply denied entry and allowed to come back another time.

They are stupidly wasting their time.  The chances of his getting another B1/B2 are slim......

That is good to know.

Agree

If it was an affidavit things would be different but for translation there are no rules as to who should do it as long as it is certified by the translator.
 
I translated myself no problem so far as it seems like  common practice.

Admittedly I haven't found any specific "rule" on that. I always understood that it can be seen as a biased if is done by the applicant or close family member. However, I can be wrong on that.

While is true that is up to the applicant, given we are ones choosing whether to apply for the benefit or remain of out of status and subject to deportation. People shouldn't think that way, but rather to apply for the benefit as soon as they can, otherwise we're leaning to doing something that is against the law. Once the 90 days are up, we are (were) in unauthorized stay and subject to removal from the country. There is really no real benefit on not applying for it sooner anyway. Some of us happen to have an extra delay on applying for the benefit with a more justifiable reason (at least myself I wish we could have applied within the 90 days) but waiting years to apply for no reason just seem to me like a complete negligence and probably not even deserving of the benefit.

My greencard arrived early! Today! Wogoooo!!! See you all at ROC!

Simply put, your AOS application/adjudication will not be affected solely because you go out of status, and thus there is not such a loop, your AOS will be processed just as normal. It could be any other reason but not that. But as I said before on this thread. File as soon as possible. Your question is totally okay. What get people, or should I say a few, riled up and maybe surprised (because of how commonly it has been asked recently) is the fact that you should and is important to assume the process (specially K1 holders) is not over until you have a residence in hand. So it's important to know ahead of time want is the next step, and act accordingly and in a timely manner.

Even for people who are aware of the process, things can be delayed for any reason, but you should try the best you can to avoid delays. We already anticipated even before we applied for the K1 visa that upon my arrival we were going to be a little constrained financially and were expecting a possible delay on applying in time for AOS, it end up being true and I was out of status for almost 3 months but I was always was aware of the risk. Luckily I am a home person and don't go out much beyond yard chores for my in-laws near where I live. Even a 3min walk to the post office if I were to be asked for ID, it would had been over for me. And there is no way to get around it after that point, if there is, I can assure is not cheap, easy and/or pleasant. In the end I was not asked about it at the AOS interview and didn't cause any issues in my approval. I also didn't have the vaccinations completed on my K1 overseas exam and I had to re-do the medical exam (I was unlucky finding a doctor who just fill out the vaccination part of the i-693 Form) but I made sure I performed it and sent it with the AOS package to avoid any delays in the processing. 

Same day, early in the morning It had your current notice and then later on like about 5pm, it changed to USPS picked it up, status.

Thank you guys for all the advice about my missing interview notice! I called to USCIS again and spoke to another tier 2 today. I'm shocked how the answers differ also for the tier 2 officers! The guy yesterday basically said they won't fax it and that I need to do an erequest. He couldn't see anything about my interview on the system.
 
Today I had such a different experience! The guy today before me even saying anything about why I'm calling summarized that I was scheduled an interview and for when and that he can see the notice was returned to them. And I was like yes, I called 2 weeks ago and was told to call back in couple weeks if I don't receive the notice so you could fax it to me. And he is like we usually fax it if it is 5 days before the interview, for you it's 12 days now but I'll put in the request and you should hopefully have it faxed today. He wished me good luck at the interview too. Such a nice guy! 
 
We got the notice faxed within 30 minutes! I feel so relieved!
 
I'll summarize and post the information in a separate thread today so it can help other people experiencing the same problem. I found many descriptions of the same issue on here but not really the result/solution

The positive side of that is they are aware they, and not you, are the ones with the interview notice at hand. And highly likely they will attempt to re-send again.
 
I faced almost similar situation with the NOA1 of my AP. Long story short, where I live we don't receive mail directed to our homes and we are assigned a PO Box in our nearest Post Office, for free. The AP form only have a section for the physical address and not a mailing address like the other forms (AOS/EAD). So USCIS mailed it to my physical address. Whoever was at the post office probably couldn't link the physical address with our assigned PO Box, and didn't put it on the PO Box, so it was returned to USCIS. On April 10 I got that same update and I believe the next day or same day it updated again saying "Document Was Mailed to Me" (or similar) saying they sent it again. After I got that notice online I let the Post Office staff that I might have a letter in the next few days and might have my physical address and asked them to put it on the PO Box. I don't think It took more than 4 days to arrive so maybe there is hope you can receive in time, your interview is 13 days away so even if is mailed tomorrow, it should be plenty of time to arrive.

This fear of missing mail is why we made sure soon after PoE to go to local post office that is actually in charge of day to day mail delivery to us (And is not same as large post office most people use to actually send mail out) and let them know there is a new person living at the address, and they updated the name on the mailbox the next same day. 

In other news, while we wait... My wife got her very first FICO score, 713 according to Wells Fargo, which is actually "Good" Capital One now won't stop sending her credit card offers. 

The positive side of that is they are aware they, and not you, are the ones with the interview notice at hand. And highly likely they will attempt to re-send again.
 
I faced almost similar situation with the NOA1 of my AP. Long story short, where I live we don't receive mail directed to our homes and we are assigned a PO Box in our nearest Post Office, for free. The AP form only have a section for the physical address and not a mailing address like the other forms (AOS/EAD). So USCIS mailed it to my physical address. Whoever was at the post office probably couldn't link the physical address with our assigned PO Box, and didn't put it on the PO Box, so it was returned to USCIS. On April 10 I got that same update and I believe the next day or same day it updated again saying "Document Was Mailed to Me" (or similar) saying they sent it again. After I got that notice online I let the Post Office staff that I might have a letter in the next few days and might have my physical address and asked them to put it on the PO Box. I don't think It took more than 4 days to arrive so maybe there is hope you can receive in time, your interview is 13 days away so even if is mailed tomorrow, it should be plenty of time to arrive.

Tracking number was saying it would arrive tomorrow by 8PM...but it actually came today around noon! So happy!! Now to wait until ROC  ❤️

My presumption (and not based on the real truth) is. Since cases originating from a State are only likely processed by the field office assigned for that State (ie. The Field Office in Colorado will NOT process a case originating from Vermont, and likely only cases originating from Colorado) and that some States are less common on immigrant settlement, the processing backlog is probably lower. There are a few people from Ohio who have had about the same timeline as me and has been as speedy as me too, which again, probably is not a common state for immigration settlement but I could be wrong.

As for EAD/AP I am fairly sure they are proceeded in Lee's Summit*, MO National Benefit Center only (which could mean, all applications nationwide for those benefits are sent there), just like the I-129F which is processed at the California Service Center. And agreeing with the above reply. The combo card get instantly closed upon approval of the AOS for some of the lucky ones, which means reducing the backlog for those who live in States with a higher backlog on AOS.