Al Southner

Al Southerner - I said my "ex" husband. Not the one I'm presently married to.

doodle,

Missed the ex part... understood.... I hope the one you are married to is paying all his taxes, including doggy taxes in your state. Irrespective of whether you have a dog or not...

cheers,

well if they have a way of finding out I'd love to hear about it since my ex has been working under the table for years and the IRS can't do squat about it.

i guess that would be called an *audit* but really has nothing to do with this threaD.

Doodle,

Hope that your husband isn't caught or you will suffer while he's deported, this is, if he's not a citizen yet. GC doesn't deny the US govt from kicking you out of the country for certain crimes. Remember, only US citizen can get away with certain things, such as being a taliban member and living in afghanistan....

On the larger question of denial of AOS even married to USC. Here are some observations and facts.

No... unless the alien is involved has issues of moral turpitude (smoked weed and got caught, charged with dui, felony), conditions will bar him or her from completing a successful AOS. If you are married to a US citizen, working without permission, overstay etc, are forgiven. However, if you never paid taxes when you were working illegally, it could be grounds for denial, till you pay them.

However, marriage to a US citizen pretty much cure minor indiscretions, but not the major moral misbehaviors...such as being caught with a dead hooker in your manhattan apt... If you are an immigrant, wait till you are a citizen to commit your worst crimes... if you so desire...

Hi everyone,

Check this out....what the HELL is this? Anyone experience something similar? How long did it take to reschedule?

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Interview descheduled by USCIS.

The interview scheduled in this case has been canceled. You will be notified by mail if the appointment is rescheduled, when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when this case will be done. This case is at our MISSOURI SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Az,

Sorry.... The US govt owes no one an explanation. With this being said, you should just go to the interview as scheduled, take the letter which they had sent you inviting you to attend the interview. Act as if you never received the email from them. I know people who received the same email, I told them to go. Guess what? All of those people showed up for the interview and were approved, USCIS officers never mentioned anything about their interviews being cancelled.

However, if you receive a letter from USCIS informing you of this, then you don't have to show up. However, for an email, I wouldn't trust it at all. My advise, you want to be done and approved with your greencard process, act like an idiot, get hold og all your immigration paperwork, evidence go to the scheduled interview. If they interview you and approve your case, then what do you lose? if they tell you your case was rescheduled, you can always find out when it will be rescheduled. The officer can always check in their system. if you don't show up, USCIS is a terrible organization, your petition can be denied based on lack of showing up for your interview. So, take that email with a grain of salt...

Is there anyone who changed his lawyer while the case is pending?

We hired a lawyer and already paid a full at the biginning of AOS, but he keeps asking for additional fees for every single steps such as EAD renewal, sending update request letter for our AOS pending. Is this normal? This lawyer is asking us to pay $200 just to send the inquiry letter and $500 for EAD renewal request (renewal fee is included).

We want to replace our current lawyer with the new one, but we just afraid that it would cause any trouble such as more delay, pending, sending documents documents to the current lawyer instead of new one since lawyer also receives documents.

I really appreciate any opinions on this. Thank you.

Screw your lawyer. Just a greedy little bum....

Listen, request all of your file from his office, those which are due to you. I hope that you copies of each and everything which he send to USCIS. So, you can just re-send the EAP renewal application, it is a simple process, so why you need him?

If your case is simple, go ahead and be on your own... some lawyers are greedy...

Heina,

Thanks for the advise.

I went to the forum on that website which you suggested, and was able to get some good advise on what my wife's friend should do. Key issues:

His naturalization oath ceremony will go on without any issues. However, wife should not come to the ceremony. Immediately, after his ceremony, file all the papers to the Chicago Lockbox and make her legal.

The USCIS won't quizz or hold her naturalization oath because of her status, this is an irrelevant part of the process.

I am going to advise him to complete all the necessary paperwork,SIGN, so that once he is done, make copy of his certificate and send the package to chicago overnight. This is better, so that should ICE make a midnight hour arrest, he is able to rescue his wife. I-485 will kill govt removal proceedings, so she will be fine.

My wife and I will be attending his ceremony, and will shed light on other aspect of this case once he's done.

Thanks to all you all who view my topic and offered help. My wife will be happy to hear this side of the story, and I will have a good night....

Satellite,

Thanks for your response. He didn't know the complexities of petition for her. So, he was told by people that should he file for an I-130 now, it will take yrs to be approved and better wait till he's a citizen. My wife tells me that his wife is clean, never committed any crime or evaded any removal proceedings hearing. So, he is just concerned that he may not be able to complete his citizenship oath because of her immigration status. His wife has an undergrad degree in Biomedical Engineering, top of her class at Columbia Univ. She married this guy because they are like minded, love each other and hope to accomplish a lot together, but now he is really concerned about what might happen to his love life. Also, once her paperwork is straight, she wants to pursue a bio-tech graduate degree.

Kezzie, if you have nothing to say or contribute, it is better to save your energy rather offer a foolhardy response as you did.

I don't know what to suggest for your friend's situation, and I would guess probably a lot of people aren't real familiar with the particulars involved in your friend's situation. Therefore, I actually think Kezzie's advice to consult with an immigration attorney is a good idea. It doesn't have to be expensive, and your friend will know that he's getting good information. Tomorrow at 11 am Central Time have him join Laurel Scott's chat at www.visacentral.net. She is a really good attorney and very knowledgable.

Guys,

You have to file a lawsuit under Immigration policy, statute 1447(B) which stipulate, this is a paraphrase: if a candidate's application for naturalization has not been completed 120 days from the day of the initial examination, the candidate can seek a relief through his/her local district court.)

As such, if you have not been invited to an oath ceremony, then go to a local court and request a package on how to file a pro se civil case against the US govt. Look at the last notice you received from USCIS inviting to the interview, at the back of it, it tells you a relief which you seek.

You can sue the got on your own, and most people who have, have been able to be sworn in as USC in a relatively short time.

I was going thru the same situation last year.

I was interviewed in April 2005 and heard nothing after that... I kept on calling the 1-800 number and they kept on placing requests over requests and then finally in december I receive a letter from USCIS saying that I was scheduled to show up there on the 2nd of December... DUH !!! How would in the world i know i have to be there....and after this, I didn't waste any of my time calling the 1-800. I made an Info-pass appointment and filled out a sheet of paper explaning what had happened and then the officer said that she would forwarded this to the supervisor and I will receive a call from them.... No later than a month I received a call and was given a new date for the oath ceremony. So, I would suggest you to do the same and waste no time calling the 1-800 number.

Good Luck !!!!

Satellite,

Thanks for your response. He didn't know the complexities of petition for her. So, he was told by people that should he file for an I-130 now, it will take yrs to be approved and better wait till he's a citizen. My wife tells me that his wife is clean, never committed any crime or evaded any removal proceedings hearing. So, he is just concerned that he may not be able to complete his citizenship oath because of her immigration status. His wife has an undergrad degree in Biomedical Engineering, top of her class at Columbia Univ. She married this guy because they are like minded, love each other and hope to accomplish a lot together, but now he is really concerned about what might happen to his love life. Also, once her paperwork is straight, she wants to pursue a bio-tech graduate degree.

Kezzie, if you have nothing to say or contribute, it is better to save your energy rather offer a foolhardy response as you did.

Guys a complex one:

My wife's friend from High School recently got married to his fiancee, who came here on an F1 Visa in 2001.

However, he married his wife after filing for his Naturalization papers, just fresh from his interview. His timeline: Application to SC: Dec 2005, FP Feb 2005, Interview March, 2006, and he was hoping to be naturalized in June, so he married his fiancee in JUNE. However, he got stucked in the terrible name check like most people do. So, he is now finally being given an appt for oath ceremony in Dec 2006.

His concerns: his wife has been out of status for 18 months, and is concerned that she might be deported, because the letter which USCIS sends requires proof of marriage if you are now married since the last interview of your naturalization process. So, he has been married since June and YES he intends to provide the marriage certificate and copies. He is worried that once the immigration officials get hold of the certificate they might run a check on the status of his wife and find that she is a visa overstayer and put HOLD his naturalization until they find what is going on with his case. He considering sending his wife out of town for a week, until he is sure that after his naturalization (IF IS OCCURS), the ICE don't show up and take his wife away. Also, he thinking of not taking his wife to the oath ceremony cause the i'm officials might easily detain her.

Has anyone on this discussion board experience this?

Guys... I am not an expert on such complex cases, so you who have more knowledge, please offer me something to relay to him. I will copy all of your responses and send to him.

You check A. An immigrant visa number will be available to you, because once your US spouse files a I-130 petition for you, visa is immediately available if this petition is approved.

Your US spouse has to file this I-130 for you to receive this benefit. I-485 will precede this form and whatever you may requires, work permit while your greencard is in a processing stage, advance parole if you would like to travel while your petition is pending.

Good luckkk

on the first page of the i-485 form, part 2 it asks why you are applying for adjustment of status. i'm supposed to select B right? i came in as F1 and am currently married to a USC and filing for AOS. thx.

can someone help? im putting together my package now and dont want to make a mistake

anyone?

Guys,

Whatever the card mentions or require, leave the damn thing at home. My wife lost her card while we were flying from DC to NY on 2001. You know how long it took the ever competent USCIS to replace it? About 3 years, which was atrocious and wasted a whole lot of time for us. So, even now, she doesn't carry the card, because how many LPR have been asked by their local police officers to prove that they are here legally? If anyone can send me th statistic for the last couple of years, dinner at RUTH CHRIS steak house on ME. I tend to see local latinos (number prove that many latinos are here illegally, don't know or care) were we live doing landscaping work, but don't see them being stopped, and neither should they be, cause it will be racial profiling.

For example, my drivers license was issued though a non-immigrant visa, and each time I am stopped by a police officer, which is once every 3 years, not once has he asked to see my LPR or non-immigrant visa or US passport, because it has nothing to do with a state police. First of all, he is enforcing local traffic laws which have nothing to do with federal immigration laws. If anyone asks you for a LPR card, kindly write down his badge number and call his supervisor, because he/she is out of line and harassing you.

For all LPR's who carry their greencard, wait till it get lost and you will feel the squeeze and harassment of the incompetent USCIS in your rear-end. Make a copy, and leave it at home in a fire-proof safe, so goes your social card, memorize and leave home. Life will be enjoyable... :dance[/size]: [/font] [/size]

Congratulations on your approval...

Why didn't you go to the T & T embassy in NY to renew your passport, rather than send it to T & T? My wife is from Trinidad, and her passport expired and she went to her embassy in NY was issued a new one within a relatively short amount of time.

Congratulations on your approval...

Al

Hey Everyone, I had my Interview on Tuesday, Oct. 17 in Arizona, I have to say I was very nervous because I did not want to forget anything, and also I did not have my passport( send it out to my country embassy to get renew and have not seen it since) or any Valid ID. I arrived to my appointment about 25 minutes early, the guy outside ask us for our interview letter and to see our IDs, I should him my expired NY ID and he said that I would need permission to go inside, so we waited outside for about 10 minutes and finally we were aloud to go inside. We waited for about 15 minutes and finally my name was called. Our interview was very nice and friendly.

I was asked to see my

1. Original Birth certificate (because the copies he had received were not clear and he could not make out my date of birth)

2. He also asks for any joint bills or accounts, we give him copies of our insurance cards and Life insurance policy.

3. I also asked to see my I-94 (which he kept)

4. He also kept my old expired EAD card. The then ask me questions from our I-485 form

The question that he asked me where.

1. Full Name

2. Address

3. Date of Birth

4. SS number

5. parents name

6. where I was born

7. when and where did I enter the US, have I left since

8. and then the when down the list of questions about drugs and terrorist and so on

. He ask my husband

1. his name

2. SS number

3. if he had been married before,

4. how did we meet

5. if we live together before marriage

6. who was at our wedding

7. Did we go on a honeymoon?

He then told me that he was going to approval us but he only had our temporary file( our permanent file did not arrived in time for our interview) and he should received our permanent file in about 2 weeks and I should get the green card in the mail in about 2-3 months. The whole interview lasted about 10 minutes, I was so shock that it was so fast and easy, I forgot to ask him if the FBI check came back or not, but I guess it must have, it he told us we should received the green card in about 2-3 months right?

I received an e-mail on Wednesday the 18th, saying that my I-130 had been approve, but so far my I-485 has not been official approval, so hopefully but the end of this month we will receive that joyous e-mail. I’ll keep everyone undated and I also want to say a huge thank you for all the wonderful advice and information I have received from this website.