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17 minutes ago, Cathy Chandler said:

I’m sorry you feel that way. You are wrong! If you read all the posts, I have clearly stated before that he has met her for lunch several times in a town 40 minutes from him. Trust me, I am retired but run two small business and this is the busy time of the year but I am upset for my only living child and just wanted peoples honest opinions and boy, I have got them. Whether you believe mo or not, I appreciated your input until you called me a liar. And oh my God, the last thing I ever want is attention over anything!

Hi Cathy! I've posted a post about cultures and family issue stuffs about Viet families in general. Trust me, you're not the only parent whose fear that her only son would get scam/suffer out of the love relationship. Green card is not everything to a person. I remember when I first met my husband in Vietnam, hes the youngest in the family, and ready to graduate as an engineer. He's younger than me. And his mom is acting like you. She was fear that I will scam her son, and im from USA. I mean, what's there for me to scam him for? Why didnt I scare that once he comes to the US, has his green card and flee? But on the other hand, his mom scare if he comes to the US with me, and if I leave him, he'll have nobody and suffer, blah blah. I was offended and super angry because, first of all, he's a MAN! Even if things wont work out in the future, he's not the only one to suffer and loss. He can take it as a MAN. Second, what is there for him to lose? He knows his feelings and can make the choices, either take the chance or dont take it. Seriously, now that he's married me and we're expecting a baby, and he's still in one piece, nothing damage physically or mentally. 

Back to your son, you guys don't have to rush into marriage or anything just yet. Just take time. If your son is truly in love with her, all he has to do is care and be there for her. He doesn't have to marry her to get her a green card. Dont let the green card scam thoughts get in between the relationship. Because if the "thought" is there, even a true love relationship will refers to a green card relationship.

20 hours ago, Cathy Chandler said:

My 26 year old son who is not experienced in dating has met a Vietnamese woman 20 yr old considered 21 yr old in Vietnam. She came here on F1 student visa. She is living with her uncle and illegally working as facial expert in his shop. 2 months ago my son meets this girl/woman through online dating service. She first tells him that her uncle wants her to marry someone else in the states that can provide for her but she hasn’t met him and does not want to marry him. So they continue to skype and meet for lunch several times. She gives him gifts of clothes, etc seeming that she is really into him. She calls several times a day. Her uncle is very strict and won’t let her date and she is loyal to him because he took her in. So after about a month, she tells my son that the date on her visa runs out in one month and she will have to go back to Vietnam. We start looking into things and the date on her visa is only the date by which she has to come here. (There is an I-20 or something like that that has the actual date on it). So he tells her that and tells her she needs to get in school and she talks about how much she wants to go to school. I left out the part that earlier in the first month of talking, he offered to pay her way through college and she didn’t believe that he could. He had to prove to her that he had money that was accessible and she finally believed that he could do this. She tells him that she needs him to go to the school with her as she may not understand some things. He said he would, then all of a sudden she says that she can afford to pay her own way to school and that he does not have to go with her as she does not want to go just yet. Now the green card comes up. My son is not telling me as much as before but now he had a birthday and she gave him two pairs of shoes and 4 shirts and wrote a very convincing note about always being there for him. He tells me today that he is thinking about putting a ring on her with a prenup. They have not had the first real date. She wanted to meet me on skype and we talked an hour or so, the three of us. She is very sweet and cute. When he was here 4 days for Thanksgiving, I thought she would want to talk to me again so I asked my son if she wanted to talk with me again and she said later. Later never came and he was here two more days after that. I find that so strange as she was so eager to talk to me the first time and wanted my phone number and wanted a relationship with me. My husband and I wanted to believe that she truly cared for my son but this is too obvious to us that she is shamming him for a green card. He really deeply likes this girl. I know if she shams him, he may never trust again. He has everything going for him, good looking, beautiful smile, very intelligent, good job and yet he has no confidence in himself or self worth. He has social skills problems especially with women. I don’t know how to proceed or how I can help him with this. We had a great loss as we lost our daughter, our first born 3 1/2 years ago and this has deeply affected all of us especially my son. The loss of his sister has been incredibly hard. He looks to me for help and answers. Can anyone give me your opinions, advice?

Hi there. Im a Vietnamese myself and to be honest, most Viet families don't want the kids to married other races in general. They would love to see a "real" responsible man where he can makes decisions by himself. And the girl, I think she's kinda in between. She likes your son but in a way, she's probably scare of her family approval. She's only 20, no residency, have to live and work for uncle. Her uncle probably doesn't pay her. I know most Viet do that. They take care of the nieces and nephews, in return the young kids have to work for them for free.  And another thing in Viet culture is that; they dont like prenups. They dont like the guy is keeping the money. The wife is the one who keeps all the money and properties. Thats the number one reason why most Viets dont like their daughters to married an American. I dont think this girl is trying to sham your son for a green card. She doesn't have the freedom to choose what she want to do for her as yet. She needs approvals, she can't really tell her uncle she's in love with your son because that can lead to "kicking her out of the house" and the uncle will call her parents in Vietnam to tell them she's out of control and dishonor to the family. I hope it can work out for your son and her. 

Hi everyone, has anyone recently have an interview in Pittsburgh PA office? Can you share your experience! Oh and I have few other questions regarding to what to bring to the interview. I filed an AOS based k1 for my husband in Feb. this year. I didnt include a 2016 tax return because I have not file my tax yet by that time. Do i need to bring the transcript of 2016 tax to the interview? Im self employed and kinda stopped working few weeks now to take care of my pregnancy, therefore I wont have a recent w2 or employer letter. Would they gonna make me have a hard time because im not working? Well, all my previous tax income were enough for sponsoring my husband. Even this year (2017) the income already exceed the requirement. My husband is working though. Hes the benefacary. And other question is, his medical, he did it over sea for the k1  visa on November 2016. Our interview is December. Would he has to do another medical? Thanks in advance for your inputs!

12 minutes ago, Andsco said:

I see that for Pittsburgh it's only 63 days until interview so I would expect you to get your interview really soon!

I should've filed the change of address in April to Pittsburgh, and has my interview here. But I didnt know I would move here permanently. We only make that decision in September after going back and forth to Seattle and I was having a bad morning sickness, so its kinda suck to travel back and forth so we decided to stay here and settle here. I filed the change of address last month and they did sent me a notification letter last week. When will they transfer my file to the new location? Would they notify me? I was kinda scare too that what if they will schedule me somewhere around my due date.!!... i mean, its unpredictable to know for sure when the baby wants to come out. It can be a month before due date or few weeks after due date. Its my first pregnancy so Im kinda worry. 

I moved to a different state last month due to my husband's  job and Im pregnant so we want to move somewhere cheaper to live. Seattle is expensive. So im not sure how the process will be since I moved. 😑

1 hour ago, Andsco said:

Hello!

On September 26th my status changed from the Biometrics appointment (which I went on the 7th of September) into "Ready to be scheduled". Any idea how long they can take until they actually schedule the interview? I know that between the day I get the letter until the interview it can be between 2/3 weeks and 1 month. My interview will probably be in Seattle.

 

Thanks!

My status " ready to schedule an interview since 3/23/2017 Seattle field office and I still have not get an interview date as of today. So it can take a while.

This is a scam! It happened to my mom's good friend too but she lives in another country. Basically, she met this guy online and he claimed he's an ex Navy living in the United States. He told her he's falling in love with her and want to marry her and want to bring her to live in the US. He sent her all this pictures of valuable gifts that he would give them to her once she comes to the US. He said hes a US citizen, my mom's friend can come to the US with him without having to file the paperworks. Then one day, he told her that he have sent all the gifts that he bought to her country. Someone called the next day, claiming to be an agent working at the airport. That guy said there's a package she needs to come pick up, 6 hours away from her house. But because the package contains so much valuable stuffs, my mom's friend has to pay a custom tax before retreive the package. He's asking for $500USD. She called my mom to borrow that amount and my mom told her its a scam, but she didn't beleive us. But anyways, later she admitted to my mom that guy is fake. Hes not from US. Blah blah, you get the story. Tell your ex husband to stop sending the money.

9 minutes ago, Zeebot9 said:

How do I do it? 

https://egov.uscis.gov/coa/addressChange.do

I go here but it wont allow us to change our address. We filed when we both lived in NZ. My wife has moved back to America while I am still in NZ. It asks for this "

Zip code used when filed" But we can not put the zip code we used as it states it must be 5 digits. Nz uses 4 in its zip codes.

Under "Old Address" we can not put any address that is not American. It is asking for a state and zip code but we obviously do not have one as it was not done in the states. We have emailed USCIS a few times now and gotten no response. 

Any advice on how to change our addresses?

I think for international address you have to follow a different instruction other than to file an AR-11 online.

Hi everyone! I updated my address online on uscis website on the 10th and it says expect a response by Oct. 22nd. Its now 23rd and I have receive a notification from uscis. The online thing still saying " case is not assigned for processing". I called uscis earlier today and she said she is unable to see my address, ( i thought we can update address on the phone, but i guess not.) Anyways, does anyone know how long does it takes for them to update the address on their system? I moved to a different state by the way. Thanks!

On 10/17/2017 at 8:49 PM, Ebunoluwa said:

I am the USC.
They do expect you to remember.
The details of our visa and AOS journey is listed in my signature under each post.

Did your first petition 10 years ago got approved? Cuz mine was approved and we got divorced a little over a year later. 

2 minutes ago, sweetadams said:

I would suggest you call the USCIS Customer Service and ask to speak with a tier 2 officer. I waited for more than 6 months after my case was schedule for interview, since I didn't get an online update, no email or text, I assumed it was within processing time. Unknown to me, the field office have scheduled interview for me in March, 2017. After calls and infopass , they told me i missed my interview and have to wait for another interview date. I finally have to involve my congressman, I got an email from the liaison officer scheduling me for interview next week. Still no interview notice, no email, no online status update and no text. 

Long story short, either you call or get your congressman involve. Now that your field office has changed, I believe you should be in the PA field office now, you should ask for a transfer or you might have to go to your former field office for the interview.

I called them 2 times last couple weeks and they said its within processing time. I didnt talk to a tier 2 rep though. I did a service request ovee a month ago and nothing reply as well. The address update is still not processing after 8 days. Its kind of strange but I will call them again to see what's up. Thanks!

1 hour ago, Ebunoluwa said:

My previous failed relationship and petition 10 years ago was a big deal to them. They asked me lots of questions about it.
We were separated during the interview and drilled for an hour each.
For some couples it does not matter for others it does, each case and each adjudicator is different.
They also asked my now husband about his previous relationship.
Some of the questions were very personal.
Make sure your spouse knows every little detail of your previous relationships and reasons why they failed.
 

Thanks for the input. Were you an USC or benificierie? Thats 10 years ago and how they expect you to remember lots of things from it? And how did it go with your new petition? Did you get approve after all?

Hi everyone, I've always come to visajourney to read everyone's different stories and situations for the last few years. Anyways, I've filed AOS i485 for my husband ( he entered the US with a K1 visa in January. We got married that month at a temple and filed for AOS in Feb. 13, 2017.)The status changed to " Ready to schedule for an interview I485..... since March 23) He received  his work permit card in end of April. Our field office is Seattle WA. It has been over 6 months since and no interview letter or anything else. Anyways, I became pregnant in June and we both moved to West Virginia few weeks ago due to Seattle is too expensive for a living and updated our new address on uscis website 1 week ago and its not assign for processing yet as of today. Has anyone experience this long wait? 

And as I acrossed some other members situations and I realized I have a concern that I dont know will it affects or will be asked for this AOS. I had married before in 2006 and filed for my ex-husband and he was approved for a conditional green card. I was 18 years old and he was 26. I was young and didnt take things serious so  did something awful to damage the relationship. He left me and didnt care about the removal of the conditional green card. I filed for divorce And everything was finalized in early 2008. From marriage to divorce was only 16 months. Anyways, I married again in 2013 and divorced shortly after (17 months,) And shortly after divorced to my second husband, i traveled aboard and met my current husband. I petitioned him for a K1 visa. We had our traditional wedding in his hometown aboard before he travels to the US. We basically officialized our marriage in the US, no wedding/party (too expensive and he doesnt have any friends or relatives here). Anyways, so my question is, would uscis making it harder for us because I was married before and filed an AOS for my first husband from 2006? My current husband never married before. Thanks for reading my longggg post, any input will help.