Hanini

Just received my 10 year green card today! 

Filed jointly and was assigned to SRC. 

We were previously interviewed for I-485. CR6 - No RFE and no interview. 

Timeline:

01/16 - Case received

03/08 - Biometrics reused

06/21 - New card being produced

06/22 - Case approved

06/24 - Card mailed to me

06/28 - Card received

6 minutes ago, ivyyy said:

 

Just from my experience with my AF husband having to take time off for my immigration stuff, it was easy to get off work... as long as he’s not scheduled to deploy or go on TDY.

 

For evidence for my RoC, from what I can remember I had the following:

- the cover letter I told you about, this also has a list of the documents inside the package

- copy of lease with both our names on our 1st house in the US

- printout of utility bills with both our names in our current house (we own it but only his name is on the mortgage)  - most recent

- copies of our car registrations and car insurance with both our names on them

- copies of our joint bank statements - most recent

- tax returns of us married filing jointly for the past 3 years 

- a few photographs of us traveling in the last 2 years

 

Isn’t it odd no evidence was sent when your application was filed? I don’t think that should have been the case.

Yeah, he will try his best to attend! I just wanted to get on here to see if anyone had experience if they live separately with their military spouse while processing AOS and if their military spouse was exempted from attending the interview. 

I think besides the marriage certificate and basic stuff that was all that was sent. My lawyer didn’t ask for personal pictures or other evidence. 

Thank you for your responses! I appreciate it. I’ve been looking for ways to delete my account from this site after all the negativity I received after posting this thread. It was really frustrating and your responses were a relief to me after receiving all the negativity. Thank you so much. 

5 minutes ago, ivyyy said:

 

For my Removal of Conditions, I didn’t get interviewed actually. I just got notified I was approved and then a new card was sent to me.

 

I just sent in paperwork. However, I was concerned with them viewing our relationship as doubtful so I wrote on my cover letter that we currently live separately because I was going to grad school at that time & he was stationed in a town in the middle of nowhere (of course, it was said differently, lol). But I assume you are past that point of providing evidence? If not, I can tell you more about what else was in the package I sent off.

 

but you know, there was always that fear that I would be called for an interview and he won’t be available. So whenever he deployed overseas, I would ask him to provide me a copy of his orders. Is he AF?

 

We actually hired a lawyer to file our AOS. I don’t think they sent any evidence with the package. So I’m in the process of putting evidences together now since the interview might be coming up soon. Would you mind sharing what kind of evidence you sent? 

Yeah, he’s in the AF. Stationed up north near Canada and I’m in Texas. 

38 minutes ago, ivyyy said:

 

It would be better if he’s there. But you know what, the military owns him and the state department knows that for sure. As long as it’s stated why he can’t go, that’s fine. But he has to get a letter from his command.

 

I was in your boat until just a few months ago. We lived in separate houses for 4 whole years and during that time, I applied for my 10 year permanent resident visa and for my citizenship. Never got RFE.

 

Thank you so much. 

Your response was what I needed and not all the negative responses from other posters. 

Was your husband able to attend the interview with you? 

5 hours ago, NuestraUnion said:

You are taking it the wrong way. The problem you are facing is the perception of your relationship. USCIS will not just go on your word. That is why people send in tons of supporting evidence their relationship is real.

 

The posters here are only trying to show you how your relationship will look to a CO conducting the interview who knows nothing about you personally and whose job is to weed out fraudulent marriages.

But who are these posters to say “Oh your application is going to denied, blah blah blah.” Like did I post my whole life story here for y’all to have a decision on my case? 

I literally asked for a simple question if anybody has experience with their husband not being in the interview and they’re so quick to jump onto conclusions when I LITERALLY gave the most vague details. 

So out of line. 🤦🏻‍♀️

26 minutes ago, Roel said:

In this case it doesn't matter if you're a military spouse or not. 

 

Uscis will see that you dont live with your spouse so that's so much harder to prove a real relationship. Him not being on the interview with you might be your smallest problem. 

 

After all its entirely your choice to not be with your husband atm. Nothing stops you from joining him where he lives right now. Ex. If you really wanted to you could have easily transfer to the university closer to him. 

 

So yeah you definately have a problem. I'd make sure you have some extremely good proofs of real relationship. Many joint finances, bills,  loans, life insurance, power of attorney and proofs of many, many visits you had to see each other. 

 

He’s stationed in a really small city with not a lot of job opportunities present. That’s why I haven’t moved to where he is. 

We have all that proof. We filed where I live now cause we didn’t think it would take so long for the AOS to process. 

I didn’t really post a whole lot of details. Don’t know why you guys just assumed we didn’t have a relationship beforehand and that we’ll get denied for not living together. We dated quite a while before we got married.

So much for asking advice on this forum. 🤦🏻‍♀️

12 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Ok, when I first read this I thought that he was deployed and you were back here but that is not the case. At this point in time I do think you have a problem because you are not going to school and living apart from your husband, this according to USCIS this does look bad. If your husband does not come with you to the interview then expect for your AOS to be denied. 

Are you in the military? Military spouse or personnel? 

Hello everyone,

I am an October 2017 AOS filer. Currently waiting to be scheduled for an interview. I was just wondering if anyone has experience with their military spouse not being in the interview with them? 

My husband and I met in Texas. Both of our families live in Texas. I still currently live in Texas since I just finished my university last May and I’m trying to look for a job here. We filed for AOS in Texas as well. My husband has been stationed in a different state since 2015. 

I was just wondering if he needs to be present for the interview if he’s stationed in a different state? 

2 hours ago, Madmax said:

My ead will expire on January did you renew yours ? 

I’m about to contact my lawyer about renewal. My EAD will expire on Janaury 1.

On 9/26/2018 at 11:26 PM, Madmax said:

I filled my paper works October 30 2017 and received my work authorization January since then no update anyone the same in my case??? Need help anyone can advice me 

Filed October 31, 2017... Still waiting. 

17 minutes ago, doggieandsam said:

this was exactly what i was wondering! somebody said that they *think* its a standard status and there is still a chance that the interview will still be waived. but i am not so sure about that. it seems to me that this means there will definitely be an interview. otherwise, i reckon it'll say something like "potential interview waiver" or something. but i dunno for sure, this is just my opinion. i am hoping to be waived though, because my local filed office takes about a year to schedule these interviews!

I'm on the same boat. My local office is currently backlogged by over a year. USCIS also updated their processing times and it's showing 11 months to 25.5 months for my local office. 

6 hours ago, iamdegie said:

yes, K1.

Hmmm...just got Informed Delivery notification...no USCIS mail today.

My USCIS mail never reflected in Informed Delivery. It just showed up in my mailbox. 

1 hour ago, Emmz said:

where did u track ur case? coz i did travk my case in uscis.gov website and still shows finger print received wherein i sent my RFE already

Both on the USCIS website and the Case Tracker app. 

Case status reflected the approval of my EAD today. However, AP still only shows as received. 

Hello everyone, 

I’ve been a silent reader this whole time. 

My timeline:

10/31/2017 - Received Date

11/20/2017 - Biometrics (originally scheduled on 11/29/2017)

01/02/2018 - EAD and AP approval notice