ADAngel

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello everyone! 
 
Great news! On 1/31/23 the USCIS website updated to show that my husband's green card had been printed. On 2/1, it updated again to show that our petition was approved without an interview! His card was shipped on 2/3 and we received it yesterday, 2/6. Our service center was Nebraska.
 
We haven't applied for his citizenship and probably won't for a while, so I just wanted to update everyone with our timeline without the N-400 application.
 
To say we are relieved is a total understatement, it's such a huge weight of our shoulders to finally have a 10 year permanent residency card. The impending expiration of our extension letter was starting to cause some issues and with a trip to the UK coming up in May I was starting to freak out!
 
Did anyone else get differing estimates from VJ ranging anywhere from February 16th to May 15th? I had to stop opening them since they were freaking me out haha.
 
Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! I wish all of you good luck and hope that your approvals are on their way! 💞
 
 

Hello July 2022 Filers,
 
Just updating the thread that it is now official for us. N400 case is closed, Certificate of Naturalization issued last January 24th.
 

Godspeed for everyone else waiting for their turn to be sworn in as new American citizens.
 
Cheers,

Ok guys so I filed my N400 on September 30th and received the paper version of NOA and bio waiver letters yesterday, i751 still pending so let’s hope this moves it along and we can all be done with USCIS once and for all 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

FYI just got this via email

" 
USCIS Implements Risk-Based Approach for Conditional Permanent Resident Interviews 04/07/2022 WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a policy update to adopt a risk-based approach when waiving interviews for conditional permanent residents (CPR) who have filed a petition to remove the conditions on their permanent resident status.
Effective immediately, new criteria will guide USCIS officers on when to waive interviews for CPRs who filed a Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence. This update replaces previous agency guidance that required all CPRs to undergo an interview if they obtained CPR status via consular processing.
“Implementing a risk-based strategic approach to the CPR-interview process will increase efficiencies that improve processing times, allow for a better use of agency staffing resources, and help reduce the pending caseload while still maintaining procedures to identify fraud and protect national security,” said USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou. “This update is consistent with agency priorities to break down barriers in the immigration system, eliminate undue burdens on those seeking benefits, and effectively respond to stakeholder feedback and public concerns.”
Prior policy requiring mandatory CPR interviews did not prove to be an efficient use of USCIS staffing resources. Under this policy update, USCIS may waive the interview requirement if the agency officer determines there is sufficient evidence about the bona fides of the marriage, the joint-filing requirement is eligible for a waiver (if applicable), there is no indication of fraud or misrepresentation in supporting documents, there are no complex facts or issues to resolve, and there is no criminal history that would render the CPR removable.
A noncitizen who obtains permanent resident status based on a marriage that began less than two years before obtaining that status receives permanent resident status on a conditional basis for two years. To remove the conditions on permanent resident status, family-based CPRs generally must file a Form I-751 within the 90-day period before the two-year anniversary of when they obtained CPR status."
(Bold highlighting by me)
 

I am unclear if this is only for those who got their status via consular processing (?) or for everyone currently in line too, but I am just hoping over here they will decide against interviewing us after all considering we already had one for AOS and our case def falls into the "sufficient evidence about the bona fides of the marriage/no indication of fraud or misrepresentation in supporting documents / no complex facts or issues to resolve and no criminal history" category🤦‍♀️

Thanks! I guess I just wasn't sure what all we should include but I guess it's best to consider this a totally new application as they probably won't see our previous evidence. I've done some digging and we now have the following evidence:
 
- Purchase agreement for our house (May 2020)
- Mortgage statements from July 2020, Sept 2020, December 2020, and our April statement 
-Joint asset statements from July 2019, Sept 2019, March 2020, October 2020, January 2021,& March 2021
- 2019 & 2020 joint tax returns
- 2019 & 2020 W-2s where we both have the same mailing address
- Most recent paystub for both of us
- Benefits statements from our work that show our life insurance options (one for each of us that shows we have each other as the beneficiaries) 
- Homeowner's insurance & our renewal policy
- Water bill from our township for 2 quarters that shows us both on it 
- My 401k that has him listed as beneficiary
- Our lease agreement from 2018 when we lived together in the UK before he got the K-1 and we migrated back to the US together. 
- I'll try to find our lease from the apartment we lived in from December 2018 - November 2019 but it was kind of a crappy place and they didn't do anything digitally, not even sure we got our own paper copy so we might be out of luck for that one. We moved in with my parents from November 2019 until we bought our house in May 2020 so we don't really have anything to show for that period of time. 
- Flight itineraries from 3 different trips we took together,  one with just the two of us from 2018, one with my friend from 2018 and one with my mom from 2020 (pre-COVID)
- 10-11 pictures of us with friends and family, pictures of us signing for/moving in to our house.
 
I'm hoping that this is enough! Part of me kind of hoped that we were done with gathering evidence but fingers crossed we're almost done.  Thank you for your help  

The photo is taken at biometrics. The exception is when someone is overseas in the military and won’t attend a biometrics appointment.
 
Your evidence needs dates going back the full two years, not just the latest statement. Do you have your first joint bank statement? Then some middle, and the most recent? Same for mortgage. 
 
Joint tax return or Married filing separately with spouses name listed.
Photocopy of both driver licenses side by side showing same address.  If you have previous address licenses and new home, even better. 
 
Joint auto insurance, not just most recent. Several from earliest to current.
 
Look around for anything with both names on it and older, middle and new dates.
 

 
 
 
 

If you are in USA you don't need to attach a photos or fingerprint card, so no no passport photos needed
 
Provide IRS transcripts for each year of your marriage (Download from IRS site)
Provide joint banking statements for each month of your marriage (checking, saving, credit card)
Include copies of driver's licenses (or state IDs) of you and your spouse showing same home address
Include W2 and 1099 statements for each year during your marriage
Birth records of any children together with spouse
Joint lease agreements or joint mortgage during marriage
Joint travel tickets or itineraries during marriage
photos together on vacation or family events
Evidence of joint ownership of property (home or car)
Show you and your spouse if the beneficiary of insurance or 401k accounts
Joint health insurance
 
Provide evidence that covers the whole period of your marriage, the more relevant evidence the better, you could submit a 100 pages of evidence or even more pages is common.

It's not about whether you submit a copy of your greencard (I'm pretty sure you always have to do that). You only need to attach passport photos if you are applying from outside the U.S.

If you have joint health Insurance or auto Insurance is also good to be attached. 
 
For I-751 you are allowed to send the documents within 90 days before the conditional greencard is expired. If the card is expired 8/29/2021. I think it will be safe for you to send the document around May 31st or June 1st. Because USCIS will return the documents if we submit it too early. Even if It's one day early. 

About your list I would add more things. Remember that you need to show everything that proves that your marriage are real, day 1 until now.
I would add more:
 
Do you share the same health insurance? Life insurance? Car lease? Credit card? Home title? Home insurance? 
 
Do not add just the last statement, you need more showing that you and your husband are together since some date.
 
Good luck 
 

I know this doesn't help but you only need to send photocopies. I dont think it will matter if you fold it. It's only a photocopy.

You can fold it without issue. 
 
Marriage licenses and certificates are longer than A4 here in Texas also, and probably quite a few other states. 

If you do get an RFE, I would suggest submitting I-864 with a joint sponsor, and at the time of the interview (around 6+ months after you file?), you can ask if you can submit an updated I-864 with the consistent pay stubs for at least half a year.  In fact, if in those months prior to the interview for the tax year 2019, you've made close to or above 125% of the poverty line, even better.  The IO can review it at the time of the interview and either accept or reject it.

@ADAngel that is an example of what gets an RFE
They always kick back a tax return without a wage statement (W2) or a W2 without a tax return and send that canned RFE without looking further.
 
A signed statement saying you did not file a tax return and the legal reason why not (i.e. Earned $0) is what the instructions say to do if you did not file. 

I would also get an employer letter stating you are employed full time and your salary to send along with the offer letter. It verifies you accepted the offer and are indeed currently working for them. 
 
That should meet the requirements and by interview you will have more pay stubs. 
 
I don't know if you have read the instructions for form I-864, but you need a signed statement concerning any tax returns you didn't file. Attach it behind the I-864 form before your other proofs. 
 
Statement Concerning Tax Returns
 
In tax year 2018, I was a student at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and earned $0.00 income. I am not required to file a 2018 tax return due to no income
 
In tax year 2017, I earned only $xxx.xx because I was an unemployed university student in the United Kingdom most of the year. I did file a return and have included it with form I-864.
 
name
signature

If so I'd say you probably dont have enough evidence of stability with this new job. You can try though. Submit what you have. The worse that will happen is they will tell you that you need a joint sponsor. And you most likely will.

February 7th Filer here! NOA received February 14th. 
My Fiance received his passport back with his K1 on Tuesday! He arrives on Sunday! 💕

Thanks. We managed to get the 3rd of December!