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midwinterrose replied to Iza414's topic in Adjustment of Status from Work, Student, & Tourist Visas
File ASAP, don't overstay waiting to accumulate evidence. USCIS doesn't expect you to have a bunch of evidence of living together if you just got married. Send whatever evidence you have of your long distance relationship. When we applied for AOS, we had like one joint bank statement, and one water bill in both our names. You can also immediately be added to her credit cards as an authorized user--that's quick easy evidence. -
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petitioner as the interpreter on I-485
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I did this for my husband. I listed myself as interpreter and as preparer, and had no problem.
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First of all, they haven't cashed the check yet. That means they haven't even looked at your application yet. You said it arrived 1 week ago, so 5 business days. Give it some time, USCIS processes an ungodly amount of paperwork and it takes them a while to get around to even opening the envelope. Also don't be surprised if you never get a text even if you sent in the G-1445 form. Text messages were always hit or miss on our applications. Think of this as the practice run for all of the patient waiting you must do throughout the whole process.
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HELP!!! Got An RFE for my I-129F Visa, Wants Proof of Criminal Past (Have Clean Record)
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I751 denied
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Question about new baby during K-1 process
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Our Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) journey
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Adjustment of Status
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Oath ceremony scheduled but have international travel plan
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Oath ceremony scheduled but have international travel plan
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Oath ceremony scheduled but have international travel plan
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Oath ceremony scheduled but have international travel plan
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When you apply for the passport, you have to provide evidence of your citizenship. In the case of a naturalized citizen, you provide the Naturalization certificate to the passport office along with the application. It normally takes the passport office a few weeks to process your application and return your naturalization certificate back to you. But if you do a same-day passport application, they give you back the naturalization certificate the same day that you apply, along with your new passport.
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My husband got same-day passport because we had travel already booked. You can call within 14 days of your booked travel and get an appointment to go into the passport office and they issue your passport the same day. The other bonus of this method is we got his Naturalization certificate back in hand the same day.
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New covid vaccine requirement
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Total marriages are wrong with N400 online filing
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Two helpful tips for opening a bank account!
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How can I file jointly as an F1 married to a US citizen
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This is the exact document we signed and sent along with our tax return, just change the generic info to your own. We had to paper-file (mailed it in) our return because I couldn't find any tax software that would allow me to upload this extra document. I used TurboTax or something similar, and then selected the mail-in option at the end and printed out the return. I then added this page, signed by both my husband and I, and mailed the whole thing to the IRS. That was at the beginning of COVID, so it took MONTHS to process our return. It took so long that the IRS paid us a few dollars in interest, that I then had to report as income on our next year's return. 🤷♀️ TaxResidencyStatement_Sample (1).pdf
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How can I file jointly as an F1 married to a US citizen
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Extension Letters now being increased to 48 months. (merged)
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Chancy reacted to a post in a topic:
My wife doesn't know if she passed her citizenship test.
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My wife doesn't know if she passed her citizenship test.
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I simply believe that the Tier 1 and Tier 2 officers who operate the 1-800 help line have a very different role than the officers who review the cases, and the officers at the field offices who conduct the interview. I imagine it within the realm of possibility that some officer later down the line may have the authority to contradict/override what other USCIS agents may have told you. I'm not saying this will happen, but I imagine it's possible. I hope for your sake all goes well, but if I were you, I would be prepared for the worst--having to argue against a wrongful denial--and hope for the best, just in case.
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My wife doesn't know if she passed her citizenship test.
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If I were in your shoes, my concern would be that you wait however many months for the I-751 interview to be rescheduled, and then when an officer finally picks up your file to schedule your interview, says, "What doofus put this in the queue to be scheduled for an interview; it already has a denial notice? I can't schedule an interview for a case that has been denied." And then at that stage you will have to argue that it was denied in error due to USCIS never sending the interview notice, or sending it to the wrong address. Hence why you should gather as much proof as you can that you were in the right, and USCIS in the wrong. I may be proven wrong, but I can't imagine USCIS just glossing over the fact that you missed your original interview.
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Dude, it literally says "TERMINATION OF CONDITIONAL RESIDENCE STATUS" at the top. You can believe whatever you want about how official or final it is, but you can't deny what it says in plain English. Still, it was addressed to the wrong address. I would bet anything that if an interview notice was mailed out, that it was addressed to your old address as well. The key question, which I have asked three times now and you seem reluctant to answer, is, WHAT DATE DID YOU FILE THE AR-11 CHANGE OF ADDRESS?. If it was before the March 2021 interview, then you're golden. If not, then you're probably screwed.
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This seems to only be a snippet of the letter, but it looks like USCIS is stating here that they did not receive a change of address from you. When did you submit your change of address form? They definitely referenced your I-751 here when they state that "You filed a Joint Petition to Remove the Conditional Basis [...]". The joint petition is your I-751.
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If USCIS cannot produce an interview notice that they sent to you, then things are looking good for you. I think the fact that they have accepted your request for reschedule of the interview is a good sign. At this point you're basically trying to get out in front of any accusations USCIS might try to make of negligence on your part. Use the FOIA to the best of your ability as a window into what evidence USCIS has for their version of events so that you are properly prepared to make your counter arguments.
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It appears that the only change of address for the case occurred on January 10, 2022. What date did you move, and what date did you submit the AR-11 change of address form? Double-check what exactly your FOIA request encompassed. If it did not explicitly ask for interview notices, or all communications and records pertaining to your case, I would recommend that you submit another FOIA request specifically requesting all records. If you can prove that you correctly submitted the AR-11 before November 3rd, 2020, when they scheduled the interview, and FOIA turns up an interview notice addressed to your old address, then you have the smoking gun that USCIS is at fault. If it turns up an interview notice with your new address, then you're probably dead in the water, as USCIS can then shift the blame to you. If it turns up no interview notice at all, then that will be in your favor. I notice that the online notification states that on March 8th, 2021, USCIS cancelled the interview that was scheduled on November 3rd, 2020. I'm curious if that cancellation letter will turn up in the FOIA request, and what address it will have on it. I am assuming that you never received that letter either.
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It was removed because you didn't black out your personal information on the letter before posting.
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I am talking about the interview letter, which @IandI100 says was not included in the documents from the FOIA request. There is obviously a denial letter, apparently addressed to their old address. I would assume that an interview notice would be part of their file, and would appear in the FOIA docs. @IandI100, I would not be so certain that the stamped-date letters are not sent to applicants. Right here on VJ there is an example of an applicant having received the exact same type of letter as you see in your FOIA docs:
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What leads you to believe this? If there is no copy of an interview letter in the FOIA documents, I would think that would be in your favor. If USCIS doesn't even have evidence of having sent the letter, how can they claim that you received it?