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Congrats! Got my interview scheduled for the 7th too (Chicago).

I feel this, I don't  really feel like I'm living 'my' life right now. I miss my life. I hope it all gets better for everyone soon.

I just got my interview letter in the mail, it's scheduled for the 7th of November. I have updated my timeline!

Same here, I went from a high paying corporate job, working at least 50 hours a week to stay at home and watch tv until exhaustion. I could go out but costs money, it’s hot out there and I don’t know my way around at all on public transport in this city.  I’m thankful for being with my husband after 3 years but I’m honestly feeling desperate to “restart” my life.  

I'm in the same position, up to a point where I'm considering going back home and starting over the immigration procedures, but having my husband come to my home country instead.
 
Considering that Seattle is most likely the second worst office in terms of waiting times, I won't be able to get my green card until 2021. At least, if I'm lucky, I'll get the EAD before the end of the year, so at least working will keep me busy. But I can't imagine not being able to see my friends and my family for a total of at least 2 years. (And I didn't apply for AP at the time because I thought I would have my green card within a reasonable amount of time, like everyone else here)
 
It's so frustrating. I came from having my own apartment, having a job, being financially responsible, to being stuck at home and doing nothing all day. (And please none of that "take up a new hobby!" bs) I've always been used to be able to take care of myself, and now I have to rely solely on someone else with very limited income.
 
Ugh, if we were to go back to Canada, at least my husband would be able to work and be eligible to free health care as soon as he enters the country. This whole process is so frustrating. I can't imagine how people that have to go through longer and harder procedures than our own must feel.

I'm in the same position, up to a point where I'm considering going back home and starting over the immigration procedures, but having my husband come to my home country instead.
 
Considering that Seattle is most likely the second worst office in terms of waiting times, I won't be able to get my green card until 2021. At least, if I'm lucky, I'll get the EAD before the end of the year, so at least working will keep me busy. But I can't imagine not being able to see my friends and my family for a total of at least 2 years. (And I didn't apply for AP at the time because I thought I would have my green card within a reasonable amount of time, like everyone else here)
 
It's so frustrating. I came from having my own apartment, having a job, being financially responsible, to being stuck at home and doing nothing all day. (And please none of that "take up a new hobby!" bs) I've always been used to be able to take care of myself, and now I have to rely solely on someone else with very limited income.
 
Ugh, if we were to go back to Canada, at least my husband would be able to work and be eligible to free health care as soon as he enters the country. This whole process is so frustrating. I can't imagine how people that have to go through longer and harder procedures than our own must feel.

I'm in the same position, up to a point where I'm considering going back home and starting over the immigration procedures, but having my husband come to my home country instead.
 
Considering that Seattle is most likely the second worst office in terms of waiting times, I won't be able to get my green card until 2021. At least, if I'm lucky, I'll get the EAD before the end of the year, so at least working will keep me busy. But I can't imagine not being able to see my friends and my family for a total of at least 2 years. (And I didn't apply for AP at the time because I thought I would have my green card within a reasonable amount of time, like everyone else here)
 
It's so frustrating. I came from having my own apartment, having a job, being financially responsible, to being stuck at home and doing nothing all day. (And please none of that "take up a new hobby!" bs) I've always been used to be able to take care of myself, and now I have to rely solely on someone else with very limited income.
 
Ugh, if we were to go back to Canada, at least my husband would be able to work and be eligible to free health care as soon as he enters the country. This whole process is so frustrating. I can't imagine how people that have to go through longer and harder procedures than our own must feel.

Note of caution don’t read months threads  later than ours if you’ve not got interviews scheduled yet they’ll make you cry with frustration like they did me 

I'd recommend to still apply to jobs as that will help you with interview preparation and possibly expedite EAD.

Got an EAD update today. Wasn't realy expecting any, since we have a green card interview this Thursday.
Do you know how long it will take for the card to actually arrive in mail?
 

Today sucks, my 6 months of being here anniversary and I got in a car wreck that totalled my 2 month old car. 
I had stopped at a stop sign  looked both ways and pulled out slowly as a school zone and didn’t see til too late the speeding suv rushing toward me which hit me passenger side on and flipped my car on to its side and pushed it about 35 ft across the road. 
Im okay just soft tissue damage to a lot of my left side and bruising in multiple places but it’s my fault because I came out of the side road doesn’t matter he was speeding.  Didn’t get a ticket yet but could still. Also not sure if insurance is going to cover us yet. I’m an occasional driver on the policy.  Still no update on my case I think it’s sat on a shelf gathering dust 
😥😥😥😥

Oklahoma has gone from 6-18months to 9.5-22.5 months 😥😥 ####### I’m so unsettled now waiting. 

I'm in Seattle and I'm so disappointed every time I look at the USCIS website to see if there's any improvement... Especially when everyone else is being approved left and right.
 
I thought I was gonna be okay by waiting until I get my green card to go out of the country and visit my family for Christmas next year, but with these atrocious waiting times (I wouldn't be surprised if I were approved in 2021) it looks like I'm gonna have to apply for AP if I ever wanna hope to see my family again in Canada... They don't really have the means to travel either for different reasons. 
 
At this point, if I get denied a green card, I won't bother pursuing this whole process anymore. The homesickness is very strong and I don't see the need to put myself through this again and again. I'd rather bring my husband back to Canada with me instead.

I'm in Seattle and I'm so disappointed every time I look at the USCIS website to see if there's any improvement... Especially when everyone else is being approved left and right.
 
I thought I was gonna be okay by waiting until I get my green card to go out of the country and visit my family for Christmas next year, but with these atrocious waiting times (I wouldn't be surprised if I were approved in 2021) it looks like I'm gonna have to apply for AP if I ever wanna hope to see my family again in Canada... They don't really have the means to travel either for different reasons. 
 
At this point, if I get denied a green card, I won't bother pursuing this whole process anymore. The homesickness is very strong and I don't see the need to put myself through this again and again. I'd rather bring my husband back to Canada with me instead.

Man, taking a huge blow today here as well on processing times... just checked the times for Portland, OR and they went from 6.5-8.5 months to 11.5-25 months  Super frustrating considering the majority of April filers in Portland on VJ had their interviews in July (3 frigging months)  I wonder if they started taking on Seattle cases. 

We had out interview yesterday. The officer was a really nice man, however it was difficult to see what he thinks about our case. He asked a few questions like how we met, what did we do prior meeting and asked us to name the people on some pictures. He went through i-485 form and corrected if something was changed. Also asked some questions in the end of the form and after that asked us whether we brought anything we want to include to the file. We gave him almost all evidence we had, he just looked at them real quick and took them. He didn't need wedding cards and letters on each of my and my husband name (just showing the same address), he even didn't look at them. I also brought some photos made even before visa. He looked at them and also gave them back.
 
In the end of the interview he said that he needs to look at security check which can take from 10 to 60 days. He gave us a paper saying that our case is being held for review and it can take up to 120 days. I checked the status of our case a couple of times yesterday since I was expecting to see the update about that. There was no updates and case was still at "Interview was scheduled". Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and checked the status and it was "New Card Is Being Produced" 🎉🎉 🎉
 
 

Hey everyone!
I received my RFE in the mail and I'm a bit confused, so I'm asking for your help!
 
My RFE mentions that in my Affidavit of support, my sponsor (which is my husband) has to submit his tax returns papers for the most recent year.
 
My husband worked the same job during the entirety of 2018 and is not self-employed, so I sent his 2018 (along with 2017, just to make sure) W-2 from said job.
 
Back when I filled for the affidavit of support for the K-1 Visa, I was able to provide summaries of W-2 without any issues, so I did the same because they accepted it without any problems in the past. Is that my mistake? Is sending the W-2 summary not enough? I don't really understand tax forms in the US and I'm always the one filing for everything, so I most likely messed up somewhere.
 
Unless there's something else I'm missing, I don't really know what to send them back except a complete version of the W-2? 
Thanks in advance!

I received the same RFE, and it had quite a bit of requests. Such as attach all W-2's, 1099s, and then the actual 1040 filed, along with saying that i didn't meet the poverty guidelines. Then in another section it said even through my income was sufficient, that i didn't show proof of income like last 6 months of paystubs, which would conflict with the failure to meet the poverty guideline language . I think most of the language on the RFE is boiler template, even though it may not apply to you. I was well over the poverty guidelines so definitely not the problem. I know that i sent in my 2017 transcripts with the AOS filing, so I know they just really wanted the most current tax return.
 
I basically responded with the following, i know it was overkill but better not to have another RFE come back:
1 2018 W2
2 2018 Federal income tax return
3 2018 Income tax transcript (easily obtained from IRS website)
4 12 months of bank statements, brokerage accounts etc.
5 Last 6 months of paystubs
6 Letter from my employer
 
I think i just threw everything in there just to be safe  

USCIS is very clear on the fact they want the tax forms (1040) with all attached schedules (W-2s, 1099s, etc) OR the tax transcript. Sending both is overkill, but if you send your tax form and it is missing any schedules you will get an RFE.
 
A W-2 alone is not sufficient the Affidavit of Support. I always recommend using the tax transcript(s) because a) its less paper b) you don't have to include any other documentation and c) it proves you filed your taxes. 

Congrats to those who have been able to schedule their interview recently! 💕

Received my notice today. Interview is scheduled for October 22. 

I don't know about you, but not everyone has the financial means to be able to travel and go explore
I'd love to go and do things on my own, but my husband is our only source of income, we live in Seattle and it's very, very expensive. (We're paying 1.5k$ a month for a studio) I didn't choose to be in such an expensive area, and honestly I wanna move out to another state because this is very stressful and I can't even work yet.
 
Even though most of us do have hobbies, I think it comes down to the routine of having a job, a social life because of said job, and being out and about because you feel like you're actually doing something and contributing to society. 
 
We can only do so much volunteering, and spending time on our hobbies before it gets old real fast... Especially when you've been used to being completely independent financially for so long and have to rely solely on someone else to get by.
 
I'm not being mean by any means, but everyone experiences things differently! Everyone has their own struggles and there's more than one way to deal with it than one blanket solution

Damn damn damn it’s just so annoying! I don’t wanna sound like a complete douche but I am just getting so excited and when nothing happens it frustrates me, because not being able to work or travel is just really annoying.
Im truly happy for those lucky ones getting their updates, it just raised my expectations too high.
Sorry couldn’t help commenting on this *crying* 

Congrats to those who have been able to schedule their interview recently! 💕

I was surprised to see this as well! I thought that it wouldn't be too different considering how Canada is right next to the US, but I can definitely see some differences.
 
Also, considering that we have very few months of summer, we tend to make the most out of it, so there's always festivals and events all the time during summer! I definitely miss being able to walk in the city and stumble upon an event almost everywhere I go.