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Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. Our interview date was 10-29 / notice date 10-31.
 
Great day when you open up a letter from USCIS and see "Welcome to the United States of America" in bold letters.
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. 
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. 
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. Our interview date was 10-29 / notice date 10-31.
 
Great day when you open up a letter from USCIS and see "Welcome to the United States of America" in bold letters.
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. Our interview date was 10-29 / notice date 10-31.
 
Great day when you open up a letter from USCIS and see "Welcome to the United States of America" in bold letters.
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

Eek I hope we get ours this week too!! The wait is driving me insane! 
Huge congrats!!!

Our status still shows as "Interview was scheduled" but today we received in the mail our approval NOA for permanent residence.  I was sweating bullets since we never saw anything updated on USCIS. Our interview date was 10-29 / notice date 10-31.
 
Great day when you open up a letter from USCIS and see "Welcome to the United States of America" in bold letters.
 
So, I suppose this means I'll see you all in a year and a half when we start going through the slow as heck ROC process 😐 

We completed our interview yesterday for AoS.  Here was our takeaways:
 
The office was easy to find (especially if you stay at the Best Western or Holiday Inn Express that are 2 minutes away). You have to go through Airport like security (removal of shoes, belt, jewelry, etc then metal detected).  You can bring your phone which is nice, but usage is discouraged. The beneficiary checks in using their ID (Me as the petitioner never had it checked). You are then called by the immigration officer.  Ours differed slightly from NashVans experience: You are sworn in just like when you had the consulate interview and then the beneficiaries picture and index fingerprints are checked. Both my wife, myself, and my 11 month old daughter were allowed in during the initial interviewing.  I evidently didn't submit a copy of my passport's bio page so it was good that I brought both my passport and a copy. I submitted additional financial documents (like my last 2 months of pay stubs) just to strengthen that, but the IO didn't need anything else on that topic since I had submitted my IRS tax returns. We gave her pictures, copies of both of my retirements with her listed as a beneficiary, insurance statements with our names on it, electric bills with both our names on it, and then for shits and giggles a credit card offer my wife got in the mail.  We didn't have lease or banking because we hadn't gotten her SSN.... We did get asked "How did we meet?" "Where did I propose?" "show me a picture of the wedding ceremony you guys had" "Is our Daughter going to be added to this application (she's gotten Us citizenship through me so no worries there).  The IO went through the application  to verify things were correct (wedding date, names, birthdays, etc). Once the IO reached the Eligibility question portion (The Yes/No questions you have to answer about if you had a crime ever, etc), the IO escorted me and my daughter out.  This part is only asked of the beneficiary. My wife told me the IO went through each Yes/No question.  Only thing my wife was asked about was a prior conviction that was overturned (an overstay in Switzerland) that she provided the copies of the court document with the translation, which the IO was very cool about in her comments. After that, they are lead out a different door on the other side of the waiting room and out you go.  We got told that the IO has 30 days to review the case, request additional information, etc. As of now, we're waiting for our case to change in the case tracker.
 
One big thing to note:  I asked about my wife's SSN.  The IO stated the hang up was on the green flag for the EAD.  Since my wife has her EAD, she should had gotten her SSN. Also, they should had been able to tell us why we were getting the hang up. 
 

We had our interview in Nashville yesterday, all my stress, it went better than I thought it would! 
 
We we had a lovely officer interview us together. She asked how we met, about our first date, how my husband proposed and how I liked Tennessee. We brought everything it says on the interview notice but all she asked us for were photos, anything that we had in both our names-we brought our car and health insurance, joint bank acc info, lease agreement and flight receipts with both our names on it from the last few months and took a photo copy of my husbands American passport. She also kept our interview notice as proof we showed up for the interview. She was surprised I still haven’t gotten EAD yet. 
All in all we were with her for about 30 minutes, she said we’d hear her decision within the next 30 days, she also told us we were obviously meant to be married so we’re taking that as a good sign!!
And now to spend the next 30 days constantly refreshing our uscis profile page! 
Good luck everyone who has there interview coming up! 

We completed our interview yesterday for AoS.  Here was our takeaways:
 
The office was easy to find (especially if you stay at the Best Western or Holiday Inn Express that are 2 minutes away). You have to go through Airport like security (removal of shoes, belt, jewelry, etc then metal detected).  You can bring your phone which is nice, but usage is discouraged. The beneficiary checks in using their ID (Me as the petitioner never had it checked). You are then called by the immigration officer.  Ours differed slightly from NashVans experience: You are sworn in just like when you had the consulate interview and then the beneficiaries picture and index fingerprints are checked. Both my wife, myself, and my 11 month old daughter were allowed in during the initial interviewing.  I evidently didn't submit a copy of my passport's bio page so it was good that I brought both my passport and a copy. I submitted additional financial documents (like my last 2 months of pay stubs) just to strengthen that, but the IO didn't need anything else on that topic since I had submitted my IRS tax returns. We gave her pictures, copies of both of my retirements with her listed as a beneficiary, insurance statements with our names on it, electric bills with both our names on it, and then for shits and giggles a credit card offer my wife got in the mail.  We didn't have lease or banking because we hadn't gotten her SSN.... We did get asked "How did we meet?" "Where did I propose?" "show me a picture of the wedding ceremony you guys had" "Is our Daughter going to be added to this application (she's gotten Us citizenship through me so no worries there).  The IO went through the application  to verify things were correct (wedding date, names, birthdays, etc). Once the IO reached the Eligibility question portion (The Yes/No questions you have to answer about if you had a crime ever, etc), the IO escorted me and my daughter out.  This part is only asked of the beneficiary. My wife told me the IO went through each Yes/No question.  Only thing my wife was asked about was a prior conviction that was overturned (an overstay in Switzerland) that she provided the copies of the court document with the translation, which the IO was very cool about in her comments. After that, they are lead out a different door on the other side of the waiting room and out you go.  We got told that the IO has 30 days to review the case, request additional information, etc. As of now, we're waiting for our case to change in the case tracker.
 
One big thing to note:  I asked about my wife's SSN.  The IO stated the hang up was on the green flag for the EAD.  Since my wife has her EAD, she should had gotten her SSN. Also, they should had been able to tell us why we were getting the hang up. 
 

Interesting they separated you and your husband.  With ours being next Tuesday, I'll be interested to see if they leave my 11 month old with me or my wife
 
Appreciate you posting this!  Helps me to prepare my wife since she gets highly anxious in situations like that. 

We had our interview this morning. It went pretty well although I was not approved on the spot.
 
We were interviewed separately. I (immigrant) went in first at 7:30. The IO was polite and seemed familiar with our case details. She swore me in, took my photo and fingerprints. Right off the bat she said she was looking for evidence of co-mingling. She asked a few questions about the earlier part of my relationship with my husband: how we met, our first date, when/how I met my husband's family, how the proposal happened. Then we went over the I-485 together, noted my requested amendments and I signed the last page to confirm.
 
She asked more questions like:
What is your husband's mother's name? How many siblings does your husband have?
What car does your husband have?
What activities do you do together?
What shows do you watch?
What did you have for dinner last night? What's your breakfast?
What did your husband get you for your birthday?
What are you planning to do for your honeymoon?
Are you planning to have children?
 
For some of these answers I was able to show photo evidence. It felt more like an AMA than an interview since we were laughing at some of my answers. We went over some photos and afterwards I gave her the entire photoset. She asked if there were any other documents I'd like to add. I gave her ALL our copies of stuff she didn't already have on file: joint finances, joint health insurance, proofs of address, my husband's ID -- explaining each document as I went. She said to give her a month to make a decision and if there was a RFE (said it didn't seem likely) that they would mail us. She called my husband in at 8:30 and I sat in the waiting area. At that point I realized they were separating almost everyone. 10 minutes later my husband came out and we left. He told me the questions she asked (=same ones I got) and that he could tell she was pretending to sound interested at his answers lol. She also told him to give her a month.
 
I don't know why they separated everyone but it didn't matter to us because we were honest in our answers and they matched. The IO seemed more focused on how we talked about our relationship than the papers. I can understand why since we didn't front load AOS (although we are K1). It was a positive experience overall. Now for more waiting!

My wife received her EAD/AP today in the mail (2 and a half weeks before her GC interview, go figure).  I'm slightly impressed with the quality of the card.  Too bad the states don't issue that nice of cards, lol.

WOOOOOOOOOO! I just got the notice our interview has been scheduled as well!

Received in our interview letter.  We're scheduled for October 29th.  Great to see the Nashville FO actually kicked up into gear.
 
NOA was May4th. 

Received in our interview letter.  We're scheduled for October 29th.  Great to see the Nashville FO actually kicked up into gear.
 
NOA was May4th. 

WOOOOOOOOOO! I just got the notice our interview has been scheduled as well!

Letter arrived -- my interview is on Monday, October 21.

Decided to check my status before bed... it updated to Interview Was Scheduled!! Filed April 16, NOA April 23. Nashville FO.

You can try going to the SSA office to check the status of your case.  Don't call the 800 number as they won't be able to look up your case.

My wife has been waiting since May for hers.  Had to get our congressional representative's office involved and finally received a response from SSA summed up as "We're manually checking she's fine here. We sat on our butts."

Looks like my wife's status changed to "Ready to be scheduled an interview" yesterday.  She's a May 2019 filer so........maybe March 2020 for our interview? 😀

Hey guys! We just had our AOS Interview this morning in Nashville, and it went really well! Our immigration officer didn't approve us on the spot, but she said so far everything looks good on her end. She was smiling, upbeat, and positive, so I'm hoping that's a good sign! 
 
If you're interested, feel free to read my review here: https://www.visajourney.com/reviews/view-dos-cis-reviews.php?entry=26966
 
Good luck to everyone with upcoming interviews!!

I spoke with USCIS this morning to create a service request since it has been 60 days since my RFIE was received without update. An hour after the request was made I received an email with the Nashville FO address at the top, stating that my response to the RFIE was received on June 28 and that they will start working on it again at NBC etc. (same words as my current status). I will call again if nothing changes in the next 30 days.

Luckily my wife has our 9 month old baby to keep her occupied, but like a few have already said, the lack of public transportation in a lot of the USA is the depressing factor as she is use to just hopping on the bus and going to places in both of the countries she has lived in. Though, I have to teach her how to drive (Uuuiiiiiii).
 
We live in a large apartment complex so she can go out, walk, talk to neighbors (most are old people who just love having someone to talk to), etc. 
 
Are there sidewalks for your spouse to walk around / develop a fitness routine?