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Seeking Advice: We received an RFE requesting more evidence. Reading the notice, it lists the evidence I sent as being only bank information and a couple of affidavits. Knowing that I sent WAY more than that, I can only assume they lost the other documents (wedding items, photos of us together, shared insurance info, and a third affidavit. We are both older adults so nothing to send regarding children.) I am pulling together as much information as I can to prove my husband and I have been married for nearly five years now, along with making new copies of the original evidence I sent. 

Should I bind these things so they don't lose them? I had numbered them and provided a table of contents previously but left them loose in their envelope last time.

Congrats to all the new card holders! We received a request for more information May 31st. I'm hoping it'll be a simple fix and we will have our 10 year green card soon. 

We filed December 21, 2021 and received our 48 month extension letter yesterday. 

Just stopping in to say we FINALLY have approval!  My husband's green card was ordered on the 27th, we had official approval on the 28th, and his card was posted on the 29th.  I'm so relieved! I thought for sure we'd totally failed the interview when my husband told the officer that he'd never met my son (who lives with us!)...he was so nervous. To all those waiting, I'm cheering for you! You'll get there! Don't give up!

We had our interview October 9th then went on a two week trip to celebrate our first anniversary so this update is a bit late in coming. The interview went well enough although I'm still worried they won't believe we're married   The interviewer said he couldn't find my husband's medical exam and that they would have to submit an RFE for it and we'd just need a new one. Because of that, I made an appointment to have a new medical exam done next week.  (This is frustrating in itself because we had to fight tooth and nail to get my husband's original medical done and sent to the embassy for a variety of reasons.)

However, when I got home from our trip and read the RFE, it seems to be saying that all they actually need is his updated vaccination record. (We completed the vaccinations here in the US for a variety of reasons.)

We have our interview scheduled for October 9th.  I spent the night worrying they wouldn't believe we were married!  I was having heated conversations about love and distinctly remember accusing "nondescript government worker" of not knowing what true love and marriage was really all about.

17 hours ago, slow_brooklyn said:

Welp, after 222 days we got a minor piece of good news. 485 changed to "ready to be scheduled for interview". Still not the EAD update we wanted though. Does this mean the background check is ready and we should be getting the EAD soon, or is there no correlation?

I didn't really think about this connection, tbh. But our interview was "ready to be scheduled" about two weeks before we received the EAD/AP update.

We received the appointment letter for biometrics Saturday (December 1st) with an appointment scheduled December 13. That'll be a month after they received our I-485 and accompanying applications.  Scary fast given the wait times we are used to! 

59 minutes ago, Andynov6 said:

U got hard copies? When did u send?

We "overnighted" to Chicago on 10 November. The holiday on Monday meant they received it the 13th.

Just an update to let you all know we have our I-797Cs! Received 11/23, dated 11/13.

Now for the waiting.

23 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Did you bring your I94 to the office (and I assume check that your then-fiancé was listed in the database?)

Yes, we had everything as far as I could tell. (I haul around half my filing cabinet in his immigration folder, I think.) He should have been in the system and his I-94 was correct and up to date. From speaking to the second worker who tried his best to sort things for us in October, it was a problem with his middle name. (*sigh*) ... And he only has one middle name even!

We'll just wait for the EAD and try that way. There really isn't much to be done with what happened in the past and all his AOS forms have now been submitted so we'll just keep pushing forward.

30 minutes ago, jakejon said:

Found a number for them 

(410) 966-5777

Thanks!

5 minutes ago, jakejon said:

Hope you get sorted though 

We'll get there!

I sat staring at the letter this morning and couldn't think of anything helpful to do as a next step. What I wanted to do was storm down to the closest SSA and give the first worker I saw a piece of my mind. (Which would have gotten me nowhere.)

2 minutes ago, p-ana said:

You can apply for ssn with ead as well, if that comes before the gc

Yes, I think we'll go that route.  Thanks for the ideas!

4 minutes ago, ThomasNC1988 said:

Poor service as Social Security? Welcome to America lol. Had the same experience pretty much.

What's that saying about the only thing saving us from government is the inefficiency of the bureaucracy?

5 minutes ago, jakejon said:

Why aren't them cards plastic anyway??? 

My now-husband goes on about the fact that they aren't!  It's a travesty! Plastic makes way more sense...so they will always be paper.

Yes, we did.

We are quite exasperated and outraged this morning. My then-fiance entered the US on August 22 using his K-1 Visa. We applied for his SSN on September 10th and were told to wait four weeks. We waited and waited. We went back to the SSA in mid-October and were told that there had been a hang-up in the system somewhere and that we could expect his SSN in two weeks. On November 9th we received a letter dated November 1st saying it was an acknowledgement that he'd applied on September 10th and that he would have his SSN in two weeks. Then yesterday we received a letter dated November 7th saying that his SSN was being denied because his K-1 Visa was going to expire on the 19th!

We married on October 20th and sent in his I-485 to adjust status telling them that we'd already applied for an SSN but that we hadn't received a number yet.

We are at a loss for what to do. Are we really stuck waiting for an SSN until he gets his conditional green card in 6+ months?

Just dropping in to say we are sending our package out tomorrow. I'm spending this afternoon triple-checking all the forms and documents needed. It's taken quite a while to get to this point!

Good luck to all of us!

On 7/13/2018 at 3:06 PM, Wuozopo said:

A clue you are closer is when it no longer says immigrant visa, but starts saying nonImmigrant

It changed today!  I'm so excited!! *bounce bounce*

Oh good! I hope they really don't need anything else because the paperwork has been a nightmare!

Thanks for holding my hand!

We had our medical on May 18th but we had issues getting the medical exam paperwork to the embassy before our interview on June 20th. We were told July 3rd that the medical exam paperwork was sent to the embassy. Today, July 13, our CEAC status changed to Ready for interview.

HELP! What does that mean? Does that mean they need more paperwork? If so, how will we find out what they need? Will they call? Send a letter? Can I call them?

For every question I've ever had throughout this process, I've found the answers here. Either by browsing the forums, asking the incredible members for help, or by following the guides that are linked at the top.  When we filed, the initial cost was $535 but it is always subject to change. Oddly enough, when we did our interview last week, the US embassy in London only wanted to see a letter from my employer that verified how much money I made and that I held a full-time, permanent, position.  They didn't ask for any other documentation to prove my figures.

4 hours ago, Dportillo said:

Number One Rule! Do not Worry!

My new mantra! Thanks!

I've been lurking and reading various threads and I'm worried about my fiancé's prior drug use. He's been clean for nearly ten years but of course, we can't lie about him ever doing drugs. Do you think it's likely that they will make him do a year's worth of testing?