hanster

Congratulations, have a wonderful life in the US.

thank you. I actualy have been here in the states for about 6 years since i had completed my undergraduate and now my graduate studies here.

thank you all for the good wishes and wish everyone expedite processing.

I just received 3 emails from CRIS saying that they registered permanent resident

congrats,

we had ours today.

a total of 5 minutes, asked for lease agreement, joint sponsor's employer letter, bank statement and that's it, she didn't ask us where or when we met or when we got married. our interview lasted 5 minutes and 4 out of those 5 minutes she talked about her identity being stolen and how her lawyer does not return her calls.

did not ask for pictures or anything. she said we are approved, we are NOT in namecheck and that i should receive the letter in about a week or so.

well, we got it...

we got there an hour early and waiting and then fifteen minutes after our scheduled interview the lady called us in.

she swore us and then we sat down.

I was wearing a sport coat and tie and my wife a suite. the interviewer looked at my wife and said that she looks like a lawyer and asked he if she was one. my wife told her that she is just a law student, and then the interviewer went to tell us about how her divorce lawyer would not return her calls and how how she was a victim to identity theft and she talked throughout the interview about that.

she asked us for our lease, and asked if we had signed them at the same time or at different times and we told her that it was the latter. she also asked for if our joint sponsor was self employed and whether we had a letter of employment from him, so we gave it to her. she then asked about joint insurance and told her that we have the insurance through the school and then asked us if we had joint bank account and we gave her the bank paper.

that's all she asked for. she then returned to me my passport (no-stamp), driver's license, social security card, and EAD card. when she returned the EAD card to me, i thought to myself that I must have been stuck in the namecheck. but then she looked at us and said, everything looks good and that I was approved and that she will process the paperwork for it tomorrow.

I asked her if i was stuck in the namecheck and she said "no, you are one of the lucky ones.."

she really did not ask us anything about our marriage, she did not ask us how we met, when we wed, pictures or anything to that regards.

the whole interview took about 5 minutes and 4 of those 5 minutes she spent telling us about her identity theft.

to be honest the lady was kinda weird, and she kept on telling us how sleepy she was, and she sure acted like she was sleepy too.

when she returned my IDs to me, she said that i should get the greencard in about a week and that it will be shipped from missouri. she did not say anything about removing the conditions in two years.

We are just soo happy that everything went well.

we wish good luck to all.

We have our AOS interview today in Pittsburgh at 2:00pm.

Surprisingly we are not nervous at all; we are actually excited about it.

I think we are really prepared for it and have all recommended evidence and paperwork.

We just hope I am not stuck in the name check, that's all we are worried about, even still, it will be a matter of time till I get through it so no big deal I guess.

Will keep everyone posted ltaer tonight on how it went.

Do I (the adjusting spouse) need to bring in my own paystubs to the AOS, even if my income is not needed to meet the poverty guidelines?

I'm asking because I don't actually get paystubs, but can get a letter from my employer outlining my income if this is something, I should be bringing in.

Jane,

Are you taking paystubs from your joint-sponsor??

I have my interview the same day as you and I had my joint-sponsor get me a letter from his employer indicating his hourly rate and average number of weekly hours he works, in addition I am taking his last 3 years tax returns, but i forgot to ask him for his paystubs and i think at this point it is too late to ask because if he were to send them to me by mail, it would not make it on time.

Hanster, an interview is an interview. If you can't find extremely recent accounts to read about, that's really no big deal. These are government offices - they don't have a load of employee turnover and the process isn't that fluid. Someones experience from a year ago is likely to be very similar to something that happens on May 10, 2007.

The Pittsburgh office is a small one. The immigrant demographic for this area of the country is much smaller than say - Florida. They don't process a load of cases and they aren't swamped with work. I'd bet a paycheck that when you go there May 10 there will be less than a half dozen people in the lobby waiting for service.

that makes sense.

thank you

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/lofivers...php/t49443.html

I am aware of that thread since I had created it. but this was back in January, which is almost 5 month ago and I was wondering if anyone since then had their interview in pittsburgh.

I will be having my AOS interview in the Pittsburgh office next Thursday (May 10th) and I was trying to see if anyone recently had their AOS interview in pittsburgh. I think I had asked this question a couple month ago, and I know that there are very few people on here that have Pittsburgh as their local office. All the experiences that I could find on here are from before november of 2006, and still there are very few of them.

Please share your experiences..

thank you

It could have been your file arriving in your local office.... doubt it has anything to do with namecheck...

Good Luck

Kez

that's what i thought. i just wanted to double check on it

I have my ASO interview in pittsburgh on the 10th of May (week and a half from now) and I checked my status online two days ago, and there was a touch on both my I-485 and I-130.

I was wondering if anyone who had their interviews experienced something similar. in addition, could it be that it is an indication that my namecheck is complete??? i sure hope so even though it might just be that my file was transfered from Missouri to my local offince in Pittsburgh.

thanks

did the letter not say under the I-864 section that you need to bring the last 3 year's tax returns and a letter from the sponsor's employer??? well you did not have to send these when u initially sent the I-864 so i would assume that since they are asking for new things for the I-864 that a new one would be needed. i am also wondering about all this cause my interview is on May 10th.

Your sponsor's employer letter needs to be included with your I-864 application, otherwise you'll get an RFE for it. You need to take whatever is requested on your interview notice unless already sent in. In which case, you can just take originals and photocopies of supporting documents you sent with your application. At least that's what I did 'cos I didn't make copies of my actual AOS application forms. When it comes to the interview, you can never have too much evidence. So, it's best to take everything you've got. Sometimes the officer may not even look at everything, but then you never know. Good luck.

i actually never sent a letter from my sponsor's employer when i sent in my I-864 and never got an RFE for it. but i guess i will take one with me to the interview just in case

did the letter not say under the I-864 section that you need to bring the last 3 year's tax returns and a letter from the sponsor's employer??? well you did not have to send these when u initially sent the I-864 so i would assume that since they are asking for new things for the I-864 that a new one would be needed. i am also wondering about all this cause my interview is on May 10th.

i am really happy for you guys.

welcome (officially) to the United States...

basically, you need to have someone to joint sponsor your fiance. this joint sponsor does not have to be your parents or someone living with you, but it could be anyone (U.S. Citizens) as long as they make 125% over the poverty line and willing to sponsor your fiance.

for example you can ask any relatives that you have or any friends of the family.

good luck buddy

is she your FIANCE or your wife???

i am just surprised that they will issue her a greencard eventhough you guys are not married. i thought u petition for her to get a visa to come here and then you would need to get married and then apply for a greencard??

am i missing something here??

regardless, congrats...

Do you have to bring a letter of employment to the interview? I mean the pay stubs already state the hrs worked and the rate per hour.

another question i would like to know the answer to.

thanks for the info.

here is the problem,

Both my wife (U.S. Citizen) and I are in graduate school, and I am the one who is making the money through a Teaching Assistantship. When we filed for AOS back in december, our income did not meet the 125% poverty line so we used a joint sponsor, now when we filed the 2006 taxes, we actually met the 125% of the new poverty line, but the problem is that my Teaching Assistantship will end a week after or a week before my AOS interview (i have to double check my contract). so my question is, under these conditions, when we go to our interview, can I request to use our income alone as Affidavit of support without using my joint sponsor? I am not sure if i will have a new job lined up by the time my interview comes.

In order to be safe, i will still take my joint sponsor's affidavit with me just in case.

I just wanted to see what you guys thought of my case.

thanks

I got my interview notice last week and I am not clear about the part in regards to the financial support.

it said that we need to submit the form I-864 with all required evidence unless already submitted, which we already have submitted (one filed by my wife and one by our joint sponsor).

So do we need to provide an updated I-864 form that includes the 2006 tax returns??? in addition, when we sent in both I-864s, we sent in IRS transcripts from only last year (2005), so do we need to get transcripts for 2004 and 2006 too?

in addition do we need to get a letter from our joint sponsor's employer, and his last 2 months pay stubs???

below is what the letter stated?

YOU MUST BRING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WITH YOU:

*A completed affidavit of support (Form I-864) with all required evidence, including the following for each of your sponsors (unless already submitted)

*Federal income tax returns and W-2's, or certified IRS printout for the past 3 years.

*Letters from each current employer, verifying current rate of pay and average weekly hours, and pay stubs for the past 2 months.

sorry about the long post but i am a bit confused

bump...

My interview is comng up next week I surely hope and pray I will not be stuck in the hole either.When did the supposed memo come out?

i have heard about the memo since the beginning of the year. but i guess it is not being applied

if i get stuck through the name check for few months (2 to 3) then that's fine, but i would just hate to go anything over that like a lot of people on here have. i mean i can easily forget about it for 2 or 3 months, but then after that i would want to know what's up.

I have heard of the memo that states that no new interviews will be scheduled for AOS until the fbi namecheck is complete (excepts for those who got their interview notice before the memo).

now i was wondering if this really what is taking place or not. I just got my interview notice today and it is set for May 10th and was wondering that since it is scheduled whether that means that the namecheck is complete.

i have been keeping track of people who recently had their AOS very recently (including today) and who where stuck in the namecheck, i just wondering if those people had gotten their interview notice before the memo was issued.

thank you all for your help

my wife has been telling me for the past two weeks that today, once i pass my defense we have to go celebrate and i would tell her that there is no need for celebration for it is my "duty" to pass my oral defense. but now, after having two really good news, i think we will definitely be celebrating.

thanks guys.

to be honest, once i got my EAD card, i haven't too worried about the AOS for i knew it would come eventually and it did.

wishing you all the best.