scott&camila

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. We'll go into the office next week and get it.

My wife received her work authorization and a few weeks later a temporary social security number card for work purposes only. A few weeks after that she passed the green card interview and changed her name to her married name, and received her green card in that name. My question is, is she going to receive another permanent social security card in the mail with her new name? Or does she have to go to a social security office and get a new one?

thanks for the info!

My wife and I are waiting to receive her green card. She arrived in the US with the fiancé visa in September 2017 and we applied for the green card in October. We just got an RFE simply asking for an English translation or her birth certificate which we will send this week. We didn't know when we could officially change her name so we didn't do it upon our marriage. I was wondering if we could attach a short letter to the RFE explaining that going forward we would like her name to be changed on the green card and social security card? Is that possible or does USCIS accept that and do that?

On 11/23/2018 at 8:29 AM, JFH said:

Did you actually apply for the EAD (work permit)? It’s a separate form.

yes

Apparently the work authorization arrives before the green card. My fiancé came in September, and then we got married and sent off the green card application early October. When should we be expecting work authorization?

I haven't been on the site for awhile because I found it less painful to not look at visa stuff while waiting haha. But my wife finally arrived in September and we were married September 18th! But now I have a question about when approximately her work authorization will come? The green card application was sent in early October. 

51 minutes ago, ChuAni said:

As you're waiting for the NVC #, you can start working on the DS-160 Form, your Police Certificate, the Petitioner can start looking at the Form I-134 ( Affidavit of Support) with its Supporting Documents and arranging Proof of Relationship for the Interview.

So in bullet point form (correct me if I'm wrong):

Beneficiary

-Start working on the online application DS-160 but don't submit it yet

-Get Police Certificate

Petitioner

-Gather form I-134 info

-Arrange Proof of Relationship info for interview

Then once you get the NVC # submit the DS-160 and then call the embassy?

My i129f case was approved by the USCIS today!

I know this has probably been asked and the information is somewhere but could someone reply to my comment with the exact steps to do now that my case is moving to NVC?

Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!

1 hour ago, scott&camila said:

We were approved today at 6am! haha

 

Goodbye USCIS, hello NVC.

Could someone direct me to the NVC blog? I can only find one for February NVC

1 hour ago, DPP123 said:

Hope it is nothing too serious.  

I already know what it is. I sent only one sheet of my divorce agreement. They just want the whole thing, which I have.

6 hours ago, ChuAni said:

Recently, RFE isn't an issue. Just answer it, send back any document they believe is missing and you get your sweet Approval.

 

Someone (...think, August Filer) just got his Approval after 4 days of responding to the RFE.

 

Congratulations in Advance!💖🎆

Yea I'm at the point where I see an RFE as acceptance because I'll simply respond to it same day I receive it and put it in overnight mail and expect approval in about a week or maybe two. It's no biggie really.

10 minutes ago, AERNESTOC said:

Just came back myself. Never miss EstereoPicnic with my fiance, plus it's her birthday. So glad that this process is coming to it's last phase

Yea, I thought about trying to wait until the interview, but man if for some reason USCIS doesn't touch my case in a month or two then I couldn't live with myself not seeing her that long.

I'm going down to Colombia for a week at the beginning of May. I can't take it anymore! Haven't seen my fiancé in 6 months!

11 minutes ago, ChuAni said:

https://my.uscis.gov/account/applicant

Check it out.

I created the new account. The date changed to October 4th from October 2nd (which from reading on here is normal). And no case change yet. Thanks for the link though

1 hour ago, ChuAni said:

Have you created an account on the new website?

 

no how do I do that?

1 minute ago, magnoses said:

October 5th here. Also, approved today! 

congrats! You got it before us and we're October 2nd hahahahaha come on uscis!

2 hours ago, JoseMei said:

Thank you @Naes for your generous help for us to get informed about the progress. Wish your approval is coming soon. Hooray, there are 2 approvals for October 

What? Two approvals for October already???!

1 hour ago, ChuAni said:

Give it another week.

yea I'm October 2 and my timeline says April 7th - 13th. It'll be a few weeks people.

51 minutes ago, LizM said:

 

In a perfect world you would create an online application, encrypt and send it, and a computer program would do the basic checking against different data bases. RFEs would only be sent out if the evidence you submitted was not enough, because the application software would not let you send the application before it was filled out properly. Any applications with red flags or hits in the databases would be reviewed further. The rest would be auto-approved, possibly they would to some sort of sampling on the auto-approved ones to make sure no mistakes were made. Adjudicators would get more time to spend on the cases that actually need some investigation. I think auto-approvals wouldn't be a risk; that's essentially what happens to those applications anyway, except now they also take up someone's time. And, beneficiaries still have to interview in the end.

Great and easy to implement system. Its extremely baffling knowing that the system has not improved all these years and most likely will never improve, possibly a few decades from now as they get caught up on the technology that we have in 2018.

5 minutes ago, scott&camila said:

Exactly! And with technology nowadays a good AI system could just sort everything out within seconds with some people overseeing it! And we could just all apply online with electronic signatures and then verify anything in person at a small local office or FaceTime! This whole process is extremely inefficient and archaic!

With K1 Visas the embassy of the beneficiary should immediately be assigned to look into the beneficiary (with a background check or any phone calls taking mere days) and schedule an interview right away with the beneficiary. And in the US the USCIS should just run a background check and schedule an interview with the US citizen at a local office immediately. In the interview is where all the documents proving a relationship/marriage intent to marry and so forth are looked over. Then if it all checks out on both ends the embassy is notified to issue a visa (through email not paper mail!) and then the process is ended.

13 minutes ago, LizM said:

It's especially frustrating that some straight-forward applications take about 15 minutes from picked up until approved. At least that's what this one former employee at the CSC said in an interview from about ten years ago - maybe it's even quicker now.

 

So in those cases, you're paying $535 for 6 months in a pile + a little bit of admin + 15 minutes of real action   The service could improve, surely.

Exactly! And with technology nowadays a good AI system could just sort everything out within seconds with some people overseeing it! And we could just all apply online with electronic signatures and then verify anything in person at a small local office or FaceTime! This whole process is extremely inefficient and archaic!