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@USC4SPOUSE thank you. Do you know how long it takes from when they receive the packet to when they send out the text e-notification and cash the check/process the credit card payment? They received my package 2 business days ago and I haven't heard anything yet.
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Ok yes, so one signature for each of us in Part 7 and 8, done. You had me worried when you said doublecheck your signatures, thought I missed some. Thanks again!
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3 minutes ago, USC4SPOUSE said:
Yes! Just checked ours. Just 2. Your US citizen spouse has to sign as well.
So we each sign once, right?
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2 minutes ago, USC4SPOUSE said:
@KeratNY, You're too kind! I am glad to have been helpful! You have plenty of time. Triple check signatures!!!
And please, once you get your NOA, make several color copies of it. Keep one in the car, keep one at home and put the original in your safe!
Keeping my fingers crossed for your interview to be waived!
(Submit the N-400 as soon as you're eligible)
Will do! On the signatures, how many signatures are needed? And just on the I-751, right?
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@USC4SPOUSE you have been a massive help and big source of quelling my anxiety. Thank you so much! Out the door with just under 2 months until expiration of the GC, so hopefully I'm in good shape. Excited to get the e-notification soon lol
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@USC4SPOUSE Do you know how long from submission it takes to get the notice that extends the green card expiration? Also, does everyone who applies for removal of conditions have to interview (like AOS) or just a select few who they are on the fence about?
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42 minutes ago, USC4SPOUSE said:
The contents look great. I would just group the evidence into categories - cohabitation, joint taxes, joint finances, evidence of relationship (wedding, trips, photos, etc).
My best recommendation to you is to include evidence since the date of the marriage. There will be overlap between what you submitted for AOS and what you are submitting now. That is fine. The officer is at a service center and your AOS file is at the field office. They do not have it and you do not want to get an RFE. They do issue them from time to time.
Bank statement, credit card statements - all of that, they want to see each and every month since the date of the marriage. (Some people do a selection and get approved. Some people do a selection and get an RFE or get called for interview. We sent everything).
Joint taxes - I would go to the IRS website and request IRS transcripts. You will save a ton of paper there.
I would include the lease you sent for AOS. Last but not least, submit all pages of a statement. Do not skip blank pages or any pages.
You have really good evidence. You will be fine.
Thanks very much. Even though I feel like I have provided an orgy of evidence, it does seem deficient with regards to "statements each and every month since the date of marriage." I only included two brokerage statements, two credit card statements, 4 cell phone bills, and two cable bills, spaced several months apart. That seemed sufficient - if you have a joint cell phone bill in January 2020, Dec 2020, and May 2021, I it's highly unlikely the absence of the months in between will indicate anything). The statements I include generally only start late 2019 (we married in late 2017) because that's how far the bank, Verizon, cable allows me to go back for the bills. Having said all that, I will try and pull our lease renewal for each year for the past 4 years to further support it and then also one more tax year (2018). I feel good about that, especially with the extensive pictures. Thanks again!
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Hey, the cover letter you point to says it includes "Addendum I and II to Form I-751." What is this referring to?
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11 minutes ago, USC4SPOUSE said:
You're welcome! We did for AOS but we did not for I-751. LOL are you seeing a pattern here? We needed to ship that thing ASAP.
You can highlight but that is not a substitute for a well organized table of contents listing all your evidence in full sentences and telling USCIS exactly what the evidence is proof of. As redudant as it may seem, you have to connect the dots for them. Otherwise, it's just a pile of documents for them. I followed the example on this thread. It's the second thread.
We did list all the payments that came out of our joint bank account, and we listed the dates so that the officer could find them easier on the statements. You don't have to do that. We did that because we did not want them to even think of saying that X Y or Z aren't on the statements. We did the same for AOS. No issues.
Haha got it thanks, that's helpful. I took your advice, and that thread is helpful. Here's my updated cover letter. Hoping all the pics with lots of friends and family in different cities is the thread that ties it all together. What do you think?
· Photos
o 4 wedding photos (~120 attendees) – note we provided wedding photos at the AOS interview
o 50 other photos – see descriptions / dates on back; primarily on vacation or with family & friends
· Permanent resident card (front and back)
· Wedding / Marriage
o Invoice for our wedding in June 2019
o Wedding ring insurance policies naming both as insured (2019-2020 and 2020-2021 notice)
· Taxes
o 2020 joint tax return
o 2019 joint tax return
· Driver’s Licenses showing the same address
· Lease renewal – October 2020 to Sept 2021 (we’ve lived in the same apartment since Oct 2016 – note that a copy of the original lease was provided at the Adjustment of Status interview)
· Two E-Trade statements (Jan 2020 and May 2021) – joint brokerage account
· Health insurance – conditional resident is on US spouse's employer's insurance
· Benefits statement illustrating am recipient of spouse's life insurance (along with her family)
· Joint credit cards / authorized users
o Bank of America credit cards
o Chase Sapphire credit cards
o Two Chase Sapphire joint credit card statements (Dec 2019 & June 2021)
· Bills
o Joint Verizon cell phone bills (Jan 2020, July 2020, December 2020, June 2021)
o Cable bills (February 2020 and May 2021) showing our address
· Flight tickets to Greece (honeymoon)
· Flight tickets to Fort Lauderdale / Miami (vacation)
· Flight tickets to Palm Springs (attending a wedding)
. Flight tickets to South Africa with family -
2 minutes ago, USC4SPOUSE said:
You are welcome!
We did for AOS but we forgot for the I-751.It is a good idea to do so. I would just get Avery labels and print as many as you need with the A number. However, we secured the stack of evidence with multi level ACCO fasteners. The whole pile was secure. lol.
Thank you. Did you highlight anything with a highlighter just to make it obvious to them the joint names, joint address etc?
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Thank you. Did you put your name and A# on each page of supporting documentation? Somewhere USCIS says to do this but not sure if people do so.
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On 6/14/2021 at 6:44 PM, Deagle said:
When I sent photos, I printed the location, date and occasion if applicable. i.e Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas...
Good luck.
Where did you write this, on the back of the photo?
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Hi, I was hoping to tag along on this thread. Here is my supporting documentation, if anyone wants to opine how it looks. I don't have any affidavits, do people think that is needed?
- Copies of the permanent resident card (front and back)
- 25 photos – primarily on vacation or with our family members & friends
- 5 wedding photos (~120 attendees)
- Invoice for our wedding
- Wedding ring insurance naming both of us as insured parties
- Partial copy of our 2020 joint tax return
- Partial copy of our 2019 joint tax return
- Driver’s Licenses showing the same address
- Lease renewal – October 2020 to Sept 2021
- ETrade Brokerage statement – joint account
- Joint Health insurance
- Benefits statement illustrating I am recipient of US citizen spouse's life insurance
- Flight tickets to Greece (honeymoon)
- Flight tickets to Fort Lauderdale (vacation)
- Flight tickets to Palm Springs (attending a wedding)
- Copy of our Bank of America credit cards showing a joint account
- Copy of our Chase Sapphire credit cards showing a joint account
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Ok thanks. It seems strange that on a combo card, only the work authorization would be extended by a receipt, but not the advance parole, which is the other half of the combo.
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I am awaiting my interview for a marriage based green card. My EAD is about to expire. My priority date is Dec 2017. I applied for an EAD renewal in mid-October. My renewal receipt extends my EAD by 180 days. Does that also apply to advance parole? I also applied for advance parole renewal at the same time and received my receipt for that but there's no mention of the extension on that receipt.
Thank you
@geowrianI'm sure you know and would love your input, thank you
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2 hours ago, <3T&M<3 said:
Okay, what if it was a workers visa type thing. He seriously cannot remember. He know he paid 70TL. He did not physically sign anything. And he does not remember them getting back to him in any way.
If he applied for a visa, he would know. The lottery is definitely not considered a visa. He did not get a worker's visa unless he got a job offer in the US and they sponsored him, which is a lengthy process. Or his company tried to transfer him to the US. So unless one of those big things happened (he'd remember), he never applied for a visa.
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12 hours ago, geowrian said:
Normally I would say try and hope for the best (use an airport with preclearance!), but given the history here I think she may be at risk for an expedited deportation if the CBP officer thinks she is trying to deceive them, which would add in a 5 year bar to the process (waivable, but delays the case further).
Just curious, why do you say use an airport with preclearance? Just to avoid having to fly then be denied? or is it better to be denied in preclearance because then they don't have to deport you?
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On 6/7/2018 at 9:28 AM, blue_angel_29 said:
I would also love to see success/fail stories since hubby will be travelling on AP when he gets approved(10 years oberstay on h2a visa, just filed aos papers last month). He has not seen his daughters for 10 years plus he needs to be there for their passports and whatnot.
I have seen more success than fails but it is good to see recent personal stories.
PS if it was a fail, what happened next?
Please update the thread when this happens and I'll do the same!
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10 minutes ago, Andsco said:
I was left to sit down for 2 hours while the officer processed at least 30 to 40 people in front of me. I remember people asking "why are you not processing her?" and he kept saying "soon". Finally after that long he kept playing it "cool" but still, he left me there for 2 hours. On top of that, every time I said why I went back (4 days!!!) to my country (I had to show up for exams because I study online) he kept twisting my words (like he wanted to understand the wrong thing or something). I am not traveling anymore until I get my green card, that's for sure.
Well I am sorry you had to go through 2 hours of stress, but he let you in, so that's a GOOD result on traveling with advance parole. In an ideal world, people would love to wait until they have their green cards before traveling, but the waits increasing to 12-20 months for AOS are making that harder and harder to do. So traveling on advance parole is becoming a more and more common thing. I think CBP officers often like to make people sweat too, to see how they react under pressure and stress.
It will suck for me to sit in 2-3 hours in secondary processing but that will be just a drop in the bucket to my happiness and relief if/when I am let back in.
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3 minutes ago, Boiler said:
If you use Ap your are paroled in, NOT admitted.
QED
Yes. Presumably when I adjust status that technical distinction would go away. If I had problems adjusting status then this may come into play.
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4 minutes ago, Scazy said:
I know one person who traveled with AP waiting for AOS and having an overstay history prior. I did not recommended her to travel at that time because, you know, “what ifs”, but she went on a trip and entered back with no problems.
Yes they do say that entry is not granted to anyone but UCS, but what exactly that means? In my understanding that phrase means you won’t be admitted if you break the law that would make you inadmissible. Like, returning LPR convicted of inadmissible crime won’t be admitted - that’s the law and it’s abailable for all to exam your situation before travelling. But it does not mean that you still might be denied entry if have not committed anything that makes you inadmissible, just because the officer had a bad day. I believe that’s where all the paranoia and panic starts because it does sounds pretty scary that you always have a chance not to come back - and it’s impprtant to understand that this “chance” is not like gambling, but immigration laws which available for anyone and can be calculated based on your personal factors in immigration journey.
Right?
Great, great answer, and helpful to hear that anecdoe
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5 hours ago, Mmelon said:
Thanks for the replies everyone! I appreciate all the suggestions. I agree that exposure to the language that you are trying to learn is the best way to learn (that's how I learned to speak Spanish-total immersion!). My husband is quite shy and extremely self-conscious about not being able to read or write and has been unwilling to go to a physical classroom to learn for that reason. He claims it is a childhood trauma from experiences he had in school when he was young. We have gone back and forth on the issue a lot and it has caused a lot of heartache for both of us. That is why I am trying to find resources that we can use by ourselves at home. I think of that phrase that says "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." If he won't go to class, I want to provide another option.
I have used Duolingo myself in the past, but I don't think it would work for someone who can't really read. I have never heard of Italki.com but will definitely look at it and see if it would help us! We get Rosetta Stone for free through our library system, so at least we haven't had to pay for it. 😊 I like the idea of using children's books and materials. I'd thought of that wasn't sure if he'd be offended by it.
Honestly sounds like he has some trouble stepping out of his comfort zone, and his shyness/self consciousness are real obstacles to learning. He's going to need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because that is what language learning is like. He needs to work to let go of the shame and embarrassment as that is holding him back.
I have experience with that. I went to my parent's native country for a few weeks to learn what SHOULD have been my native language, and I was routinely embarrassed that I look like a native but can't talk like one, and talking in a broken language to my extended family left me vulnerable, sheepish and embarrassed. But once I got comfortable that I can't control what I can't control, and I need to act like I am just learning a new language like everyone else, the embarrassment and shame went away and I could finally just focus on learning and practicing, and I finally started to show rapid improvement through full immersion.
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1 hour ago, Ben&Zian said:
Why people are so 'desperate' to immediately go home and travel after just having dealt with the long wait to get here in the first place is beyond me; but regardless, if you have AP, then you're fine. That's what it's for, travel and re-entry. As noted, immigrations has final say on entry, always has been that way. It isn't because of the "current climate", i laugh about that all the time. Again it's been this way for years and years. So either take the "chance" or "risk" to travel, or just wait until you have your green card. Pretty simple stuff.
I think that people are perceiving "an immigration unfriendly" environment and erroneously applying it to their own situation. I think in each situation people need to balance out the upside of an international trip with the assessed risk. The upside is usually immediately apparent to each person. Believe me my next trip is highly important to my wife and I and it would be a massive pain to us to wait another 8+ months for it.
The risk of re-entry is not immediately apparent. There are no denial statistics for this, so I think it makes sense that people try to assess if using advance parole is a 1% risk, a 10% risk, a 25% risk, and so forth, to make the right decision. People can be "worried" or "afraid" to go, but after asking these types of questions and if they assess the risk as very low (which I have done but others have not), the upside of the travel is still worth it. I have assessed the risk as 1%-5% which is still too high for my comfort but balanced against the joy and benefits of the trip I believe the ratio makes sense for me to go.
I agree that the first travel ban was the only situation in recent and not-so-recent history where green card holders were (temporarily) being denied, and that was a fiasco that was quickly rectified. So @Ermin&Zijadapointing to that as a relevant example as something that could happen to AP is completely illegitimate. That was very very clearly a one time thing that was a mistake the Trump administration learned. But they have assessed the risk as too high compared to the upside they would get.
So the choices are indeed "simple." But it is not an easy choice and I think people here are doing their background research to assess the risk.
Doublechecking my Removal of Conditions Packet
in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion
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Oh you got the text message after they cashed the check, got it. Thanks!