Rocko20

2 hours ago, Prizm123 said:

i feel terrible for the people who just got approved and booked their tickets to finally come here.... man what a kick in the face

Airlines should be able to issue full refunds at this point. But yes, to be delayed like that is brutal 

On 7/15/2019 at 11:14 AM, Phillip & Jingkie said:

Hi Rocko20 

I have have a question im from honolulu too..

where did your wife got her shots? I did my medical on another country but i did not have my shots coz im thinking i will do it here..and i called some civil surgeons but most of them will not do the shots..and my interview will be next month..please help..thank you..

Sorry for the late response, my wife got her shots by the civil surgeons listed in Honolulu. If you need more information, let me know and I can ask her 

Our green card interview was verbally approved about 4 weeks ago, but the vaccinations weren't done. So May 11th my Romanian wife finally  turned in the paperwork (it takes about a month to get all the vaccinations done at the specific time each shot needs to be done.)

So the online case status updated to "Name was updated." I believe this means the green card is being printed? I'll refrain from  getting too excited until the green card is actually in our possession. 

Also a side note rant, I hate that I printed out countless papers for this interview that the officer didn’t need nor check.

RIP to the ink and paper that was used. 

So, me and my foreign spouse did our GC interview just now. We had a very nice older lady as our officer and it went well

Good news is she is approved for her green card. Bad news is she did not have her medical vaccinations (not my fault,  she didn’t examine the medical checklist properly) and we have to get that done 

So just one last step but we’re pretty much finished. I couldn’t have made it here without the help and support of this site. Just wanted to thank all the posters on VJ 

I filed 2 weeks after I got married to my foreign spouse on the K1, the sooner the better.

It took around 8 months from the day they receive the AOS application until the day we had the GC interview.

Even if K1 denial rates were higher, is that really going to stop you from applying for a K1?

It wouldn't have stopped me. You love who you love and you'll apply for whatever visa it takes to get them here. 

5 minutes ago, Pengunista said:

My interview will be tomorrow and regarding the affidavit of support we did a new one since my husband got promoted recently, so we just want to make sure that we got that part covered.  With regards to the rest, I just made a copy of all the originals I’ll be bringing like marriage certificate, birth certificate, photocopies of passport and I-94, more new pictures and original of the photocopies of pictures I sent with my file.  It’s better to be prepared even though I already sent photocopies of what I mentioned, it won’t hurt just Incase they ask for it or something. 

Agreed, and thanks for the response. Like you said, it's better to just have the documents on hand even if we already submitted it. Good luck at your interview!

Quick question. My wife's green card interview letter is in hand. The paper says "bring the following items with you" and mentions the affidavit of support, then it says "unless already submitted."

So there's a  bunch of items we have to bring unless it's already submitted? To me, that means bring hardly anything besides proof of bonafide relationship as most of the items on the checklist were already submitted with the AOS package.

I just wanted confirmation that we in fact should  bring every single item on the list, as a precaution, even if it states "unless already submitted." 

50 minutes ago, junkmart said:

For me, the interview was scheduled for about one month after the interview notice. You should be back before the interview. Have you thought about rescheduling your vacation?

Thanks as well, it gives me some relief 

I wish we could reschedule the vacation but the issue is I’ve already bought all plane tickets to Nevada which wasn’t cheap. And I’ve alreaud submitted my request for leave as well as my wife getting her days off. Obviously this GC interview take priority over anything, we simply didn’t think it was going to come up in 7 months. 

Either way, thank you for your information 

1 hour ago, Pengunista said:

If you got a notification May 5, there is a chance that the interview letter won’t arrive until the week of 13th. And most likely your interview won’t be until first or second week of June.  So based on your story, you should be back from vacation before June arrives.  I got my notice May 2, and got the letter in the mail today the 9th and my interview won’t be until June 6

Thanks, that was the type of timeline I was looking for. Much appreciated 

I’m US Air Force and have been currently deployed for 6 months. Before I deployed, my wife was admitted to America on the K1 and we filed for AOS. Fast forward to now she has her EAD and everything is going well while she works in Hawaii and I’m still deployed until May 10

So, May 5th we get the USCIS online notification that an interview is scheduled. The problem is that me and my wife have planned our vacation in Nevada for May 10-19 (these vacation dates after my deployment were planned back in February, obviously we had no idea the green card interview would only be a 7 month wait from when we first filed AOS in October) and we won’t be at home to receive any USCIS mail 

We called USCIS and submitted a request to reschedule but obviously we still won’t be at home to receive any mail on the original date or possible rescheduled date 

Should I be worried about this? Or is there a low chance the actual interview will happen during that 10 day window we will be gone? As of now, I’m worried some mail will arrive on the 13th with instructions to go for an interview on the 18th, despite the fact we already submitted a request for reschedule to be on the safe side. 

On 5/4/2019 at 11:01 PM, kemm360 said:

Okay. October 3rd 2018 AOS filer here. Got RFIE sometime in October for what i know i included at first,

Was your RFE about tax returns? Myself and several other October filers had the same RFE, and we know for certain we included tax returns in the packaged

Anyways, I think USCIS lost the paperwork but it's good to see that you, myself, and others are back on schedule even after the RFE. 

Welp, I finally got my wife's interview scheduled per the USCIS stating "interview has been scheduled." Congrats to all those are already done with all of it lol. 

You can never truly predict the future actions of someone, with or without red flags. Some people change decades down the road inside of a marriage.  

Sorry Op, that you’re going through this. 

On 3/12/2019 at 3:48 PM, Allaboutwaiting said:

 

What I've noticed for November is a huge amount of people stuck in "Fingerprint fee received", while, from what I've read on the forums, December and January filers, get their status updated right after biometrics. 

Our case hasn't been updated since November 28th. I used to check informed delivery daily and get excited about any notifications, but all the ones I get, come from Candy Crush. 😅

 

The fantasy I had of us getting an early interview, seems now unattainable. I feel being awarded a Nobel prize is way easier. 😂

I finished all the AOS paperwork in October, so my wife has her EAD now. However, we had an RFE (USCIS lost the tax tranccipts)  for the I-485 so once they received the RFE response, that pushed our notice of action date for the I-485 to November 28th.

At the moment, our case status is still stuck on "fingerprint review was completed"  so I'm hoping we can get an interview in another month or so since there are several October filers who already have scheduled dates. 

I just saw the news on politico

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/12/citizenship-immigration-international-offices-close-1218137

I’m glad my wife is on the AOS status at this point. But I don’t blame any administration,  if becoming a citizen was suppose to be easy, cheap, and fast then everyone would do it.

If this makes things harder or people wait longer, then so be it. If the relationship is bonafide, waiting won’t be an issue. 

12 hours ago, junkmart said:

W-9, 1099, w-2, etc. are not sufficient to prove income. The instructions are clear, provide IRS transcripts, or COMPLETE tax return including all forms, schedules, w-2, 1099s, W-9s, etc.

 

You only provided part of a tax return, twice, hence the denial.

 

I would fire your lawyer. Any competent immigration attorney should have known what to submit.

Yup, and tax transcripts can be requsted  online via the IRS free of charge 

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

Me and several other posters had a similar  tax related RFE. We submitted all tax information but still got an RFE because USCIS lost the paperwork. 

So I literally re-sent the USCIS every single page of tax transcript available for the RFE last October and so far so good, haven’t had any issues since. 

Tax transcripts are a must and lawyers must know the difference. The lawyer in the Op sadly did not do their job. W2 and other forms are not enough.

For those waiting for their EAD cards in the mail, my case status has been updated to say "the card was picked up by the united states post office."  The US postal tracking says it will arrive by Monday 11th 

Timeline:

March 6th: New Card is being produced

March 8th: Card was picked up by US postal office

March 11th: expectant delivery date via US postal tracking

3 hours ago, GFP said:

 

SSN question: I had a SSN in the past while in US under J1 visa. We filled for getting a SSN in the I485 form. My question: Are we supposed to receive a SSN card together with the combo card? Is there a way to check online what is my SSN status? Thanks.

I don't know your exact specifics, buy my wife has a SSN from the past under her J1(or cultural visa) and we have used that same visa to file taxes successfully with the IRS. My research has said that once you get a SSN (from any visa), it will remain the same forever. Even after the GC paperwrok she will still have the same SSN if I'm not mistaken. 

You don't currently have your SSN card from when you were under the J1 Visa? My wife still had her card. 

11 hours ago, Greek said:

You still think submitting certified copies to USCIS is a bad idea? 

You do know USCIS routinely loses paperwork right? Many of our tax returns (me and several other posters) were completely  lost by USCIS during the AOS paperwork so we got an RFE and had to re-send it. We didn't do anything wrong, they just lost it.

This is why USCIS tells you to send photocopies.  They don't want to be held liable for that stuff.

Nigeria, through no fault of your own, is a high fraud country. The age gap only futher raised more red flags.

It sucks but that's the way the U.S. immigration system works. Some countires have so many fraudlent marriages and illegal immigrants that they decided to put a hard stop to it by scrutinizing future marriages.

Some folks are trying to leave their home countries and they don't care who they have to swindle or seduce in order to do it. The CO simply saw something and was not confident that the nigerian was doing this in good faith.

12 hours ago, Morgan89 said:

Hey all!

My EAD status changed today to 'New card being produced'!!! finally our time guys :))

- PD October 12th

Same here, I have the “new card being produced” (work permit). I couldn’t believe my computer screen.

Does anyone know how long until it actually comes in the mail?

Looks like they’re finally processing October filers for the EAD

You don’t need all that evidence to file AOS, I provided it anyway but it was a waste of time and printed paper.

Save all that stuff for the ROC interview.