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13 hours ago, Eric&Mirella said:

Did you apply for advanced parole also? Or just the EAD?

i have applied for both the Advance Parole and the EAD card. The AP status is still in status" case received"  and it hasnt changed since i first applied.

Just now, ds2 said:

Congratulations!!!!

 

Did you mention any travel plans in your AP application?

 

You will probably get the EAD/AP combo card.

thanks so much!!

I did mention travel plans, and i am really hoping i get the AP as well.

Good luck to all!Fingers crossed you are getting the same update soon!

Just now, ds2 said:

No expedite?

nope, i didnt even know this was an option until yesterday that i was reading the forum.

6 hours ago, JuliEbb18 said:

Hello Everyone,

Im glad someone told me about this topic. Im from California hoping there are California filers here. I just Got married this month and preparing things for my AOS me and my husband is just on the wait of our marriage certificate.  Thank you.

Hello and congrats for the weddingl! I am also in California preparing the AOS packet while waiting for my Social security card to arrive (it takes soooo long). Does anyone know if i need to have a social security number to fill out for AOS? 

Also, i was wondering, do we need to submit evidence of an ongoing relationship (like we did for K1 visa) ?

3 hours ago, Ben123 said:

Just a reminder that once DHL has a hold of your package, you can track it here.

 

http://www.dhl-usa.com/en/express/tracking/shippers_reference.html

 

Shipper's reference looks something like this (EXP 30 OCT 2018A).

 

Date range for shipment just put Oct 1 through 31.

 

And select your country.

Thanks so much for sharing this!!! Ours is in transit too!

thanks so much for these info!

Quick question, do you remember if you got your penal record (poiniko mitroo) from a police department or the Ministry of Justice ?

I got mine from the Ministry of justice, and as you also said it was marked as Juridicial use. They stated that this is the official place to  get these records but now i am wondering if that is true.

Hi guys! I ve now received my NOA2 and waiting for NVC to receive our case and get contacted by the embassy. thanks to visajourney, i managed to find the list of documents the Greek embassy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VFUSaOoUMesBn8OqHmSdY7TEje6aQuW0/view?usp=sharing)  will require and started preparing them. I am a bit stressed out though since most of them will take a while to obtain.

Did you guys had to get any police records from countries you stayed for more than 6 months? And if so, did you translate those?

Also, they are asking for W2s for the past 3 years along with "tax documents". Since there is not a W2 form in Greece, what did you submit?

thanks in advance for your replies

Hi everyone! i am so excited to finally be here  We have received  our NOA2 - dated October 1st, and we are now waiting for a NVC case number.
Do you think we should go ahead and fill the DS-160 form just to save some time? 
From what i ve read, the NVC number is not needed to fill out the form. Do you think its a good idea or will it mess things up in the embassy?

@Kalea and @giorgis thank you soooo much for your replies! Its pretty helpful to know there are people that went through the same process and experienced the same issues. 

Regarding document translations, i take your advice and will translate my birth certification to Metafrastiki Ypiresia (have to get an apostille stamp first). I am glad to hear it only takes a few weeks/1 month for the embassy to contact me for an interview, since the whole process has taken so long so far (dont know if you knew, but the k1 visa timings have been doubled in the last 6 months). Glad to hear that embassy interviews are fairly easy, as long as you are prepared.

No more questions for you at this stage  Unless you have an advice for me. Otherwise, i will bug you again in a few dates when i hopefully have my NOA2 !

Thanks again , your help is much appreciated!

On 3/22/2018 at 5:53 AM, Kalea said:

Thanks Giorgis!  We just got the first step approved so we are waiting for a NVC case number.  Any tips for the next steps ahead besides what's already been said? 

I am not sure if you have already finished the process and you are in the US, but fingers crossed!! 
 

Since you have already passed that step, i thought i might ask you a few questions( i am still waiting for my NOA2 but i want to plan ahead)  Did you get an official translation of your birth certificate (from the "Metafrastiki yphresia")? Did you have to do that or could you get it translated anywhere else?

How long after you sent the packet to the Greek embassy was your interview scheduled? Was the interview failry easy?

Any input from anyone else here is much much much appreciated!

14 hours ago, americaninlove said:

Me! Day 219 and counting! It’s been 17 days since they received our RFE. Still waiting and hoping they didn’t forget us...

me too! We are just waiting for our RFE to be received and hopefully, approved. You are not alone ;)

Hi guys! Some of you mentioned that your embassy is backlogged or they are taking couple of months before they schedule an interview. How do you know that? Is this all based on VJ's embassy information or have you called them?

Also, since we are all waiting for our approvals here, do you think we should start preparing for the next step? What is your advice here?

thanks so much! Ours was about some questions left incomplete. What was yours about? Did you receive an email/sms/letter when they received your RFE reply?

Hi guys, do you know how long it usually takes after they receive your RFE till the final approval? I ve seen people in this forum are already waiting for 2 weeks now, is this the average time?

Old website NOA1: 15/2

New website : 19/02
RFE: today

We just received an RFE in the mail today. No website updates, no email, nothing. I am not sure if that is good or bad news.

The RFE is about 6(!!!) incomplete questions, which is weird since we have a copy of the form we sent out and everything is filled out. Anyways, one of the questions we, apparently , left unfilled was " did you meet in the last 2 years? yes or no" - its in page 8 of the petition, question  53.

Do you guys thing we should reply with just circling the YES or should we also attach again the respective evidence?
 

1 hour ago, AnnaR said:

day 211 😠

i am right here with you , 208 days

On 9/9/2018 at 6:21 AM, Jen_1987 said:

Day 207 and still waiting. Is there anyone else waiting? I’m going freaking insane 

DAY 207 and stiiiiiiill waiting. I think we must be the last ones here

1 hour ago, Lucrezia_ITALY said:

Feb. 6th old website

Feb. 12th new website

 

...still no news 😞

 

I’m feeling very discouraged right now.

I am Feb 15th old website, and i just called USCIS. As usual, they said no updates and tht we need to wait till end of september to call back.

:(:(

Today we hit the magic 200 number (NOA1 Feb 15th, new website: feb 19th) without any news or anything.

So, who else is still waiting with us for an answer?

10 hours ago, Toastbear said:

I just read about all the approvals and now im actually crying.

 

NOA1 old Feb 9, new Feb 14

 

I figured I should check the websites too after all these approvals.. and of course... nothing. JUST WHY... 

 

 

i feel ya , dont know why some cases are taking longer than others. 

Hi guys, i just stumbled upon this today: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt and was wondering if you ve seen it.

What happened in 2018? It looks like all processing times have been increased so much. any ideas?

Lets just hope that tomorrow we are gonna see a lot more approvals. fingers crossed !