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Question- I sent in my tax transcripts for the N-400 and now for the interview I am bringing in my tax returns. Is it okay to just bring 1040's or do they want state as well?

Hello VJ-

We received our yellow letter 12/20/11. It advised to bring a drivers license to the interview, but no other documents.

However, we still did not receive an interview letter.

Any advice? I am going to call tomorrow when my husband and I are together. (He is the applicant)

Thanks so much in advance for any advice.

Kathleen

Hello,

I have my 10 year green card and am eligible to apply for removal of conditions. I am currently an Argentina citizen and my passport expires in October. When I went to update my passport at the Argentine Embassy in NYC they told me I needed my DNI card- which I don't have. It takes 7-8 months to get a new DNI!

My question is whether it will cause any problems with my removal of conditions if my current passport expires before I get a US Passport? I know I won't be able to travel if that happens. In the meantime, can I re-enter the country if I do travel with a passport that is about to expire?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank You,

Fede

Our receipt number never showed up on the website- even with the number from the Biometric letter.

Today we received our NOA stating out request for removal of conditions has been approved and card production has been ordered for the PERMANENT RESIDENT CARD!!!

For all of you in the process of applying, here is a list of our evidence. We did not have joint banking accounts, joint lease or mortgage so we were worried about how things would go. But, four months later, without an interview, we have been approved!

Good luck to all and thanks to all the wonderful people in this forum who have helped us along the way!

• Copies of the passport and green card

• Copies of tax transcripts for 2007 and 2008 to show joint filling status.

• Copy of State Farm Insurance Homeowners/Condominium Unitowners Binder-Receipt for our home under both of our names. Dated 6/17/08.

• Copy of State Farm Insurance Condominum Unitowners Policy for our home under both of our names. Dated 06/17/09.

• Copies of joint AT&T wireless account bills:

o 4/17/08-5/16/08

o 9/17/08-10/16/08

o 12/17/09-01/16/10

• Copies of Time Warner cable bill to our home in the name of my husband Dates:

o 1/23/10

o 9/23/09

o 09/23/08

• Copies of ConEdison bill in both of our names. Dates:

o 09/02/08-10/01/08

o 12/04/09-01/05/10

• A copy of our airline reservations and trip insurance for a vacation to Grenada on 8/24/2009.

• A copy of our airline reservation to San Francisco and then to Belize 12/21/08-1/6/09.

• Photos covering the span of our relationship.

We were approved without a joint lease/mortgage or joint bank account and no interviews. We did show joint-IRS filing, photos, travel itineraries, joint cell phone and utility accounts, and checks showing we both paid from out separate accounts for the same bills.

Did you check your bank account?

I believe USCIS usually cashes the check first before sending out the NOA.

Yes- I sure did check with the bank and it has not been cashed.

cool!

I added you to the February filers list

Thank you- I never know how to get added into those round-ups.

I sent the application 2/20- it arrived 2/24 at VSC. The NOA is dated 2/25.

My check hasn't been cashed, but I assume it will be soon.

Problem is I own our Condo and we don't have any joint bank accounts. We don't have joint health insurance or life insurance.

So I will send what we have and hope it goes well.

Joint bank accounts and credit cards if you have any (probably the most important thing, the one thing they are looking for is shared financial risk).

Joint lease/apartment dead.

Joint Health insurance if you have it.

Life insurance policies showing spouse as the beneficiary

You really should read this guide from this site:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;page=751guide

Best of luck with your ROC

James and Tracy

• Copies of the passport and green card

• Copies of tax transcripts for 2007 and 2008 to show joint filling status.

• Copy of State Farm Insurance Homeowners/Condominium Unitowners Binder-Receipt for our home under both of our names. Dated 6/17/08.

• Copy of State Farm Insurance Condominum Unitowners Policy for our home under both of our names. Dated 06/17/09.

• Copies of joint AT&T wireless account bills:

o 4/17/08-5/16/08

o 9/17/08-10/16/08

o 12/17/09-01/16/10

• Copies of Time Warner cable bill to our Brooklyn home in the name of my husband Dates:

o 1/23/10

o 9/23/09

o 09/23/08

• Copies of ConEdison bill in both of our names. Dates:

o 09/02/08-10/01/08

o 12/04/09-01/05/10

• A copy of our airline reservations and trip insurance for a vacation to Grenada on 8/24/2009.

• A copy of our airline reservation to San Francisco and then to Belize 12/21/08-1/6/09.

• Photos covering the span of our relationship.

Does this seem sufficient?

Thanks!

Hello-

I am putting together our I-751 form. My husband's green card expires 3/21/10.

Right now I have all of the evidence except our tax return from 2007. I sent the IRS a form to get the transcript for it and somehow they never sent it or I never got it. I called them yesterday and they said it should come in 7-15 days.

Question- should I go ahead and send everything now? Or should I wait for the 2007 transcript?

I am feeling paranoid about waiting too long to send it into the 90 day window.

Thanks!

Hello All-

I can't believe I am back putting together another huge application! Uggggg.... but I am so grateful to the folks on here for their knowledge and help. We got our K1 and 2 year green card without a hitch, let's hope this leg goes well.

Here are a few q's for the experts:

1. When we apply for the new green card, what if we don't get a new one before the old one expires? Is it true that an expired green card and an NOA is sufficient evidence of status? Can one re-enter the US with an expired green card and NOA?

2. One of our utility bills misspells my husband's name. Should we still use it as evidence? (feterico instead of federico- I just noticed!)

3. I own the apartment we live in and we don't have any shared bank account- just a shared Amex I opened in September. Should I be worried?

Thanks for all for answering my questions!

Best,

Kathleen

Thank You

We have received a 2 year Green Card after entering on a K1. We just moved to a new apartment.

Do I, the USC, need to file a change of address form, AR-11 ? I did Sponsor him initially- I am still responsible to do this?

Does he, the beneficiary, use the AR-11 form? He is self-employed, so what should we put as his work address? His home address? Or leave in with "n/a" ?

Are we considered "pending"

It is not true in your case...

I received an RFE for not having a TB skin test.

From the USCIS rule 8 CFR, section 103.2(a) "applicants 2 years old or older will be required to have a tuberculin skin rest."

Lucky to you for getting a green card without one, but perhaps the rule has changed or was not enforced in your case.

Ask for second copy of the doctor's report in a sealed envelope... just in case the USCIS loses your medical report, as can often happen. Then if you get an RFE for the medical you won't have to re-do the paper work here- which would mean re-doing the exam and tests which is $$$.

Also, the USCIS requires a TB skin test- a chest xray or other test is not valid. In many countries they don't have the skin test and you have to take it in the US, but I bet in England they have the skin test?

You must take the skin test for TB- a chest x ray or anti body test is not allowed.

Another reason for a medical RFE.... you are required to have a TB skin test, not just the X-RAY test done in other countries. We got an RFE because of this, so make sure to send the results of a skin TB test if you have not done so already.

Yes, it is worth it.

Maybe the rule has recently changed? There is a low quoted stating you need to have a TB skin test in the letter.

You might. But the problem is that they don't tell you in the RFE that they only need to the skin test- they just say you need a medical. So, you end up having to re=do the whole medical when all you needed was the one TB test--- wastes money and time, but if you get the RFE just send them the whole thing to be safe.

Today we received a notice of intent to deny in response to our RFE for a medical even though we had done the medical within less than a year for the K1 to enter. In my RFE I wrote a letter stating that we did not need the medical, per the instructions on the I-485 for K1 applicants with valid medicals.

The intent to deny was not all bad news. The letter actually explained why they wanted the medical again, it was not that they had lost our medical, as we had assumed, between the POE and now.

The actual reason was that the USCIS requires a TB skin test for the AOS as part of the medical, and my husband had only had a chest XRAY as part of his medical in Argentina! If only they had said this in the RFE we would have done it and sent it in. Now we will send in the TB skin test and be free and clear (let's hope)!!

So, I highly recommend if you are not sending in a medical done in the US with your I-485 that you make sure a TB skin test was done in your home country as part of the medical, or else sumbit it to avoid a RFE.

Good luck!

I would send it all in now. Waiting for an RFE only add to time and anxiety!

I received information from the USCIS about why so many people get RFE's for medicals with their I485.

"When the USCIS reviewed the file and the I-485, and did not locate the required medicals on the file, he/she would request out for the medicals. There are times when, although the applicant has completed the medicals, they are not send to the file of the applicant. (IN OTHER WORDS THEY LOST THE MEDICAL) In those instances, in order for processing of the case to continue, the applicant must comply with the evidence request..."

I want to do something to stop the USCIS from losing medical reports. It causes an undue burden on applicants- financially and practically- when the USCIS loses our paperwork.

I spoke with my congressional representative for immigration and if more people start contacting their Reps then perhaps we can bring attention to the problem and hopefully make our Reps aware that USCIS has a problem- and make them do something to correct it!

We can need to bring attention to this problem so that the USCIS will be more responsible and not lose our valuable paperwork! Especially since the fees have tripled for filing an AOS in the last year!

Of course it is probably impossible to do anything about this.

But if you can just take the time to call your Representative, it might help!

Here is the link to finding your local Rep:

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

Thanks!