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I agree, he is considered a resident now, should be treated the same as a citizen.

Thank you very much for the speedy replies. I'll run in and tell him -- he's all excited about getting his US license -- having driven professionally and involved in cars and racing all his life. No, he won't race here, that was in his younger days! LOL

This may seem like a silly question but my British husband is getting his Massachusetts drivers license and one of the questions on the form is---what kind of visa do you have?

He lives here and has his green card and he came on a K-i visa. The form says Do you have a I-94? He doesn't know what to put on the form. Thank you.

Hi Guys!

Well I went and at first the lady seemed annoyed but after looking over some paperwork ( I think it was to see who was coming) she said she could fit me in! Whoot.

Also I'm not sure about the office you guys went to, but this one was SMALL! Seriously enough to open the door, stand at the window and sit in one of the two chairs!! The door you enter in to go get the stuff done is almost the entire wall! seriously it was super super tiny!

Here's hoping to a quick EAD

GOOD WORK! Now that's over and on to a fast EAD for you.

Pete just got his biometrics appointment letter today for Boston on August, 5. This part is soooooo much better than waiting apart.

We just got our NOAs today. Rec. June 29, Notice date July2. He now has to wait for an appointment for biometrics.

We were missing our original NOA and a copy of his vaccinations that were all done in the UK (because it was taken from him at POE) -- are hoping they aren't going to bother us about it.

original noa? which one? you are meant to submit a copy of your noa2 for k1 petition (assuming that's the visa he came on) with the aos application ,although i am trying to file without it but its too soon yet to know if i have been successful. still not even got my biometrics appointment through yet. as for vaccinations... was all his required ones complete at interview and does he still have the copy of the vaccination tick chart that knightbridge gave with the receipt of payment of medical and xray ? the main medical stuiff was in brown envelope and they always keep that at poe.

Original NOA--Off the top of my head I can't remember which one but my lawyer only received an email notice at the time and I received the real one. My lawyer sent everything in this time with just a copy of the email they sent to her because we have lost the original. Maybe it's gone through ok for both you and us -- fingers crossed.

He had all his vaccinations done in the UK and they took the evidence--all of it!-- from him when he came here in January. Again, our lawyer explained this to USCIS and we are hoping to slip through without it. However, we may have to see a civil surgeon and get the vaccination supplement transcribed anyway. It would be a savings of money if they'll just use the copy they took from him and not make us pay for another one.

We just got our NOAs today. Rec. June 29, Notice date July2. He now has to wait for an appointment for biometrics.

We were missing our original NOA and a copy of his vaccinations that were all done in the UK (because it was taken from him at POE) -- are hoping they aren't going to bother us about it.

Hi everyone, we may be joining you.

We were married April 11th and have been using a lawyer since our case is sort of complicated. We just got a notice from our lawyer that my husband needs to submit a vaccination supplement.

I have a question--my husband already had his complete medical and all vaccinations before he even came here. He handed it all in at the point of entry. Does he really need to do anything else? I've been looking at this in the FAQ--

If the beneficiary's vaccinations were COMPLETED as part of the visa process, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO INCLUDE FORM I-693 IN THE AOS SUBMISSION. All your medical information is enclosed in the brown envelope which was handed in at the POE. The envelope is then forwarded on to USCIS where it will be consolidated with the I-485 submission, once received. If you received a copy of the Vaccination Documentation Worksheet (Form DS-3025) from your Panel Physician, you may include a copy of that form in your AOS submission in place of Form I-693.

Sounds to me like the USCIS will take what he gave them and consolidate it. Am I right or wrong? Or just confused.

This is interesting news. I have wondered where all the paperwork I have submitted has gone. I like to think they are that organized. If I was in your situation I would listen to the information you posted but I would state in the cover letter that you submitted the full medical information at the POE and that your husband's medical info is complete. Most people on this form and others have the DS-3025 or the vaccination supplement. Congrats and welcome!

Thanks for the welcome. We hope to be filing for AOS this month. I got that quote from the FAQ at the top of the forum. It WOULD be comforting to think that they actually KEPT the information they took from us, wouldn't it.

Hi everyone, we may be joining you.

We were married April 11th and have been using a lawyer since our case is sort of complicated. We just got a notice from our lawyer that my husband needs to submit a vaccination supplement.

I have a question--my husband already had his complete medical and all vaccinations before he even came here. He handed it all in at the point of entry. Does he really need to do anything else? I've been looking at this in the FAQ--

If the beneficiary's vaccinations were COMPLETED as part of the visa process, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO INCLUDE FORM I-693 IN THE AOS SUBMISSION. All your medical information is enclosed in the brown envelope which was handed in at the POE. The envelope is then forwarded on to USCIS where it will be consolidated with the I-485 submission, once received. If you received a copy of the Vaccination Documentation Worksheet (Form DS-3025) from your Panel Physician, you may include a copy of that form in your AOS submission in place of Form I-693.

Sounds to me like the USCIS will take what he gave them and consolidate it. Am I right or wrong? Or just confused.

As a K-1 before I-485 you are A6. As an adjustment applicant you are C9.

Thank you for that clarification.

Thanks very much for both of your replies. We would never have him working illegally. One more question that you might be able to answer for us is this. Does he qualify for the N-9 Nonimmigrant category, no filing fee?

Again, many thanks if you can help us with this question.

Note on Filing Fee:

If you are in one of the categories noted below, no fee is required.

No fee is required if filing for an initial EAD under one of these categories:

* Refugee, asylee or paroled as a refugee;

* N-8 or N-9 Nonimmigrant;

* Citizen of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, or Palau;

* Granted Withholding of Deportation;

* Deferred Enforced Departure;

* Dependent of certain foreign government or international organization personnel; or,

* Applicant for asylum (applicant filing under special ABC procedures must pay the fee however).

As a K-1 before I-485 you are A6. As an adjustment applicant you are C9.

Thanks very much for both of your replies. We would never have him working illegally. One more question that you might be able to answer for us is this. Does he qualify for the N-9 Nonimmigrant category, no filing fee?

Again, many thanks if you can help us with this question.

Note on Filing Fee:

If you are in one of the categories noted below, no fee is required.

No fee is required if filing for an initial EAD under one of these categories:

* Refugee, asylee or paroled as a refugee;

* N-8 or N-9 Nonimmigrant;

* Citizen of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, or Palau;

* Granted Withholding of Deportation;

* Deferred Enforced Departure;

* Dependent of certain foreign government or international organization personnel; or,

* Applicant for asylum (applicant filing under special ABC procedures must pay the fee however).

This must have been asked a million times before but when I need it, I can't find it.

The situation is this: We got married last week on a K-1 visa that's good until June. We got him a social security card but it's the kind that stamped VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION.

His passport isn't stamped with any authorization to work.

Our lawyer today told him that he can work!

I thought he had to apply for an EAD. Also, it says he has to have an I-9 signed by his employer when he is hired but I read that a conditional resident cannot use the EAD form. His status is 9, which is pending adjustment--is that the same a 9=pending adjustment? We are currently gathering our information to apply for AOS.

Both of us have be-boggled heads right now from this and from today's lawyer visit. Can anyone make sense of this or verify what our lawyer told us about his being able to work now? Many thanks in advance.

A lot of useful information can be found in this thread: Shipping. It also has links to previous threads on shipping, too.

Personally, we used Excess Baggage and were very happy with the results. We had 20 boxes of stuff shipped door to door (London to Connecticut) and it cost us about 600 quid, I think.

I'm going to ask one of the mods if we can please have the shipping thread stickied in place of the passport one, which is hardly ever used. Anyone object?

As I mentioned, I had already checked the shipping thread and I found some suggestions on it.

I was asking specifically if anyone knew something about shipping from the Burnley area instead of London.

Also, with so many companies going out of business my fiance is finding that his previous arrangements have fallen through so he wanted to know the latest up-to-date information. (If there is, in fact, any newer information.)

I, for one, have no objection to making a sticky thread for the shipping.

Hi, Any suggestions on a reliable and reasonable shipping company? My fiance is in the Burnley area of Lancs and has one very large (6.5 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft) heavy box to get over to the Boston area. It contains an oak china cabinet packed solidly with other belongings inside it. He was set to go but the company went out of business and all he can find are really expensive.

We don't mind if it goes to NY -- we could go and pick it up there. I checked the shipping thread and came up with All Freight, Global Moves, Move Me, John Mason, and Seven Seas. He's going to try all of those but I wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas in case he can't use them. Most places he's called want him to transport the box to London first and that makes it very expensive. If anyone has any good recent experience, I'd love to know. Thank you very much.

APPROVED!

Just now! He only needed some extra information, he sent it by courier last week and we know it got there. Today he phoned the embassy and actually GOT THROUGH TO SOMEONE! They found his papers and approved them!

He rang the courier service just now and they said: "Well, when we get enough deliveries to your area, we'll get it to you."

YEEEEEEEKS! After all this pushing and waiting now the courier service won't even deliver it in time for Christmas?

So Pete put his FIRM VOICE on and he told them, "Either you get it to me by (such and such time) or I'm ringing the embassy and my "lady friend" who lives near Boston and she will get in touch with Ted KENNEDY'S office!!!

(as if I know Ted Kennedy, as if THEY could do anything between now and Christmas....LOL)

But anyway -- he's APPROVED and it doesn't seem real yet. I think the world is going to look brighter to me now and I finally feel a sense of calmness coming over me. I hope everybody who's still waiting gets to feel this way pretty soon--and CONGRATS to LORRI! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Congrats and it must be good to finally have it over and done with. Funny about being told NO about picking up the visa the same day as Pete did ask at the information desk and was told yes, he could wait. Maybe someday we'll find out for sure.

We're still waiting.....................

Either way we're happy as clams that we're back together after 4 months apart. We leave for London Thursday morning, and Nathan's interview is 8am on Friday!

Good luck with the interview -- it sure is getting close now.

Where you able to move your interview up?

Yes, he had the interview but needed more information from the co-sponsor. It has been sent by courier already -- I don't have hopes of getting him here for Christmas anymore

How WONDERFUL--congratulations. It's so nice to see an interview date in your timeline!!

Congrats on the interview date, lorri. Good luck, maybe they'll be in a fun mood for Christmas.

For anyone who's interested, Pete asked at the information desk in the embassy about being able to wait around and get your visa the same day. The answer is a definite YES. You just tell them that you will be coming back for it and they'll have it ready in 3-5 hours. This is official word from the embassy.

Thanks. I just got off the phone with him again and he said that it's just pending those updated co-sponsor docs.

He said the man said he will get his visa if he can get the documents there in time -- when/if he can get the documents he is to call the courier number and they will pick up and deliver them to the embassy for him. Then a visa will be delivered back to him. Hoping.

Bad news here. Pete got a big fat NO.

Reason is that we have a co-sponsor and having waited all this time, the paperwork is out of date. If I can get her to find her tax forms for me and I can Fed Ex them to Pete by Dec. 20th all should be well--otherwise we have to start over from SCRATCH!

Of course they found other things that were "wrong" that are not wrong.

Pete said the first part where they look at all your forms went fine. Then he had to wait for his number and when his number was called and he was walking toward window # 14 the guy who had gone before him, who was leaving said to him, " You're in for a doggin'" "He's in a right rotten mood." This guy had been told NO also!!

So Pete goes up to this #14 man who turns out to be "one mean little ****" and was treated with hostility and cruelty and was pounded with questions. Pete said there must have been at least 20 questions -- all the ones we had rehearsed but only expected to get asked 2 or 3.

How many times have you been to the US? When? Where did you go each time? For how long? Who are your fiances relatives? Have you met them? What are their names? and on and on and on and on, all asked in a hostile intimidating manner.

Then the man threw the papers down and ticked off several "mistakes" like invalid passport (it is valid until 2016--but maybe it looked like 2006?)

Maybe they're in a bad mood due to the holidays, Pete thought so. He had some choice words to describe this "mean little man." Pete is the type who doesn't have a nerve in his body but this experience has shaken him up.

Look at how long it's taken us.

Similar circumstances--lost in the post, problems with police report that were not his fault. Yours seems even worse because it's in the Holland, at least ours was all in the UK. Lost in the UK--LOL.

If I had to guess, it will all come together after the new year begins. Should be smooth sailing then but I know (believe me I KNOW) how agonizing the waiting is and how you don't get much comfort from seeing others approved long ahead of you.

In the end Love will triumph and you will be together.

I don't know who told him he could get his visa the same day, I wish I could tell you. I'll be able to tell you more when I get to talk to him.

It couldn't have been the embassy because you can't even speak to them. It could have been his lawyer's assistant (not the one we used) because they do some immigration.

He called to say good bye while he was waiting for the bus and now he's on his way.

Just to let you know the visa won't be issued the same day. It will be delivered by courier to his home/work address and can take up to a week to arrive.

Maybe so but he's been told that he can pay and then come back at the end of the day and pick it up. No matter really --as long as he gets it!