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This is a very strange and weird sounding case. With multiple interviews and in-person house visit by Immigration officers, there seems to be a lot of back story to it. USCIS is trying to cut-down on the case backlogs caused by covid by waiving interviews and in OP's case immigration officers showing up at his doorstep looks very strange. On top of that, the lying did not help at all and then OP's wife also said a different lie. This case is either a troll or someone with a lot of caveats in his application.

That's totally normal. I-130 approval means all your documents check out correctly. Now, I-485 needs to be approved which depends on the interview.

In my first year of master's, while on an F1 visa, I developed a free app which was on the playstore and appstore. It was part of my master's project as well. Since then i have received CPT, OPT on my F1 visa,  H1B visa, GC EAD and finally GC (without interview). Rest assured, you will be fine. So in conclusion, your situation is not dire at all! I hope this helps!

9 Years of struggle with USCIS has finally (for the most part) has come to an end. I would like to thank visajourney for the help & information with my GC application and saving me the trouble of hiring a lawyer. It took a year but I finally have my card in hand and that too without an interview. I hope all the genuine applications still waiting for their approval get their cards asap as well!!

On 5/5/2020 at 2:28 PM, Ashley Marin said:

Or from an H-1B visa?

Here..

There is a backlog and delay on printing of the cards. The same happened with my GC. Approved 45 days ago and then received it last week

8 hours ago, TJF said:

Interview waivers are a thing now? How have you heard about this?

 

Thanks!

By getting one myself. Have a look at my timeline. 

keep your fingers crossed to get an interview waiver. They have been sending out a lot of those to clear the humungous backlog created due to covid19.

On 7/20/2020 at 12:16 PM, pablo2752 said:

Read his timeline. He sent his AOS paperwork  on August 6th, 2019. 

Like he said... ☺️

Congratulations!!!!!
I got mine approved today without the interview as well!

I got my AOS approved today without the interview

3 minutes ago, geowrian said:

They are separate forms. Expect an interview.

A few people are seeing the interviews waived for the I-485 due to the lack of in person meetings, but these are generally AOS from K-1 visas, which means they had an interview abroad already about the relationship.

Is it a norm for the I-130 to get approved before the interview? I had my interview scheduled but had to be cancelled because of the current situation.

My I-130 was approved today but my I-485 still says "Case ready to be scheduled for an interview". What happens now? Will I still have the interview or has my interview waived off?

I posted this on a different post before but i think it should help you as well.

So this is what happened with my friend.

My friend got married to her fiance who came to the US after waiting for 14 months for his K1 visa. A little back-story about what happened with them. They were expecting a baby boy in early 2018 but unfortunately she had a miscarriage in Oct 2017 and she had to leave the country (NZL) in Nov 2017 because her visa expired. But they still stuck through this hard time and he finally arrived in Jan 2019 and they got married in Feb 2019. They concurrent filed for i-485, -i-130, i-131 and i-765 in Feb 2019, a week after getting married. There was no update in the status of any application until Oct 2019, when they were given another setback of their i-485 being denied because it was apparently missing i-864 form. Now, she wasn't sure about if she missed the form completely from her packet or if she even filled it out in the first place (she did not have a copy of her application packet). They immediately hired an immigration lawyer (charged only around $500) and refiled all their applications again a week after getting the notice of denial from USCIS in mail. On Feb 14 2020, almost 2 years and 4 months since first filing their application for K1 visa, they were notified by USCIS that their i-485 was ready to be scheduled for interview and they got their EAD and AP approved too!!

3 minutes ago, arken said:

Why would OP ask about EAD expedite if the combo card is approved?

 

He can ask for the expedite for sure with the job offer.

kindly read my suggestion properly. I said the OP's spouse should ask for an extension on his joining date rather than resigning. If the EAD is already approved, there is no point in expediting.

12 minutes ago, Pooley said:

Yeah, he’s going to have to. Is there a way I can have his EAD expedited due to a job offer?

If the combo card is already approved, just tell your spouse to the talk to the HR and have his joining date extended by 2 weeks. I am sure they will be able to accommodate that request in these special circumstances.

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

You seem to be missing the point, assuming some Country, any Country, has a national registry all they have is records submitted to them, they can not certify what they do not know. So yes they can say we have no record of marriage in our jurisdiction, so what? Certainly does not address this issue. 

 

 

I get what you're trying to say. It was just a suggestion to add definitive proof of not being married.

But again, I do not believe OPs claim.

3 minutes ago, Sm1smom said:

 

One doesn’t need to be a DS 160 expert to know that the spouse’s information will be required if your marital select “married”. You even said so in your earlier post, so why the claim of ignorance now? Above is one your earlier posts to remind you of what you previously wrote. 

Again. That was an assumption with regards to my application when I filled as a single. There is no claim of ignorance. Kindly take your keyboard warrior skills somewhere else

1 minute ago, arken said:

This is 2010 DS-160 sample, if one selects married on the first part, it asks for spouse info on the family info part. So if OP put as married (though he has doubts on that now), spouse’s info has to be provided.

 

 

I honestly believe there is no mistake on the OPs part

The OP doesn't remember what they filled or it was done on purpose. 

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

My home Government records would not show my US marriage, they can only check what they have recorded. However much red tape there is. 

and the home government records is what I am talking about. DS-160 for F1 visa is filled with your home government records and not US government records as you are yet to have any records in US.

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

Presumably they can only check their own records?

that will require the person to submit their local identification proof and other required documents and more often than not comes with a lot of red-tape.

1 minute ago, Sm1smom said:

Considering one is required to provide spouse’s info if the selected marital status is “Married” - that section can’t be left blank, how is a court of law supposed to provide a notarized proof indicating OP wasn’t indeed married considering the spousal information OP must have provided? How is the fact that spouse’s information was put on the form an “oversight”? How is such a document able to overcome the misrepresentation in this case?

i am not a DS-160 expert as I haven't designed the UI for the page and what happens if we select one option or the other. It was just an assumption as when I filled my status as single, it required my parent's info. 

Your assumptions is that OP did it on purpose and must have filled the spouse info and I am not assuming any part about the DS-160. I am still unsure that the OP truly remembers what they put.

The legal document is just a way to prove that a person was never married.

Just now, Boiler said:

You have not answered the question, why does it matter who issues it, how are they able to know that you have never been married before?

*facepalm*. because it is a government record that can be accessed by a judge/registrar. i thought that was implied.

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

In what circumstances does a Court of Law certify that somebody has never been married.

 

How would they be able to obtain the evidence needed to come to such a determination.

 

 

You have to get a marriage licence which unlike US (from DMV office) is issued by a court of law in most countries to get married. Without the licence, it is just an overpriced party and not a wedding.

1 minute ago, Lucky Cat said:

That won't solve the problem that there was (possibly) misrepresentation during the F-1 application process........in addition, It is quite difficult to prove a negative.

I agree but oversights happen and there is always a way to correct them by providing notarized proof. In this case, if a court of law can provide that the OP wasn't married that should be a proof of OPs single status.

I am not saying that it will necessarily convince the USCIS/IO about the OPs intentions but it's a proof nevertheless.

@OP

I remember when I was getting my F1 visa ( in 2012) and the US embassy put in strict conditions on how they will screen a person and approve F1 visa. A lot of people had to give multiple interviews and sometimes switch cities to get the visa approved. If this "careless mistake" was a way to get your visa approved as suggested by a visa agent/adviser/consultant, then this would be termed as VISA FRAUD. Remember, USCIS will have copies and transcripts of the original Visa interview that you had at the US embassy when you first got your F1 visa. The IO for sure must have asked you about your spouse and recorded your answer.