SanfordnBonnie

not to us.

yes address of foreign spouse.

We also got RFE'd for a medical. We turned in the medical from my wife's k3 but they wanted the stateside one with a civil surgeon. I read some people had the medical from their visa's accepted and some don't, I think it's a 50/50 chance. If they RFE you I'd just get the whole medical redone. It's really not worth a couple hundred bucks and a lengthy battle to get them to accept the original one. And yes, they redo the TB test, my wife got the one where they stick the needle just under the surface of the skin and see if it swells over a couple days, she had the same done before we left Taiwan a couple months before.

I think there's a 90 day deadline for uscis to issue the card from your receipt date. That is if you don't get RFE'd.

We're in the exact same boat except you acted a little faster than we did. My wife's interview was 11/29 we received approval and then started to wait. Worse was we could never check our case status online, our receipt number never showed up. I just figured I'd give them 10 weeks since our interviewing officer told us it could take 10 weeks. We have a trip planned over the summer so I explained to the IO that when my wife was approved they took her I-94 and effectively stranded her here.

The officer was really nice and explained that when the file is approved it is sent off to the national records center so has to be sent back before she can fix it in the system or give us a stamp if we still want one. She told us to give her 10 days.

Two weeks almost to the day of our infopass her receipt number showed up in the system, a week later (this was last week) we received the welcome letter. Last thursday we got an email saying card production ordered.

So don't worry, I think they'll fix it. Way I saw it was it's far better for all this to be happening here at home than if we were still overseas waiting to come home.

My wife's interviewing officer took it out when she was approved. But I'd probably wait and let the customs officer remove it since it doesn't hurt anyhow. No you won't get another I-94 when you return, I believe you can get into the citizen's short line at the airport as well.

I'd be cautious, I think it depends a lot on which officer happens to open and review your file. We submitted my wife's vaccination page and medical from her K3 and got RFE'd for a whole new medical with a civil surgeon, the RFE said if we didn't respond with the requested evidence within 90 days our case would be rejected. The aos and visa require different medical forms so they can RFE you for the other if they want to, I'd wait to be on the safe side.

Make sure you go to a civil surgeon, we sent the medical from my wife's k3 and got RFE'd for it, she had to have a whole new medical done.

Ours went online today, we sent our file in July 8, 2007. We've already been through everything and had my wife's permanent residence status approved. Wouldn't put too much into it so long as you keep receiving the notices in the mail.

We were both unemployed, but I still qualified under assets, I just told the officer we both needed to go back home so I could get a job, which was the truth.

Just make sure you can qualify to support your spouse by assets or get a co-sponsor.

Ours was in Taiwan, but not bad at all. The officer talked to my wife had a friendly conversation with me, and that was all. We brought tons of pictures, all my financials, etc. but he never looked at them. Bring all your documents though, just in case he wants to see them.

We're a July filer and still can't retrieve, don't seem to have a problem receiving mail though. I've tried calling several times, they said they would fix it but never did.

We've never been able to check ours online and we filed last July.

Same boat as you. We never could check our case status online from day 1, but we've had no trouble receiving snail mail. Our interview was 11/29, we were verbally told we were approved and I watched the CO stamp my wife's paperwork "approved" and remove her I-94. But we're still anxiously awaiting the GC or at least the welcome letter in the mail. Just something to acknowledge the interview is all we want.

yup, I went with my wife. the officer was very nice and we talked for a while.

My wife's name was misspelled, should be similar to your cases. I called the toll free number and followed the prompts for an error on the receipts. Talked to a lady who corrected it and gave me a confirmation number that I could use to prove a request to correct it was filed. Following her instructions, I attached a letter to our I-129F with the misspelled I-130 receipt with her employee ID number and confirmation number stating she told me to send in the misspelled receipt. It didn't slow us down at all.

Just call the toll free information number and push all the selections like you would if you have received an RFE. It'll connect you to a live immigration officer instead of the usual customer service representative that gives you scripted answers.

I'd have them send it, they never asked to see any of our documents in our interview, not even the pictures, even though we brought everything. But it's better to have all that stuff than not.

Our civil surgeon wouldn't transfer her info. We got nailed with a 300$ bill for a tetanus shot, TB skin test, and physical. Our health insurance wouldn't cover it.

You can look at our timeline for the K3, we were in and out of the NVC in less than a week, and once Taipei received our case we had the interview scheduled almost instantly, literally, my wife and I received our interview notice Monday night for a Tuesday 8AM interview and we lived 3 hours away. Yikes. We flew out the door and hopped on the express train, got 4 hours sleep that night.

I was in a similar situation, I just printed all my online bank statements. I did them all in duplicate and included my tax info, but when I went with my wife to her interview they told me I had too much information, all they took was my tax return and didn't even look at the bank statements.

But I say better safe than sorry, bring everything in duplicate in case your interviewer wants to see them. But don't stress, the interview is very informal, just feels like friendly conversation.

My wife and I definately learned all about the word patience. It seems like forever when you're in the process of waiting, but will go much faster once you get your approval, it will come.

I put my wife on my Blue Cross without a SSN, the column even said optional next to it. I saw a disclaimer on some form that said if your company tells you a SSN is required call the insurance company directly to get them added.

I also had her added on my checking account at Bank of America (the bank I have my savings account through requires a SSN), listed her as my beneficiary on my life insurance, got her on my credit card as an authorized user, and put half the house under her name. That was about as far as I've been able to get without a SSN though.

Well, not exactly the same. My wife and I dated for a long time before we were married, I met her in 2004 but we didn't get married until this year. I'm the USC though, I was living in her country. It makes things easier at the interview I think. When they realized how long we'd been together, of course we had a million pictures to back it up, they were just like oh wow, well you pass.

When you handed the i94 to customs they should have kept half but stapled the bottom half in your wife's passport, is thie there? If so, that's all they're asking for.