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Liam&Lizz

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    Saint Louis MO
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    United Kingdom

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  1. cell phones on the same account, gym membership contracts with both names, printout of emergency contact from a doctors office, added as a beneficiary for AD&D can usually be changed at any time. We ran into the same problem with SSN because our offices have been closed forever. We just had out interview today with what I would consider weak additional evidence. The IO was more interested in the when and wheres of our relationship since it was long distance for over five years. We had a pretty unfriendly IO too, but his status just changed a little bit ago to card being produced. We frontloaded the heck out of the I129F and I485/I765. Good luck and think outside the box, cheers.
  2. If you're so inclined to check out our timeline Liam and I also had our case sent to the London Embassy right before the lockdown in March of 2020. It sat there, languishing at the embassy with no word from anywhere. I made lots of calls to the embassy and NVC and a scheduling line in Virginia for an appointment; all to no avail. As my review background on my timeline states I have a medical condition and got the expedite. However the CO did not approve us for the medical exception, she said we qualified under the National interest exception (we showed no additional proof for an NIE, the only information we had was a letter from my neurologist which did not impress the CO at all.) He got a 221g for the medical and police cert which was waaaaaay expired. After some rush orders and quick taxi bookings we got him sorted. The CO did say that IF he was approved he would only have 30 days to travel. He was approved on March 15th, booked a flight for April 6th and the rescheduled because the Easter holiday messed up the covid test results which we paid for not one but two overnight couriers and on April 9th I picked him up at ORD Chicago. I am happy to report we were married on May 21st, 2021 after almost exactly one year of the Covid shutdown. I look at him everyday and tell him I'm so happy he is home and how lucky we are. I would be more than happy to answer any questions or give any advice or recommendations about our journey thus far and the London Experience. My heart breaks for everyone who is still waiting for just a drop of information, chin up tho. Cheers
  3. Hello all I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post on or if it should be in the K1 area but I'll start my inquiry here. My fiance made it to the US (finally ) on a K1 NIE on April 9th. I got him added to my credit card no problem, t omy bank account with a little issue (had to fill out some crazy form and wait an hour). I would like for him to get a SSN before we get married May 21st. I wanted to know: - if we are able to make an appointment with our local office do they retain any original documents or do they look/copy and return? - If they approve the application (SS5 or some such) do we need to wait for it to be in hand to get married/ or is it a matter or once they approve it we can marry and just wait for it to come in the mail? I guess I'm just a little confused on the timing as we have been flip flopping if we should get in now or when we file AOS. Thanks for any advice!
  4. did you mean 70 pages or 700? If it was literally 700 pieces of informtaion that might be a good indication of the reason for delay. 700 pages of documents is astounding and to be a little frank, overkill. The consulate officers are looking for consice information that is clearly spelled out for them. Imagine if everyone brought in 700 or even 500 pages of documents when the officers is looking for specific information. It would be an insurmountable task for them to undertake. Think of it like this, you have to spell out what they are looking for in easily digestable formats. If they are asking for a letter from the petitioner about how you met, make it into bullet points of the most important information that would generally fit on one page. If they want who paid for the tickets a reciept or screen shot of a credit card statement, paypal transaction, wester union transfer etc. Family tree documents can be bullet pointed in the same way as the petitioner letter. The point is you should resist the urge to show all of everything that you have available to prove your evidence. Most of it should be quite self explanatory. As for the other part of your post the Tax returns, stocks, bonds, financial information etc. and the affidavit of support I too sent 3 years worth of tax transcripts, bank statements for a year (the summary page), savings information, yadda yadda. The consulate officer didn't even look at them or take them or make copies. While the petitioner is required to have and be able to prove they make 125% above poverty level all of that information will generally be "proven" when you go to adjust the status. That's where it really counts. If the consulate officer looked over the financial information and didn't take any of it then they didn't want it. They are the ultimate arbiters of our fates (unfortunately). Perhaps they looked and were satisfied with what they saw. Lastly to address the overall "time to make a decision" part of your post. My fiance and I went through the same thing at the London Embassy. The long wait. We could do nothing but check the CEAC daily (sometimes several times a day). Ours finally changed to Refused, then Ready. We were horror struck and downtrodden until a quick google search showed that this meant his visa was going to the IV unit and within a few days it changed to Adminstrative Processing then Issued. Our total wait from the last piece of 221g information being submitted to Issued in CEAC was about a week. Keep in mind though this was after a December interview where he had to get a new police certificate (that took about a month) and a new medical (another month), then some follow up paper work to the visa medical group before they would send his medical to the embassy. All said from the interview to issue that was about 2.5 months. YMMV. A 221g is far from an outright denial. It means they are constantly looking at your case so they can wrap it up one way or the other. A search on this site will show you that often times the 221g is the means to an end for a very long and anxious wait and an Issue notice from the Embassy. I wish you the best of luck, I can tell you in my case, it was so SO worth the sadness, uncertainty, tears and all the waiting. Cheers
  5. Ah congrats to you! when my fiane got that goofy huge envelope he has been protecting it like a golden egg. He flies out this Friday April 9th to chicago, golden egg in hand! Cheers! also if you still have to take a covid test by the time you travel Do Not use Halo verify, they screwed us terribly and we had to pay for a second test. be careful!
  6. So I have been on this forum since the day we sent our i-129F petition out all the way back in October of 2019. As we smoothly moved through the USCIS and NVC everything was shut down in mid to late March. Our petition had already made it to the UK embassy by a hair. Then the wait. The loooooonnnnggg wait. I have been in the March 2019 NVC to Embassy group and there was so much activity surrounding Covid that it was painful to be on the forum - painful for our story and so heartbreaking to read everyone's story as well. We (Liam and I) made an agreement to only check the forums once or twice a week to limit the sad reality. Thankfully we both worked through the pandemic (we are both hospital workers) and we had much to fill up our days. Through an expedite interview he got his Visa on March 16th and will be hitting the ground stateside on April 6th. Wow, we couldn't be happier or more humbled. My question now is since there are so few people being granted K1's is there no forum posting for K1 to AOS? am I looking in the right spot? Can someone direct to the correct area please? We are already starting to gather information and paperwork and since we used this site to get us through the K1 with guides here is there one for AOS as well. Thank you for looking/answering, I'm happy to answer questions and hang in there everyone this too shall pass; it does get better. Cheers!
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