Milka & Chris

Just now, Lil bear said:

Do you have a 2 yr or 10 year Green Card ? 

10 year 

Hi Guys!

it’s been a while since I was last in here and a lot has happened. In 2021 I finally got approved for my Immigrant Visa to move to the States with my Husband after of almost 2 years of waiting for it!

I became pregnant and we had our baby in the States and that’s when I started feeling uncomfortable in the States. I was dealing with a lot of Anxiety and was going through some health issues. After 10 Months of me being there we decided to move to Switzerland in where I come from because at that time I felt more safe being home with all I was going through. It‘s been over a year now since I am back with my Husband living in Switzerland. We do think about moving back to the states in a couple of years. Would I have trouble getting another greencard? And is it gonna affect me traveling to the States in the future?

7 minutes ago, akazenishi said:

It said you need to submit the civil documents and financial documents before they can review your DS260. There should be something indicated as "INCOMPLETE" when you log onto CEAC website. You have to upload the required documents before they can further proceed.

it only says sumbitted and competed, nowhere says that something is uncomplete. thats why it is so confusing. No details on what we need but there is something missing. 

1 hour ago, Adamsmith said:

Click on the DS 260 review note. What does it say 

NVC cannot review your submitted documents until we have received all of the required documents DS-260, Civil Documents and Financial Documents. Once these documents have been submitted, we will review your case. Please follow your CEAC Home page and https://nvc.state.gov. 

but no clear details what we exactly need.

1 minute ago, Adamsmith said:

Then you’re currently using the new edition because I just double the old version it has 10/15/19 at the bottom and 10/31/2021 at the top right corner 

I think the best at this point to do is to call them. its hard to figure out what it could be with no details on whats missing. thank you! ☺️

1 minute ago, Adamsmith said:

You’re welcome. Moreover double check the date on the top right corner what it says 

oh ok so I looked wrong it actually says it expires on the 09/30/21 😫 now Im confused again lol

Just now, Adamsmith said:

It means March 10th, 2021

so thats what is probably misssing, you helping us a lot with this!! thank you ☺️ we didnt even knew that it has a expiration date. 

1 minute ago, Adamsmith said:

Check your AOS of support May be you submitted old version of the form. Look at the bottom of the form I-864 and check the expiration of that form 

it says 03/10/21. is that meant for march or october?

We got a message from the NVC, the name of the message is: DS-260 review note. I reviewed the whole application over and over but couldn't find out whats really missing. They didnt gave us no details on what exactly that they need. Its so confusing. Do anyone know what that means?

On 5/3/2021 at 12:04 PM, randy32 said:

Time to complete NVC stage depends on you.

We had almost all our documents lined up already.

the name of the message is: DS-260 review note. I reviewed the whole application over and over but couldn't find out whats really missing. They didnt gave us no details on what exactly that they need. Its so confusing.

Recently we submited our documents to the NVC, filled out the affidavit of support fee and the IV fee. today we got a message from the NVC:

NVC cannot review your submitted documents until we have received all of the required documents DS-260, Civil Documents and Financial Documents. Once these documents have been submitted, we will review your case. Please follow your CEAC Home page and https://nvc.state.gov. 

I am really confused right now on whats missing... do we have to put more documents on what was not listet on that we needed. I really dont know what we need else 😫

anyone else was in that situation that can help ???

Hi Guys. After 14 months of waiting we finally got approved on April 5th 2021. 4 days later we recieved an email that the NVC recieved our cases and that we could look in to pay the fees. How long it took you to get done with the NVC documents until you submited everything to the NVC?

Hi everyone!

My husband and I just got approved last week on our I-130 petition!! and we recieved the email from the nvc that they recieved our case. Now we're a little bit confused about what fees we need to pay exactly. He applied for me and our daughter and on the CEAC Webside stays an  information for fees: 

" If you are a US citizen with petitions for your unmarried son/daughter or parent also in process at the national visa center, you only need to submit one AOS Fee for this case and all related Cases."

so now were not really sure what this means and if we miss a fee that means we cant come forward with the process maybe?

Do we have to pay all 4 fees (2 IV fees and 2 AOS fees)?

Do anyone know or have experience with this?

19 minutes ago, mycase17 said:

I heard some people getting 'approval' within few hours/days from the time they see this status. I think you should hear very soon about your case. 

Thank you I'm really hoping for that too!

About a month ago we recieved from the USCIS an request of evidence and sented it up about 2 weeks ago. Today on our I-130 petition stays: "Case is being actively reviewed by USCIS."

We sent in our petition last year beginng of february and waiting for our approval. 

How long does it takes to get an answer after we recieved that case is being actively reviewed?

38 minutes ago, Babu Frik said:

You're going to send more evidence of what wasn't acceptable, again it won't hurt, but it's not going to help.

Some of the additional items are good evidence.

what you mean with more evidence of what wasn't acceptable? 

5 hours ago, Lucky Cat said:

Not necessarily.  Quality is always better than quantity. ..always.  The best evidence a couple can submit is that of time actually spent together...in person.  That is just a fact.  Personal affidavits are of little value.  Anyone can product an affidavit for anything.  I suggest a FEW pictures, a few chat logs, passport stamps, boarding passes, and any documents which are normally generated during a marriage such as insurance, wills, trust, etc.  

So we have pictures of family & friends and of as as family, we both have boarding passes at least for about 4 trips. we also gonna show that my husband put me as his wife in his military information and were gonna add some affidavits from friends that seen us together and spend time with us before. I hope this will be enough provement. also I screenshotet my and his facebook account since we both have profile pictures of us there and put in that were married.

5 minutes ago, JKLSemicolon said:

No problem!

 

If you have visited your husband in the US, one more thing that you can easily include is a copy of your I-94 travel history. Go to the I-94 website and look for the View Travel History link. You'll need to enter your passport information and it should give you a list of all of your arrivals and departures to/from the US for the last 5 years. Note that occasionally this does not get updated correctly, but hopefully yours will be complete. I would then print out the results as a PDF, making sure to include the web address on the printout (as a rule, I would recommend this where applicable for any evidence; it can be done easily from Chrome).

 

If including the I-94 history you would need to also attach a copy of your passport bio page so that it's obvious that the information is connected to you. This is because your name will not appear in the results, only the passport number and country. And in that case you would still want to include the other evidence of visits that I mentioned in my previous post.

Ok thats great! I'm definitely gonna do this and send it to my husband so he could add that too. What is about social media if we give our information about this too? because there you can also see clearly that we are a real couple. 

20 minutes ago, JKLSemicolon said:

Have you visited each other in person since sending in your initial petition? If you have, provide a copy of the flight itinerary along with boarding passes and passport stamps. If you don't have old boarding passes you can contact the airline and have them give you a "boarding letter" (the name of this will vary depending on the airline) that confirms you actually did take the flight(s).

 

Even if you haven't visited each other since sending in the petition, you can do the same thing for any previous in-person visits if you didn't do that the first time. If doing that I would make a cover sheet that summarizes whatever meetings you have evidence for (where/when/number of days, etc.) followed by the evidence itself.

 

Is your husband the one in the US? He should add you as an Authorized User to some of his credit cards. This is easy to do even without a SSN with some banks, and you don't need to be living together. Barclays and Chase were the easiest for me as they can be done online. Once that is done, make a copy of any confirmation from the bank about the Authorized User being added and send in a copy of the cards (yours and his), blacking out all but the last four digits of the card number. If this is difficult with any of his current cards he could sign up for a new card and add you as an Authorized User immediately during the application process. I would probably pick a card with no annual fee if going that route.

 

If your husband has any retirement accounts, etc. where he can name you as the beneficiary, have him do that (making sure to mark you as spouse) and provide that documentation (any letter from the institution that says they have updated the beneficiary information + printout of the beneficiary information on the account). Most of the time that can be done online very easily and without needing a SSN. In our case, even in the one account where it wasn't possible, I had the institution provide me a letter saying that my wife's information is on file and that she would still be entitled to any benefits in the event of my death provided that she had a SSN or TIN at that time, and I included that letter.

 

I sent 88 photos with our petition. That's probably much more than most, but they were over the course of 10 years. Photos with friends/family, that show you visiting different places together, celebrating holidays or special occasions, or that mark an obvious passage of time (different hair styles, etc.) will help. We even had some photos that we "time stamped" by standing in front of signs that had dates on them (like the dates for a museum exhibit), or holding tickets to something that had a specific date, etc. I labeled all of our photos by date and location.

 

 

 

Wow thank you for your reply and your time!

Yea after we married due to covid 19 we was able to meet 2 times and in a couple days its gonna be our 3th time after we married. I think I even have some tickets home that I kept as memory imma scan it and sent it to him so he can add that too. 

Your answer really helped me a lot! I just realized we didnt put enough evidence at all in our application when we sent it in. 

and yea my husband is the one from US, I am from Switzerland.

I just really hope after we send it up we will grt a response on our application asap.

Thank you so so much for you reply!!

1 minute ago, Misscloud said:

i assumed u already got married. i submitted 20 pics started when we date ( various pictures within 2 years ). 20 pics on marriage day. 

joint lease

joint credit card ( 3months billing statement )

joint checking account ( 3 months billing statement )

joint car's title 

the more joint financially the better. 

we didnt even submit avidavit from any friends / family 

Thank you for sharing your experience and how you did it! Since we're not living together yet we dont have any cards or bills we share together yet. this is all to come when we finally be able to live together. But we have a bunch of pictures to send in. from family, friends and just us as family (me, my husband and my/our daughter). 

Hi everyone

After 13 months of waiting since we sent our I-130 petition my husband yesterday recieved and request of evidence. They want us to have more proof of our marriage. In our application that we sent last year we only had a couple letters from friends writing about our relationship. I think we have should send some pictures of too. I prepared now 9 pictures to send us as family and also some with friends and family. Now I am a little bit worried if thats a bad sign that they believe our marriage would not be legit? 😫 How long it takes them to respond on our application after we sent in the missing documents? 

I wanted to sign in for an account USCIS and really quik I found out I need a PIN code example: (123456) and an A Number. I also found out this all would stay on the letter my husband recieved in the Mail when he got the receipt Number. The Problem now is my Husband tried his best to find his documents but with no results. Is there a way we can get this PIN code so we could sign in for an account on USCIS?

Thank you!

22 hours ago, JKLSemicolon said:

I see from the other thread you started that you have submitted an inquiry for it being outside processing times and not heard back. Have you tried calling and getting a Tier 2 officer to discuss your case (and confirmed that it is still in Texas)? Contacted the CIS Ombudsman? It's probably time to be a polite, but persistent pest until you at least get a response.

 

PS: I would try not to think about what is happening with others' cases, but instead focus more on the fact that you are outside normal processing times and use that as a good reason to continue to follow up.

No my husband always just called the texas uscis but since a while he was not able anymore to get with anyone on the phone, it was always the robot on the phone. and what is an CIS Ombudsman?

and you're right I was just worried if this is maybe a bad sign they getting anyone else approved before us, like theyre not sure with ours yet.. but hopefully we do get approved.

59 minutes ago, PaRo2020 said:

On March 10 it will be 13 months for me. I received my NOA1 last February 10, 2020. Mine is at the Potomac service center though. I've seen on other threads that Feburary/March files are getting approvals...but I'm not sure if they skipped over mine or what. They did not send me and request for evidence or anything either...so I am not sure what the delay is...

I feel you!😫 its a really long time to wait for an approval and there is nothing we can do about it then wait... I hope for both of us we hear back something soon. was you able already to request your case outside of processing times?

On march 6th its gonna be 13 months since we recieved our NOA1. We filed in texas cervice centre and seems like we're the only one from this center waiting that long for an approval. Is anyone else from the texas uscis center waiting 12+ months to get approved??😫😫