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neto-66

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    Phoenix AZ Lockbox
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    Nashville TN
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    Portugal

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  1. Just received the Employment Authorization card in the mail today! NOA1: 02/01/2022 Date Approved: 07/01/2022 Card Received: 07/08/2022 No news yet on AP or the i-485.
  2. It's been 2 months now since we submitted RFE response, and still haven't gotten any updates. Hoping to hear back soon, I'm not sure if "receive a decision within 90 days from RFE response" holds true for AOS.
  3. Maybe there's a prize we don't know about -- clearly it's not a speedy visa process, but time will tell!
  4. Canada and the US are both HUGE countries, I'm not sure why you would say that they don't count as long distance? The few Canada -> US couples I know are separated by over 1500km, some are even over 3500km apart. They don't get any more time to visit than people with B-2 visas, and even then, people have obligations that keep them from being able to visit frequently, like work, school, and family. As others have said, they don't have rights to live in America simply by being Canadian. They still have to qualify to move through work or family. If it were that easy, there wouldn't be hundreds of Canadians on VJ waiting on a K-1 or CR-1 just like you are. It's not fair to tell other couples that have also had to deal with many months of separation and a visa process that they can't feel hopeless and desperate too. It isn't a competition.
  5. I uploaded to the USCIS site. I think it is quicker than mailing. It has been a month since we submitted the RFE response and a little over 2 weeks since biometrics and we have not heard back yet. The official instructions state "you must submit a photocopy of your marriage certificate issued by the appropriate civil authority where the marriage took place", so I believe a copy would be fine.
  6. My RFE was only for Part 5 #8, as I didn't have the right browser extension to edit the PDF. I had to fill in Part 5 by hand, but the auto-filling filled out #8 as "1" and I forgot to correct it. Your issue is also very common. You are correct, Part 5 #3 should be "0", as you do not have a spouse NOT included in the petition.
  7. Completed biometrics yesterday! USCIS received our RFE response for the i-485 on February 21st, hoping to hear back soon.
  8. Got a RFE for the i-485 a few days ago -- we messed up on the household size because of the auto-filling when completing the PDF on a browser. Was not expecting to hear back so soon, hopefully this means we'll see an approval soon too! NOA1: Feb 1st, 2022 RFE: Feb 17th, 2022 Nashville, TN
  9. February filer here! Sent off the I-485, I-765, and I-131 on January 24th and got a text notification of NOA1 on February 1st. Received the paper notice in the mail a few days later. Received notice today that biometrics has been scheduled for March 3rd.
  10. Just to clarify since this seems to be a discussion in the thread right now, the visa expires 6 months from your MEDICAL EXAM, as the results are only valid for 6 months. In my husband's case, he had his medical exam in June and his interview in October. Because of this, his K-1 visa was only valid for entry until December. Typically applicants have a short period of time between their medical exam and interview, but be aware that the medical exam date is what determines the validity.
  11. Yes! My now husband had his interview on the 20th of October. He received his passport with the visa on the 2nd of November, and entered the US 3 days later. We got married on the 27th of November. You can see our timeline and my husband's review of his interview experience here: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=369614 I recommend that you fill out your timeline too -- it really helps those behind you get an idea for what their timeline might be, and it helps for when you would like input on your situation!
  12. Yes, you NEED to go online, register, and pay the fee in order to lock in your interview date. I am unsure of what happens if you wait a long time to complete the steps in the online portal, but I do know that you need to pay the fee and complete all of the steps. If you do not do this and you call the embassy, they will not see your interview in the system, nor will they see it if you show up on the day of.
  13. I am one of the people who had trouble rescheduling. We got our original date within 2 weeks of our case arriving at the consulate, but it took many months to get a new date. By not using our original date, we were pushed to "the back of the line" it seems -- applicants whose cases arrived at the consulate months after ours got interview dates before us. The main issue that I and others here had was that the the only email contact capable of giving a new date was (still is?) extremely unresponsive. K-1 reschedules cannot be done over the phone or through an online portal. Despite being officially classified as non-immigrant, K-1s are treated as immigrant visas (applicants are told to contact the same email (ParisIVPending) as Immigrant visas, the CEAC tracker requires using the "immigrant" vs "non-immigrant" portal, etc.)... the classification gets a bit tricky. We are together now in the US and getting married in 2 days so everything worked out in the end, but if we could go back in time we would've forced our original interview date to work. Rescheduling was probably the worst part of the visa process for us. Edit: I believe the rescheduling issue would be the same for the CR-1, as I was told that K-1s are treated as immigrant visas when it comes to interviews by more than one embassy employee.
  14. The beneficiary has his K-1 visa in hand and will be entering the US on Friday. He needs to fill out a passenger locator form for transiting in the UK, and it asks for home address. Should he put the US address he will be residing at, or his address in his home country that he is moving from? In other words, at what point does he begin to use the US address he will reside at as his "home address"?
  15. I believe he was able to get an international birth certificate in English a few months ago in Porto, no separate translation company needed. He needed an appointment, and when he went to book an appointment last month to get another just in case, the only available options were in December. I'll have him check again, maybe they're allowing walk-ins in Porto now? Thank you for your input!
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