SammyPajammy

Yay! I hope it stays there! Mine got moved to CSC then moved out! I was devastated!!!

Good luck!

Personally, for the sake of copying it and putting it in there I would include it.

I did my AOS all through a lawyer and we sent my USC husbands decree (and they looked at it).

My lawyer has been wonderful.

She literally did everything. Even when we arrived at the office for our interview, we did not even sign in, she did it all for us, we just took a seat!

Total costs (just her costs, not filing fess) were about $2000.

WELL worth the money.

Came on B2, overstayed 8 years, got married, had kid. At the interview the IO never asked any questions apart from verifying name/address/DOB. Looked through documents (birth certs/marriage cert/passports) but never looked at any "evidence" and that was that! Approved us, GC came 2 weeks later.

My divorce decree (from the UK) said I had sole custody of the kids. They never asked me for anything at the interview.. now whether that was bc they did not want to see anything or they clocked it on the decree I don't know.

My kids passports expired 3 yrs ago. That is 2 yrs before we applied for AOS. We now have our greencards and the passports are still expired, I am about to send them off for renewal. It never caused any issues.

Got GCs in the mail today. Mine and my daughters was fine. My son's had gender error, they have him down as a "F". Urgh.

So here is my question, I know we have to file I-90 balh blah blah... well I was due (no tickets booked yet) to go home to the UK next month, after 8 yrs!!! I know that the new GC can take up to 6mths, 3 seeming the median, to get sent back. How do you think we would do by going on vacation with the GC error? If we took my son's birth cert. and other "evidence", do you think we would run into problems?

Blah.

Mine was moved to CSC.. then 2 mths later moved back to MSC! Go figure..

You can file a W7 with the IRS along with the tax return and they will give you a temp. ITIN number. We NEARLY did this, but then I had my interview last week so we couldn't.

According to my lawyer, if they were not happy with the interview you would get a letter within 30 days called an Intent to Deny. With that they would request further evidence. If you provide that then all is good, if not you can then file a hardship waiver. It won't be an instant deportation.

At our interview the IO never even looked at anything we took apart from IDs... so you could be worrying for nothing anyways!

You can go into your local office in person and request one. You should get it within a couple of days.

I had my interview last week and only took the hospital issued BC for our baby. The IO asked about the "real" one and we just told him we had not sent off for it yet. He was fine with that and we were approved. I guess it just depends on who you get on the day.

Good luck!!!!

Had interview last Friday (Feb 8th) got the email that card production was ordered and welcome notice mailed out the same day... it is Monday now, so we will see!

i have exacly same scenario as you do (minus the kids) been here since 2000 on B2 just filed . how long did i took you to get aproval for GC since you filed . I don't see your time line.

I think it was the kids, especially the USC kid that played a big part in how easy this went!

Rough timeline:

July 26 - 07 - Send AOS package

August - RFE for medicals

September - Biometrics

October - tranfered to CSC, 2 wks later file was transfered back.

December sometime - interview letter

Feb 08 - interview

We went this monring. My husband wore dress pants and an nice short sleeve shirt. I wore black dress pants and a white open neck shirt.

I did see many there in jeans and sneaks, felt a little sloppy to me!

Bit of background:

Met husband online. I am from the UK. Came to the U.S and back to UK on VWPx3, applied for B2, came in on a B2 in 2001. Lived with my husband from day one, although we never married till 2006. I overstayed since 2001 to present. I have 2 UK kids and have a 1 yr old USC baby.

Got a lawyer. Applied for AOS just before the fee increase (July 07). Had medicals. Got transfered to CSC then back to MSC. Got interview date for today (Feb 8, 08) at 7.30am. (#######???) I took photos dating back to 2000. We had a civil wedding in our lunch hour, so no wedding pics, just family pics. Took car ins. in both name, cable bill in my name, bank statements in both names, deeds to our house, car note payment booklet, void check with both names and all original birth certs. marriage cert. etc

We arrived at 7am to meet the lawyer in parking lot. We all dressed business casual. Signed in, lawyer gave officals out appt. letters. We waited 20 minutes and went in. The IO went through our forms, asked name, address, DOB and when I last entered the U.S (2001) then he asked if I had since leaft and returned, I said no. Then he went through the kids forms, name, address, DOB. He took and looked at our passports and wrote down the passport numbers then gave them back. Flicked through the file and said "Ok, you should get your greencards within a couple of weeks!" Then talked to us about citizenship. That was it! Did not even look at ANYTHING I brought, even originals!!! Never mentioned my overstay (I was panicing about this) NOTHING!

SUPER nice, polite guy.

Thats all, just wanted to share the experience as I have been searching for interview experiences for months!

So help me set the record straight. Can she adjust status from her B2 tourist visa to permanent resident because she married a US citizen?

Yes she can.

How do I know this? I am in this position myself, under the guideance of a lawyer, with my AOS interview this coming Friday.

The above posters are correct, as long as she never came with the intent to stay and marry on the B2 she is totally fine.

Usually cases at CSC are adjudicated without interview. Im thinking that they might have sent your case back to MSC to await a interview in your local office. Your case wont be transferred to the local office until they are ready for it before a interview.

The best way to find out what is going on with your case is to infopass.

Thanks so much for replying!

What is Infopass?

(off to search and see!)

So, end of October "we" were transfered to CSC, then today back over to MSC!!! I am located in Texas, I would have thought if anywhere it would have gone there??!!

I used the search tool and came up with nothing, anyone else have this happen or any clue why?

I have yet to fill in my timeline, but here is a basic breakdown..

Filed : July 28th 2007

RFE for medicals, done, send and received: End of August

Biometrics: Sept 9th

Transfer to CSC: October 21st

Touched: Nov 2nd

Transfered back to MSC: Nov 13th

Our case should be pretty simple, no EAD or AP applied for, came in on 1-94, overstay for 6yrs, married to a USC for all that time, have a USC child (and 2 others from the UK) - I am a UKC.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

This situation almost mirrors my own.

Came in on a tourist visa, that does not expire till 2010. It is only "good" for 6 mths. I have been here nearly 8 yrs on an overstay with 2 kids (age 13 and 9). I am married to a USC (plus I gave birth to a USC). I am using a lawyer for my AOS, but we have only had to submit (and pay for) I-130 and I-485 for each of us (me and 2 kids). So 6 "lots" of papers in all.

As has already been stated, the important thing is that she was inspected at entry, ie: she entered legally.

Lots of proof of relationship (no probs for us as we have been together 10 yrs), usual medical for AOS and biometrics, plus I had to have a ton of vacs.. URGH!

Myself and my 2 kids (not blood related to my USC husband) have all applied for AOS and we all paid individual fees. I think the cut off age for the kids fee is 14, we just made it as my daughter is 13!