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I'm sure it went great and the approval is coming shortly. If you want to calm your nerves, have a nose around on the AoS forums - plenty of people who didn't get approval on the day, but then got it in the few days after 👍

Others can probably chime in with a recent experience, but I haven't been reading anything about immediate stamps in passports. Your experience sounds very normal based on the reading I have done to set my own expectations for my own upcoming interview.

I'm on 25th and my package is looking very similar to yours, I take that to be a good sign

Thanks for the review and congrats!!!

It is very frustrating, there is no two ways about it. For me, I kind of gave myself “off” the time I knew I’d be out of action for - at the time I applied it was around 6 months. So during the days, relaxing, nurturing some hobbies (language learning, exercising, exploring my new city, catching up on tv i hadn’t had time for the last couple of years), I joined some clubs (made a couple friends), made a real effort to get to know my wife’s friends, embraced doing household stuff to support my wife while she works. Do you drive? That was massive for my autonomy - I live in a very walkable area but even so - it has given me so much freedom. Even with all that stuff it gets boring eventually. I started getting antsy at the end of the 6 months I’d originally given myself. In think my wife saw this so we took a little staycation and then since getting back I have spent time thinking about getting back to work, updating resume, and being a bit grumpy. EAD/AoS comes for everyone eventually but I fully sympathise that the intervening period is a challenge. You’ll get there

Huge congrats! Would appreciate un update on how long the card takes to come. In the meantime, enjoy your new LPR status!

Oh yes I have heard there is some difference in practice between consulates where some give just the sealed package for surrender and some give sealed + copy.

Fingers crossed for you. I must say I am confused by your medical issue, since I was under the impression that all K-1s were supposed to surrender their medical envelope at the POE.

We didn’t get the same phone plan yet as my wife is still on her parents and it is a pain to change. Hopefully be okay though, we have lots of other joint stuff, rent, car, insurance, internet, travel etc.

I guess so, unfortunately. Hang in there, hopefully it’ll arrive sooner rather than later. Best of luck to you.

It’s not a mistake. USCIS decoupled EAD and AP processing back in February, presumably to allow people to get to work quicker. You were very fortunate to get your EAD so quickly. As for how long AP will take, currently they seem to be taking eight months or so, but your mileage may vary. One would hope yours might go quicker since you already got EAD, but impossible to say.

Thanks! Good to know!

Congratulations and here's hoping you get the good news soon Re: the originals of birth and marriage certificates - excuse the maybe silly question, but I assume this was just to look at and verify rather than keep? Which documents (if any) did she ultimately keep?

Good luck to you! Let us know how it goes!