Dil & Malar

Reach out to your area congressman, show the published timeline and let them make an enquiry to USCIS. I know Calif is doing late october.. and it may take some more time

I just want to give little more context to my first reply. If a person has work visa (H1, L1, R1... etc) and if the person married to US citizen while working in the USA, then it is absolutely OK to file AOS through I-485. Because work visa is considered to be dual intent. Also practically I did one last year. Once again, if it is a work visa and if the person married to US citizen in USA. If a person is in visit visa, then this this step called fraud. Because visit visa (b1/b2) is NOT dual intent. It is only for visit, not to proceed for immigration purpose. Hope this clears some confusion .

The best thing is when is in US, file the adjustment of status through I-485 form. If he is outside of US, then you should go through I-130 and it is a long process. He will be able to come in his work visa even though the I-130 is in process. But the best option is when is in US, do AOS using I-485

For the question 1 - At the same time the instructions says, do not double count. In my case, just me immigrating my spouse, I did not enter 1 in 5.3. At the total came as only 2 people as family size

See my timeline please.

YES. Approved. don't worry yours will be approved too

Marriage certificate.. which I included in my original filing, don't know why they asked again

After RFE received it took about 5 business days for me. I heard few people got it in one day... keep watching it and you will get it in any time

Find out who is the representative in your area (https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member). There will be 2 senators and one house of congress rep for your zip. Find out or research who has good reputation resolving immigration issues. Goto their website and they will have a form to fill up and sign. So that they can contact USCIS. Give good and valid reason. In my case, I showed the processing time is 10.5 months per site and I am 11 months passed, they send an enquiry to USCIS. WISHING YOU GOOD LUCK FOR THE APPROVAL ASAP

GREAT. CONGRATULATIONS, WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST FOR THE SUBSEQUENT STEPS. I KNOW HOW IT FEELS AFTER APPROVAL. WISHING AND PRAYING EVERYONE GET APPROVAL ASAP

I am planning to keep all 3 years ready. It looks like TAX RETURN TRANSCRIPT is the preferred doc by NVC. I will keep taxreturn and w2 also. I see married filing jointly requies W2. I will keep 3 years ready even though they want only recent year.

I am also eligible for I-864EZ. I have way over the limit of poverty line income, I have only W2 income. I am sponsoring only one.. but I am going to go with I-864. And TAX RETURN TRANSCRIPT ( not Tax Return and W2)

Congratulations. Wishing you good luck in the subsequent journey

I submitted only PCC from passport officer for one my friend's case, they accepted it. Are you saying everyone living in India need two PCCs (one from RPO and one from SSP) to submit ???

Well said. Reaching out to EMMA is very discouraging and it is very hurtful activity. They have (almost all the time) no useful information and they give the blanket answer. Say for example, the RFE response received and usually it is getting approved within 3 days, when I asked they said, it will take 60 days, but it is done in 5 days. When you do not have any fun, you can chat with Emma. Especially to find out when to ask, you can check in the site itself. VERY VERY RARE you get useful information. Based on my analysis, the I-130 takes about a year to approve now..Potomac is taking upto 14 months. There are some cases gets done way before that, but not sure what is the factor triggering the approval. I wish and pray every gets approval ASAP

when you emma chat screen, type "Connect to Live Chat"... you will get a long menu and you will see this. Click connect to live chat

Friends - My I130 just got approved yesterday (11/09/2022). Waiting on NVC welcome letter... I guess it is about 5 days from the approval letter. Planning to submit the docs as soon as I get the welcome email and pay the fees. So I will be joining, following and contributing to this thread. Let me know anything I need watch out when I do. Appreciate it and good luck to you all

https://ceciva.uscis.gov/Alme/ click on top right corner "Ask a question"

GOOD LUCK. I am sure this a GREAT BOOST for the other friends, I wish and pray to get approvals ASAP

I understand the message is not changed. It is ACTIVELY REVIEWED happened second time 1. Do you have online account in uscis.gov? if you have login and check the documents tab. 2. If you do not have uscis.gov and if you applied through paper, then wait for a week to see if approval notice coming in mail

If it changed to ACTIVELY REVIEWING second time, it is most probably approval. Did you check with USCIS online account documents tab?

You don't have to contact USCIS. But if possible chat with Emma and find out what happened on that Day so it causes to change the status

This is what I learned when I chatted with Emma. If you ask in the Chat, what happened on that day when it became AR, my case was transferred from NSC to CSC. So something happened on that day that is the reason AR happens on a case. Yours may be in the same boat. Mine was in AR for 359 days, I would NOT relate AR to approval. When it happens again second time, there is a high probability it is APPROVED.

Thanks @Icedgem. YOU ARE NEXT. Keep the hands open to grab the approval letter. I wish and pray all of my friends from Aug to Nov 2021 to get approval soon. When I see someone saying still waiting for 15+ months to get approval, it is NOT GOOD. Please do everything possible to get it.. please put in the out of processing request (I believe Nov filers are getting the Dec date to followup). As per the timeline shows in uscis site, we are out of processing, reach out to congressmen if possible..

Friends - Last night I got an alert "case is actively reviewing" for the second time (6 days after I sent RFE response). I logged in and saw the approval notice in the documents tab. What a journey for one year approval, especially in the last 6 days when they asked me to send the marriage certificate which I already submitted in the initial filing. Jesus, Allah, Muruga, Shiva, Vishnu... I wish you all to get the APPROVAL VERY SOON. VERY SOON. Thanks for all of your prayers and I will pray for you to have approval and subsequent steps as fast as possible. NOA1 - 11/10/2021 (from Nebraska SC) Actively Reviewing - 11/10/2021 (transferred to California SC) RFE for marriage certificate - 11/02/2022 Responded - 11/02/2022 Actively revieing - 11/08/2022 Approval in the documents tab - 11/08/2022 NOA2 - 11/09/2022