Daher.Diane

Hello,

So I've been living in the US for the past 3 months, I got my green card and we have everything right. Just few days ago, my wife (The US Citizen Spouse ) legally changed her last name to my last name.

The question is, do we need to notify the USCIS or the DHLS about this change ?

Also, do I need to contact my counsulate office regarding this issue?

Thanks in advanced.

Thanks everybody <3

Hello everyone,

I have been in the US for almost two weeks now. I know I am expecting my Green Card to arrive by mail. But I have seen some people go to the social security office to get a SSN.

I also know that my visa is now a temporary I-551 ( Green card ).

Question is, will I get a social security number/card in the mail too? or is that a different process?

Note that I answered the following in my DS-230

33a. Have you ever applied for a Social Security Number (SSN)?

No

Do you want the Social Security Administration to assign you an SSN (and

issue a card) or issue you a new card (if you have an SSN)? You must

answer "Yes" to this question and to the "Consent To Disclosure" in order

to receive an SSN and/or card.

now lets hope the interview date is before he finishes the year... otherwise he should probably get it to the interview

for using snoober in a post

On the rice note...hubby is telling me from 6,244 miles away that I need to put oil in the rice when I cook it ? Well, whats up with that?

oil prevents the rice from sticking to the bottom while cooking. You don't need it since you already have some oil on the stuff that you fried.

Btw snoober is http://images.google.com/images?client=ope...sa=N&tab=wi

Also, eggplant and the cauliflower get smoshy and thats the idea for most people, for me, I don't like either one of them.

Interview: 21 OCT 2008

I arrived at the embassy at 7:50 AM. My number was 13 ( IV section ) .. I sat in there, then people started to go one after the other to a window to give the photos, the passport and the medical report.. Then we were sent to wait in the American Citizen Services room and people starting to take the interview one after the other, about 20 min per person.. some longer, some shorter...

I waited 4 Hours till I got my interview. My number was 13 like I said, so you either go in very early, or just go in last.. they don't let you in after 12 noon so you gotta be there early if you wanna get out early.

My interview was the fastest, some people took like 40 min of questioning. Here's how it went:

Got in, sat on the chair, the guy said "saba7 elkhair" ( means good morning ) in arabic i said saba7 elnoor.. then he asked me to raise my right hand and swear that the documents are correct ( he asked me that in arabic ), i said it, then I said, I can do this in english, and he was happy about it.. then he gave me the part 2 of the visa application to sign, and I did, he took my finger prints.. then I sat.. he was shuffling papers around and typing to the computer. He asked me how do I know my wife and I started telling him.. I don't think he even listened because he was busy giving me the originals and printing on the screen, then he took a paper, stamped it and gave it to me and said congratulations, your visa has been approved.

I was out of the interview room in like 5 min. People outside were surprised that i came out that fast.

He gave me a number that i took to the aramex office on my way out to pay for passport delivery. Paid 5 JOD.

Visa 23rd OCT 2008:

Two days later ( Today ), Aramex called me and asked me to go pick up the passport even though I asked them to deliver at my house, he started bullshitting me that my street address doesn't show on their system, and I'm like seriously in the same block as they are.. So i got up, dressed myself really quick and just left out and I got my passport with the CR1 visa.

I also booked my ticket on the 29th.

Also for iraqi people applying in amman, there were 4 iraqi people who got approved as well.

Good luck to the others and I hope this is helpful.

btw, the coffe is 1 JD and it sucked .. just in case you were sleepy like I was =)

maybe spam filtered .. wait until they manually dig them up

ZaidsMommy seem to get it right =)

My recipe will be the same except that you cover the rice in hot water for 10 min, then wash before you can start. this will remove the extra carbohydrates and will get the rice good.

I also, fry the chicken in a saucepan with 1 tspn of butter for 2 min to give it a golden look.. Do this after you boil it, its not gonna get hard this way..

Also, 1tspn of sault goes with every two cups of rice.

Am I late or what??!!!

*Blows the whistle*

*The band comes in*

*The party starts*

=)

Congrats deb.. my turn is in 4 days... I feel nervous =)

I'm guessing they're giving him exactly what they gave me. They gave me the three combined into a single "three-in-one" MMR shot. He also might need to take Varicella shots.. as for me, I have a varicella history, so they didn't give me the shots for it.

One thing i just noticed on the report is that there's one vaccine which is "Not routinely available" called ( DT or DTP or DTaP ).

Hello everyone,

I just came back from the hospital and the test went fine.. However, they gave me the MMR shots.. and nothing else was required.

They gave me a sealed envelope and there was a photocopy of the vaccination report for me to read, and in the results section I have the following checked:

Vaccine history incomplete.

Applicant may be eligible for blanket waiver(s) because vaccination(s) not medically appropriate.

Notice that I'm going for a CR1 visa and there would be no AOS..

Should I worry about this?

Hey everyone thanks for the response..

@ TamaraLovesAdam

yea, thats what we got, only a letter and four other papers describing some special cases, and the last was a check list and seems we sent everything ..

@ S and S

My interview is on the 21st and was nvc completed on the 31st of july. that was a long wait..

@ esmatsgirl

Do I really need to take photocopies of everything? I mean, looks like if they didn't get it in the package then its not their business in the first place? I'll only take a selection of new pictures and ticket stubs for a trip we did to istanbul.. as well as some photos from different visits and trips.

what about it?

We got our interview letter in the mail even though the NVC staff said we didn't get one.. so, whatever..

I wanna ask if there's anyone else who's done a CR1 or going to soon to help prepare for the interview, I heard about a forth package.. is it the mail that we recieved? or what, we all know how "awesome" the mail system is in jordan so how do I go about finding what do I need to do?

I filed all the originals to the NVC including the general intelligence paper, do I need something else from the police ? or is that it?

I'm doing my medical check in the next few days. and then the required vaccination ( Human XP Service Pack 2 ).

But now what the problem is that they dont have that word amel to work in Palestinian arabic as my husband says different words and doe snot know the word amel! He does not even use anything that starts with ta, ya, etc. Everytime I ask him about verbs in arabic he puts different things at the end but not the beginning

if he puts it in the end, then he's speaking in the past tens..

words for 'amal in palistine are: bishta3'il ( man ) btishta3'il ( woman )

past would be:

ishta3'al = he worked

ishta3'lat = she worked =)

3' letter is GHAIN.

no matter how far it goes, it's still with the basic principles

I would just like to comment on the differences of letters for example, bahibbik and bahibbich

basically the letter isn't different, and both people will write it down as ba7ibbik ( notice that 7 is Haa' not a normal 'H' )

same for 'th' in jordan it would be 'thal' in egypt / seria 'zal' ... dhad / zhad ... etc

As for tenses, that website seem to confuse alot of things together.. I'll try to brief without confusion ( hopefully )

First I need to explain something.. each letter in arabic is available in 4 forms:

[quiet]: L

[open]: La

[broken]: Li

[lifted]: Lu

notice that the amount of time you spent pronouncing this letter is the same.. so La Lu Li are 3 forms of the letter L.. have your spous pronounce them for you to understand it more.

more on other letters like:

Ba Bu Bi / Da Du Di / Ha Hu Hi ... etc..

Now I'll explain something about verbs and I'll bold out the accent of the letter not to confuse it with a real letter.. for example

La <-- this is a short La

Laa <-- this is two letters... La and Aa

Hope this is clear =) .. anyway, keep reading, the ones without an accent are a quiet version:

[Root]

Aamal <-- work

[Present]

* one person:

* ya'mal <-- he's working [ Ya + ' + Ma + L ]

* ta'mal <-- she's working [ Ta + ' + Ma + L ]

* two people:

* ya'malan <-- both of them are working [two men] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* ta'malan <-- both of them are working [two women] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ta + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* many people:

ya'maluon <-- all of them are working [many men] ( long O at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + Lu + O + N ]

ya'malna <-- all of them are working [many women] ( short A ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + L + Na ]

[Past]

'amila <-- he worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La ]

'amilat <-- she worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La + T ]

'amilaa <-- they both worked [two men] ( notice La + Aa at the end, pronounced as a very long Aaa ) [ 'a + Mi + La + A ]

'amilataa <-- they both worked [two women] ( notice La + Ta + Aa at the end, pronounced LaTaaa ) ['a + Mi + La + Ta + A ]

'amiloo <-- they all worked [men] [ 'a + Mi + Lu + O ]

'amilna <-- they all worked [women] [ 'a + Mi + L + Na ]

Hope that makes sense, remember I'm trying to hack the roman alphabets.. remember that the best way to learn any language is by learning the alphabets first.

I'm open for any questions =)

for k3, you need to contact the embassy later on.. they're fast in responding to emails..

Tahanina =)

Approved on july 30th.. nothing new =/

So you had your interview scheduled for k3 but not for cr1 ? i thought if you file for k3 you automatically don't get cr1 appointments.

anyway, I just spent the past our looking at the cieling preparing myself to wait... this sucks

i only made this post after my wife got off the phone with nvc and still no appointment..

Okay, we've had our case complete on the 30th of July and we still didn't get our appointment, this means we missed appointments in October, we gonna wait for november? thats 3 months!!

is there anyone else from jordan with the same delay?

we used I-864EZ too.. you should read the first two pages and you'll know if your case applies to it

Yes it is the case number..

another way to get the barcode is to use the Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center .. and email the coversheet to yourself, you can then select it and save it as image using adobe reader..

When the NVC automated system said that AOS fee bill was generated, my wife called the operator to get the invoice number to use it online. and the lady said that the online system is not working at the moment and that it's down because of some bugs.

She almost hung up without the number, but my wife insisted to get it just in case so that we don't have to call again.

Cut the BS. The online system is working perfectly. We used it, status changed to PAID in the next morning.

Just wanted to let you know, so in case you're calling NVC ignore any ####### about systems malfunctioning or not working.. the page will not exist on state.gov if it wasn't functioning.

Ok, I just want to be sure, what kind of information do we have to encode in the bar code? the NVC case number I assume, but i want to be sure.

Anybody?

Hello,

In preparation for a (hopefully) speedy NVC process, we have spent the day investigating all we will need.

Daher spent the years from age 16-18 living with his parents in the United Arab Emirates. He then moved to Jordan, and has lived there for the past 8 years (he is of Jordanian nationality) Based on everything we've read on the USCIS/NVC web sites, he will need to obtain a police record from the UAE. However, when we look at the reciprocity site, it states the below.

Specifically look at the red bold part.

Police Records

Available, only if applicant is physically present in the UAE.

Police certificates may be obtained by any person, regardless of nationality, by personally appearing at the Central Police Headquarters located in the emirate of residence or former residence. When appearing to request a police certificate, the applicant should provide recent photographs, a letter from the requesting authority, the date of residence in the emirate, and their passport.

Not available by mail. Post recommends that consular officers waive the general requirement to obtain police certificates unless the applicant lives in the UAE.

Does this mean he will not need to travel to the UAE to obtain the certificate? Who is "Post" and does their recommendation always get accepted by the US Embassy?

Any help is, as always, appreciated!!