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If you have a myuscis login and case registered, you should be able to see the notice they will be mailing you under documents tab. Check there .... if not, then hope your notice shows in the mail soon.

"Unsolicited" evidence is good .... (and supported through the site) "Non-applicable" evidence might hurt as much as help ..... Find something that is aligned with the original application and I would consider that ...

About time @Gary Rich .... hang in there @Saeid, it will happen (eventually)

Agree with Osman .... I can't say for sure but have a feeling that uploading a "fixed" 485 helped move our application along. Keeping hopes for a speedy completion for you @SaraClaire11

Yes ... IRS and while technically "unrelated" to immigration ... we have had to re-prove her identity over and over for each state and government agency .... Had to grant permission for CA DMV to "check her documents" with DHS/USCIS. State CA RFE was identity documents and re-verification of mailed in documents. New IRS document arriving today. My caution / tale might be to encourage getting a tax pro (with audit package) to do the work .... especially for late in year AOS people like this group.

While we consider ourselves very lucky with the December GC arrival ... so have an update for this group. Be very careful with first years taxes when claiming Married. Just today, we received our second taxes RFE ... first from IRS and second from State

On a next step note, we just returned from Brazil (first use of the GC) and did the global entry interview ... Took ~2 mo for the conditional approval and the final approval happened during the interview (even the officer seemed to think that was fast)

We did file a written dispute with each of the agencies that eventually allowed us to login to experian, transequity, and equifax but that is all that did. Never got CreditKarma to work or anyone that uses experian challenge questions (yet)

We never got login.gov to work for mySSN account ... we did use ID.me (the other way) and had to video verify but she did get into her account eventually. The major problem is a lack of credit history. Sign them up for a secured credit card through your bank, add them as authorized users and eventually it should get easier

Many (including us) found the myProgress to be horribly misleading ... if you have the account, monitor the documents folder ... that will change often even faster then the main status page does

I would try to reach an agent though Emma and expore what this is .... Those things should be I751 ... not I485 as you said in a follow up comment ... That said, we are working on our proof of marriage doc which also dates to our first days ... Strongly recommend opening a doc and adding as you go ... I find it far easier to do as we do things and remember that we need to take a photo ... because it will be used there.

https://www.casestatusext.com/forms/I-485/IOE-LB doesn't help and I'd also say that even though we were on the fast side, this does show that there is still a ton of processing to do. What I would recommend, double and triple check your forms. In particular, this forum has a few examples of "mis-answered" questions ... do a minor fix if you find one and upload ... it "may" make things faster

Sharing that link again that @rierose was referring to ... this is right to green card status. https://www.casestatusext.com/forms/I-485/IOE-LB That said, I suspect that some of the" rushing of EAD/AP files (when it happens) is them doing some cleanup. Remember I was "Denied" on those but only because we got the GC approved ... so the statistics could easily be wrong (but what else is new with this whole process). Even after approval, everyone here still has plenty of work to do .... hope to see you in a future group and I won't be going anywhere in case you have a question that I have any idea about.

Agree that all of these process steps ( and even the more to come) has been absurd. we were 631 days in k-1 process as well with a huge (information black hole) gap added between 129F approval and NVC receive. We consider ourselves very lucky to be an early GC and encourage you to read this entire board ... even us, like many other early recipients needed to "fix" our submission.

Ok. ... this was fun GC in hand since 26 Dec 2024. Today, got this notification that EAD/AP was terminated. One deeper look, denied 4 days after GC was approved ... all of that makes sense (sort of) as EAD/AP apply if GC is in process. Stange that they seemed to back date the "denial" AND now the "explanation letter" is already 3 weeks behind. Just an FYI to expect strange things (even beyond the circle-k)

Actually, I kept my estimate low on purpose not to scare others here .... Comment was more about just how fast and easy it is to "misplace" photo or other key story telling features. Like when my wife met the Sr. VP of my company and had a shared photo a couple days after wedding .... Took a bit of time just to find that ... ooph

I had been collecting (even organized) most of these things in folders by month. Decided to start a google-docs file with the items and photos organized. Ooph, already hard digging up photos that I thought were going to be easy. Looks like my future final file will be 125-175 pages or so

I would agree with OldUser .... If you MUST travel, then go ... otherwise wait for GC just to be sure after all, AP and EAD are only required as a temporary measure while GC is processing. Since it is processed, there would be some extra "faith" in the USCIS documents if you go now.

https://citizenpath.com/proving-a-bona-fide-marriage/ Some light reading and ideas for I-751 proof of marriage docs to collect.

Our Green-Card timeline The EAD and AP was left open for quite some time and eventually changed to case closed in MyUSCIS ... Still shows as in process through normal search even today GC approved 15 Dec Found on USPS via Informed Delivery on 20 Dec) Card produced 21 Dec (online status) Scheduled delivery 23 Dec but USPS Slipped up and didn't get it in time Actual delivery 26 Dec (USPS) Check informed delivery and if you have card was produced message, you should see a tracking number thorugh informed delivery (USPS) or wait for a couple days to see if they make the update to card was picked up (which is hit or miss on USCIS website)

agreed, the whole process is crazy ..... Here is another one for the group to consider: Recommend getting a fixed credit card (aka secured credit card) for your spouse co credit history can be built. After fighting with the credit reporting agencies to get accounts established, we STILL don't have a credit score from TransUnion which is limiting our ability to perform some simple tasks. In particular, an account at creditKarma, My Social Security (which login.gov apparently uses credit agencies, etc.) She did get a score with Experian and even boosted with the utility accounts I put her on before she moved here .... so some parts are working and some are waiting for months to establish presence and use of a credit card. Back to that credit card, a $200 limit (with deposit) through BoA is what we did .... charge it 30% and wait for the invoice and repeat. Even BoA says TransUnion score is not available (offered free for BoA card holders)

Thanks. I was hoping with card in hand they would remove the notation. Can say that with our GC, we were able to get the married name corrected on the SSN and the notation removed. That said, we are still having plenty of challenges getting the SSN recognized especially with Equifax and in some cases TransUnion. The fun will continue once you get things moving (just in case you thought it was just be completed once you get the GC). BTW, don't forget to start saving for I-751 ... Proof of marriage documentation. The 18 months after GC will come around faster than you think so best to start preparing today.

Online portal? Where/what? We are making a folder to submit with the future filing ... Was your thoughts for AOS or Removal of Conditions?

Glad you finally got it .... Ours was scheduled for delivery 23 Dec but USPS delayed the package so we didn't get it till 26 Dec ... Then .... a quick race down to Social Security to "fix" the married name on the SSN Card .... Still working on getting that to work through the credit reporting agencies (2 of 3 now at lease allow a login with her SSN, CreditKarma doesn't yet) Also working on registering the wedding with her home country (still a long process) AND working on Drivers License .... So much to do still ... just happy that only one tiny part of it has to do with Federal Government at this point (SSN) even if parts of it are state government (DL)

Card creation and out to USPS seems to be rather quick .... That said, suggest you sign up for Informed Delivery at USPS ... the "package is scheduled" showed up there much faster than on USCIS site