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1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

For USCIS purposes, you can use either your maiden name or spouse's surname.  As I said, your attorney was wrong.  Good luck.

Thanx. I will put both surnames on the applications forms for USCIS. By doing so he told that USCIS will reject the application because your marriage certificate does not provides evidence that you got the husbands surname. In fact in the marriage certificate was not mention to chose the name after marriage. My only concern is not to have delays. 
how about medical examination, shall we make them again to file I-639? 

41 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Your attorney is wrong.  You can use any combination of the surnames listed on the marriage certificate.

Example:  Mary Smith marries John Doe.

Mary can use Mary Smith, Mary Doe, Mary Smith Doe, or Mary Smith-Doe as her legal name.

 

Chapter 5 - Verification of Identifying Information | USCIS

 

 

Totally agree! Thnx 

I read a lot about this topic and the marriage certificate itself supports that I can use my marriage name or both of them. 

44 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Likely a year

Thnx 

once we are waiting for GC can I apply for SSN and work? 

6 minutes ago, W199 said:

That is very interesting that you can still legally use your maiden name or a combination even though you legally changed your name.  Thanks for posting that.

 

However, the above rules say it must be either the maiden name and/or a legal name change.  A marriage certificate can legally document a legal name change, as there is a line on it that says "surname after marriage".  That line is is the legal name change, just the same as a divorce certificate says the wife will resume her maiden name.  

 

The OP question does not specify whether or not the marriage certificate specifies that she is taking her husband's surname after marriage.  She only says "signed in the maiden name" which is not enough information to answer the question if her lawyer is right or not.   Disclaimer: This this is correct for my State, I don't know if other States have their own laws on what a marriage certiifcate needs to say to make it a legal name change. 

 

 

Thank you for your answer. 
in the marriage certificate is not required to specify which surname I will use after marriage. I signed with my maiden name because that was who I was at that time. So I with my maiden name was getting married with my husband. If I signed the certificate with his surname there is no eve since that I am that person. Also when applied for marriage I applied with my family name. 
we are in MI.

thnx 

Hi all, 

Me and my son just arrived on K1 &K2 visa in Usa. 
I got married and I signed the marriage certificate with my family/maiden name. 
I am preparing to file for AOS and the attorney said to me that I cannot take the surname of my husband since the marriage certificate is signed with my maiden name.

My question is: Is it ok if I put both surnames wile applying for AOS, and other documents that I need? 
We made the medical examination in our country and once entered handled the envelope to the immigration authorities. 
Now, they are asking me to make once again the medical examination. Is it necessary or shall I tell that I already did it before coming? 
How long does it take to get the GC?

Your replies are appreciated.

Thank you!!

On 2/16/2023 at 5:07 AM, mw & rg k1 said:

If I see your case in my records correctly, you should submit a case inquiry request the morning of 20 Feb 2022

Step 1: Confirm  your case receive date here (do not log in or it will likely give you a later date)
https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do

 

Then use this date to estimate the processing time and inquiry date.
https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

 

The case is not likely to get opened before you reach the date you can make an inquiry (really sad but this is where we are these days)

 

 

Hi, Yesterday we filed e-request for ''outside normal processing time''. Today when I check my USCIS Account I see that the status is:  your case status is unavailable at this time. We are working to get you accurate information as soon as possible.

Is this something we should concern? When can we expect to have a reply from USCIS or approval? Or after this we should expect a request for more evidence?

I appreciate  everyone's reply,

Thank you  

Hi, thank for your amazing job! 
I have noticed that recently they are not working with the full range of September. We belong to 139500 and no case touched. We are 510 today and still no reply. 
Is there anyone in the some situation? 
it seems that from previous months there are some cases that we do not have any idea when will get approved. 
thank you 

3 hours ago, Elson George said:

Its just a forecast by visa journey, its showing me as 9th of December even for me but my range is 137500, i am seeing approvals after 440 days even after 450 days, there are still people from august waiting for their approvals ! It actually depends USCIS do not follow any orderly fasion in approvals ! 

 

Thank you for your reply

but how is it possible they do not finish all the cases for one month and approve the cases of next month. So as you are saying that there are pending cases from July, August, it means that in April will be approved all the cases of September 2021. 
this does not make sense. So the process from beginning till the end will take 2 years or more😔😔

2 hours ago, Elson George said:

Hello Guys,

 

Sharing you the information for number of approved cases and number of cases they are still yet to touch as of 11/30/2022 for each range :

 

132000: 43 Untouched, 68 Approvals
132500: 63 Untouched, 45 Approvals
133000: 96 Untouched, 31 Approvals
133500: 42 Untouched, 69 Approvals
134000: 49 Untouched, 65 Approvals
134500: 65 Untouched, 34 Approvals
135000: 59 Untouched, 26 Approvals
135500: 105 Untouched, 43 Approvals
136000: 32 Untouched, 15 Approvals
136500: 105 Untouched, 7 Approvals
137000: 106 Untouched, 9 Approvals
137500: 102 Untouched, 45 Approvals
138000: 79 Untouched, 34 Approvals
138500: 48 Untouched, 22 Approvals
139000: 55 Untouched, 28 Approvals
139500: 142 Untouched, 13 Approvals
140000: 97 Untouched, 12 Approvals
140500: 130 Untouched, 8 Approvals
141000: 70 Untouched, 15 Approvals
141500: 105 Untouched, 16 Approvals

Total for this month: 1593 Untouched, 616 Approvals, 249 RFESs, 19 RFERs, 232 Denials, 81 Expedites(Denied: 78 / Approved: 2 / Received: 1), 96 Withdrawals, 115 Others

 

  I hope this helps

 

Thank you for sharing the updated infornation with us:)

I have registered my case in visajourney and according to my timeline i should expect an answer from uscis around 9th of December. Does it happen to receive a feeback or is just a forecast? 
We are confused and we do not have a certain date or number of days we should expect for the approal. Our range is 139500

thnx