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My husband just got his in the mail on Saturday, so 10 days after his official entry thru JFK. We didn't got to any Social Security Office, figured we'd wait it out for the 2-3 weeks and see.

Hey everyone! We are officially settled in the US. We arrived thru JFK yesterday morning, and despite reading in many thread on this site that they would let you and your immigrant spouse pass thru the US Citizen's line, we were told we both had to go to the non-citizen line (which was longer, obviously). Arriving at the window, my husband mentioned he's entering on a CR1 visa, the officer was very relaxed, called another officer over to take my husband to "the room" and asked me to wait by the exit door. My husband was in and out in 10 minutes, he said he literally waited for them to call his name, had him enter, was not asked anything, was simply told, "you're all set, welcome to the US" and he was free to go! Hoping everyone else has as smooth of a time as us. We're crossing our fingers his SSN arrives soon so we can get started on the other state-side bureaucracy like bank accts and driver's license - has anyone gotten their SSN yet, and how long did it take?

The stamped passport return took about 2 weeks and we finally booked tickets yesterday! We'll be heading stateside in July. Hope everyone else is getting to the finish line as well🤞

Hey everyone, my husband got approved on Tuesday!! Had his interview, brought the giant folder with so many extra forms and proofs of domicile, etc and they didn't really ask for anything extra, just hard copies of everything from CEAC. The guy asked him 3 questions and that was it. I think the fact that we live together here helped, I was really worried about proof of domicile but we just took photocopy of my still valid US driver's license, proof over voter registration and a utility bill from the address we'll be living at that has been changed to my name starting January 2024, as well as my US passport. They told him he'd get his passport in 2-3 weeks, so now it's the final waiting game of this whole thing! We're probably going to move in July so we have some time to finalize everything here. Sending all of you lots of good luck that you get approvals soon as well!!!