candyace

Received my card today.

Yippee, look what I received in my email account today.

On April 25, 2011, we ordered production of your new card.

Yaay, so exciting! And, we didn't even need an interview!

Completed my biometrics today. 1 day early, the 23rd, instead of the 24th. I went today instead of tomorrow because I didn't want to go through traffic and the stress of getting there on time all while bringing my 3 mos. old along. *sigh* So glad it's done. Now just waiting...

Got our NOA. Dated February 28th, yippee!!!

Just checked my bank account and it posted today... they've cashed the check!

They cashed ours too! So glad, because I was feeling worried they would send back our app. and we're expiring on the 19th of this month!

Sounds to me like she's cheating on you. I'd set up a video recorder in the computer room or something to see what's going on when she's talking to her 'parents'. She is definately not behaving normally.

Yaay, we finally sent in our I-751 application yesterday, the 25th. Could someone please add us to the list? Thank you!

As you can see from our timeline my husband and I are in our 90 days to file for removing conditions.

We just had our first child on Dec. 15th, 2010, who is a US citizen. Other than a birth certificate (which we don't have yet) is there anything else we need to do in regards to her with my immigration process?

I couldn't find a way to search the forum, so any advice would be greatful! Thank you!

It's not a NOA but we did receive a 'Verification of Inclusion of a Dependent' notification for our son.

Which does include my receipt number.

So at least I know the ball is rolling!

Was your child born in the US? Or did they enter the US when you did?

Well everyone, I received my GC yesterday. I guess my visa journey is done now for another 22 months or so. Best of luck to everyone. You'll all get there!

Hi Everyone!!

Well I got my NOA2 after 1 month of send in our Application. I was just wondering what I need to included with our book and everything I need to have

exactly?

Thanks,

Rachid & Toree

Wow, I think you're the first person I've heard commenting how their immigration paperwork is going too fast! Good Luck!

Hey All, Just thought I'd post this link because I found it very helpful. And it definitely gave me a clear answer when people on VJ unfortunately did not (a rare thing indeed).

Anyways, it's regarding getting a new SS Card after you are now eligible to work. ie. removing the 'Not Valid without DHS Authorization'

http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/ssa.cf...php?p_faqid=394

Hope this can help someone out there.

Candace

My story has already been posted in the Nov. forum, but I thought I'd post it here too because I sort of fall in between those two months for filing.

Here's our interview story:

Arrived about 30 minutes early. Went through security and everything was fine. We both dressed up for our interview. Our officer was a young very friendly asian man. We could tell right away when he called us in that he was a pretty friendly guy. When we got in he asked us if we both agree to tell the truth, and we said yes, of course. He then wanted both of our state ID's, and my passport. Then it turns out he went to the same school as my husband so they chatted about that. Then he just told us that'd he'd go through the paperwork we had already sent in. He asked who had done our paperwork, and I said that I did. He said I had done a really good job on it. Better than lots of the attorney's work that he has seen. (Woo Hoo!) He asked some basic questions, my new last name, first name, middle names, address. Confirmed that I was born in Canada. Maybe something else that I can't remember. Then he asked if we lived on our own, so we said we live with our inlaws, so he then said, I guess that means you don't have any utility bills or anything like that in your name, and we agreed. Then he asked us a little about our relationship. How we met, when it was, when we became official. He then asked about all of the stuff that we had brought so I brought that out, just the evidence part. Pictures of us, our recent trip, and random things since we were married. Religious ceremony pictures and legal ceremony pictures. He then asked if that was all, then I remembered I had brought our bank statements and cell phone bills/statements. He wanted to keep them but I said those were the only copies we had, he was going to make a copy, but then I guess he just didn't feel like it, so he just wrote down the information on his notes. He then went back to the paperwork and asked me the series of questions from the I-485 application. (ie. terrorist, illegal drugs, polygamy, etc.) Then he said everything looked good, and he wanted to be the first to congratulate me on being approved for our application and that he was going to recommend approval. He asked us if we had any plans to visit out of country any time soon, my husband right away said no, but I said yes, because there are potential plans. Then he said he could give me the stamp in my passport so I got that, and it is valid for a month because he was sure I would receive my GC within the next 2 weeks. He asked if we had any more questions, we said no, he explained the conditional GC, and then we were done! It was only like 10-15 minutes long.

It was very easy! I was so nervous before hand, but once I was in the room, it wasn't bad at all. smile.gif

Good Luck to everyone else! smile.gif I'm sure you'll do great!

Btw, he didn't ask for ANYTHING else other than what I mentioned. Not our financial info, marriage cert, medical info, etc. etc.

Hope that gives the rest of you some confidence in your interviews. It'll be fine!

Hey All,

Here's our interview story:

Arrived about 30 minutes early. Went through security and everything was fine. We both dressed up for our interview. Our officer was a young very friendly asian man. We could tell right away when he called us in that he was a pretty friendly guy. When we got in he asked us if we both agree to tell the truth, and we said yes, of course. He then wanted both of our state ID's, and my passport. Then it turns out he went to the same school as my husband so they chatted about that. Then he just told us that'd he'd go through the paperwork we had already sent in. He asked who had done our paperwork, and I said that I did. He said I had done a really good job on it. Better than lots of the attorney's work that he has seen. (Woo Hoo!) He asked some basic questions, my new last name, first name, middle names, address. Confirmed that I was born in Canada. Maybe something else that I can't remember. Then he asked if we lived on our own, so we said we live with our inlaws, so he then said, I guess that means you don't have any utility bills or anything like that in your name, and we agreed. Then he asked us a little about our relationship. How we met, when it was, when we became official. He then asked about all of the stuff that we had brought so I brought that out, just the evidence part. Pictures of us, our recent trip, and random things since we were married. Religious ceremony pictures and legal ceremony pictures. He then asked if that was all, then I remembered I had brought our bank statements and cell phone bills/statements. He wanted to keep them but I said those were the only copies we had, he was going to make a copy, but then I guess he just didn't feel like it, so he just wrote down the information on his notes. He then went back to the paperwork and asked me the series of questions from the I-485 application. (ie. terrorist, illegal drugs, polygamy, etc.) Then he said everything looked good, and he wanted to be the first to congratulate me on being approved for our application and that he was going to recommend approval. He asked us if we had any plans to visit out of country any time soon, my husband right away said no, but I said yes, because there are potential plans. Then he said he could give me the stamp in my passport so I got that, and it is valid for a month because he was sure I would receive my GC within the next 2 weeks. He asked if we had any more questions, we said no, he explained the conditional GC, and then we were done!

Very easy! I was so nervous before hand, but once I was in the room, it wasn't bad at all.

Good Luck to everyone else! I'm sure you'll do great!

Btw, he didn't ask for ANYTHING else then what I mentioned. Not our financial info, marriage cert, medical info, etc. etc.

Congrats. We had our interview in Seattle yesterday. It went very well. We were also approved!

Our interview is tomorrow! I'm starting to get a little nervous!

Anyone have any help to this question?

Hey All,

If we have already given in all of the needed info related to the I-864 for our I-485 application, will we need to bring additional evidence for the interview? Like stuff from the 2008 tax year?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

I have filed for AOS last week, was on K1.

Is it a good idea to seek infopass for AP and come back when I get the letter for AOS interview appointment ?

Is there timeline for AOS interview here ? How long is it taking for the interview at this time ?

thanks.

If you go in for an infopass appt. they'll only give you AP for an emergency, I believe. If you are planning on leaving the US during that whole time, I think they'll see that as pretty odd considering you just got married and now you're going back home until your GC interview.

Oh, I am, and I used to check the status like every 1 hour or so

Okay, just checking.

One little question guys and gals:

What is the email address that sent your notifications for case status (like the processing of EAD, AP, green card, etc)? I am going crazy looking into the spam folder at each email to see if there is something from USCIS or not. I would rather add it now to my contacts and skip the spam:)

Don't forget, you have to be signed up on their website to receive the emails...

Received my EAD card in the mail today! And I never got the second email from CRIS...Oh well!

Received my EAD in the mail finally. Never did get the second email...

congratulations

Thank you!

YIPPEE! We received our interview notice today. It's scheduled for Mar. 19th!