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Wanted to take this opportunity to ask our more experienced users some questions: 1. What is the best practice on uploading additional evidence in the online portal? How often and what type of evidence would you upload to strengthen your case? 2. Best practice for evidence for interview? How important is this for a successful interview experience? Do you simply continue printing bank statements, utility bills and photos as they come? 3. Any reason why USCIS only uploads scans of partial evidence? Is this completely random? In our case, they only uploaded one file named Part 4.

Starting a new thread for fellow June 2025 filers. Case is being processed by VSC June 2 - Sent Package June 3 - Package Delivered (Carol Stream, IL) June 5 - first text message and email, case appeared in online portal June 7 - Personal Check cashed, one file with partial evidence scan uploaded to portal by USCIS agent June 10 - 48 month Extension Notice and Biometrics Reuse Notice available in online portal, 'Case Is Being Actively Reviewed By USCIS' June 14 - Extension Notice and Biometrics Reuse Notice arrived in the mail Looks like we covered all the first steps pretty quickly and now the waiting game begins. Will file N-400 ASAP in late May 2026, but we wouldn't mind a surprise I-751 approval in the meantime. I know it's unlikely, but one can dream . Hoping we can be done with the USCIS for good in roughly 18 months. Good luck to everyone!

Happy to submit our final update in this thread. We feel lucky to have a relatively quick approval despite having a notoriously slow local FO and getting a medical RFE. Good luck to everyone still waiting. Hang in there! AOS from K-1, concurrent filing I-485, I-765, and I-131 Decided to complete a new medical instead of fighting the RFE May 1 Mailed via USPS (Chicago Lockbox) May 2 Delivered May 5 Text messages May 8 Check was cashed May 9-10 NOAs from NBC, dated May 4 May 11 Online access code May 13 Biometrics appointment letter, scheduled for June 3 May 25 Early walk-in biometrics, I-485 and I-765 changed status to “Case is Being Actively Reviewed By USCIS” July 1 RFIE status on I-485 July 3 RFE for medical showed up in myUSCIS account (from the Chicago FO) July 13 Mailed new medical to the Chicago FO July 17 RFER August 19 I-485 Case Approved (approval notice from NBC) August 23 Card Produced August 25 Card in hand

All I can say is congrats! The USCIS most likely waived your interview and you should get your green cards in the mail pretty soon. Plenty of people on this forum adjusting from K visas had their interviews waived, and some of them were approved in as little as 2 months, so 5 months isn't unheard of.

Congrats! Was your case approved by the Chicago Field Office?

The RFE finally showed up on my wife's account this morning, and of course it's a medical. Despite including her DS-3025 from her overseas medical from February of this year, and including an explanation in her cover letter that K-1 applicants are exempt from doing another medical in the US, the USCIS is still trying to extort more money for their cronies. We feel that it's not worth the risk to fight it, so we'll cave in and do another medical as soon as possible (especially since I have some doubts about her DS-3025 being correct). For those adjusting on a K-1 and redoing their medical in the US, did you do the full medical, or just the vaccination portion of the I-693? p.s. I'm really confused why the Case Status says RFIE, when the actual document states it's an RFE. Is this normal?

Our case tracker app just alerted us that the USCIS has sent us an RFIE for my wife's I-485. Not the update we were hoping for given we've tripled check everything. We were trying to see what the evidence request is for, but we can't find it on her My USCIS portal. Should it show up under the Documents tab along with her NOA1 and biometrics appointment notice? Should we look at this as a good sign that the USCIS is looking at her case? Thanks for your input!