MollyBob

We are on the same boat! Interview Dec early December, told needed new I-693s. RFE issued few days later. Had them done and sent off, arrived Jan 5th, receipt confirmed next day. Now we're just waiting.... Got the impression at interview that everything else is fine and it's just the updated medical that is required. Very much hoping that the new requirement for reprocessing and extra vetting of people from the visa ban countries isn't going to push everyone else down the queue...

So sorry for you too, it's a lot of stress, especially this close to the finishing line. They'd already sent us an RFE previous for updated documents, I'm not sure why they waited until to interview to tell us our medicals had expired 3 months ago. The irony is, because we used the same CS, we gave him our expired copies and he just sat and copied everything from the old form into the new one. The only thing he needed to check was the vaccine receipts we'd gotten since the last form was done and Polio since that was new, we had no other medical changes. And the only labs either of us needed this time was TB, so even less work. Ho hum. It will be worth it.

Thank you both for your replies. I combed through everything we have and much of it was as originally submitted, I updated things like joint bills and memberships to the reflect the most recent documents to show they remain ongoing. I couldn't actually upload anything anyway for I-130, because they're approved, they're effectively closed on the the petitioner account and nothing can be added there, only to our personal accounts for the I-485. As per your advice, I sorted every document into a multi section folder for each of us and took that to the interview, including copies of every submitted form. Thankfully we needed nothing from that folder (it was bulging and hard to zip-up, there may have been a paper explosion in the office on opening it 😂). Interview went smoothly, we did run into a rather big issue of our medical forms having expired, frustratingly for us we got them done a few weeks before they became non-expiring. We were told we'd be sent an RFE and to get them redone. We'd already had an RFE for our most recent tax return, so I was surprised they didn't tell us earlier, we could have taken them to interview with us. No matter, new forms arrived at the FO today, now waiting for them to be processed and hopefully a decision made. 🤞

I hear you! It is so difficult and frustrating to meet these ideals with all the obstacles in the way, the biggest being a lack of SSN, means no bank account, no DL, no state ID, limiting access to so many things that would be helpful. We also delayed filing as long as possible until we had what felt like enough evidence to submit. Kinda regret that now with the current immigration environment, but didn't feel we had much other choice at the time. With how expensive it is, we wanted to feel confident that our application was sufficient first time. Knowing what I know now I've been through the process, and in the current climate, I'd say submit everything you've got and then kept uploading more stuff as and when you get it to add to your case. I thought the initial filing was a one-chance shot, it's not, they let you add more. Like your wife, I couldn't be added to the car insurance because foreign licence, no SSN so no joint bank account. Our child and I were able to be added to work healthcare, but they kept kicking us off every month due to lack of SSN and we'd have to be manually readded. Nevermind, I got a copy of the insurance card while we were named as beneficiaries and submitted that. My husband owns the house, no mortgage, I'm not on the deed or the utility bills. I practically don't exist. Here's what we did submit at time of filing: The health insurance card. Documents re my husband's change of name to my surname. Family phone bill showing all our names at different time points. (Your mom paying for your wife's phone line is probably a plus.) Joint memberships for CostCo and BJs. Community events we did together with our names published in programs. Joint adoption of pet cat. Travel receipts along with itineraries of the trips and who paid for what. Receipts for payments my husband made for our dental care. Christmas cards naming us all from family members. Wedding communications with our venue and pastor. Relationship photos across time, captioned. Chatlogs across time. School transcripts for our child, with husband as emergency contact. Honestly, it felt like throwing spaghetti at the wall, but our petition was approved off this. When we got to the I-485 interviews, we were emailed ahead to ask us to upload any additional relationship evidence we wanted to add. Since our petition was already approved, we couldn't actually upload anything else to that and it wasn't specifically requested for our I-485s. We've been married longer than two years, so I'm not sure how much more evidence they actually would need. We weren't asked for anything else at interview, a couple of questions about our wedding and that was that. Nonetheless, I was terrified going for that interview because it was right at the time they started arresting people at interviews. We had an action plan in place just in case, thankfully all went very smoothly. We had an RFE at interview so not approved yet. Submitted the RFE and waiting now. Good luck to you both!

You were able to get just the vaccine section updated and not have to pay the whole amount? My child and I both got RFE for new I-693s after our interview in December. In our case ours had expired, dated just two months before the non-expiring forms came online. That initial non-expiring form has now been superceded by the form requiring polio vaccines. We weren't aware of the changes to the form until we got to our medical. Luckily I have fully digitized records for my child's polio. While mine aren't, I was able to confirm that I'd been fully vaccinated. The Dr mentioned it had to be the whole polio course. We were also told my child needed the Hep A which they didn't last time (don't know why), and we had to get flu shots because we were having the medical done in winter. In August, it doesn't matter, how arbitrary. We were missing one of the receipts for child's three part Hep B so that had to be done again. On the plus side, I had aged out of some lab tests, but having to rerun required labs, blood tests to confirm immunity, get additional vaccines and pay for new medicals ended up costing over $1000. Very frustrating that we were just outside the expiration window. The long processing wait is one thing, shifting goalposts while waiting is another.

Hello! My child (16) and I have our GC interviews next week with our US citizen spouse/stepdad. Just received a "courtesy" email saying we should upload additional evidence prior to the interview, then stating examples under the headings of I-130 and I-485. Our I-130s are already approved as we did not file concurrently, our I-485s were filed after approval. Do we need to upload additional/updated evidence if we're already approved? It's been almost two years since we filed the I-130, it was approved end of April, and we've been married for 2½ years. Under I-485, it asks for immigration documents, we provided all of those with our application, so I assume there is nothing to add here? The other thing it asks for is police records and that doesn't apply either.