Nich-Nick

There has never been a penalty for changing interview dates. You just didn't get any choice on when the new one would be. Now (since May) you can go into the reservation system yourself and pick a new date, dropping the old date.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

We submitted AOS nine days after POE and only four days after marriage so had nothing else but the marriage certificate. Approved with no interview. You can start establishing those things and if you have an interview, take them to show the interviewer.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

You are a lawful permanent resident and no longer illegal or whatever you were in the past. Just get your application in when it's time so you continue following the requirements.

I remember when Obama was running for his first term. VJ members wer so excited because when he was elected, he was going to fix immigration and they would no longer have to wait so long for their NOA2 or interview or greencard. They were looking forward to an instant fix. Sadly the times got even worse for awhile in some categories. I agree that no matter who is elected, nothing changes quickly, if at all.

The forms do differ in many locales. Many marriage certificates do not have a section specifically for new names, but that doesn't matter as already stated above the certificate functions as a legal name change to the husband's family name if you choose to change it. Some responders already stated it, but the best course of action seems to be to get the SSN with the I94 (with more than two weeks validity) and foreign passport in the maiden name, apply for the AOS in the new name if desired, then change the SSC when you receive either the EAD or GC. If you want to avoid multiple trips to the SSA, wait for the GC, that way you get a new card in the new name without the DHS note.
The only other issues that arise from this is changing the foreign passport at some time in the future. In many countries, this is very difficult, time consuming and costly, but you can get around this for international travel easily. When you get to that point, check out the travel section as there are many relevant posts, but the summary would be to book travel in your maiden name that matches the foreign passport, then keep a copy of your marriage certificate with you in case CBP questions the different name on the GC upon US re-entry.
Good Luck!

Maybe do the print and mail application so you can explain your unique situation. Use old passport. Maybe get wife and somebody else to write an affidavit stating you are who you say and confirm where you live. It doesn't fit the norm, but think outside the box. It's removed from PUBLIC record like if you applied for a job or had a background check for something. But there is a record only you can authorize to get a copy of. The US wants to see it.
That sounds encouraging. My husband was 53, ate right, lived right, worked out every day, muscular, had all the proper check ups and tests regularly ...and BAM!...stage 4 terminal cancer. Devastating and a long process. I wish your Dad wonderful progress, knowledgeable doctors, and healing. He sounds like a great man who wants you to have a great life.

Your criminal history is part of the initial evidence and everything they consider reportable is detailed in the I-485 instructions page 3. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf
Your record most likely still exists in the UK, even if it has been hidden. UK police certificates say "no trace" when there is no criminal history. They will say "no live trace" when there is a hidden or stepped down conviction or even a caution. The US wants to see everything so you would also need to order a Subject Access Report which would reveal all. Order https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx
Leaving the country soon is a big problem. Being married to a US citizen does not allow you to freely come back unless you have a greencard or at least Advanced Parole. That will not come quickly because it is going to take you some time to prepare you AOS and AP applications before your three month wait on AP begins. You need the police certificate and Subject Access Report from the UK. The SAR can take 8 weeks or so.
You may have to make a hard decision whether living in the US with your wife and children is important enough for all four of you that you forego visiting your Dad immediately. The financial requirements for you to take your family to the UK have gotten harder. You would have to obtain work and meet the minimum salary for six months before they could come or have a large amount of cash. Look it up.
I don't know your Dad's diagnosis but the C word can petrify you upon diagnosis and cause knee-jerk reactions. But not everybody dies and even if they do, it isn't always next week or even next year.. You might have to make the decision to get on with the AOS, and God-willing your Dad will still be around when you come out on the other side a lawful permanent resident of the US. In the meantime, keep up the dialog with your Dad and I don't mean sweet "get well soon" messages. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. Ask for his forgiveness for getting yourself in such a mess and assure him you are doing everything to make it right for the sake of your wonderful family's future and so you can come to his side. Tell him all the reasons you love him and what he means to you. I have experienced such conversations and they are powerful and meaningful. I will get off the emotional soap box now, but it is something I have lived and feel strongly about.

Your criminal history is part of the initial evidence and everything they consider reportable is detailed in the I-485 instructions page 3. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf
Your record most likely still exists in the UK, even if it has been hidden. UK police certificates say "no trace" when there is no criminal history. They will say "no live trace" when there is a hidden or stepped down conviction or even a caution. The US wants to see everything so you would also need to order a Subject Access Report which would reveal all. Order https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx
Leaving the country soon is a big problem. Being married to a US citizen does not allow you to freely come back unless you have a greencard or at least Advanced Parole. That will not come quickly because it is going to take you some time to prepare you AOS and AP applications before your three month wait on AP begins. You need the police certificate and Subject Access Report from the UK. The SAR can take 8 weeks or so.
You may have to make a hard decision whether living in the US with your wife and children is important enough for all four of you that you forego visiting your Dad immediately. The financial requirements for you to take your family to the UK have gotten harder. You would have to obtain work and meet the minimum salary for six months before they could come or have a large amount of cash. Look it up.
I don't know your Dad's diagnosis but the C word can petrify you upon diagnosis and cause knee-jerk reactions. But not everybody dies and even if they do, it isn't always next week or even next year.. You might have to make the decision to get on with the AOS, and God-willing your Dad will still be around when you come out on the other side a lawful permanent resident of the US. In the meantime, keep up the dialog with your Dad and I don't mean sweet "get well soon" messages. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. Ask for his forgiveness for getting yourself in such a mess and assure him you are doing everything to make it right for the sake of your wonderful family's future and so you can come to his side. Tell him all the reasons you love him and what he means to you. I have experienced such conversations and they are powerful and meaningful. I will get off the emotional soap box now, but it is something I have lived and feel strongly about.

You are kidding?
Getting the passport with the visa and in has consumed their lives for months, you think 99% of people don't cancel plans, skip work, trample old/infirm people to get it as fast as they can?
Wow, things have changed in the 5 short months since I got mine, I'd have sold my mother if it would have got the courier there quicker!

She's American? Won't she want to get married in the U.S.? Get married and adjust status from F1 based on marriage to a US citizen. You get a greencard, then you're a permament resident and can say bye-bye to your current visa. You don't need a fiancé visa to get to the U.S. because you already live in the US on your student visa.
Guide http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

The first window collects documents and gets the file all squared away to pass to the interviewer. In most cases the interviewer just chats with you asking a few easy questions about your fiancé or your plans. They rarely talk about the documents. They might ask "how do you know this guy (sponsor)?" if not a relative or may not mention the I-134 at all.

Yes, you can send that copy with the watermark.
Remember, a complete tax return is the 1040, W-2s 1099s, and every document sent to the IRS. A complete tax return is more than just the 1040.

Sure. Point taken. I tend to speak in overly simple terms to the big VJ audience who generally don't exceed $100,000 income in a foreign country . Maybe my concept of that comes from the many who seem to need a joint sponsor. And maybe there are lots out there who have investments paying them $40-50k a year as well. I just don't have time to detail all the exceptions written in the tax code to cover the wealthy who I assumed incorrectly just paid somebody to figure it out for them and don't read VJ. Will try to keep my mouth shut, but I just hate it when somebody says the blanket statement -you have to pay US taxes on your foreign income.

You didn't mention Step four so it was assumed you were missing something.

3 things.
1) Can you provide the exact wording of the RFE?
2) Do you have another copy of your DS3025 or do you remember what it looked like and does it have a tickbox selected stating ''complete"?
3) Responding to the RFE is going to require you either going to a CS and getting the full medical, or going to a CS who is willing to sign off on the vax sheet portion only. But this will depend on the exact wording, as those who have had this issue (myself included) have encountered various wording as to what they really want from you.
No. You must complete exactly what the RFE requests. So the wording of the OP's RFE is very important. A K1 is not required to have a new medical exam, correct. However numerous instances of persons being asked for a new medical regardless are happening, and quite a few are those who went through London. It can happen that the USCIS has lost the medical, finds what papers they have been given deficient, or simply the officer reviewing the case is ignorant of the rules. You will never get them to admit which is the case.

Your marriage certificate is a legal name change IF you want to use your husband's name because it shows you married John Smith and thus can choose to legally be called Mrs. Smith. It does not mean you must use his name if you choose not to. Your chosen married name does not have to appear on the certificate. When you go to change your name on documents, they would look at the marriGe certificate as legal proof you get to be called Mrs. Smith....USCIS, Social Security, DMV, maybe the bank, passport office....If you want to change your name to Lucie Lollipop, then that is more complicated and requires going to court.

I am puzzled by why everybody thinks the Social Security Administration is the official "name changer" in the US.

Your criminal history is part of the initial evidence and everything they consider reportable is detailed in the I-485 instructions page 3. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf
Your record most likely still exists in the UK, even if it has been hidden. UK police certificates say "no trace" when there is no criminal history. They will say "no live trace" when there is a hidden or stepped down conviction or even a caution. The US wants to see everything so you would also need to order a Subject Access Report which would reveal all. Order https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx
Leaving the country soon is a big problem. Being married to a US citizen does not allow you to freely come back unless you have a greencard or at least Advanced Parole. That will not come quickly because it is going to take you some time to prepare you AOS and AP applications before your three month wait on AP begins. You need the police certificate and Subject Access Report from the UK. The SAR can take 8 weeks or so.
You may have to make a hard decision whether living in the US with your wife and children is important enough for all four of you that you forego visiting your Dad immediately. The financial requirements for you to take your family to the UK have gotten harder. You would have to obtain work and meet the minimum salary for six months before they could come or have a large amount of cash. Look it up.
I don't know your Dad's diagnosis but the C word can petrify you upon diagnosis and cause knee-jerk reactions. But not everybody dies and even if they do, it isn't always next week or even next year.. You might have to make the decision to get on with the AOS, and God-willing your Dad will still be around when you come out on the other side a lawful permanent resident of the US. In the meantime, keep up the dialog with your Dad and I don't mean sweet "get well soon" messages. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. Ask for his forgiveness for getting yourself in such a mess and assure him you are doing everything to make it right for the sake of your wonderful family's future and so you can come to his side. Tell him all the reasons you love him and what he means to you. I have experienced such conversations and they are powerful and meaningful. I will get off the emotional soap box now, but it is something I have lived and feel strongly about.

Your criminal history is part of the initial evidence and everything they consider reportable is detailed in the I-485 instructions page 3. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf
Your record most likely still exists in the UK, even if it has been hidden. UK police certificates say "no trace" when there is no criminal history. They will say "no live trace" when there is a hidden or stepped down conviction or even a caution. The US wants to see everything so you would also need to order a Subject Access Report which would reveal all. Order https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx
Leaving the country soon is a big problem. Being married to a US citizen does not allow you to freely come back unless you have a greencard or at least Advanced Parole. That will not come quickly because it is going to take you some time to prepare you AOS and AP applications before your three month wait on AP begins. You need the police certificate and Subject Access Report from the UK. The SAR can take 8 weeks or so.
You may have to make a hard decision whether living in the US with your wife and children is important enough for all four of you that you forego visiting your Dad immediately. The financial requirements for you to take your family to the UK have gotten harder. You would have to obtain work and meet the minimum salary for six months before they could come or have a large amount of cash. Look it up.
I don't know your Dad's diagnosis but the C word can petrify you upon diagnosis and cause knee-jerk reactions. But not everybody dies and even if they do, it isn't always next week or even next year.. You might have to make the decision to get on with the AOS, and God-willing your Dad will still be around when you come out on the other side a lawful permanent resident of the US. In the meantime, keep up the dialog with your Dad and I don't mean sweet "get well soon" messages. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. Ask for his forgiveness for getting yourself in such a mess and assure him you are doing everything to make it right for the sake of your wonderful family's future and so you can come to his side. Tell him all the reasons you love him and what he means to you. I have experienced such conversations and they are powerful and meaningful. I will get off the emotional soap box now, but it is something I have lived and feel strongly about.

Your criminal history is part of the initial evidence and everything they consider reportable is detailed in the I-485 instructions page 3. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf
Your record most likely still exists in the UK, even if it has been hidden. UK police certificates say "no trace" when there is no criminal history. They will say "no live trace" when there is a hidden or stepped down conviction or even a caution. The US wants to see everything so you would also need to order a Subject Access Report which would reveal all. Order https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx
Leaving the country soon is a big problem. Being married to a US citizen does not allow you to freely come back unless you have a greencard or at least Advanced Parole. That will not come quickly because it is going to take you some time to prepare you AOS and AP applications before your three month wait on AP begins. You need the police certificate and Subject Access Report from the UK. The SAR can take 8 weeks or so.
You may have to make a hard decision whether living in the US with your wife and children is important enough for all four of you that you forego visiting your Dad immediately. The financial requirements for you to take your family to the UK have gotten harder. You would have to obtain work and meet the minimum salary for six months before they could come or have a large amount of cash. Look it up.
I don't know your Dad's diagnosis but the C word can petrify you upon diagnosis and cause knee-jerk reactions. But not everybody dies and even if they do, it isn't always next week or even next year.. You might have to make the decision to get on with the AOS, and God-willing your Dad will still be around when you come out on the other side a lawful permanent resident of the US. In the meantime, keep up the dialog with your Dad and I don't mean sweet "get well soon" messages. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. Ask for his forgiveness for getting yourself in such a mess and assure him you are doing everything to make it right for the sake of your wonderful family's future and so you can come to his side. Tell him all the reasons you love him and what he means to you. I have experienced such conversations and they are powerful and meaningful. I will get off the emotional soap box now, but it is something I have lived and feel strongly about.