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One week after our interview, I got the card in hand! This feels very surreal, but I am happy to get an immigration paperwork break for a year and some. XD Although still gotta keep keeping up with the evidence of bonafide marriage, which is nice because I like to scrapbook, lol. Thanks everyone, for all your guidance and well wishes. ^___^

I kept checking my email yesterday and this morning I logged in, nothing yet, but what you are saying makes sense.. those systems are kind of slow! XD

So we finally got to have our interview yesterday! This weekend was super busy with a birthday party, my oldest and husband going to Anime Boston and easter shenanigans, so we didn't really have any time to prepare, other than add another page of photos from the past month and our joint taxes to the portal. We also printed it. I did not get the best sleep, but the only time we were really nervous was on the drive there.. lol. We went into the building 30 minutes before our appointment, and the first thing that happened was that the officers at the door asked to see the interview notice because apparently our appointment had been moved around before we even got the date and time. So that was a little confusing, but more for him than us I suppose. Then we went and put our notice in a little bin and waited for a bit before a lady came and called us in. She was friendly, a little on the older side, and at one point she said "oh wow! you are so young looking yourself and have a child in highschool!" while I was talking about my kids, lol. XD The only thing that was a little stressful was that she wanted me to "explain" the different spellings of my name. I use an Å in my last name (and did not change it after getting married) and on my norwegian passport they spell it both with that and with AA because that is the international standard. I tried to explain that and she was asking for translated documents (my birth certificate is in english, because you can order it like that) and so it was a little jarring trying to explain that without feeling like I had done something wrong, but I think she was just trying to make sure that my name would be correct for my greencard, and making sure it was all in order. I have used AA pretty consistently, and I think the only record of someone just spelling it with a single A is from early on K1 days where my husband spelled it differently on one form, but all that was taken care of by the time I got my visa in Stockholm. After that it was just her asking us questions. I thought it was kind of interesting because she would ask my husband questions about his siblings, and did not ask me if I knew them or had met them. She did ask me what my mom thought of me marrying an american, lol, and I had a story about the first time we met and how my parents were out of town that week (such a coincidence! XD). She also asked me what our plans were and I was a bit like.. I mean, live our lives? But then she asked well do you want more children, are you traveling somewhere, etc, and I answered that no we are happy with our family of four and our cat and that we will be going to Norway this summer to spend time with family and friends. My husband is an anxious person so he got a bit lost in some of his stories, but it was all ok. Then she asked me all the questions from the form, and it was a bit confusing because she would not end all her questions in a question tone, and some of those sentences run on and on and on, so I would listen to it and then she would just stop but since it did not sound like a question I probably waited a second or two too long to answer no! She must be so tired of reading all of those out loud... haha. At the end she said that after we left she would approve our case, and that I would get a letter in the mail and then they will produce my greencard. Yay! She also said that it is conditional and we can apply again before the 2 years is up, and mentioned the naturalization process where the 10 year card probably wont arrive before I have had my greencard for 3 years so we can probably get an interview for both of them at the same time if we apply for that. I already knew that, but I thought it was nice she mentioned that. Then we went out to lunch and went by World Market and bought some scandinavian and british treats since we dont have that store nearby. I feel good! My case has not changed online, but I will be patient. My mom got a bit stressed out so we already ordered tickets for everyone this summer (mine are refundable..) but now I know I get to visit home for a few weeks. Exciting times ahead!

I have read that one, it’s so funny. 🙈🙈😂 Got an email this morning. They scheduled a new appointment for april 6th. Almost a month and a half later. Damn blizzard. 😕 I was really hoping to sort out summer tickets soon.

I didn't check my email earlier, but they sent a notice at 3.30 that they were closing the offices that day, and then half an hour later that they cancelled the interview. Oh. Well. I mean... this is much better than getting in a car crash due to a blizzard. Lol. Because while I am no stranger to driving (or riding a car.. I do not drive lol) in snow, I am from so far up north that after october you get a ticket if you do not have winter tires on your car and that is definitely not the same here. XD No one has that, they just stay home until the roads are clear. XD

Judging by the amount of snow days my kids have had, they like to close things. 🙈 And I am not the problem, I have never had a snow day in my life, and the one I remember for my kids was because of hurricane winds + snow (they walked to school, lol). But we’ll see. We’ll just get ready tomorrow and hope for the best.

Thanks guys! Now I’m worried about the weather; there seems to be snow coming down all day monday and I have no idea if they will cancel or what happens if they do (do they call you?), and how long we have to wait before they reschedule. >_<

We have our AOS interview scheduled on monday. We printed all the papers, made copies of every important (and not-so important) document and organized them into folders so that we can pull whatever we are asked for. 3 more nights though, how should we prepare, what sort of questions should we ask each other, and does anyone have any advice for us? 😃

Hi! We ended up filling in the financial documents and resending everything, including every page from the tax documents. It seemed to have done the trick, because we now have an interview scheduled later this month. We used the online portal. Scanned the things we had to sign and put it all together again as a pdf. Best of luck to you, I am sure it will all be fine!

We spent 150 dollars with UPS to make sure our AOS application got registered in time before my i94 expired, so personally I would do whatever I needed to get it in on time. We sent it on the 19th or 18th but it was the weekend so they sent it off on the 20th and our uscis records states the 22nd. My i94 expired on the 26th. Considering how things are right now, just get it sent in. There are people going to their greencard interview and being taken by ICE because they were out of status for a month. The specific case I am talking about was a Norwegian lady and on a student visa, overstayed for not a very long time and then married a citizen and went on to do AOS. She was at a routine interview when ICE picked her up. The biggest take from all this is that a lot of people used to do this and they were just fine, some people still do this and are just fine, but if you happen to be one of those people it does not work out for you can ask yourself why it was worth waiting and it will not be a very pleasant experience and potentially ruin your plans to live here.

We got our NOA1 within a week I think. Submitted on the 20th (or well reached them on that date) and the NOA1 is dated the 24th. 😃

I also took my 2 kids with me to the states on a K1. They are american citizens so we did not have any kind of wait, but I would not have left them home for months to a year before moving. However, try to time their move to summer break, we got here a month before school started. Also, depending on the childs age, you can homeschool for a while. That is what I am doing with my youngest. Your fiance wont be able to work at first anyway, and you can sign up for public school later.

We looked into it and we are a little stumped. Obviously there could have been a little mistake in the form somewhere, but I went through and filled in N/A everywhere empty (the form on the computer is notorious for not letting you fill everything out so you gotta do it later). I think I checked the signatures, and that form was only 12 pages so we both made sure no pages were missing. Still, we could have made a mistake somewhere. My husband is pretty meticulous but mistakes happen. He mentioned that maybe we overdid it with the financial evidence? Like I mentioned before we submitted tax transcrips (22-24), W2s (22-24), and 1040s (22-24) in addition to pay stubs for the past six months and a letter from his company mentioning that he works there and how much he makes. We followed a YT video that recommended all that. His theory is either that this was overkill, and that he should have just submitted his latest tax transcript, or that the letter from his employer was too old. We got it written back in May because we filled in the support documents before my interview. They never took a look at them, but we figured that it is still from this year and the pay stubs shows a stream of income since. Any advice or idea what happened here? We will just resubmit asap, but we want to do it right. The other day I got my biometrics appointment set up for the 14th this month, will the RFE interfere with that? X_X We plan to submit soon, and I can do it online but still..

Got an actual spooky letter from USCIS the day after Halloween! 🙈 Kid came running down with an envelope with a yellow paper inside. She went "Maybe it is good news about your greencard!" and I was like.. yeeeeah, probably not, go back outside to play please. XD I am scanning the pages because they said to add them when we respond. It says this: I do not understand what happened. My husband makes several times the required amount, so we must have messed up somewhere. I am grateful and happy that they sent an RFE and not just a denial though. My husband took care of this part of the application while I filed the other one, and he did not make a copy apart from the part he could complete online. Is he missing tax documents or something? He submitted pay stubs for the past 6 months, tax transcripts, W2s and 1040s. All for the past 3 years. The other two pages go on about some additional tax documents, but reading it that looks like requirements of a co-sponsor, and we do not need that. Would they have told us that we were missing a specific section if he just forgot to fill it out? It also mentioned that he needs proof of citizenship at the end of the letter, but we added all that, we had a copy of his birth certificate and a scan of his passport. But that was added to the general application, maybe we needed it again for the support documents? Either way we will add it to the packet we submit now. I am wondering if there is anyone I can call to ask these things, and we did get a specific person but no phone number, so probably not. I would just resubmit all these papers but I do not want to make the same mistake again. AOS must work very differently than the i129-f because this happened QUICKLY. X_X Should I make another thread to get advice about this?

I got two letters in the mail from USCIS today and it was kinda spooky. 🙈 But it was just my biometrics appointment (November 14th, SO SOON!) and info to create an account online. I know this part is usually very quick and the next part can be very slow, but I am optimistic.