Jack & Xuan

Huh.... Then I am stumped.. Can't think of why they would reject.. Stupid question...Was the check signed ?

Not a stupid question at all.... I never even checked that. Just checked it and I did sign the check. I have no idea what they are talking about, if it is not because we did not spell out our middle names then I am stumped.

time will tell

The more I think about it, the more I suspect "properly signed" means the location on the form where each of you signed. Can you tell us who signed where on the rejected package?

Oh and good luck !!!

It was signed exactly where it was susposed to be signed. My wife signed on the line and I signed under as the spouce. There is only one place for signatures that I could find so I am not sure what their problem was then.

So here is a kick in the teeth. We sent our package off on 4/13 and waited,,,,,,nothing,,,,,got a letter saying the package was rejected because my wife and I signed our form with our legal signature. Looks like they want us to spell out our full middle names. So the letter said that all the attached documents were rejected. We got only the letter which said to return with the package "properly signed" and the rejection letter. I recoppied the package, wrote another check, "properly signed" the documents and attached the rejection letter. All that and sent it off again the same day.

Well, the next day I got the "attached" documents/check I originally sent. That package said to send it back as well. So now here we are waiting for them to decide if they are going to accept the new package or send it back as well. They recieved the package on 4/30 and the check has still not been cashed. I assume that the second package will be returned as well so that I can send all of it together at the same time.

This has been a real pain in the #$%..

There has been nothing about this process that has been smooth where our government is involved. From the K1 up to now. It is a good thing we will not have to go through this again for another 10 years.... I hope.

Jack&Xuan

My packet was delivered today at 10:47am.

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California Service Center (10 applicants)

VJName.............I-751 Sent.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved......GC Received..

KITTENS_0117........03/31/12.......04/02/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MERRYTOOTH..........04/02/12.......04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

TOLA................04/02/12.......04/03/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

VANESSA&TONY........04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

ARREN...............04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

VIVI6...............04/05/12.......04/06/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

TOKYO LOVERS........04/05/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

KEN Y LEIDYS........04/07/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MATTHEW G...........04/09/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

DR_NO3MAN...........04/11/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

Vermont Service Center (6 applicants)

VJName.............I-751 Sent.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved......GC Received..

TYGRYS..............03/29/12.......04/02/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

JIMNLENA............04/03/12.......04/06/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

KIMBERLYANDMARK.....04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MARINA-DEL..........04/05/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

DND2009.............04/10/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

LILIB...............04/12/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

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What centre did you mail to? Chicago or Vermont?

Let us know when you file and whether to Chicago or Vermont. I too know how things can change!

Why are you asking about Chicago. The instructions I read was California or Vermont. Did I miss something?

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Adding us to the list, or trying to anyway

California Service Center (11 applicants)

VJName.............I-751 Sent.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved......GC Received..

KITTENS_0117........03/31/12.......04/02/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MERRYTOOTH..........04/02/12.......04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

TOLA................04/02/12.......04/03/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

VANESSA&TONY........04/04/12.......04/06/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

ARREN...............04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

VIVI6...............04/05/12.......04/06/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

TOKYO LOVERS........04/05/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

KEN Y LEIDYS........04/07/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MATTHEW G...........04/09/12.......04/10/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

DR_NO3MAN...........04/11/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

JACK&XUAN...........04/13/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

Vermont Service Center (6 applicants)

VJName.............I-751 Sent.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved......GC Received..

TYGRYS..............03/29/12.......04/02/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

JIMNLENA............04/03/12.......04/06/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

KIMBERLYANDMARK.....04/04/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

MARINA-DEL..........04/05/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

DND2009.............04/10/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

LILIB...............04/12/12.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--.......--/--/--....

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Finally got the tax transcripts after talking to someone and getting them faxed to me. I ordered them 6 times using both the online and phone methods. I started in early March and have yet to get any in the mail.

So with all that and Xuan’s expiration next month I am sending my packet off tomorrow April 13th…. Friday the 13th. Ooooo how ominous

We will see how it goes.

Jack & Xuan

I did not have any trouble. They arrived 7 days after I ordered them on-line.

I know that other members have called and have them faxed. I have not tried it myself, but it is an option to get them right away.

This is the number 1-800-908-9946

I used that number the other day and ordered another set online as well.

I did not have the option to speak to someone or I would have done that too. It is getting down to the wire now. The green card expires on May 7.

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We sent our packet today by USPS Priority Mail. It is supposed to be delivered on Thursday!

We also ordered our tax transcripts on the IRS web site. We could only order our transcripts for 2010, so we sent just the tax returns for 2011.

I have ordered these tax transcripts 2 times now. I am still waiting for the second order. The first never came. Have you had any trouble with that?

Hello all,

Guess we will be starting another journey down the USCIS path again this month. My wife’s GC expires in May so it is that time. I am starting to gather the list of required a recommended items now. Will have the priest and other member of our church do the affidavit’s for us. Hopefully it will be as straightforward as it sounds reading other months postings.

Thank you all for all the information posted so far and if I come across anything that may be helpful I will be sure to include it here as well.

Good luck to us all,

Jack & Xuan

That's what I thought too at first that you have to file before the 90 days until I read (and re-read) the instructions and had my husband read it too. You can file anytime WITHIN the 90 days prior to the expiration of the GC and like Cacerez, I received a letter of reminder from USCIS regarding dates that I could the file the ROC.

I am not sure about the mortgage not having both of your names or even a lease but I guess an explanation letter could be included in your application regarding the situation. And as this type of document is to show that you are living together, you can add Driver's License or State IDs that show that you and your wife are in the same address or any other official documents that can show you live in the same address.

Good Luck on your journey!

So to be very, very clear, I must wait until she as 90 days left to file but before it expires? Correct. Sorry to "beat a dead horse" so to speak.

Hi Jack & Xuan... the list of proof needed for the ROC application is in the instruction provided by the USCIS website. See this link from the website for the full instruction.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-751instr.pdf

As for the sample affidavits, check the sample forms here on VJ.

Good Luck on your journey.

Thank you for the link. I thought I was told that we had to wait to apply for the ROC when we had 9 months left before the expiration but no later then 90 day before the expiration. Everything I read on the link said to wait until there was 90 days left before the expiration. Am I reading this worng? I also noticed that it said you MUST file 90 days before the expiration. Also has anyone here not been able to provide a mortgage with both names on it. I would have had to refinance my house to make that happen and that is just not possiable. Getting all the other documents will not be an issue though.

Again, Thanks for the help

Jack & Xuan

Thank you for listing this information. We have been away from Visa Journey for some time and now it is time for us to also file for the removal of conditions. I looked that the USCIS site and it did not say anything about sending proof but I was thinking that would be very strange as they want proof if you "pass gas". As with your question I am looking for some kind of confrmation on this list and maybe a "sample" of the affidavits. Not sure I can come up with the lease with both our names on it, I rent my house from the bank (mortage). We do have some photos of us together with friends and such but I am sure we can get some new ones before we send it off.

Any other advice on this part of the process would be helpful.

Thanks for you help.

Jack & Xuan

Hi Guys,

Just want to get y'all input if we did provide enough evidence.. these are the ones we turned in

• Copies of the passport and green card of immigrant wife
  
• TWO sworn affidavits by U.S. citizen friends, attesting to our relationship and marriage.
• Copy of the JOINT Income tax returns for 2010 both Federal and State.
• JOINT 2 yr lease agreement with the landlord.
• Copy of JOINT Credit Card account stating IMMIGRANT WIFE as an authorized user of the Card from CHASE BANK
• COPY of CARD for Health, Dental, Pharmacy Insurance from Gilsbar Health and Vision Insurance (Note the card showing EMP + 1) under the same policy.
• Pictures together, with friends, and family.
• Copy of Card address to me and my wife.

Thank you!

Thanks a bunch.

Jack

I am tring to file my taxxes for 2009 and Indiana wants to know when my wife came to Indiana. It is a question looking for an abbrevation Vietnam like we would use for a state. The question askes "...from what state (or country)..." It says to use the approved US postal codes and I have tried "VN" but turbo tax does not like that. I have looked on the USPS web site and have not found any help there. Has anyone had this issue? And or can someone tell me the correct abbrevation for VN?

Thanks

I am tring to file my taxxes for 2009 and Indiana wants to know when my wife came to Indiana. It is a question looking for an abbrevation Vietnam like we would use for a state. The question askes "...from what state (or country)..." It says to use the approved US postal codes and I have tried "VN" but turbo tax does not like that. I have looked on the USPS web site and have not found any help there. Has anyone had this issue? And or can someone tell me the correct abbrevation for VN?

Thanks

Hi Members of visa journey ,

First of all i would like to say thank you so much for your valuable and kind advices.Yesterday i me and my us citizenship husband went for interview.we reach at uscis building around 21.45 pm and my appointemt was on 1.40pm and we wrer waiting there for like 45 mins than they call my name .we went inside and took oath and than officer asked me first

1) where you came from?

2)our current address

3)zip code

3)phone no

4)all the question in parmanent resident form

5)hobbies of my husband

6)did i meet his family

7)discription ao all photos we shown

8)what movie we saw recently

some question to my husband

1)hobbies of wife

2)when ,where,he met his wife

3)date of birth both of us

4)did he met my family

these are the few question he asked us and actually that officer who took our interview was such a nice and polite person.after that he said i am apporved. thank god its all done now.

though he is unemployed and we dont have bank statement but our interview went smoothly.the main think is you should be honest.

once again thank you so much members for such a wonderful advice . god bless america.

You say your husband is unemployed? Did you put that on the affidavit of support? I am starting a new job on Monday July 13 and my wife's I-94 expires on Aug 18. I am concerned about putting I am unemployed on the affidavit of support, though I have already made more then the required ammount for this year. If I wait for my new job to send me a check stubb, it will put it very close to the expiration date and it worries me. Your experiance will be helpful to me.

Thank you

So what happens if you are married within the 90 days but can not file the AOS before the I-94 runs out due to money or lack of a job for the Support document?

Thanks all for responding to my post.

Just a quick summary of what being asked to submit:

1. detailed timeline

2. list of her relative with proof of residency in US

3. her ex's name, address and proof of residency

Knowing her since 03/2006, visited her 3 times, engaged last year in September.

Proofs include chat log, phone record for 3 yrs, pictures of 1st , 2nd , and 3rd trips.

This case is one of complicated ones due to her previous mariages. She was previous K1, came to US in 2004, got married then divorced in 3 months before changing status. She re-married with another guy then come back to VN. Thing also did not go well, so they divorced in 2007. All divorces were handled by US courts.

We have all proofs for the ongoing relationship, but we are afraid that HCMC still puts our case under AR after we submitted all requested docs, and finally return our case back to US.

At this point, we are working to have all docs done and cross our fingers

Several questions I have in mind:

1. does it help to hire a lawyer for this case?

2. what will happen after docs are submitted? I have heard that HCMC even does ground work, phone calls, etc... for the investigation.

3. Do they have any ground to deny visa even we can prove that our relationship are bona fide?

Your helps/suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks you all

-SJV

Your case is kind of close to ours and we really had trouble. Xuan did not come to America on her first petition and still had a TON of trouble with HCMC consulate. I will try to paste a link here so you can see what we went through AFTER we got the pink sheet due to her previous K-1 petition.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=195736

you will have to copy and past into the address bar but it should work.

Good luck and send me a note with any questions.

Jack & Xuan

i believe mr. Nam is marc ellis's vietnam counter part. they work together. Mr. Nam takes care of the dich vu stuff like medical, paperwork and interview questions.

Hey there, how is your case going.

Peter,

I am kind of in the same boat as J&Q. Xuan are married now and looking to file the AOS. Other then the documents listed on the guide is there anything else that would be helpful to send along. Like in the I-129 they wanted proof but as I found out later, it would have been helpful to send more then what they requested.

Also on Xuan's actual Visa there is a line that says the "Experiation date of the petition is 16 July 2009" but the I-94 expires 18 Aug 2009. Do we need to file the AOS before the petition expires? I am a bit confused on that part.

Any advice is as always helpful.

Thanks,

Jack & Xuan

Congrats on your marriage!!

Your next step is to file for AOS. Don't' worry about notifying the USCIS about your marriage or new apartment. Filing your AOS will do that. Also don't worry about when you file your AOS. Thi and I didn't file right away because we had to save for the AOS fee. That didn't cause us any problems. (It's true that it could cause problems because technically she was out of of status, however, the USCIS usually doesn't do anything about that.) Now we're waiting for her green card to show up. We've been norified that it's in production so it's coming soon.

Good luck!!

Peter and Thi

I-129F Sent : 2007-05-26

I-129F NOA1 : 2007-06-11

I-129F RFE(s) :

RFE Reply(s) :

I-129F NOA2 : 2007-10-26

Touched: 2007-11-02

NVC Recieved: 2007-11-16

Consulate recieved ??????

Packet 3 sent 2007-12-11

Packet 3 received 2007-12-24

Packet 3 returned 2007-12-28

Packet 4 sent 2008-1-14

Email Reply with Interview Date 2008-1-23

Interview Date 2008-2-27

Passed Interview 2008-02-27

Visa Pick Up Date 2008-3-05

Received Visa 2008-2-29 (called to pick up earlier)

POE 2008-3-05 Los Angeles

Wedding 2008-4-26

Filed AOS 2009-1-2

NOA 1 2009-1-8

Peter Nguyen Brunner born 2009-1-12

Advance Parole recieved 2009-3-27

EAD recieved 2009-3-11

AOS Interview 2009-5-20----Approved!!!!

Production of Green Card email 2009-6-18

Congratulations, at least now you can do all the future waiting together!! Could you please explain how you handled the airfares? We have interview on June 22nd and I am trying to decide how to handle that. Like most people, I am worried about getting one way ticket on same flight as mine. I am thinking that allowing 10 days after interview to departure is usually enough. Am I wearing rose colored glasses?

I did not use my retrun ticket. I just ate the cost and got 2 one way tickets, one for each of us. It almost cost the same as trying to get a one way ticket on my original return flight and it was a much better flight. If you can my advice is to fly to Nariata/Tokyo. I have to fly to Indiana so on my other 2 trips I would fly to Chiago and then to Hong Kong or South Korea. Each of thoses flights were about 14 hours give or take. I found this time that if we fly to Tokyo then to Dallas the flight is only 11 hours give or take. It does make the shorter flights a bit longer but it is well worth it to reduce the time of the long flight. If you do this a bit of a warning, Tokyo airport is not very newbee friendly. Also be careful what flight you take because a common layover in Tokyo was 10 hours. We got a 4 hour layover and that was just fine.

Good luck and if you would like to talk more just send me a note. jsorrellii@hotmail.com

Congrats Jack.... I don't know if you saw my PM but I was asking how it went.. so I take it, that it's all good now... Congrats again!

No I did not get the PM. But now you know how it ended up. What is the status of your case and your medical? Did you get it straightened out?

Well we finaly got the call from the embassy on Thursday May 14. With our luck so far the call came as we were about 30 min into the trip to Vung Tau. They said to come pick up the visa on that day. Of course we could not so we asked if we could get it on Friday and they said no, that we would have to wait until Monday. Monday came and we FINALY got the visa. We went back Xuan's home and I booked a flight out of Vietnam for Tuesday. We are home now and still recovering from the flight. To top it all off, we only have 2 months to be married and the AOS before our application expires becasue the embassy took its sweet time.

BUT at least Xuan is in the US now.

One thing's for sure--I'm sure Jack doesn't really care that we hijacked his thread. In fact, I think it's the furthest thing from his mind. Congratulations once again Jack and Xuan!

I do not care at all. Every time I read this thread I learn more. From my point of view, any thing and everything is fine with me.

Jack,

We got our pink slip May 9 and were told to come back on May 16 to pick up the Visa. When we got there on May 16 on our way to Da Lat,they said they could not issue the visa until we were cleard by DOS because of our earlier denial on our first petition. We had to wait for the consulate to call us. We finally got the visa on May 28, the day before I was scheduled to leave Vietnam. I know what you are going through. You already waited a long time and now you have to wait some more and when it is time to go pick up the visa , you will wait outside wondering what other thing can go wrong. Go to the bar across the street from the consulate and order a stiff shot. It helps. Good Luck!

Thank you very much for the responce. It helps very much. We are in the same situation with the DOS.

Ok so we got the pink sheet and was told to return on May 5 to get the Visa. Of course there was the May Day holiday in the middle of our 8 day waiting period. Xuan and I go to the embassy 30 min early and Xuan goes in to wait. She waits for about 2 hours and then asked why her name was not called. The woman told her that her visa was not printed yet and they will call her when it is ready to be picked up. She comes out and tells me this so I go in and ask my own questions. After talking to 4 people, 3 of which were CO's, I was told that the CO that approved her visa was on leave (vacation) and that his email to another CO about our case was not understood. On top of that there understaffed due to a flu bug. So now we must wait for their call. I am thinking that is with the CO for our case will be back and will tell them that it is ok to print the visa. I took the pink sheet and left the embassy as calm as I could muster.

Has anyone had a date to pick up the visa but then told to come back or that the embassy will call them? The CO did say that Xuan will get the visa, we just have to continue to wait for the inept embassy to do it on their own sweet time.