KoreaninHawaii

I only send the w-2 of the last 3 years so thats probably why they want a transcript.

My RFE for now they only want: The petitioning sponsor, ME, on form I-864 Affidavit of Support, must submit a complete Federal income tax return submitted to IRS for the most recent tax year. If he submits a transcript it must be a "Tax Return Transcript" from the IRS."

I use turbotax so in a sense e-filing. I think it would be better if my return was approved not accepted. Hate to send to USCIS then to find out something is wrong.

When they accepted my filings for my wife I have the tracking that says it was delivered on 1/11 but my notices from USCIS says they received it on 1/10 lol

When looking at the document online on MyUSCIS since I haven't received it in the mail yet they need to receive my response by May 22 so I have a some time to do everything. The SS card should be here by the end of this week or sometime next week. Should I wait though even if I file this years taxes I should wait till they at least accept them right? Be kinda weird if I sent them to USCIS and come to find out IRS says I filed wrong or something else went wrong.

Well I changed my filing status to married filing jointly and it was changed just before the end of last year so I went to go do my taxes and well it's asking me for my wife SS number too and we haven't received it yet lol. But it should be showing up soon.

Today I got my wife tracking number from USPS Informed delivery for her EAD card. 😊 But I also got a notice from USCIS for a RFE on her I-485. They are asking for a complete federal income tax return for the most recent year. I haven't finished this year tax return yet so would last years be ok or should I wait to finish this year one?

Good to know lol. How long did it take for you to go from approval to card produced? Just trying to estimate how long till it shows up.

Hello everyone. Hope everyone having a good weekend. 😊 Another quick update: My wife I-765 case has now gone to card produced on February 22 2025. 🥰. Unfortunately MyUSCIS currently shows the tracking for it as unavailable so maybe the card will be coming soon and the SS card soon after?

Wishing everything goes well and quickly for you guys. 😊

My wife didn’t even get a notification that they received her cases till like 3 weeks later (3 business weeks since they no count weekends and federal holidays) and the letters with her case numbers showed up a little bit later. Every lockbox is different so just gotta hold out.

@agsw I had 2 IOE cases. One for her I-485 and one for her I-765. It also shows up as a concurrent filing for them on MyUSCIS. My wife also received around the same number of emails. My wife I-765 approval was so quick due to us living in Hawaii and I would assume they just do mostly Hawaii so they have a lower case load compared to some of the other service centers.

I did put the required colored paper on top of my refiling as requested but unfortunately I can't say if you can put the same paperwork with the scan bars on the bottom because when USCIS sent back my paperwork the big enveloped was heavily damaged and most of my paperwork had a good amount of water damage to it so I had to reprint and refill out everything. Luckily they put the returned checks and the required photos back inside the small zip-lock back that I sent them in. They only papers that I did sent back was the color paper as required and the NOA's that were sent with it damaged as they were. Personally for me. I just redid everything I even used the new forms just to be sure. But also I believe they did ask me to use the news ones too in my refiling so I had to reprint everything anyhow. But after that everything went smooth from there. 😊 Just to let everyone know though I'm sure I stated it mine was sent back though due to actually not sending the first page of the I-485 not because I filed out the forms wrong. I was slightly rushing and did overthink filling out all the forms hence why I probably forgot to put the first page in my first filing lol.

Awesome to hear. 😊 For your friend that must of been around 6 months for her which is not bad. Do you happen to know if she had to do an interview prior to her I-485 approval?

Thank you! Glad it went quickly and wife is happy too. 😊 Now we await the I-485 hopefully doesn’t take too long. 😇 Also anyone who’s done the I-765 how long did it take you from approval to receive your EAD and SS card?

Update today. After doing her biometrics yesterday her case for I-765 was approved today. 😊 awaiting notice and her cards now.

I see. Might be it. Least it’s not something more serious and a relatively easy fix to do. Don’t stress too much. The first time I filed and it got sent back I forgot to give the first page of the I-485 filing lol.

@ScarletWitch6x Did you send them a copy of your visa in your passport? I also sent the NOA2 but also a copy of my wife visa that was given to her in her passport.

Biometrics appointment attended today. Quick and no problems. They let us do it early since nobody else was there. Now to wait on updates to the cases. 🥰

@Edward and Jaycel For the return shipping I not sure I understand. Should I buy another envelope and buy stamps and put my address on it and put it inside the envelope that I will be sending to them? Currently what my nearby consulate requirements for ROM:

Was the same for me. Was like 3 weeks of waiting for me but don't forget too that they don't count weekends and any holidays as working days so in reality for me it was exactly 14 days for a response from them so like "2 weeks" for them. 🤣

Congrats! 😊 Glad to hear everything going good so far with your cases.

Should be fine though I've seen online some people who used CC's to pay their fees sometimes their CC company fraud protections flagged the payment as suspicious I guess due to it being such a large amount. Though I believe USCIS will try 2 times before rejecting the cases. Perhaps you can call your CC company to let them know you have a large amount going tto be charged by USCIS?

I did checks also but my wife (beneficiary) name was no where on the checks. I also signed the checks too. She doesn't have a bank account currently either. Though IDK if it had anything to do with it but the sections where it stated who filled out the forms I did say I did them for her and I did make sure the address on the checks were the same as my mailing address.

@Edward and Jaycel Yes. Had the coversheet with the returned paperwork and was asked to put on top of the resubmission which I did. Did not have any problems with my paperwork after that.