Edward and Jaycel

Do not worry about this too much unless you were/are in removal proceedings or if you have a criminal offense that makes you inadmissible.

Great news!!!! We got approved today too!

Update: It's official!

Interview Account Sorry for the delay on this but Jaycel and I went out to celebrate getting past this part of the process last night Our interview was scheduled for 11:05am yesterday (July 23rd). There is covered, on-site parking for anyone going to this office. (Very fancy LOL) We walked into the building at 10:25am and went through security which is pretty much the same as TSA security with belt and shoes and all belongings going in the bin to be scanned and you walk through a metal detector. All in all we were through security in about 3 minutes. No line to get in the building at all. After security, you go to the reception window to the left while still on the first floor to check in. The receptionist will scan the barcodes on your interview notice to check you in and then direct you to go back behind the security station to the elevator and go to the 2nd floor waiting room. There are 3 doors (A, B & C) that we saw officers coming out into the waiting room on the 2nd floor to escort applicants out and call people in for their interview. We got to the waiting room right about 10:35. There were about 30 people waiting in there to include what we assume were applicants, petitioners and some who were obviously attorneys. Our officer called us at about 11:20am and she came out of the elevator to get us and took us up to the 3rd floor. She greeted us with a warm genuine smile and said, "Good morning Jaycel & Ed I'm happy to meet you!" She immediately put us at ease and joked with us that we're special because we were going to the "Management Floor" where her office is. She was kind, professional and you could tell that she was very experienced. I would even go so far as to venture a guess that she even may have been a supervisor? I don't know if they do interviews themselves ever? Maybe since everyone is getting interviews now (which she confirmed with us is absolutely the new policy) the supervisors are chipping in? If she wasn't a supervisor, I would definitely say she was one of the more senior officers at this FO. We got to her office and she asked us to remain standing so that she could swear us in. After that she asked me for my Driver License and asked Jaycel for her passport that she entered the US on, any other passports that she had (which she doesn't), her EAD card, her SS Card and her Driver License. Once we handed her our IDs, I noticed her take our licenses and put them side by side and compare the addresses to verify they were the same. She then did Jaycel’s biometrics (fingerprints of each index finger and photo). She mentioned that sometimes she would be typing while we were answering questions and not to feel like there was anything wrong, she was just recording our answers for the record. She also mentioned how slow their system is so that could cause some delays. She saw that I had taken out the sealed envelope from the civil surgeon and asked what it was I had to give her. I told her that we had the vaccine assessment part of the I-693 done by a civil surgeon because Jaycel was missing the polio vaccine from her overseas medical she had done for the K-1 visa. She said, “Thank you for getting that done!” She then said, “Ok, I love a good love story so tell me yours!” We asked her who she wanted to answer so Jaycel, who loves to tell our story, started. She listened very intently, asked some questions along the way to both of us and was typing at the same time. She then asked the following questions: Has either of you been married before? Do either of you have any children anywhere in the world? To me (the USC) are your parents still alive? Do you have siblings? To Jaycel - Have you met any of his siblings? Confirmed our wedding date and asked where we had our ceremony and who attended Did you have a celebration afterwards? Where was it? (Turns out she knows the exact place we had our celebratory dinner, as she had eaten there a few times) To Jaycel - Where do you live? Who lives there with you? Asked questions about our dog, in friendly way as you could tell she is a dog person Then she asked about 20 of the Yes/No questions from the I-485 She then said she was thankful for all of the uploaded evidence as it made her job easier. She asked if we had anything else to give her that we hadn’t already uploaded. She had the sealed medical and we gave her some proof that we were each other’s emergency contacts at our jobs, me as beneficiary on Jaycel’s insurance at her new job, a printout of our Amazon Family page with us both listed and some mail Jaycel had received in her name at our house. She then printed off the paper shown below - She said basically that’s just our proof that we attended the interview and that her plan was that afternoon to upload what we brought her and would approve our case. Hope this helps anyone awaiting an interview and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

We got verbal approval today at the interview!! 🎉🎉 I know it’s not official but it feels good. The officer was kind, professional and very pleasant. She just asked how we met, when we got married, who attended, what we do for fun, what our favorite restaurant is. Then the standard yes/no questions from the I-485. She gave us that same paper as @JL07 and said it was our proof we attended the interview. She then said that this afternoon, she was going to scan in the docs we gave her and then approve us

Yes... The only thing making this AOS process bearable is that we are facing it together with her here

So happy to see you guys together!!

Thank God!

Praying that they get their applications approved quickly by the court!

The CFO obviously let her do a walk in... Did they give her any trouble about it?

WOWOWOW!! That's great news!!

Congrats!! Our interview is Wednesday... I'll try to get a review up of how it went so you guys can read it before you go on Thursday. And tell them about the ultrasound appointment at the interview... it's almost as good as having the images

Yayy!! Congrats!🎉!

Yes this will be a problem - USCIS requires copies of the most recent tax year's returns or Tax Return Transcript. This is mandatory. Prior year's returns/transcripts are optional. Item Numbers 15. - 19. Federal Income Tax Return Information. You must provide either an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) transcript or a photocopy from your own records of your Federal individual income tax return for the most recent tax year, counting from the date of signing Form I-864. If you believe additional returns may help you to establish your ability to maintain sufficient income, you may submit transcripts or photocopies of your Federal individual income tax returns for the three most recent years.

Same here! Been checking since 4pm my time yesterday

USCIS decided to change the language for that status but it's still the same status

Did you give that to the officer right at the beginning of the interview?

That will be cutting it really close... anything goes awry and that's a missed connection easily

Yes I waited here in Denver… I wanted to make the whole trip with her but due to several factors, that became impossible for us. She flew into LAX from Manila and because her flight was a little delayed, they landed at the same time as 3 other international flights so she had to wait almost an hour to get to the immigration officer. But once she got there, he was kind & professional and processed her entry right there at primary inspection. No secondary. He asked my name and the address where she will be living here, stamped her passport and pointed out the date he wrote in and said, “If you don’t marry your petitioner by that date, you have to leave the US.” Then he said welcome to the US and sent her on her way. Fortunately from reading advice on here, we made sure she had a 4 hour layover between her arrival and her connecting flight here to Denver and she had plenty of time to navigate the airport to get to her gate for the next flight

When we registered our marriage with the county clerk, we asked for 10 certified true copies because we knew with the Adjustment of Status and things like this we would need them. For the ROM we just sent them a Certified True Copy plus photocopies. The Birth Certificates we just sent photocopies

This is why Jaycel and I are bringing the copy that we made of our entire AOS submission just before we put it in the FedEx Pak

The average processing time for an I-130 filed by a US Citizen for an immediate relative these days is 15-17 months. Mind you this is the average time. Each case is unique and some take longer than others. You are not that far outside the 80% of cases completed for the Service Center OPS timeline which right now is sitting right at 17 months. Depending on what your receipt date is in December 2023, you are not considered outside of normal processing time until after October 2025, at which time you can submit a service request. The congressional offices can't really do much for you if you are not outside the normal processing time. Hiring a lawyer won't do much for you at this point either. It's too soon for a mandamus lawsuit. Go here and select the I-130, your category and where it's being processed and then scroll down and put your exact receipt date into the tool to find out when you can put in a service request https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

Is the CFO office she's going to the one in Quezon City (Manila) Make sure she's the first one in line there in the morning

Praying for a good outcome for you man 🙏

Finally, 8 months after receiving the completed ROM back from the consulate in San Francisco, the DFA just gave us the transmittal details. 🤪