Edward and Jaycel

Yes it's an error.... We would do one if it were us in that situation

When Jaycel came on her K-1 Visa at LAX, she only had to present her Passport and the Yellow Packet to CBP.

Did you pay the $235 USCIS Immigrant Fee? When your wife entered on her immigrant visa, the CBP Officer would have given her an I-551 stamp in her passport. That will serve as her temporary Green Card until she receives the one in the mail from USCIS. However, that card will not be produced by USCIS until you pay the $235 fee

That's boilerplate language - Congrats!!! 🎉

Oh no

Agree 1000%

The way it worked in the Philippines is they generate a receipt notice on the other site with a unique receipt number on it that is tied to your USTravelDocs account. Jaycel then printed it out and took it to the designated bank and paid it in cash. The bank validated her printout and credited the payment to the unique receipt number. After 24 hours, it was then shown as paid on the USTravelDocs site under her account. She then took the bank-validated receipt to the interview to prove she paid the visa fee.

If the USTravelDocs website takes you to another site to pay the fee then you can assume that site is the proper one to pay the fee

Despite what I posted above.... I agree with @SL2024 as I am on the overly-cautious side when it comes to this stuff. I have a very low risk tolerance.

This is from a Google search so take it for what it's worth: Your Employment Authorization Document (EAD) card is not automatically invalidated as a REAL ID when your green card is approved. Your EAD card remains valid until its expiration date, even after you become a green card holder. You can continue to use it for REAL ID purposes, such as for domestic air travel, until it expires. Once it expires, you'll need to rely on your green card (Permanent Resident Card) or other acceptable forms of ID for REAL ID purposes. Here's why: EAD and REAL ID: An EAD card can be used to obtain a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card, as it proves lawful presence in the U.S. REAL ID and Green Card: A green card (Permanent Resident Card) is also an acceptable form of ID for REAL ID purposes. Validity: The EAD card remains valid until its expiration date, regardless of the status change to permanent resident. Future Use: After your EAD expires, you can use your green card as your REAL ID.

Today's stats: June 30, 2025 23:15 MDT - So it's been a busy few days with us prepping for our interview so this will be 3 days stats combined November 2024 Filed I-485 Stats • Approved: 14,439 (+892) • Denied: 1,478 • FingerprintScheduled: 65 • InterviewCancelled: 602 • InterviewScheduled: 6,660 (-690) • Processing: 17,692 (-241) • Received: 488 • Rejected: 101 • RFE: 435 • Terminated: 212 • Withdrawal: 71 • Others: 25

Congrats!! 🎉🎉 So happy for you guys!!

We did the two day and yes we paid for signature service

Ok good to know! Thank you and we hope the approval comes quickly!

Manila is known for hardly ever asking for the I-134 & support docs. They never asked Jaycel for the I-134 I prepared for her to take with her to the interview

FedEx to the physical address is our preferred method. Have received text notifications of application acceptance with receipt numbers within a week of delivery both times we made submissions to USCIS via FedEx

Historically in Manila, if the CEAC status says "Approved", it then switches to "Issued" within 1-3 days and then you will get the email notification that it is ready for pickup within a day or two after that.

I had a similar issue to @Crazy Cat the last time but this time I am having no issues. I have been up on the site successfully, no VPN since their post yesterday

Yes ours is July 23rd! Great news and thank you for sharing!! When you handed the sealed I-693, did you explain it was because of the missing Polio vaccine?

Yeah not anymore... with the new administration, pretty much all waivers for marriage based GC applications are now forbidden

Business casual - Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Good luck!! 🍀

WOW.... that is crazy Not too bad for us. The interview will take place 8 months after filing

Yeah I had no idea and apparently this is kind of a new thing since the new administration's rule change getting rid of most interview waivers. One officer told an applicant that it is their way of trying to streamline the process to help manage the influx of interviews that now need to be done.

I will take the unusual (for me anyway ) position of disagreeing with you on this. As Jaycel's GC interview is coming up in about 3 weeks, we have been reading lots of reports of interview experiences around the web. May folks have been uploading updated evidence to the "Unsolicited Evidence" part of the documents tab in their portal before the interview and in a vast majority of those reports, the applicants report that the ISO thanked them for doing it because it saved them the time and effort of scanning in the documents there at the interview. There are even some field offices sending out an email to applicants a week or so before the interview asking them to upload evidence into the portal before their interview. See below 👇