Edward and Jaycel

Expect extended administrative processing due to the home country of Pakistan and the fact that the embassy in Oman does not deal with background checks very often of Pakistani citizens - Most likely the reason they issued the DS-5535

I would think so... in my case, I received an RFE on my I-129F because I misunderstood the instructions and all I did was list the conviction but provided no documents. In response to the RFE I sent the court certified disposition and a letter from the state police that since the incident happened over 30 years prior, that my arrest records were purged and no longer existed. That satisfied USCIS and they then approved my petition.

You need the court certified disposition of the case.... The charged offense, the result (Pled Guilty, Found Guilty, Found Not-Guilty, Pled No-Contest, etc.) and sentence, if any. I got mine from the county clerk where the court is.

Go on uscis.gov, go to the "Ask Emma" chat, ask to be connected to a live agent and ask for the online access code. Your wife will have to make the request because it is her application. I actually did all the typing for my wife on the request with her sitting right next to me so it was all legit. Have the receipt number for the I-485 and all your wife's info handy. That's how we got Jaycel's online access code

Unless alcohol or controlled substance is documented in the arrest or charging documents as a factor in the incedent then no, something like this would not count

Can't you see the appointment notice in the documents tab in the portal?

I am a USC and they even made me go into the office when I ordered a replacement card.... this was just a couple of months ago

I am a Notary Public in Colorado and I am allowed to certify a true copy of a passport bio page. In New York, you should be able to make a copy of your passport bio page, write a statement that it's a true copy. Go to a notary with the original and the copy and sign it in front of the notary. Have your signature on the statement notarized. Hopefully that will be good enough for the consulate.

You will need the "Return Transcript"

This is from the USCIS Policy Manual: USCIS has 120 days from the date of the initial naturalization interview to issue a decision. If the decision is not issued within 120 days of the interview, an applicant may request judicial review of his or her application in district court. The officer must base his or her decision on the laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and governing policies.

With this timeframe, at this point all you can do is wait to hear from them. USCIS has 120 days after the N-400 interview to make a decision.

This just posted on the site. I think this is the third "Outage" in a week LOL: Upcoming outage impacting case status on February 5-6, 2025 You may have limited ability to view case status and case history due to a planned outage on February 5 from 11:45 pm to February 6 at 3:00 am Eastern time while we make necessary updates. We appreciate your patience during this time.

Anyone else notice the "My Progress" tab missing from their case info in the my.uscis.com portal for the last few days? Are they finally getting rid of the most broken feature of any website ever made?

Anyone else notice the "My Progress" tab missing from their case info in the my.uscis.com portal for the last few days? Are they finally getting rid of the most broken feature of any website ever made?

Well... on the upside, at least they returned it to you fairly quickly. Keep us updated 🥹

If you did not file before your 90 days then technically, yes you did violate the terms of your non-immigrant visa. But it does not matter because as an immediate relative of a USC, those violations are forgiven and will not jeopardize your AOS process. Lying about it would put you into jeopardy though. So if you filed past your 90 day period and they ask you this question in the interview, the right answer is yes. This is not a "new" question in the AOS interview btw. This is asked in Part 9., "General Eligibility and Inadmissibility Grounds", Question 13 of the I-485. Often times the Interviewing Officer will have the applicant verbally answer the Eligibility and Inadmissibility questions during the interview. Nothing unusual or to worry about

JAL has been my favorite by far

Can't hurt to go on uscis.gov and open up the "Ask Emma" chat, ask for a liver agent and ask them if there is anything pending on your case because while it may not be outside normal processing times, it sure seems to be taking significantly longer than applications submitted around the time of yours. I did it on my I-129F about 8 months into the process and 6 days later I got an RFE (Completely warranted - I forgot to include a document).... Not saying that these two things are related but in a separate incident, about a month after we submitted my wife's AOS application and not having received a biometrics appointment where about 90% of the others in our Receipt Block had received one, we went on Ask Emma, live chatted an agent and asked if there was any issue with the application. Four days later, she got her biometrics appointment scheduled. Now, both times we received the boilerplate language, "Nothing is unusual about your wait time, each reviewing officer works differently", etc. I don't want to give anyone false hope that this will do anything for your cases, I'm just relaying my personal experiences with contacting USCIS.

Yes it is a confusing process in those cases but the important point to remember is, officiant's signature is key: The officiant is the person who is recognized by law as the person who performs the marriage ceremony and their signature on the license marks the official date of marriage

Sorry, I thought the judge was the officiant. Your marriage date is the date the officiant performed the ceremony and signed the license Yes you would write either "Employer" or "School" then put the name where it asks the name Yes. Get one of the paystubs, take the gross pay and multiply that by howebver many paydays are in a year (52 if paid weekly, 26 if paid every other week, etc.) But that should match what the employment verification letter says.

For that part, we followed the instructions exactly. It says to write the most recent address outside the US where you lived for more than 1 year. For Jaycel, this was a boarding house she lived from 2021-2022 while she was in College. The other addresses she had between then and the time she moved here were all less than 1 year each. For those addresses, we put them in the 5 year list which we had to use the "Additional Information" page to list them all.

Please update the thread with what you hear! Your experience could help others in the future

I also used it twice, both times for things they would be responsible for and received good responses within a few days

If you mean interview, No. Montreal is the only one that does immigrant visas

I wish I could 💙 your post more than once @yuna628