sweetpiano

I sent one check for $1,010, pretty much everyone sends that too. I think you just got an overzealous idiot who thought the amounts should be separate. I know some other people had their files rejected for the same reason as yours, and I think they just resent it and hoped to get another person who knows better. Short of that, don't know what else to advise you.

Concur with all the good advice here. GO TO THAT INTERVIEW!

That's correct, to find the processing times for I-485 family based, go to your local office. Even though the AOS is received initially by the NBC (MSC), it is then forwarded to the local office for interview and adjudication. Some are transferred to CSC and there is no interview, however I don't know how to find the processing times in this case.

The checklist looks good.

Photos - don't forget to write your names on the back in pencil or felt tip pen. Put them in ziplock bags and then paper-clip them to the G-325A.

Check - paper clip to the I-130 and I-485.

I used paper folders to separate the major forms: one file for the I-130 and evidence, one file for the I-485, the other forms and evidence. Inside the folders, the forms and other multi-page documents were paper-clipped.

Hope this helps.

The USCIS processing times have been updated as of Aug. 15. It seems like most times have actually gone back, instead of forward.

See USCIS website General Tips on Assembling Applications for Mailing

towards the middle of the page.

You can do it yourself, if fluent.

It just seemed odd putting my name in the applicants box!

On the I-130, you (the USC) are the applicant - you are petitioning (applying) for your wife, the beneficiary. So yes, fill out one G-325A with your name (as the applicant/Petitioner) and one G-325A for your wife (the Beneficiary).

On the I-485, your wife is the applicant, she is applying to adjust status based on your petition. Don't forget she needs to fill out another G-325A to go along with her I-485.

Agree, write "Visitor (B1/B2)" - the exact visa type you have. If your I-94 already expired, write "overstay of Visitor visa (B1/B2)".

It's nine digits, with the first one usually being a zero, which sometimes is omitted. So don't sweat it, put A followed by 8 or 9 digits, it does not matter.

It depends on what you mean when you say "NOA is not proof enough". Yes, usually it is not enough to get a DL, SSN or state ID, or open a bank account, a EAD or green card is necessary for that. But NOA is enough to prove to immigration authorities that your presence in the US beyond the expiration of your I-94 is legal.

Agree, I would maybe write "Unemployed (attending university)".

If you are adjusting from a tourist visa from within the USA, you have to concurrently file an I-130 petition. SO, on the I-485 you mark box A.

Box A states:

"an immigrant petition giving me an immediately available immigrant visa number has been

approved. (Attach a copy of the approval notice, or a relative, special immigrant juvenile or

special immigrant military visa petition filed with this application that will give you an

immediately available visa number, if approved.)"

The I-130 is your relative petition that is being filed with your I-485

I-485 (w/ G-325s for alien, I-864 from USC) include a separate check for filing fee

plus medical I-693

Address c/o means "care of". This line is used if you receive your mail at someone else's address (parents, friends, relatives). So, say your name is Jon Goodman and your friend's name is Jane Smith, you write the address as follows:

John Goodman

c/o Jane Smith

11 Tree Ave

etc.

the "non-immigrant visa number" is the same as the "visa number" - the red 8 digit number.

hello sweetpiano.....I get the transfer letter in the mail but i still did not get any update inmy case on line...telling they receive my RFE....do you think is because they transfer my case and is not going to show until california center receive and resume my case???

Don't worry about the online update, USCIS is not very consistent about that. The transfer letter you got in the mail - what's the date on it? If it is after you sent the RFE back, then it most probably means that they received what they needed and considered the case good enough to transfer to the CSC. That is a good thing! Not sure what happens next (some people receive online update that CSC received their case, some don't), but watch out for that green card in the mail!

Yes, the visa number is the red 8 digit number on the visa, lower right corner.

Are you saying that you have a Polish marriage certificate? In that case have it translated and certified in English and cary both the original and the translation.

Try Flower’s (2 Strada Plantelor; 40-21-311-9848; www.flowersbb.ro)

Congratulations!

how did she get a SS number on a tourist visa?

That's exactly what I was going to ask.

I know overstays and illegal employment are forgiven if a green card is approved through marriage to a US citizen. Whether such people actually included detailes of illegal employment on their AOS applications, don't know. For sure she needs to write on the form that her status is "overstay of visitor visa."

One could argue that by the same token, illegal employment should be mentioned too, and many people advocate truthfulness in all dealings with the USCIS. Upon applying for AOS, they will know anyway when they check the SSN and name against their databases.

You should be able to travel back to the US with the new and old passports (make sure you get back the old passport) plus the marriage certificate showing the name change.

I have traveled to the US with a new passport in my married name while the entry visa was in the old passport in my maiden name. They didn't even look at the marriage certificate, but always have it with you.

The I-864 does not need to be notarized - nor does it need to be signed in front of anyone.

Concur.

Yes, see my signature. But some people don't receive the email that case processing has resumed, in which case they either did not update the website, or they did not match the RFE response to the file. I recommend resending the RFE if there has not been an update on the website, can't hurt.

My EAD application is in there, under the I-485 contents. I hope this is correct.

Sorry I overlooked it.

Now i have been advised to send this package off without my medical because i will be out of status in 2 days... in the hope that the USCIS will just send an RFE for it. An attorney told me this. But honestly, what do you all think?

What does the medical have to do with being out of status? And how would receiving an RFE for the medical help with being out of status?

As Heliosphan said, if approved for the green card, an overstay is forgiven.