darth bangkok

What receipt number are you using? If it is the one from the NOA it won't work. That is an internal number only. You need to use the number that was on the Biometrics Appointment letter. Try that one.

Wonderful! That worked! Thanks so much! I wonder why the people at uscis I spoke to on the phone couldn't tell me that!

I just tried again to add the I751 case to the online portfolio, but it still doesn't recognize the receipt number (EAC#). I can see the old MCS# for the I485 case, but nothing since

PS- I should say we have travelled 2 times abroad with this extension letter and its been a huge pain in the neck to get back in the US because the immigration officials have had no idea what it was. Can't believe they've never seen one before, but apparently the two we encountered didn't. I didn't know about the 551 stamp until today (haven't been to this site in a while unfortunately). Tomorrow we are travelling abroad again , so we are getting ready for more problems. We made an infopass appt for 20 January, but maybe thats too soon to ask for a stamp? The extension letter was dated 12 Feb, but the orignal greencard expires in March.

By the way, getting into Canada was a hassle too with this letter. Actually, it went smoothly until we fouled it up. After we got through (using the greencard plus copy of the letter) we were waiting for our bags and my wife noticed there was no stamp in her passport. So we worried that we'd have no evidence if we happened to run into a police officer (maybe for doing something wrong while driving for instance). Went back upstairs to ask about it and were told to go to the back room. Then it became like interrigation and we were separated and everything. After a long time, in part bc my wife doesn't speak English (the guy sent me away because he didn't want me answering questions for her), we finally got back in. But no stamp!

Hi all, I have a few questions about my conditional permanent residence status. We filed the I-751 petition in January of last year. The last time the case (now CR189) was updated was October 2008.

Regarding the one-year extension of conditional residence - am I right in thinking this is one year from the expiry date of the permanent resident card (not one year from the date of submission of the I-751 petition)?

Also, if I need to extend my conditional residence, how and when should I apply for an extension?

Thank you for your help!

Hello Nick,

How did you find out there was an update to the case? Everytime I tried to check on line, the EAC # is not found. Same thing when I call, the machine doesn't find it. Then I get nowhere (except in a fight) with the person who answers. The case is "being processed". No information given. I already know its in process so the whole charade of calling is a waste of time.

Thanks!

Thanks everybody. It was a stressful wait. Actually we had to cancel the travel plans. Maybe next year we'll go.

This afternoon I received another email saying that an approval notice was sent yesterday. Actually I thought the next email was going to say that the greencard was sent. It doesn't matter, at least I know it will come ONE DAY soon!

On Monday, May 22, Ning finally received her "Welcome to America" letter. Hopefully the green card will be here soon...

We've been to infopass twice in nyc, including today. Less than useless. Less than cordial and less than humane.

Congrats!!

Krysia,

Congratulations! You interviewed one day after us but got the good news first!

Brian

Photocopies, without a doubt

I had 106 messages in my spam folder today... alas, none from USCIS

I don't think you are allowed to serve as one. We had the same problem, as my wife's English is not so good. We didn't have any interpreter so she just practiced and practiced from the interviews I printed off this forum. The day of the interview there were only two questions my wife was asked directly: how did you meet? and how did your family feel about you going to the us? She didn't really get the gyst of the second question. my wife answered "They miss me". But she got the sense that the interviewer wanted more so she kept talking and eventually said what the interviewer wanted to hear.

But, I got the feeling that if needed, I would have been allowed to at least clarify the questions the interviewer was asking.

its seems to down again and up again this week.

"Emotional & pyschological drama" is a very good way of putting it!

Congratulations and good luck. You now have a two-year break from the USCIS.

cheers,

Brian

we got rfe'd and sent in the DS form. No problem...

We are in the same situation as you, Niger LA and Krystyna. Our interview was 22 March and so far the only news we got was after three hours at infopass: your case is pending! gee whiz, thanks!

Niger, how did you wind up tracking down your case officer? Is there a driectory? I am not sure of the name of our officer anymore. She wrote it in the passport, so I thought I didn't need to write it down, but when I looked at it the other day, its not too clear.

Brian.

I'm longing for any contact at all... they could fill my mailbox if they want!!

I should have said.... WHY wasn't her background checked before she came here. Doesn't that make more sense!!?? Its seems illogical to me

if people had a legitimate chance to get a visa, everyone would try to do it the right way.

Tell that to the people who in the past, present, and probably future have committed marriage visa fraud.

Thats my point. Why are they committing marriage fraud? Its only the mexicans that have a chance to run across the border. You can't walk in from zimbabwe

We are waiting too, not for long but our AOS interviewer said that all was well and the card was on the way. Don't know why we had to be mislead. Reading all these stories is making me depressed.

My question is, my wife came here on a K-1. Wasn't her background checked BEFORE she came into the country??? It makes more since to me to check it then before she has the chance to enter the country and run away (thats what they are afraid of right?) What could they possibly be doing now that couldn't/shouldn't have been done before.

If its just a way to make time pass so they can determine if our marriage is "real" or not, I can understand (standing the test of time). But at least let her be a real person in the meantime. Give her status, let her work if she can find it, let her travel, enable her to get ID cards, etc. Its just a terrible situation and I'm still answering questions from friends and family "Isn't she a citizen automatically because she married you?"

The biggest problem in the whole debate is the us consulates abroad. they operate however they like with no accountability (consular officers decisions are final and unappealable) and like to play god. They say all the right things and pretend to look at paperwork and make 'decisions', but at the end of the day, they happily accept your $125 application fee and only quotas and memos decide who's in and who's not. And it creates all the so-called problems these people supposedly are. people know they have a 99.9% chance of not being granted a visa in their home country so thats where the stories that consulate officers love to quote when they berate foreigners. or else they just try to run across the border.

if people had a legitimate chance to get a visa, everyone would try to do it the right way. no one WANTS to be illegal, no one wants to risk their life running through a desert. Would you rather earn $2 an hour or minimum wage, pay taxes, pay SS, and have a chance for health coverage and other benefits you may be entitled to? Basically, companies love to have these workers and thats why its never been fixed before. Its just that sometimes fervor gets whipped up when people look around and see so many foreigners as if they have no right to be here. Just because you see a mexican walking down the street in LA doesn't mean he's illegal. Theres no law that says mexicans can't be here.

you won't get a i-551 stamp unless you are approved. the OP won't know if he's approved or not until only two weeks before traveling. I say get the AP.

thats only if you are really approved. many of us are still waiting for some mysterious background check even though we 'passed' the interview already. I'd apply for an AP document now if you must travel. We did'nt bc we wanted to travel 2 months after the interview, but now we are stuck and can't go on our planned journey.

G&L congratulations on your success!

huskerfan, I am sorry to hear your plight and hope you can get satisfaction soon. It is so distressing to hear stories like this and how red tape gets in the way of progress and peoples lives. I just don't know why the interviewer lied to us and said that it was all but done. She said that she could do the check herself in 10 minutes but her superiors didn't want her 'to waste the time' doing this.

the passport will be fine, even if its in the maiden name. getting the state ID is not as easy as that. In NY, and many other states, you need points. Its not always easy to get the required points. and, for instance my wifes SS number is still in her maiden name since we couldn't change it because the k-1 visa was expiring too soon after we were married.