Ken1

Payxibka, Gary and Alla and other helpful folks, thanks so much! I finally got my AOS package out tonight (technically last night, the 14th) just before midnight at the late night post office. You guys helped with so many little details!

Best,

Ken1 and Mrs. Ken1

Thanks to all of you who helped answer my many questions! I went through everything many times and hope it will all go smoothly.I got to the late night post office and sent off my AOS package just before midnight!

Again, thank to all of you VERY helpful and supportive VJers!

K

Okay, this is REALLY the last question!

I just realized that for the I-129F I filled out G-325A forms for both my then fiance and for me - do I need to fill this form out for me (the US Citizen) for the AOS?

Thanks!

K

Last question (I hope!!!)

Does my wife's 9 year old daughter sign all the AOS forms, or does my wife sign them for her?

We are submitting AOS for both of them at the same time (K-1 and K-2 visa holders). I noticed that the civil surgeon had my wife sign the I-693 medical form for both hers and her daughter's.

Thanks!

K

just get it done ASAP.... no explaining needed...

Thanks payxibka. You've been a big help!!!

K

Hi Everyone,

I am just submitting the AOS for my wife and her daughter (who came here on K1 and K2 Visas) and it's been 8 months since they arrived. I married my then fiancé right as she got here and we had a baby shortly thereafter - thus, we've been pretty busy!

Should I attach an explanation of this in reference to why we didn't get our AOS in sooner?

If I understand correctly as long as USCIS gets the AOS submission within 9 months we haven't broken the law as we are less than 6 months out of status (we had 3 months on the K1/K2 visas and it's been another 5 since).

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

K

Hi Everyone,

Two questions about payment.

I am submitting AOS for my wife and her daughter. Can I write one check for the total amount, or should I include one check for $1010.00 for my wife's AOS, and another for $600 for her daughter's?

Is there any reason to use a certified bank check versus a personal check?

Thanks!

K

What line # are you refering to?

On my form there are no line numbers for the G-325a. It's one of the last questions, at the bottom of the first page.

K

I am doing the AOS for my wife, who came here as my fiance on a K-1 visa, and her 9 year old daughter who came here on a K-2 at the same time.

On the G-325a, where it reads "This form is submitted in connection with", a VJer told me to write in "AOS Form I485" However, I was just looking at the VJ example forms and on the example, the box for "Status as a Permanent Resident" is checked.

Does anyone know which is correct?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

Almost ready to send out my whole AOS package, and I have a few questions:

1) If I am sending an AOS package for my wife (who came here on K-1 Visa) and her 9 year old daughter (who came here on K-2), do I separate all documents into two separate packages, with separate cover letters, checks, etc.

2) What is the fee for my wife's daughter (I believe it's $1,010.00 for my wife, but less for her daughter).

3) Do I need to submit two I-864 forms, one for my wife and one for her daughter who is listed as a dependent? On the form instructions, it says I don't need to submit supporting documents twice, but I'm not sure about the actual form.

4) My wife's daughter has no A number (not on the passport, I-94, nowhere to be found). Some VJers have told me to write "None" wherever it asks for her A number and others have told me to use my wife's A number for her daughter too - any thoughts?

5) Do I need to include any family photos (other than the passport style ones), like in the K-1 Visa application?

Thanks!!!

K

I am doing the AOS for my wife, who came here as my fiance on a K-1 visa, and her 9 year old daughter who came here on a K-2 at the same time.

On the G-325a, where it reads "This form is submitted in connection with", a VJer told me to write in "AOS Form I485" However, I was just looking at the VJ example forms and on the example, the box for "Status as a Permanent Resident" is checked.

Does anyone know which is correct?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I am submitting the AOS for my wife who came here on a K-1 and her daughter who came here on an K-2. I want to submit the I-765 form for my wife. I have three questions about the I-765 form:

1) Do I send this in with the same package for AOS (I-485, etc.)? Does it all go together to the same address.

2) On question 15, I assume I answer "K1 visa Applying for AOS." Is that correct?

3) My biggest concern is with question 16. Though we are just submitting AOS now, my wife has been here for almost 8 months. I read on another post on VJ that we should put ©(9) as putting (a)(6) would only give her 3 months EAD. Does anyone know if © (9) is correct? If so, going back to my first question here, do I send this in with the same AOS package to the same address?

Thanks!!

I'm putting together the AOS package for my wife (who came on K-1) and her 9 year old daughter (who came at the same time on K2) and I can't find an A number for my wife's daughter anywhere!

I was told by a VJer that it should be hand written on I-94 stapled into her passport or on the visa or somewhere else on the passport, but there is nothing there. My wife's A number IS written in on her I-94 (in addition to being on the NOA2).

What should I do for all the questions that ask for an A number for my wife's daughter?

Can USCIS give me this info if I call them? Can I leave the A number blank? Can I fill in my wife's A number for both her and her daughter? Will any of this be cause for an RFE?

Thanks!!!

K

I believe I already told you, go to a civil surgeon and get the I-693 transcribed. They will give her the shots that she missed and fill out the form acordingly.

I really appreciate your reply, and especially that you took the time to answer me twice!

I'm just a bit confused by what you wrote - if I go to a civil surgeon, will they have access to the civil surgeon results of the medical exam that my wife and her daughter did in Brazil less than a year ago? What does that having a civil surgeon "transcribe" the I-693 mean?

Hi Everyone,

I posted about this earlier tonight, but I only got one response and am still unclear, so I'm hoping I'll can get a little more feedback:

I am unsure what medical exams we still need to do for my wife and her daughter for their AOS.

My wife and her 9 year old daughter came to the US on K-1 (when my wife was my fiance) and K-2 visas. Before their interview in Brazil, they both had medical exams done by a USCIS certified civil surgeon, which was less than one year ago. My wife was pregnant at the time, thus could not do the chest x-ray and perhaps some other things. If I'm not mistaken, I believe that we handed those sealed medical exams and never got them back, nor a copy of them.

My question is, what do we have to do now for the adjustment of status package? How do we know which parts of the medical we still have to do if we don't have the results of the original medical exam? Do the doctors have access to this info? Should we go to another civil surgeon here, or just wait and see if we get an RFE?

Thanks!

Go get the I-693 filled out by the civil surgeon they will give her the shots she needs that she is missing and fill out the vaccination section stating that she completed her shots. If the medicals are still good ( within the year ) then you only need the vaccination filled out and signed by the civil surgeon. Just get the updated shots that she needs.

This is good. I'm still unclear about one thing: we can't find the papers from the original civil surgeons visit - is that info on record, or are we supposed to have it in hand (again, we think that we might have handed over those documents either at our interview in Brazil or at point of entry into the US).

Thanks!

K

Hi Everyone,

A couple more questions here:

I am almost ready to send out the AOS package, and we just got to the Medical Exam stuff.

1) My wife came here as my fiance on a K1, with her 9 year old daughter on a K2. Both had medical exams by a civil surgeon within the last year. We can't find the documents from the civil surgeon anywhere and are starting to wonder if they took and kept them either at the time of her interview in Brazil or upon entering the US when we had to go past a couple of Immigration Officers. From what I can tell on VJ, it looks like we can use this medical exam (since it's within the last year), but still need to have a civil surgeon here look at it and fill out a new form, sign and seal it and then we submit this. Is this correct? Are we supposed to see a civil surgeon again? If we can't find the documents from the original visit with a Civil Surgeon, do we have to do that all over again? Is this info on record and I really don't need to send it in? HELP!!!

2) At the time of my wife's medical exam, she was pregnant and couldn't get a couple of vaccine's or shots she needed. Will we need to do another medical exam to cover these areas?

3) If we do need to do new medical exams at this point (either partial for my wife or full for both her and her daughter), and perhaps some vaccinations, we are in a bit of a bind. We are very late in sending in our AOS (we got married after coming here, shortly thereafter had a baby and got sidetracked). It's been 8 months since my now-wife (then fiance) and her daughter arrived and I'm ready to send in everything with the exception of this medical stuff, which was an oversight on my part (along with not submitting AOS documents for this long in general). I REALLY want to send in everything right now and recently someone on VJ told me we would be fine as long as it USCIS received everything before we reached the 9 month point (6 months after the I-94 expired). If we do need to do another medical (partial or full) I am concerned with the time this will further delay our sending in our AOS and we are quickly coming up on 9 months. In this case, could I send in the AOS package minus the I-693 and medical exam stuff, do the medical, await an RFE, and then submit the missing medical documents? My thought is that if we do this, at least we're in the system as having submitted out AOS documents. Thoughts? Help? Also, we are hoping to get an early travel release (I-131 Application for Travel)for an upcoming trip - would not sending in our medical delay that?

THANKS ALL YOU GREAT VJ FOLKS!!!

K

Hi everyone,

I can't find the A number for my wife's daughter (9 year old who came here on a K2 at the same time my wife came here on a K1 as my fiance).

My wife's A number is on the NOA 2 for the approval of her I129F petition for fiance. It is also hand written in on her I-94, however, it is not written in on her daughter's I-94, and the NOA 2 approval notice is only sent for the K-1 petitioner.

Any help or ideas?

Thanks!

K

Hi everyone,

Just want to double check. My wife came here as my fiance with her 9 year old daughter at the the same time on the K1 and K2 visas respectively. We are now doing AOS. Is my wife's A number the same for her daughter?

Thanks!

K

Hello everyone,

I have the following questions for the I-864:

I am submitting AOS for my wife, who came here as my fiancé on a K-1, and her 9-year old daughter, who came at the same time on a K-2.

1) Do I need to submit two I-864 forms, one for my wife and one for her daughter who came her at the same time as her?

YES! ONE FOR EACH

On Part 3, regarding the immigrant I am sponsoring, question 9 says:

I am sponsoring the following family members immigrating at the same time or within six months of the principalimmigrant named in Part 2 above. Do not include any relative listed on a separate visa petition.

.

2) Is my wife's daughter considered as a separate visa petition or part of the same petition?

SAME

Thanks!

Thanks, Okay, so if I am filing one for each of them, for my wife's form I write her name in as the principle immigrant and then on Part 3 question 9 write her daughter's name as a family member immigrating at the same time; and on my wife's daughter's form I write her name as the principle immigrant and my wife for question 9, family member immigrating at the same time - Is this correct?

Also, is the A number the same for both of them?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I am submitting the I-131 Application for Travel along with the AOS application for my wife and her 9 year old daughter, who both came to the US at the same time on a K-1 fiancé visa and K-2 child of K-1.

1) Where it asks for class of admission, is that K-1 visa (and K-2 visa for her daughter)?

2) Do I need to file two of these forms, one for my wife and one for her daughter?

3) In Part 2, Application Type, I believe we would fill out that we are applying for advanced parole for temporary travel outside of the US, correct?

4) On Part 7, it asks for us to include a separate piece of paper explaining how we "qualify for an Advanced Parole Document and what circumstances warrant issuance of advanced parole." I am a teacher taking a group of high school students to Mexico to study for two weeks in February and have the opportunity to bring my family along. Should I just write that? Is that reason enough for early travel to be granted? Or as they ask, are these "circumstances" sufficient to warrant issuance of advanced parole? Should I include any documentation about the trip (i.e.: an itinerary for our group from the school where we will be in Mexico, or is that overkill?

Thank you all again for the great help!

Hello everyone,

I have the following questions for the I-864:

I am submitting AOS for my wife, who came here as my fiancé on a K-1, and her 9-year old daughter, who came at the same time on a K-2.

1) Do I need to submit two I-864 forms, one for my wife and one for her daughter who came her at the same time as her?

On Part 3, regarding the immigrant I am sponsoring, question 9 says:

I am sponsoring the following family members immigrating at the same time or within six months of the principalimmigrant named in Part 2 above. Do not include any relative listed on a separate visa petition.

2) Is my wife's daughter considered as a separate visa petition or part of the same petition?

Thanks!

I got a quick and great response to my last question about the G-325A form, and am now onto the I-485 and have some more questions:

I am unsure of the following things:

1) What is the "A #"? Is this the same as what they call the "File Number" on the G-325A form?

2) What is the I-94#? On the K1 and K2 visas that we got, it says "Control Number" then we have a CBP Form I-94 stapled into the passports which reads in Portugues "Número de partida" or Departure Number. Is it one of these?

3) I am not sure what to put for "Current USCIS Status." Incidentally, we are late on our AOS, my wife and her daughter came into the country on March 10th, we had a baby shortly there after and got very busy. I've been told by other VJers that we should be fine as long as we submit things VERY soon, which we are planning on doing by early next week.

4) Below I-94# it reads "Expires on". I think that that is for the I-94#, but the way it's laid out, it also looks like it could be asking about expiration of current USCIS Status. Whichever one it's for, where do I find this info.

5) Further down on the form, it asks for Nonimmigrant Visa Number - again, so many numbers, not sure which one this is!

6) For "In what status did you last enter," I assume it's K-1 Fiance for my wife, and K-2 child of Fiance.

7) If I am filling out these forms for my wife and her daughter, should I fill out Part 5 - Signature of person preparing form?

Thanks for the help in this process, I know for some of you, these may seem like simple things to figure out, but I don't want to screw up!

You are all great! Good luck to all!

K

Hi Everyone,

I'm filling out the G-325A form and came across some things that are confusing me (that will probably also come up on the other AOS forms):

1) I am asked for our "File Number" and in another space the "Alien Registration Number." I imagine these were given to us in the K1 process, but I'm not sure what they are or where to find them.

2) Where it reads "this form is submitted in connection with an application for:" I think I answer Status as a Permanent Resident, but I'm not sure if I should in fact put in Naturalization. My wife entered as my fiance on a K1, we married and are now doing the next round of forms. Am I correct about Status as Permanent Resident?

3) Where it asks about residences for the last 5 years, in the given space, I can only fit residences for the last 4 or so. Should that be no problem, should I hand write in a note?

3A) Below the residences for the last 5 years question, there is another question that reads, "Applicants last address outside of the US of more than one year." It seems like they just answered that! Do they mean outside of her country of origin, or do they want me to repeat the earlier information?

Thanks and best to all!

K

1. You can find your A# in the approval notification of the I-129F, the NAO2.

2. You can check the box "Other" and the type AOS, form I-485.

3. You should list all addresses where you've lived in the past 5 years. If you don't have enough room, you can attach a separate sheet of paper with the info.

3A. Write the last address you lived at outside the US. It may seem redundant but some people using this form for AOS have lived here in the US for more than 5 years and they still need to give this information.

Diana

Diana, Thanks!!! This is great!

Hi Everyone,

I'm filling out the G-325A form and came across some things that are confusing me (that will probably also come up on the other AOS forms):

1) I am asked for our "File Number" and in another space the "Alien Registration Number." I imagine these were given to us in the K1 process, but I'm not sure what they are or where to find them.

2) Where it reads "this form is submitted in connection with an application for:" I think I answer Status as a Permanent Resident, but I'm not sure if I should in fact put in Naturalization. My wife entered as my fiance on a K1, we married and are now doing the next round of forms. Am I correct about Status as Permanent Resident?

3) Where it asks about residences for the last 5 years, in the given space, I can only fit residences for the last 4 or so. Should that be no problem, should I hand write in a note?

3A) Below the residences for the last 5 years question, there is another question that reads, "Applicants last address outside of the US of more than one year." It seems like they just answered that! Do they mean outside of her country of origin, or do they want me to repeat the earlier information?

Thanks and best to all!

K