Lady Bug

I wish you the best. When I read your story it reminded me of how it started out with my husband and me. Exactly the same way. As pen pals online to improve our language skills. We got along very well and started dating after I've visited him in the States. One year later we were married and still are 3 years later. Some things are just meant to be.

We've applied together on January 13th and got approved on March 29th.

Got the card in the mail today.

Hang in there, more approvals are on their way

Congrats!

if there is no doubt of the sincerity of your marriage, then you can be in and out in no time, be done with everything before/by 8 a.m.

I agree...you'll see you'll be done in no time. Good luck!

Thanks for your quick answers guys. It helped me alot and I decided to call DMV again. I just got off the phone with the DMV legal presence department. And they told me that it takes about 3 months after the applicant entered the DMV field office the first time (for the written test or whatever) for them to verify the birth certificate from the foreign country. Even though it was a translated version. Oh well. It's not quite 3 months yet. So it'll take about 2 more weeks....till I can call again in order to find out when my DL card will be in the mail. Or if they need more copies of the papers.

As you guys said it doesn't have anything to do with USCIS.

Good thing that we''ve learned to be patient, huh

Hi everyone. I passed my behind the wheel driving test already 5 weeks ago. And waited patiently for my drivers license card to come in the mail. It usually takes a couple of weeks. But nothing happened. So I went to DMV the other day and they told me there that USCIS is holding it back because they have to verify my birth certificate first before they can release it. And that this can take up to 1 year!!! Is this really true?

What experiences did you make guys... Because this sounds kind of odd to me. I got my 2year Greencard and everything.

Today we got the Welcome letter after looong days of waiting. wooo hooo. This is so great and perfect timing...because my family is coming from Germany for vacation and we are going to have a party on Saturday with us, my family, my hubby's family. And can tell them then together the good news. We are so blessed and prayed so much for that. We are so blessed from Heavenly Father

Welcome to VJ!!

Thank you guys so much for your many replys. It's really a great site. And I feel very comfortable here and wish

you all the best.

no, I am suggesting that you SSN in your maiden name is not an issue.... get your greencard in the legal name you wish to be known as

We did the same and applied accidentally in my maiden name. And so I got all the papers like NOA's, SSN, EAD, AP in my maiden name as

well. But the lady at the Homeland Security office where for the SSN, assured that it won't be a problem to change the name after all my

papers are done. You only have to bring your marriage license with you.

But it's better to do it at the end. When all the paperwork is done!!! Otherwise it would be to complicated to have all the documents in different names.

And all must be verified and takes alot more of time.

And in our immigration interview we had yesterday. We IO wanted to sign me something. And I wasnt sure in which name to sign. Because

of the fact that we applied accidentely in my maiden name but I would like to have my husbands name. So I just asked the IO what to do.

And she said, that it is no problem at all. She noticed it in the computer, printed out a new form with my new name (yeaaaah) and I just

signed in the new name.

And if you want to get your name in your passport changed. You can do it in the embassy of your home country located in the U.S.

Well it's great you two got everything sorted out and the RFE doesn't sound too bad since it wasn't your fault. Congratulations...

I'm just curious about the error with the medical exam, did your Civil Surgeon fill in the vaccination supplement wrong? or was it something else?

Actually it's been a couple of things. Like dates and missing signatures. But the biggest problem was that the doctor forgot to make entries about the vaccination

shots and tests. I got 2 vaccinations that day and he was running a TB skin test. But there was not entry about the TB test. Only the date that showed that he did

something. But not any entry that all with the TB test was ok. Oh well. Hopefully that dont take too much time...cause it would be great to have something to celebrate

when my family from Germany is coming for their first vacation here...in the beginning of April. We'll see though.

I wish all with upcoming interviews a good time there. And like Soancika + Brian said as long is your marriage is real and full of love...all will be fine

Just wanted to let you guys know how our interview went today. The day before we've been kind of nervous and even on our way to the interview. What now comes sounds kind of odd...but in the waiting room we got more and more calm. Actually we even had a good time waiting till we got called in. (We studied german and english. Were thinking about if they have someone there who is even able to speak german. And so on.) Because when your marriage is in good faith there is nothing to fear about. After about 20 min the interview officer called my name and invited us to enter her office. She was very nice and made us feel very comfortable. So we cant agree that female officers are unfriendly!!! Quite the contrary. She asked for our birth certificates and made from my husbands birth certificate a copy. Then she asked for our passports, marriage license, health insurance, joint account documents. She looked through the pictures we brought to the interview. And asked some questions how did we meet each other, when did we meet each other and something like that.

The only thing was that our papers from the medical exam in the sealed envelope weren't filed out correct from the doctor. He forgot to make marks about

the vaccination I got. And some other things like the chest X ray So we got a RFE. Unfortuneately. But later that day we went these doctor and gave him the papers back in order to make the missing statements. They did it. Apologized a hundred times. And after that we send the papers with registered mail back to our friendly interview officer.

No one has anything to fear about the interview...as long as your marriage is in good faith. And as long as you believe in God's help. We'll see what comes next. Because my husband and I have done all we could to be able to be together. And if we get denied we still can live in Germany. I'd be kind of hard though...but it's in God's hands now.

Congratulations

Congrats

Hi everyone. I would like to introduce myself. I'm from Germany and just a had a wonderful Valentine's Day with my husband. We met each other

2 years ago and got married last year. Right now we're still in the middle of the immigration process. And we're grateful that we've found these

website.