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I indicated no when asked if met through an IMB. In the box that is provided to tell about your meeting in the last two years. I put that we met on a dating site. Actually,we met on the same site as you two did.;.) Congratulation on your journey,

IMB charges a fee to help you find a mate.

Only two MMR vaccinations are required here in the US. I am not sure why your doctor is asking for you to have another. I would definitely question that if you are trying to have children soon. If there is question about your immunity to either measles, mumps or rubella, you can order a titer for each of them. Good luck

For the interview a the consulate, It was 2 months because it had to be requested. Then it had to be sent to my now husband in enough time. I used the say income verification and transcripts for the AOS. By then it was 5 months old. Everything was approved without an AOS interview.

You are more than welcome to reject any vaccination that you want at the medical. However, once you are here and need to adjust status, they can deny you residency based on your immunization status. Tetanus is good for 10 years. The rest of the vaccinations do not have a time limit on them. The MMR requires two shots.

In the meantime, before the Wednesday appt would it be easy for you to go for an infopass. Somethimes, it is not helpful but sometimes they have information that could help you. When you send the medical if that what you have to do. You could send a photocoy of the poststamp of when the RFE that you recieved was mailed the second time. I hope it all works out for you!

i sent my aos, i130, ap and ead applications to chicago lockbox and today i received 8 emails stating:

Dear Applicant/Petitioner:

Your USCIS application/petition has been received and routed to the National Benefits Center for processing. Within 7-10 days by standard mail you will receive your official Receipt Notice (Form I-797) with your Receipt Number ############. With the official Receipt Notice (Form I-797) you may visit www.uscis.gov where you can check the status of your application using My Case Status. We suggest you wait until you have received your Form I-797 before checking My Case Status.

This confirmation provides notification of the date USCIS received your application/petition. This notice does NOT grant any immigration status or benefit. You MAY NOT present this notice as evidence that you have been granted any immigration status or benefit. Further, this notice does NOT constitute evidence that your application remains pending with USCIS. The current status of your application/petition must be verified with USCIS.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE

What does this mean? I heard somewhere that if your application is transferred to NBC right away, you will not have to go to an interview. is this true?

Also does this affects the processing times?

Thanks in advance

NBC is where all the AOS applications are reviewed prior to sending it to CSC for approval or to your local office for an interview. It is where it suppose to be!

So my husband application was approved this past thursday. Yay! We are waiting for the green card to arrive. I don't know if it was a coincidence..... I contacted the senator who helped with our RFE to inquire about our case last monday. Then a couple of days later, we were notified of the approval with a case update.

I hope the rest of the Feb filers will be approved before the month of August ends. Good Luck!

Should you call uscis 6 months from filing or transfer. I was really close to calling last week but I was not sure what date to go by. What number do you call?

It seems that a bunch of us who were transferred to CSC were touch on 7/10.

The HIB vaccination is given to infants and children in the US. Rountinely not given to children older than 5 years old, because HIB disease is rare in people over 5 years old. Mostly likely will not harm you if you get it as an adult. However, it is not a requirement by USCIS because of your age. To be up to date for the AOS, you need have or have started the series for MMR, Td or Tdap and the varicella vaccine. If you want to look into it further you can check out this link: http://www.cdc.gov/i...nstructions.pdf

The tetanus vaccine is given every ten years. If you have had it within that the last ten years, you should be fine. If you have a choice between the Td and the Tdap, I would go with the Tdap. The rate of pertusis is increasing in some regions of the US.

Good Luck

We sent our package January 15th, I had my biometrics in mid-February and since then, absolutely nothing. I checked a couple of times on their website, says still processing, called once, got the same answer and it's getting frustrating. The worst part is that I can't get my driver's license because they need my I-776 and I didn't file for EAD separately. I talked to some people and saw some timelines, it took them like a month or maximum 2 months to get their GC, so I thought I would be as lucky... But no... it's been 4 months without any notification, results, nothing. And they wouldn't accept my NOA2...

I don't know if I should file for EAD and AP separately and how the procedure goes... I can't even find it on this website here, so basically I'm just frustrated, unable to leave the house without my husband, unable to travel or get a job.

If anyone has any info on how to file separately for EAD and AP or has a link to a helpful thread, please feel free to email me. Thank you everyone and may you all have a speedy process.

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You can file the EAD and AP for "free" now since you already file for the AOS. You need to include your reciept of notice from NBC from filing the AOS. If you go the uscis.gov you can find the employment authorization form (I-765.). You can also find it here on this website under the guides tab. I would go ahead and file. It will only cost you the cost of passport photos, photocopying some items that are requested and mailing it. At the rate that the CSC you may get the EAD before the make a decision about your case. The best case scenario is that the EAD will not take long and you can get to having some type of life before the green card. Who am I kidding? The best case scenario is that you green card is approved today.

Hope all goes well.

We filed in the beginning of February and was transferred to CSC about a month or so after that. We are still waiting to hear from CSC about my husband green card. Due to the RFE that we recieved for the medical, we contacted a congressman. Well the congressman office contacted me in April to let me know that CSC still had our cases and it was within progressing time and that they were processing cases that were filed five months ago. That would have put them in NOV/DEC filers. I have no clue how CSC go about approving applicants. There have been some people who were approved from March , that I know of, that was CSC transferees.

The varicella and the MMR only requires two shots each for the series.

If she has started the series of any of these vaccinations she does NOT have to start over with the series. She will be at her second shot for both of them. You can go to your local health department, your physician or a retail health clinic to get these remaining vaccinations. Then take the DS3025 and her personal vaccination record (whatever they give you to show the recent shots) and take it to CS to transcribe on the

I693. USCIS just need to know that all the shots are update.

Even though I did not want to go the CS, I just think to myself. The people who look at our applications and make decision about our lives are not medical doctors or nurses. They do not know much about what is necessary and what interval are appropriate. So I would do what I have to do to make it easy for them to see what is obviously right and make the correct decision. If they do not know they will most likely RFE us.

Also, I'm pretty certain changing one document and forgetting to change another document is an inconsistency.

Since the HPV is no longer needed and it was a three shot series, your wife vaccination should be complete after doing 1 more varicella and 1 more MMR. If the recommend time interval have past, then she needs to get the last vaccination to be up date. It will not mention the anything about time intervals being a problem because she will be done. The varicella and the MMR only requires to shots for the series. Good luck

Two notification is normal. The first notification is approval of the EAD and it being ordered. The second notification is that it was mailed. It seems that after the second notification the card is there the same day or a couple of days later.

My wife and I are traveling to Albania with UK being our layover. I am a US citizen while my wife has a green card. My question is in regards to any possible visa requirements in UK. We are changing airports in UK from Heathrow to Gatwick. Will she need any transit visa? Thanks in advance for your responses.

Yes, your wife will need a transit visa for the layover. Here is a link of all the countries the UK requires the citizens of that country to apply for a visa for entry: http://www.ukvisas.g...sadatvnationals

I hope it helps.

Let me try and clear up some misconceptions (by the way, this is all in the guides).

If you are half through your 180 days and you are married, you are fine. You don't need to get a greencard within those 180 days, you just need to *apply* for one by sending in your AOS packet. As was mentioned above, you don't need to start over - I bet the letter you got rejecting your fee waiver is just telling you to send in the check, not the whole packet again. Read the letter carefully to see, but probably your AOS packet is just waiting for your check.

So again, you don't need to get a green card faster than 180 days.

DO NOT LEAVE THE US before you get your green card or AP.

Just make sure that you sent back everything that they sent back to you .... plus the check for $1010. You should not have to put a whole new packet together. If you see something missing out of the AOS application packet when it was returned to you , I would put that back in there. At this point they do not have you in the system if you did not recieved a receipt with a MSC number.

Any updates for Feb filers who got their AOS transferred to CSC?

I am just curious why mine is taking so long... some March filers are getting approvals already... 37 days and a little more than that...

And its the 12th day already since my card production ordered for EAD but I still dont have it in mail...

Getting a little impatient waiting for everything

Norhing much going on here. Last touch on the I485 was April 9, 2010.

It is true that you can not get another TD for another 10 years. So they should not make you get a TD so that you can get the pertusis.

According to this link: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/combo-vaccines/DTaP-Td-DT/faqs-nipinfo-DTaP-DT-Td.htm

Could you clarify the timeline for giving Tdap vaccine after someone has received the Td vaccine?

The recommended interval between Td and Tdap for adolescents is 5 years and for adults it is 10 years. However, if there is a risk of pertussis or if the person will have contact with an infant younger than 12 months of age, then there is NO minimum interval. It is a risk (increased local reaction) vs. benefit (prevention of pertussis infection) situation that must be assessed by the provider. There are data suggesting that it is safe to give these two vaccines as close as 2 years apart, but they can be given even closer if the benefit outweighs the risk. The bottom line is that there is no minimum interval written in stone. (9/10/06)

It is true that you can not get another TD for another 10 years. So they should not make you get a TD so that you can get the pertusis.

Pertusis is not only for children. I am 28 and recieved a dose of Tdap within the last year as a requirement for work. It is a new recommendation by the CDC, but not a requirement as this point. They are finding that the booster that americans were getting at 12 does not provide life long immunity. The vaccine that children get is Dtap.

DTaP is a vaccine that lets children younger than 7 develop immunity to three deadly diseases caused by bacteria: diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Tdap is a booster immunization that offers continued protection from those diseases for adolescents and adults. Tdap also has a reduced dose of the diphtheria and pertussis vaccines, is approved for adolescents starting at the age of 11 or 12 and adults ages 19 to 64.

So the current recommendation is that everyone needs a booster shot for tetanus and diphtheria every 10 years after first being immunized. That booster comes in the form of a vaccine called Td. But since immunity to pertussis also wears off during childhood, a weaker form of the pertussis vaccine has been added to the booster to make the vaccine Tdap. The current recommendation is that one dose of the Tdap vaccine be substituted for one dose of the Td vaccine between the ages of 11 and 64.

The point of the CS visit is to ensure to USCIS that your husband has all of his vaccinations uptodate. Your husband need to provide his immunization history to the CS in order to transcribe it on the I693. You can use a personal vaccination record or the vaccine supplement worksheet that the panel physical in Pakistan recorded his immunization history. Usually the panel physician gives out a copy of that vaccination worksheet. They did not get one, he could ask for it before leaving Pakistan. The CS will tell you if you need the next vaccination. At that point, he can choose to get that vaccination elsewhere where it is cheaper before the CS fills out the I693.

We filed in February. We have not had word about the green card despite being transferred to CSC in March. There a lot more people that have not received their green card (that filed February until now) then have at this point. It seems kinda random right now how people are being approved. We are waiting patiently...

Going the K1 visa route, you will have to get married before August 2011 at least a civil marriage by the courts. Then you have to to file to adjust status here in the US (for 1010 USD). When you file you can get travel documents that will allow you to travel outside the US. As of right now it is taking about a little more than 2 months to get them after filing for it with you Adjustment of status application.

Every case is different but it took us 7 months from beginning to end to get my husband here using the K1 visa. You could be here by the Fall if you apply now.

With the CR1 visa, you have to be married first. After that your fiance apply for the petition to bring you here. Which on the front end is a bit longer then the K1 visa in some cases. But if you go the CR1 route you pay less and you do not have to file for adjustment of status once here. You will receive a 2 year green card when you enter.

You can contact your state's congressman or senator to see if they inquire about your case. Each office has a staff person who handles immigration issues and contacts the USCIS on your behalf.