Leigh Ann

From what I've read, it's incredibly difficult to match up evidence that you send separately. Thus, I would suggest waiting until you get an RFE, and then send it back with that. That's the surest bet for getting it to the right person (and your file).

Swedish is my native language. We spoke English at home when I was little (Mom is Swedish, Dad is from East Africa) and then we started learning it in school in 4th grade, in 7th grade I started taking French, and then added Spanish in 10th grade. After high school I lived in Spain for a year and studied only Spanish and continued when I came back to the university in Sweden. I studied Latin & Greek in 10-12th grade too and then worked in Greece one summer so I learned how to speak it a little. Same with Portuguese, I worked in Portugal one summer and then traveled in Brazil and with it being so similar to Spanish I learnt it very quick. Norwegian is similar to Swedish (like Spanish and Portuguese) and I learnt how to speak and write it as well while working in Norway 1.5 years, when I came back to Sweden I had a job where I had to speak Norwegian (like outsourcing customer service, they had to think they were calling Norway). I picked up Indonesian when I backpacked over there for 2.5 months. I bought a travel parleur and practiced with the kids in the village every day Tried to learn Thai the same way, but it way too complicated to learn that quick. Danish is also similar to Swedish but not all Swedes understand it, I do and can read it too but would speak Swedish or Norwegian to Danish people. I never studied German but it is also kind of similar to Swedish and I actually taught German to 6 & 7 graders before I moved to the US. Puh! I think that was all of them. Sorry this was long...

That is....amazing. Wow!

Congrats candy & hoppla!!

Great to hear...cause I check my status updates at least five to....per day... I am just gonna give it a break this week and see if something shows up!!!

I did that too before we got the EAD. It'll happen - and checking it so frequently just kind of stressed me out more when there was nothing new!

We don't have a cosponsor. His my only sponsor. His income is sufficient.

I'm at a loss then. I hope you get it sorted!

Good luck to everyone with interviews in the following week - Mrs. Foster (26), meije (26), engineer21 (26), chrissen (26), fagos (27), cbrniner (28), and myself on the 29th (yes, I can wish myself luck. I make the rules. Pffffttt.).

By my count, 10 left to get interviews. Fingers crossed for all of you that you get it this weekend or next week.

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Thanks for the update! Glad my interview date FINALLY gets to be on there!

Good luck to everyone this week - it's a busy one!

And good luck to me too - the bar is in three days and it lasts all day on the 27th and 28th. Ack!

Nothing to add, but I hope you hear good news on the case soon!

Thanks guys! So relieved it finally came.

That's a nice set of binders you've got there, engineer.

ETA: he also got his SSC today. It was a big mail day.

Guess who got an interview letter!!!

August 30 at 8:45 am!!

trying to figure out this dancing thing....sorry false alarm.....had to use the url is that what everyone else does.

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You can just click it on the right side of the page if you hit "add reply" OR you can type in : dance: (but make sure the : is right next to the "dance:").

But you can do it with the url too.

Good morning all,

Yesterday was a good day - I finally received my biometrics letter in the post for an appointment on August 16th. It seems to be as a result of the service request that got raised on June 22nd as that was referenced in the letter. They seem to indicate that they had already sent me the biometric letter and are now providing me a copy. Juat so happens that they included the original as well - both dated July 19!!

All going well I hope to walk-in on August 4th.

Thanks

NYKiwi

Glad to know there's progress! But sorry it's taking so long!

No this is the first RFE they've sent us. Yeah they asked for I-864 and the docs they needed for those. We remember we submitted those before twice.. one when he filed a K1- visa for me, and two when I submitted some forms to USCIS after I got married to him. So this is the third time we'll submit these docs and form again. I don't know why.

From the way the RFE is worded, it looks like you sent in a form for your co-sponsor and those tax forms, but not for him - the USC. Even if the co sponsor is the one with all the money, you have to send in the I-864 for both the USC Sponsor and the co-sponsor, and any tax forms for both of them.

If he didn't file taxes, you can go to the IRS office and get a "verification of non-filing" to prove he didn't file taxes.

Hey all, just a quick question to make sure I do this right!

I just got a RFE for IRS issued transcripts or tax form 1040 for both my petitioner and joint sponsor, as well as proof of my joint sponsors citizenship.

I just want to double check that I only need to send in the IRS issued transcripts for both sponsors and a copy of my joint sponsors birth certificate, and not the entire I-864 forms again. Is this correct?

Also, I have my biometrics appointment in just over a week, I'm assuming this is still the case even with the RFE and I should still be going?

Thanks for any help!

Right, you don't have to send in what they haven't requested. If they didn't request the I-864, then you don't need to send it to them. The transcripts + proof of LPR/citizenship status should be sufficient, if that's all they asked for.

Yes, you can definitely still go to the biometrics appointment.

I also received same thing.. it says there RFE - I-485 and with an x mark - Submit a completed and signed Form I-864 Affidavit of Support. And I guess we did this before twice already. So I don't know why same docs are being asked now. It says here as well. "The Service will process your Form I-765, Application of Employment Authorization (if submitted) within 90 days of the receipt of your missing initial evidence."

And can i ask.. Did you undergo an interview after your biometrics?

We're still waiting for our interview letter.

Sorry, can you clarify a bit? The spill about the EAD within 90 days is normal. They've asked for your I-864? Have you had 2 RFEs already? Are you sure that your sponsor makes enough money? What does the text underneath the box say? Does it only say that about the EAD?

the green card and EAD card take about the same time to arrive 10 business days the welcome letter 3 business days from the status change or interview if put in the system the same day.

I love that you know that. Add it to the list of your theorems!

No, i dont have EAD nor the GC and my I94 has expired.

Anyways i went to the Social Security Office (Head Quarters) this morning and i was told that i cant get a SSN until i receive the GC. I told the lady my EAD has been approved by USCIS and i'm only waiting for it to be mailed to me. HEr response was that SSN can only be given to GC holder.

That's not right - we got it with the EAD only. Go back when you get that and try again.

Our interview went great! We got approved!

We got there 20 minutes early and waited in the mostly empty waiting room. Funny incident: one of the biometrics technicians needed someone who spoke Spanish to translate for this lady. I volunteered, listened to the lady and then repeated everything in Spanish back to him the security lady was laughing so hard she was almost crying. Anyway, we waited for about 30 minutes, and then we got called in. We got sworn in and he went over the application. He asked us questions about when we met, remarked on my husband's haircut (he used to wear his hair super long and now he wears it short)and asked us if we had any wedding pictures. I had TONS of pictures of everything and had just spent an entire day printing them out and carefully organizing them so I was pretty much like PICTURES I HAVE PICTURES PLEASE LOOK AT ALL MY PICTURES I even showed him pictures that he didn't even need to see, like one taken in the dark in Halloween where you can hardly make out our body shapes. For some reason he chose a picture of us in my husband's prom and photocopied it. He asked us if we had any joint anything, we showed him our rental lease and that was it since we can't do anything without an SSN. I pretty much spoke forever about our apartment, he seemed to be really amused by this. After he was (finally) done looking at our pictures he asked us if we wanted children. We talked a bit more about driving in Boise and then he started telling us about the GC, that it would arrive in 3 weeks and that it was conditional, he told me what to do with the EAD if it arrived after the GC and he took my border crossing card and my I-94. I'd kept my border crossing card's little envelope ever since they gave it to me 10 years ago, he was amused by this and let me keep the envelope. Overall interview lasted like 25 mins, it was actually kind of fun.

Congrats!!!

Totally LOL @ the translation mix up!

No, other areas of the law don't have more "regulation". An attorney can say he specializes in whatever he/she cares to say they specialize in. If the client is stupid enough to believe it without asking to see educational and professional credentials, then it's the clients fault.

Selecting an attorney is just like buying a car. Research it a little bit first and you should find joy.

Some of them do - patent, admiralty, etc. And technically, you can't say you're specializing unless you have some education beyond law school (but you can say that your client base is primarily x). According to the professional rules of responsibility anyway!

Also, some areas of law are required in law school, which is more than you can say for immigration.

But yes, people should definitely do their research!

COOL!

Why they do what btw? So people can go crazy? lol

Haha, something like that.

I have read several threads on this subject and the majority of them state that the dad would not have to fill out an I-864 and that the mom would have to provide W2 to verify her income in comparison to the tax transcripts. Anyone else agree with these other threads. thank you.

Is your mom's income alone - without your dad's income - sufficient to sponsor you?

I'd be hesitant, but maybe it's true. The worst that could happen is that you'll get an RFE for the I-864A, I think.

Okay....so, 1, breathe. 2, wait for the RFE. It doesn't do much good freaking out until you know what the RFE is for - it could be for something completely different. You have 87 days (typically) from the time the RFE was sent to get it in so wait until you get it, see what it says, and then people will be able to address that based on what the RFE actually says.

Yes, they'll pick it up at 4:30 this afternoon, and it'll be fine.

My mom intends on being a co-sponser, I need to know if the tax transcripts are joint with my dad, does my dad also have to fill out an I-864 - Affidavit of Support?

He has to fill out the I-864A.

Update for today.

Nearly 2 weeks after I gave up on the atty and sent the paperwork I'd compiled to Peter myself, she finally calls me back yesterday. She wanted to know if I received the NVC letter that she "thought" her paralegal sent to me before she went out of town on Monday. I told her that no, I hadn't. She said that it looks like our case will be sent to London very soon, so we should meet up to put together the paperwork to send over to him now that she had the case number, and that she had some time next Wednesday free.

I said, "I've had the case number for 2 weeks. I sent the paperwork to him almost 2 weeks ago. He got it on Monday. Our case was sent to the embassy last week, arrived there last Friday, was logged in yesterday and Packet 3 was already sent out."

She said, "You already sent out the paperwork? But you needed this scan code to put on everything, this case number, so that when he sends things back to the NVC they can scan it in!"

I said, "What are you talking about? For a K1 he doesn't send anything to the NVC. It's all at the embassy stage now."

She replies, "Are you sure? Hmmmm.... I'll have to look here.... K1's are so different than K3's.... Well, you should be ok then, I guess..."

Grrrrr. She needs to take down her shingle and find another line of work.

Oh dear. She sounds like a mess more & more every time you post. Sorry!

I have a copy of EVERYTHING, even stuff I didn't send in. Thanks, I was seriously freaking out. I'm so stressed my eye is actually twitching :rofl:

Haha, I figured. Sometimes all we need is for people to tell us to calm down so that's what I was trying to do. It's going to be fine!