AOS Package

[honeyblonde 0]

We just got back from the post office mailing Abdel's AOS, EAD & AP package. What a huge job that was! We couldn't even use the standard Express Mail package because it was so big - we had to use the floppy big envelope.

I am so glad that is finished. We expect to finish the bathroom this weekend except for sealing the border on the tile, and hope to get a good bit done in the laundry room too. Thank goodness that is out of the way and we can focus on the house more now.

[noura 0]

Congrats Liz & Abdel! What a relief to have it done, eh? I was just online w/ Said and was talking about what I had to do around the house... he says to me "I wish I could be there to help you. We will make a nice garden and make a lovely home" - He's been here before, but hopefully he knows what he's in for!!! LOL... Insh'allah, we will get things together nicely. It will just be nice to have him here to do things with me.

I'm rambling on... CONGRATS GETTING UR PACKAGE OUT!!! We are nearly ready to send our K1 pkg out too (finally!!!).

Have a wonderful weekend...

Noura

[MaryandMian 1]

Good luck on your processing.

[rachid120 0]

hello everyone please i read all your posts and i wanna share too because iam really heart broken now i was denied my k3 visa last week and we all denied 5 of us and the officer handed me a paper 221(g) and stamped my back of my passport and said ok Mr we will call you in 1 or 2 weeks to give you your visa and he gave me back my passport i know he lied to me iam not stupid he told me that because my wife was outside waiting for me i told him so because he asked me a question he said what if i dont give you the visa what would you do and your wife ? i said we will freak out because we have to be together and i showed him proofs i just wanna let you know everyone who got denied thats not a document needed the ONLY REASON IS validty of relationship and it's sent back to usa it's only for investigating thats all nothing more because they have all the documents they ask for iam not stupid ,my wife and me really got very sick that day we did not eat and we did not do anything and i cried a lot because i dont know why in 5 minutes eveything goes off with dust ,and iam sure that they decide a day not to give visas because we were about 30 persons of us vistors and green card winners and k3 visas just about 4 people who got it and they rest was denied :(my wife is here with me now we are clueless we dont know what to do please give me advices give me your husbands email and phone numbers i really want to share my feelings with somone who married an american i wanna share his feeling of love and i will feel comfortable bye bye and thanks a lot i love you my wife and i will love you forever and never give up on you

[Bosco 1]

hello everyone please i read all your posts and i wanna share too because iam really heart broken now i was denied my k3 visa last week and we all denied 5 of us and the officer handed me a paper 221(g) and stamped my back of my passport and said ok Mr we will call you in 1 or 2 weeks to give you your visa and he gave me back my passport i know he lied to me iam not stupid he told me that because my wife was outside waiting for me i told him so because he asked me a question he said what if i dont give you the visa what would you do and your wife ? i said we will freak out because we have to be together and i showed him proofs i just wanna let you know everyone who got denied thats not a document needed the ONLY REASON IS validty of relationship and it's sent back to usa it's only for investigating thats all nothing more because they have all the documents they ask for iam not stupid ,my wife and me really got very sick that day we did not eat and we did not do anything and i cried a lot because i dont know why in 5 minutes eveything goes off with dust ,and iam sure that they decide a day not to give visas because we were about 30 persons of us vistors and green card winners and k3 visas just about 4 people who got it and they rest was denied :(my wife is here with me now we are clueless we dont know what to do please give me advices give me your husbands email and phone numbers i really want to share my feelings with somone who married an american i wanna share his feeling of love and i will feel comfortable bye bye and thanks a lot i love you my wife and i will love you forever and never give up on you

A 221(g) is NOT a denial. If he told you he will call you in one or two weeks, you are probably now in Administrative Review. You really need to look at the paper he gave you and see what is checked.

The paper they gave you will have a list with things they can mark off. The first item on that list is usually Administrative Review. This just means you have to wait while they are running a background check on you. Also, they can mark that they are returning your case to USCIS. Even if this is the case, you have not been denied. Your case will be reviewed and you will have a chance to appeal.

You really need to look to see exactly what is marked on the paper you were given. Do not assume you have been denied.

If you want to be in touch with my husband, send a private email to us and he will get it.

Rebecca

[dollface41601 0]

Rachid....your jumping to conclusions....it doesnt sound like a denial to me....your on AR or so it sounds....what country are you processing thru? If its Morocco, what happened to you is not uncommon at all

[Jasman0717 9]

Congratulations and good luck

[honeyblonde 0]

Noura, You haven't even sent in your I-129F yet? Shame on you girl! I thought I was late. Just kidding, I know you've had document issues. I miss talking to you online. I was just telling Abdel this morning that you were the last person I talked to on Yahoo Messenger. I don't even keep it on anymore now that he is here.

Rebecca, I miss talking to you too.

Rachid, it actually sounds like you got approved and will have a visa in 2 to 4 weeks. This is very normal processing in Morocco. Nobody gets the visa the same day there anymore. If you read the consulate website you will see that it is even posted there that they don't issue them the same day. Sometimes they keep the passports there, sometimes they do not. I think they were keeping them the week Abdel was there because it was Ramadan and for some weird reason they were in a generous mood. Don't be surprised if they ask you to bring in your passport and leave it, and don't call you to come get it for a week or two. That is normal there too.

Thank you all for the best wishes. I looked on the timelines here and see that since Atlanta is our office, we are probably in for a very long wait for an interview. I'm glad they don't process the EAD & AP or we'd never get those either. Looks like I'll be hanging out with you guys for at least another year, and maybe by then you'll be such close friends I won't be able to leave!

[kerewin21 2]

Congrats on getting your packet off, Liz! We're still waiting on the documents from our co-sponsor, I don't think he really wants to do it but Majid says he has to because he knows if he doesn't Maj will tell his family and he'll be embarrassed. Sometimes I'm not sure if Maj's ideas are a true reflection of the Moroccan culture or if they're just him... Like he says he hates using his cousin as our co-sponsor because he thinks he'll tell everyone how he helped Majid get to this country and it's because of him that he's here.

Oh well, I hope his cousin comes through for us soon because his visa's up on the 14th. We were supposed to go there this afternoon but we can't because of the snow.

Rachid, give us more details on your 221(g), are you sure you were denied? We had a 221g and it was just to wait for a security check.

[Carola 0]

Good luck on your processing

[tnh9479 1]

Glad you are finally in AOS land! Congrats!

Is your local office Atlanta? I would think Jacksonville would make more sense. It is much closer. Oh well...that's USCIS!

Twila

[honeyblonde 0]

I'm guessing it's Atlanta because a girl I work with that is adopting is going through there. Charleston is only 1 hour away so that would even be more logical than Jacksonville, but hey, I'd even take Jacksonville over Atlanta!

Is there a way to find out definitely?

[myfellah 0]

Liz I wish you and Abdel lots of luck. We submitted our paperwork 8/13 and by November we had our AOS appointment date set for 1/26. We lived only 20 minutes from our interview office. I sure hope yours will be closer and you receive an interview date real soon. Now we need to time the 2 year interview just right. In his Welcome to America notice they said to schedule it a few months beforehand, now when is that???? I guess I should just relax for at least a year before back to immigration again.

Anyway Good Luck

Doreen

[lostinlove228 0]

congrats on getting your papers out

[Peggy 1]

Congrats. Its a great feeling having AOS sent.