i-601: General Moral Support, i-601 app

[mnmex 0]

Benita...are you sure Eggbear did AOS? I thought Victor got his immigrant visa.

Marta...you are a smart girl...you can totally fill out the stuff for the I-130 on your own. Here is a flow chart of how the NVC works. (Got it from VJ under sticky section of NVC thread)

http://www.visajourney.com/examples/NVC_Pr...wchart_v1-2.pdf

Here is the choice of agent form (DS -3032): http://foia.state.gov/FORMS/visa/ds3032.pdf

Here is the application for immigrant visa (DS-230): http://foia.state.gov/FORMS/visa/ds0230.pdf

And the I-864 has to do with taxes..they just want copies of last 3 years.

We'll help you out if you want....In my opinion $500 is highway robbery. But if you are going to do it, I'd get to it...each day that passes is another day wasted. The phone number for NVC is: 603-334-0700. You can ask they send your info immediately to your house or go to your lawyers office and get it from them.

[martaprestegui 0]

Thanks.

I thought I had it all figured out ,that I would just go with the 129 but after reading how they got angry at chagafamilia I have had second thoughts.

I just thought that if I showed them my I-130 approval letter from nvc that they woul give us that instead.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

So we wasted a day. Not to mention the gas and money we spent going down there. They wouldn't do anything for us until we have his card. The lady was not very bright. She didn't even know what a green card was. She said she had to have his A number and we don't have that. I can't believe they don't put it on the visa somewhere. He wasn't in the system yet. I hope they just haven't gotten around to getting him in there and that there isn't something wrong. I guess we will just wait till we get his greencard and then try again. I should have known better than to try and get a jump on things. It never turns out well for me.

[chagalafamilia 0]

Benita,, For us, it took just over 2 months from when we submitted the AOS paperwork until we got the EAD in the mail. Another thing to note is that the EAD expires one year from date of issuance. I don't know yet what we have to to renew it. The AOS for our district office is taking a year and a half according to the processing dates, but by looking at the timelines on VJ, it looks like it's actually taking 8-10 month average from when AOS is sent in until the interview date. I don't count too much on the processing dates, but for my sanity, I don't plan on him getting his greencard before the year and a half. That way if he gets it sooner, we'll have that much more to celebrate.

Have you or your husband discussed him taking ESL classes during his wait? I don't know what level of English he already speaks, but in our area there are free ESL classes for levels 1-5 and levels 6&7 are what you have to pay for at the community college. It might be something to look into; it's a good way to keep busy and to help build life skilsl in the meanwhile.

Did you come in on the I-129, K-3 visa? When you filed, did you file for the EAD and the AOS seperately or did you just file for the AOS and that automatically generated the EAD?

I know he needs to take some ESL classes, but he fusses so much because he hated school when he was younger and does not think he needs to be in school now. I told him that he could get someone else to take some classes with him.

[chagalafamilia 0]

So we wasted a day. Not to mention the gas and money we spent going down there. They wouldn't do anything for us until we have his card. The lady was not very bright. She didn't even know what a green card was. She said she had to have his A number and we don't have that. I can't believe they don't put it on the visa somewhere. He wasn't in the system yet. I hope they just haven't gotten around to getting him in there and that there isn't something wrong. I guess we will just wait till we get his greencard and then try again. I should have known better than to try and get a jump on things. It never turns out well for me.

I want to tell you that Javier's "A" number is on every coorspondance you have received from USCIS. I am sure you have a paper with his name (which matches his passport) and the "A" number. So you can take the passport and one of those papers (the waiver approval paper has it I just looked) to the SSA. Maybe you can still get a jump on things, if you can get another day off to go there. Did you find out when they bring the mobile SSA unit to your town??

Thanks.

I thought I had it all figured out ,that I would just go with the 129 but after reading how they got angry at chagafamilia I have had second thoughts.

I just thought that if I showed them my I-130 approval letter from nvc that they woul give us that instead.

Marta: The agent at the consulate did not get angry at Alex and I, he was angry that our lawyer had not had us process the I-130 so that when Alex came for the second interview he would have come in on the IR-1, (because we have been married more than 2 years) that would give him permission to work, already be permenant resident and get his 10 year green card.

[mnmex 0]

Sorry Charity the SSA people were not bright about the process. That really sucks because what I told you we brought was good enough for them. Sorry our experience didn’t help you. As for the A #, we didn’t get that until we got our Welcome to the USA letter from USCIS. The A # is on that notice type thing. I didn’t see that # written anywhere else on our stuff, just his CDJ #. But maybe I didn’t look very hard.

Take care folks.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Well I called the office at the El Paso border crossing. That man said the lady at the SS office didn't know what she was talking about. He said she didn't need anything else to give him his ss #. This just burns me up. What an idiot! He told me to call the nearest immigration office and have them contact the SS office to let them know they messed up. I tried to call the SS office back but of course it is busy. They close at 4 so I guess I will have to call them tomorrow. I am fuming right now. She better be glad I can't get through to her. I would let her have it. I don't have time to be taking random days off from work to go down there and get turned away. She said it was immigrations fault. Yeah right. Nice to know the people working in our government offices are so well trained.

[mnmex 0]

Ohhh Charity I would have let her have it to! And you will, tomorrow! If she tries to be a b*itch get her supervisor and then pass along the phone number to El Paso border patrol so they can see for themselves how wrong they are! Imagine how many people they have turned away who had the correct info with them.

#$%#^ inept gov’t workers.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Where is everyone?????

I feel like I have been abandoned.

Come back, come back!!!!

[Traviesa 0]

Presente! Not happy about it, but...presente! I could seriously have just taken the rest of the week off. I will probably need all that time to finish packing. Seeings how I got tons done yesterday but there's tons left to do. I was thinking about e-mailing today to check on the Advisory Opinion. It's been officially two weeks since the last inquiry.

[Traviesa 0]

Ok now I'm all alone!!!

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Go ahead and email them. It has been long enough. I hope you get a quick and happy response.

[Traviesa 0]

Ok I e-mailed them. Now will come the Automated Response and hopefully an answer by the end of the day. Of course I'll let you guys know!!

[chagalafamilia 0]

I am sending good vibes out for you Melissa.

[Traviesa 0]

I never got the automated response...

What could that possibly mean? Maybe the e-mail never sent. Maybe it sent but is still floating around in cyberspace. Maybe they've shut down the Legal Net system. Maybe they're so on top of things they no longer need an automated response. Oh well...if it sent, it sent. If it didn't, it didn't. I'll just wait and if I don't hear anything by the end of the day, I'll assume it didn't send and I'm not meant to hear the response now (another sign for next Thursday??)