August 2008 AOS Filers

[ManuFred 10]

Congrats to everyone on their news. Sounds like lots of movement. Congrats to those who have gotten GC, EAD, AP, and interview lettesr....and GFL...it will work out!!

So, here is our story. GC came in the mail today, which was just a little too good to be true. I didn't really think that we would be done with immigration this soon, and well, we might not be.....So, the card came without my husband's two last names. It only has his first one. This is the same thing that we thought we had fixed during the biometrics appointment, and then again during an hour long conversation with USCIS. And what really bums me out is that both the EAD and AP DID in fact get fixed....so why not the GC??? (rhetorical)

So anyone want to take a guess at what the risks would be for us having him use the GC as is?? The names that are listed are all correct, all in order, all written correctly....just missing his second last name. I should say that his SSC does have all 4 names listed.....

booo.....any ideas??

It is pretty normal I should say. In America most people have one middle name and therefore use of only one middlename is pretty standard. My Greencard spells out my first and given name in full and displays only the first initial of my middle name on the top and spells it out at the bottom. My 2nd middle name is not there.

[Goldfee111 3]

johnnie u did fine in german hehe..but...u said u are sad that iam a woman...why that..i love to be a woman heheehehe

hope i find good news in my mailbox today

[Jeraly 4]

johnnie actually iam still a woman lolol but german womans drink beer too hehe

And English ones

johnnie actually iam still a woman lolol but german womans drink beer too hehe

I' trauriges m, dachte ich, dass Sie ein Mann waren. Mein Deutsch ist noch, I' ein wenig kurzes; m, das mit Rosetta Stein erlernt.

Is Rosetta Stone good? Is it really expensive? I am thinking I need to learn Spanish as there are so many jobs that require you to be bilingual here

Oh! And good luck to Jen for her interview today

[Goldfee111 3]

hey jeraly

can u put me also on the sheet??and btw i cant see it anymore there is now a login require?

[GFL 0]

Hey guys .. Thank you for your regards!! I really appreciate it. I know things will be better the second time around.

Okay, now here it is .. all the details about my experience on Monday:

First, I want to say that everybody's case is unique and all interviews are different. So let's hope that your experience will be better than mine.

After stressing like a crazy person the last 2 days before the interview, preparing all the documents, putting everything in order, printing all are pictures, organizing 2 albums .. I go to sleep at 3 a.m. to wake up at 8:30 a.m. to get ready for interview at 11:30.

We get to the office at 11:20 a.m.. The main door is locked, a security officer puts his head out the door every 2 minutes and call some people in, so you wait outside the building for a little bit. So he called and I showed him my interview letter. We go right in and pass through security. The office is crowded, people everywhere. So I asked them, where do we go now? Another security officer said, I will take this (the interview letter) .. just go to the end of the hall and wait there until your name is called.

We go and sit there. Hall is in form of an C shape, so wasn't sure where to sit. Well the IOs go through the halls calling people's name when there time is up. Very strange and disorganized. I felt like I was in Brazil .. LOL So we decide to go to another side of the hall where it said all interviews wait here.

Okay, we wait .. 30 minutes passed and nothing. They were calling everybody else, but us. I started to wonder if the security officer had given them my letter and if they knew we where there. I had originally thought that everything was going to be quick and by noon we would've been out there. Right!

So we asked an IO walking by to a locked door where they were calling people in and she said it is very typical for the office to be running late! Okay .. we think .. just got to have some patience here. In the meantime, IOs were walking back and forth to their offices about a million times, it seemed that all they did was walk around. I noticed that they were calling couples individually, one first then the other.. so I was ready for them to call us separate too. Another half an hour passes by, 12:30 and nothing .. 1:00pm nothing ..1:30pm .. nothing ... ... so my husband says .. let's go ask that officer and make sure he did give them the letter, because this is ridiculous. I go and ask, the guy says .. it is normal! They just called a gentleman who got here at 10:30 am!!! Wow .. I could not believe it.

What happened was that I think they took their lunch and just let us waiting for them. So finally at 2:20 pm he calls me in. Almost 3 hours later!!!! Ridiculous!

I asked him if I should bring all the documents with me, he says, yes, bring everything. He asked me who the man was sitting next to me, I said, my husband. He says, then you come in too. He didn't even know this was a family based petition.

We follow him to his cubicle, he swears us in and have us sit down. Goes through the file slowly without saying a word, then finally starts shooting questions at me.

* Can I see some identification please?

* Can I see any/all travel documents?

* Is this your first marriage? (looks at me and my husband)

* Do you have any children together? Do you have any children anywhere in this world? (we say, NO.) lol

* Do I know his mother? Does his mother like?

* Where is his mother from? Where does she live know?

* To my husband: Does her father like you?

* Where did you meet? When did you meet?

* Where you on vacation there?

* To me: Where do you live now? I said the name of the city, he says where? I gave him the address.

* Where did you get married?

* What is (the name of his company)? What do they do? My husband told them.

* Asked me, did anybody help you prepare this file? Nobody?? (He didn't believe me!)

* Can I see his tax returns? (Was already in the file, yet gave him the IRS original tax transcript).

* What are these vaccines here?? I said, what vaccines? All this here. I said, I don't know, the doctor gave me a TB test and I had to come back but everything was fine. So he checks off the list on the exam form. As he is asking me all these questions, he is checking off a list on a separate piece of paper.

* Did anybody help you prepare these documents? Nobody at all?? (Asks me again!)

* Where do my parents live?

* Where did I live before?

* What was my husband's previous address? As he looks the bio sheet I filled out.

* What about the address previous to that? (I was so nervous, could not remember and I didn't know my husband 5 years ago.) He asked, where did he live? It was a different city so I told him.

* What did you do for your honeymoon? We said nothing. We wanted to go out of the country, so we didn't do anything. And both of our families were here so we only stayed at a hotel by the beach for one night.

* Can I see some bonafide marriage documents please?

* Do you work? I said no, he said why not? I told him I just got my EAD card 2 weeks ago and I am looking for work. He says, what about before, all these months you've been here? Do you not work because you choose not to? My husband and I looked at each other and said, yes. I said I didn't really have to work and I just got my employment card. I said I did mortgages before, where I used to live (northeast). He says, well that business is done now, huh? I said, yes it is.

So I gave him: car title, car insurance, car registration, utility bills, copies of 2 joint credit cards, copy of a blank check showing joint bank account, lease, letter from apartment community confirming the lease .. my husband offers the pictures for him to look at. He says, it's okay. Okay, ok show them to me. My husband flips through the album with our wedding pictures and starts showing him who's who, our family .. the guy is not even looking!! He was so rude.

I then, gave him a copy of the front page of our bank statement, that's when he started implicating.. He kept asking .. I need to see how you pay your rent .. How do I know you're paying your rent? (I am thinking .. what??? Is this a mortgage loan application, where we need proof of rent history? When I had just given him the lease and a letter from the apartment community confirming the lease and saying we pay the rent on time!?)

He took the car title and asked ME, of course, .. what kind of car do you drive? (as he is looking the car title) I said, a Mercedes (he said wow!), who's car was it first? I said mine. That was from the good times in the mortgage business. But now it is his car, he's the one who drives it. He said you only have one car? We said yes.

He says I want to see the other pages of the bank statement with all activity. So I gave him .. now the problem is that my husband and I have been procrastinating and not added his name to my account yet. We have his account and a savings account together. But all our bills and income come and go from my account. He is the only one working and his paychecks are directly deposited to my account and I manage all the bills. The account we kept that was his is just spare money that we use for gas and going out sometimes. He started giving us a hard time about it, saying that it didn't make sense to him. The husband is the only one working and all the income and bill payments come from your individual account? I told him, we procrastinated on adding his name to it and didn't care too much about it, doesn't really matter to us, it's all our money and our bills (plus I showed they were all joint). He just thought we had a fake marriage!!! I could not believe it. He thought everything was a setup!!! Everything is too well prepared to be true! Everything he asked me for, I had. All the documents were extremely well organized on the original application, nothing missing, nothing wrong. Everything in order. I had all the proof he wanted for everything .. Therefore the J*%k did not believe us!!!

Then, he starts typing on his computer and says that he will need to see more documentation before he can approve this for us. I am thinking okay, ask me whatever you want, I have 3 binders with everything .. He prints out a piece of paper saying request for evidence .. So, I immediately realized that that was it. Was not going to happen today, after hours and hours of waiting, and all this questioning .. I was so disappointed, could not believe it. It seemed like he had already made the decision he was going to deny his next applicant and we happened to be the lucky ones. I honestly think that he thought this was all fraud. My husband hadn't realized that he had not approved it. He's like, okay .. we'll mail you the documents then. As I am trying to hold myself together until I get back to the car. I broke down! I was so upset and disappointed you guys cannot believe. I was so rebelled of the fact that he thinks our marriage is fake!! Are you kidding me? I was ready to tell him to come knock on my door if he wants to! Aggggrrhhh .. we were planning on going to the Bahamas for New Year's ..

Oh, well .. there you guys have it. Everything with all the details of details of details of what happened.

I hope this helps you guys.

Moral of story, my conclusion is that this whole thing can be very subjective. They'll approve you if they want to, if they don't feel like it, or the time is up to deny somebody, they will. I guess he has to show to his boss he is working!

Sorry for the looooonnnng post.

God bless you all.

Gotta get help on my RFE now.

[JeffandDona 0]

OH MY GOD! Its like they have their mind set on who the want to approve and who they don't. I am so sorry to hear what happened. Just try to send the stuff in as fast as possible and I am sure that everything will be ok. I will keep you in my prayers. Good luck!

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

The comment about what kind of car you drove would have sent me through the roof...WTH was that about. Many prayers and good luck...how fustrating...

Sound like the experience I had at my fiance's interview in Jamaica. I'm the USC and I was drilled with 25 questions.

[Andres and Diana 0]

QUESTION!!!

So my husband applied for his AOS back in August...so far we have gotten EAD, AP, SSN, and DL.

There is one thing that has been plagueing me! I forgot to send in the proof for his vacines that he got while he was in colombia. He was required to have a medical exam for the visa process so he should be in the clear right? No RFE? I think since we got EAD and AP approved with no RFE we should be in the clear? I guess this just comes at a vexing time. Any info will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

Diana and Andres

[Jeraly 4]

hey jeraly

can u put me also on the sheet??and btw i cant see it anymore there is now a login require?

I made some changes to it yesterday which is why you might not have been able to see it - I've changed it again so let me know if you still have trouble I'll add you in a little bit as well

GFL - sounds like the guy got out of the wrong side of bed and was having a bad day. Tbh it sounds like he was an idiot and if you get things together then I am sure it will be much better next time

[Jeraly 4]

Goldfee - did you not apply for AP? And was the RFE for EAD or AOS?

Other than that, all is updated

[Goldfee111 3]

hey

i did not apply for AP....didnt need one....but u wrote that the Case is transfered to CSC...do u know more then me hehe

in my online status at the uscis webside is still standing this

Application Type: I485, APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Response to request for evidence received, and case processing has resumed.

On September 18, 2008, we received your response to our request for evidence. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. You should expect to receive a written decision or written update within 60 days of the date we received your response unless fingerprint processing or an interview are standard parts of case processing and have not yet been completed, in which case you can use our processing dates to estimate when this case will be done. This case is at our NATIONAL BENEFITS CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

so i dont know if its now on the CSC but if ur cristallball said it was transfered that would be cool hoe hoe

the RFE was that they miss my birthcertificate....didnt understand that because i sent it....

and my local office is dallas....so i dont know if my case get transfered to the CSC or TSC...i dont think that it goes to texas center because they dont do the I130...i think this cases will be handle only in vermont and california....maybe u can help me with this questions????iam only worried because the last touch was on the 18 september:-(

Edited December 10, 2008 by Goldfee111

[aicecream 0]

Hey guys .. Thank you for your regards!! I really appreciate it. I know things will be better the second time around.

Okay, now here it is .. all the details about my experience on Monday:

First, I want to say that everybody's case is unique and all interviews are different. So let's hope that your experience will be better than mine.

After stressing like a crazy person the last 2 days before the interview, preparing all the documents, putting everything in order, printing all are pictures, organizing 2 albums .. I go to sleep at 3 a.m. to wake up at 8:30 a.m. to get ready for interview at 11:30.

We get to the office at 11:20 a.m.. The main door is locked, a security officer puts his head out the door every 2 minutes and call some people in, so you wait outside the building for a little bit. So he called and I showed him my interview letter. We go right in and pass through security. The office is crowded, people everywhere. So I asked them, where do we go now? Another security officer said, I will take this (the interview letter) .. just go to the end of the hall and wait there until your name is called.

We go and sit there. Hall is in form of an C shape, so wasn't sure where to sit. Well the IOs go through the halls calling people's name when there time is up. Very strange and disorganized. I felt like I was in Brazil .. LOL So we decide to go to another side of the hall where it said all interviews wait here.

Okay, we wait .. 30 minutes passed and nothing. They were calling everybody else, but us. I started to wonder if the security officer had given them my letter and if they knew we where there. I had originally thought that everything was going to be quick and by noon we would've been out there. Right!

So we asked an IO walking by to a locked door where they were calling people in and she said it is very typical for the office to be running late! Okay .. we think .. just got to have some patience here. In the meantime, IOs were walking back and forth to their offices about a million times, it seemed that all they did was walk around. I noticed that they were calling couples individually, one first then the other.. so I was ready for them to call us separate too. Another half an hour passes by, 12:30 and nothing .. 1:00pm nothing ..1:30pm .. nothing ... ... so my husband says .. let's go ask that officer and make sure he did give them the letter, because this is ridiculous. I go and ask, the guy says .. it is normal! They just called a gentleman who got here at 10:30 am!!! Wow .. I could not believe it.

What happened was that I think they took their lunch and just let us waiting for them. So finally at 2:20 pm he calls me in. Almost 3 hours later!!!! Ridiculous!

I asked him if I should bring all the documents with me, he says, yes, bring everything. He asked me who the man was sitting next to me, I said, my husband. He says, then you come in too. He didn't even know this was a family based petition.

We follow him to his cubicle, he swears us in and have us sit down. Goes through the file slowly without saying a word, then finally starts shooting questions at me.

* Can I see some identification please?

* Can I see any/all travel documents?

* Is this your first marriage? (looks at me and my husband)

* Do you have any children together? Do you have any children anywhere in this world? (we say, NO.) lol

* Do I know his mother? Does his mother like?

* Where is his mother from? Where does she live know?

* To my husband: Does her father like you?

* Where did you meet? When did you meet?

* Where you on vacation there?

* To me: Where do you live now? I said the name of the city, he says where? I gave him the address.

* Where did you get married?

* What is (the name of his company)? What do they do? My husband told them.

* Asked me, did anybody help you prepare this file? Nobody?? (He didn't believe me!)

* Can I see his tax returns? (Was already in the file, yet gave him the IRS original tax transcript).

* What are these vaccines here?? I said, what vaccines? All this here. I said, I don't know, the doctor gave me a TB test and I had to come back but everything was fine. So he checks off the list on the exam form. As he is asking me all these questions, he is checking off a list on a separate piece of paper.

* Did anybody help you prepare these documents? Nobody at all?? (Asks me again!)

* Where do my parents live?

* Where did I live before?

* What was my husband's previous address? As he looks the bio sheet I filled out.

* What about the address previous to that? (I was so nervous, could not remember and I didn't know my husband 5 years ago.) He asked, where did he live? It was a different city so I told him.

* What did you do for your honeymoon? We said nothing. We wanted to go out of the country, so we didn't do anything. And both of our families were here so we only stayed at a hotel by the beach for one night.

* Can I see some bonafide marriage documents please?

* Do you work? I said no, he said why not? I told him I just got my EAD card 2 weeks ago and I am looking for work. He says, what about before, all these months you've been here? Do you not work because you choose not to? My husband and I looked at each other and said, yes. I said I didn't really have to work and I just got my employment card. I said I did mortgages before, where I used to live (northeast). He says, well that business is done now, huh? I said, yes it is.

So I gave him: car title, car insurance, car registration, utility bills, copies of 2 joint credit cards, copy of a blank check showing joint bank account, lease, letter from apartment community confirming the lease .. my husband offers the pictures for him to look at. He says, it's okay. Okay, ok show them to me. My husband flips through the album with our wedding pictures and starts showing him who's who, our family .. the guy is not even looking!! He was so rude.

I then, gave him a copy of the front page of our bank statement, that's when he started implicating.. He kept asking .. I need to see how you pay your rent .. How do I know you're paying your rent? (I am thinking .. what??? Is this a mortgage loan application, where we need proof of rent history? When I had just given him the lease and a letter from the apartment community confirming the lease and saying we pay the rent on time!?)

He took the car title and asked ME, of course, .. what kind of car do you drive? (as he is looking the car title) I said, a Mercedes (he said wow!), who's car was it first? I said mine. That was from the good times in the mortgage business. But now it is his car, he's the one who drives it. He said you only have one car? We said yes.

He says I want to see the other pages of the bank statement with all activity. So I gave him .. now the problem is that my husband and I have been procrastinating and not added his name to my account yet. We have his account and a savings account together. But all our bills and income come and go from my account. He is the only one working and his paychecks are directly deposited to my account and I manage all the bills. The account we kept that was his is just spare money that we use for gas and going out sometimes. He started giving us a hard time about it, saying that it didn't make sense to him. The husband is the only one working and all the income and bill payments come from your individual account? I told him, we procrastinated on adding his name to it and didn't care too much about it, doesn't really matter to us, it's all our money and our bills (plus I showed they were all joint). He just thought we had a fake marriage!!! I could not believe it. He thought everything was a setup!!! Everything is too well prepared to be true! Everything he asked me for, I had. All the documents were extremely well organized on the original application, nothing missing, nothing wrong. Everything in order. I had all the proof he wanted for everything .. Therefore the J*%k did not believe us!!!

Then, he starts typing on his computer and says that he will need to see more documentation before he can approve this for us. I am thinking okay, ask me whatever you want, I have 3 binders with everything .. He prints out a piece of paper saying request for evidence .. So, I immediately realized that that was it. Was not going to happen today, after hours and hours of waiting, and all this questioning .. I was so disappointed, could not believe it. It seemed like he had already made the decision he was going to deny his next applicant and we happened to be the lucky ones. I honestly think that he thought this was all fraud. My husband hadn't realized that he had not approved it. He's like, okay .. we'll mail you the documents then. As I am trying to hold myself together until I get back to the car. I broke down! I was so upset and disappointed you guys cannot believe. I was so rebelled of the fact that he thinks our marriage is fake!! Are you kidding me? I was ready to tell him to come knock on my door if he wants to! Aggggrrhhh .. we were planning on going to the Bahamas for New Year's ..

Oh, well .. there you guys have it. Everything with all the details of details of details of what happened.

I hope this helps you guys.

Moral of story, my conclusion is that this whole thing can be very subjective. They'll approve you if they want to, if they don't feel like it, or the time is up to deny somebody, they will. I guess he has to show to his boss he is working!

Sorry for the looooonnnng post.

God bless you all.

Gotta get help on my RFE now.

Sorry about the REF. Hope you can get a better interview officer next time!

To be honest, why would anyone try to fake a marriage in today's economic downturn? It doesn't make sense. As far as I can see, only true love can get going after the mission impossible waiting process and paperwork and interview and ....

[Jeraly 4]

Hey Goldfee - I think I just got confused with your sig saying transferred to NBC Have changed it back now

Any word from jundp?

[jundp 191]

johnnie actually iam still a woman lolol but german womans drink beer too hehe

I' trauriges m, dachte ich, dass Sie ein Mann waren. Mein Deutsch ist noch, I' ein wenig kurzes; m, das mit Rosetta Stein erlernt.

Johnnie...was?! I think Rosetta Stone split apart your "I'm"

QUESTION!!!

So my husband applied for his AOS back in August...so far we have gotten EAD, AP, SSN, and DL.

There is one thing that has been plagueing me! I forgot to send in the proof for his vacines that he got while he was in colombia. He was required to have a medical exam for the visa process so he should be in the clear right? No RFE? I think since we got EAD and AP approved with no RFE we should be in the clear? I guess this just comes at a vexing time. Any info will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

Diana and Andres

If it's been less than a year since your husband had his medical, which was submitted at the embassy, then you are fine.

Ok, interview today:

Got there at 10:45 and checked in. Had time to walk upstairs and use the restroom (TMI?) and then they called us back. We showed identification, he asked to see any information we had showing joint residency. We gave him copies of our lease, bank statements, health and car insurance, and a utility bill. Then he asked the questions on the I 485 and we all got a good laugh about "are you planning to overthrow the government or engage in genocide?" That was it. He stamped P's passport with the I551 and said we should have the card in 2 or 3 weeks.

Whew!

[Johnnie J 0]

Ok, so everyone drinks beer...lets all have a X-mas party.

Actually I'm still learning, I started a couple of weeks ago so I have some typos.

Rosetta Stone is great though its $495 per language package. I got it off the web....

21 languages....so if anyone needs a copy...glad to ship'em out (you cover the postage costs).