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apeach601   0

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Dominican Republic
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Congratulations :dance:

Our Timeline

01/03/2006 Sent Via express mail.

01/05/2006 Received and signend by P. Novak.

01/11/2006 Still waiting.... I check everyday.

01/12/2006 Check Cashed.....

01/13/2006 Noa received on 01/13/06 Friday the 13th Ooooohhhhh.

01/27/2006 Touched.

02/10/2006 Aproved NOA 2

02/13/2006 Noa 2 emailed ..... So happy

02/15/2006 Called NVC Received new case #

02/16/2006 Received NOA 2 Snail mail.

02/17/2006 Sent to the consulate

05/10/2006 Still waiting for interview sucks

05/19/2006 Going to see my honey !!!

NigerLA Enthusiast

NigerLA   1

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Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: Nigeria
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Congratulations!!! Garden City is doing really great now. Don't worry about the rain, the sun just shined brightly on you.

N 400 Journey

Sent Package-12/13/2008 VSC

Biometrics - 01/07/09

Original Interview Date - 04/07/09 (File has not arrived)

Interview Date - 05/13/09

Oath Letter Received - 06/11/09

USC - 07/02/09

Passport/PC (Expedited) -07/02/09

Passport/PC Received - 07/11/09

chagalafamilia Enthusiast

chagalafamilia   0

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Mexico
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YEAH. Congratulations. I am very happy for you.

What will they do if you don't have a new Affidavit of Support?

~~~~~~~~~~Time Line~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

02-03-2006 Received K-3 Visa.

02-21-2006 Filed I-485 and I-765 with lawyer.

03-04-2006 Received NOA on both AOS and EAD.

03-21-2006 Biometrics for AOS & EAD.(Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary)

03-22-2006 AOS & EAD Touched.

03-23-2006 AOS & EAD Touched.

03-31-2006 Emily's Birthday ~ 2 Years Old

03-31-2006 AOS & EAD Touched. (Could be from the AR-11 and I-865 Change of address forms).

04-03-2006 AOS & EAD Touched.

05-09-2006 USCIS Site states that EAD was approved.

05-11-2006 Received EAD Card in the mail.

06-05-2006 Received AOS Interview letter.

07-26-2006 AOS Interview - APPROVED.

07-31-2006 Received WELCOME letter in the mail.

07-31-2006 Received E-mail -- Card is on the way.

08-05-2006 Received Green Card -- Good for 10 years.

11-08-2006 New addition to the family - Anali Grace was born

~*Dorothy*~ Proficient

~*Dorothy*~   2

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Morocco
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Congratulations :dance::dance:

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Citizenship (N-400)

09/15/2009 - Application mailed to Texas Lockbox

09/17/2009 - Delivered to the Lockbox

09/21/2009 - Check cashed

09/24/2009 - NOA dated 9/18/09

09/26/2009 - RFE mailed out dated 9/25 (biometrics notice)

10/14/2009 - Biometrics completed

01/01/2010 - finally an update - awaiting interview letter

02/08/2010 - interview (Garden City, NY) -- PASSED

03/03/2010 - Oath Ceremony in Brooklyn

03/13/2010 - U.S. Passport in hand

DONE!!!

allynella Community Regular

allynella   0

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Jamaica
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Congrats (F)

*Karen -- Jamaica ....... Courtney -- New Jersey*

09-12-05 - AOS filed

04-21-06 - AOS Interview

04-27-06 - Approval

05-17-06 - Green Card in hand

02-11-08 - File to remove conditions

03-15-08 - Biometrics

03-18-09 - Approved - No interview (Card production ordered)

03-24-09 - 10-year card arrives!

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Cygnet Proficient

Cygnet   0

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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:luv:Congratulations! :thumbs:

CR-1

09/16/2005 Mailed I-130 (CSC)

09/21/2005 NOA 1

02/07/2006 NOA 2 (Day 143)

02/25/2006 Petitioner receives AOS Bill in U.S. (Day 161)

02/27/2006 AOS Bill (regular USPS) and DS-3032 (Canada Post regular) are mailed out

03/21/2006 Petitioner receives I-864 package (Day 185)

03/22/2006 Beneficiary receives IV Bill and sends payment - regular mail (Day 186)

03/24/2006 Petitioner sends back I-864 (Day 188)

04/13/2006 Beneficiary receives DS-230 (Day 208)

05/10/2006 Beneficiary sends back DS-230 and docs to NVC via Fedex (Day 235)

05/19/2006 NVC issues RFE on Question # 20 on the DS-230. (Day 244)

05/29/2006 Beneficiary receives RFE and sends it off (Day 254)

06/02/2006 NVC receives RFE (Day 258)

06/16/2006 Case Complete! (Day 272)

07/07/2006 Case forwarded to Consulate in Montreal (Day 293)

08/11/2006 INTERVIEW! VISA APPROVED!

08/14/2006 Picked up visa and crossed the border.

08/25/2006 SS card arrives in the mail

09/07/2006 GC arrives in the mail.

K-3

02/01/2006 Mailed I-129F

02/07/2006 NOA1

04/14/2006 I-129F is approved!

04/24/2006 NVC forwards the application to the consulate in Montreal

05/01/2006 Packet 3 is received from consulate & is sent of 3 days later

07/07/2006 Medical

08/08/2006 INTERVIEW- cancelled bec. of CR-1

nayalamb Proficient

nayalamb   0

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Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: Bahamas
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congrats! :thumbs::star:

Adjustment of Status

July 1 2006 - Sent EAD & AOS packet

Sept 19 2006 - EAD APPROVED

Sept 22 2006 - AOS APPROVED

Sept 23 2006 - EAD card arrived

Sept 29 2006 - GC arrived!!!

Removal of Conditions

Jul 9 2008 - Filed @ VSC

Feb 25 2009 - Transferred to CSC

June 20 2009 - Card production ordered

NATURALIZATION

Aug 24 2009 - Mailed N-400 priority mail

Aug 26 2009 - rec'd at TX Lockbox

Aug 27 2009 - NOA1 (rec'd 8/31)

Aug 28 2009 - check cashed

Sept 4 2009 - biometrics notice [rec'd Sept 9]

Sept 25 2009 - Biometrics

Oct 17 2009 - Email about file transfer for interview

Oct 21 2009 - Interview Letter Rec'd

Dec 8 2009 - Interview - PASSED!!!!!!

Dec 19 2009 - Oath Letter rec'd

Jan 14 2010 - OATH CEREMONY!!!!

Jan 15 2010 - Passport app.

Jan 21 2010 - Nat. cert. returned

Jan 22 2010 - Passport rec'd

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Indo_mommy   0

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Filed: Country: Indonesia
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YAY! Congrats for you Andres & Paolo! So happy to hear your interview went smoothly! Enjoy your USCIS free time.

(F)

Maureen & James

Our K1 Journey Click Here
K1 Interview in Jakarta Click Here
AOS Journey:
May 02, 2006 :AOS Sent to Chicago...Let the couting begin
May 03, 2006 :AOS received in Chicago
May 12, 2006 :Received NOA1 dated 05/09/2006
May 22, 2006 Biometrics Notice Rcvd dated 05/17/2006
May 30, 2006 :Biometrics done in ASC Birmingham
July 01, 2006 :Interview Letter received
Aug 30, 2006 :Interview in Atlanta & got RFE for I-693A! OUCH!!!
November, 2006 :I-693A Sent. The waiting goes on...
April 4, 2007: Infopass & it doesn't help at all!!!
April 18, 2007 :Contacting our Congressman.
May 18, 2007 : E-mail rcvd, Welcome Notice Sent! Finally!!!
April 22, 2007 : E-mail rcvd, GC has been ordered
April 24, 2007 : Welcome Notice Rvcd. Yeeehaaa!!!!
June 1, 2007: GC arrived! Yippy! USCIS Free for 2 years!
2008: Moved to China
2009: Conditional GC Expired and Husband has been having affairs since 2008 in China. Can't file for ROC since he got laid off. He came to Jakarta to live with me and my parents. He got a new job. Life resume to normal or so I thought.
March 2010: Officially separated after yet more affairs exposed just a day after my birthday!

February 2011: Officially divorced.
June 18, 2011: He married the girl he had the last affair with.

August 2014: I am engaged with my real soulmate. Not an American.

sntoria Explorer

sntoria   0

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: Malaysia
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Congratulations!!!

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~~DCF KL Timeline~~

~2004~

Dec 06 - Filed I-130 & G-235A

- Approved same day :)

- Received packet 3

Dec 14 - Applied for Police Certificate

~2005~

Feb 28 - Sent off Checklist & DS-230-1 to U.S Embassy (KL)

Mar 01 - Received Police Certificate

Mar 10 - Received packet 4

Mar 17 - Medical Exams

April 07 - INTERVIEW DATE ~APPROVED!~

April 08 - CR1 VISA IN HAND!

April 29 - Husband arrives in Malaysia

May 04 - Flew home together!

May 24 - Green Card arrived in mail box

May 27 - Re-applied SSN

June 06 - SS card arrived in mail box

~REMOVAL OF CONDITIONS~

02/06/07 - I-751 Mailed to TSC

02/08/07 - TSC received my case

02/12/07 - Checks Cashed

02/14/07 - Receipt for Biometrics Fee Received

03/01/07 - I-797 NOA Received, Green Card Extended 12 Months

03/02/07 - Biometrics appointment received (for 03/13 at 2:00 PM)

03/13/07 - Biometrics taken in Dallas

03/15/07 - Touched

12/04/07 - Case Approved - Card production ordered

12/07/07 - Approval notice sent

12/10/07 - 10 year card received in the mail

elizabeth&hisham Contributor

elizabeth&hisham   0

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Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: Morocco
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Congratulations!

:star:

Me (Indiana) & Him (Fes, Morocco)

Summer 2002: Met in Morocco
Summer 2004: Began work on 129f; joined VJ rather than hiring a lawyer

I-129f Submission & Approval
Oct 19, 2004: I-129f to VSC
Oct 29: NOA2 online -- approved in 6 days, 10/23 to 10/29!

From NVC to Consulate & All the Way Home...
Nov 8, 2004: Case to Casablanca
Feb 23: Interview; CO said they'll call in 2-3 weeks
Mar 2: Casa calls; visa in hand the next day!
Mar 24: Arrival at JFK; over four hours waiting, but got an EAD
April 15, 2005: Married

AOS
Aug 10, 2005: AOS/EAD/AP to Chicago
Nov 12: AOS prints taken

2006, 2007, 2008, 2009:
EAD renewals often delayed. (?)
Info-Pass officials will say only that "other authorities" are handling our case; we eventually got our Senator's office involved
Spring 2009: A letter arrives, saying his 2005 fingerprints have expired and need to be updated. We head down to Indy and get his prints redone.
June 2009: We FINALLY get the AOS interview letter just shy of FOUR YEARS since submission of AOS application...

July 2009: after the interview, his 10-year Green Card arrives. Alle-freaking-luia.

N-400

Application in progress, 2015. We divorced in 2012 but are still good friends. E is helping organize H's application for Naturalization... fingers crossed!

***

How hard to pin down the truth, especially when one is obliged to see the world in slices; snapshots conceal as much as they make plain. (Rushdie, Shame)

Trinity Rookie

Trinity   0

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Philippines
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Hi there... thanks for sharing your interview experience with us. Why did you prepare a new affidavit? Was there any change in your work/financial status recently?

Our interview is this Thursday (June 15), my husband got a salary raise a month after we sent all our documents and I'm wondering if we need to prepare a new affidavit.

Thanks again.

Hello everyone. What a day. It has not stopped raining here in NYC. It is miserable and cold but having an approved AOS process means all of the world to us.

Here is a quick summary of what went on at Garden City.

Our appointment was for 2 PM so we arrived at 12:00pm. We live about 1 hour from Garden City in Eastern Long Island so I did not want to take any risks. Anyway, We had to wait until 2:10 PM for them to call us upstairs to another waiting room. My recommendation to all of you going to Garden City is not to show up so early because it does not help!! The wait was so stressful! We sat close to the entrance because that's were the lady who calls out the names makes the calls. They don't use any microphones.

Then we were taken upstairs to wait for our interview and we were called in around 2:20 pm. We had a great immigration officer. Very classy and polite who asked my wife if she wanted to have the interview in Spanish or English. We were prepared for both. My wife chose Spanish.

He sat us in his office and told us that he would be asking questions to each of us and only that person could answer.

He asked the following questions to my wife:

1. Tell me your address

2. Have you been married before?

3. Do you have any children?

4. He asked me if I was married before and how many kids I had?

5. He asked me who the kids lived with.

6. He then asked my wife to tell him how we met and to tell him a bit about our story.

7. He asked my wife the standard questions about "have you been deported before?" "do you use drugs?" etc

He asked me for the proof of relationship asking for the following paperwork which he kept:

1. A new affidavit (make sure you have one updated and notarized)

2. Bank statements where both our names appear

3. Our apartment lease

4. Our 2005 Tax returns

5. My company's letter

6. Paperwork showing medical and retirement benefits with both our names

I offered other documentation such as pay stubs, etc but he did not want anything else. He asked us for 2 pictures, one from our wedding and one recent picture (both pictures should be facing the camera). He did not even look at our albums but honestly, take as many papers you think should be taken even if it looks to be too much but it is better to have extra and not to missed anything.

He then said, you are approved!! He asked my wife if she was planning to travel soon and we said yes and he then tried to stamp our passport but it was after 3 pm so those officials who do it were gone!! By the way, for those of you who think this is rare, everyone who wanted the passport stamped was getting it done. At least he tried and we thought that was a great gesture because he even walked outside his office to find someone to do it for us. Anyway, he said you will receive the GC in about 2 weeks so just don't go anywhere for now and then he stood up and said

Welcome to the United States.

He explained to us the removal of conditional GC in about 1 1/2 year and explained to us that in about 2 1/2 months my wife can become a citizen.

He walked us out and just like that it was over! It took no more than 25 minutes.

Thank you all for all your feedback, and best wishes to all of you.

arprofe

ChanelKitten Collaborator

ChanelKitten   0

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Canada
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Congratulations on your approval!!! :thumbs::dance:

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09/24/04: Entered US as CDN visitor

11/20/04: Married in Las Vegas

03/10/06: Filed AOS

03/20/06: NOA 1 / I-130

03/21/06: NOA 1 / I-485

04/03/06: AOS Interview notice...05/11/06

04/05/06: Biometrics

05/11/06: AOS Interview....approved, pending FBI name check

05/12/06: I-130 approved

05/18/06: NOA 2 / I-130 approval

08/15/06: Email: 'Welcome to America' letter mailed (Day 151)!!!!

08/17/06: Email: I-485 approved & GC ordered

08/19/06: 'Welcome to America' letter rec'd

08/22/06: Email: Notice of approval mailed

08/25/06: GC Finally Received!!

05/15/08: Apply to remove conditions

 
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