November filers

[marie09 5]

We recieved the welcome letter today in the mail!!!! Day 88

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Huge Congratulations That's awesome. Wow & so fast too!!! So happy for you and Spongebobiwan - you're almost done for 1 year and 9 months!

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[MaddyCruise 2]

Huge Congratulations That's awesome. Wow & so fast too!!! So happy for you and Spongebobiwan - you're almost done for 1 year and 9 months!

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Thanks Marie! Goodlick for your upcoming interview on Tuesday!

Addition to my post earlier we received the approval notice of our I-130 too!!!

Goodluck to every who has upcoming interview next week! :thumbs:

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[marie09 5]

Thanks Marie! Goodlick for your upcoming interview on Tuesday!

Addition to my post earlier we received the approval notice of our I-130 too!!!

Goodluck to every who has upcoming interview next week! :thumbs:

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Wow congrats on the I-130 approvals too! Keep this good news coming! So excited for you guys and everyone else with approvals

5 days to go for us! We just booked our hotel in Sacramento! There's snow forecast this week and sometimes they close the freeway if it gets really bad - so we figured we'd just head there the day before. I have 3 days off from work this week and it feels with booking the hotel like we're going on a mini vacation... Minus the part that the trip is to show evidence of our marriage... But that aside we're going to have fun we're going to meet friends for dinner on Weds night, then lunch with the in laws after the interview... And we get away from all the snow for a couple of days...

Good Luck to Istanbulls for Monday!

Edited January 31, 2010 by marie09

[SpongebObiWan 0]

This post is merely intended to serve as a mild warning to anybody who may be driving in the vicinity of Southern Wisconsin, or Northern Illinois in the near future. Maddy, my spouse, obtained her Wisconsin driver's license on Friday the 29th.

Edited January 31, 2010 by SpongebObiWan

[MaddyCruise 2]

This post is merely to serve as a mild warning to anybody who may be driving in the vicinity of Southern Wisconsin, or Northern Illinois in the near future. Maddy, my spouse, obtained her Wisconsin driver's license on Friday the 29th.

[SpongebObiWan 0]

I have a feeling that I'm going to pay dearly, for that last post, huh?

[MaddyCruise 2]

I have a feeling that I'm going to pay dearly, for that last post, huh?

I didn't say anything!

[SpongebObiWan 0]

I'll be away for a while, attempting to grow eyes in the back of my head.

[marie09 5]

This post is merely intended to serve as a mild warning to anybody who may be driving in the vicinity of Southern Wisconsin, or Northern Illinois in the near future. Maddy, my spouse, obtained her Wisconsin driver's license on Friday the 29th.

Yay! Congrats Maddy!

[yokomist 0]

Hey Marie,

We both have the same interview date

Best of luck, I think I would be really nervous without this website!

Do you guys think my risk is greater because I am coming from VWP and have a 2 year overstay?

Congrats to all that have made it and fingers crossed for the rest of us

~Bevan~

[marie09 5]

Hey Marie,

We both have the same interview date

Best of luck, I think I would be really nervous without this website!

Do you guys think my risk is greater because I am coming from VWP and have a 2 year overstay?

Congrats to all that have made it and fingers crossed for the rest of us

~Bevan~

Yay! Bevan you're back! Was wondering how you were doing. That's awesome you have a Thursday interview too... Fingers crossed for us

I don't know too much about VWP & AOS just that there are a lot of success stories on here.

The issue that might arise is about immigration intent.

If you didn't intend to get married when you arrived - you should be fine.

You may want to bring some evidence that you didn't initially plan to get married when you arrived on vwp... Just in case intent is brought up. For example maybe copies of bank statements for any accounts still open in your home country if you have then or anything else that might show you intended to go home prior to marriage. If not just be prepared to answer calmly and explain.

I didn't overstay but we did get married a month before my work visa expired - which i've heard can be seen as a possible red flag. I've been here 3 years and if I hadn't met my husband and he hadn't proposed I would have gone home. This was initially just a travel thing for me. Could have made more money plus there are just as good if not better job opportunities back home. But meeting my husband changed all that!

Just in case it gets brought up, to prove i didn't intend to stay I had my mum send me copies of my bank and saving statements from the UK showing I still have open accounts, plus statements showing my national insurance (UK equiv. of Social Security) missing contributions (towards UK pension) were paid while i was away too. Not something you would do if you didn't intend to go home! Probably don't need all this stuff - but we want to be prepared.

Best of Luck to you on Thursday

Edited February 1, 2010 by marie09

[juliava 80]

Yay! Bevan you're back! Was wondering how you were doing. That's awesome you have a Thursday interview too... Fingers crossed for us

I don't know too much about VWP & AOS just that there are a lot of success stories on here.

The issue that might arise is about immigration intent.

If you didn't intend to get married when you arrived - you should be fine.

You may want to bring some evidence that you didn't initially plan to get married when you arrived on vwp... Just in case intent is brought up. For example maybe copies of bank statements for any accounts still open in your home country if you have then or anything else that might show you intended to go home prior to marriage. If not just be prepared to answer calmly and explain.

I didn't overstay but we did get married a month before my work visa expired - which i've heard can be seen as a possible red flag. I've been here 3 years and if I hadn't met my husband and he hadn't proposed I would have gone home. This was initially just a travel thing for me. Could have made more money plus there are just as good if not better job opportunities back home. But meeting my husband changed all that!

Just in case it gets brought up, to prove i didn't intend to stay I had my mum send me copies of my bank and saving statements from the UK showing I still have open accounts, plus statements showing my national insurance (UK equiv. of Social Security) missing contributions (towards UK pension) were paid while i was away too. Not something you would do if you didn't intend to go home! Probably don't need all this stuff - but we want to be prepared.

Best of Luck to you on Thursday

Marie, I just came here to tell you that I have my fingers crossed for you on the 4th!!!!!Good luck!!!!!I am sure it will be fine!I will be coming back here to read the good news!

[Mestis 1]

This is probably my last visit till the interview tomorrow. Got an hotel room close to the USCIS office, since it is forcasting snow for tonight and tomorrow morning :-(

Good luck guys on the 4th! I hope we all have good news by the end of the week.... and a nice birthday lunch for my husband after the interview!

[FortLaudy 10]

Hey guys! Wow it's really nearing the end for all of us now... Good luck to everyone who has their interviews this week, don't stress about it, it's a breeze, I'm starting to think that the interview at ROC stage will be a little more intense as by then you must and should have a lot more evidence, right?

Well we are still extremely frustrated, after every thing we went through I can still not go to work (Marie, you were right about E-verify, EAD is ok, but no ssn no work for the company I want to work for) start building credit, book our tickets to travel, buy a house together - all the good stuff, still waiting for that damn SS card and residency card to arrive in the mail and houses are being sold for dirt cheap all around us making us crazy, haha, got the welcome letter yesterday though so definetely a light at the end of the tunnel... I really hope to get everything by the end of this week, our house can not get any cleaner and I haven't spent this much time at the gym in ages, lol...

[mochimasala 0]

Good Luck Mestis!! And good thinking on getting the hotel room so that you can avoid any delays. I hope your interview goes well tomorrow and please let us know how you did and how it was.