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besaangel   18

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I am a student who got married to my boyfriend of 4 years last month. I am currently still enrolled so as not to compromise my status while we are about to file for adjustment of status. I have a few questions that I need help with while we start our paperwork.

1. I recently spoke to a lawyer who is urging us to hire one as an ideal way to ensure a good chance of acceptance. My thing is my husband is not so keen on paying someone $3000 or more as we've been apart of horror stories involving lawyers. How well is it recommended to hire a lawyer.

2. Also, I was told that we should wait at least 3 months after the wedding to send in the documents, so as not to appear suspicious. Is this true because he wanted us to file next month so as to reduce the chances of me having to be in school this summer.

3. Another thing is that we started dating while I was on a F2, then I went back to Jamaica to get my own F1 visa. I actually ended up staying for 7 months, not the recommended 5 months or less due to adverse circumstances. Will tis affect my chances as told to me by the lawyer, that it may appear that I came here with the intention of marrying him, which is false as we only we were together for a year and didnt talk about marriage until last year while I was in school in Detroit.

4. And finally, my mom is also on an F1 and my dad is home in JA, how soon, GOD'S WILL I get approved, will I be able to start filing for them? My mom wanted to file for herself as she'll be graduating from her masters program but I know there is a cap on professional admittances. Wouldnt it be better if she waited until I got my green card?

Please let me know what you think as we have pretty much halted our process... GOD BLESS

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01/06/10 - ♥ Got Married ♥

AOS from F-1 visa (2 months 2 1/2 weeks or 82 days)

04/14/10 - Sent AOS Package

04/26/10 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

05/16/10 - Biometrics letter

05/19/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

07/07/10 - Interview Appointment in Philly- July 7 @ 11:05 am APPROVED

07/19/10 - 2 YEAR Green Card received

Removal of Conditions (9 months 1 1/2 weeks or 285 days)

04/08/12 - Eligibility date

04/19/12 - Sent ROC Package

04/26/12 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

05/17/10 - Biometrics letter

05/24/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

01/25/13 - APPROVED- ROC card production ordered

02/05/13 - 10 YEAR Green Card received

Naturalization (5 months 2 days or 155 days)

04/15/13 - Eligibility date

06/07/13 - Sent Package

06/20/13 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

06/27/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

07/05/13 - Interview letter sent/In-line notification

08/14/13 - Interview scheduled in Philly @ 1:30 pm APPROVED

11/07/13 - Oath Ceremony

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I just replied to you in your thread about whether or not to hire a lawyer.

1. As mentioned in other thread, you don't have to hire a lawyer. There are many people who have had successful AOS doing it all on your own. I recently filed mine by myself (well, along with hubby of course) and so far have not had any complications. (Fingers crossed that I don't get any RFEs - Request For Evidence!) However, if you can afford a lawyer you could do so just for the peace of mind and to save time figuring out what to do.

2. We filed about a month or so after the courthouse wedding. Would have done it sooner if not for the fact that it took a while to get the paperwork together while I'm studying full-time and he's really busy with work.

3. Not sure about that. I'm a little concerned about mine, because we got married just 10 months after we met (a little less than 1.5 years after I entered the country). However, our relationship is very real and I think it'll show (and we have quite a bit of evidence and can get tons of affidavits if needed), so we're not TOO worried about it.

4. Not too familiar with this situation. I've read a bit on how you could have them file for their own if they could but then also file for them and then adjust their application or something, but don't take my word for it.

08/08 - Arrived on F-1 visa

12/09 - Married

02/04/10 - AOS package sent to Chicago Lockbox by USPS Certified Mail

02/07/10 - Package received

02/12/10 - NOA Notice Date

02/22/10 - Biometrics letter received, appointment date 03/09/10 (Notice date 02/17/10)

02/23/10 - Biometrics done

03/08/10 - Second biometric letter received (retaking fingerprints), appointment date 03/22/10 (Notice date 03/03/10)

03/22/10 - Fingerprints retaken

04/12/10 - Interview letter received, appointment date 05/13/10 (Notice date 04/08/10)

04/23/10 - EAD card production ordered #1 (notified by text)

04/28/10 - EAD card production ordered #2 (notified by text)

04/30/10 - EAD approval notice (notified by text)

05/01/10 - EAD and AP received

05/13/10 - Interview appointment (approved)

05/14/10 - Approval (notified by text)

05/something/10 - "Welcome to the US" letter and I-130 petition approval letter received in the mail

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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I am a student who got married to my boyfriend of 4 years last month. I am currently still enrolled so as not to compromise my status while we are about to file for adjustment of status. I have a few questions that I need help with while we start our paperwork.

1. I recently spoke to a lawyer who is urging us to hire one as an ideal way to ensure a good chance of acceptance. My thing is my husband is not so keen on paying someone $3000 or more as we've been apart of horror stories involving lawyers. How well is it recommended to hire a lawyer.

You don't need a lawyer. And any lawyer who wants to charge you more than $1K is trying to take advantage of you. Welcome to America.

2. Also, I was told that we should wait at least 3 months after the wedding to send in the documents, so as not to appear suspicious. Is this true because he wanted us to file next month so as to reduce the chances of me having to be in school this summer.

Complete nonsense. As a student in good standing, you are free to marry anytime and then adjust status.

3. Another thing is that we started dating while I was on a F2, then I went back to Jamaica to get my own F1 visa. I actually ended up staying for 7 months, not the recommended 5 months or less due to adverse circumstances.

What kind or "recommendation" is this?

Will tis affect my chances as told to me by the lawyer, that it may appear that I came here with the intention of marrying him, which is false as we only we were together for a year and didnt talk about marriage until last year while I was in school in Detroit.

Complete nonsense, again.

4. And finally, my mom is also on an F1 and my dad is home in JA, how soon, GOD'S WILL I get approved, will I be able to start filing for them? My mom wanted to file for herself as she'll be graduating from her masters program but I know there is a cap on professional admittances. Wouldnt it be better if she waited until I got my green card?

You can file for them once you have become a US citizen, not earlier. Probably a good time to mention that my advice above is based on the assumption that your boyfriend is a US citizen. If he's not, then you can't adjust status.

Please let me know what you think as we have pretty much halted our process... GOD BLESS

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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besaangel   18

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Thanks again guys...

My husband is a USC...

And please dont be alarmed but half of the nonsense in my post came from the lawyer I spoke to during an Immigration seminar at my University.

BOB- I know this is crazy but I'm telling you that this lawyer dude is seriously just putting a little bit of doubt in my mind to rely on him... My mom's lawyer got through to her and she spent over $4*** already and yeah... nothing

KAT- that is the only thing we dont have; Affidavits from family and friends, which I intend onn doing. And also finding the phone records when he called me several times a day while I was back home- thanks for the reminder.

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01/06/10 - ♥ Got Married ♥

AOS from F-1 visa (2 months 2 1/2 weeks or 82 days)

04/14/10 - Sent AOS Package

04/26/10 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

05/16/10 - Biometrics letter

05/19/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

07/07/10 - Interview Appointment in Philly- July 7 @ 11:05 am APPROVED

07/19/10 - 2 YEAR Green Card received

Removal of Conditions (9 months 1 1/2 weeks or 285 days)

04/08/12 - Eligibility date

04/19/12 - Sent ROC Package

04/26/12 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

05/17/10 - Biometrics letter

05/24/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

01/25/13 - APPROVED- ROC card production ordered

02/05/13 - 10 YEAR Green Card received

Naturalization (5 months 2 days or 155 days)

04/15/13 - Eligibility date

06/07/13 - Sent Package

06/20/13 - Hardcopy NOAs Received

06/27/12 - Successful Walk-in Biometrics in Dover DE

07/05/13 - Interview letter sent/In-line notification

08/14/13 - Interview scheduled in Philly @ 1:30 pm APPROVED

11/07/13 - Oath Ceremony

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