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diana02pooh   0

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My husband is planning to travel to Brownsville Texas. He came as a fiance visa the I94 is expired but we got married and submitted the AOS application before the I94 expired. What documents should he carry because he has to pass an Immigration checkpoint on the way back?

K1 Visa

Service Center : Vermont Service Center

Consulate : Juarez, Mexico

I-129F Sent : 2010-02-26

I-129F NOA1 : 2010-03-01

I-129F NOA2 : 2010-06-03

Interview Date : 2010-07-21

Interview Result : Approved

Visa Received : 2010-07-23

US Entry : 2010-08-12

Marriage : 2010-10-20

Adjustment of Status

CIS Office : Houston TX

Date Filed : 2010-10-29

NOA Date : 2010-11-05

Bio. Appt. : 2010-12-27

AOS Transfer** : 2010-12-06

Employment Authorization Document

Approved Date : 2011-01-06

Date Card Received :

Advance Parole

Approved Date : 2011-01-06

Date Received : 2011-01-11

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Frankly, he should not travel to Brownsville before he receives the Notice of Action (797-C) in the mail.

The NOA in combination with his passport and (I don't suggest this often) a copy of the Certificate of Marriage, will make sure he won't have problems when inspected by ICE.

Without the NOA, it is quite possible that he will be detained and held until "his story" has been confirmed by USCIS. That's not fun!

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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diana02pooh   0

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Thanks for the quick reply. He recieved the NOA for the AOS,EAD, and AP. He also recieved last week his biometrics appointment letter and another letter informing him that his case was transferred to California Service Center. So if he takes these documents plus passaport and marriage license he should be fine?

K1 Visa

Service Center : Vermont Service Center

Consulate : Juarez, Mexico

I-129F Sent : 2010-02-26

I-129F NOA1 : 2010-03-01

I-129F NOA2 : 2010-06-03

Interview Date : 2010-07-21

Interview Result : Approved

Visa Received : 2010-07-23

US Entry : 2010-08-12

Marriage : 2010-10-20

Adjustment of Status

CIS Office : Houston TX

Date Filed : 2010-10-29

NOA Date : 2010-11-05

Bio. Appt. : 2010-12-27

AOS Transfer** : 2010-12-06

Employment Authorization Document

Approved Date : 2011-01-06

Date Card Received :

Advance Parole

Approved Date : 2011-01-06

Date Received : 2011-01-11

TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   46,356

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So if he takes these documents plus passaport and marriage license he should be fine?
It absolutely sounds that way, si man, and I'm one of the VJ members who sounds the loudest alarms about traveling in southern Texas without preparation. Be sure that the "marriage license" is really the "Certificate of Marriage," however -- they're two different things. Order a couple of extra marriage certificates from your courthouse, so that if you lose one (or it gets creased or damaged), you'll have an uncirculated copy.

Let us know how the encounters with CBP go.

Edited to add: The CBP agents have us roll down our windows, and they ask, "U.S. citizen?" Your husband can respond "Applicant for adjustment of status" (or simply "adjustment applicant"), and then hand them the paperwork through the window. The truthful statement plus the truthful documents will set the stage for a non-negative encounter.

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06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 
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