AOS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!

[Simmy 3]

(note to moderators -- I'm posting this in multiple forums in hopes to reach the many people that helped me in different forums over the course of my application. I'm hoping you'll let each post stay for this reason. There were too many folks to try msg individually).

I had my interview yesterday in Portland. We were told at the interview that we were approved!

I cannot express enough my gratitude to the visajourney community. Aside from saving me thousands of dollars in lawyer fees, it saved me a LOT of worry to be able to ask questions and get great answers, and it also saved me a lot of time (the entire process took just FOUR months!). The forums were great, and the guides were extremely helpful too. At the start of this, I had no idea whatsoever where to start -- whether to do a K1, K3, CR-1 or AOS (having already been in the U.S.). There were other issues too -- questions about my arrest, questions about my birth certificate, questions about financial stuff, and a very significant discussion we had about me being a laptop-based worker and the implications of that on my application. Basically I had ALL KINDS of questions, and I simply would not have made it here without the help of this community -- you guys were better than a lawyer, and, need I say, way better than the "misinformation line".

I wanted to say thanks some individuals in particular, but I'm hoping you all get to see this, and you know who you are.

In extreme gratitude,

Samuel

[LADYDARE 28]

Congratulations

[Pegworth 2]

I was verbally approved on Sept 15th 2010 at our interview and I'm still pending. Is your I-485 pending?

Are cases sound similar.

I married on a visitor visa I was asked to provide a full form birth certificate 2 weeks after the interview and almost 2 months after the interview I needed to provide a court disposition for a simple possession of cannabis charge.

I have no record and wasn't convicted but I said that I had been charged in 1986 for this minor issue on my application.

Last time I went to USICS with the court disposition that they ask that I hand deliver I was told I should get a letter very soon that was a month and a half ago. Did you provide a court disposition already?

[Darnell 8,478]

(note to moderators -- I'm posting this in multiple forums in hopes to reach the many people that helped me in different forums over the course of my application. I'm hoping you'll let each post stay for this reason. There were too many folks to try msg individually).

you could always make a a post in 'that person's profile' .

always.

[Simmy 3]

Pegsworth, my charge was dropped and never went to court, so I think that helped. When she brought it up at the interview, it was easy for me to explain because it was a highly-public political civil disobedience act (literally just painted a circle around a goddess of democracy statue) and I said that I left the civil disobedience alone after I finished university.

I was thankful they didn't ask for more in the way of birth certificates because my South African birth certificate simply didn't have a longform.

And yes, I was approved. Smooth as silk, it went.

Darnell -- I certainly considered posting in individual's boxes, but I received help from literally dozens of people over at least a dozen threads. It was a nightmarish proposition to search all my old threads and find each person that responded and then msg them individually. I'm a little struck by the couple msgs of opposition I've had to my mailout to 5 forums. If it's that big of a deal, I can always go and delete them. This forum would be the one in which it stayed.

[Darnell 8,478]

it's very easy to find all of yer stuff using the advanced search feature here. The coolest thing about the advanced search feature - is that it squashes all nightmares.

once you've reviewed them, you can find all who helped you.

Edited January 20, 2011 by Darnell

[O & C 3]

Congratulations!!

[Simmy 3]

@darnell -- you're right, I should've done that, in retrospect. I didn't realize it was that easy. Please accept my apologies. now I can't go and actually delete my posts, apparently.

[Darnell 8,478]

apparently

Need some mod to step in ?

just let me know what ya wanna do-ish.

[Simmy 3]

Are you a mod? If a mod wants to step in and delete the other posts I made in other than *this* forum (which is the most applicable), then please do. I'll then follow your advice and msg peeps individually.

[Pegworth 2]

Pegsworth, my charge was dropped and never went to court, so I think that helped. When she brought it up at the interview, it was easy for me to explain because it was a highly-public political civil disobedience act (literally just painted a circle around a goddess of democracy statue) and I said that I left the civil disobedience alone after I finished university.

I was thankful they didn't ask for more in the way of birth certificates because my South African birth certificate simply didn't have a longform.

And yes, I was approved. Smooth as silk, it went.

Darnell -- I certainly considered posting in individual's boxes, but I received help from literally dozens of people over at least a dozen threads. It was a nightmarish proposition to search all my old threads and find each person that responded and then msg them individually. I'm a little struck by the couple msgs of opposition I've had to my mailout to 5 forums. If it's that big of a deal, I can always go and delete them. This forum would be the one in which it stayed.

Congratulations and thanks for the info Simmy.

[kerryandjosh 0]

Congratulations on your approval, Simmy!

[Simmy 3]

thanks everyone for your congrats!!!