April 2011 (USCIS) Filers

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Received "Welcome to USA" letter today!

[Anas & Ayesha 1]

2079 pages sent to the California service center yesterday. They will have the package on Thursday. Can anyone provide me with how soon they will work on it and how long before we hear something back? and any and all info one might know about this type of REF....I am scared, feels like my breath stand still.

Bona Fide Marital Relationship

ALL required information from I-797E, Notice of Action…IN ORDER.

Per the I-797E I have supplied documentation since my wedding on March 11, 2011 to current.

Please note the colored sheets of paper. All information on this cover letter is in detail on the colored paper for each section USCIS requested. Each supporting documentation is separated by a colored sheet. I have attached a copy of the I-797E to each title and highlighted the information I covered in “Yellow” highlighter.

Original I-797E Notice of Action 4 pages

Meeting 24 pages

Notarized Statement of relationship me

Signed Statement of relationship husband

husband professional work documents

Supporting documents of web site where we met

Relationship 1846 pages (tabbed for your information)

T-Mobile cell phone bills and detail from 7/24/10 – 12/23/11

Skype Chat logs

Skype call logs

Skype video chats

Screen shots of “MY” LG cell phone and sim Pakistani

Log of text messages received by husband on my Pakistani cell phone

Signed document from family attesting to me receiving text messages on my Pakistani cell phone

Gifts and cards

E-Mails

E-Cards

Facebook in box messages

Facebook Records from March 2011 – November 2011

Travel for wedding 57 pages

Employer Authorization for Vacation – me

Employer Authorization for Vacation – husband

Qatar Airlines Ticket and Payment

Bank Statement Checking Account: January, February, March, April and May 2011

Bank Statement Saving Account: January, February, March, April and May 2011

Receipts showing ATM withdrawals while I was in Pakistan

Hotel Payments made by me

Travel for visits 26 pages

Passport copy showing Pakistani Visa and Stamps in and out of Pakistan

Photos of my trip While in Pakistan

Qatar Airways Booking and Payment from my DEBIT card (same card used while in Pakistan at an ATM)

Wedding 111 pages

Sworn Statement of Nikah signed by both our families (my family consists of my children)

Attested statement from mother in law

Attested statement from husband brother

Photos of Nikah (wedding)

Photos of honeymoon in Lahore, Pakistan

Photos of family

Photos of wedding gifts from mother in law

Sworn statement from my daughter

Sworn Statement from my Niece

Signed statement from my friend

Letters from friends

Letters from facebook friends

Letters from family and friends previously submitted with our I-130

Receipts from shopping while in Pakistan

Children born to marriage 1 page

No children born to our marriage

Petitioners and beneficiary’s other children 2 pages

Copy of Birch certificate – my daughter

Copy of Birth certificate – my daughter

***NO children born from my husband***

Petitioner’s parents 5 pages

Statement from Father and Step mother

Notarized Statement from Sister

Statement from Brother

Statement from me regarding family history and why my I do not wish USCIS to contact my mother

Relatives in the U.S. 1 page

**NONE** has no relatives in the U.S.

Preparer 1 page

Signed statement from me as the person who prepared the petition

Other Evidence 1 page

Statement from me

TOTAL 2079 PAGES

[kytwell 179]

Looks like you have it all covered there with RFE response. Make sure you keep copy of it all to bring to interview too, since NVC doesn't get all of that, so in essence neither will the embassy.

I finally got a case closed at NVC on December 30 and interview scheduled for February 7.

[~Hot Mama~ 3]

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. Hopefully everyone is doing well with there adjustments of having spouses here now! I see a couple of you are still fighting through this process and I wish all of you lots of luck and will pray for the speedy resolve of your cases!

My hubby has been here now a full month and we are settling in very nicely. We have spent so much time trying to get everything situated. Social Security offices, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Bank Accounts, etc etc etc lol. But we are making very good progress and on Tuesday he will hopefully pass his drivers test and get an official Ohio license! How exciting!!! In the meantime we are having lots of fun discovering America and teaching him the different ways of American life. He sure does love the selection of food here! I even managed to find a Euro market here that has Borjomi water!

We have not yet received his green card... But we have received about 5 welcome letters. Each one reads a bit different and has some different disclaimers on it. Hopefully we will be getting the special package here soon.

And for anyone who moves between their Interview scheduling and actual interview take some notes... I moved into our new house about 2 weeks before our interview. I let the interviewing officer know that we had a new address and he told us to wait and update it at the point of entry. So at POE we did this and the officer seemed to do everything correctly. Well... our welcome letters are still coming to our old address. (Which is my parents house so no problem getting the documents) but for those of you who move and have no other family at the old address to forward it I would DEFINATELY recommend that you use the official form and send it to the USCIS just to be sure nothing gets lost in the shuffle!

Ill let ya all know when we have a real Green Card!

[Anas & Ayesha 1]

Looks like you have it all covered there with RFE response. Make sure you keep copy of it all to bring to interview too, since NVC doesn't get all of that, so in essence neither will the embassy.

I finally got a case closed at NVC on December 30 and interview scheduled for February 7.

Thank you so much for your response. I scanned all 2079 pages into PDF doc's and emailed them to my husband and myself (kept a hard copy on my pc and backed my pc up) So when the time comes he can print it all for the interview and take a small suit case with him full of Proof.

You are in our prayers for your interview. Please let us know how it goes. It's just around the corner

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. Hopefully everyone is doing well with there adjustments of having spouses here now! I see a couple of you are still fighting through this process and I wish all of you lots of luck and will pray for the speedy resolve of your cases!

My hubby has been here now a full month and we are settling in very nicely. We have spent so much time trying to get everything situated. Social Security offices, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Bank Accounts, etc etc etc lol. But we are making very good progress and on Tuesday he will hopefully pass his drivers test and get an official Ohio license! How exciting!!! In the meantime we are having lots of fun discovering America and teaching him the different ways of American life. He sure does love the selection of food here! I even managed to find a Euro market here that has Borjomi water!

We have not yet received his green card... But we have received about 5 welcome letters. Each one reads a bit different and has some different disclaimers on it. Hopefully we will be getting the special package here soon.

And for anyone who moves between their Interview scheduling and actual interview take some notes... I moved into our new house about 2 weeks before our interview. I let the interviewing officer know that we had a new address and he told us to wait and update it at the point of entry. So at POE we did this and the officer seemed to do everything correctly. Well... our welcome letters are still coming to our old address. (Which is my parents house so no problem getting the documents) but for those of you who move and have no other family at the old address to forward it I would DEFINATELY recommend that you use the official form and send it to the USCIS just to be sure nothing gets lost in the shuffle!

Ill let ya all know when we have a real Green Card!

Wonderful to hear all is going well. Wishing you all the best

[M in CA 9]

yeah - I dropped out of sight for a while - the immgration process was WAY too draining for me, and once that November interview was over, I had to focus on 5 kids more intently. Every step of the way had me frustrated, and sickened by government waste. Even the low volume Stockholm embassy said they didn't have time to interivew husband any earlier, gave him an 8 minute interview and sent him along. While I am grateful they gave him no trouble and it was so short, I couldn't help but think they could have seen him a LOT sooner.

Husband arrived the night of Thanksgiving, so we had "Fakesgiving" dinner a few nights later.

20' shipping container of personal belongings just arrived last week, so we are officially all on-site now.

Grateful for many things, laughing at most things, embracing life.

Best wishes to all my VJ acquaintances. Your stories have left me laughing & crying. The world is a better place because of love like that which you have for your partner. Take it from a widow when I say, "treat every day with your partner like your first date and like your last day on earth."

[~Hot Mama~ 3]

Just out of curiosity has anyone who interviewed in November received the actual green card yet? Our POE was NYC on 12/4 and we have received welcome letters for a month but no green card??? Just wondering if anyone else has received theirs and what the heck the holdup is! We have his social security card, drivers license, everything except the official green card.

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Just out of curiosity has anyone who interviewed in November received the actual green card yet? Our POE was NYC on 12/4 and we have received welcome letters for a month but no green card??? Just wondering if anyone else has received theirs and what the heck the holdup is! We have his social security card, drivers license, everything except the official green card.

POE was Chicago for my wife and no we haven't got the green card yet... no idea whats the hold up.

Thanks for the e-mail about the driver's license! I am heading up to the Social Security office on Monday if we don't get anything in the mail this week.

What all did you need to take to the Social Security office to get the ball rolling?

[Ryan H 3,812]

POE was Chicago for my wife and no we haven't got the green card yet... no idea whats the hold up.

No green card for my wife yet either.

[~Hot Mama~ 3]

POE was Chicago for my wife and no we haven't got the green card yet... no idea whats the hold up.

Thanks for the e-mail about the driver's license! I am heading up to the Social Security office on Monday if we don't get anything in the mail this week.

What all did you need to take to the Social Security office to get the ball rolling?

No problem Dave! Glad I could help you out for once lol!

My hubby passed his driving test tuesday! the lady was super nice and the only thing he was penalized on was tapping breaks unnecessarily at intersections. oops a little too cautious lol

All we had to take to the social security office was our wedding license, his passport with visa and his birth certificate. When you first walk in ask the security guard for an application for a first time social. They will give you one form to fill out and thats it! It was so easy! Let me know if you need any other info!

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

No problem Dave! Glad I could help you out for once lol!

My hubby passed his driving test tuesday! the lady was super nice and the only thing he was penalized on was tapping breaks unnecessarily at intersections. oops a little too cautious lol

All we had to take to the social security office was our wedding license, his passport with visa and his birth certificate. When you first walk in ask the security guard for an application for a first time social. They will give you one form to fill out and thats it! It was so easy! Let me know if you need any other info!

Thanks Kelli!

Well we have good news as the mailman delivered the Green Card today!

[Lytha 2]

havent been on here in a while ... the busy-ness of my new life, in the Army ... Everything is very exciting and falling into place, in it looks like most of you have found eachother once again It's great to read how it all turned out for most of us ... on those still pushing through on the journey ... hold on, keep going and don't give up ... It'll all be worth it in the end ... Thank all of you for the support along my journey, through good and bad... your stories have made me laugh, cry, and lifted me up when i was down ... Thank you all for sharing experiences, advice, and much more along my journey. I owe you all bigtime... Hope all is well, keep the faith in there! God bless!

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Applied for Social Security card today.

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Received Social Security card today.

[Ana and Justin 0]

Congrats Dave and Kinnari. We are happy for the both of you.

Edited January 28, 2012 by Ana and Justin