July 2012 AOS Filers

[akihon 129]

oh I'm excited. my interview is on Tuesday and I hope all goes well and approval is quick because my husband and I are planning our vacation and are waiting for approval before paying for tickets!

[Mariana D.A. 2]

I just got my interview appointment for Nov. 7!!! Finally!!!

I had to call USCIS to know about it, because my status did not change!!

Im so happy!!! Yay!

[akihon 129]

I just got my interview appointment for Nov. 7!!! Finally!!!

I had to call USCIS to know about it, because my status did not change!!

Im so happy!!! Yay!

awesome!!

[him4life 13]

I was approved ON THE SPOT! I am now a legal permanent resident. Waiting for green card now. Thank God its over, will post interviews stuff later. Eating celebration pizza!

Wow congrats! i know that feeling all too well, a wonderful feeling

[him4life 13]

and how long will it be before i have my green card in hand as i received this email...

Decision

On October 4, 2012, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

During this step the formal decision (approved/denied) is written and the decision notice is mailed and/or emailed to the applicant/petitioner. You can use our current processing time to gauge when you can expect to receive a final decision.

mine took about 8 or 9 days to arrive,in about the next 3 days u will receive welcome letter, the status will then change to card production ordered which took around 3 days, in production, then they mail it out, u know mail takes about 3 days to arrive

[Dewave2 17]

How is everyone getting along? Is the spreadsheet still being updated, if so, does anyone have a link I cant seem to find it?

I think I may currently be the only July filer that has still heard nothing regarding an interview date. Is there anything I can do to start forcing a chase on it?

A couple of days and ill be at the 3 month mark!

[NIKE284 1]

How is everyone getting along? Is the spreadsheet still being updated, if so, does anyone have a link I cant seem to find it?

I think I may currently be the only July filer that has still heard nothing regarding an interview date. Is there anything I can do to start forcing a chase on it?

A couple of days and ill be at the 3 month mark!

I'm with you too, my wife's bio-metrics failed, and she's out of the country until thanksgiving, so we rescheduled, so we have a long way

[huongkhin 9]

oh I'm excited. my interview is on Tuesday and I hope all goes well and approval is quick because my husband and I are planning our vacation and are waiting for approval before paying for tickets!

Mention that to the IO and show him\her your excitement for the coming trip. We did and half of your interview time was about traveling to China, Europe,... He called us kids, son,... It was like talking to someone we meet at Starbucks.

Good luck!

[Mariana D.A. 2]

Just got USCIS update on my EAD!! Approved and card is in production!! This is great!! What an awesome feeling!!!

[akihon 129]

Mention that to the IO and show him\her your excitement for the coming trip. We did and half of your interview time was about traveling to China, Europe,... He called us kids, son,... It was like talking to someone we meet at Starbucks.

Good luck!

thanks for the tip!

the last vacation we took was for our wedding and honeymoon, so we're really excited for this upcoming one and are waiting for the interview and confirmed approval so I can receive my GC and not worry about reentering the US. Don't want to risk anything going wrong if we buy tickets now.

[akihon 129]

How is everyone getting along? Is the spreadsheet still being updated, if so, does anyone have a link I cant seem to find it?

I think I may currently be the only July filer that has still heard nothing regarding an interview date. Is there anything I can do to start forcing a chase on it?

A couple of days and ill be at the 3 month mark!

not sure if it's still being updated but it's here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Andl3ACqBtEDdHZjdC1iVFVwOHk2Q2Y1d0l0bEVCckE#gid=0

[DebLogs 0]

I just got my interview appointment for Nov. 7!!! Finally!!!

I had to call USCIS to know about it, because my status did not change!!

Im so happy!!! Yay!

Congratulations! No more stressing...all the best in your interview, so that you can use those tickets :star:

[Mariana D.A. 2]

Congratulations! No more stressing...all the best in your interview, so that you can use those tickets :star:

Thanks!! Yes, Im so relieved for now! Now lets just hope the interview goes as well as everything else! I can't wait to be able to go to Brazil and meet my husbands family! I'm sure your interview will be scheduled very soon!! Good luck deblogs!

[mccbsimon 5]

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE IN WICHITA, KANSAS

alright ladies n gents. im a few days late doing this but here we go!

We arrived early and got in late. 10 minutes late to be exact. THEY were the ones behind on time lol This interview i would have to say from reading everyone elses was the most LAID BACK and short interview yet. The IO opened the door and called my name i said "thats us" and grabbed my photo album and VERY organized tote of evidence which might i add was huge. Needless to say the IO looked at the items in my hand prior to even eyeing us up. So, we proceed to the office and by we i mean my wife, 8 month old daughter and myself, we make it halfway to his office and a bunch of the IO's go nuts over "how cute" our daughter was so that was a nice icebreaker. We finally made it inside and of course he asks how we are and the weather topic came up as im Canadian and its hot here in Kansas yata yata, shook hands, you get the picture. We sit down and my daughter whines a bit and my wife says to her that we couldnt bring a toy in sorry. IMMEDIATELY he spins around and reaches into one of his filing cabinets and is digging through some plastic and i knew right away what it was. He grabbed her a toy LOL soooo, from there we started talking about him and his wife wanting a kid and we said how he should def. enjoy every moment without them lol. Then he started with the whole ok, raise your right hands and swear to tell the truth bla bla bla. Next he asks me my full name, DOB, address, parents name, our wedding date at which point we both said Feb. 18th 2011 at the EXACT same time lol. Of course we made it to the yes no questions and out of the 30 that there is, he asked 5. i did have a petty theft charge in 2006 and it was withdrawn because i completed mediation. So in turn, he obviously asked me about it and of course i told him the truth and handed him the court papers etc. then he literally tossed it aside. Then he asked who William Smith was ( we live with him and his wife and he is our co sponsor AKA my wifes grandpa ), so she explained it was her grandpa. Then he asked me if there were any other forms of evidence that wished to submit and of course i said yes and handed him a stack of things and showed him my EAD card and all our little love notes, facebook messages, and cards from family members with both our names on them from different occasions such as christmas etc. From there i bothered him with a few questions regarding some of the answers i wrote down as i was unsure of some of them. in the midst of those we got the comment out that he was going to go ahead and approve the case, but he NEVER once mentioned if it were going to be a 2 year conditional or not. So i really have no idea which i will have, you must know that he flipped through pages like he wasnt reading ANYTHING. Not acting like he was annoyed, but rather that he had his mind up the moment we shook hands and anything infront of him wasnt going to change his mind. It really was the most astonishing experience as i expected it to get a little heated because of a few things which NEVER were brought up such as my intention at point of entry etc. He was VERY fast about it and it lasted 15 min. We all sat a few more min after he printed off my congratulations sheet(no it wasnt the welcome to the USA letter) and talked it up for a bit. Then i grabbed our things and shook hands and said ty take care yata yata and out we were. quick, easy, and truly feels surreal, i spose once the green card is in my hand it will hit home. When he said it was approved i must admit i was taken back a bit and didnt really listen to what he had to say after that but i wasnt overwhelmed with joy or anything like that, just, at peace ya know. The wait was soooooo stressful and it truly felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. WELL, believe it or not the journey DID NOT end there, there is more. keep reading.

When we left after i grabbed all my things, we went to walmart. Did our thing at walmart etc, got to our car to leave and i started putting my ID and credentials back where they belong like aka in my wallet etc. WELL. i realize my EAD card WAS GONE!!!!! OMG i was in such a panic! I freaked, lol. We instantly went BACK to the immigration office and started back tracking my foot steps all the way to the building. Then i went back to the little window and asked my IO if i had left it in his office lol. He combed his office and tore it appart. He said there was 4 other interviews after me so he was going to go through EVERY one of their files to see if he had put it in there by accident, obviously he checked mine and it wasnt there. Well, i went from that office to my car back and forth FIVE, yes 5 times searching in the car and looking EVERYWHERE for it. On the street, the grass, down the street, just everywhere. Well, in the end, we found it. I have a passport book for our passports etc. well there is a VERY deep pocket i learned that day. You couldnt see it and couldnt tell there was a card in there cause the backs of the passport book were hard as a rock. So anyways, i found it and went in and told him and ya. That searching etc, took an hour and half LOL The bloody interview was 15 min. and then searched for something for an hour and a half. I was truly embarrassed but, what can you do. That guys and gals, was our interview story. I am more than sure the order of what i typed out may have been a little different and im sure i have forgoten a few minor things here and there but the idea of it was, it was FAST and PAINLESS. Good luck all, may God be as good to you with your experience as he was to ours.

[mccbsimon 5]

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE IN WICHITA, KANSAS

alright ladies n gents. im a few days late doing this but here we go!

We arrived early and got in late. 10 minutes late to be exact. THEY were the ones behind on time lol This interview i would have to say from reading everyone elses was the most LAID BACK and short interview yet. The IO opened the door and called my name i said "thats us" and grabbed my photo album and VERY organized tote of evidence which might i add was huge. Needless to say the IO looked at the items in my hand prior to even eyeing us up. So, we proceed to the office and by we i mean my wife, 8 month old daughter and myself, we make it halfway to his office and a bunch of the IO's go nuts over "how cute" our daughter was so that was a nice icebreaker. We finally made it inside and of course he asks how we are and the weather topic came up as im Canadian and its hot here in Kansas yata yata, shook hands, you get the picture. We sit down and my daughter whines a bit and my wife says to her that we couldnt bring a toy in sorry. IMMEDIATELY he spins around and reaches into one of his filing cabinets and is digging through some plastic and i knew right away what it was. He grabbed her a toy LOL soooo, from there we started talking about him and his wife wanting a kid and we said how he should def. enjoy every moment without them lol. Then he started with the whole ok, raise your right hands and swear to tell the truth bla bla bla. Next he asks me my full name, DOB, address, parents name, our wedding date at which point we both said Feb. 18th 2011 at the EXACT same time lol. Of course we made it to the yes no questions and out of the 30 that there is, he asked 5. i did have a petty theft charge in 2006 and it was withdrawn because i completed mediation. So in turn, he obviously asked me about it and of course i told him the truth and handed him the court papers etc. then he literally tossed it aside. Then he asked who William Smith was ( we live with him and his wife and he is our co sponsor AKA my wifes grandpa ), so she explained it was her grandpa. Then he asked me if there were any other forms of evidence that wished to submit and of course i said yes and handed him a stack of things and showed him my EAD card and all our little love notes, facebook messages, and cards from family members with both our names on them from different occasions such as christmas etc. From there i bothered him with a few questions regarding some of the answers i wrote down as i was unsure of some of them. in the midst of those we got the comment out that he was going to go ahead and approve the case, but he NEVER once mentioned if it were going to be a 2 year conditional or not. So i really have no idea which i will have, you must know that he flipped through pages like he wasnt reading ANYTHING. Not acting like he was annoyed, but rather that he had his mind up the moment we shook hands and anything infront of him wasnt going to change his mind. It really was the most astonishing experience as i expected it to get a little heated because of a few things which NEVER were brought up such as my intention at point of entry etc. He was VERY fast about it and it lasted 15 min. We all sat a few more min after he printed off my congratulations sheet(no it wasnt the welcome to the USA letter) and talked it up for a bit. Then i grabbed our things and shook hands and said ty take care yata yata and out we were. quick, easy, and truly feels surreal, i spose once the green card is in my hand it will hit home. When he said it was approved i must admit i was taken back a bit and didnt really listen to what he had to say after that but i wasnt overwhelmed with joy or anything like that, just, at peace ya know. The wait was soooooo stressful and it truly felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. WELL, believe it or not the journey DID NOT end there, there is more. keep reading.

When we left after i grabbed all my things, we went to walmart. Did our thing at walmart etc, got to our car to leave and i started putting my ID and credentials back where they belong like aka in my wallet etc. WELL. i realize my EAD card WAS GONE!!!!! OMG i was in such a panic! I freaked, lol. We instantly went BACK to the immigration office and started back tracking my foot steps all the way to the building. Then i went back to the little window and asked my IO if i had left it in his office lol. He combed his office and tore it appart. He said there was 4 other interviews after me so he was going to go through EVERY one of their files to see if he had put it in there by accident, obviously he checked mine and it wasnt there. Well, i went from that office to my car back and forth FIVE, yes 5 times searching in the car and looking EVERYWHERE for it. On the street, the grass, down the street, just everywhere. Well, in the end, we found it. I have a passport book for our passports etc. well there is a VERY deep pocket i learned that day. You couldnt see it and couldnt tell there was a card in there cause the backs of the passport book were hard as a rock. So anyways, i found it and went in and told him and ya. That searching etc, took an hour and half LOL The bloody interview was 15 min. and then searched for something for an hour and a half. I was truly embarrassed but, what can you do. That guys and gals, was our interview story. I am more than sure the order of what i typed out may have been a little different and im sure i have forgoten a few minor things here and there but the idea of it was, it was FAST and PAINLESS. Good luck all, may God be as good to you with your experience as he was to ours.

So it took 101 days from the time i sent my AOS package to USCIS to get approved. That is WELL under 4 months time as they propose, so, i would say things are going very quickly for the "visitor" class filers. patience is key