Yardies, at home and a farrin'

[Yaads 0]

Ok so as promised here is a complete list of all that we brought for the interview...

- Both of our birth certificates, social security cards, passports, drivers license

- Certified copy of our marriage certificate

- Vaccine Supplement Copy

- EAD Card

- All NOA's from our whole journey (K1, EAD, AOS, Biometrics)

Financial Stuff...

- Updated I-864

- 2005 Tax Return

- Update Employee Letter

- Payroll History for last 4 months

- 3 months of bank statements

Evidence of a relationship

- Lease Agreement in both names

- Lease (rent) reciepts in both names

- Car Title in both names

- 401K statement with Andre as beneficiary

- Power bills in both names

- Phone bills in both names

- Letter from our pastor

- Half dozen mail items sent to our address in both names

- Handful of cards from our wedding

- Wedding Album with 20 or so pics

- 15 random pics from the last few holidays/birthdays

Ok....So we got there about 45 mins early and got through security no problem. Our appoinment was for 9:30 am. There was a lot of people in the waiting room and I could pick out some couples that you knew were there for AOS stuff because they had wedding albums and things like that. The interesting thing was out of the 4 couples that we saw there, 3 of them had lawyers. They were all dressed up like it was Easter Sunday and Andre and I started to panic cause we were dressed casual but nice...but definitely not our Sunday best. There were a lot of people of Russian descent in the waiting room and we didn't understand what they were saying but a lot of them were coming out the doors looking really sad and some were teary so that was a little unnerving...all these sad people who were obviously denied something. We were finally called in at 10:00. The lady was polite but not friendly. We were sworn in and took a seat. She asked to look at both our ID's...she specifically asked for drivers licenses. After that she looked at Andre's passport and took out the I-94. She had a huge file of all our information. She went through asking if things were correct (address, birthday, etc), then she asked all those "No" questions...Andre started to snicker when she asked if he was a prostitue or had ever harbored a prostitute After that she asked how we met, how many time I visited JA, when we got married, where we got married, who was there. Then she looked through our album of our wedding. She asked some questions in the pictures...who is this? who is that?

Then she asked what proof we had of our relationship. I started to give her copies of the things we had and she said she didn't need to see them, she just wanted me to tell her what we had. I listed off a couple of things and she said that was fine. She said we were approved but the FBI clearance didn't come back...when it does the green card will be sent in the mail. Have a nice day! She said the last few sentences as she was ushering us out the door. In all we were in there for 11 minutes. She talked extremely fast and never beat around the bush or cracked any sort of smile...no real emotion at all...It was all business. She didn't say anything about lifting conditions...good thing I know about that from VJ.

I was a little pissed that I spent a million hours getting this HUGE AOS package together and making copies of everything and stressing about getting all this evidence and all this stuff together and she looked at NONE of it. NONE!!! I filled out all these stupid forms, got all this update #######, saved mail for ever and she didn't look at a thing. Honestly she only look at our ID's in the beginning and our wedding album. I am grateful that it was easy but I was so prepared I wanted to show someone I think she knew we were prepared and we weren't sweating it or anything so that she wasn't worried about some sort of scam. She also mentioned that we had one of the most detailed AOS filing package that it made it easy on her.

So that is that...just waiting on the name check to get that green card. I can't believe we are "done" so to speak...what am I going to do while we wait for the next set of forms and petition we have to file???

Thanks for all the well wishes and the prayers...You all are truly a blessing

Edited April 27, 2006 by Jme3584

[rhondapayter 0]

everything is finally all together...sending it to mike today and it should get to him by Tuesday...then if all goes well he should take it to Kingston on Thursday...than more waiting till he gets a interview date and time....i hate waiting..

Hope all is well with everyone!!!!

Shauna

Hey Shauna,

I was just looking at your timeline - how on earth did you guys get your NOA2 so fast through NSC??? The ONLY place I've ever seen it happen that quick is Vermont. Wow! We had to wait over 3 months from NOA1 to NOA2. That's great!

Ok Ok Ok...Here I am! You all have to remember its a 3 HOUR drive and of course we had to stop and celebrate!!!

WE WERE APPROVED!!!

Although I am afraid we are stuck in FBI name check hell Our interviewer said it could be days, weeks, months or even years...yes she herself said years But we are approved thats all that matters

Full Report coming shortly...

YIPPEE!!! Doesn't it feel good? LOL

I was a little pissed that I spent a million hours getting this HUGE AOS package together and making copies of everything and stressing about getting all this evidence and all this stuff together and she looked at NONE of it. NONE!!!

Oh my gosh, I felt EXACTLY the same way We had so much paperwork and I spent so much time on everything and she didn't look at hardly any of ours either Like I said, they already have most of the information right in front of them. But, it's always better to be over-prepared than to be missing something you need

Hope you guys get the GC soon. It's like a giant weight being lifted off your shoulders. Then you don't have to do anything else for almost 2 years

[Jonesie 1]

Thanks for the report Jamie. I copied it and saved it to my Outlook drafts folder.

We'll be sending packet off tomorrow, but I am praying for a quick interview date...it's all in the Lord's hands!

Again, congrats to the both of you

[ChristineJames 0]

Ok so as promised here is a complete list of all that we brought for the interview...

- Both of our birth certificates, social security cards, passports, drivers license

- Certified copy of our marriage certificate

- Vaccine Supplement Copy

- EAD Card

- All NOA's from our whole journey (K1, EAD, AOS, Biometrics)

Financial Stuff...

- Updated I-864

- 2005 Tax Return

- Update Employee Letter

- Payroll History for last 4 months

- 3 months of bank statements

Evidence of a relationship

- Lease Agreement in both names

- Lease (rent) reciepts in both names

- Car Title in both names

- 401K statement with Andre as beneficiary

- Power bills in both names

- Phone bills in both names

- Letter from our pastor

- Half dozen mail items sent to our address in both names

- Handful of cards from our wedding

- Wedding Album with 20 or so pics

- 15 random pics from the last few holidays/birthdays

Ok....So we got there about 45 mins early and got through security no problem. Our appoinment was for 9:30 am. There was a lot of people in the waiting room and I could pick out some couples that you knew were there for AOS stuff because they had wedding albums and things like that. The interesting thing was out of the 4 couples that we saw there, 3 of them had lawyers. They were all dressed up like it was Easter Sunday and Andre and I started to panic cause we were dressed casual but nice...but definitely not our Sunday best. There were a lot of people of Russian descent in the waiting room and we didn't understand what they were saying but a lot of them were coming out the doors looking really sad and some were teary so that was a little unnerving...all these sad people who were obviously denied something. We were finally called in at 10:00. The lady was polite but not friendly. We were sworn in and took a seat. She asked to look at both our ID's...she specifically asked for drivers licenses. After that she looked at Andre's passport and took out the I-94. She had a huge file of all our information. She went through asking if things were correct (address, birthday, etc), then she asked all those "No" questions...Andre started to snicker when she asked if he was a prostitue or had ever harbored a prostitute After that she asked how we met, how many time I visited JA, when we got married, where we got married, who was there. Then she looked through our album of our wedding. She asked some questions in the pictures...who is this? who is that?

Then she asked what proof we had of our relationship. I started to give her copies of the things we had and she said she didn't need to see them, she just wanted me to tell her what we had. I listed off a couple of things and she said that was fine. She said we were approved but the FBI clearance didn't come back...when it does the green card will be sent in the mail. Have a nice day! She said the last few sentences as she was ushering us out the door. In all we were in there for 11 minutes. She talked extremely fast and never beat around the bush or cracked any sort of smile...no real emotion at all...It was all business. She didn't say anything about lifting conditions...good thing I know about that from VJ.

I was a little pissed that I spent a million hours getting this HUGE AOS package together and making copies of everything and stressing about getting all this evidence and all this stuff together and she looked at NONE of it. NONE!!! I filled out all these stupid forms, got all this update #######, saved mail for ever and she didn't look at a thing. Honestly she only look at our ID's in the beginning and our wedding album. I am grateful that it was easy but I was so prepared I wanted to show someone I think she knew we were prepared and we weren't sweating it or anything so that she wasn't worried about some sort of scam. She also mentioned that we had one of the most detailed AOS filing package that it made it easy on her.

So that is that...just waiting on the name check to get that green card. I can't believe we are "done" so to speak...what am I going to do while we wait for the next set of forms and petition we have to file???

Thanks for all the well wishes and the prayers...You all are truly a blessing

Dang thats alot of work!!! Ladies....I gotta hand it to ya....that's love. Phew!! I don't think I could go through all that. I'm impressed. Just going through the K1 portion was enough to make my head spin. Congrats to you and Andre!!!!!

[Yaads 0]

Thanks everyone You all are sooooo good to me

Congrats sweetie!

All the hell you went through just to get your K1 approved - you definitely deserve this!

So now that Andre is approved, will you two be taking a trip to Jamaica in the near future?

Well I am wondering about this whole name check thing. We would like to go back to JA...maybe end of summer or Christmas but we didn't file AP and I think the name check thing is the same problem that Shemonya (SJB) ran into...and it took them a while to get it all squared away. In fact aren't they STILL waiting for the green card? So to answer your question...as soon as we get the green card we will be heading down Just might take a while.

[AnnTaylor 0]

Ok so as promised here is a complete list of all that we brought for the interview...

- Both of our birth certificates, social security cards, passports, drivers license

- Certified copy of our marriage certificate

- Vaccine Supplement Copy

- EAD Card

- All NOA's from our whole journey (K1, EAD, AOS, Biometrics)

Financial Stuff...

- Updated I-864

- 2005 Tax Return

- Update Employee Letter

- Payroll History for last 4 months

- 3 months of bank statements

Evidence of a relationship

- Lease Agreement in both names

- Lease (rent) reciepts in both names

- Car Title in both names

- 401K statement with Andre as beneficiary

- Power bills in both names

- Phone bills in both names

- Letter from our pastor

- Half dozen mail items sent to our address in both names

- Handful of cards from our wedding

- Wedding Album with 20 or so pics

- 15 random pics from the last few holidays/birthdays

Ok....So we got there about 45 mins early and got through security no problem. Our appoinment was for 9:30 am. There was a lot of people in the waiting room and I could pick out some couples that you knew were there for AOS stuff because they had wedding albums and things like that. The interesting thing was out of the 4 couples that we saw there, 3 of them had lawyers. They were all dressed up like it was Easter Sunday and Andre and I started to panic cause we were dressed casual but nice...but definitely not our Sunday best. There were a lot of people of Russian descent in the waiting room and we didn't understand what they were saying but a lot of them were coming out the doors looking really sad and some were teary so that was a little unnerving...all these sad people who were obviously denied something. We were finally called in at 10:00. The lady was polite but not friendly. We were sworn in and took a seat. She asked to look at both our ID's...she specifically asked for drivers licenses. After that she looked at Andre's passport and took out the I-94. She had a huge file of all our information. She went through asking if things were correct (address, birthday, etc), then she asked all those "No" questions...Andre started to snicker when she asked if he was a prostitue or had ever harbored a prostitute After that she asked how we met, how many time I visited JA, when we got married, where we got married, who was there. Then she looked through our album of our wedding. She asked some questions in the pictures...who is this? who is that?

Then she asked what proof we had of our relationship. I started to give her copies of the things we had and she said she didn't need to see them, she just wanted me to tell her what we had. I listed off a couple of things and she said that was fine. She said we were approved but the FBI clearance didn't come back...when it does the green card will be sent in the mail. Have a nice day! She said the last few sentences as she was ushering us out the door. In all we were in there for 11 minutes. She talked extremely fast and never beat around the bush or cracked any sort of smile...no real emotion at all...It was all business. She didn't say anything about lifting conditions...good thing I know about that from VJ.

I was a little pissed that I spent a million hours getting this HUGE AOS package together and making copies of everything and stressing about getting all this evidence and all this stuff together and she looked at NONE of it. NONE!!! I filled out all these stupid forms, got all this update #######, saved mail for ever and she didn't look at a thing. Honestly she only look at our ID's in the beginning and our wedding album. I am grateful that it was easy but I was so prepared I wanted to show someone I think she knew we were prepared and we weren't sweating it or anything so that she wasn't worried about some sort of scam. She also mentioned that we had one of the most detailed AOS filing package that it made it easy on her.

So that is that...just waiting on the name check to get that green card. I can't believe we are "done" so to speak...what am I going to do while we wait for the next set of forms and petition we have to file???

Thanks for all the well wishes and the prayers...You all are truly a blessing

Congratulations! I hope the card is in the mail. Did she give you a stamp or do you have to wait for FBI check?

[Yaads 0]

Congratulations! I hope the card is in the mail. Did she give you a stamp or do you have to wait for FBI check?

No stamp She said they don't give those out anymore, we have to wait. Only if there is an emergency and he needs to travel will they give out the stamp.

WOW what a great day

Andre just got a call back from the door company he applied to on Monday. They want him to come in for orientation tomorrow and if he likes what he sees and wants the job he can start on MONDAY!!!! Praise the Lord!!! We have been praying for a steady full time job for so long...it looks like our prayers can turn to praise

[AnnTaylor 0]

Congratulations! I hope the card is in the mail. Did she give you a stamp or do you have to wait for FBI check?

No stamp She said they don't give those out anymore, we have to wait. Only if there is an emergency and he needs to travel will they give out the stamp.

WOW what a great day

Andre just got a call back from the door company he applied to on Monday. They want him to come in for orientation tomorrow and if he likes what he sees and wants the job he can start on MONDAY!!!! Praise the Lord!!! We have been praying for a steady full time job for so long...it looks like our prayers can turn to praise

The lord is working for you today. Let's all praise the Lord!

[Jamaicagyaldat 1]

This is so fabulous! I am so happy for you!!! Great job! I hope Andre loves that job too...

So now that I sent my AOS off do I just go to the USCIS to track the status again? Im not sure....I think that is what everyone said.

[Minfay 0]

So now that I sent my AOS off do I just go to the USCIS to track the status again? Im not sure....I think that is what everyone said

Yup....that's what you do!! Now you go back to checking their site a few times a day......just like watching paint dry

Jamie -- Thank you so much for all that information. You have always been a HUGE help to all of us who are following behind you. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

[nannygirl82 0]

hi...actually you are right...i put the wrong service center...it is Vermont...

quick question did any of you have to fill out a ds 1858 form??? i bought a visa book and that form is listed...just wanted to make sure i didn't miss any forms....

[rhondapayter 0]

hi...actually you are right...i put the wrong service center...it is Vermont...

quick question did any of you have to fill out a ds 1858 form??? i bought a visa book and that form is listed...just wanted to make sure i didn't miss any forms....

Ok, through Vermont, that timeline is more realistic I don't remember doing any DS 1858?? I don't think that's required. The forms found right here on VJ are usually pretty accurate. Those are the only ones I used and we were ok. I've never heard of that other form.

[jkb919 0]

CONGRATS JAMIE AND ANDRE...AND GOOD LUCK WITH THE POSSIBLE NEW JOB

BOY YOU HAVE HAD A BLESSED DAY!!!!

Nannygirl, we didnt fill out a DS 1858 form??? not sure what that is..hope we dont need it

[BelwinMills 0]

[/color] Congrats Jamie and Andre....

[nannygirl82 0]

ok just wanted to make sure...i bought a book and they had it listed...i think it is more for if you need a sponser....

where can i download the ds230 part 2???

thanks

Shauna