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Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: Canada
Timeline
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Good morning everybody

I'll be mailing out the I-130 petition for my wife today and i just wanted to get some reassurance that all of our bases are covered. I am a foreign born USC and both my wife and I live in Toronto at the moment. Our entire package includes the cover letter listed below and everything listen therein

Cover Letter:

Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Please find enclosed the I-130 Petition for Alien Relative, completed in full on behalf of my wife. In support of the petition please find the documents enclosed listed below:

Completed Form G-1145
Check enclosed in the amount of $420.00

Completed Form I-130

Copy of Petitioners US Passport (All Pages)

Copy of Petitioners Naturalization Certificate

Copy of the Official Marriage Certificate

Passport Photos of the Petitioner and Beneficiary

G-325A Completed by the Petitioner

G-325A Completed by the Beneficiary

Evidence of a Bonafide Marriage (Pictures, Phone Records, Joint Accounts/Property, Money Transfers Ect.)

Affidavit from Friend

Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date. I appreciate your review of this petition. I understand that when this petition is approved, you will contact the beneficiary of the petition, my wife. I have taken a hiatus from my career and am currently living (legally) abroad so that I can be with my wife while we wait for her visa to be processed. I have listed my foreign address on all forms. Please feel free to contact me if there are any questions...

(Personal contact Info listed)

We are mailing this entire package to the

USCIS Chicago Lockbox

PO Box 804625

60680-4107

Did i miss anything!?!?

Thanks!

AC SQRD

Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: China
Timeline
Posted

Looks good.

Our journey:

Spoiler

September 2007: Met online via social networking site (MySpace); began exchanging messages.
March 26, 2009: We become a couple!
September 10, 2009: Arrived for first meeting in-person!
June 17, 2010: Arrived for second in-person meeting and start of travel together to other areas of China!
June 21, 2010: Engaged!!!
September 1, 2010: Switched course from K1 to CR-1
December 8, 2010: Wedding date set; it will be on February 18, 2011!
February 9, 2011: Depart for China
February 11, 2011: Registered for marriage in Wuhan, officially married!!!
February 18, 2011: Wedding ceremony in Shiyan!!!
April 22, 2011: Mailed I-130 to Chicago
April 28, 2011: Received NOA1 via text/email, file routed to CSC (priority date April 25th)
April 29, 2011: Updated
May 3, 2011: Received NOA1 hardcopy in mail
July 26, 2011: Received NOA2 via text/email!!!
July 30, 2011: Received NOA2 hardcopy in mail
August 8, 2011: NVC received file
September 1, 2011: NVC case number assigned
September 2, 2011: AOS invoice received, OPTIN email for EP sent
September 7, 2011: Paid AOS bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 9, 2011)
September 8, 2011: OPTIN email accepted, GZO number assigned
September 10, 2011: Emailed AOS package
September 12, 2011: IV bill invoiced
September 13, 2011: Paid IV bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 14, 2011)
September 14, 2011: Emailed IV package
October 3, 2011: Emailed checklist response (checklist generated due to typo on Form DS-230)
October 6, 2011: Case complete at NVC
November 10, 2011: Interview - APPROVED!!!
December 7, 2011: POE - Sea-Tac Airport

September 17, 2013: Mailed I-751 to CSC

September 23, 2013: Received NOA1 in mail (receipt date September 19th)

October 16, 2013: Biometrics Appointment

January 28, 2014: Production of new Green Card ordered

February 3, 2014: New Green Card received; done with USCIS until fall of 2023*

December 18, 2023:  Filed I-90 to renew Green Card

December 21, 2023:  Production of new Green Card ordered - will be seeing USCIS again every 10 years for renewal

 

 
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