April 2016 AOS Filers

[Moslund 94]

thanks! We are on our way now. Will post a review!

Good luck!!

[kk090107 2]

Good luck!!

Thank you! I could feel the good vibes from VJ. We got there at 9am, our appointment was scheduled for 930, we got called back together at 10am and were done by 1015. They asked me for my bio info then asked my wife for hers. Looked at our passports. They also asked us both to give the full name and birthday of the other. Asked questions of my wife about past J1 visa and if she completed the 2 year homestay requirement and then the standard are you a criminal questions. They asked if we had anything new to add and we gave them a copy of our house contract that we bought together, copies of our health and life insurance, light bill. Looked at my old passport with my first trips to Guatemala. We had a picture album from the last 9 years that we flipped through with her and told her who everyone was and the trips we had taken together and the trips to Guatemala and her to the US, pics of me with her family, her with my family, when our mothers met each other, my dog in Guatemala with her niece, pictures of us here in Columbus with friends. After we finished the album (about 60 pics of 1000s that we have taken) she looked through a photo book she gave me when we got married and also glanced at our wedding photo book. Gave everything back to us and then said she had everything she needed to approve our application and that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks! No stamp but we are extremely excited and relieved. Good luck to all still waiting!

[DerGraf88 5]

Thank you! I could feel the good vibes from VJ. We got there at 9am, our appointment was scheduled for 930, we got called back together at 10am and were done by 1015. They asked me for my bio info then asked my wife for hers. Looked at our passports. They also asked us both to give the full name and birthday of the other. Asked questions of my wife about past J1 visa and if she completed the 2 year homestay requirement and then the standard are you a criminal questions. They asked if we had anything new to add and we gave them a copy of our house contract that we bought together, copies of our health and life insurance, light bill. Looked at my old passport with my first trips to Guatemala. We had a picture album from the last 9 years that we flipped through with her and told her who everyone was and the trips we had taken together and the trips to Guatemala and her to the US, pics of me with her family, her with my family, when our mothers met each other, my dog in Guatemala with her niece, pictures of us here in Columbus with friends. After we finished the album (about 60 pics of 1000s that we have taken) she looked through a photo book she gave me when we got married and also glanced at our wedding photo book. Gave everything back to us and then said she had everything she needed to approve our application and that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks! No stamp but we are extremely excited and relieved. Good luck to all still waiting!

Congrats!

[trudi 1,317]

Thank you! I could feel the good vibes from VJ. We got there at 9am, our appointment was scheduled for 930, we got called back together at 10am and were done by 1015. They asked me for my bio info then asked my wife for hers. Looked at our passports. They also asked us both to give the full name and birthday of the other. Asked questions of my wife about past J1 visa and if she completed the 2 year homestay requirement and then the standard are you a criminal questions. They asked if we had anything new to add and we gave them a copy of our house contract that we bought together, copies of our health and life insurance, light bill. Looked at my old passport with my first trips to Guatemala. We had a picture album from the last 9 years that we flipped through with her and told her who everyone was and the trips we had taken together and the trips to Guatemala and her to the US, pics of me with her family, her with my family, when our mothers met each other, my dog in Guatemala with her niece, pictures of us here in Columbus with friends. After we finished the album (about 60 pics of 1000s that we have taken) she looked through a photo book she gave me when we got married and also glanced at our wedding photo book. Gave everything back to us and then said she had everything she needed to approve our application and that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks! No stamp but we are extremely excited and relieved. Good luck to all still waiting!

Congratulations:D

[Ash.1101 1,755]

Congrats!

[JJ11 11]

Just got a green card in the mail :joy: :joy:

See you in 2 years, good luck to everyone, you were big support, thank you very much!

Edited August 4, 2016 by JJ11

[Moslund 94]

drivers license arrived in the mail... 1 more thing I'm waiting on i can check off my list

[Pennycat 880]

SIGH.

Once you think things are going well....

So our EAD status changed to "has been mailed to me". Yay. BUT.... last night we got an RFE for the green card. RFE for the medical exam and vaccination forms, which they already actually have or he is exempted from. I-485 instructions say if you're a K1 and had a medical in the past year, don't need a full medical with I-485. Ok. then you go to the vaccination supplement and IT says that if you had a DS 3025 properly filled out and submitted (he did) that you don't have to provide that. I'm super annoyed.

I just found out that my insurance would cover him getting all the vaccines again (third time getting childhood vaccines) and there is a civil surgeon who will transcribe them for cheap (and she is more outraged than I am at this issue and refuses to perform a new physical until we exhaust all routes getting a copy of what was already done, and knows that she shouldn't even have to transcribe which is why she does it so cheap), but christ alive! What is up with these people?

I'm not sure if it's incompetence or retaliation for putting in a service request, which is just so sad (are my government representatives less aware of how to do their jobs than I am, or are they wielding their considerable power over me out of spite).

[aline11 1]

Interview yesterday took about 10 minutes. Way easier than we expected!

Approved right away!

HAPPY!!!!

[Meowtain 3]

Thank you! I could feel the good vibes from VJ. We got there at 9am, our appointment was scheduled for 930, we got called back together at 10am and were done by 1015. They asked me for my bio info then asked my wife for hers. Looked at our passports. They also asked us both to give the full name and birthday of the other. Asked questions of my wife about past J1 visa and if she completed the 2 year homestay requirement and then the standard are you a criminal questions. They asked if we had anything new to add and we gave them a copy of our house contract that we bought together, copies of our health and life insurance, light bill. Looked at my old passport with my first trips to Guatemala. We had a picture album from the last 9 years that we flipped through with her and told her who everyone was and the trips we had taken together and the trips to Guatemala and her to the US, pics of me with her family, her with my family, when our mothers met each other, my dog in Guatemala with her niece, pictures of us here in Columbus with friends. After we finished the album (about 60 pics of 1000s that we have taken) she looked through a photo book she gave me when we got married and also glanced at our wedding photo book. Gave everything back to us and then said she had everything she needed to approve our application and that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks! No stamp but we are extremely excited and relieved. Good luck to all still waiting!

? Congratulations

Interview yesterday took about 10 minutes. Way easier than we expected!

Approved right away!

HAPPY!!!!

?? any tricky question?

[aline11 1]

? Congratulations

?? any tricky question?

Not at all.

After the oath, he asked for my passport and he asked my husband:

- What is your full name?

- Date of birth?

- Where do you work? And what do you do?

- What is your address?

- What is her full name?

- What is her date of birth?

- How, when and where did you propose her?

- When and where did you get married?

Then for me:

- What is your full name?

- Date of birth?

- What is your address again?

- What is his full name?

- What is his date of birth?

- Do you have any additional document?

So I showed 2 photo albums, and he just asked why we chose get married in Las Vegas.

Then he said that by the way we talk and by the pictures he was going to go ahead and approve my Green Card because for sure we have a real relationship.

Then he explained that it expires in 2 years and we should fill the form I-751 in 2 years.

That is all

[ElliePro 32]

Congrats to everyone on successful interviews and GCs! Good times!

I got my EAD today, so back to work on Monday. Also will start the Drivers License process in a couple of weeks.

Question to everyone who had done it with EAD rather than GC in hand - do they write a "temporary visitor until [date of EAD expiration]" there or not? I had a non-driver New York State ID with my previous EAD (on student visa) and it had that and it's annoying.

[ConiMoni 11]

Yes, they do write that in NY state.. I renewed my new DL a week ago and it has the EAD expiry date on it.. Per my understanding, if your previous DL is still valid then u can still drive because it is the expiry date of the DL that matters not the expiry date of Temp Visitor status.

I renewed my DL last week based of my EAD card and this week my GC approved so i would have to go there again and for the third time to get a new DL.

[ElliePro 32]

Yes, they do write that in NY state.. I renewed my new DL a week ago and it has the EAD expiry date on it.. Per my understanding, if your previous DL is still valid then u can still drive because it is the expiry date of the DL that matters not the expiry date of Temp Visitor status.

I renewed my DL last week based of my EAD card and this week my GC approved so i would have to go there again and for the third time to get a new DL.

Thank you! My previous ID was non-DL, now a want a DL (but we don't really drive in NYC so I'm in no rush). I know that the expiration date matters more than the status but my landlord made me put in an extra couple thousand as a deposit because of that writing on my ID (as in - we're not even sure you have status until the end of your lease, so what if you get booted and whatever), so I'd really love something that doesn't say that so that I can get that money back lol

[kk090107 2]

Congrats to all the approved folks and hang in there to those still waiting. I was wondering if anyone received a stamp in the passport at the interview when told they were approved. We did not receive one and were just curious as to other's stamp situation lol