AOS September 2016 Filers

[ljroul 14]

Just curious if anyone else here had an RFIE, and if so where are you at in the AOS process? 

[petareño 15]

1 minute ago, ljroul said:

Just curious if anyone else here had an RFIE, and if so where are you at in the AOS process? 

My wife got one. We haven't heard anything after it was received. She got her EAD. 

[ljroul 14]

1 minute ago, petareño said:

My wife got one. We haven't heard anything after it was received. She got her EAD. 

Thanks, good to know, our timelines are actually pretty similar! Still waiting 

[embay16 12]

We got our interview notice today online! Now we just have to get our s*** (documents) together for the interview as we've been putting off organizing all of that...

 

Any tips from those who've gone through the interview already?

[Sim.Arnold 17]

1 minute ago, embay16 said:

We got our interview notice today online! Now we just have to get our s*** (documents) together for the interview as we've been putting off organizing all of that...

 

Any tips from those who've gone through the interview already?

Be sure to eat something before you go to your interview and just try stay calm (hah...)! Good luck! 

[A'n'L 735]

14 hours ago, embay16 said:

We got our interview notice today online! Now we just have to get our s*** (documents) together for the interview as we've been putting off organizing all of that...

 

Any tips from those who've gone through the interview already?

Bring more evidence than you need. Organize it neatly to make it easier to give it to the CO on request. Be on time, but expect to spend the rest of the day there (our interview was quite delayed and my husband missed the afternoon of work). Prepare for the Y/N questions (my husband, the USC, was unprepared and could not stop himself from laughing).

[sharamighty 7]

We got our interview date! April 27th. Gathering documents and getting excited to finally be at this step!

[Diddy007 0]

Hello Guys 

i had my interview on the 20th March 2016 and everything went well as we took enough photos and these documents with our names on them ;

Lease 

Furniture Rental Agreement

Car insurance 

Tax return 2016 

Cable Bill 

Marriage Certificate 

Also with other necessary documents  like passports , 1 94 and birth certificates

    The officer told us we got all he needed and medical was good BUT we got RFE as he requested for a copy of divorce degree of my wife which we rushed home , got it and dropped it at USCIS office same day . 

     We got home and my status on 1-485 changed to " INTERVIEW COMPLETED AND CASE MUST BE REVIEWED " Its been stuck on this for three weeks now . 

I have two questions ; 

HOW LONG DO I NEED TO WAIT ?

COULD THIS DELAY BE AS REGARD THE RFE??

 

[ljroul 14]

On 4/4/2017 at 5:23 PM, sharamighty said:

We got our interview date! April 27th. Gathering documents and getting excited to finally be at this step!

Congrats!!! Quick question for you since we have almost identical timelines and are both from Denver, your timeline says you got an RFIE on Oct 27 - just wondering when you sent back the information requested. We got an RFIE on Oct 21, sent back the info on Oct 31, and as of Nov 4 our status has been stuck on "We've received your evidence" Knowing that you got an interview this quickly with an RFIE makes me think ours might be soon!

[thrashunreal 20]

Have any people who have a local office of San Antonio heard anything about their GC/interview yet?

[Gatsby9 4]

Hi, I'm getting all the documents ready for the interview and do we have to bring the affidavit of support and all those documents filled again? Or just the supporting documents, like birth certificates, photos, leases...

 

TIA

[Sim.Arnold 17]

3 minutes ago, Gatsby9 said:

Hi, I'm getting all the documents ready for the interview and do we have to bring the affidavit of support and all those documents filled again? Or just the supporting documents, like birth certificates, photos, leases...

 

TIA

On the letter they sent you with your interview date it should say what documents you need to bring. For example, our letter said we should bring the affidavit of support and medical documents "if not already submitted." Since we submitted an affidavit of support and an I-693 with our AOS packet (and I had a medical done less than a year ago for my K-1 visa), we just took copies of our AOS packet and our medical documents. Perhaps someone else can speak to their experiences, maybe with AOS that *isn't* from K-1? I'm not sure if it's different for other folks.

As a side note, our letter also said to bring copies of "any document you've ever received from USCIS." I'd err on the side of bring as much as you can. If you don't need it, great! But it would be awful to not have something they ask for. 

[Gatsby9 4]

7 minutes ago, Sim.Arnold said:

On the letter they sent you with your interview date it should say what documents you need to bring. For example, our letter said we should bring the affidavit of support and medical documents "if not already submitted." Since we submitted an affidavit of support and an I-693 with our AOS packet (and I had a medical done less than a year ago for my K-1 visa), we just took copies of our AOS packet and our medical documents. Perhaps someone else can speak to their experiences, maybe with AOS that *isn't* from K-1? I'm not sure if it's different for other folks.

As a side note, our letter also said to bring copies of "any document you've ever received from USCIS." I'd err on the side of bring as much as you can. If you don't need it, great! But it would be awful to not have something they ask for. 

Yes, it says the same but I don't have the copies of them. I might have them saved in the computer but without signatures and dates. 

 

We also realized that my spouse's US passport expired two days ago and I don't know if we will be able to get the original birth certificate before the interview. We will have to try with a copy of her birth certificate and hope they are not too strict about it if we have everything else...

[Sim.Arnold 17]

1 minute ago, Gatsby9 said:

Yes, it says the same but I don't have the copies of them. I might have them saved in the computer but without signatures and dates. 

 

We also realized that my spouse's US passport expired two days ago and I don't know if we will be able to get the original birth certificate before the interview. We will have to try with a copy of her birth certificate and hope they are not too strict about it if we have everything else...

Definitely take whatever you have -- the expired passport and a copy of the birth certificate, if you can't get the original birth certificate before the interview. What they're looking for is proof of your US citizen spouse's citizenship, and a birth certificate and/or passport are the main (only?) documents to prove that. 

As for the copies of the affidavit of support, it seems likely that if your letter also says "if not already submitted" they probably don't need another copy, and I was just overly cautious. If you're worried about it, you could always have your spouse fill in another one. In future though, photocopy everything! I always end up with paper cuts from all the photocopying and printing right before I submit documents... 

[Diddy007 0]

Hello Guys 

i had my interview on the 20th March 2016 and everything went well as we took enough photos and these documents with our names on them ;

Lease 

Furniture Rental Agreement

Car insurance 

Tax return 2016 

Cable Bill 

Marriage Certificate 

Also with other necessary documents  like passports , 1 94 and birth certificates

    The officer told us we got all he needed and medical was good BUT we got RFE as he requested for a copy of divorce degree of my wife which we rushed home , got it and dropped it at USCIS office same day . 

     We got home and my status on 1-485 changed to " INTERVIEW COMPLETED AND CASE MUST BE REVIEWED " Its been stuck on this for three weeks now . 

I have two questions ; 

HOW LONG DO I NEED TO WAIT ?

COULD THIS DELAY BE AS REGARD THE RFE??