All California Service Center I-130 filers

[srajeevan 5]

Hi,

 

I have my I-130 in process at CSC in F2A catefory.My spouse is my petitioner she don't work currently.I work on STEM OPT and i am the only person with an income as of now.

So while applying for AOS,do i have to provide Affidavit of support from Petitioner.Since my spouse doesn't work i won't be able to provide one.Would that be an issue?

[khalid bahadri19 1]

On 3/10/2019 at 3:57 AM, Blessings9Ja said:

Hello ALL,

I am a LPR who filed for my spouse in Nigeria.
The priority date is   January 16, 2019
When should I be expecting the I130 to be approved?
The field office is California service centre
 

24 months 

[KatenkaMishka 12]

4 hours ago, srajeevan said:

Hi,

 

I have my I-130 in process at CSC in F2A catefory.My spouse is my petitioner she don't work currently.I work on STEM OPT and i am the only person with an income as of now.

So while applying for AOS,do i have to provide Affidavit of support from Petitioner.Since my spouse doesn't work i won't be able to provide one.Would that be an issue?

Yes , it would be an issue. You’ve got to find a sponsor who is gonna support your application (form I-864 A )

[Kabena 4]

Hey guys I'm in the same situation, 2 petitions with California center (F2A category), PD Dec 09, 2016. No approval yet, no correspondance since the cases were received. I submitted an inquiry twice but same generic answers.

Others get lucky by contacting their congressman, I didn't. It's been 3 weeks since I contacted mine, his staff let my request sit for 2 weeks then when I called for a follow up that's when they sent the query to the USCIS, I've been waiting since then.

[mk17 5]

On 3/7/2019 at 2:13 PM, KatenkaMishka said:

To be honest I’m not 100% sure whether you have to wait until your RFE gets resolved , but I would assume that you shouldn’t ? What if you had filled for AOS a few months ago and received RFE just now , your I-485 would be still in pending , right? In the worst case scanerio they just won’t accept your AOS package along with the check , so no loss , it’s not a denial , just rejection to accept . So you’ll resend after the RFE is resolved . But I am afraid misguide you , may be order a consultation with a lawyer? 

 

All the forms you’ve listed are correct , I’ve attached a checklist that I was using while applying for AOS (got it from my lawyer). Let me know if you can see it . You can ignore the evidence documents since you just sent it , but I think all the rest would be useful to attach if you can.

 

P.S. Work permit and advance parole approval took exactly 3 months in my case .

AOS DETAILED CHECKLIST (AOS).pdf

I have every document ready. But when I look for address to post my application, I don't see a category that fits my case in USCIS. My case is: Spouse of a Greencard holder with pending i130. Can you help with this?

[KatenkaMishka 12]

1 hour ago, mk17 said:

I have every document ready. But when I look for address to post my application, I don't see a category that fits my case in USCIS. My case is: Spouse of a Greencard holder with pending i130. Can you help with this?

Yep, it’s Chicago lockbox . Check the attachment I’ve send. Also would be a good idea to attach G-1145 form , it’s super simple and free - that’s for USCIS to notify you via email or phone about accepting (rejecting) your application. Just fill it up and attach on top of all the other documents .

[mk17 5]

1 minute ago, KatenkaMishka said:

Yep, it’s Chicago lockbox . Check the attachment I’ve send. Also would be a good idea to attach G-1145 form , it’s super simple and free - that’s for USCIS to notify you via email or phone about accepting (rejecting) your application. Just fill it up and attach on top of all the other documents .

I looked the same chart. Got confused because it only had “spouse of US citizen” listed. This whole procedure is so overwhelming 

[KatenkaMishka 12]

1 minute ago, mk17 said:

I looked the same chart. Got confused because it only had “spouse of US citizen” listed. This whole procedure is so overwhelming 

Oh yes , the procedure is awful . Good luck with everything! And don’t really get upset if they don’t accept it from the first try - my package was send to me back twice for stupid reasons - I forgot to attach some forms and second time  my check was not signed or something like that . But hopefully yours will be accepted right away and goes smoothly !

[Kiki23 1]

On 3/10/2019 at 6:15 PM, Jovic said:

After approval for F2A category it may take 10 to 12 months before interview process. Therefore the whole process may take between 32 to 36 months to conclude the process except if the petitioner get naturalized and the case is upgraded then the process will speed up thereby reducing the waiting time 

hi... you are mistaken.. it takes 26 - 30 months to complete as of current statistics.

[mk17 5]

Case update.

 

i130 PD: 10 April, 2017

RFE: Received last week Feb, 2019

RFE Sent: March 1st, 2019

Approval Notice: 11th March, 2019

 

Now I am going to apply for AOS. But my approval notice says "Visa is not available for the beneficiary. Once visa becomes available, the beneficiary can apply for Adjustment of status". I thought I am already eligible to apply for AOS more than 6 months ago and I am wayy too late in applying for it. Now that line confused me more. Should I apply or should I not? I wish USCIS made things easier. Ugh. Any suggestions, please?

[mk17 5]

On 3/13/2019 at 9:54 PM, KatenkaMishka said:

Oh yes , the procedure is awful . Good luck with everything! And don’t really get upset if they don’t accept it from the first try - my package was send to me back twice for stupid reasons - I forgot to attach some forms and second time  my check was not signed or something like that . But hopefully yours will be accepted right away and goes smoothly !

Received my approval notice yesterday. I was planning to send my AOS yesterday. But stopped because it confused me more. Please look at my earlier post and let me know if you have any knowledge on this. 

Thank you.

[KatenkaMishka 12]

5 minutes ago, mk17 said:

Received my approval notice yesterday. I was planning to send my AOS yesterday. But stopped because it confused me more. Please look at my earlier post and let me know if you have any knowledge on this. 

Thank you.

Hello, congrats on your approval ! May be that’s a generic approval letter everyone receives regardless on where the person is located - inside US or not ? My I-130 PD is July 3d of 2017. Applied for AOS in July 2018, case was accepted and is pending . Also , USCIS could be mistaken ? In any case , may be get consultation with a lawyer ? Im sure you can apply once your PD is current in 2d chart (based on my own case and many others) , but may be there was some really recent changes in a law that I’m not aware of?

[mk17 5]

4 minutes ago, KatenkaMishka said:

Hello, congrats on your approval ! May be that’s a generic approval letter everyone receives regardless on where the person is located - inside US or not ? My I-130 PD is July 3d of 2017. Applied for AOS in July 2018, case was accepted and is pending . Also , USCIS could be mistaken ? In any case , may be get consultation with a lawyer ? Im sure you can apply once your PD is current in 2d chart (based on my own case and many others) , but may be there was some really recent changes in a law that I’m not aware of?

Yeah, I went through the uscis website and it does route me to the 2nd chart to see if I can apply for AOS. Maybe they meant actual visa is not available yet? Which I think is determined by the 1st chart?

[KatenkaMishka 12]

3 minutes ago, mk17 said:

Yeah, I went through the uscis website and it does route me to the 2nd chart to see if I can apply for AOS. Maybe they meant actual visa is not available yet? Which I think is determined by the 1st chart?

I think so , I went through the USCIS instructions - I don’t see any changes in rules . It indicates that you’ve got to use 2d chart when applying for AOS. I mean , try sending your application may be and let’s see? If they don’t accept it - they literally just send the whole package back with no charges 

[KatenkaMishka 12]

16 minutes ago, mk17 said:

Yeah, I went through the uscis website and it does route me to the 2nd chart to see if I can apply for AOS. Maybe they meant actual visa is not available yet? Which I think is determined by the 1st chart?

That’s the website that visa bulletin leads to : https://www.uscis.gov/visabulletininfo

 

and it does say to use dates for filling chart . I really don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t