AOS December 2016 Filers (merged)

[Cooldude20 161]

2 hours ago, Mthldou said:

I have completed my medical exam on August 23rd. Gonorreah test done on September 19th. My interview in August 2nd. Is my medical going to be expired or do you all think it's fine? It was submitted in December with all the applications 

I don't think so. It's still good to go I guess since it hasn't passed the 23rd which is 1 year to be exact. ☺️

[Mthldou 45]

23 minutes ago, Cooldude20 said:

I don't think so. It's still good to go I guess since it hasn't passed the 23rd which is 1 year to be exact. ☺️

Okay awesome!! Saving some money

[Cooldude20 161]

10 minutes ago, Mthldou said:

Okay awesome!! Saving some money

Cus i had my medical last August 4th 2016 and my interview is going to be on the 19th July. We are on the same boat lol

[Scandi 4,173]

The instructions on USCIS website actually says that your medical is valid if you file for AOS within 1 year from when the medical was done, not that the medical is only valid for 1 year. So either way, even if you only get your interview more than a year after the medical was done you SHOULD still be fine. However, people have gotten RFEs for this very issue because some field offices don't know their own rules.

 

EDIT, the i-693 seems to have a littel different rule than the foreign medical exam. So it's valid for a year from when you submitted it to USCIS, or am I reading it wrong?  https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-issues-new-policy-form-i-693-report-medical-examination-and-vaccination-record

 

EDIT 2: Yeah I think you guys have until December as that's when you submitted it. https://my.uscis.gov/helpcenter/article/how-long-is-form-i-693-valid

Edited June 21, 2017 by Scandi

[TJSEE 12]

On 6/19/2017 at 7:04 AM, HackyMoto said:

I spoke to a lawyer about what could happen at the interview. He said one of two people could interview me, namely a field supervisor or a field officer. Field officers cannot approve you in the system without the say so from the supervisor. Often they would say something along the lines that you mention then defer the case to the supervisor along with a recommendation. The supervisor would then act upon the case. 

 

If this is all true, then maybe this is what happened to your good self. Congratulations. My interview is tomorrow. 

That makes sense. 

 

How was your interview?

[HackyMoto 13]

11 hours ago, TJSEE said:

That makes sense. 

 

How was your interview?

It went like I described it could go haha. The interview went great. He said the I-130 was approved but didn't want to approve the AOS until he reviewed the case  then a few hours later, my uscis account was updated to say the card is in production. The next day it was updated to say approved.

 

have you received your card? If so how long did that take from notification of approval?

Edited June 23, 2017 by HackyMoto

[HackyMoto 13]

I just read "6 days".....

[Cooldude20 161]

On 6/21/2017 at 11:29 AM, Scandi said:

The instructions on USCIS website actually says that your medical is valid if you file for AOS within 1 year from when the medical was done, not that the medical is only valid for 1 year. So either way, even if you only get your interview more than a year after the medical was done you SHOULD still be fine. However, people have gotten RFEs for this very issue because some field offices don't know their own rules.

 

EDIT, the i-693 seems to have a littel different rule than the foreign medical exam. So it's valid for a year from when you submitted it to USCIS, or am I reading it wrong?  https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-issues-new-policy-form-i-693-report-medical-examination-and-vaccination-record

 

EDIT 2: Yeah I think you guys have until December as that's when you submitted it. https://my.uscis.gov/helpcenter/article/how-long-is-form-i-693-valid

I have read what are inside those links over and over again and from what is clear, "it is valid for 1 year from the time it was submitted to USCIS". Supporting point would be from "the time it was signed by the civil surgeon" in which for a K1 visa case is the day you had your medical examination from your home country.

 

I also believe as K1 applicants, we were given this brown envelope containing the results which is handed over during POE. It may be the time this was submitted to USCIS just for my thought.

 

In the case of a DS-3025, I just don't know if it follows that the deadline for that is the day the civil surgeon signed it. This is because it was not submitted on POE and should be included in I-485 packet.

 

The only time that the I-693 has a year of a deadline from the day you submitted it applies to B1/B2 visas since they will have to do their medical exams here in US. 

 

If field offices may not be at par with each other in terms of how they interpret the said rules (which of course would result to an RFE), then I guess the safest is to apply the "valid for 1 year rule". There is no use forcing what we understand about it against an officer after we get an RFE. We can always call them to have this discussed but it's better to talk to a Tier 2 officer about this.

 

This is just as far as I can understand which may differ others' opinion. Hope this may help. ☺️

 

 

Edited June 24, 2017 by Cooldude20

[Scandi 4,173]

I just wanted to add that the DS-3025 is included in the medical report that is in the sealed envelope you hand over at POE. So USCIS already have the original, however, that medical report is put in your A-file and most often USCIS doesn't manage to connect that file with your application. That's why we should send a copy of the DS-3025 with our AOS package - USCIS already knows we passed the medical in our home countries or else we wouldn't have been granted the visa. The vaccinations aren't a requirement to get the visa however, that's why they're interested in the vaccination work sheet to see if it's marked complete or not, since it's a requirement for the AOS. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they never bother to look at the whole medical report at all (since they already know we passed it).

[Cooldude20 161]

45 minutes ago, Scandi said:

I just wanted to add that the DS-3025 is included in the medical report that is in the sealed envelope you hand over at POE. So USCIS already have the original, however, that medical report is put in your A-file and most often USCIS doesn't manage to connect that file with your application. That's why we should send a copy of the DS-3025 with our AOS package - USCIS already knows we passed the medical in our home countries or else we wouldn't have been granted the visa. The vaccinations aren't a requirement to get the visa however, that's why they're interested in the vaccination work sheet to see if it's marked complete or not, since it's a requirement for the AOS. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they never bother to look at the whole medical report at all (since they already know we passed it).

That being said means that as K1 visa holders, the only proof that we have a complete medical exam is through DS-3025. If that is the case, we can contend that the 1 year validity starts at time of the submission of the packet.

 

We are all being inquisitive as to what exactly is the validity of the medical examination. Each of them has their own interpretation in which the only thing we can do is to hope that the person adjudicating our case has the same interpretation as ours. Only receiving an RFE will determine how they understood the whole of it.

 

 

[TJSEE 12]

On 6/23/2017 at 11:58 AM, HackyMoto said:

It went like I described it could go haha. The interview went great. He said the I-130 was approved but didn't want to approve the AOS until he reviewed the case  then a few hours later, my uscis account was updated to say the card is in production. The next day it was updated to say approved.

 

have you received your card? If so how long did that take from notification of approval?

Im guessing this happens often then. 

Glad you were approved. 

My card arrive in the mail a week after the approval. Hope yours comes soon. 

[LTrucker 22]

Is anyone here waiting for the Jacksonville field office?

 

We sent our documents (married to USC, concurrent filing, F-1 to AoS) to the Chicago lockbox on 12/17/2017. These were forwarded to NBC.

Received case received emails and texts on 12/21/2017.

Received NoA in mail about a week later.

Biometrics for EAD on 01/30/2017 @ Jax field office.

EAD apprived on 04/10/2017 and received about a week later.

 

No update on the I-130 and I-485. Online status is still at case received. No idea if the case has been forwarded to the filed office or not. Called customer service and they didn't provide any additional information either. Never got an RFE.

 

This is driving us a bit impatient since it's been 6 months and seems like the case hasn't been touched at all.

 

I saw some other applications already had an interview and got approved, even though their field office processing times is around the same date as what is show for Jacksonville.

 

Thanks all!

[HackyMoto 13]

On 6/25/2017 at 0:29 AM, TJSEE said:

Im guessing this happens often then. 

Glad you were approved. 

My card arrive in the mail a week after the approval. Hope yours comes soon. 

Only 1007 more days until N-400 submission 

[sebastianshaw 97]

On 6/27/2017 at 7:16 PM, HackyMoto said:

Only 1007 more days until N-400 submission 

congrats, just like Houston last year, Minnesota waiting is close to 1 year, and the wait is tortureous. 

 

looking at your case history gives me hope that patience pays in the end. 

 

[HackyMoto 13]

56 minutes ago, sebastianshaw said:

congrats, just like Houston last year, Minnesota waiting is close to 1 year, and the wait is tortureous. 

 

looking at your case history gives me hope that patience pays in the end. 

 

I now laugh remembering how many times I've listened to friends who received their GC's within 6 months in Houston and they didn't  believe me when I told them it's over 12 months now. One of my friends got his card with 120 days. At these times, I so wanted to make infopass after infopass to scream at someone "why would it take so long" but after the 6 month mark, I forced myself to be distracted by other matters and just go with the flow "what will come, will come".

 

The worst period for me was after the interview when I didn't get an immediate decision then waiting on the GC in the post...