AOS March 2016 filers/Part 2

[sparkles_ 456]

Well, it was a poopy experience, lol. The local office was beyond busy, we arrived at 915 and didn't get seen til about 1015. Got a lady IO and I somehow knew she would nitpick us. She started asking about how we met and telling us that our i130 may not have been adjudicated properly.....literally almost had me in tears at hearing this. We had to explain to her that because we got married before my husband got put into removal, an interview wasn't required but we were aware it was a chance. Then she started in about the i130 receipt date being after we dealt with ICE...cue more explaining. Says an interview for this would have been beneficial. I say well it took 11mo to approve, and she said they were probably deciding to interview or not. Fine. She gets on how we met, she tried to twist my words of saying I was at X place alone and he was with a friend who he blew off to hang out with me. Asks me, but I thought you said you were alone. Again, I clarify that I did say that, it was my husband who blew off the buddy to hit on me. She asks for the name of my husband's room mate at that time. Asks how we got engaged and when. Asks about what we have in common. We say language, travel, etc and religion. Which one is that? Muslim....

 

Cue the religion questions. Why didn't we have a mosque wedding? Because we didn't think it would take this long to get back to Morocco to have the big one. Well, so your legal civilmarriage isn't technically valid in your religion? My god, she is trying hard to make us screw ourselves. I explain that we are the equal of Easter christians, we don't go to the mosque weekly or even monthly. Yes our faith is important to us but we are also moderate and live far away from the mosque anyway. And that our marriage is valid for us because we are supposed to follow the laws of the land we live in firstly. My husband looked like he was about to pass out at this point. 

 

She flips deep into our file and says to me, "I see you aren't new to this." Meaning I filed for my ex husband about 10yr ago. And I say yes, I filed for my ex 10yr ago. She lets that go. She gets on the fact that I never changed my DL address from my mothers address, it's been 3yr. Why? Because I kept it in her address so I don't pay both county, city and new car highway tax by leaving it in that address. She says it's a discrepancy and explains to us that this is usually a key piece but my explanation makes sense, she knows how high NC newer car taxes are. 

 

We hand over two leases and 2.5 yr worth of detailed bank statements, printed every 3-4mo. She uses her eagle eyes to pick one damn thing to get on, our big tax refund deposit. Why is it in this name? Who is this? Why does it have an & sign in there, I've never seen it this way. I explain we have long first and last names, they used our first initial and what they could fit of our last names. Still asking. I finally present our tax transcript which is address to the same cut off names and this pleases her on that issue. At this point, I'm ready for a shot of vodka. She starts to click on her computer and tells us her connection is down, wait a second she has to call to see what's going on. After this she flips the hard ### act off and starts to smile and look semi human. Says she is sorry she can't approve us now because there is no connection to do the final security check. Basically to make sure hubs wasn't a criminal recently, and to expect something in the mail in 5-7 days pending the final security is good. 

 

Meanwhile im trying to get her to look at my damn 100$ worth of album and printed photos, which she wasn't interested in. Didn't even look at them. Didn't want our utilities. Didn't want anything else after the bank and lease stuff really. She didn't even ask us the yes/no questions on the i485....I give her some of our car insurance stuff. She seemed to want older things and said so, that anyone can add someone to something 2mo ago. I get that. I hand over emergency contact stuff from my kids school like 2yr ago and 3yr worth of zoo memberships. Now she is making small talk and saying she is really sorry she has no connection but that nothing appears negative in our file. Again 5-7 days for her decision. She can't tell us for sure approved without that damn internet. 

 

I ask her one one last time about our i130, because she has went and scared the out of me about it. Is our i130 ok? I need to call my lawyer and fill her in. Yes, she says everything is ok. She thinks we should have filed concurrent and had an i130 interview and adjust in front of a judge but she thinks our lawyer opted for the long way to save money for us...she says adjusting in court is a lot of money, so she gets why. By the end of everything she was pretty decent and only made a copy of our DLs because of the address thing, and said she wouldn't be requesting any other info. 

 

Our lawyer says the 5-7 days thing is goo because a denial takes months. We were not asked anything personal about each other, about our kids, it was literally the 4-5 dagger questions and done. 

 

I wont believe it's approved til I see the card in my mail box. 

 

 

 

 

[sparkles_ 456]

As a final touch, despite the IO turning into a semi friendly lady, I was so worked up from the hour wait and her fifth degree that I went out and started dry heaving in the parking lot. I'm a nervous puke person so i skipped all food til now, or else it would have been akin to the exorcist. Guess it served me well LOL

Edited March 27, 2017 by sparkles_

[PaddyGirl13 75]

Oh Sparkles, that sounds like you were put through the ringer! Although you didn't get approval today, you didn't get denied, I pray you hear as really soon. You are so close to the finish line. Well done on keeping it together!! 

[sparkles_ 456]

1 minute ago, PaddyGirl13 said:

Oh Sparkles, that sounds like you were put through the ringer! Although you didn't get approval today, you didn't get denied, I pray you hear as really soon. You are so close to the finish line. Well done on keeping it together!! 

We are pretty certain that she will approve us because she didn't ask for other info and said she didn't see any negatives. It's just a wait to see when hopefully 

[newyorkaos 15]

Although she put you through a lot of questioning, I am glad that you were able to explain and make sense of things to her. I would have offered her a wifi hotspot if that would made her approve you right there. LOL kidding aside, It sounds very positive...:) I hope she gets internet back by tomorrow and get back to work on your case. Please keep us posted looking forward to good news.

[sparkles_ 456]

Will do. Thanks for all the support. Believe it or not, my biggest paranoia now is that somehow our i130 would be re opened and revoked or interviewed because of what the IO initially said about it. I literally don't trust a thing said, so her telling me at the end it was fine means bunk to me. I believe I'm off to have a glass of wine and sleep, and hope I have a status update tomorrow morning, lol. 

[Linyahui 103]

3 hours ago, sparkles_ said:

Will do. Thanks for all the support. Believe it or not, my biggest paranoia now is that somehow our i130 would be re opened and revoked or interviewed because of what the IO initially said about it. I literally don't trust a thing said, so her telling me at the end it was fine means bunk to me. I believe I'm off to have a glass of wine and sleep, and hope I have a status update tomorrow morning, lol. 

Keep your chin up. You've gotten this far...it won't be long now before hubby has green card in hand and this is all in the rear view mirror. I just know it. Hugs to you both.

[sparkles_ 456]

Today we got our approval emails saying new card being produced. 818 days total. We have finally ###### done it, at long last. It's surreal. 

[PaddyGirl13 75]

1 hour ago, sparkles_ said:

Today we got our approval emails saying new card being produced. 818 days total. We have finally ###### done it, at long last. It's surreal. 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! I am so happy for you

[newyorkaos 15]

4 hours ago, sparkles_ said:

Today we got our approval emails saying new card being produced. 818 days total. We have finally ###### done it, at long last. It's surreal. 

Omg congratulations!!! Im so happy for you!!!!!! Wishing you all the best moving forward!!

[lntdenver 42]

Congratulations Sparkles!!! You made me nervous reading about your interview...

 

You did a great job keeping it together all the way through the end!!!

[reachforthesky 5]

Hi everyone,

 

My interview is set for April 14th 2017, I have a question regarding my medicals. 

 

I had them submitted when I submitted my application on March 2016. I have not gotten any RFE for new ones. Should I do them again and take the new ones with me? I have read on USCIS that medicals are only valid for one year even after submitting your I-485.

 

I had been waiting for this interview very impatiently and now it's finally here and I want to make sure I take everything required for this interview.

 

Thanks a lot everyone

 

[sparkles_ 456]

Just now, reachforthesky said:

Hi everyone,

 

My interview is set for April 14th 2017, I have a question regarding my medicals. 

 

I had them submitted when I submitted my application on March 2016. I have not gotten any RFE for new ones. Should I do them again and take the new ones with me? I have read on USCIS that medicals are only valid for one year even after submitting your I-485.

 

I had been waiting for this interview very impatiently and now it's finally here and I want to make sure I take everything required for this interview.

 

Thanks a lot everyone

 

Some ppl have gten by without re-doing them, some have to get new medicals. If it isn't a huge financial hassle, I would re-do them so as to not risk an RFE and wait even longer than you already have.

[reachforthesky 5]

1 minute ago, sparkles_ said:

Some ppl have gten by without re-doing them, some have to get new medicals. If it isn't a huge financial hassle, I would re-do them so as to not risk an RFE and wait even longer than you already have.

Your'e right, this has been running at the back of my head.

 

Money is not the issue here for me right now. I'll go get them done again.

 

Also, thank you for your post - My wife is going and updating her DL to our new address so no problems come in the interview. Her address is different on the her DL.

 

Thanks

[sparkles_ 456]

10 minutes ago, reachforthesky said:

Your'e right, this has been running at the back of my head.

 

Money is not the issue here for me right now. I'll go get them done again.

 

Also, thank you for your post - My wife is going and updating her DL to our new address so no problems come in the interview. Her address is different on the her DL.

 

Thanks

No problem, glad my post about that can possibly save others from having any discrepancy.

Edited April 1, 2017 by sparkles_