APRIL FILERS

[misa 2]

Should we add a column to include EAD approved and EAD received? I know some people did not apply for EAD but most of us did.

[little4ele 0]

Woke up this morning to find my "Card production ordered email" for my EAD. It had been sent last night. I flew downstairs to everyone having breakfast to share the news, woke my husband up and he even gave me a high five - he was still sleeping.

Anyways, quite excited now

[misa 2]

Congrats to everyone who had their EAD approved!

[Sterling M 0]

I feel like I'm a bit late to the party, but I just came across the forum while doing some searching regarding people in situations similar to mine.

I suppose an intro's in order. I'm Sterling, I'm a USC who married an Italian in February. We filed her AOS packet at the end of March, after a few weeks of preparation. For the most part our process, and it seems, many of yours, have gone rather quickly.

We just had our AOS interview this past Thursday, June 14, and while the CIS officer had no qualms about the legitimacy of our marriage -- between 24 pictures chronicling from the night we met to her visit to California last summer to my visit to Europe later that summer to moving in to the wedding, a copy of our power bill, our lease, and a voided check from our joint bank account, I think we nailed it -- we're currently snagged pending the FBI background check. This disappoints my wife greatly, who was hoping that it'd all go smoothly and we'd get her passport stamp that day. She's quite homesick, and our line of work would ideally find us in Europe in late August, which is too late to apply for AP and get it in time.

Barring calling the FBI across ten phone numbers just to get a ballpark figure of where she is in the bureaucracy, which seems to be as useful as peeing in the Pacific, I thought I'd join the ranks of others who are a similar boat.

While I didn't sign up for e-mail alerts, so I'm not really sure how many times my file has been touched, I've got information updated in my signature. I'm glad to see that others are being approved around the same time for EADs; we were approved the day before the interview.

I was a nervous wreck going into my interview, but the sheer amount paperwork I brought spoke for itself, and calmed me down immensely once I sat down with the officer and told him our story. Best of luck to those of you with interviews in the upcoming week!

[kristinamarie 0]

Ok we got our interview letter yesterday, 6/16/2007. There was a LONG list of things we need to take, most of which they already have, but we will take it ALL anyway so that there are no problems. Has anyone been through the interview process in Chicago? If so what can we expect to happen, what kind of questions, how long does it usually take, and what specific things do they usually ask for?? I just hope Hilario's EAD gets approved soon At least we have some good news now though, we were afraid we would get another RFE!!

[Sterling M 0]

Ok we got our interview letter yesterday, 6/16/2007. There was a LONG list of things we need to take, most of which they already have, but we will take it ALL anyway so that there are no problems. Has anyone been through the interview process in Chicago? If so what can we expect to happen, what kind of questions, how long does it usually take, and what specific things do they usually ask for?? I just hope Hilario's EAD gets approved soon At least we have some good news now though, we were afraid we would get another RFE!!

I can't vouch for the Chicago office, but in SF, we showed up to our 12:45 appointment on time, checked in, and sat down for about two minutes before we got called up.

Our initial questions were more skewed toward factual stuff: "when did she arrive in the US, what's our home address, what was the wedding date," and the sorts of things that you'd absolutely know from filling out your form.

Next, we got asked things like how we met, how long we were together before getting married, etc. I've heard that a handful of photos should be sufficient, but we printed out 40 or so and narrowed them down to 24 solid ones. It might help to write the date of the picture (real or estimated) on the back and a description for their files. We also showed the officer a wedding album that my godmother made (and left him with copies of each page) and showed members of my family and hers.

Hit 'em with enough paperwork (take your originals of your already-submitted stuff and make copies of more of your bona fide stuff that you haven't shown them yet) and give 'em the facts and you should be perfectly fine. Congratulations on getting an appointment date; it's so relieving to see another chapter in this whole process open up!

[kristinamarie 0]

Ok we got our interview letter yesterday, 6/16/2007. There was a LONG list of things we need to take, most of which they already have, but we will take it ALL anyway so that there are no problems. Has anyone been through the interview process in Chicago? If so what can we expect to happen, what kind of questions, how long does it usually take, and what specific things do they usually ask for?? I just hope Hilario's EAD gets approved soon At least we have some good news now though, we were afraid we would get another RFE!!

I can't vouch for the Chicago office, but in SF, we showed up to our 12:45 appointment on time, checked in, and sat down for about two minutes before we got called up.

Our initial questions were more skewed toward factual stuff: "when did she arrive in the US, what's our home address, what was the wedding date," and the sorts of things that you'd absolutely know from filling out your form.

Next, we got asked things like how we met, how long we were together before getting married, etc. I've heard that a handful of photos should be sufficient, but we printed out 40 or so and narrowed them down to 24 solid ones. It might help to write the date of the picture (real or estimated) on the back and a description for their files. We also showed the officer a wedding album that my godmother made (and left him with copies of each page) and showed members of my family and hers.

Hit 'em with enough paperwork (take your originals of your already-submitted stuff and make copies of more of your bona fide stuff that you haven't shown them yet) and give 'em the facts and you should be perfectly fine. Congratulations on getting an appointment date; it's so relieving to see another chapter in this whole process open up!

Thank you! That helps alot

[nyhazmat 2]

We had our inyerview this morning and were approved! I put up a message elsewhere, but wanted to keep the April filers thread up to date...

[burke 0]

We had our inyerview this morning and were approved! I put up a message elsewhere, but wanted to keep the April filers thread up to date...

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited June 18, 2007 by burke

[misa 2]

We had our inyerview this morning and were approved! I put up a message elsewhere, but wanted to keep the April filers thread up to date...

That is awesome. Congrats!

[J&K 0]

Congratulations!!!

[jg_am 0]

Woo hoo!

[burke 0]

Name..................Date Rec'vd....NOA1 Date....Biometric....Interview....Approved?...Stamp?

Allie&Leo...............03-28-07.....04-03-07.....04-23-07.....CSC

goofi...................03-29-07.....04-04-07.....04-28-07.....CSC

gupt0014................03-30-07.....04-05-07.....05-01-07.....CSC

J*C*H*2007..............04-01-07.....04-06-07.....04-25-07.....CSC

icyshadesofblue.........04-02-07.....04-03-07.....04-25-07.....04-26-07.....05-08-07.....NO

ridejewel...............04-02-07.....04-12-07.....05-03-07.....07-17-07

birdnbloke..............04-02-07.....04-12-07.....05-01-07.....07-24-07

bustweiser..............04-02-07.....04-09-07.....05-10-07.....08-20-07

Sterling M..............04-02-07.....04-09-07.....04-27-07.....06-14-07.....NamePending

Txgirl75................04-04-07.....04-16-07.....04-27-07.....06-28-07

Vijay...................04-05-07.....04-11-07.....04-27-07.....07-20-07

heathius................04-05-07.....04-12-07.....05-07-07.....07-18-07

little4ele..............04-05-07.....04-11-07.....04-28-07.....CSC

Ken_Maria...............04-06-07.....04-17-07.....05-08-07.....06-25-07

Maggie724...............04-06-07.....04-13-07.....05-07-07.....07-12-07

florida_guy07...........04-08-07.....04-17-07.....05-02-07.....07-17-07

wing....................04-08-07.....04-17-07.....05-01-07.....CSC

burke...................04-09-07.....04-20-07.....05-08-07.....07-10-07

J&K.....................04-09-07.....04-24-07.....05-16-07.....CSC

Lucy1979................04-11-07.....04-21-07.....05-05-07

AgRo....................04-11-07.....04-20-07.....05-21-07.....CSC

irishgirl73.............04-11-07.....04-23-07.....05-09-07.....CSC

Birdysboy...............04-12-07.....04-18-07.....05-15-07.....CSC

nuzzledark..............04-12-07.....04-16-07.....05-04-07.....07-12-07

nakashima ayumi.........04-13-07.....05-18-07.....06-04-07

raffyusa................04-13-07.....04-18-07.....05-09-07.....06-29-07

nyhazmat................04-13-07.....04-23-07.....05-17-07.....06-18-07.....06-18-07.....YES

kristinamarie...........04-14-07.....04-25-07.....05-10-07.....08-05-07

misa....................04-17-07.....04-27-07.....05-10-07.....08-23-07

Andalusia...............04-18-07.....04-26-07

God is Good.............04-20-07.....04-30-07.....05-30-07.....CSC

jg_am...................04-21-07.....05-01-07.....05-22-07.....CSC

cartoboy123.............04-21-07.....04-30-07.....05-21-07

Patric n Olivia.........04-22-07.....05-01-07.....05-23-07

New Yorker..............04-23-07.....05-01-07.....05-19-07

Achromatic..............04-25-07.....04-30-07.....05-25-07

Jashley820..............04-25-07.....05-04-07.....05-18-07.....CSC

Ecalos..................04-25-07.....04-30-07.....05-25-07

Kristen y Efrain........04-26-07.....05-05-07.....05-18-07.....07-13-07

Buxton babe.............04-27-07.....05-07-07.....06-06-07.....CSC

Mysticbluerose..........04-27-07.....05-01-07.....05-10-07.....07-24-07

Pepe Galleta............05-01-07.....05-11-07.....06-13-07

Ryan_and_Elina..........??-??-??.....04-04-07

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[Sterling M 0]

We had our inyerview this morning and were approved! I put up a message elsewhere, but wanted to keep the April filers thread up to date...

Congratulations; I'm glad that they got you through quickly and clearly!

[birdnbloke 0]

Just received email from USCIS stating that the EAD was ordered, to expect it within 30 days in the mail!!! YEAH!!!

Ok, so what's the average time it arrives after getting that notice? 1 week/2 weeks or generally 30 days?