May 2017 AOS Filers

[SacredBruce 9]

Just now, Wiz_Fit said:

For your renewal, what did you send or claim for expedite reason on the renewal?  Wondering if were just missing some magic wording.

 

Nevermind, just re-read. Work international travel? Which I think the business need back home for her would fit?

Yeah i guess it fell under 'Severe financial loss to company or person' based on me not being able to travel for work business.

[SacredBruce 9]

16 hours ago, Lupigirl said:

So today I got an email from VisaJourney asking me to update my timeline since it hadn’t been updated in 12 months (which was when I got my EAD).  Unfortunately there are still no updates.  No interview letter after 15 months of waiting.  And my local office is processing cases between 12-18 months, so I’m still within their processing times and can’t make an inquiry.  The stress of waiting and not knowing gets to me sometimes.  This in-between status makes me feel very vulnerable and my AP has expired so I feel stuck as well.  If I had known it would take this long, we would have waited a few months to file so I could have gotten the 10 yr green card instead of the 2 yr.  

Sorry to be negative, I just needed to express myself to people who are/have gone through this.  My husband’s family just doesn’t get it.  I’m pretty sure they think I’m already a citizen.🙄

 

I feel your pain - my case has been on 'We are scheduling your interview' since August last year.

 

I just got my renewed EAD/AP for another year - Here's to hoping we hear something soon!

[Lupigirl 67]

5 hours ago, SacredBruce said:

 

I feel your pain - my case has been on 'We are scheduling your interview' since August last year.

 

I just got my renewed EAD/AP for another year - Here's to hoping we hear something soon!

Did you really get an EAD/AP renewal for one year? My original one was only good for six months. I thought the renewal would be the same.  

My case has been ready to schedule since June 29.  I hope we hear something soon! Good luck to you!

[SacredBruce 9]

13 hours ago, Lupigirl said:

Did you really get an EAD/AP renewal for one year? My original one was only good for six months. I thought the renewal would be the same.  

My case has been ready to schedule since June 29.  I hope we hear something soon! Good luck to you!

Yeah both have been valid for a year on mine.

 

Hurry up and wait! 

[Lupigirl 67]

27 minutes ago, SacredBruce said:

Yeah both have been valid for a year on mine.

 

Hurry up and wait! 

I apologize, I’m not sure why I worded it that way. I meant to say my receipt notice for the renewal EAD gave me an automatic six-month extension and I was worried that the actual card would also only be good for six months.  

[SacredBruce 9]

1 hour ago, Lupigirl said:

I apologize, I’m not sure why I worded it that way. I meant to say my receipt notice for the renewal EAD gave me an automatic six-month extension and I was worried that the actual card would also only be good for six months.  

Ahh gotcha.

I had the same 6 month extension notice, the card should be another year.

[Wiz_Fit 26]

17 hours ago, Lupigirl said:

Did you really get an EAD/AP renewal for one year? My original one was only good for six months. I thought the renewal would be the same.  

My case has been ready to schedule since June 29.  I hope we hear something soon! Good luck to you!

Same for us as far as sitting at ready to schedule since 6/29/17.

[Asakelove 72]

On 7/22/2018 at 5:35 PM, Wiz_Fit said:

Did you get your later as of yet on what date the interview is for?

So we had our interview on Aug 9th, 11:15am at the Dallas-Irving office, we got there 30 mins early and we weren't called in at about 11:45, the officer was very sweet and nice, after the swearing of oaths we sat, and she gave our 4yr old a coloring book and crayons just to stay busy.

 

She then asked to see our IDs, we gave her our DL and military IDs,

-she asked how long my husband has been in the military, where he was stationed and all that military stuffs

-asked about my previous marriage to the father of my child, if and when he gets in touch with his child

-and then proceeded to ask us about the questions in our forms, the yes/no questions

.

So at this time, little man needed to use the bathroom and I almost freaked out like did you not use the bathroom 10mins ago, and do you have to go right now OMG, the IO saw the look on my face and she said not to worry they always make accommodation for sweet,short people 😃 she asked my husband to take him to the bathroom.

 

LOL After the break in transmission, IO said everything looks good and asked if we brought new medicals, I knew we were supposed to because its been 15mo since we did the 1st one, so we said no, and she said she won't be able to approve us right away until we have new medicals😪so yeah we got RFE for medicals.

 

She also asked if we have other evidence, of course we do and I gave her some other stuffs from our mountain heap of evidence, then little man said he wanted to show her the pictures we brought, and he did while they both talked and laughed while checking the pictures, but she didn't take any of them.

 

My husband then asked her if we needed to come for another interview, you know just to be sure we heard her correctly the first time, IO said everything looked good, although some cases do require a second interview but not ours, as we can't get approved right now because of our medicals.

We completed the new medicals today and God knows I'll be the first person at the UPS office tomorrow., they better have same day delivery😀 so its fingers crossed now, best of luck to everyone still waiting, the waiting hasn't been fun.

 

 

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[Wiz_Fit 26]

3 minutes ago, Asakelove said:

So we had our interview on Aug 9th, 11:15am at the Dallas-Irving office, we got there 30 mins early and we weren't called in at about 11:45, the officer was very sweet and nice, after the swearing of oaths we sat, and she gave our 4yr old a coloring book and crayons just to stay busy.

 

She then asked to see our IDs, we gave her our DL and military IDs,

-she asked how long my husband has been in the military, where he was stationed and all that military stuffs

-asked about my previous marriage to the father of my child, if and when he gets in touch with his child

-and then proceeded to ask us about the questions in our forms, the yes/no questions

.

So at this time, little man needed to use the bathroom and I almost freaked out like did you not use the bathroom 10mins ago, and do you have to go right now OMG, the IO saw the look on my face and she said not to worry they always make accommodation for sweet,short people 😃 she asked my husband to take him to the bathroom.

 

LOL After the break in transmission, IO said everything looks good and asked if we brought new medicals, I knew we were supposed to because its been 15mo since we did the 1st one, so we said no, and she said she won't be able to approve us right away until we have new medicals😪so yeah we got RFE for medicals.

 

She also asked if we have other evidence, of course we do and I gave her some other stuffs from our mountain heap of evidence, then little man said he wanted to show her the pictures we brought, and he did while they both talked and laughed while checking the pictures, but she didn't take any of them.

 

My husband then asked her if we needed to come for another interview, you know just to be sure we heard her correctly the first time, IO said everything looked good, although some cases do require a second interview but not ours, as we can't get approved right now because of our medicals.

We completed the new medicals today and God knows I'll be the first person at the UPS office tomorrow., they better have same day delivery😀 so its fingers crossed now, best of luck to everyone still waiting, the waiting hasn't been fun.

 

 

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That's awesome!  I just realized ours might be delayed now cause we had an RFE but not sure. 

 

Our RFE was due to my ex being on one of my tax returns we mailed in so if that "paused" or restarted our time line were a month or so delayed at least. Grrr

[Asakelove 72]

1 minute ago, Wiz_Fit said:

That's awesome!  I just realized ours might be delayed now cause we had an RFE but not sure. 

 

Our RFE was due to my ex being on one of my tax returns we mailed in so if that "paused" or restarted our time line were a month or so delayed at least. Grrr

I don't think RFE delays interview , I know for sure it sometime delay approval of EADs and AP but interview???

Did you get the RFE after your EAD or before?

[Athens 101]

8 hours ago, Asakelove said:

So we had our interview on Aug 9th, 11:15am at the Dallas-Irving office, we got there 30 mins early and we weren't called in at about 11:45, the officer was very sweet and nice, after the swearing of oaths we sat, and she gave our 4yr old a coloring book and crayons just to stay busy.

 

She then asked to see our IDs, we gave her our DL and military IDs,

-she asked how long my husband has been in the military, where he was stationed and all that military stuffs

-asked about my previous marriage to the father of my child, if and when he gets in touch with his child

-and then proceeded to ask us about the questions in our forms, the yes/no questions

.

So at this time, little man needed to use the bathroom and I almost freaked out like did you not use the bathroom 10mins ago, and do you have to go right now OMG, the IO saw the look on my face and she said not to worry they always make accommodation for sweet,short people 😃 she asked my husband to take him to the bathroom.

 

LOL After the break in transmission, IO said everything looks good and asked if we brought new medicals, I knew we were supposed to because its been 15mo since we did the 1st one, so we said no, and she said she won't be able to approve us right away until we have new medicals😪so yeah we got RFE for medicals.

 

She also asked if we have other evidence, of course we do and I gave her some other stuffs from our mountain heap of evidence, then little man said he wanted to show her the pictures we brought, and he did while they both talked and laughed while checking the pictures, but she didn't take any of them.

 

My husband then asked her if we needed to come for another interview, you know just to be sure we heard her correctly the first time, IO said everything looked good, although some cases do require a second interview but not ours, as we can't get approved right now because of our medicals.

We completed the new medicals today and God knows I'll be the first person at the UPS office tomorrow., they better have same day delivery😀 so its fingers crossed now, best of luck to everyone still waiting, the waiting hasn't been fun.

 

 

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Congratulations!

For those who feel they may get RFE for expired medical, print pages 7 - 12 instructions for Form I-693 and copy of your k1 vacination record- DS-3025. Show it to the Officer and you will not be asked to go for another medical. 

[Wiz_Fit 26]

9 hours ago, Asakelove said:

I don't think RFE delays interview , I know for sure it sometime delay approval of EADs and AP but interview???

Did you get the RFE after your EAD or before?

We got it before the EAD, about a week before the EAD actually. I am not sure if it came because we expedited our EAD based on financial loss and they needed it to process the EAD however.

 

It just shows on the case history for the 130. Our 'interview scheduling' status was updated after our RFE response was recorded.  Based on timing though I think your more right though. Hopefully we get lucky and get our letter soon though. May 30th was our 'received case date' on the new USCIS.gov page. 

[dannydan 32]

On 8/13/2018 at 8:34 AM, Athens said:

 

Congratulations!

For those who feel they may get RFE for expired medical, print pages 7 - 12 instructions for Form I-693 and copy of your k1 vacination record- DS-3025. Show it to the Officer and you will not be asked to go for another medical. 

That's for K1, but for AOS family based you need to redo the medical after a year.

[Wiz_Fit 26]

Update on our side - 

 

We got a reply back from our Ombudsman stating they reached out to USCIS and our 131 was approved on 8/13. If we didn't get anything within 15 days to reach back out to them. Super exciting news this AM when we saw the email so ran and checked the USCIS site and still no update there. As excited as I want to be, will feel much better after we actually seeing a mailing date. Hoping it doesn't take 3 weeks to mail the card to us.

[Lupigirl 67]

2 hours ago, Wiz_Fit said:

Update on our side - 

 

We got a reply back from our Ombudsman stating they reached out to USCIS and our 131 was approved on 8/13. If we didn't get anything within 15 days to reach back out to them. Super exciting news this AM when we saw the email so ran and checked the USCIS site and still no update there. As excited as I want to be, will feel much better after we actually seeing a mailing date. Hoping it doesn't take 3 weeks to mail the card to us.

That’s very exciting!  At least you know someone is looking at your case and it’s not forgotten, fallen behind a desk.