May 2017 AOS Filers

[Wiz_Fit 26]

16 hours ago, SacredBruce said:

I mailed a certifiied copy in the application and took another certified copy with us to the interview.

 

The officer compared the two side by side and handed it back to me. If you absolutley cannot get one prior, maybe take the original and explain?

 

Picking up a certified copy should take you only 10 minutes, I went to a local office and got a couple a while back.

 

When is the interview ?

Wednesday at 8 am, going to be able to get that.  Our wedding photos we picked to print though are having issues at our Walmart to print so not sure if we will get that.

 

Are you able to take your smartphone into the building or do you have to leave it in the car? Worried if we don't have hard copies of this to show now.

[SacredBruce 9]

You can take your phone in.

 

walgreens/cvs also offer on demand photo printing via your phone, memory card, social media etc.

[Ead87tx 85]

41 minutes ago, Wiz_Fit said:

Wednesday at 8 am, going to be able to get that.  Our wedding photos we picked to print though are having issues at our Walmart to print so not sure if we will get that.

 

Are you able to take your smartphone into the building or do you have to leave it in the car? Worried if we don't have hard copies of this to show now.

Go to any walgreens, cvs, they have this machines that you connect your phone or usb flash drive, select which pics you want  and print them right away.

[SacredBruce 9]

On 11/26/2018 at 1:24 PM, Wiz_Fit said:

Wednesday at 8 am, going to be able to get that.  Our wedding photos we picked to print though are having issues at our Walmart to print so not sure if we will get that.

 

Are you able to take your smartphone into the building or do you have to leave it in the car? Worried if we don't have hard copies of this to show now.

Hey man, did all go ok?

[Wiz_Fit 26]

53 minutes ago, SacredBruce said:

Hey man, did all go ok?

Eh, it wasn't what I expected. Was hoping to get a nice interview officer but ours came out originally and joked on the walk back then as soon as we got in the room 'script mode' engaged. Nothing off script and wouldn't clarify anything. We had 2 hiccups on our side, where we had forgotten my original divorce decrees and only had the copies of the paperwork. Understood this and let her know we could mail these in no problem as they were just left at home.

 

Another issue we had and we didn't realize/needed to clarify. We assumed the first entry was in regards to our relationship and filing date. However, after talking to her for 5 minutes in circles she wanted to see the very first entry stamp into the US on my wife's passport. I get this, easy misunderstanding, it's just the way she refused to explain it to us until we went around. My wife was originally here on a J visa about 11 years ago. We're now waiting on her family back home to see if they can find this passport with an entry stamp in it. We tried to ask what happened if we couldn't find this since it was so long ago, and all the officer would say was waiting on my letter. I totally get it was our misunderstanding and makes sense now but just the way she approached explaining it to us and lack of empathy. Along with the 'I have other interviews and need to continue on' which she told us multiple times when we were trying to clarify next steps.

 

Few other issues we had, where she wanted a signature on all the paperwork vs electronic signatures that we brought. We bought a house that is being built. We've signed 0 papers in person, everything has been electronic. Our closing isn't until March. We're under contract presently, have put down 10% down payment and locked in. Basically, no way to walk away without losing a large chunk of money. Yet the officer said 'it doesn't count since it hasn't happened yet, but I'll make a note of it.' I'm sure the builder would disagree with her on this. Along with a few other things that just irked me on how she refused to explain or clarify what she wanted. 

 

She did tell us, she wasn't denying us just needed more information. However, wouldn't tell us if we would get another interview after we respond to the RFE because we had more personal details we were wanting to share/talk about but she didn't seem like she wanted to hear. Once we get the letter we can go further.

[Wiz_Fit 26]

I'm actually guessing now our agent didn't even double check our address move like she said she would. We still haven't gotten our RFE which updated in the system online on 11/29. Seems weird not to have a notice in such a long time when she said it would be coming from her office, here locally I thought.

[Ead87tx 85]

We had our interview yesterday. We arrived 30 mins before. IO review all information on I485 with each one of us and ask us some questions about how we met, etc. Reviewed evidence and photos. IO gave us a letter that our interview was completed and they have to review it. It lasted about 30-40 mins. IO was very professional. About 4 hours later we received 2 TXT messages at the same time, the first one I 130 Petition for alien relative was completed and your case must be reviewed. The second one I 485, We ordered your new card and we will mail to the address you gave us. Not sure why I 130 hasn't been approved before the GC is being produced.

[Jenna Ting 27]

On 12/14/2018 at 7:52 PM, seal72 said:

We had our interview yesterday. We arrived 30 mins before. IO review all information on I485 with each one of us and ask us some questions about how we met, etc. Reviewed evidence and photos. IO gave us a letter that our interview was completed and they have to review it. It lasted about 30-40 mins. IO was very professional. About 4 hours later we received 2 TXT messages at the same time, the first one I 130 Petition for alien relative was completed and your case must be reviewed. The second one I 485, We ordered your new card and we will mail to the address you gave us. Not sure why I 130 hasn't been approved before the GC is being produced.

I researched some informations about those applications. If you can get GC prior to the approval of the AP and EAD then you won't get AP and EAD bcuz you can work and  travel outside the USA with GC.right ?

[IMDASTYLE 31]

Anyone here still with a pending application besides me?

[Wiz_Fit 26]

On 12/24/2018 at 1:43 PM, imdastyle said:

Anyone here still with a pending application besides me?

We are!! Supposedly they sent out our RFE on 11/29 to our new address... still haven't received it. Escalated and said to wait until 12/28 and still have nothing to show. We're calling back today to find out where our RFE is... Sigh.

 

Anyone know of some free online fax sites to receive a fax? They said they 'might' be able to fax us a copy.

Edited December 28, 2018 by Wiz_Fit

[Wiz_Fit 26]

So ... we think our officer didn't mail our RFE out.  Online show mailed 11/29 and 12/3 on the website. We never received them. Waited until the time passed and did an online request for duplicate copies, as well as a phone call on 12/13. They stated we should get something by the 28th. Still nothing for our RFE's. So we called again today.

 

They are going to fax one RFE but haven't got it yet. Any ideas on how long this takes? The other RFE was never uploaded into the system so the rep couldn't even fax it to us. He has to send another request to the office for the agent to mail it to us and upload it to the system. I would have thought this type of check/request would have been sent when I did the original did not receive request back on 12/13. The nice part is they stated they would get our response time updated due to never receiving the RFE. The nice part is, we believe based on all the information we got during our interview from our officer, we have everything to turn it around quickly.

[IMDASTYLE 31]

On 12/31/2018 at 10:08 AM, Wiz_Fit said:

So ... we think our officer didn't mail our RFE out.  Online show mailed 11/29 and 12/3 on the website. We never received them. Waited until the time passed and did an online request for duplicate copies, as well as a phone call on 12/13. They stated we should get something by the 28th. Still nothing for our RFE's. So we called again today.

 

They are going to fax one RFE but haven't got it yet. Any ideas on how long this takes? The other RFE was never uploaded into the system so the rep couldn't even fax it to us. He has to send another request to the office for the agent to mail it to us and upload it to the system. I would have thought this type of check/request would have been sent when I did the original did not receive request back on 12/13. The nice part is they stated they would get our response time updated due to never receiving the RFE. The nice part is, we believe based on all the information we got during our interview from our officer, we have everything to turn it around quickly.

Are you still waiting?

 

I am still waiting as well, I don't know what is taking them so long. It will be almost 2 years and currently it's already outside of processing time.

[Wiz_Fit 26]

Just now, imdastyle said:

Are you still waiting?

 

I am still waiting as well, I don't know what is taking them so long. It will be almost 2 years and currently it's already outside of processing time.

Yes still waiting. We finally got our RFE on the 4th and returned it on the 10th to be delivered on the 11th. We've gotten 0 updates online about receiving the RFE response.

 

Our big concern now is that my wife's EAD was never renewed. We filed for it back in May of last year and expected it to be renewed by now.  We escalated it online at the beginning of January as outside of processing times but now the L2 agent is trying to use the excuse that since our 485/130 had an RFE it paused the processing of the EAD. Which is a great loophole for paperwork to say, yes you filed a renewal 6 months and 19 days ago, and since our processing times are 4-7 months and we sent an RFE on 6 months and 24 days to pause the processing times it is no longer outside of normal processing time. Even though we didn't get an RFE without doing 3 separate requests for it and being delayed over a month.

 

 

[Wiz_Fit 26]

Quick update - got a text today our EAD  renewal was approved!  Happy now for another year of waiting if we need, but know we need to file our renewal 2+ months before it expires lol

[YoungJ 14]

17 minutes ago, Wiz_Fit said:

Quick update - got a text today our EAD  renewal was approved!  Happy now for another year of waiting if we need, but know we need to file our renewal 2+ months before it expires lol

When the did u apply for ur renewal