I-129F March 2017 Filers #2 Cause we are awesome

[dkmfan85 832]

8 hours ago, pajobra said:

I only just applied for AP too so in your boat as well. I don't expect EAD til next month or maybe the month after. I am just so frustrated.

 

Hi all, I have been pretty non existant on the boards but I have been very depressed and stressed so staying away because I say things I regret when I am like this.  My husband has gone to work once in the past 9 days. We can survive for the next two months thanks to the tax refund and hopefully I can work by then and support us because I think they are going to fire him at this rate.  He is missing work because stress is killing him basically. The stress is his ex wife and his kids. Basically he gave the kids up to be adopted by her new husband 4 years ago so he is not financially obligated BUT they are his kids so he worries about them. Right now his ex wife and her husband don't work.  Their work is freelance writing. Somehow they try to keep 12 horses along with the fact they need a house to fit them and the 5 kids who are almost all adults but have no education or life experience as they homeschooled them. My husband regrets so much of that and that stresses him. Right now he is stressed because his 17 year old daughter Amanda said to him that they were being evicted and have to find a new place to live and that they only eat one meal a month. I perved the ex's facebook and sure enough it is that bad. I had banned my husband from reading her page because it stresses him out. The only reason he finds things out though is that the two youngest kids text him a few times a week. Which is good. He misses them terribly. 

 

Also my grandfather is on the downswing now and could die any day. My sister says he talks about me constantly and I am the one he remembers the most in his current mind fog. Always asks her how I am doing in Colorado and how he appreciated that I came and visited him once a month for the past 6 years. He is 96 years old so has lived a long life. He told my sister that when we all get our inheritance we better use it for fun. LOL So he wanted to know what we would each use it for. I told her to tell him that my husband and I would travel to visit his kids for a vacation and also travel to visit his parents so I can finally meet them. He told her BANG ON! ha Such a very British expression and always one of my favs of his. 

 

My Mum is flying to Denver on April 26th and I will pick her up there and bring her down here to The Springs. She is staying at a hotel literally a 5 minute walk away from us so that is nice. She will fly back the 29th, so is only down for a few days. I am super excited about that. I have plans of walking up to pulpit rock, going to Helen Hunt Falls, Garden of the Gods and The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and Museum. My family are figure skating freaks. I used to skate and taught it years ago.

 

Anyway hope you all are well. HUGS Hope those in the AOS process are holding on. lol My office is one of the slowest in the country so the earliest I can expect an interview is likely next March. The processing time for Denver is 14-30 months. LOL

It's good to hear about some rays of sunshine breaking through those cloudy days.  Hoping everything works out the best for you and your wonderful family!

[pajobra 1,395]

3 hours ago, dkmfan85 said:

It's good to hear about some rays of sunshine breaking through those cloudy days.  Hoping everything works out the best for you and your wonderful family!

Thanks  I feel better now. I just put my heart into cleaning the apartment.  

[Marzena & Stephen 544]

 

 

Got my work permit card today 

So basically it was in my hands 3 days after the card was mailed email.

 

No ap on it sadly I regret that but oh well.. hopefully it takes shorter than 5 months to get ap. 

 

[dkmfan85 832]

Well, my cases status from last March finally updated from "Received."

[KozmicBlues 592]

Finally sent off the AOS packet last week! It was supposed to be delivered by Thursday, but alas the package has been delayed with USPS and now shows in limbo on the tracking. Here's hoping it gets delivered and not lost out in the mail world somewhere never to be found again 

[mytruelove18 608]

On 17/4/2018 at 1:41 PM, pajobra said:

I only just applied for AP too so in your boat as well. I don't expect EAD til next month or maybe the month after. I am just so frustrated.

 

Hi all, I have been pretty non existant on the boards but I have been very depressed and stressed so staying away because I say things I regret when I am like this.  My husband has gone to work once in the past 9 days. We can survive for the next two months thanks to the tax refund and hopefully I can work by then and support us because I think they are going to fire him at this rate.  He is missing work because stress is killing him basically. The stress is his ex wife and his kids. Basically he gave the kids up to be adopted by her new husband 4 years ago so he is not financially obligated BUT they are his kids so he worries about them. Right now his ex wife and her husband don't work.  Their work is freelance writing. Somehow they try to keep 12 horses along with the fact they need a house to fit them and the 5 kids who are almost all adults but have no education or life experience as they homeschooled them. My husband regrets so much of that and that stresses him. Right now he is stressed because his 17 year old daughter Amanda said to him that they were being evicted and have to find a new place to live and that they only eat one meal a month. I perved the ex's facebook and sure enough it is that bad. I had banned my husband from reading her page because it stresses him out. The only reason he finds things out though is that the two youngest kids text him a few times a week. Which is good. He misses them terribly. 

 

Also my grandfather is on the downswing now and could die any day. My sister says he talks about me constantly and I am the one he remembers the most in his current mind fog. Always asks her how I am doing in Colorado and how he appreciated that I came and visited him once a month for the past 6 years. He is 96 years old so has lived a long life. He told my sister that when we all get our inheritance we better use it for fun. LOL So he wanted to know what we would each use it for. I told her to tell him that my husband and I would travel to visit his kids for a vacation and also travel to visit his parents so I can finally meet them. He told her BANG ON! ha Such a very British expression and always one of my favs of his. 

 

My Mum is flying to Denver on April 26th and I will pick her up there and bring her down here to The Springs. She is staying at a hotel literally a 5 minute walk away from us so that is nice. She will fly back the 29th, so is only down for a few days. I am super excited about that. I have plans of walking up to pulpit rock, going to Helen Hunt Falls, Garden of the Gods and The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and Museum. My family are figure skating freaks. I used to skate and taught it years ago.

 

Anyway hope you all are well. HUGS Hope those in the AOS process are holding on. lol My office is one of the slowest in the country so the earliest I can expect an interview is likely next March. The processing time for Denver is 14-30 months. LOL

i hope everything go well with you and your husband,

i will pray for you, i hoe you find shine on the road, God bless you

[mytruelove18 608]

i came on december 22, 2017.

got merried march 16,2018. sent AOS package on april 18. arrived to Chiago on april 21.

so on the board of waiting again.

[Marzena & Stephen 544]

3 hours ago, mytruelove18 said:

i came on december 22, 2017.

got merried march 16,2018. sent AOS package on april 18. arrived to Chiago on april 21.

so on the board of waiting again.

I'm in Chicago too!!

Welcome to the club

[gob332 420]

On 4/11/2018 at 8:40 PM, Marzena & Stephen said:

Hey ! Just out of curiousity is your EAD card dated for 1 year (expiry) or is it a 2 year card? or are they always one year now? 

Sorry for the delayed response! My wife's combo card expires after one year.

Edited April 25, 2018 by gob332

[gob332 420]

It's been a busy month for us! We received EAD/AP and scheduled our first trip back to Canada for 2 weeks from now.  I also received a job offer from the Federal Government that will be taking us to the west coast. Sooo i will be interpreting similar (but different) regulations to USCIS all day every day now. I suppose we are now going to have to change our address with USCIS once we find a home out West, which will most likely end up prolonging the GC process.

[od17 76]

Has anyone else received an RFE for AOS application?

I've received a request for tax returns...I've sent the 2016 ones with my application that I filed on Dec 1 (so, the 2017 weren't available yet). Wondering if they lost the 2016, or just want 2017 anyway (which I don't understand why they couldn't work with last year's at that point)...

I also called them today and it said my estimated waiting time was 2250 minutes...LOL 

[Marzena & Stephen 544]

9 minutes ago, od17 said:

Has anyone else received an RFE for AOS application?

I've received a request for tax returns...I've sent the 2016 ones with my application that I filed on Dec 1 (so, the 2017 weren't available yet). Wondering if they lost the 2016, or just want 2017 anyway (which I don't understand why they couldn't work with last year's at that point)...

I also called them today and it said my estimated waiting time was 2250 minutes...LOL 

Lol wow 

And no nothing here 

[TearsOfBabylon 1,680]

11 hours ago, od17 said:

Has anyone else received an RFE for AOS application?

I've received a request for tax returns...I've sent the 2016 ones with my application that I filed on Dec 1 (so, the 2017 weren't available yet). Wondering if they lost the 2016, or just want 2017 anyway (which I don't understand why they couldn't work with last year's at that point)...

I also called them today and it said my estimated waiting time was 2250 minutes...LOL 

Maybe they lost it? 
We have submitted 2016 and had no RFE. At least not yet. We filed Dec. 18th, so might come!

[Marzena & Stephen 544]

I would hope they wouldn't be requesting tax information after the fact just because they are processing so late! 

 

Edited April 28, 2018 by Marzena & Stephen

[TearsOfBabylon 1,680]

19 minutes ago, Marzena & Stephen said:

I would hope they wouldn't be requesting tax information after the fact just because they are processing so late! 

 

I hope that as well!

I haven't even thought of the possibility of getting a RFE for tax 2017. Blegh, I don't want that!