F2A 2018 AOS Filers

[NurseHouston 4]

@Clotillda

 

Hi! Yes, of course, you can send me private messages! What do you mean by whom I contacted? If you are referring the congressman is John Culberson. However, that is the congressman pointed by my zipcode, you have to look up your congressman by zipcode. 

[Clotillda 9]

3 minutes ago, NurseHouston said:

@Clotillda

 

Hi! Yes, of course, you can send me private messages! What do you mean by whom I contacted? If you are referring the congressman is John Culberson. However, that is the congressman pointed by my zipcode, you have to look up your congressman by zipcode. 

Yeah, I meant congressman, sorry for confusion>.< I have the same one, just checked. Did you email him a letter with detailed explanations of your situation?

[NurseHouston 4]

1 minute ago, Clotillda said:

Yeah, I meant congressman, sorry for confusion>.< I have the same one, just checked. Did you email him a letter with detailed explanations of your situation?

Go to his website, fill out the privacy release form where you explain in detail your situation and then fax it to him with the supporting documents you have 

[Clotillda 9]

Just now, NurseHouston said:

Go to his website, fill out the privacy release form where you explain in detail your situation and then fax it to him with the supporting documents you have 

Thank you a lot! 

[Holly-ando 9]

Hello everyone

I hope you are all doing great

Today, i called a lawyer that was recommended in my area, to schedule a paid consultation just for me to have a some peace and be well prepared for the interview (was feeling good, we have a long travel history together, bank accounts, insurance of all types, lease, bills.......)

Anyways, the lawyer was so nice and helpful, but she almost LOST it when i told her that i am on B1/B2 visa and spouse of LPR and adjusting status!!! which to be honest made me FREAK OUT more than i was already  she also asked me when does my stay expire and i start accumulating unlawful presence and if my i130 is approved, so here's the trick, my 6 months stay expires on 30 September and the interview is scheduled on 12th October so that's 12 days of unlawful presence which i thought would be considered authorized stay whether the adjustment of status was accepted or not and now i'm just not so sure what i know anymore, i'm in a very dark place and i told my husband maybe we shouldn't have applied  what you think guys? Do you know of people in F2A category and adjusting from B1/B2 and got approved???? i would really appreciate your insight ASAP Cause i don't know what to think anymore     @Tenreyro  @Bfree3

[metehiki 4]

3 minutes ago, Holly-ando said:

Hello everyone

I hope you are all doing great

Today, i called a lawyer that was recommended in my area, to schedule a paid consultation just for me to have a some peace and be well prepared for the interview (was feeling good, we have a long travel history together, bank accounts, insurance of all types, lease, bills.......)

Anyways, the lawyer was so nice and helpful, but she almost LOST it when i told her that i am on B1/B2 visa and spouse of LPR and adjusting status!!! which to be honest made me FREAK OUT more than i was already  she also asked me when does my stay expire and i start accumulating unlawful presence and if my i130 is approved, so here's the trick, my 6 months stay expires on 30 September and the interview is scheduled on 12th October so that's 12 days of unlawful presence which i thought would be considered authorized stay whether the adjustment of status was accepted or not and now i'm just not so sure what i know anymore, i'm in a very dark place and i told my husband maybe we shouldn't have applied  what you think guys? Do you know of people in F2A category and adjusting from B1/B2 and got approved???? i would really appreciate your insight ASAP Cause i don't know what to think anymore     @Tenreyro  @Bfree3

Hello,

 

To my knowledge, if you have filed I-485 (AOS), it gives you another status which is pending. So if you have any status (F1, B1/B2, etc) and you file I-485 -- you get another pending status, you have 2 statutes at the same time. This is what I know and I have read from different sources. Maybe I am wrong, but this is what I know.

If you get an approval your 12 days (from September 30 until October 12) won't count as an unlawful presence.
But God Forbid, if you get a denial these days will count as unlawful presence.

I hope these will help and I will ask some friends of mine again for you.

 

Best,

Mete

[Holly-ando 9]

1 minute ago, metehiki said:

Hello,

 

To my knowledge, if you have filed I-485 (AOS), it gives you another status which is pending. So if you have any status (F1, B1/B2, etc) and you file I-485 -- you get another pending status, you have 2 statutes at the same time. This is what I know and I have read from different sources. Maybe I am wrong, but this is what I know.

If you get an approval your 12 days (from September 30 until October 12) won't count as an unlawful presence.
But God Forbid, if you get a denial these days will count as unlawful presence.

I hope these will help and I will ask some friends of mine again for you.

 

Best,

Mete

Thank you so much Mete, that's the thing i'm nervous about, it's the other possibility that i didn't even think of, i really hope we can find stories of people who successfully adjusted status from B1/B2 visas being married to LPR 

I also forgot to mention that the lawyer told me we might consider filing for extension  even if t might be too late now, and it's my fault, i was under the impression that i should just apply and then sit back and wait and do nothing 

[thepanda 87]

3 hours ago, Holly-ando said:

Hello everyone

I hope you are all doing great

Today, i called a lawyer that was recommended in my area, to schedule a paid consultation just for me to have a some peace and be well prepared for the interview (was feeling good, we have a long travel history together, bank accounts, insurance of all types, lease, bills.......)

Anyways, the lawyer was so nice and helpful, but she almost LOST it when i told her that i am on B1/B2 visa and spouse of LPR and adjusting status!!! which to be honest made me FREAK OUT more than i was already  she also asked me when does my stay expire and i start accumulating unlawful presence and if my i130 is approved, so here's the trick, my 6 months stay expires on 30 September and the interview is scheduled on 12th October so that's 12 days of unlawful presence which i thought would be considered authorized stay whether the adjustment of status was accepted or not and now i'm just not so sure what i know anymore, i'm in a very dark place and i told my husband maybe we shouldn't have applied  what you think guys? Do you know of people in F2A category and adjusting from B1/B2 and got approved???? i would really appreciate your insight ASAP Cause i don't know what to think anymore     @Tenreyro  @Bfree3

That’s why I don’t like lawyers. They don’t do a proper research. Policies change all the time. They need to keep up. 

 

Before I resigned I made sure that I am not accruing any unlawful presence and got a lot of confirmation. There are a lot USC or their spouses spreading the rumor that you have to keep your status until you are adjusted if you are a spouse to a LPR. This is not true. 

 

You had to make sure that you where in status when you applied for the AOS. The extension would have been denied since you cannot prove that you have the intention to go home. Visa expire which is normal and the GC process takes so much time. How is someone even able to maintain or extend their status during that time which requires you to prove that you are intending to return home (on a J1 visa for example). It just doesn’t make any sense. What if someone got fired because the company goes bankrupt? Not much the applicant can do about it. 

You’ll be fine. The only thing you might need to explain is why you decided to stay in the country and didn’t return home. Since the visitor visa is only for visits obviously. Basically show that you had no intent of staying but because of certain reasons you guys decided to go through with AOS. 

I have read so many stories about lawyers and 98% of them were giving bad advise and a lot of VJ users fired their lawyers in the end. 

 

If my AOS gets denied, then yes. I will have accrued unlawful presence since day I lost my job. But if I get approved, then I’m fine. 

 

Toss her and don’t go back to her. Just tell her at the end that you got approved to prove her she was wrong. I get so annoyed when I read about lawyers like her. 

Edited September 7, 2018 by thepanda

[Holly-ando 9]

On 9/7/2018 at 3:43 PM, thepanda said:

That’s why I don’t like lawyers. They don’t do a proper research. Policies change all the time. They need to keep up. 

 

Before I resigned I made sure that I am not accruing any unlawful presence and got a lot of confirmation. There are a lot USC or their spouses spreading the rumor that you have to keep your status until you are adjusted if you are a spouse to a LPR. This is not true. 

 

You had to make sure that you where in status when you applied for the AOS. The extension would have been denied since you cannot prove that you have the intention to go home. Visa expire which is normal and the GC process takes so much time. How is someone even able to maintain or extend their status during that time which requires you to prove that you are intending to return home (on a J1 visa for example). It just doesn’t make any sense. What if someone got fired because the company goes bankrupt? Not much the applicant can do about it. 

You’ll be fine. The only thing you might need to explain is why you decided to stay in the country and didn’t return home. Since the visitor visa is only for visits obviously. Basically show that you had no intent of staying but because of certain reasons you guys decided to go through with AOS. 

I have read so many stories about lawyers and 98% of them were giving bad advise and a lot of VJ users fired their lawyers in the end. 

 

If my AOS gets denied, then yes. I will have accrued unlawful presence since day I lost my job. But if I get approved, then I’m fine. 

 

Toss her and don’t go back to her. Just tell her at the end that you got approved to prove her she was wrong. I get so annoyed when I read about lawyers like her. 

Hello @thepanda

I decided to just go and meet with her and see what she has to say, before tossing as all people who've hired her before say that she's very good at her job :S

but one question please, just to know if i got what you said right, so if AOS God forbid gets denied, the authorized stay allowed by the pending AOS application would be all considered unlawful presence??? that's really scary if it's true :SSS

I also read these days that if they called me now and there's no visa available for me since i'm not current that might be a reason for rejection, it's an information i wish to verify but not getting so much help on that   I couldn't also find anyone who adjusted successfully from B1/B2 being married to LPR and i'm starting to doubt if i'm even illegible to apply

So many doubts and unanswered questions, hope i can find some help

[GiselaMargareta 5]

On 8/28/2018 at 5:01 AM, talad said:

Thanks for keeping us posted. Good luck on the interview! Hope all goes well.

Hi, EAD card with AP arrived in the mail last week. Such a relief.

[Bfree3 132]

Hi @Holly-ando , 

 

If you read back, you'll see that QAF2A was in almost same situation that you will be in. I130 Still pending and she had nothing as yet and it was still pretty early in her journey for an interview. Nothing could be done as yet simply because the IO decided to wait on the I130. The same probably happened for Ben2Sherry. You're going to work yourself into a fever pitch - which is why I have been avoiding this forum. 

 

Go into the interview with eyes wide open that "ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN" no matter what, as worse has happened to spouses and family members of USC's and LPR's alike. When you do meet with this lawyer and go to interview, I would have the pages and chart printed and highlighted from USCIS site that states you are within your rights to have sent in your AOS request and additionally the paperwork was received.

 

Godspeed!

[Holly-ando 9]

1 hour ago, Bfree3 said:

Hi @Holly-ando , 

 

If you read back, you'll see that QAF2A was in almost same situation that you will be in. I130 Still pending and she had nothing as yet and it was still pretty early in her journey for an interview. Nothing could be done as yet simply because the IO decided to wait on the I130. The same probably happened for Ben2Sherry. You're going to work yourself into a fever pitch - which is why I have been avoiding this forum. 

 

Go into the interview with eyes wide open that "ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN" no matter what, as worse has happened to spouses and family members of USC's and LPR's alike. When you do meet with this lawyer and go to interview, I would have the pages and chart printed and highlighted from USCIS site that states you are within your rights to have sent in your AOS request and additionally the paperwork was received.

 

Godspeed!

Hello @Bfree3 thank you for the reply and i'm really sorry, i hate to be a source of negative energy, i was just shocked when they scheduled me as i was already at ease with waiting for at least 10 months. The thing about QF2A case is that she's adjusting from an F1 visa and i guess Bensherry too, and i do also believe her visa was still valid at the time of the interview, so i couldn't actually find a case similar to mine. But eventually, as you said, i just decided to go to that lawyer and i'd rather hear stuff i don't wanna hear than bury my head in the sand, and be prepared for all scenarios.

I apologize again for the frustrations i may have given you through my posts, it wasn't my intention at all. 

I'll keep you guys posted when i go to the interview.

Have a wonderful week everyone 

[Bfree3 132]

No frustrations with you dear  @Holly-ando only USCIS and the entire process. I noted that I'm avoiding the forum for my peace of mind.

[VG31 23]

Today I've received the receipt notices for all 3 applications (i-485, i-765, i-131) via mail.

Now awaiting for the next step 😊

 

Thanks,

VG

[VG31 23]

Hello Everyone,

 

As some of you has already attended your Biometric and Fingerprinting appointment for AOS application, I just wanted to know did you guys took your passport along with you at the time of your appointment? What other documents one would need to carry?

 

Appreciate your help.

 

Thanks,

Vg