K-1 to AOS info needed

[Sfetty and Wiz 2]

I think this is a very stupid question with possibly a very obvious answer (I may be overthinking everything!!) 

 

I am on the K-1 visa and got married within the 90 days. I am in the process of filling out paperwork to adjust my status (I-485, I-765, I-131). 

The forms require you to state your current immigration status. I have been confused trying to figure out whether this is still the K-1 visa status or if it has changed since I got married. (I realise I am applying for adjustment of status so I think I may still be K-1!) I was on the phone for half an hour with USCIS, asked them this same question just for clarification and they refused to give me even a generic answer. They said that I had to instead book an appointment at my local office to discuss my status. 

If any one can please clarify the exact terminology I should use on the forms, it would be greatly appreciated! I think my brains on form filling out overload.

Cheers! 

[barashka 97]

8 minutes ago, Sfetty and Wiz said:

I think this is a very stupid question with possibly a very obvious answer (I may be overthinking everything!!) 

 

I am on the K-1 visa and got married within the 90 days. I am in the process of filling out paperwork to adjust my status (I-485, I-765, I-131). 

The forms require you to state your current immigration status. I have been confused trying to figure out whether this is still the K-1 visa status or if it has changed since I got married. (I realise I am applying for adjustment of status so I think I may still be K-1!) I was on the phone for half an hour with USCIS, asked them this same question just for clarification and they refused to give me even a generic answer. They said that I had to instead book an appointment at my local office to discuss my status. 

If any one can please clarify the exact terminology I should use on the forms, it would be greatly appreciated! I think my brains on form filling out overload.

Cheers! 

Put "K-1 Visa Holder" as the current status (as long as you are filing before the I-94 expires). That is what my wife put. We filed her Adjustment of Status before her I-94 expired.

Edited October 25, 2018 by visaquestions123

[Sfetty and Wiz 2]

6 minutes ago, visaquestions123 said:

Put "K-1 Visa Holder" as the current status (as long as you are filing before the I-94 expires). That is what my wife put. We filed her Adjustment of Status before her I-94 expired.

Thank you so much!!

[barashka 97]

Just now, Sfetty and Wiz said:

Thank you so much!!

No worries. I know it is confusing, but, I think you should be fine. The exact wording won't matter as much as you think because the USCIS realizes that people adjusting from K-1 to Green Card are in that awkward status, aha.

[Ben&Zian 4,398]

Like above, the K-1 status technically expired the day you entered the US and you went on the I-94. following the guides here on VJ and doing some simple searches up top right corner in the search bar can give you all the information you need to finish this process on your own.

[AL-MJD 144]

17 hours ago, Sfetty and Wiz said:

I think this is a very stupid question with possibly a very obvious answer (I may be overthinking everything!!) 

 

I am on the K-1 visa and got married within the 90 days. I am in the process of filling out paperwork to adjust my status (I-485, I-765, I-131). 

The forms require you to state your current immigration status. I have been confused trying to figure out whether this is still the K-1 visa status or if it has changed since I got married. (I realise I am applying for adjustment of status so I think I may still be K-1!) I was on the phone for half an hour with USCIS, asked them this same question just for clarification and they refused to give me even a generic answer. They said that I had to instead book an appointment at my local office to discuss my status. 

If any one can please clarify the exact terminology I should use on the forms, it would be greatly appreciated! I think my brains on form filling out overload.

Cheers! 

Oh geez, I know how you feel. When I got my interview letter for the AoS Green Card Interview, there was a sentence that said that I have to bring documents that prove my eligibility for immigrant status. It was so weird. How do you prove that you are eligible for a green card? Isn't that what the interview is for? To determine that I am or am not? Do they mean the K1 Visa in the passport, but it's elsewhere in the instructions(I kid you not). I tried to think of anything else I would need that's not already listed on the instructions. Anyways I called USCIS, person refused to give examples of such documents that would prove I am eligible for a green card and asked me to book an appointment at my local office. It was too late to book one so I just came on VisaJourney and some people said it meant evidences of bonafide marriage DESPITE the fact that such evidences was requested in a different numbered instruction already. Good lord. I went to my interview yesterday and this morning my status changed to "New Card being Processed", and I still don't know what "documents that prove eligibility for immigrant status" means.

 

BY THE WAY, YOUR STATUS IS K1. IT DIDN'T CHANGE WITH MARRIAGE. Marriage only changed your eligibility to file for AoS.

 

xoxo