I-751 January 2019 Filers

[H-M 169]

1 hour ago, cindymaeve1 said:

Thank you everyone.  This thread is very useful to us.  

In the area of proof of good faith marriage - I was not thinking of sending plane ticket/trips, is this a key component?  We are planning on sending taxes, joint health, joint insurance, joint lease of apartment, joint phone bill.  

Do we need pictures??

And is anyone else planning on travel during this process?  We have some important travel dates to Canada within the next 6 months, what did you do?

 

Thank you

Best

Cindy

The primary evidence is proof of co-mingling of finances, assets & liabilities; covering the duration of marriage. Plane tickets/boarding passes & photos are considered secondary evidences, not as important as the primary stuff but good to include.  The more evidence that is provided the stronger is your case.

 

We included boarding passes/tickets from our vacation trips & lots of photos. Here is my previous post with a detailed list of what we included in our ROC package:

 

 

After filing I-751, you will receive a receipt/extension notice (NOA1) which extends your GC for another 18 months. You can then use your expired 2yr GC + NOA1 letter for travel. There is an entire thread in this forum dedicated to "Travelling on Extension letter".

 

[Jessica Miller 10]

On 2/12/2019 at 8:27 AM, CanadaCasey said:

 

 

Hm, I called them last week and they couldn't tell me what my receipt number was and told me to just call back in 30 days . . maybe I should try again this week. Seems like you had more luck. 

Update!

 

I didn't get the NoA letter by the end of February as they had promised when I called them early February. By the third week of February, I submitted the e-request just to be sure they have my request in the system, and I called them again on February 23 to schedule the info pass appointment.

 

My info pass request was rejected — the appointment was deemed unnecessary because it said in their system that I was going to receive the NoA and their deadline for that was March 22. My GC expired on March 7, so there was a little bit of panic there. When I spoke with the agent to see what the consequences would be with my GC expiring and me not having any physical proof of status, they said I shouldn't be worried and there should be no problem at all because I have a valid status even though I don't have the physical proof with me, as long as I didn't break the law.

 

I finally received my NoA in the mail on March 13. Now I'm only waiting for my Biometrics.

[Cryssiekins 976]

1 hour ago, Jessica Miller said:

Update!

 

I didn't get the NoA letter by the end of February as they had promised when I called them early February. By the third week of February, I submitted the e-request just to be sure they have my request in the system, and I called them again on February 23 to schedule the info pass appointment.

 

My info pass request was rejected — the appointment was deemed unnecessary because it said in their system that I was going to receive the NoA and their deadline for that was March 22. My GC expired on March 7, so there was a little bit of panic there. When I spoke with the agent to see what the consequences would be with my GC expiring and me not having any physical proof of status, they said I shouldn't be worried and there should be no problem at all because I have a valid status even though I don't have the physical proof with me, as long as I didn't break the law.

 

I finally received my NoA in the mail on March 13. Now I'm only waiting for my Biometrics.

At least it came!!

 

Breaking the law is its own beast, but I don’t for one second believe not having proof of status would be no big deal.  It would, at the very least, result in a headache or undue stress. 

[Jessica Miller 10]

42 minutes ago, Cryssiekins said:

At least it came!!

 

Breaking the law is its own beast, but I don’t for one second believe not having proof of status would be no big deal.  It would, at the very least, result in a headache or undue stress. 

Oh, I agree! I told the agent it's hard to not worry because you just never know what could happen. I could just walk down a street and be stopped by the police for identification for no reason at all  (long shot, but possible). Plus, I'm 38 weeks pregnant — I didn't need that stress! I'm so glad I finally got the NoA. 

[PonJor 69]

Quick update, we just received a letter stating our case was transferred to the National Benefits Center (NBC) as part of "standard processing" on 3/13/19. Fingers crossed the next letter will be for biometrics.

[Megha13 49]

Finally after waiting a long time, filing two requests I got my extension letter. How to recognize if it's duplicate or original?

 

 

Edited March 18, 2019 by Megha13

[gregcrs2 1,778]

12 minutes ago, Megha13 said:

Finally after waiting a long time, filing two requests I got my extension letter. How to recognize if it's duplicate or original?

 

 

If there is a watermark on it and it does not say duplicate, then it is an original.

[Cryssiekins 976]

13 minutes ago, Megha13 said:

Finally after waiting a long time, filing two requests I got my extension letter. How to recognize if it's duplicate or original?

 

 

Should have a watermark and be on a different kind of paper.  I think it’s slightly colored and “heavier” than standard printer paper.

[Megha13 49]

7 minutes ago, gregcrs2 said:

If there is a watermark on it and it does not say duplicate, then it is an original.

Okay , then it's an original...Thank You

7 minutes ago, Cryssiekins said:

Should have a watermark and be on a different kind of paper.  I think it’s slightly colored and “heavier” than standard printer paper.

Yes it has a watermark and slightly light  green colored

[thejusts 9]

On 3/12/2019 at 7:44 PM, Rick & Apple said:

It looks like that whole region is no longer scheduling infopass. I checked Birmingham, Jacksonville, FL. Those show the same as Atlanta.

Below are the options I get when I put in a Little Rock zip code.

Today we received a reply from our e-request that they'd already mailed our receipt, but are going to mail a duplicate. We'll see.......

[MMteam 72]

I saw case on tracker filing Jan 2019 got rfe ... Are they speed up or that glitch MSC1990xxxxx

and we saw the October 2018 got one case approved... Excited news I guess...

[MariaR323 199]

17 minutes ago, MMteam said:

I saw case on tracker filing Jan 2019 got rfe ... Are they speed up or that glitch MSC1990xxxxx

and we saw the October 2018 got one case approved... Excited news I guess...

I'd be interested in knowing if the case that got approved from the Oct 2018 filers had anything out of the norm as a basis for approval.

 

Not being critical just wondering if maybe, just maybe, it means they are working on getting up to speed 🙂

[MMteam 72]

16 minutes ago, MariaR323 said:

I'd be interested in knowing if the case that got approved from the Oct 2018 filers had anything out of the norm as a basis for approval.

 

Not being critical just wondering if maybe, just maybe, it means they are working on getting up to speed 🙂

Yea the one got approved from October 2018 didn't believe it they got official letter of approval and now waiting on the card..

But the strange thing sending RFE to Jan 2019 when people from 2018 still didn't get even biometric... How they select cases!?

[MariaR323 199]

1 minute ago, MMteam said:

Yea the one got approved from October 2018 didn't believe it they got official letter of approval and now waiting on the card..

But the strange thing sending RFE to Jan 2019 when people from 2018 still didn't get even biometric... How they select cases!?

Somebody over in the Oct 2018 thread said it was probably an accident that they got approved lol

 

They think an IO just picked up the file from the wrong stack maybe.

[MMteam 72]

7 minutes ago, MariaR323 said:

Somebody over in the Oct 2018 thread said it was probably an accident that they got approved lol

 

They think an IO just picked up the file from the wrong stack maybe.

Yea but some one picked file from Jan 2019 and asked for evidence so mistakes twice let's hope they're speed up