March 2019 AOS Filers -- Part 2

[Shiran 1,134]

4 hours ago, confusedshoes said:

Hi all, we got the update on Jan.13 that our Interview had been scheduled. However we still haven't received the notice in the mail. I tried calling in on Friday but the rep. was unhelpful. I was told tier 2's were no longer taking calls for the day. Anyways has anyone gotten their notice this late? I have USPS informed delivery so I check that every day. We'll try to call again Monday morning.

Typically, interview is scheduled roughly one month ahead of when the notice changes to "Interview was scheduled" And missing the interview is bad news, so I definitely would start calling early early Monday morning and try to get some answers. What does notice on tracking site says for the date to contact them on? 

[SusannZ 111]

On 1/25/2020 at 12:58 PM, confusedshoes said:

Hi all, we got the update on Jan.13 that our Interview had been scheduled. However we still haven't received the notice in the mail. I tried calling in on Friday but the rep. was unhelpful. I was told tier 2's were no longer taking calls for the day. Anyways has anyone gotten their notice this late? I have USPS informed delivery so I check that every day. We'll try to call again Monday morning.

Hope you get it soon! We got ours about a week after. Not that it should matter but it was a federal holiday last Monday and wouldn't be surprised if that delays it a little. 

[NewCitizen23 313]

It’s the final countdown for us. Tomorrow morning at this time we will be already over the interview. I’m so nervous, I have pain in my stomach. Wish us luck!

[Shawn_Lock 36]

Good Luck !!!

[SusannZ 111]

29 minutes ago, Gigi2017 said:

It’s the final countdown for us. Tomorrow morning at this time we will be already over the interview. I’m so nervous, I have pain in my stomach. Wish us luck!

I'll be thinking of you! I'm so nervous too, 48 hrs to go! 

[Nicola and Jordan 668]

35 minutes ago, Gigi2017 said:

It’s the final countdown for us. Tomorrow morning at this time we will be already over the interview. I’m so nervous, I have pain in my stomach. Wish us luck!

Good luck!!! Let us know how it goes once you’re done celebrating 🥳 

[Mike E 11,739]

On 1/16/2020 at 12:12 AM, dittoditto said:

 

Hi PaulaMarie. We were just at the San Jose office too. They gave us the same paper, checked in the same box. We got a notification about 4 hours later that a new card was being produced. Then two notifications the day after saying that the I-485 and I-130 were approved. Funny how the order is! lol

We interviewed on January 16, in San Jose, and so after @dittoditto despite what their timeline ( https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=325336 ) says (January 19, 2020). 

 

After seeing the above, I was bummed we didn't get any notice for days about the decision. But then again, this is the AoS from K-1 mega thread, and the aforementioned timeline is an AoS from a F-1 visa. A considerably different situation (when I had my AoS from F-1 status, I too was approved the same day; at the interview in fact, but that was back in the 1980s).

 

But this morning we have the attached status update and we are obviously overjoyed. Iris passed her behind the wheel test at a DMV many miles from us (thanks for your efficiency California DMV) after a 6 month wait for her appointment. So this has been a banner month for us. Much appreciation to Visa Journey for the wisdom; Iris is one of the few K-1s to have a 5 year REAL ID state ID, and that is due solely to Visa Journey.

 

And FWIW, we did use a lawyer. She was invaluable for avoiding an RFE that would have totally confused us.

 

See you in the October 2021 removal of conditions mega thread and the October 2022 N-400 mega thread. I'm betting Iris will have the latter interview first.

 

 

Edited January 27, 2020 by Mike E

[dittoditto 21]

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

We interviewed on January 16, in San Jose, and so after @dittoditto despite what their timeline ( https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=325336 ) says (January 19, 2020). 

 

After seeing the above, I was bummed we didn't get any notice for days about the decision. But then again, this is the AoS from K-1 mega thread, and the aforementioned timeline is an AoS from a F-1 visa. A considerably different situation (when I had my AoS from F-1 status, I too was approved the same day; at the interview in fact, but that was back in the 1980s).

 

But this morning we have the attached status update and we are obviously overjoyed. Iris passed her behind the wheel test at a DMV many miles from us (thanks for your efficiency California DMV) after a 6 month wait for her appointment. So this has been a banner month for us. Much appreciation to Visa Journey for the wisdom; Iris is one of the few K-1s to have a 5 year REAL ID state ID, and that is due solely to Visa Journey.

 

And FWIW, we did use a lawyer. She was invaluable for avoiding an RFE that would have totally confused us.

 

See you in the October 2021 removal of conditions mega thread and the October 2022 N-400 mega thread. I'm betting Iris will have the latter interview first.

 

 

Congrats to you and Iris! See you in those threads when the time comes!

[confusedshoes 193]

16 hours ago, SusannZ said:

Hope you get it soon! We got ours about a week after. Not that it should matter but it was a federal holiday last Monday and wouldn't be surprised if that delays it a little. 

 

On 1/25/2020 at 2:04 PM, Shiran said:

Typically, interview is scheduled roughly one month ahead of when the notice changes to "Interview was scheduled" And missing the interview is bad news, so I definitely would start calling early early Monday morning and try to get some answers. What does notice on tracking site says for the date to contact them on? 

We called in today, 5AM Local 8AM eastern, Tier 1 wasn't helpful told us we should wait 30 days and for some reason was asking for our Bio Appt. date. Asked to be transferred to a Tier 2 and about 30min later they called back, the Tier 1 failed to forward any info to them so we went through the song and dance once more and finally got our Interview date. It seems it was sent this past thursday and is set for Feb 20th! Such a relief, he said if we don't get it in 7 days to call back and they'll email it....But as luck may have it, it arrived in the mail today.  Now to do some final preparations.

 

[AOSFairfax 111]

21 hours ago, Gigi2017 said:

It’s the final countdown for us. Tomorrow morning at this time we will be already over the interview. I’m so nervous, I have pain in my stomach. Wish us luck!

Good luck today!! Thinking of you and hoping everything goes smoothly!

[iwir 337]

On 1/20/2020 at 11:17 AM, SusannZ said:

Haha I had to go weigh ours now... With all the originals it's 11 lbs! 🤣 5 lbs of just copies to give them if asked. 

 

We have ours next Wednesday at 1pm! 

Forget about massive amount of pictures. They don't care about them. They're more interested if you can prove them the beneficiary will not be on public assistance.  Under new rules they can deny you if you can't prove otherwise. That was the questions we were grilled on. The officer stopped talking about it until we showed her petitioner made enough and we had life, medical, vision, dental insurance 

[Nicola and Jordan 668]

1 minute ago, iwir said:

Forget about massive amount of pictures. They don't care about them. They're more interested if you can prove them the beneficiary will not be on public assistance.  Under new rules they can deny you if you can't prove otherwise. That was the questions we were grilled on. The officer stopped talking about it until we showed her petitioner made enough and we had life, medical, vision, dental insurance 

Do they care about the beneficiary’s earnings? I mean my husband earns enough just wasn’t sure if it was worth me taking in my paystubs etc 

[iwir 337]

1 hour ago, Nicola and Jordan said:

Do they care about the beneficiary’s earnings? I mean my husband earns enough just wasn’t sure if it was worth me taking in my paystubs etc 

Affidavit of support I-865 is a contract between petitioner and US government. So they were grilling my husband and asking him if he made enough and had benefits. Then they warned me if I ever got public assistance, the government would charge him. They don't care if beneficiary works because if they are unemployed and need assistance, they're supposed to ask their sponsor for help, not the government.

[SusannZ 111]

21 hours ago, Mike E said:

We interviewed on January 16, in San Jose, and so after @dittoditto despite what their timeline ( https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=325336 ) says (January 19, 2020). 

 

After seeing the above, I was bummed we didn't get any notice for days about the decision. But then again, this is the AoS from K-1 mega thread, and the aforementioned timeline is an AoS from a F-1 visa. A considerably different situation (when I had my AoS from F-1 status, I too was approved the same day; at the interview in fact, but that was back in the 1980s).

 

But this morning we have the attached status update and we are obviously overjoyed. Iris passed her behind the wheel test at a DMV many miles from us (thanks for your efficiency California DMV) after a 6 month wait for her appointment. So this has been a banner month for us. Much appreciation to Visa Journey for the wisdom; Iris is one of the few K-1s to have a 5 year REAL ID state ID, and that is due solely to Visa Journey.

 

And FWIW, we did use a lawyer. She was invaluable for avoiding an RFE that would have totally confused us.

 

See you in the October 2021 removal of conditions mega thread and the October 2022 N-400 mega thread. I'm betting Iris will have the latter interview first.

 

 

I'm doing AOS from f1 as well. We have our interview tomorrow! Congrats!! 

[SusannZ 111]

1 hour ago, iwir said:

Forget about massive amount of pictures. They don't care about them. They're more interested if you can prove them the beneficiary will not be on public assistance.  Under new rules they can deny you if you can't prove otherwise. That was the questions we were grilled on. The officer stopped talking about it until we showed her petitioner made enough and we had life, medical, vision, dental insurance 

My husband makes almost double what the minimum requirement is and we have superb health insurance, dental and vision and life insurance.