March 2019 AOS Filers -- Part 2

[rye_212 126]

On 7/7/2020 at 5:01 PM, Nicola and Jordan said:

Guys!!!!! So I did a wish at 11:11am to ask for my case to be approved. Just checked and I got this!! I am so happy!!!!!!!

So we did the interview today, and got an RFE for a new medical.   Based on your case Feb 27 to July 7th, we could be waiting some time for the greencard.

[HRQX 4,145]

21 minutes ago, rye_212 said:

I dont know of anyone else on here who was asked for those at interview.

It also happened to a January 2020 AOS from K-1 filer:

 

[rye_212 126]

33 minutes ago, HRQX said:

It also happened to a January 2020 AOS from K-1 filer:

 

thank you so much that is very helpful.

[HRQX 4,145]

25 minutes ago, rye_212 said:

thank you so much that is very helpful.

I'm certain USCIS messed up in yours and Meg's cases. Their own policy manual is explicitly clear. But hopefully your I-485 will soon be approved after you submit I-693, and the GC subsequently produced and mailed to your correct address.

Edited November 18, 2020 by HRQX

[Bluewaters 288]

1 hour ago, rye_212 said:

Well great news, good luck.  

 

We had the interview this morning.   Mostly fine expect that USCIS launched yet one more hurdle for us before approval.  

 

After security clearance, the initial desk fingerprinted us and then we went with, say 40 others to a holding area.   It was the initial morning group and lots of people were called in to the interview rooms at the same time.    The guy initially asked if we had brought anything for him to see, so i provided joint data on car insurance, car loans, gym membership, costco, a joint bank account. He took each one and annotated them and added them to the file.  The only one he commented on was the bank account info. I had printed off the intro page only, and didn't have transactions.  He said he would consider at the end if he would need to get a page with transactions, but he never mentioned it again. He had other fish to fry.   We also gave an envelope of newer photos and some shared facebook posts which he glanced at and filed.    The original application was in March 2019 so had 2018 petitioner tax returns.  We gave him the petitioner 2019 tax returns.  He did query why it wasn't a joint return and we explained that i had no income and that we hadn't told the accountant for my patern.  He was satisfied with that.   

 

He asked to confirm some basic details from the application, and the only thing he asked me about the petitioner was if I knew the date of birth.   He then asked me reams of yes/no questions from the application about various criminal, gun, drugs questions etc.  Only one I had to give details was on my previous visa rejections. 

 

At the end he asked us where we met, and who proposed.  He wrote the anwers in one of his sheets with a red pen, and it seemed to me that if we said we met on the moon he would just have written it down. 

 

Then to THE ISSUE.  He asked me if I had my medical records.  I said no becuase when we submitted the 485 applic in March 2019, it was clear that the medical records I had submitted in the prior K1 application would apply and did not need to be renewed.  That fact has  been discussed on this forum many times, is mentioned in some USCIS faq page and was agreed by our lawyer.  But he said no, I would need a new medical because those original medicals were on a State Dept form and he needed ones on a USCIS form.  I asked if it was the case that the originals had just expired and he said no.  I didn't want to argue so gave up.  I didn't ask if he HAD the originals in the file,  But on reflection, I don't think he did.  I think they were lost during the various issues with my casefile (documented in older posts).   So, Ive made an appointment for tomorrow, $375 and vaccinations AGAIN. He said they would be processed within 15 days when received and then the greencard would be issued.   But based on my experience of USCIS and my issues over the past 2 years, I don't believe any of their time commitments.  

 

If the medicals REALLY had been required to be renewed as part of the March 2019 application, how come it wasn't done when the application was originally reviewed in June 2019 and they issued an RFE for the correct-form birth cert.   Or when I was intially called for interview in Nov 2019.   Instead of leaving it until everything else was done and THEN asking for them.    It makes little sense, but then its USCIS we are talking about here, not everything has to make sense.  I dont know of anyone else on here who was asked for those at interview.  

 

Anyhow, any reader of this shouldn't draw any conclusions from my case, or get worried.   Stick to your own information.   

Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope they move on to approve the case without waiting for the medicals. 

[Bluewaters 288]

1 hour ago, rye_212 said:

So we did the interview today, and got an RFE for a new medical.   Based on your case Feb 27 to July 7th, we could be waiting some time for the greencard.

This new medicals worries me. I had my medicals done in 2018 and it has been 2 years now. I am now going in for my interview. I hope they don't ask me for a new medicals 

[rye_212 126]

12 hours ago, Bluewaters said:

This new medicals worries me. I had my medicals done in 2018 and it has been 2 years now. I am now going in for my interview. I hope they don't ask me for a new medicals 

As i said in my feedback, the medical report issue is specific to my case.  In general, there is no need to do a new medical, this has been re-affirmed in the comment by knowegable user HRQX above.   There is a Jan 2020 filer, user Meg101 who recently had a similar problem as mine.  In both of those cases it looks like USCIS just lost the medical report.  So, don't worry.   Even if they are sometimes incompetent, they don't lose the majority of the documents.  

[Nicola and Jordan 668]

18 hours ago, rye_212 said:

So we did the interview today, and got an RFE for a new medical.   Based on your case Feb 27 to July 7th, we could be waiting some time for the greencard.

Oh my goodness this process has not been kind to you at all, I'm so sorry. Mine may have been so delayed because it was just as the pandemic started here and then was in the thick of it also mine was an RFE for court papers rather than a simple medical but who knows with this system!

I have everything crossed for you! 

[Bluewaters 288]

So, I am gathering all the evidence I can get for my green card interview. We only have a joint account and power bill that have my name and that of my hubby's name on it. I hope with out marriage certificate and some pictures of us, we should be good. 

 

I am a little nervous but my hubby seems not worried at all about the interview. 

[rye_212 126]

On 11/22/2020 at 4:06 AM, Bluewaters said:

So, I am gathering all the evidence I can get for my green card interview. We only have a joint account and power bill that have my name and that of my hubby's name on it. I hope with out marriage certificate and some pictures of us, we should be good. 

 

I am a little nervous but my hubby seems not worried at all about the interview. 

Your hubby is right.  If the criteria was just x pieces of paper; there would be no need to meet an interviewer.   What you bring Is your relationship and that is what they want to see.  

When they asked who proposed I said I did, and turned to hubby and said - it was a cheap crappy ring.   We hadn’t ever really talked about that before.  He laughed and said he still had it.   I expressed shock.   That was the kind of natural conversation we might have at home.   That’s all the interviwer needs.   
 

My hubby has all the main bills in his name; so nothing joint.  If they asked; that is what I would have said.    And joke about him being a sugar daddy.   All they want is the truth.   
 

Bring a treat of chocolate or desert to celebrate with in the car after the interview.   Focus on that while you are in there.
 

 As they say in Ireland “you will be grand”.   

[Bluewaters 288]

Today is my interview day for the green card and I am nervous about the interview. Kindly wish me luck. 

Thanks. 

[Bluewaters 288]

I had my interview today between 1:30pm to 2:00pm mountain time. 

My husband and I were allowed to go inside uscis 15 minutes to our interview time. 

 

So the officer was a lady. 

My husband was called first together with our immigration lawyer. After about 13 minutes later I was called to come in and my hubby was asked to leave the interview room. 

The officer asked me to take an oath to tell the truth. After that the oath, she ask me to mention my legal name, asked of my DoB, my parents full name, where I was born, and when I arrived in US. Then, she went through the I-485 application questions (the yes and no questions) with me. 

She asked if there are any redflags in my marriage. 

Afterwards, she ask me to talk to her about my marriage life. 

She asked where and when I met my hubby for the first time, asked if I have met my hubby's family members, places we have visited, which pet we have and its name, where we both work and how we go to work. 

 

She later said she is going to do her reviews. But talk about 10 years green card since my marriage is over 2years.

 

So in all my interview went well and according to my immigration lawyer, he said the officer was looking for reasons to approve me. So i did well.

[Bluewaters 288]

Just an update "New Card Is Being Produced" 

Finally going to receive my GC by next week. 

 

I wish all those waiting the best of luck to get updates on their cases without any delays. 

 

[Nicola and Jordan 668]

9 hours ago, Bluewaters said:

Just an update "New Card Is Being Produced" 

Finally going to receive my GC by next week. 

 

I wish all those waiting the best of luck to get updates on their cases without any delays. 

 

Congratulations!!! So happy for you! 

[Bluewaters 288]

12 minutes ago, Nicola and Jordan said:

Congratulations!!! So happy for you! 

Thank you