OCTOBER 2019 AOS Filers

[Rrrr 42]

1 hour ago, JCo said:

congratulations! Now you have 2 years to rest before the next step. 😁

Thank you, yes indeed. But in my humble opinion, adequate and normal country would have stopped "witch hunting" at the step 1. Went to embassy, had interview about visa, proved them you had true love and relationship, they approve you. They issue you visa. Done. No more hassle. No more humiliating questioning and doubting my love for my husband. Would be so perfect.

[Fall2021 8]

18 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

Thank you, yes indeed. But in my humble opinion, adequate and normal country would have stopped "witch hunting" at the step 1. Went to embassy, had interview about visa, proved them you had true love and relationship, they approve you. They issue you visa. Done. No more hassle. No more humiliating questioning and doubting my love for my husband. Would be so perfect.

 

18 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

Thank you, yes indeed. But in my humble opinion, adequate and normal country would have stopped "witch hunting" at the step 1. Went to embassy, had interview about visa, proved them you had true love and relationship, they approve you. They issue you visa. Done. No more hassle. No more humiliating questioning and doubting my love for my husband. Would be so perfect.

I am not sure if this may help anyone, but here it is a short timeline for the AOS from process from a K1. 

 

PD: November 7th

 

Fingerprints: November 29th. 

 

RFIE: December 27th due to Birth Certificate

 

Request for evidence mailed out on January 7th and received by USCIS on January 9th, 2020

 

Case ready for interview on Friday, January 24th, 2020

 

Interview scheduled on the same day Friday, January 24th, 2020. 

 

Field Office St Louis, MO. 

 

 

[Fall2021 8]

On 1/22/2020 at 11:19 AM, Indira/Charlys said:

hello everyone... I have one question... I did an address change yesterday... we have not received any info or update regarding our process yet... since December 23rd.... will the address change delay the process?

No, it should not delay the process, but also USCIS takes a while to update the system with the new info. Make sure you use USPS mail forwarding so even if you get any documents, it can be still be forwarded to your new address. 

[Indy Sab 174]

21 hours ago, Fall2021 said:

No, it should not delay the process, but also USCIS takes a while to update the system with the new info. Make sure you use USPS mail forwarding so even if you get any documents, it can be still be forwarded to your new address. 

Thank you so much!!!

[Paulinadeb88 29]

EAD for father and mother in law delivered this morning! The confirmation letters were received Saturday.

[Victoria85 122]

Hi October filers just wanted to share my experience with the USCIS. My husband had interview today. We were invited together in the room with the officer not separate. The all interview took maybe 1 hour. We also brought a translator with us. The officer said at some point that I could translate for him but we said the USCIS site mention do not use significant other because of the conflict interests. 

The officer went thru all security questions. Than she asked how we two met and decided to get married. She took and kept a few pictures and apartment lease contract and other bills. The second question she asked was to describe one day from our life as a family. 

Overall it was a good experience. She was nice and that helped a lot. She was pleasantly surprised of how well we organized our file. We got approved on the spot. She stamped the passport in case we want to travel and hand him the approval notice. 

Because of a tragedy in our lives we did not get to prepare for the interview throughly. Last night we went thru questions twice and that was it. Just relax and be yourself and everything will be fine. 

Good luck to everyone here. 

P.S. we never received EAD.

[majamorena 27]

34 minutes ago, Victoria85 said:

Hi October filers just wanted to share my experience with the USCIS. My husband had interview today. We were invited together in the room with the officer not separate. The all interview took maybe 1 hour. We also brought a translator with us. The officer said at some point that I could translate for him but we said the USCIS site mention do not use significant other because of the conflict interests. 

The officer went thru all security questions. Than she asked how we two met and decided to get married. She took and kept a few pictures and apartment lease contract and other bills. The second question she asked was to describe one day from our life as a family. 

Overall it was a good experience. She was nice and that helped a lot. She was pleasantly surprised of how well we organized our file. We got approved on the spot. She stamped the passport in case we want to travel and hand him the approval notice. 

Because of a tragedy in our lives we did not get to prepare for the interview throughly. Last night we went thru questions twice and that was it. Just relax and be yourself and everything will be fine. 

Good luck to everyone here. 

P.S. we never received EAD.

Congratulations on your approval! May I ask if you asked for the passport to be stamped? Was there a fee for it? It would be nice to have a temporary evidence stamp along with the physical card, though I've read that they give them out mostly for special circumstances.  

Edited January 27, 2020 by majamorena

[Victoria85 122]

4 minutes ago, majamorena said:

Congratulations on your approval! May I ask if you asked for the passport to be stamped? Was there a fee for it? It would be nice to have a temporary evidence stamp along with the physical card, though I've read that they give them out mostly for special circumstances.  

After the interview she asked for the passport and also asked us to wait in the hallway, and after 15 minutes she invited us back in the interview room and gave him the stamped passport and asked us to sign some forms. We didn't pay for it neither I believe our circumstances was anything special.  She said it takes formally 180 for GC to arrive but in practice in about 3 weeks. Our status hasn't changed so we don't know. But she said with that stamp in passport we can travel abroad. 

[Moana&medo 44]

For anyone who has gone to the interview, what all did you bring for evidence? My husband and I only have a joint bank account. We have no lease and no bills together. 

[Rrrr 42]

My status changed to "Green card was mailed to me".

[Rrrr 42]

33 minutes ago, Moana&medo said:

For anyone who has gone to the interview, what all did you bring for evidence? My husband and I only have a joint bank account. We have no lease and no bills together. 

It's so cool that you have joint bank account. We were denied to have that because we did not have SS number. We brought photos 3 albums, lease agreement, cards we sent to each other. Wedding cards too. They made a boring face and did not look at anything and approved just after asking few questions. Probably, they have much more interesting things to do than looking at photos or bills. Kinda...You try, print photos for the IO, write what's going on them, carefully put them in album and IO doesn't want to look. Meanies 🤣

Edited January 27, 2020 by Kristina0394

[Rrrr 42]

3 hours ago, majamorena said:

Congratulations on your approval! May I ask if you asked for the passport to be stamped? Was there a fee for it? It would be nice to have a temporary evidence stamp along with the physical card, though I've read that they give them out mostly for special circumstances.  

Had my interview Jan 22. Me personally I asked her to stamp passport after approval, she said it is not needed because the card is coming very shortly. But for stamping the passport they never charge anything. That would be weird.

[Moana&medo 44]

1 hour ago, Kristina0394 said:

It's so cool that you have joint bank account. We were denied to have that because we did not have SS number. We brought photos 3 albums, lease agreement, cards we sent to each other. Wedding cards too. They made a boring face and did not look at anything and approved just after asking few questions. Probably, they have much more interesting things to do than looking at photos or bills. Kinda...You try, print photos for the IO, write what's going on them, carefully put them in album and IO doesn't want to look. Meanies 🤣

Lol thanks! I just want to be prepared and if they don’t wanna look at anything, at least I’ve created an album to look back on.  🤪 I hope our interview goes as smooth! As for the joint bank account, my husband just needed his passport (he also doesn’t have his SSN). I believe some banks allow that. I went with a local bank. 

[Victoria85 122]

1 hour ago, Moana&medo said:

For anyone who has gone to the interview, what all did you bring for evidence? My husband and I only have a joint bank account. We have no lease and no bills together. 

I Guess each case and officer is different. We were asked to show pictures and the officer told us to choose a few and give it to her for the records. She also asked for apartment lease, a copy of Holy ceremony, every bill we have on his name. If you only have bank account I would suggest to have letter from friends that witness your relationship or if you had wedding ceremony in the states you can ask a person or two to write you a brief email with a thank you for invitation. Something like that. 

[Moana&medo 44]

7 minutes ago, Victoria85 said:

I Guess each case and officer is different. We were asked to show pictures and the officer told us to choose a few and give it to her for the records. She also asked for apartment lease, a copy of Holy ceremony, every bill we have on his name. If you only have bank account I would suggest to have letter from friends that witness your relationship or if you had wedding ceremony in the states you can ask a person or two to write you a brief email with a thank you for invitation. Something like that. 

Thank you so much! That’s a good idea since I have nothing besides the joint bank account.