June 2020 AOS Filers

[Roxy&Ryan 72]

Hello eveyone, just an update, my interview was scheduled today June 22, 2021. I did not receive a pdf of the letter to know the date so I will be calling them in the morning to try to get a copy. I will update further when I receive the date.

[KAP2019 187]

16 hours ago, Roxy&Ryan said:

Hello eveyone, just an update, my interview was scheduled today June 22, 2021. I did not receive a pdf of the letter to know the date so I will be calling them in the morning to try to get a copy. I will update further when I receive the date.

You should get a letter in the mail!

[Brklyn Belle 71]

We had our interview today in the Baltimore office. The interview itself was fairly quick (about 15 minutes) overall the whole process took 1 hour.  We got there at 8:00 for an 8:15 appointment. We checked in and sat in the waiting room for about 30-35 mins.  Then our immigration officer (IO) called us in. He asked my husband (applicant) the following: name, date of birth, employer name, home address, if he has a criminal record, if there is anything that would come up in his background check that could negatively impact him, then he asked me for my name and my mother in law and father in law name.  That was it! He asked if we had any questions. He said everything looked good and he's going to run a background check and then we should hear something in 7-14 days.  He shook our hands and said congrats and wished a nice day!  Due to covid he was only in the room with us in the beginning to do the oath, then he went next door in his office and we spoke to him through the computer, similar to zoom video call.

We had a very pleasant IO and the interview was somewhat conversational.  

 

Best wishes to everyone on this thread still waiting!

[Roxy&Ryan 72]

On 6/22/2021 at 11:05 PM, Roxy&Ryan said:

Hello eveyone, just an update, my interview was scheduled today June 22, 2021. I did not receive a pdf of the letter to know the date so I will be calling them in the morning to try to get a copy. I will update further when I receive the date.

Update: my interview date is set for my son and I on July 27th. I live in Atlanta but my interview is in Montgomery, AL. Has this happened to anyone before? I would think there is a USCIS office in Altanta 🤷‍♀️. Nonetheless we are extremely happy that we finally got a date as I had just sent in my EAD renewal earlier this month.

[Brklyn Belle 71]

22 hours ago, Brklyn Belle said:

We had our interview today in the Baltimore office. The interview itself was fairly quick (about 15 minutes) overall the whole process took 1 hour.  We got there at 8:00 for an 8:15 appointment. We checked in and sat in the waiting room for about 30-35 mins.  Then our immigration officer (IO) called us in. He asked my husband (applicant) the following: name, date of birth, employer name, home address, if he has a criminal record, if there is anything that would come up in his background check that could negatively impact him, then he asked me for my name and my mother in law and father in law name.  That was it! He asked if we had any questions. He said everything looked good and he's going to run a background check and then we should hear something in 7-14 days.  He shook our hands and said congrats and wished a nice day!  Due to covid he was only in the room with us in the beginning to do the oath, then he went next door in his office and we spoke to him through the computer, similar to zoom video call.

We had a very pleasant IO and the interview was somewhat conversational.  

 

Best wishes to everyone on this thread still waiting!

Status changed June 29th to new card being produced.

[MKJ119 43]

We finally have our interview scheduled for July 20th! Still no news on EAD and SSN. We filed an extension on our taxes until August so we could file jointly once we get his SSN. He had his Dr. appt yesterday with the civil surgeon and hopefully he can his childhood immunization records for MMR and Varicella faxed over. Otherwise he will just do them again. The local health department takes our insurance, so we opted to schedule an appointment with them to do his immunizations rather than paying out of pocket since the immigration doc doesn't take insurance. 

 

I just realized that we don't have an original copy of our son's birth certificate because I had to send it in when I applied for a passport for him and there is a long waiting period. I do have a copy and there's plenty of other evidence we can present as proof of our relationship, including our actual baby who will need to come with us to the interview. Hopefully that won't be an issue. Any other last-minute checklist or advice? I can't believe we're finally at the end of this!

[akma 3]

So we finally had our biometrics 3 weeks ago, yes, a year after applying! My husband's EAD+AP and SSN arrived on Monday. The case status changed to "Ready to be scheduled for interview". I've just checked the I-485 processing times for Seattle, 24-28.5 months, which means our interview should be somewhere between June-October 2022... I've heard they're also scheduling interviews for Washington residents in Portland, which has I-485 processing times of 13-23 months.
Anyone knows someone from WA who already had their interview scheduled? 

[Jeff and Mei 19]

On 6/29/2021 at 7:17 PM, Roxy&Ryan said:

Update: my interview date is set for my son and I on July 27th. I live in Atlanta but my interview is in Montgomery, AL. Has this happened to anyone before? I would think there is a USCIS office in Altanta 🤷‍♀️. Nonetheless we are extremely happy that we finally got a date as I had just sent in my EAD renewal earlier this month.

We are in Alabama, I know Montgomery handles a lot of Georgia cases because of the backlog in Atlanta.  We filed May 8 2020, we have her EAD, but have heard nothing about the interview.

[KAP2019 187]

On 6/30/2021 at 2:21 PM, MKJ119 said:

We finally have our interview scheduled for July 20th! Still no news on EAD and SSN. We filed an extension on our taxes until August so we could file jointly once we get his SSN. He had his Dr. appt yesterday with the civil surgeon and hopefully he can his childhood immunization records for MMR and Varicella faxed over. Otherwise he will just do them again. The local health department takes our insurance, so we opted to schedule an appointment with them to do his immunizations rather than paying out of pocket since the immigration doc doesn't take insurance. 

 

I just realized that we don't have an original copy of our son's birth certificate because I had to send it in when I applied for a passport for him and there is a long waiting period. I do have a copy and there's plenty of other evidence we can present as proof of our relationship, including our actual baby who will need to come with us to the interview. Hopefully that won't be an issue. Any other last-minute checklist or advice? I can't believe we're finally at the end of this!

It might be a bit tight to get the SSN in time for filing in August. 

It'll take a bit to get the green card. Then once you apply for SSN, it can take a couple weeks to receive that in the mail. Just a heads-up!!

[Brklyn Belle 71]

Do you have to request an updated SSN card after you receive your green card? I thought it was automatically updated and sent to you.

[Roxy&Ryan 72]

On 6/29/2021 at 8:17 PM, Roxy&Ryan said:

Update: my interview date is set for my son and I on July 27th. I live in Atlanta but my interview is in Montgomery, AL. Has this happened to anyone before? I would think there is a USCIS office in Altanta 🤷‍♀️. Nonetheless we are extremely happy that we finally got a date as I had just sent in my EAD renewal earlier this month.

We finally had our interview on July 27, 2021 in Montgomery, AL. On our way i got a call about 7:30am from the IO, he said he noticed i travelled international a few days ago and that i cant enter a federal building unless i have been quarantine for 14 days or have been vaccinated. I assured him that we were all vaccinated (my husband, son and I). He said ok he will see us at 8:15 am (interview time).

 

We entered the building 8am, at the security check we were asked to see ID and interview letter, then security checked just like at the airport.  We were then ushered to window #1 to get checked in again we were asked for our ID, interview letter, we took our picture and index finger print. we were then asked to sit and wait for our name to be called, that process concluded at 8:19am. Shortly after the IO came for us, he let my son stayed and my husband and i went with him.  We went into a room, he swore us in and told us it would be a video interview and if i had brought and evidence i could put them on the desk. he left and went to another room.  

 

When he started the video he told us that he didnt have much questions for us, that our file was basically complete as most of the questions were asked at the State level ( K1 interview) and that he would go ahead and approve at the end of the interview. The interview was:

about 5 security questions for me from the I-485

the date we got married

if i was previously married

the date my former husband died

if we planned to have kids (my husband told him no he was too old now. he gave us a funny story abut his father being 60+ and just had another child. I told him between us both we had 5 and that was good enough for us)

He approved us and said we were to wait for someone to escort us out. a few minutes after he came back and escorted us out.

 

In the car my son told me that came outside to him, asked him his name, age, school he attended and also told him that we were approved.  We exited at 8:30am.  For a 4.5 hour drive both ways it was worth the 5 min interview.  One hour into the ride home i got an updated case status that says 'card/document production'.

 

Then on July 28, 2021 i got another case updated that says 'Post Decision activity'. I think this is the approval notice, i saw a letter from DHS on my USPS alert this morning.

 

I will updated further when i get the letter in hand.

 

Have a Bless day all!

 

[MKJ119 43]

I didn't get the chance to get on here and update everything. We had the interview on July 20th at the Salt Lake City office. Everything went well. I had brought a lot of documentation of our financial situation, thinking we might need more evidence proving my eligibility as a sponsor since I changed jobs during the pandemic and had to do a lot of scrambling in order to support us all while pregnant. The officer just asked me what I did for work but didn't ask to see evidence. We had our four-month-old baby with us, which is probably why he really didn't seem to question the validity of our relationship. He did say that he would have liked to see more overwhelming evidence of our cohabitation. I had a copy of our lease agreement, but he was not on my bank account at that time because my credit union requires a SSN and we hadn't received his yet. I do have him as a co-signer on a credit card, but when I tried to find documentation to show that, there was none available online that showed both of our names. He asked if we had the cards with us, but my husband didn't bring his wallet with him! I submitted family pictures of us and a copy of our son's birth cert. I was a little worried because I have not received the original back from his passport application, but the officer was fine with the copy. I also submitted evidence of all of us on the same insurance policy. When we originally filed, we didn't have insurance yet.

 

Overall, things went quickly. I've never seen my husband so nervous, it was cute. He basically just stuck to yes or no answers and all that was really asked of him was the legal stuff and the basics like when were we married, etc. The officer told us that he was most likely going to approve us but just had a couple of things to double check. 

 

The best part was when we went to check in, the officer at the desk asked him, "Is this your sweetheart?" and my husband didn't quite hear him or maybe didn't understand the term "sweetheart" right away so the officer gave him a little bit of a hard time. "You're not just doing this for the green card are you? Because if you are, they'll find out in the back." Of course I just laughed, but he told me later it made him really nervous. You can understand how interrogators can really shake people up even if they haven't done anything wrong.

 

The status changed the next day and the card arrived less than a week after the interview. Hopefully those that are waiting are seeing things move along. We did contact our congressman through a form on his website and they were very helpful in getting things moving for us.

 

Good luck to everyone!

 

Edit to add that we had originally filed for a K-1 visa, but while he was visiting me the pandemic hit and the borders closed so we abandoned the K-1, eloped right away and applied to adjust status. The officer asked if he had come here just to get married, but was satisfied with our explanation and the timeline. While he was here, we were still taking steps to complete the K-1. 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by MKJ119
More info added

[akma 3]

So… anybody still WAITING for their interview appointment? 
We’re in Seattle and still waiting… we even called USCIS and told them we’re willing to travel to Portland or anywhere else for the interview, but the answer from USCIS was they don’t do interviews in another state, which obviously is not the case based on previous posts here… 

[Ally&Axel 43]

8 hours ago, akma said:

So… anybody still WAITING for their interview appointment? 
We’re in Seattle and still waiting… we even called USCIS and told them we’re willing to travel to Portland or anywhere else for the interview, but the answer from USCIS was they don’t do interviews in another state, which obviously is not the case based on previous posts here… 

Hi Akma,

I’m in the same boat than you and still waiting. I filed in may 2020. I have no idea if I’ll get the green card this year. I don’t even know if I’ll get it next year tbh. I think my case is stuck at the nbc and there’s “nothing I can do but wait”. And wait for what? Wait so that the people that applied long after get treated first. I am so furious at this whole process. Soon my ead will run out and of course they don’t have that together either so you have to wait 10 month to put a service request in that will most likely be denied anyway.

[Fahima Dawd 1]

Hi there! For those still waiting on their interview to be set up, I recommend reaching out to your local congressman’s office so that they can look into the situation. I was also waiting for my interview to be set up, and I read on VisaJourney that someone reached out to their congressman and got their interview a week later. I tried it with my local congresswoman and got my interview notice a week later. I’m not entirely sure if it actually made a difference or if it was a coincidence, but it’s worth a try.