VAWA, Part 21

[Ana FL 242]

6 hours ago, June1888 said:

Hello fam and happy new year!

 

I hope everyone is healthy and positive. I wanted to share that after spending a good month abroad, I returned to the states with no issues, traveling with advance parole while waiting for green card adjudication. I did go through the "little room" where they verify the advance parole. I had a nice talk with the CBP officer, who even asked me why was my green card taking so long. He admitted that this status of pending/waiting for green card was kind of a limbo. The officer did warn me that even if we were able to travel anytime we wanted while our advance parole was valid, they were currently revoking the advance parole to any person traveling to the countries currently banned for travel due to covid 19. Example: Brasil. He said "wherever you go, do not travel to brasil, because when returning to the states, we will revoke your advance parole and send you back to your country". So I though of sharing this piece of information to whoever is having travel plans.

 

 

Yeah my friend just got back from Brazil last week and she was taken to the “little room” too. Her 2 year green card expired and she is waiting for the permanent one. (She has the extension letter but the actual green card is expired) 
She said it took them almost 3 hours to clear her to get in and they told her that if she didn’t have her green card, only advance parole things would go much different for her. 

[Hope4me 55]

On 1/21/2021 at 7:39 AM, Ana FL said:

Got some good news today! 
c31 card produced on Nov 02

I-360 Approval today, Jan 21

Congratulations Ana.

[God is a good God 238]

On 12/5/2020 at 10:40 AM, God is a good God said:

I didn't know too that it was possible. All lawyers including mine, said i must wait until my i360 is approved before filing i485. but thanks to  demise and Sandra for their advices and i contacted my lawyer to tell her to filed i485 for me at irving TX, but she said it will be rejected and she's never done that before, but i insisted that i am the one paying you and paying uscis 😂😂😂 and she finally did and it was successful@Demise@sandraj

Actually after speaking with @sandranj, she said you can file your i485 with Vermont concurrently with i360 even if you are in immigration proceedings. Vermont is the only place where all i485 and i360 must go. since i sent my i485 to uscis Irving Texas last November 2020, i can only use it if I want a judge to decide on my case in court. If i want uscis to adjudicate my i485 i will have to file a new i485 with Vermont and pay the fee for the second time. I should have sent my i485 to Vermont initially. My i360 is pending since October 2019

Edited January 25, 2021 by God is a good God

[MariaX 28]

Hi. i got second prima facie and valid 6 month. its different than first ( first was valid one year) on second prima facie is writing  " the request for an extension  of a prima facie  case for classification under-petitioning  provisions of the Violence  Against Woman Act has been reviewed and granted" my question is ' did they granted my prima facie the letter its means right? and has reviewed means will i be granted? I don't know, are they working on my case and because was reviewed? is it good second prima facie for my case?

[shiva32 240]

26 minutes ago, MariaX said:

Hi. i got second prima facie and valid 6 month. its different than first ( first was valid one year) on second prima facie is writing  " the request for an extension  of a prima facie  case for classification under-petitioning  provisions of the Violence  Against Woman Act has been reviewed and granted" my question is ' did they granted my prima facie the letter its means right? and has reviewed means will i be granted? I don't know, are they working on my case and because was reviewed? is it good second prima facie for my case?

Hi MariaX,  it looks like standard wording for the second Prima Facie. I got my second prima facie last week with the same wording, and its also valid for 6 months. And yes, looks like your second prima facie was granted. 

[MariaX 28]

6 minutes ago, shiva32 said:

Hi MariaX,  it looks like standard wording for the second Prima Facie. I got my second prima facie last week with the same wording, and its also valid for 6 months. And yes, looks like your second prima facie was granted. 

Thank you.

Did you send full package? I sent full package 09/19

[shiva32 240]

Just now, MariaX said:

Thank you.

Did you send full package? I sent full package 09/19

You are welcome. I sent I360 in 11/2019. And then I485 plus I765 (EAD) and I131 (Advance parole) petitions in 2/2020.

[God is a good God 238]

The proceedings time went 2 months up from 16 months to 18 months minimum

Edited January 25, 2021 by God is a good God

[sheima 510]

1 hour ago, God is a good God said:

The proceedings time went 2 months up from 16 months to 18 months minimum

We are getting closer every single day, We gonna be there, am August 2019 filer .

[God is a good God 238]

6 hours ago, sheima said:

We are getting closer every single day, We gonna be there, am August 2019 filer .

I'm October 2019. Mine will take a bit longer because I am in immigration proceedings and i sent i485 to IRVING tx instead of vermont. I heard people say that I will have to pay again to send another i485 to Vermont

Edited January 25, 2021 by God is a good God

[sheima 510]

14 minutes ago, God is a good God said:

I'm October 2019. Mine will take a bit longer because I am in immigration proceedings and i sent i485 to IRVING tx instead of vermont. I heard people say that I will have to pay again to send another i485 to Vermont

I think you can file another I-485  package with another waiver and send it to Vermont, attache your I-360 receipt, I have a feeling that you will be ok.

 

[sheima 510]

29 minutes ago, God is a good God said:

I'm October 2019. Mine will take a bit longer because I am in immigration proceedings and i sent i485 to IRVING tx instead of vermont. I heard people say that I will have to pay again to send another i485 to Vermont

Thanks for the reply 

[西苑二楼 125]

On 1/23/2021 at 2:25 PM, June1888 said:

Hello fam and happy new year!

 

I hope everyone is healthy and positive. I wanted to share that after spending a good month abroad, I returned to the states with no issues, traveling with advance parole while waiting for green card adjudication. I did go through the "little room" where they verify the advance parole. I had a nice talk with the CBP officer, who even asked me why was my green card taking so long. He admitted that this status of pending/waiting for green card was kind of a limbo. The officer did warn me that even if we were able to travel anytime we wanted while our advance parole was valid, they were currently revoking the advance parole to any person traveling to the countries currently banned for travel due to covid 19. Example: Brasil. He said "wherever you go, do not travel to brasil, because when returning to the states, we will revoke your advance parole and send you back to your country". So I though of sharing this piece of information to whoever is having travel plans.

 

 

Thank you so much for the information! 

[Engineering-rocks 212]

Hi All. So here are my final comments about my case in the hopes that they will help someone get through their journey!

 

TIMELINE:

2014 - Filed for asylum, got denial after interview, did not appeal due to active F1 visa.

Oct 2016 - Married to USC

December 2016 - Marriage package filed

August 2017 - Traveled to home country with AP due to family emergency

October 2017 - Filed for divorce, got order of protection

December 2017 - Filed for VAWA, due to bad advice submitted a new I485. Marriage case stayed open after a request to reschedule interview.

Bunch of PFs and EADs here, EAD would usually take about 3-4 months.

August 2019 - RFE for GMC due to a trip to Ukraine with AP. It said something like "if you lived in a foreign country more than 6 months in the past x years". Submitted proof of only traveling for 2 weeks and FBI clearance.

December 2019 - Contacted congressman and ombudsman since case was a few months past the processing times and 90+ days since they received response for RFE.

January 2020 - VAWA Approved status online

February 2020 - C31 EAD

March 2020 - VAWA approval notice

April 2020 - Notice from NBC about medicals

Evidently at NBC my marriage case resurfaced and my VAWA case was sent to a wrong state to my marriage case address as per congressman. Multiple requests to transfer from NY to TX through congressman, info pass and in the end ombudsman too.

November 2020 - NY sent my case to TX

December 2020 - Interview notice for January

I brought a huge binder with me for any possible questions they could ask, mostly related to proof of marriage, divorce, medicals, financials - proof of employment, paystubs, taxes etc.

Jan 2021 - Interview ❤️

 

INTERVIEW

It was in Houston field office, I came in about 20 min before interview time, waited for 30 min. My officer was extremely nice, his last name was Moreno or something like that. I told him I was a bit nervous and he said "don't worry, no denial for you, worst case is you will get RFE". I had my lawyer on the phone, she charged me hourly rate for this, so wasn't much money to invite her, and I did it just in case I got an officer who'd go off topic with marriage/abuse/asylum questions, she said she could stop such line of questioning. He only went through questions from I485 form. We updated things like address, employment, yes to worked without permit, yes to citations and a few others. I gave him proof of divorce, paystubs, 2019 taxes, proof of employment, medicals. The interview was about 30 min, in the end he said he needs to do background check and it takes about 3 weeks, and then I will either get gc in the mail or get rfe/noid in case they are missing something. Later that day I got Card Being Produced update, so I guess he skipped the background check. Next WD I got an update Case was Approved. So now I'm just waiting for tracking number and to get it in the mail.

 

Please feel free to send me private messages in case you need help with anything. Good luck to everyone!

[isurvived 98]

8 minutes ago, Engineering-rocks said:

Hi All. So here are my final comments about my case in the hopes that they will help someone get through their journey!

 

TIMELINE:

2014 - Filed for asylum, got denial after interview, did not appeal due to active F1 visa.

Oct 2016 - Married to USC

December 2016 - Marriage package filed

August 2017 - Traveled to home country with AP due to family emergency

October 2017 - Filed for divorce, got order of protection

December 2017 - Filed for VAWA, due to bad advice submitted a new I485. Marriage case stayed open after a request to reschedule interview.

Bunch of PFs and EADs here, EAD would usually take about 3-4 months.

August 2019 - RFE for GMC due to a trip to Ukraine with AP. It said something like "if you lived in a foreign country more than 6 months in the past x years". Submitted proof of only traveling for 2 weeks and FBI clearance.

December 2019 - Contacted congressman and ombudsman since case was a few months past the processing times and 90+ days since they received response for RFE.

January 2020 - VAWA Approved status online

February 2020 - C31 EAD

March 2020 - VAWA approval notice

April 2020 - Notice from NBC about medicals

Evidently at NBC my marriage case resurfaced and my VAWA case was sent to a wrong state to my marriage case address as per congressman. Multiple requests to transfer from NY to TX through congressman, info pass and in the end ombudsman too.

November 2020 - NY sent my case to TX

December 2020 - Interview notice for January

I brought a huge binder with me for any possible questions they could ask, mostly related to proof of marriage, divorce, medicals, financials - proof of employment, paystubs, taxes etc.

Jan 2021 - Interview ❤️

 

INTERVIEW

It was in Houston field office, I came in about 20 min before interview time, waited for 30 min. My officer was extremely nice, his last name was Moreno or something like that. I told him I was a bit nervous and he said "don't worry, no denial for you, worst case is you will get RFE". I had my lawyer on the phone, she charged me hourly rate for this, so wasn't much money to invite her, and I did it just in case I got an officer who'd go off topic with marriage/abuse/asylum questions, she said she could stop such line of questioning. He only went through questions from I485 form. We updated things like address, employment, yes to worked without permit, yes to citations and a few others. I gave him proof of divorce, paystubs, 2019 taxes, proof of employment, medicals. The interview was about 30 min, in the end he said he needs to do background check and it takes about 3 weeks, and then I will either get gc in the mail or get rfe/noid in case they are missing something. Later that day I got Card Being Produced update, so I guess he skipped the background check. Next WD I got an update Case was Approved. So now I'm just waiting for tracking number and to get it in the mail.

 

Please feel free to send me private messages in case you need help with anything. Good luck to everyone!

Congratulations 👏🏾