VAWA, Part 23

[Tulucitor 4]

18 hours ago, Reister said:

Did you try opening a Case on her website ?

Did you  ever get your approval letter after their the C31 card ?

Hi. No I never got an approval letter !

[SilverLining2 7]

Has anyone of you been traveling with their EAD? Is it really risky?

[BlueTiger92 123]

12 hours ago, DmytriiD said:

Hi Community,

My I-485 got approved today without interview and I wanted to thank all of you who gave me pieces of advise and information during this VAWA journey.

I wanted to share my timeline and advise for those who currently is surfing through here and looking for info:

 

August 25, 2018 - US Entry on a K-1 Visa

September 14, 2018 - Marriage

September 28, 2018 - I-485 Application (together with EAD+AP)

October 2, 2018 - NOA 1 I-485 (biometrics took place 3 weeks later)

January 2019 - EAP+AP approved

April 2019 - Divorce

April 24, 2019 - I-360 Application (applied with a lawyer, but moving forward acted on my own without lawyer's help)

September 2019 - Sent in more evidence on my own by reading this forum (I think my lawyer didn't include those docs on purpose in order to get RFE and charge me more). Please note that I sent in more evidence on my own without receiving a request for it twice total (once divorce paperwok and another time police clearances and my birth certificate).

3 times extended EAD + AP while waiting for I360 decision based on still pending I485.

May 24, 2021 - I360 Case Was Approved

August 2021 - I485 Request for updated medicals (my original medicals expired 1 months prior to this request)

September 27, 2021 - I485 Approval (Card being Produced status)

 

To all of you who is reading - I think very important for you to know that you are allowed to submit evidence for your I360 case (if you think your case is missing something) on your own without a lawyer. I only used an attorney in the first place because I didn't know about VAWA at all and I needed urgent help. But after reading this forum even the attorney I worked with was telling me that I know too much and I could do it on my own, etc. After I read the case she prepared I found that there were multiple mistakes made with names of people, facts, dates etc etc (I had to send another letter to Vermont to just correct her mistakes) and also some docs needed for this case were missing, which I think my attorney didn't put there on purpose. Those docs are required for a decision on I360 for sure. So by not including it my attorney planned to get an RFE...and her contract with me would oblige me for another $1000 to reply to an RFE. So when I started reading this forum I took this under my complete control and figured that my attorney is acting against my best interest. Another GREAT piece to this story is that my attorney assistant once called me and said that the attorney is not honest and that she purposely is not doing things I asked her to do, purposely missed docs, purposely was not even providing me the copy of my case for a few weeks...and her assistant actually recommended me to report her to the board of attorneys which I didn't do yet, but I will now that my cases are all done and I do not need her anymore for anything at all. But yeah people please be careful with attorneys please - mine was basically trying to suck the moneys out without providing the best service possible.

Luckily for me from the beginning I refused to add my attorney to my I485 case and once I360 was approved we kind of are done already.

 

Summary: I485 took 3 years exactly and I360 took 2 years and 1 month.

Good luck to everyone who is still waiting, you will get there soon!

 

congratulations!!! always a patient, rewarding journey. also really happy to see interview waived in places other than NY

[balo101 667]

38 minutes ago, SilverLining2 said:

Has anyone of you been traveling with their EAD? Is it really risky?

do you mean domestically? or with AP internationally?

 

I travelled on AP recently. 

[MariaX 28]

1 hour ago, Reister said:

Mine took total of 8 days from the day it was ordered till it got to me. I filed on Sept Also . 

mine doesn shows me card ordered, its showes me new card is being produced and we ordered your new card . 

10 hours ago, Sk N said:

finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, congrats

thank you 

[MariaX 28]

Have a question: after vawa approval, i sent full package almost 2 years, does my 485 application need update to uscis? my friend's lawyer said its has to update because application is pending already 2 years . how was your 485 process after the 360 approved   , did you send any application for485  update?

[luminarc 218]

18 hours ago, FeDaniela said:

NO. USPS is advice to return to USCIS. 

If you put in a forwarding request with usps, after you move addresses they can, I have my PF coming from uscis today forwarded by usps from my old address, since uscis insists on sending stuff out to the old address smh

[MariaX 28]

10 hours ago, europeantravel212 said:

Hello,

Has anyone worked with Maria shepelsky, she's an immigration attorney? Do you recommend her for those of you who have heard of her?

Thank you.

I heard many good things about the lawyer , I have a friend she is very thankful.  i dont know how she works for the vawa cases , I follow on her Instagram and she posted many vawa approval letter . good luck 

[FeDaniela 673]

Just now, luminarc said:

If you put in a forwarding request with usps, after you move addresses they can, I have my PF coming from uscis today forwarded by usps from my old address, since uscis insists on sending stuff out to the old address smh

Letters from USCIS they might forward but not suppose too, but EAD, Green Card, they will not forward they are advise to sent it back. USCIS is very messy with address changing. 

[MariaX 28]

after vawa approval how long takes to transfer 485 case to NBC office and then local office?

[luminarc 218]

5 minutes ago, FeDaniela said:

Letters from USCIS they might forward but not suppose too, but EAD, Green Card, they will not forward they are advise to sent it back. USCIS is very messy with address changing. 

That makes sense. They are so messy with address change, God bless them. 

[SilverLining2 7]

38 minutes ago, balo101 said:

do you mean domestically? or with AP internationally?

 

I travelled on AP recently. 

I mean internationally, yes! With the travel document. 2-3 years is too long not to visit my family…! Does it really have to be for emergencies only?

[balo101 667]

28 minutes ago, SilverLining2 said:

I mean internationally, yes! With the travel document. 2-3 years is too long not to visit my family…! Does it really have to be for emergencies only?

if you have a valid AP then you can travel. It does not have to be an emergency purpose. 

[SilverLining2 7]

41 minutes ago, balo101 said:

if you have a valid AP then you can travel. It does not have to be an emergency purpose. 

Really? Is this stated somewhere by USCIS? My attorney strongly recommends not to travel (internationally)...

[luminarc 218]

I am excited yet nervous to start seeing the 2020 filers decisions start coming in, I know we are still months away, just looking forward to it.