How to delay my AOS interview

[georgi666 30]

Hi.

We filed for AOS in June of 2021. Case has been at ready to schedule an interview since Oct of 2021.

Now, considering we got married in May 2021, I was wondering, is there a way I can delay my interview(changing address to a different FO?). Or rescheduling the interview if it gets scheduled before 5/2023?

After all this waiting, I would rather not deal with waiting for RoC.

Has anyone done this, any suggestions how to go about it?

Thanks.

[arken 4,197]

4 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

Hi.

We filed for AOS in June of 2021. Case has been at ready to schedule an interview since Oct of 2021.

Now, considering we got married in May 2021, I was wondering, is there a way I can delay my interview(changing address to a different FO?). Or rescheduling the interview if it gets scheduled before 5/2023?

After all this waiting, I would rather not deal with waiting for RoC.

Has anyone done this, any suggestions how to go about it?

Thanks.

When the interview is scheduled, mail it back to the filed office requesting the postponement. It may well be delayed by few months. Still worth it to skip the ROC process.

[georgi666 30]

6 minutes ago, arken said:

When the interview is scheduled, mail it back to the filed office requesting the postponement. It may well be delayed by few months. Still worth it to skip the ROC process.

Thank you!

And yeah, I do have my SSN and EAD/AP, valid till the end of 2023, so I don't really care when I have the interview!

[Timona 4,207]

2 hours ago, georgi666 said:

Thank you!

And yeah, I do have my SSN and EAD/AP, valid till the end of 2023, so I don't really care when I have the interview!

 

You should and this is one mistake some people make. What will you do if your marriage breaks down now before you even get a GC? You've already left everything behind in your home country. 

 

I have a pal whose USC partner just started issuing threats 1 month after GC was produced. Had this friend been having your mindset of postponing, they wouldn't have made it to interview. 

 

I don't get the logic of moving offices so as to delay your interview. This is not wise. Interviews are hard to come by at this time

[SalishSea 17,834]

5 hours ago, georgi666 said:

I was wondering, is there a way I can delay my interview(changing address to a different FO?). Or rescheduling the interview if it gets scheduled before 5/2023?

FO assignments are based on residential zip code.  Are you going to move?

 

Personally, I'd be worried that deliberately sabotaging the process in order to avoid removing conditions could backfire.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

Aside from the process itself, is there a reason you don’t want to go through removal of conditions? If you work proactively towards it throughout the two years after the gc is approved, it is really not that bad. This is what I did, I collected evidence throughout the way, and then a month before submission it was just a matter of organizing the package. And also, you remain a permanent resident while submitting, so other than waiting, there is not much to it.
Things can go south with your spouse. If you reschedule that interview, you might divorce before you get a green card, which leaves you with slim chances. I know you’re not planning to divorce, but things can change quickly. Better safe than sorry. 

[georgi666 30]

10 hours ago, Timona said:

 

You should and this is one mistake some people make. What will you do if your marriage breaks down now before you even get a GC? You've already left everything behind in your home country. 

 

I have a pal whose USC partner just started issuing threats 1 month after GC was produced. Had this friend been having your mindset of postponing, they wouldn't have made it to interview. 

 

I don't get the logic of moving offices so as to delay your interview. This is not wise. Interviews are hard to come by at this time

Things are good between us, we have a daughter and another kid on the way(due December). Honestly, after being in the states for a year and a half, I could care less if I live here or not. I am pretty much staying here cause of my family. If she were to become an ####### and starts issuing threats, this would not be beneficial for our kids at all. Plus threatening and kicking your husband out of the country won't exactly get you child support payments.

 

3 hours ago, Rocio0010 said:

Aside from the process itself, is there a reason you don’t want to go through removal of conditions? If you work proactively towards it throughout the two years after the gc is approved, it is really not that bad. This is what I did, I collected evidence throughout the way, and then a month before submission it was just a matter of organizing the package. And also, you remain a permanent resident while submitting, so other than waiting, there is not much to it.
Things can go south with your spouse. If you reschedule that interview, you might divorce before you get a green card, which leaves you with slim chances. I know you’re not planning to divorce, but things can change quickly. Better safe than sorry. 

It's just how long it takes to process, plus another $595(assuming they won't increase this). Also, even if the things were to go south, we still won't divorce before I got my green card and what not, since we have 1 kid with a second on the way.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

13 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

Also, even if the things were to go south, we still won't divorce

Just FYI, the category “separated” does not work with USCIS, so if things go south, it’s better to divorce.

 

15 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

kicking your husband out of the country

She’d have no power to do that. 
 

 

15 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

won't exactly get you child support payments.

Wow. Just wow. 

 

16 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

It's just how long it takes to process

So what? You’re still a LPR and can live your life just as if it wasn’t pending. 

[Timona 4,207]

27 minutes ago, georgi666 said:

Things are good between us, we have a daughter and another kid on the way(due December). Honestly, after being in the states for a year and a half, I could care less if I live here or not. I am pretty much staying here cause of my family. If she were to become an ####### and starts issuing threats, this would not be beneficial for our kids at all. Plus threatening and kicking your husband out of the country won't exactly get you child support payments.

 

Exactly what my pal told me in September of 2020 when pal wanted to delay AOS filing to June 2021. I persuaded my friend and it was filed October 2020. "We're so much in love. My partner can't harm me." Those were the exact words. 

 

Now, as I told you, USC spouse started issuing threats a month after interview. So, what would have happened if my friend would have filed June 2021? Think.

 

They're still married. But atleast the immigrant can breathe at this point because GC is in hand.

 

Good luck. I'm out

Edited August 21, 2022 by Timona

[arken 4,197]

6 hours ago, georgi666 said:

we have a daughter and another kid on the way(due December).

Nobody can predict the future but one can at least see the nearest potential path. Considering their small daughter and the another coming soon, the probability of OP's spouse breaking up with him in her postpartum recovery phase while getting the most important (emotional more than financial) support from her husband is nil or may be 1 in millions. I'd say worth it to postpose the AOS interview if it is scheduled just a few months before the 2nd anniversary.
 

You can read the pain and frustration that lots of i751 holders are expressing here just because of the lengthy process with N400 stuck for some even after the interview due to ROC stall and such.

 

My case was not the AOS but the immigrant visa interview of my wife which got scheduled 1 month or so before our 2nd anniversary. Once my wife told me that she would fly the same week once she gets the visa in hand after my unsuccessful attempt in convincing her about traveling only after the 2nd anniversary,  I emailed the embassy to postpone her interview any day after our 2nd anniversary. My email literally said "We have already waited this long and are approaching our 2nd anniversary. Please reschedule her interview on any day after xx/xx/xxxx so we could skip ROC process". It got scheduled around a month after our anniversary date. The next four years, rather than worrying on her 10 yr GC production by the uscis, we calmly produced two kids.

Edited August 21, 2022 by arken

[jakelake 222]

22 hours ago, georgi666 said:

Hi.

We filed for AOS in June of 2021. Case has been at ready to schedule an interview since Oct of 2021.

Now, considering we got married in May 2021, I was wondering, is there a way I can delay my interview(changing address to a different FO?). Or rescheduling the interview if it gets scheduled before 5/2023?

After all this waiting, I would rather not deal with waiting for RoC.

Has anyone done this, any suggestions how to go about it?

Thanks.

 

2 hours ago, arken said:

Nobody can predict the future but one can at least see the nearest potential path. Considering their small daughter and the another coming soon, the probability of OP's spouse breaking up with him in her postpartum recovery phase while getting the most important (emotional more than financial) support from her husband is nil or may be 1 in millions. I'd say worth it to postpose the AOS interview if it is scheduled just a few months before the 2nd anniversary.
 

You can read the pain and frustration that lots of i751 holders are expressing here just because of the lengthy process with N400 stuck for some even after the interview due to ROC stall and such.

 

My case was not the AOS but the immigrant visa interview of my wife which got scheduled 1 month or so before our 2nd anniversary. Once my wife told me that she would fly the same week once she gets the visa in hand after my unsuccessful attempt in convincing her about traveling only after the 2nd anniversary,  I emailed the embassy to postpone her interview any day after our 2nd anniversary. My email literally said "We have already waited this long and are approaching our 2nd anniversary. Please reschedule her interview on any day after xx/xx/xxxx so we could skip ROC process". It got scheduled around a month after our anniversary date. The next four years, rather than worrying on her 10 yr GC production by the uscis, we calmly produced two kids.

It's not necessarily the interview date that matters. It's when the visa was issued.

You have 6 months from when the visa is issued to travel to the US.

You should have told your wife to wait an extra month.

[SalishSea 17,834]

1 hour ago, jakelake said:

 

It's not necessarily the interview date that matters. It's when the visa was issued.

You have 6 months from when the visa is issued to travel to the US.

You should have told your wife to wait an extra month.

I think you’re confused.   OP/wife is adjusting from from a K visa, and is referring to whether it is possible to delay the AOS interview so that they can skip the conditional GC altogether and go straight to a 10 year one.

[jakelake 222]

23 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

I think you’re confused.   OP/wife is adjusting from from a K visa, and is referring to whether it is possible to delay the AOS interview so that they can skip the conditional GC altogether and go straight to a 10 year one.

 

23 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

I think you’re confused.   OP/wife is adjusting from from a K visa, and is referring to whether it is possible to delay the AOS interview so that they can skip the conditional GC altogether and go straight to a 10 year one.

I was actually responding to arken's post. 

Maybe that is what caused you to be confused.

[SalishSea 17,834]

34 minutes ago, jakelake said:

 

I was actually responding to arken's post. 

Maybe that is what caused you to be confused.

Then why did you quote the OP's post?

[georgi666 30]

6 hours ago, arken said:

Nobody can predict the future but one can at least see the nearest potential path. Considering their small daughter and the another coming soon, the probability of OP's spouse breaking up with him in her postpartum recovery phase while getting the most important (emotional more than financial) support from her husband is nil or may be 1 in millions. I'd say worth it to postpose the AOS interview if it is scheduled just a few months before the 2nd anniversary.
 

You can read the pain and frustration that lots of i751 holders are expressing here just because of the lengthy process with N400 stuck for some even after the interview due to ROC stall and such.

 

My case was not the AOS but the immigrant visa interview of my wife which got scheduled 1 month or so before our 2nd anniversary. Once my wife told me that she would fly the same week once she gets the visa in hand after my unsuccessful attempt in convincing her about traveling only after the 2nd anniversary,  I emailed the embassy to postpone her interview any day after our 2nd anniversary. My email literally said "We have already waited this long and are approaching our 2nd anniversary. Please reschedule her interview on any day after xx/xx/xxxx so we could skip ROC process". It got scheduled around a month after our anniversary date. The next four years, rather than worrying on her 10 yr GC production by the uscis, we calmly produced two kids.

Thank you. 

 

And yeah, we are talking about buying a house soon etc, I am not too worried that she'll just randomly kick me out, withdraw her petition, and raise our 2 kids on her own where I essentially won't even be able to visit them(good luck getting a tourist visa after a withdrawn AOS petition). I could definitely understand other people's concerns about marriages not working out, and advising me not to delay my AOS process unnecessarily, but in our case I don't see this as a concern at all.

 

And considering how long the interview process is taking, I sincerely hope they don't send me an interview notice before our 2 year anniversary. If they do, I will definitely reschedule!

 

Now it'll be a bummer if they waive the interview and send out a 2 year green card, but nothing you can do in this case I guess.