I-751 ROC Filers - January 2023

[Jujusmom 49]

On 1/9/2023 at 2:39 PM, Jujusmom said:

An update to my case. Sent it on 1/3 via USPS Priority Express Mail 1-Day. But was not delivered the next day but the bright side is I’m getting a refund for my fee. Packet was delivered on 1/5 and just got a text today 1/9 that they received and NOA is on the way. 

Update: Received I-797 today. Does anyone know a rough estimate of when they usually schedule a biometrics appointment for ROC just in case they don’t use the biometrics from AOS? I’ll be out of the US for the whole month of February. But fingers crossed that they will just reuse the AOS biometrics. Thank you! 
 

My case number starts with LIN so it’s Nebraska. If that helps. Thanks again. 

[Sweetdreaming 395]

Received receipt and extension letter today 1/14 with YSC prefix

[TheWindyCity 4]

Hey, I'm a January 2023 filer. Sent my paperwork via UPS to the Elgin Lockbox (2500 Westfield Drive in Elgin, IL) on January 3rd, delivered and received by ROBBINS on January 4th at 11:15 AM. No text message or NOA1 received yet. Filed with a fee waiver request. (money is tight right now otherwise I would've paid the full amount)

 

The wait is killing me. :P

[Zzdem 37]

I filed mine since Dec 29th Phoenix lock box received it Dec 31st  and I’m yet to receive a text or notice in the mail I’m seeing everyone getting there notices promptly in a few days or a week I’m hoping everything is ok with mine 

[soco 99]

We're looking at submitting everything this week. When we received the green card there was a "tear off portion" page that said "Use this tear-off portion to speed your application for an extension or replacement card." Did people include this?

[Rearviewmirror 397]

15 minutes ago, soco said:

We're looking at submitting everything this week. When we received the green card there was a "tear off portion" page that said "Use this tear-off portion to speed your application for an extension or replacement card." Did people include this?

I did.  Not sure if it was related but I received my text notification ~48hrs after my package was delivered (via UPS) and my NOA is on its way.

[Rearviewmirror 397]

Informed delivery shows my NOA out for delivery today and it was mailed just 3 days after my I-751 was received. 

[Sinead91 249]

On 1/16/2023 at 11:54 AM, soco said:

We're looking at submitting everything this week. When we received the green card there was a "tear off portion" page that said "Use this tear-off portion to speed your application for an extension or replacement card." Did people include this?

I didn't. I just sent a photocopy of the front and back of my card. 

 

It was received at Fedex on Jan 13th. Hoping to hear something this week. Still no check cashed, but I guess with the long weekend it might have slowed down.

[Rearviewmirror 397]

1 minute ago, Sinead91 said:

I didn't. I just sent a photocopy of the front and back of my card. 

 

It was received at Fedex on Jan 13th. Hoping to hear something this week. Still no check cashed, but I guess with the long weekend it might have slowed down.

Check was cashed 3 working days after mine was received (received 9th, cashed the 12th). I'd guess you'll see it by Thursday/Friday.

[Karina & Auli 10]

Good Morning all!!

 

All 5 lbs of ROC evidence just mailed via USPS!!  Phew....hopefully this will be it and we are lucky enough to get our interview waived.  

[Stein 276]

1 hour ago, Karina & Auli said:

Good Morning all!!

 

All 5 lbs of ROC evidence just mailed via USPS!!  Phew....hopefully this will be it and we are lucky enough to get our interview waived.  

Serious question - how does someone come up with that much paper?  I had everything requested on the instructions for additional evidence and it was maybe a total of 100 sheets of paper.  I did cut the bank account statements to every three months but that's it.  Fit into a standard Fedex envelope.  Maybe half a pound.

[Sinead91 249]

17 minutes ago, Stein said:

Serious question - how does someone come up with that much paper?  I had everything requested on the instructions for additional evidence and it was maybe a total of 100 sheets of paper.  I did cut the bank account statements to every three months but that's it.  Fit into a standard Fedex envelope.  Maybe half a pound.

Same here. I didn’t overload at all. I didn’t have a whole lot more since my initial filing. Just my son was born and a new home and car 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Stein 276]

9 minutes ago, Sinead91 said:

Same here. I didn’t overload at all. I didn’t have a whole lot more since my initial filing. Just my son was born and a new home and car 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe I'm being naive, but if you show house, cars, every type of insurance in both names, benficiary on investment accounts, three years of joint tax returns, years of joint bank accounts, photos of holidays with extended US family, who could even think you weren't together?  All of the above was under 100 pages of good, clean, solid evidence.

 

Perhaps if someone doesn't own property or have a lot of comingling of assets and feel they don't have a lot of hard evidence they may try to bury the agent with everything they can think of.  Not saying the person I asked the question of is in that situation.  Maybe just concerned about a RFE or a delay.  

[Rearviewmirror 397]

4 minutes ago, Stein said:

Maybe I'm being naive, but if you show house, cars, every type of insurance in both names, benficiary on investment accounts, three years of joint tax returns, years of joint bank accounts, photos of holidays with extended US family, who could even think you weren't together?  All of the above was under 100 pages of good, clean, solid evidence.

 

Perhaps if someone doesn't own property or have a lot of comingling of assets and feel they don't have a lot of hard evidence they may try to bury the agent with everything they can think of.  Not saying the person I asked the question of is in that situation.  Maybe just concerned about a RFE or a delay.  

I included pretty much what you're referencing and ours was ~4lbs. I guess it depends how much you are using your bank accounts/joint credit card as that was the bulk of our packet. If we had been able to print double sided that would also have saved a lot of paper but the paper filing guide advises against that. 

[beloved_dingo 1,976]

1 minute ago, Stein said:

Maybe I'm being naive, but if you show house, cars, every type of insurance in both names, benficiary on investment accounts, three years of joint tax returns, years of joint bank accounts, photos of holidays with extended US family, who could even think you weren't together?  All of the above was under 100 pages of good, clean, solid evidence.

 

Perhaps if someone doesn't own property or have a lot of comingling of assets and feel they don't have a lot of hard evidence they may try to bury the agent with everything they can think of.  Not saying the person I asked the question of is in that situation.  Maybe just concerned about a RFE or a delay.  

From what I have seen around VJ, the size of the package can depend a lot on the bank statements and tax returns. If you send all bank statements (for every month), that can easily be over 100 pages right there. For our packet, bank statements totaled over 150 pages. Then, some people choose to send tax returns + schedules instead of tax transcripts, which can also be quite lengthy depending on the tax situation. We sent transcripts so that was only a small portion of our packet but we still had around ~500 pages of documentation total.