US Immigration from Australia

Hi fellow VJers

I have a weird one - so we attended our interview this week but received an interview cancellation notice for the said interview after it was completed. Because we received the letter after the scheduled date we attended the interview as instructed and nothing was said about the cancellation when we checked-in at the USCIS center.

Has anyone experienced anything similar - all I can think of is maybe there's an issue with their system...

Thanks!

Hi Guys,

I'm currently in LA on my K1, and I was just worried what my next steps should be?

We got married yesterday and are now awaiting our marriage certificate, and I have chosen to take my partners name. If this is the case, do I have to wait for my marriage Certificate to arrive before I can start applying for SSN's etc?

What exactly do I need to do now, and in what order?

Thanks!

I filled the I-751 on July 2018, 27 months ago. The status has been "Case is Ready to Be Scheduled for An Interview" since January 2020, 9 months ago. It is an absolute embarrassment that it takes 27 months to process this and 9 months to schedule an interview. I'm ready to call the quits, f* this s*, and go back to Australia.

Anyone else's case approaching 30 friking months?

Just wanted to give some hope to folks still waiting for their SSN... My husband arrived in California in March. We had checked the box on the DS-260 for the SSN to be sent automatically. Weeks went by, and we received nothing. I called SSA, but they had no record of him in the system. At the time, all the local SSA offices were closed due to COVID, so they advised us to just wait. In July, we received his green card. Called SSA again, still no record; offices still closed.

Fast forward to end of September, I call SSA again, and they tell me offices are accepting limited in-person appointments, but only for persons with a dire need, i.e. you have a job offer letter in hand or require a SSN for health insurance. Since we didn't have a dire need, we couldn't make an appointment. We accepted that we just had to wait longer.

Then this Tuesday, completely out of the blue, my husband received his SSN! We couldn't believe it. The issue date was October 1, 2020. After so many months and multiple calls to SSA, we finally got it. Perhaps we should have called USCIS, but we just didn't think to contact them. We're just so relieved to have his SSN. We can now move on with getting his driver's license and getting ready for filing taxes, etc.

Do we need to bring a hard paper copy of all the original evidence of bona fide marriage submitted at the beginning of the process to the interview at an overseas consulate? Or do they have all that original evidence stored digitally on their computer to review? I'll be interviewing in Sydney, having applied for the CR1 visa.

We submitted a stack about five inches high of documents with the original I-130 to the USCIS, including hundreds of photos of us over the years, emails, messages, shared financial documents, wills, shared living evidence, etc. Do I need to fire up the printer, reprint all this and bring it with me to the interview?

Thank you