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Filing for Adjustment of Status within the 90 days protects your legal status. Your legal status expires after 90 days, married or not. The only way to protect your legal status is to apply for Adjustment of Status, and the only way to maintain continuous legal status is to file for AOS within 90 days or arriving. On the practical side, it is often difficult to arrange for the marriage, and get all the paperwork ready in time to file for AOS within 90 days. Many couples have filed for AOS a few days or weeks after the 90 day limit with no problems. Thus far, many experiences have shown this is not a major issue with local USCIS (INS) offices.
Sorry if this question has been asked. BUT
90 days will be up Dec.18. Got married on Oct.19. Filed AOS and mailed, was received on Dec.2 (signature confirmation) still no NO1.
1. Is this a normal timeframe?
2. If for some reason we don't have the hard copy by Dec.18 should we be carrying around the marriage certificate as proof? I mean, aren't we here legally as long as we filed even though we don't have the hard copy?
I am sure this has to have happened to someone else at some point but can't find any threads discussing this specifically!
thanks in advance!