Scandi

House, Senate AND White House. 🤩 And popular vote!

Always like that here in Los Angeles. Even the damn Dodgers couldn't win without idiots burning buses and destroying other stuff. And blowing off their own hands with fireworks. 🙄 This is the first election I'm allowed to vote in and I voted Trump on Halloween. My first and last chance to vote for the man.

Not an issue at all, and they have your other mailings registered in their system too, even if they got rejected. So they can also see that you have "filed" twice before. 45 days isn't that bad these days, many wait for over 2 months, or even 3, to hear anything back (acceptance or rejection) when they mail a petition. Always pay with a check if you have the possibility (I prefer personal checks, but cashier/bank checks work fine too of course). Way too many people have issues with rejected payments (and therefore rejected petitions) because their banks think it's a fraudulent transaction and denies it.

Nobody has ever said that an engagement ceremony WILL result in a K-1 denial.

Yes others have had the same experience, it's not quite as uncommon as you may think.

Loose papers in a regular folder organizer. They often want to scan documents, so having them in a binder will just take longer to bring things out, no need for that. I used a regular organizer with a small label on each section so I could easily find the documents asked for. The IO ended up scanning a few into their system. I had brought paper copies of everything but she preferred to scan, didn't want any copies.

My husband sponsored me and he has always been self-employed. It was zero issues, actually easier than being employed by someone else, since all we needed were tax return transcripts (no pay stubs, no bank statements, no letter from employer etc). Super easy.

Nevermind, I understood it as if it was international travel. She can travel with the foreign passport within the country. Always bring the receipt notice for the i-485, just in case.

I wouldn't bother with affidavits at all. They don't mean much, as anybody can lie. Focus on the heavy evidence and skip the less useful stuff.

I was under the impression that the majority of us K-1ers did the court house thing. 😆 For AOS you need a document proving your are legally married. Whether you ate cake and drank champagne after having a ceremony on the beach - or just stood in front of a county clerk without cake/champagne/beach - matters none whatsoever. And no, wedding pictures aren't required either. We don't have any, never did.

How nice to have two greencards, that way you can carry one and still have another safely at home to use if you lose the first one. Those cards are expensive.

Same, I sent every single bank statement from both our regular checking account and our savings accounts. Also statements from our money markets and joint credit cards etc. The financial statements were probably more than half of the entire pile. I was not going to leave anything out, I sent absolutely everything - there is NO penalty in doing so, so don't let other deter you. The only thing I didn't make a big deal of sending was photos and other more secondary stuff, I just sent a few of each. It was the evidence of co-mingling of finances and co-habitation that was very heavy in my i-751 filing. My package was almost 3" thick as well. I have seen others with A LOT larger packages than mine, I'd say mine was average (YES I'm still talking about a pile of documents, no other packages!! 😂).

So nothing much changed then, they scanned my documents back in 2020 and they still do.

My pile was a little less than 3" thick, I used many XL paperclips and then put everything inside a polybag to keep it together a bit better (and protected against fluids/water/whatever), and then into a USPS priority box. Worked out fine, no issues. I also used sticky tabs that I placed at the bottom of pages (I believe I had 10 or 12 tabs separating the different subjects). The tabs were still on the documents when I went for my N-400 interview, so clearly they didn't need to remove them in order to scan them.

No with other companies, and to my knowledge there weren't any "retries" in those instances either. The payment must have gone through as soon as I replied "yes" because the confirmation email arrived just half a minute later in almost all the cases.

After you reply "yes", give it some time. I have had this happen before and in many cases the payment went through after I approved it (by replying "yes" to the text). Also when it comes to USCIS, always pay with a check (personal or bank) or money order.

It is perfectly normal that a marriage license turns into a marriage certificate - some states don't have two different documents, the license just turns into a certificate once married (once married, the marriage info on the document is filled out, ie date of the ceremony etc) YES, send another copy of the license certificate together with the explanation the clerk gave you.

If the 2 year greencard expires in May 2025, then you are nowhere near being able to file your N-400. Instead, you need to file the i-751 (ROC), you can forget about citizenship for now as you still have a long way to go before you're eligible to file for it.

I don't know what "going on the 3rd year" means, but as long as your spouse had been a greencard holder for 2 years (minus 90 days) when HE filed, he is fine. As others have said, the i-751/ROC is filed by those who have conditional greencards (2 year cards).

I don't see the issue? The interview is NEVER an approval no matter what the CO says, your case is only approved once the CEAC status says so (it said "issued" back when I went through it, but maybe it says "approved" now?).

I had my X-rays on a disc with me to the US, but I think nowadays everything is electronic for the most part. I have never heard of anyone who actually needed their x-rays for anything other than the result written down in the final medical report that is sent to the embassy. The disc/DVD I got is apparently not even readable unless you have a certain program, something not even the immigrations has by what it seems. So no, I wouldn't worry about it. All the immigrations/embassy wants is the final medical report, it will have the results of your x-rays on it. You will never need the x-rays for anything yourself.

I never needed any Hep vaccinations (never had a single one in my entire life). I had the typical vaccinations as a kid (applied for the visa when I was 32) and the only thing I thought I'd need was a Tetanus booster shot (hadn't had one since I was a kid). I prepared by getting it at my local vardcentral in Skane, and just asked to have them write a short letter as proof that I did get it. I brought evidence of all my old vaccines and the new booster shot to the medical in Goteborg and he didn't even look at it. He just asked if I had gotten the typical vaccines as a kid, like all Scandinavian kids get, and that was it. He marked my DS-3025 vaccination worksheet as "complete" and I never had any issues when I filed for AOS in the US. Getting the vaccination beforehand meant I didn't have to rely on the clinic to have it on hand and maybe being able to give it to me at the medical (or not, wasn't going to take the chance), everything was already ready to go and the doctor just needed to sign off on it. I sold or threw out everything that didn't fit in 3 suitcases, and my then US fiance came over to Sweden to "pick me up" so he could help me roll/carry the bags at the airports. There was absolutely no point in me bringing a bunch of stuff to the US as I knew I'd want to get new stuff after the move (this is especially the case of kids, they're going to want to get new toys and clothes in the US), and it would not be worth the cost to hire a shipping company. There's nothing cheaper than just adding extra bags on the plane.

Start today, you'll see that it's a lot easier than the paper form. You probably won't even have any questions once you see how easy the online form is. You have all the time in the world to finish and submit, you get 30 new days everytime you change something little in the form, you can keep doing that over and over until you feel ready to submit. Don't even look at the paper form.

You can upload anything you want when you file online (I had uploaded 100+ documents throughout the entire process, I uploaded new stuff every month my application was pending). You can bring the originals to the interview.

File online, so much easier than trying to figure out the paper form.