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  1.    midwinterrose reacted to a post in a topic: Advice on DIY vs a cheap service
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  3. midwinterrose
    Just an FYI, the ROC takes a long time to be adjudicated. We filed in March of 2021, and it was approved in October of 2022; others' have taken 3+ years to be adjudicated. So you could file for divorce in Sep 2024, then file for ROC early Jan 2025, before your card expires, and you might even have the divorce decree in hand before they even get around to looking at your case. If you didn't have the decree yet, they would deny the application and then you would have to re-file. When you file for ROC you will get a letter stating that you have a pending application, and that letter will extend the validity of your green card up to 48 months. Having an expired green card and no extension letter will seriously hinder your ability to operate, if, for example, you needed to renew your driver's license or something along those lines.
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  15. midwinterrose
    Talk to your husband! You should not be starving yourself ever for any reason. Marriage is a partnership. Sometimes both partners work and make money, sometimes it's only one working while the other contributes to the household in other ways. The day may come when you are the wage earner and your husband depends on you. All of that is perfectly normal and your worth is not dependent on your ability to produce income. Your husband knew full well that he would be required to provide for you while you are unable to work, which I am sure that he is happy to do, considering you are his wife. Talk to him, express your insecurities and work through it together. This is a stage of life that you are going through together. Marriage is not a transaction. He supports you because he loves you, and you changed your entire life for him because you love him. Don't feel guilty because you have to eat.
  16. midwinterrose
    USCIS doesn't ask for originals of any documents in the I-129F application, so don't send your originals. Just make a copy of the receipts onto an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and then type or write your notes and explanations on the sheet of paper. You could also put two related receipts onto one sheet this way. This will be much easier for anyone handling the case, and reduce the risk of things getting lost, and you will retain the original receipts. They can always ask to see originals later if they really want to.
  17. midwinterrose
    File ASAP, don't overstay waiting to accumulate evidence. USCIS doesn't expect you to have a bunch of evidence of living together if you just got married. Send whatever evidence you have of your long distance relationship. When we applied for AOS, we had like one joint bank statement, and one water bill in both our names. You can also immediately be added to her credit cards as an authorized user--that's quick easy evidence.
  18. midwinterrose
    I did this for my husband. I listed myself as interpreter and as preparer, and had no problem.
  19. midwinterrose
    First of all, they haven't cashed the check yet. That means they haven't even looked at your application yet. You said it arrived 1 week ago, so 5 business days. Give it some time, USCIS processes an ungodly amount of paperwork and it takes them a while to get around to even opening the envelope. Also don't be surprised if you never get a text even if you sent in the G-1445 form. Text messages were always hit or miss on our applications. Think of this as the practice run for all of the patient waiting you must do throughout the whole process.
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  26. midwinterrose
    When you apply for the passport, you have to provide evidence of your citizenship. In the case of a naturalized citizen, you provide the Naturalization certificate to the passport office along with the application. It normally takes the passport office a few weeks to process your application and return your naturalization certificate back to you. But if you do a same-day passport application, they give you back the naturalization certificate the same day that you apply, along with your new passport.
  27. midwinterrose
    My husband got same-day passport because we had travel already booked. You can call within 14 days of your booked travel and get an appointment to go into the passport office and they issue your passport the same day. The other bonus of this method is we got his Naturalization certificate back in hand the same day.
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  29. midwinterrose
    This is the exact document we signed and sent along with our tax return, just change the generic info to your own. We had to paper-file (mailed it in) our return because I couldn't find any tax software that would allow me to upload this extra document. I used TurboTax or something similar, and then selected the mail-in option at the end and printed out the return. I then added this page, signed by both my husband and I, and mailed the whole thing to the IRS. That was at the beginning of COVID, so it took MONTHS to process our return. It took so long that the IRS paid us a few dollars in interest, that I then had to report as income on our next year's return. 🤷‍♀️ TaxResidencyStatement_Sample (1).pdf
  30. midwinterrose
    I simply believe that the Tier 1 and Tier 2 officers who operate the 1-800 help line have a very different role than the officers who review the cases, and the officers at the field offices who conduct the interview. I imagine it within the realm of possibility that some officer later down the line may have the authority to contradict/override what other USCIS agents may have told you. I'm not saying this will happen, but I imagine it's possible. I hope for your sake all goes well, but if I were you, I would be prepared for the worst--having to argue against a wrongful denial--and hope for the best, just in case.
  31. midwinterrose
    If I were in your shoes, my concern would be that you wait however many months for the I-751 interview to be rescheduled, and then when an officer finally picks up your file to schedule your interview, says, "What doofus put this in the queue to be scheduled for an interview; it already has a denial notice? I can't schedule an interview for a case that has been denied." And then at that stage you will have to argue that it was denied in error due to USCIS never sending the interview notice, or sending it to the wrong address. Hence why you should gather as much proof as you can that you were in the right, and USCIS in the wrong. I may be proven wrong, but I can't imagine USCIS just glossing over the fact that you missed your original interview.
  32. midwinterrose
    Dude, it literally says "TERMINATION OF CONDITIONAL RESIDENCE STATUS" at the top. You can believe whatever you want about how official or final it is, but you can't deny what it says in plain English. Still, it was addressed to the wrong address. I would bet anything that if an interview notice was mailed out, that it was addressed to your old address as well. The key question, which I have asked three times now and you seem reluctant to answer, is, WHAT DATE DID YOU FILE THE AR-11 CHANGE OF ADDRESS?. If it was before the March 2021 interview, then you're golden. If not, then you're probably screwed.
  33. midwinterrose
    This seems to only be a snippet of the letter, but it looks like USCIS is stating here that they did not receive a change of address from you. When did you submit your change of address form? They definitely referenced your I-751 here when they state that "You filed a Joint Petition to Remove the Conditional Basis [...]". The joint petition is your I-751.
  34. midwinterrose
    If USCIS cannot produce an interview notice that they sent to you, then things are looking good for you. I think the fact that they have accepted your request for reschedule of the interview is a good sign. At this point you're basically trying to get out in front of any accusations USCIS might try to make of negligence on your part. Use the FOIA to the best of your ability as a window into what evidence USCIS has for their version of events so that you are properly prepared to make your counter arguments.
  35. midwinterrose
    It appears that the only change of address for the case occurred on January 10, 2022. What date did you move, and what date did you submit the AR-11 change of address form? Double-check what exactly your FOIA request encompassed. If it did not explicitly ask for interview notices, or all communications and records pertaining to your case, I would recommend that you submit another FOIA request specifically requesting all records. If you can prove that you correctly submitted the AR-11 before November 3rd, 2020, when they scheduled the interview, and FOIA turns up an interview notice addressed to your old address, then you have the smoking gun that USCIS is at fault. If it turns up an interview notice with your new address, then you're probably dead in the water, as USCIS can then shift the blame to you. If it turns up no interview notice at all, then that will be in your favor. I notice that the online notification states that on March 8th, 2021, USCIS cancelled the interview that was scheduled on November 3rd, 2020. I'm curious if that cancellation letter will turn up in the FOIA request, and what address it will have on it. I am assuming that you never received that letter either.
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