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So I just got off the phone with a Tier 2 officer. I was thrown off by how genuinely kind and calming this man was....dammit I was prepared to get mad and yell at someone! 😉 He told me exactly what I expected to hear anyway - that there is nothing wrong with our application and wait times are now 5-7 months. He actually apologized profusely for these processing times, and told me they simply don't have the manpower available to process the many many applications they currently have. What could I say? He told me to expect another 30-45 days max (I said, "okay....woof"), then apologized again and told me he knows how important this is to us. I said thank you, he wished me a good weekend, and that was that. 

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Really emotional and awful day for me. Extremely homesick at this stage  9 months since I moved here and this is the worst I’ve felt so far

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Hey guys! Big congrats to everyone who has been approved so far! This has been encouraging for us to see, as we're currently at day 147, and we're desperate for some good news soon. Hoping this will be the week for lots more approvals! Just wanted to drop in and encourage everyone to keep your chins up. We're so close to being through with this! ... for now, haha. ❤️

Interview tomorrow! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG🙀

hi everyone!
 
i've been mostly a silent reader on our november thread. but i just wanted to share my journey. i thought my aos journey will be long because arizona closed a uscis local field office in arizona and so apart from imperial valley being really big and having a whole lot of people processing there, a lot of arizona peeps also goes to ours. Every time I would check processing times its usuallly fluctuates between 31 - 39 months. visajourney also doesn't have any records for interviews done in my local field office. i only met 1 person in all the fb groups i've asked. she was a 2016 filer and got her green card approved last november 2018.I made jokes that I probably would leave command and get stationed in japan (my husband is in the us navy and we're stationed here for 2 more years) before we would get my green card where I would then have to expedite to be abroad, and i would just get the 10year green card and just keep renewing my ead and ap. little did i know i was in for a surprise.

as march and april was approaching... i was excited for march april to come by, because i knew we november aos filers were getting our ead and ap's... what I didn't expect was i would be getting my green card this soon. i won't even be getting an ead or ap anymore. maybe when i'm waiting for my 10year gc.

Date we sent our package via USPS: November 20, 2018
Date USCIS received date: November 23, 2018
NOA 1 Date: December 3, 2018 (Right on the expiration of my i-94 - so perfect timing!)
Biometrics Appointment Letter: December 7, 2018
Biometrics Appointment: December 21, 2018
My AOS case got transferred to my LFO (Imperial, California)/"Interview Ready To Be Scheduled": December 31, 2018
My USCIS Status changed to "Interview Scheduled": February 22, 2019
Date I received my Interview Letter: February 26, 2019
Date of Interview: April 1, 2018 11:30am
Result: Approved on the spot
My USCIS Status changed to: "Approved" as soon as we got out of the building and we entered our car.
My USCIS Status changed to: "Card Being Produced" within the first 5 mins after we left the USCIS building.
My USCIS Status changed to: "Card Was Mailed To Me": April 4, 2019
My USCIS Status changed to: "Card was Picked Up By The USPS" after 5 mins: April 4, 2019
I received my NOA 2 Approval for AOS: April 5, 2019 (but dated April 1, 2019)
I will receive my green card in the mail tom morning April 8, 2019 (according to the tracking number from the USCIS and USPS. I also saw it in my informed USPS delivery.

i was really surprised how fast and smooth everything went. people who were also doing aos interviews with us that day were 2016, 2017 filers. so the other couples were shocked we were a 2018 filer and was fast. our immigration lawyer and jag lawyer said it was a surprise too that we got our interview so soon. we didn't expedite anything and we don't think him being in the military helped. but whatever it was, we feel very lucky.
 
so yay! i'm finally done... and i'm happy i laid a good groundwork for my roc already and i'll just be filling my binder with any additional information I will be having. everything was so smooth because of all the amazing advices i have gotten from a lot of the members here and from me reading lots of subforums here on visajourney and all the other aos fb groups i have joined. hehehe. i will still be following everyone's journey though!  hope everyone either gets their green card soon if not get their ead's and ap's sooner!

mwahugs everyone!

My fiancé just had his interview in London this morning, and was APPROVED!!!! It feels surreal and we can't believe that looming stress is finally over. Can't wait to get him to the U.S. soon! For now, we celebrate! 
 
I'm not sure yet which questions were asked, but I'll talk with him about it, and will see if I can get him to post a review of the Embassy. Good luck to everyone still waiting! Hoping for approvals for all soon! Thanks again to everybody for all the help, and we'll see you on the other side! 

My fiancé just had his interview in London this morning, and was APPROVED!!!! It feels surreal and we can't believe that looming stress is finally over. Can't wait to get him to the U.S. soon! For now, we celebrate! 
 
I'm not sure yet which questions were asked, but I'll talk with him about it, and will see if I can get him to post a review of the Embassy. Good luck to everyone still waiting! Hoping for approvals for all soon! Thanks again to everybody for all the help, and we'll see you on the other side! 

My fiancé just had his interview in London this morning, and was APPROVED!!!! It feels surreal and we can't believe that looming stress is finally over. Can't wait to get him to the U.S. soon! For now, we celebrate! 
 
I'm not sure yet which questions were asked, but I'll talk with him about it, and will see if I can get him to post a review of the Embassy. Good luck to everyone still waiting! Hoping for approvals for all soon! Thanks again to everybody for all the help, and we'll see you on the other side! 

My fiancé just had his interview in London this morning, and was APPROVED!!!! It feels surreal and we can't believe that looming stress is finally over. Can't wait to get him to the U.S. soon! For now, we celebrate! 
 
I'm not sure yet which questions were asked, but I'll talk with him about it, and will see if I can get him to post a review of the Embassy. Good luck to everyone still waiting! Hoping for approvals for all soon! Thanks again to everybody for all the help, and we'll see you on the other side! 

Congratulations!!! So exciting! Good luck with everything from here on out! 
 
My fiancé's interview is coming up on August 22nd in London as well. We're excited, but the whole experience is just a little nerve-wracking! Glad to know they seem to be nice in London and that the interview experience isn't too intense.

Congratulations!!! So exciting! Good luck with everything from here on out! 
 
My fiancé's interview is coming up on August 22nd in London as well. We're excited, but the whole experience is just a little nerve-wracking! Glad to know they seem to be nice in London and that the interview experience isn't too intense.

Thank you! They really didn't ask me much at all. Before the interview I was asked about having ever changed my name (no), ever married before (no), ever lived in another country before (no), but at the "interview" they asked me only this:
 
How did we meet?
Have I ever lived in another country before?
Where will we live? Will we have a house or an apartment?
 

Visa Approved!!  
 
Now for more waiting anxiety to see "Issued" I hope everyone else is getting on okay!

Finally have visa in hand and booked the flight.  She will get to the US on the 17th.  Thanks for all the help from everyone.

Had my interview this morning at the USEM and got approved. I was waiting in line for 30mins to almost an hour but my interview with the CO only lasted for 5 mins 😄😄😄. Special SHOUTOUT to @Greenbaum for patiently replying to my queries. More powers and God Bless to you and your family! 🙏

Hi everyone,
Just an update had my interview yesterday and I was approved 😊.

Got approved today on my interview! Thank you so much guys for answering my questions, especially to @Greenbaum and hanks! 

My fiance will have her interview in.... about 3 hours! I'm super excited! She was incredibly nervous, and I tried to tell her not to worry.... but she will anyway! Hopefully soon I'll be booking our plane tickets! 

Morning everyone,
 
I have seen that some of you already had your interview and got approved. I'm so happy for you and now the best Autumn of our life is coming showing our love one around.
 
My Fiance has his interview in 13 days and I'm super excited!! 

Thanks! We've booked the interview and the medical, and I suddenly had this memory of the guy at the NVC mentioning an invoice that had to be paid, so I had a moment of panic! I'm so glad to know it doesn't have anything to do with the K-1 visa. How strange that they tell us things like that that do not pertain to our particular visa. I'll never understand, and am glad we're almost done, haha.
 
Thanks so much for all your insight and help along the way! It is very much appreciated! 😊