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Moving while immigration case is pending can be very tricky... Have you ever filed I-90 saying GC was never delivered? Supposedly it's not your fault and you should not pay the fee for GC if you updated address with AR-11 but USCIS sent card to wrong address. So I guess I-751 is approved, one less hurdle. Do you have approval notice or it's also lost? If you never got notice in the mail, I recommend requesting a new copy - https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDNForm.do?sroPageType=ndn&entryPoint=init It's always good to have all docs related to immigration. You never know when you may need it (even after naturalization).

Good to know. So your I-751 is still pending?

1) It may not be there 2) Security may ask for original letter to enter the building

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing it here and welcome to December filers club! Did you file within 90 day early filing window?

In 21 years?

What do they say on social media nowadays... "It begins"? As with anything official or important, relying on phone calls is a bad idea... Always, always use written communication.

That's understandable. Essentially, you're going through the same process you went through for his mother.

Extension letter, receipt notice, NOA1, Notice of Action, I-797 is all the same document people refer to...

Bear in mind, whatever estimate in MyProgress you see is inaccurate. I-130 take 15 months on average nowadays (prior to change in administration). But I-130 is only half of the process. Then there is wait for visa appointment and after appointment to get visa issued. So overall, it takes about 2 years after filing I-130 to get immigrant into the US.

You seem to be relying on Google AI's summarization in search results at the top of the page? It has mistakes. It takes into account some wrong information and makes things up too. It's much better researching official websites.

Great to hear it! A lot of interaction with CBP is human factor, so glad it worked in your case.

Congrats! Processing times vary based on your office. You can look it up here: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Note that the processing times show the past, not the future performance. It's just like stock prices, nobody can definitely predict it. If you still have I-751 it may be slightly longer. Also, new administration is coming and we don't know how USCIS priorities will change in 2025.

I wouldn't be sad about it, it's useless anyways... I'm yet to see anybody reporting they had an accurate estimation. It often "disappears", e.g. because there is outage on USCIS software side. It may come back and give you some outrageous estimate sometime in the future.

You can try following up. I'm pretty sure IO got confused... Maybe they are not experienced, and forgot to update your online case status. Was it a N-400 interview under 3 year rule? Did your US citizen spouse attend with you?

I see, so it's a tour company policy (e.g. taking advantage of tourists) VS Schengen visa policy that requires non-refundable reservations. Good luck and keep us posted!

Schengen Nobody advised lying to officials in any countries. Official resources for Schengen visa suggest booking refundable / amendable tickets and reservations. This is in case if your visa is denied. EU doesn't need people to suffer financially if they can't make the trip.

Congratulations with completing this segment of the journey! Please keep us posted on ROC and Naturalization as well as settling in the US. Good luck!

The main point of my post was. If you got visa for France you must enter and exit via France. Yes, I know for the most part you can travel freely. But no so long ago, for example, Germany set up checkpoints on border with its neighbors.

Schengen. Applying for a particular country tourist visa requires entering and exiting EU through that country. That's at least one downside. Secondly, while there are no borders for travelling, police checkpoints emerge here or there from time to time. I'm not sure how police handles document check in this case (visa for country A, but travelling in country B).

Even when bank says they have some system to notify about upcoming charge - most likely they're making it up. Most of banks nowadays use automated AI based fraud detection. Human can only override some transaction and lift fraud flag only after it occurs

Hopefully, I-485 Ideally, yes, she'd maintain H-1B status all the way through the process, until she receives green card through marriage to you. For that she can find another H-1B employer who will "transfer" her H-1B. She wouldn't need to go through lottery or leave the country to do this. Why would it be beneficial to maintain status? So she could fall back on her H-1B status if marriage based green card does not work out. This is the ideal scenario.... However, she has EAD and is married to US citizen. So she can switch to any employer she wants today. The worst case scenario, even if somehow I-485 gets denied due to technicality (forgot to submit evidence etc), she could refile I-485. Most marriage based GCs are approved unless she's inadmissable due to crime, fraud or misrepresentation etc.

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This is F1 category, not F11. Hopefully this will clear any confusion... Here's visa bulletin: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-january-2025.html