Crabbypatty

Same for us. My Greencard arrived in mail today. My sons didnt. He came to the interview with us, we filed for him same as for me. His 130 was approved after the interview but no update on his 485. anyone has any experience with stepchildren ?

And btw. This is exactly what was explained to us at the beginning of our interview. That it was going to be 130 related questions at first, followed by 485 questions. So I’m guessing this is a very normal procedure.

Thank you! And thanks for all your input and replies to questions throughout the process

Interview done. Some of the questions that was asked: - tell us about your relationship. How did you meet and where -when did your relationship start to become serious? (He wanted to know it as precise as possible) -when and where was the first meeting -where did my husband propose - did the ring fit? -did I know he was going to propose? we Brought tons of evidence to the interview (picture albums, text messages, call logs) on top of life insurance, lease contract, utility bills etc. he didn’t even want to see the picture albums, text messages and call logs) he took the rest and said this is more than enough. He said he would have approved the case without an interview already just by the pictures submitted with the initial forms „she sold it right there“ Our case was approved a day later. I have two very close relatives who did adjustment of status around the same time as me and they both got their case approved within 7 and 3 months without interviews. My case from submitting to approval took 8 months.

Yes. Just had our interview on Tuesday. The case was approved the next day. Waiting for the greencard to come in the mail. What’s the status on yours?

Thank you, this was very helpful

This is interesting. Thank you for this input. Maybe this is what it is going to be for us too. Maybe others can share their experience on this as well? In addition: has anyone had a I-130 interview and can give advice on how to prepare for this or share some questions that were asked ? I’m just paranoid and worried that they might have doubts. I was expecting maybe for them to send us an rfe for the I-130, which would have been understandable, since we weren’t able to provide a huge lot of evidence given the short time and no social security at hand at the time of filing. We did gather a lot more evidence for the relationship since then ( shared bank account, joint lease, shared cellphone contracts etc etc) that we will bring to the interview of course.

That’s exactly what I’m worried about. Our circumstances are nothing out of the norm. The only thing that might be a „specific circumstance“ I can think about is the fact that my spouse filed 8 years ago for his previous spouse, like I mentioned before in this thread. Just trying to figure out what to prepare for and if this is how they handle it nowadays. Was hoping for someone here who has recently gotten an interview notice too and it might have went in a similar matter to share their experience

I get that. But is it common for it to be a 2 in 1 where they cover an interview for 485 and 130 together? Because I already do know that it’s the same time and day, so it’s technically just one interview and not separate ones. I thought the 130 usually gets approved first (without interview) and then the 485 interview follows as the „last step“

Update: received the interview invitation letter for form I-485 in the mail. Still no letter for the I-130. called uscis and talked to an agent. She looked Into it and told us the date for the i-130 interview. Same date and time as for the i485. She said to continue to wait for the letter for I-130. (it’s been 2 weeks since the status in the portal changed to „interview scheduled“) so apparently the interview is a 2 in 1 for both forms? Has anyone had a similar situation recently and received an invitation for both forms at the same time and day? i wonder if this is how they do it these days, that they cover both? Or if the status for the i130 was updated to interview scheduled to indicate for the petitioner that an interview was scheduled technically for i485, since the 2 applications are connected? Especially since we haven’t even received an actual letter for the i130, just for the i485 throws me off a little bit.

Yes he’s a citizen. Applying for aos from esta

Hey there, we filed aos from esta in April. The online portal shows „interview scheduled“ for the i-130 as well as for the i-485 as of yesterday. Is this normal? I haven’t received the actual invite in the mail yet and there’s no documents in the online portal. Does this mean we will have to attend 2 separate interviews? I thought it would only be 1. my spouse was married before (8 years ago) and went trough the process of filing for his spouse back then. Could this have anything to do with that? Confused. Anybody knows how the process with the I-130 and I-495 normally goes? We filed concurrently thanks!

Received my ead card today. Now waiting on my ssn. Received ead card in the mail 7 weeks after biometrics appointment.

My ead card is supposed to be arriving in the mail tomorrow. We have a service that shows what’s on the way to us. Will come back here to confirm once it’s in my hands 🙌 processing time for I-130 still says 4 months. Same for you? Tip: check the document section of your form I-765 . Mine still said „case is actively being reviewed“ but in the documents section it showed the approval letter for the ead. It didn’t update in the front page until way after the approval letter was in the mail.

I understand that 100%! My EAD card was produced yesterday and is now on the way to me hopefully 🙏🏼 any news from your end?

I get that. My ead card was produced yesterday and is now hopefully on the way to me. My fingers are crossed for you that you hear something soon. Keep me updated and I’ll do the same