pantonia's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Chris
Beneficiary's Name: Paula
VJ Member: pantonia
Country: Chile
Last Updated: 2019-09-23
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Immigration Checklist for Chris & Paula:
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USCIS I-129F Petition:
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Dept of State K1 Visa:
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USCIS I-485 Petition:
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USCIS I-765 Petition:
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USCIS I-131 Petition:
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USCIS I-751 Petition:
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USCIS N-400 Petition:
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K1 Visa
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| Event |
Date |
| Service Center : |
Texas Service Center |
| Transferred? |
California Service Center |
| Consulate : |
Chile |
| I-129F Sent : |
2015-07-13 |
| I-129F NOA1 : |
2015-07-17 |
| I-129F RFE(s) : |
2015-08-18 |
| RFE Reply(s) : |
2015-09-22 |
| I-129F NOA2 : |
2015-10-08 |
| NVC Received : |
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| Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : |
2015-11-02 |
| NVC Left : |
2015-11-06 |
| Consulate Received : |
2015-11-09 |
| Packet 3 Received : |
2015-11-17 |
| Packet 3 Sent : |
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| Packet 4 Received : |
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| Interview Date : |
2015-12-23 |
| Interview Result : |
Approved
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Second Interview
(If Required): |
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| Second Interview Result: |
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| Visa Received : |
2015-12-28 |
| US Entry : |
2016-02-27 |
| Marriage : |
2016-03-19 |
| Comments : |
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Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your I-129f was approved in 83 days from your NOA1 date.
Your interview took 159 days from your I-129F NOA1 date. |
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Port of Entry Review
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| Event |
Date |
| Port of Entry : |
Miami |
| POE Date : |
2016-02-27 |
| Got EAD Stamp : |
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| Biometrics Taken : |
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| Harassment Level : |
0 |
| Comments : |
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Adjustment of Status
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| Event |
Date |
| CIS Office : |
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| Date Filed : |
2016-04-15 |
| NOA Date : |
2016-04-18 |
| RFE(s) : |
2016-05-18 |
| Bio. Appt. : |
2016-05-25 |
| AOS Transfer** : |
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| Interview Date : |
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| Approval / Denial Date : |
2016-10-08 |
| Approved : |
Yes |
| Got I551 Stamp : |
No |
| Greencard Received: |
2016-10-12 |
| Comments : |
Conditional Green Card approved without interview. |
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Employment Authorization
Document
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Date |
| CIS Office : |
Chicago National Office |
| Filing Method : |
Mail |
| Filing Instance : |
First |
| Date Filed : |
2016-04-15 |
| NOA Date : |
2016-04-18 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
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| Approved Date : |
2016-07-13 |
| Date Card Received : |
2016-07-20 |
| Comments : |
Service Request filed on July 7th, but the EAD got approved before the SR was assigned to an officer. |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your EAD was approved in 89 days. |
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Advance Parole
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| Event |
Date |
| CIS Office : |
Chicago National Office |
| Filing Method : |
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| Filing Instance : |
First |
| Date Filed : |
2016-04-15 |
| NOA Date : |
2016-04-18 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Date Received : |
2016-07-20 |
| Comments : |
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Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your AP was approved in 89 days. |
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Lifting Conditions
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Date |
| CIS Office : |
California Service Center |
| Date Filed : |
2018-07-21 |
| NOA Date : |
2018-08-07 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
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| Interview Date : |
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| Approval / Denial Date : |
2019-09-12 |
| Approved : |
Yes |
| Got I551 Stamp : |
No |
| Green Card Received : |
2019-09-19 |
| Comments : |
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Member Reviews:
Consulate Review: Chile
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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Description |
| Review Date : |
December 24, 2015 |
| Embassy Review : |
As all immigration visas, we were scheduled for 2 pm. We knew that people start lining up around 1/2 hour earlier, so we got there at 1 pm and waited, which allowed us to be the first ones to be interviewed and we got out of there in about exactly an hour. They took our phones and keys and kept them until we got out.
After that, we are directed into the consular section, where you talk to a person at a desk. At the desk you get an attention number, then you get called to a window (N°6 in our case) and from there you are sent to another window (N°10) to pay the visa fee and get back window 6. After that, I got asked for my birth certificate and police report, the DS-160 confirmation page and the sponsor's documentation. She looked at them and put them in a folder with the previous documentation (from the I-129f application), and then proceeded to ask me some questions and type notes. The questions were: 1.How did you meet and when (through an app), 2.What's the name of the app and what is it for, 3.When and how you met in person the first time (I went to texas), where I stayed (at his place) and how long I stayed (2 weeks). 4. Did I meet his parents (yes, and his brothers too), 5. How many brothers does he have. 6.You kept in touch after that? (yes, we talk every day). 7.Have you made other trips to see each other (she asked me to list them, tell her who visited who and for how long). 8. Is he coming back to the US with you or will he get back alone and you'll follow him later?, 9.When do you plan to get married?, 10. Will anybody of your family attend the wedding (hopefully my parents). All of this was done in Spanish and my fiance was allowed to be with me. The woman was very professional and polite. After that, I was asked for my e-mail address and got told that if everything went well with the interview with the consul, they'd e-mail me to let me know when to pick up te VISA (at the embassy). Then, we waited for a long time (close to an hour) and were called to another window, where an american guy interviewed me in English. He was super nice and friendly and apologized for the wait. We did the finger scanning stuff and read the oath and confirmed it. We had seen him checking out our file before he called us and when we approached him he just asked us a few questions: 1. How long we had been together (officially as a couple? Over a year) 2. What are your plans (I explained when I'd leave, that it was gonna be a small wedding and that I expected my parents to attend). He said great and that he was gonna take some notes of all of that. Then he asked 3.what was his favorite movie (I didn't know which one exactly so I said ALL THE ONES I DON'T LIKE, which made him laugh and we did a back and forth about the movies he liked and we teamed up against my fiance and his taste in movies). Afte that he said that everything was alright, explained how and when (approx) we would get my passport back with the visa and wished us a happy rest of our lives. :P
Everything went incredibly smooth. we were worried about the co-sponsor documentation (because it was a bit of a special case), but it seems that we provided a good ton of organized information so we were never asked anything about that.
The only thing that was problematic was the medical. There used to be 2 doctors (a man and a woman) but the woman isn't available anymore. The first 2 times I called to see how to go about things with the medical, the secretary was incredibly unpleasant, condescending and just plain mean. She didn't give me the answers I needed and kept telling me that what I was asking was in the instructions the consulate had sent me (I had them in front of me and some info wasn't clear, simply wasn't there or was contradicting to what she was telling me). She hung up on after only telling me the day I had to show up but not the time or asking for my name. I called again and she never picked up again. I spent the day calling 70 times, until I was able to show up in person and talk to her. Another woman was there too because she had also tried to reach them over the phone and couldn't. Nevertheless she denied that there might be anything wrong with the phone and said that she had been next to it all day. Then she laughed at me for calling so much and ridiculed me for being so worried about the stuff. It was a really unpleasant exchange, with her treating me like I was dumb the whole time. After a long time I finally got her to clarify the contradicting info I had and tell me that you need to bring 4 ID sized pictures (not 1 passport size, as the instructions I got stated) and that I had to show up at 12/12.30 for the medical. Next week I show up and she is a completely different person, all sweet and patient and willing to explain everything in details to each of us. Everyone who has to get checked gets cited at the same time and you talk to her in arrival order. She explains where to go next (blood test and xray, all done a few blocks away) and where to get the vaccine that most need (tetanus/diphtheria). After that you get back with everything done and get checked by the doctor. If everything is okay you are done with it all in one afternoon and then they tell you to pick up the sealed envelope the day of the interview at 12.30. From the phone numbers given by the embassy to contact them, only one works: the cellphone number was never picked up and the othe number is from the first floor of the building where they just tell you to call the other number that works.
Aside from the troubling exchanges with the doctor's secretary, the whole process went really well and smooth and was done super fast.
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| Rating : |
Very Good |
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POE Review: Miami
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| Event |
Description |
| Entry Date : |
2016-02-27 |
| Embassy Review : |
It all went very smoothly.
I had read that they were a little unprofessional and unorganized and that some people even took 4 hours to go through it, so I was worried the 3 hours I had to connect to my DFW flight weren't gonna be enough.
I arrived at 5.30 am at the airport and I rushed to immigration to be the first one of my flight to go through it. I was lucky that there were no passengers from other flights already waiting. I asked which line to go and they told me to go the American citizen's line (along with other people who had work visas and immigration visas).
The guy there was very nice and realized I didn't have the customs form (the plane crew of my flight didn't hand them out and I forgot I was gonna need it). He luckily had one lying there and I filled it quickly right there.
After he checks your passport and stuff, they usually tell you to stand by the wall and wait for someone to take you to a room, but he was going on a break so he walked me to the room himself.
In that room there was just one other guy around who seemed to be waiting for something else for a long time and I sat down.
Processing the sealed envelope takes about 10 min, but at that hour there was just 1 clerk on the counters, so he had to stop and handle other stuff before getting back to my envelope (every now and then people would come in, he'd take their passport, do something and quickly give them back and send them to pick up their luggage and go on about their day).
At some point a woman came in and asked for my luggage ticket nr, so that they would claim it themselves and hold it for me until I was done with immigration.
She had a brief conversation with the guy who was waiting around and I found out that if you happen to miss your connection flight because you are stuck waiting in that room, then your airline (in this case it was American, but it sounded like all did the same) would just put you on the next flight available to your destination, no charge.
After a while, the man on the counter finished my paperwork, handed me my passport and instructed on what the process after POE (get married withing 90 days, AOS, etc...) and showed me on where to go next to claim my luggage.
I walked a few steps when I realized that the paper card he had stapled on my passport had my last name misspelled. I got back in the room and the guy quickly fixed it (He said it had been only his mistake when writing it down, and that all my official paperwork was written ok, so not to worry).
Everyone I talked to who worked at the airport was Latino, so they all talked to me in spanish and were pretty friendly.
After that, I just picked up my luggage and went on to board my connection flight. The whole process, once inside the immigration room took about 30 min. |
| Harassment Level : |
Low |
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