jesslieb's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Caitlin
Beneficiary's Name: Jessica
VJ Member: jesslieb
Country: France
Last Updated: 2023-11-02
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Immigration Checklist for Caitlin & Jessica:
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USCIS I-130 Petition:
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Dept of State IR-1/CR-1 Visa:
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USCIS I-751 Petition:
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USCIS N-400 Petition:
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IR-1/CR-1 Visa
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| Event |
Date |
| Service Center : |
Potomac Service Center |
| Transferred? |
No |
| Consulate : |
France |
| Marriage (if applicable): |
2017-12-14 |
| I-130 Sent : |
2018-03-12 |
| I-130 NOA1 : |
2018-03-19 |
| I-130 RFE : |
2018-09-20 |
| I-130 RFE Sent : |
2018-11-24 |
| I-130 Approved : |
2019-01-11 |
| NVC Received : |
2019-02-27 |
| Received DS-261 / AOS Bill : |
2019-03-13 |
| Pay AOS Bill : |
2019-03-14 |
| Receive I-864 Package : |
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| Send AOS Package : |
2019-06-17 |
| Submit DS-261 : |
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| Receive IV Bill : |
2019-03-13 |
| Pay IV Bill : |
2019-03-14 |
| Send IV Package : |
2019-06-05 |
| Receive Instruction and Interview appointment letter : |
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| Case Completed at NVC : |
2019-08-27 |
| NVC Left : |
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| Consulate Received : |
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| Packet 3 Received : |
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| Packet 3 Sent : |
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| Packet 4 Received : |
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| Interview Date : |
2019-10-02 |
| Interview Result : |
Administrative Review
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Second Interview
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2019-11-04 |
| Second Interview Result: |
Approved |
| Visa Received : |
2019-11-22 |
| US Entry : |
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| Comments : |
Update : Second interview because they didn't get my fingerprints correctly the first time... |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your I-130 was approved in 298 days from your NOA1 date.
Your interview took 562 days from your I-130 NOA1 date. |
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Citizenship
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| Event |
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| Service Center : |
Online |
| CIS Office : |
Philadelphia PA |
| Date Filed : |
2023-03-11 |
| NOA Date : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
2023-04-07 |
| Interview Date : |
2023-10-03 |
| Approved : |
Yes |
| Oath Ceremony : |
2023-10-26 |
| Comments : |
Interview review: I passed the civics test but my A-File is missing on their end so the decision on my case is pending. They apparently have to order it?
The officer was also a foreigner and extremely difficult to understand with a very thick accent.
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Update: 9 days after my interview, the oath ceremony is scheduled. I never received anything saying I was approved. It went from " we cannot make a decision on your case" to "your oath ceremony is scheduled". I was getting worried they would let this sit for months.
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Member Reviews:
Consulate Review: France
Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
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Description |
| Review Date : |
October 2, 2019 |
| Embassy Review : |
I can't get over how unprofessional my interview at the american consulate was.
The first step is to go a first booth, where they check documents before the interview.
They only asked for my passport, pictures, my marriage certificate, my birth certificate and my DS 260 confirmation page (which is about 1/10 of all the documents I had brought, not to mention copies and translations. But I can't really complain about this)
The lady I talked to didn't like my marriage certificate from Denmark. She didn't say it to my face but she talked about it with her colleague, saying how those weddings were Las Vegas style, and how this document was not super reliable.
Then she told me my birth certificate was too old. They needed one dating from less than 6 months. I was surprised because I have never read this anywhere. It's not mentioned on the official interview checklist PDF for exemple. What was mentioned though, is that they needed the original documents submitted at the time of the application. So it's the birth certificate I brought with me.
She said it was too old because “many things could have happened sinceâ€. And that if I had a more recent one, it would mention the fact that i'm married.
I didn't argue with her, but this sounds wrong to me. I've asked other birth certificate since my wedding and they never mentioned my marriage. Because it's a birth certificate!
She told me I would need to upload it online for them to review it.
Second step was the real interview. Honestly I was wondering if it was another pre-interview thing because I didn't expect this setting at all.
Just booths with glass windows, next to one another, with no privacy at all, in the same room as 50 people.
Luckily he didn't ask any private questions. Actually, he only asked me about my address, my spouse state of birth, the green card mailing address and where we met.
Maybe it's always like this, but he also didn't seem to know anything about our case. Some very evident stuff, like the fact that we're a same-sex couple.
He asked for pictures but I had put them in a binder, under plastic sheets. I couldn't physically hand it to him because the space under the glass window was so small! When he saw I was taking out the folder from my bag he just moved on to another question. I kept the binder in my hands for a while. I tried to ask him about the pictures again but he ignored it and asked another question instead. So I placed the binder back in my bag without having shown him anything.
He handed me back my original files in a folder covered with scribbles.
He told me my case was approved and told me goodbye. But before leaving I asked him again about my birth certificate that didn't do. He asked to see my original documents again and disappeared for while.
He came back and said “ yeah, just like my colleague told you, you need to send it though mailâ€.
“But your colleague told me to upload itâ€.
This time he gave me a document stating I wasn't approved, unless I could provide a missing document. (He just ticked the document needed out of a list which, by the way, still not mentions it needs to be dated from less than 6 months)
Then he realized he probably shouldn't have given me that old folder with scribbles, so he took it back, handing me back my documents in a mess, with my passport pictures falling down everywhere.
Clearly the interviewer had been working there for less than a week because the whole thing was so messy. He forgot to switch back on the microphones each time he left and came back to his booth ( so like 10 times) and I had to tell him I couldn't hear him each time.
So, I feel like I shouldn't complain too much, because in a way, it went okay and I just need to provide one document. But the whole experience was rather unpleasant. I was given contradictory informations. I had to insist in order to get extremely important info for my case. I was told I was approved, then not. |
| Rating : |
Moderate |
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