robertlaird's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Robert
Beneficiary's Name: Nelly
VJ Member: robertlaird
Country: Colombia
Last Updated: 2011-04-08
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Immigration Checklist for Robert & Nelly:
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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 : |
California Service Center |
| Transferred? |
No |
| Consulate : |
Bogota, Colombia |
| I-129F Sent : |
2009-12-07 |
| I-129F NOA1 : |
2009-12-09 |
| I-129F RFE(s) : |
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| RFE Reply(s) : |
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| I-129F NOA2 : |
2010-03-05 |
| NVC Received : |
2010-03-08 |
| Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : |
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| NVC Left : |
2010-03-09 |
| Consulate Received : |
2010-03-11 |
| Packet 3 Received : |
2010-03-12 |
| Packet 3 Sent : |
2010-03-15 |
| Packet 4 Received : |
2010-04-30 |
| Interview Date : |
2010-05-24 |
| Interview Result : |
Approved
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Second Interview
(If Required): |
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| Second Interview Result: |
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| Visa Received : |
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| US Entry : |
2010-06-28 |
| Marriage : |
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| Comments : |
Married 7/31/2010 Arrived 6/28/2010, POE Miami |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your I-129f was approved in 86 days from your NOA1 date.
Your interview took 166 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 : |
2010-06-28 |
| Got EAD Stamp : |
No |
| Biometrics Taken : |
Yes |
| Harassment Level : |
10 |
| Comments : |
took 2-3 hours to clear immigracion, good thing they overnighted in Miami |
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Adjustment of Status
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| Event |
Date |
| CIS Office : |
Seattle WA |
| Date Filed : |
2010-09-30 |
| NOA Date : |
2010-10-13 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
2010-11-01 |
| AOS Transfer** : |
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| Interview Date : |
2011-01-10 |
| Approval / Denial Date : |
2011-03-31 |
| Approved : |
Yes |
| Got I551 Stamp : |
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| Greencard Received: |
2011-04-08 |
| Comments : |
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Employment Authorization
Document
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Date |
| CIS Office : |
Seattle WA |
| Filing Method : |
Mail |
| Filing Instance : |
First |
| Date Filed : |
2010-09-30 |
| NOA Date : |
2010-10-13 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
2010-11-01 |
| Approved Date : |
2010-12-16 |
| Date Card Received : |
2010-12-20 |
| Comments : |
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Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your EAD was approved in 77 days. |
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Advance Parole
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Date |
| CIS Office : |
Chicago National Office |
| Filing Method : |
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| Filing Instance : |
First |
| Date Filed : |
2010-09-30 |
| NOA Date : |
2010-10-13 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Date Received : |
2010-12-24 |
| Comments : |
Recd two copies ot the approval letter with photo part of the letter |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your AP was approved in 78 days. |
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Member Reviews:
Consulate Review: Bogota, Colombia
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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Description |
| Review Date : |
May 26, 2010 |
| Embassy Review : |
Approved
Got to the Embassy about 5:45am about 20 in line before us.
6:30 am they have you line up by visa type we were Line 3 for K1 visa
7:00 am Domessa agent puts a number on your passport and starts a delivery invoice for each passport.
7:00 am given a folder to put in the list of documents (3) 1 for fiancée and one for each child
The Form DS-156 I was mad that the bank made my fiancée re-fill out was the wrong revision date but accepted by the embassy.
Bogotá uses the red serial number of the passport not the one that is on the passport in the passport number area. (I understand you use the passport number that we would expect to use for travel documents)
8:00 am called to window 32 and documents were reviewed and asked for signatures on a few forms that were not to be signed until this point. Strange part of this step was the woman would lower the shade and say we will process one child at a time and one minute later raised the shade did child 1, lowered the shade and then raised it to complete child 3.
As others have stated, I do not know how you hear your name over the poor PA system, helps that the Colombians have 4 names...
10:00 am called to window 2 for fingerprinting
Now waiting for Windows 3-6 to be called for the interview. The area is a huge U-Shape and someone must move the files behind the scenes from 32 to the Window 2-6 area.
Now the interesting part Window 3 and 6 pretty fast interview for most and approvals for many. Window 5, very intimidating looking interview. Gentleman looked American, Bald Headed and would rifle thru the large stack of documents and fire questions, talking with hands, request additional information, keep rifling thru documents. He denied or requested additional documents for about 6 visas in a row, good news was his interviews were about 20 minutes so reduced your odds of getting him. He turned down a family of 3, well dressed man in a suit and his family. Window 5 turned down a single man that must have had 100 photographs they passed thru the windows, my guess request additional proof. Then Window 5 pages a single blond young lady within about 30 seconds of his last denial.
Noon We get paged next to Window 6 thank God.
Agent asked my finance to have her children go sit down.
First question to Fiancée the ages of the children (hers) They must have an area of fraud here and hope to trip you up if it was your siblings children or something. Nelly had photos of children as they grew up because we saw a recent request for additional information, agent never asked to see.
Agent then asked me to sit down.
Next Question How many times was I married? My fiancée knew and gave this information.
What happen on her previous K-1 Filing where she went to the US and returned at the 90 day mark?
What did my fiancée know about my previous K-1 filing in 2005?
Did I speak Spanish? She said some
Did she speak English? She said she was studying English.
What had happen to her deceased spouse?
Ok My Turn
I started talking before questioned and commented on his wireless plantronics headset use the same one at my work and love it.
Prompted the question what was my work and where?
Agent mentioned he knew the Seattle area I gave him the Exit number off I-5
Next question he asked about my previous K-1 and what happened to Heather?
Not sure if this was a trick or mistake by agent but I said Heather was my ex-wife and then give him the Name and information of my previous K-1 Filing.
Next he asked what happen on my fiancée’s previous 2008 K-1 Visa? Stated she had come to the US, did not marry and returned at the 90 day mark.
Asked me what had happened to my fiancées deceased spouse? I gave the information and he asked for my fiancée back to the window.
He told her we were approved.
About the same time Window 5 gave his first approval we saw to the blond
Off to the Domesa pay area for visa delivery.
This how you could tell who got the approval.
Review or more information went left and exited the compound.
Approved went to pay for Domessa to deliver your visa back to you about 8 business days for Cartagena
I think my attendance at the interview helped with both of us having previous approved K-1's a few years ago. No request for chat logs, phone records, or photos. I think they know when you are standing there with 5 inches of documents that you have most anything they could ask for.
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Very Good |
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