raydamon's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: Ray Beneficiary's Name: Tess VJ Member: raydamon Country: China Last Updated: 2018-06-15 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for Ray & Tess:

USCIS I-129F Petition:       Dept of State K1 Visa:     USCIS I-485 Petition:   USCIS I-765 Petition:       USCIS I-131 Petition:       USCIS I-751 Petition:   USCIS N-400 Petition:

K1 Visa Event Date Service Center : California Service Center Transferred? No Consulate : Tokyo, Japan I-129F Sent : 2016-07-16 I-129F NOA1 : 2016-07-26 I-129F RFE(s) : RFE Reply(s) : I-129F NOA2 : 2016-09-06 NVC Received : 2016-09-22 Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : NVC Left : 2016-09-22 Consulate Received : 2016-09-28 Packet 3 Received : 2016-10-03 Packet 3 Sent : 2016-10-20 Packet 4 Received : Interview Date : 2016-11-28 Interview Result : Approved Second Interview (If Required): Second Interview Result: Visa Received : 2016-11-30 US Entry : 2017-03-20 Marriage : 2017-04-01 Comments : Processing Estimates/Stats : Your I-129f was approved in 42 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 125 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

Adjustment of Status Event Date CIS Office : Los Angeles CA Date Filed : 2017-06-17 NOA Date : RFE(s) : Bio. Appt. : 2017-07-10 AOS Transfer** : Interview Date : 2018-06-14 Approval / Denial Date : 2018-06-14 Approved : Yes Got I551 Stamp : No Greencard Received: Comments :

Member Reviews:

Consulate Review: Tokyo, Japan Review Topic: K1 Visa Event Description Review Date : November 30, 2016 Embassy Review : Fiancée was interviewed on November 28th. I was able to go in with her without an appointment. The police at the gate won't let us in with our Fitbit on despite it being not a "Smart Watch". We had to toss it in the building next to the Embassy. (No one stole them during the hour in the embassy. Thank you strangers.) The appointment time was 10:30 and we were out by 11:30. There weren't many people in the waiting room as Mondays are for K-1 visa only(I believe). She was called three times. First time: Handed in all documents. Some simple questions asked: (this part was done in Japanese) Where is your fiancé living now? What kind of job does he do? Who is your joint sponsor? What does your joint sponsor do? Have you lived in other countries or in any US military bases? Is this your first marriage? When are you going to the US? What is your fiancée going to do when he goes to the US? Second time: Took her finger prints. Asked if fiancée is Chinese and some clarification on the Birth Certificate. Third time: Interview Officer. How did you guys meet? Specifically when? Where is he now? What does he do in Japan? How long has he been in Japan? Is this your first marriage? What about him? When did you become engaged? So he's going back to the US? What's you wedding plan? Have you met his parents? What about him meeting your parents? Where are you going to live in the US? Is your fiancée a Chines-American? So are his parents living in China? When did you last see him? Most people(Japanese) are approved with few questions asked. Fiancée is not a Japanese citizen so I guess more questions were asked. Overall very easy and I am pretty sure they read all of your supporting documents(not very closely though). Hopefully this may be some help for the future couples. Rating : Very Good

Local US CIS Office Review: Los Angeles CA Review Topic: cis_topic Event Description Review Date : June 19, 2018 Embassy Review : This is a review for AOS interview in the San Bernadino USCIS office that took place in mid June, 2018. Summary available at the end. Posted in Los Angeles for visibility Setting: I am the USC(Petitioner) and my wife is the applicant(Beneficiary) Our interview time was close to 11am. We got there about 35 minutes earlier. Security line was short and quick. The interview waiting room is on the second floor where everyone is waiting. There were a lot of people waiting for their interviews and from what I can tell, they are mostly here for Naturalization interviews. So we checked in as soon as we got there and started waiting. Many couples came after us went in to their interviews before us. I had to ask the reception desk and their canned response was "it really depends on your Interview Officer(IO from now)". In the end, we were called in after waiting for about 2 hours. Our IO was a kind-looking lady in her 60s and she brought us into her office to get ready for the interview. Before the IO asked us to swear that we’re going to tell the truth, she found out that the previous applicant left something on her table. So she asked us to remain standing and rushed out of the room to find the previous applicant. But it was too late, she came back with the document in her hands and asked us to sit down while she tries to get ahold of the applicant by phone. She could not reach the person and decided to start the interview. First thing was to take a photo of applicant and fingerprints of both index fingers. She then opened our files, she acknowledged that wife is adjusting from K-1 and she believed that it was a good sign. As she went through our stacked file(K1 package plus the AOS package), she asked how we met and the very standard questions. During this time, she seemed very clueless about the applicant and it occurred to me that she probably has never read about anything on the file before we came in. As time went on, she kept on unpacking the large files and tried to organize them into some sort of order. She did ask a couple of random questions such as “so do you work now? What about you?”. During one of the gaps, I asked her that didn’t we have to swear to tell the truth? Then she remembered that we skipped the formality because of the incident in the beginning. So we swore that we would tell the truth and nothing but the truth in the middle the interview. And she mentioned that we would have to come for the second time if I did not asked the question. A large bullet dodged. While the IO was organizing the documents. She went through all the criminal, drugs and other standard questions as well. When the IO finished with the document organizing, she asked and used a pencil to write down a very simple timeline on how we met, got into relationship, engaged, moved to the US and married. At the end, she asked us for any evidence we have brought in this time, we gave everything to her. Without carefully looking at all of them, she just stacked them into the AOS package. Then she asked for a new medical exam which luckily we decided to do a week before the interview. I did not challenge her on the USCIS rules of filing the AOS within one year of the medical exam should keep it validated. We handed the medical exam results over and she checked the important pages and put it into the file as well. At last the IO said she was going to grant our case and printed an approval letter for us to take home. The interview lasted about 30 minutes but I felt like 10-15 minutes of them were just random chatters regarding our home country, our jobs or even our family. She is a very kind person and I would say an easy IO. But she is very slow on everything. But we’re happy that we got our approval with ease. As we were exiting the office, we saw that two other couples were being questioned separately. They did not look very happy and I wished them good luck inside. 5 days after the interview, we got an email saying the green card has been shipped out and we should do something if we do not see it within 2 weeks. A summary: Got there 30 minutes early, waited about 2 hours to get in. Interview lasted 30 minutes. No questions out of ordinary was asked. IO did ask for a new medical exam even though we filed within one year of the medical exam done in oversea and also asked for copies of passports/IDs. Took all additional evidence(recent bills, new I-864, new tax return) except photos. Did NOT take EAD even though GC was approved. Green card shipped 5 days later. Good luck to everyone out there. Harassment Level : Very Good

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