BZZ's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: WW Beneficiary's Name: BZZ VJ Member: BZZ Country: Venezuela Last Updated: 2021-10-31 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for WW & BZZ:

USCIS I-130 Petition:       Dept of State IR-1/CR-1 Visa:     USCIS I-751 Petition:   USCIS N-400 Petition:

IR-1/CR-1 Visa Event Date Service Center : Texas Service Center Transferred? No Consulate : Argentina Marriage (if applicable): 2018-07-06 I-130 Sent : 2019-08-06 I-130 NOA1 : I-130 RFE : I-130 RFE Sent : I-130 Approved : 2020-04-23 NVC Received : Received DS-261 / AOS Bill : Pay AOS Bill : 2020-09-22 Receive I-864 Package : Send AOS Package : Submit DS-261 : Receive IV Bill : Pay IV Bill : 2020-09-22 Send IV Package : Receive Instruction and Interview appointment letter : 2021-06-22 Case Completed at NVC : 2021-05-28 NVC Left : Consulate Received : Packet 3 Received : Packet 3 Sent : Packet 4 Received : Interview Date : 2021-07-06 Interview Result : Approved Second Interview (If Required): Second Interview Result: Visa Received : 2021-07-12 US Entry : 2021-09-16 Comments : Processing Estimates/Stats :

Port of Entry Review Event Date Port of Entry : Houston POE Date : 2021-09-16 Got EAD Stamp : Yes,Passport Stamp Biometrics Taken : Yes Harassment Level : 0 Comments : I arrived at 7:25am at the airport. Line at immigration was pretty long. The officer asked me (not rude, but very robotic) in English who had petitioned me and where was I coming from (I'm Venezuelan but lived and applied from Argentina). He called a second officer who took my passport and asked me to wait in a separate area (it wasn't a small room, it was just another area in the back), said they would call my name. Although it felt much longer, I may have waited like 15 minutes until they called me. This third officer spoke to me in Spanish, saying that I was about to enter the country as a permanent resident and I could travel out of the country with the same visa, but until the expiration date. After that, I could only travel outside the US once the green card had arrived, he couldn't give me an estimate of when that would happen. He also explained that the permanent resident status could be revoked if I were to leave the US and spent many months outside, the status means I need to actually live here. He was very nice through it all, gave me my passport with an IR stamp and welcomed me. Between finding a gate for the airplane and going through immigration, it took me 2 hours to leave the building.

Member Reviews:

Consulate Review: Argentina Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Event Description Review Date : July 19, 2021 Embassy Review : I will start by saying that my interview experience was a very good one and a very fast one. My appointment was at 8:30am, I got there a few minutes earlier, and by 9:30am I was already out of the embassy. I had never been to the US embassy in Buenos Aires, and I got a bit confused by a smaller building nearby that had US flags hanging outside. The embassy is the large facility on Av. Colombia and the actual entrance is closer to Av. Sarmiento. My husband was in Buenos Aires but he wasn't allowed in, he kept my phone and I was able to go in with my wallet, interview documents and nothing else. There was nobody else in line at the time, and going through security was very fast. After going into the main building, there is a seating area and a standing area. I went to the seating area, and I saw the tourist/student visa applicants go to the standing area. My name was called rather quickly through a small window to ask for the documentation, the lady was monotone but nice, this is what she asked for: - Yatri appointment registration. - Current passport and old passports. - 1 photograph. - Birth certificate and photocopy (I gave her the one I had submitted to the NVC, and she asked if I happened to have one that had the Hague apostille, which I did think to bring, it was a different one, so she took both.) - Marriage license and photocopy. - Police certificate (She quickly noticed it was not the same one I had uploaded to NVC, but I explained I had asked for a new one with "excepción al artículo 51 del Código Penal”, so she accepted it.) - Relationship evidence (I gave her a photo album of the last 5 years, cards and emails we've exchanged, proof of a credit card extension, airbnb reservations and passports stamps from both of us, showing we've met in different countries. I had printed a big book with Whatsapp conversations of the last 3 years, but she didn't take it, said the Consul would ask for it if they deemed it necessary. Consul also didn't ask for it.) She explained that if my visa was approved, I wouldn't need to bring anything else with me to enter the States, (the website said they'd give me a sealed envelope, she said all of my case was electronic, including the medical examination), I would only need my passport+visa. My recommendation there is: if you have any additional or new documentation, bring it alongside whatever you had submitted previously. I had all of the other documentation the website says (including vaccination sheet the doctor emailed me, and my husband's tax returns, W2s and I-864 form), but she didn't ask for anything else. She didn't ask for any translations either. I waited for about 30 minutes, and my name was called to a little room on the left (not the windows for the tourist/student visas). The Consul was an extremely nice lady that welcomed me, I did the oath and sat down for my interview, it was very short and simple, these were my questions, all in Spanish: -How did you meet your husband? -Was your husband born in the States? -What does your husband do for a living? -Is this your first marriage? -Is this your husband’s first marriage? -Has your husband visited Argentina before? -Where did you get married? -When did you get married? -Who attended your wedding? -How is his family composed? -Have you met his family? -Have you lived in another country? -Have you ever worked in the US? -Have you ever overstayed in the US? -Have you ever been arrested? She then said my visa was approved. She reiterated that I do not need to bring anything else with me to enter the States, only the passport+visa. She gave me a sheet of paper with my alien registration number and instructions to pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee, and another sheet of paper with my rights in regard to domestic violence. She was very nice and communicative the whole time. She returned all my original documents, and kept my passport. I picked up the passport with my visa a week later on the Santa Fe office, through the Yatri registration. After a long long process that got delayed multiple times due to my passport being expired, our lawyer taking a lot of time to submit all the documents, and a whole world pandemic (!), the interview day itself was a very good and easy one. Rating : Very Good

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