Adjustment of Status - I-485

STATUS:
- B1/B2 overstayed visa
- I am a Nigerian married to an American
- Marriage based Adjustment
- Filed after 1year 6months of marriage ( just decided we take our time)
- No attorney
Will try to make this as comprehensive as I can since most questions on this platform dwells around wait time. So get your popcorn and ice cream and read through. Lol
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APPLICATION TIMELINE
06/17/2019 -Posted Package
06/18/2019 -Received
06/25/2019 -01/28/2010 received via text
07/12/2019 -Biometric appointment notice
07/22/2019 -Biometric appointment 10/25/2019 -RFE to resend Bank Statements
11/01/2019 -RFE received
11/09/2019 -Replied RFE
11/12/2019 -RFE delivered to NBC
11/14/2019 -RFE acknowledgement. 11/21/2019 -Case ready to be scheduled
12/12/2019 -Interview Scheduled update
12/19/2019 -Interview notice received
12/30/2019 -New card being produced
12/31/2019 -I-765 Case Approved
01/02/2020 -Card was Mailed
01/03/2020 -Card picked up by USPS
01/04/2020 -NOA I-765 approval received
01/06/2020 -EAD IN Hand
01/27/2020 -Interview Date
01/27/2010 I-485approved on the spot I-485 status change to new card ordered
01/28/2020 I-130 case approved
01/30/2020 -Green card was mailed
01/31/2020. -Approval letters received
02/03/2020. -Green Card in hand
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WAIT TIME
- Submission - first NoAs: 7days
- NoAs - Biometrics: 28days
- Biometrics - RFE: 4months
- RFE acknowledgement -caseready: 7days
- Ready to be scheduled - interview notice: 28days
- Notice to interview day 45days
- I-765 to EAD: 201 days
- I-130 waited 224 days
- The whole process took 7 months
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THE INTERVIEW
- Our scheduled time is 12:55pm, we arrived at 12:20pm and quickly went through the airport style scanning. sat in the waiting room and exactly 1:30 I was called.
- We were interviewed by a wonderful middle aged woman (officer Alloco) she is so sweet and professionally friendly. We took our oath and sat down she went through my paper work and asked 3 questions
- 1.) You have been married for a while why are you just filing?
- 2.) who lives with you in the house
- 3.) Who does the baby look like lol
She was taking notes simultaneously as she asked questions. She asked few of the questions on my I-485 Finally, she said “Okay everything looks good and I am approving you anytime this afternoon or latest tomorrow, so you will be getting the 10years green card since you have been married almost 3years and you can naturalize in 3years”. She walked us to the door and we said our goodbyes. While we were walking out of the building, status updated to interview completed, case must be reviewed.
- 20minutes later new card is being produced! Yippee. She did not give us any white paper, she did not take my fingerprint nor picture.
- We were very broke towards our interview so I could not even buy picture papers or afford to print on picture papers. So since we have a computer and printer at home, all I did was to make a pictorial story on my phone (Ms Word) and I printed on a regular A4 paper. Believe me guys she loved it and that was what she held back to add to our file. I showed her my baby’s picture on the phone and she smiled and said thank you for letting me see his precious face.
- Exactly a week after my interview my greencard was delivered