March 2017 Submission (I-130 sent fist *got accepted*) I-485 & I-765 Concurrent

[msami10]

We just received email notification that our interview was scheduled. Our PD is 3/21 and we are closest to the Portland, OR field office. Our interview is scheduled 9/26!

congratulation my PD is March 20th still didn't hear anything

[CompassRogue]

Interview Scheduled

We just received email notification that our interview was scheduled. Our PD is 3/21 and we are closest to the Portland, OR field office. Our interview is scheduled 9/26!

[faith888]

Congratulations!!! and thank you for sharing your experience

your welcome!

sending my positive vibes!
faith888

[applepro]

Hi guys,

I would like to share my AOS experienced and interview as well. This forum and you guys are all awesome and I am so grateful and thankful with you helps.

Last August 10th, we went for our green card interview in Chicago, IL., our interview schedule was 11:15am. We arrived thirty minutes early, so that we can check in early with the security. We went at the second floor, we were greeted by a nice male security guard, he's amazing and makes jokes on us, maybe he knew that we are nervous. We went to the window and got our number and waited. Around 11:05am, the female IO calling my name, my husband was kind of surprised that we were called early and we saw that the IO saw how surprised my husband was. She smile and escorted us to her room. The IO, looks nice and I can tell that there's a positive vibes on that day! IO are all smiling and friendly.
We sworn in, she asked for our identification. I brought all the initial filing forms copies that we've submitted, twenty photos of us with our families and friends in an album with description or names of each person. I also make a cover letter and I added our other evidences. Honestly, the IO was appreciated my files and she was thankful because its organized and she smiled. These are the questions that she asked us:

Husband questions:
1. Your wife full name?
2. Your wife date of birth?
3. Your wife place of birth?
4. Your wife current address?
5. Your wife occupation?

Wife questions:
1. Your husband full name?
2. Your husband date of birth?
3. Your husband place of birth?
4. Your husband current address?
5. Your husband occupation?
She asked me again, where we meet and if we have a child. That's all about her questions to us. She looked at our evidences and said " you guys loves to travel" and we just replied "yes". We had a little conversation about the places. She looked at our photos and didn't asked none of the person's name in the photo. She took our additional evidence.

Here are the evidences that we submitted:
1. Our boarding passes, hotel receipts, restaurant receipts, rent-a- car receipts, souvenirs/gifts receipts, shows/museums receipts
2. Our Sam's Club membership and Lowe's membership
3. Health insurance
4. Car title/registration both on our name
5. Bank joint account
6. Tax returns transcript 2016- Married Filing Jointly
7. Tax returns transcript 2015
8. Birth certificate's
9. Passport's
10. Marriage cert. and marriage lic.
11. Photo's (wedding albums, our photos together with family and friends, our scrapbooks that I made)
12. Our relatives wedding gifts receipts, congratulations cards/emails, wedding cards
13. Our husband and wife gifts receipts for each other
14. My parents-in-laws will (they included my name as the spouse of their son)
15. Txts/email communication (I printed it out)
16. Husband mortgage and tax property bill--- although my name is not in the mortgage we brought it, and when the IO asked we explained that he can't add my name because the mortgage company want to refinance the house, and we don't have money to do it. We explained also that we might move to Florida so it pointless to refinance now. The IO are happy with our explanation.
17. Utility bills--- we brought it too, even though my name is not on the account and explained that the utilities company wants only one account holder/person.

She asked me the questions from form I-485, the YES or NO questions. The IO asked me if I want to use my husbands family name. I said yes and she wrote it on the form and asked me again if that is the name that I want to be in my green card. She told us that she got everything what she need from us and everything is okay and she "APPROVED US ON THE SPOT"
She explained to me about the conditional green card and told us that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks. She escorted us outside. We are so very happy. The feelings that we can't explain.

Anyways, heres my timeline:

AOS (marriage based) entered on B2 visa
03/28--- Priority Date
04/26--- Fingerprint done
07/05--- Submitted an online SR (99 days)
07/10--- Received a paper notice receipt says "YOUR SCHEDULE FOR INTERVIEW IS ON AUG. 10, 2017"
07/11--- SR was accepted, was assigned to an officer for response (EAD)
07/23--- Received a paper notice receipts says "EAD APPROVAL"
07/25--- Online status updated to "CARD WAS MAILED TO ME" (EAD card)
07/26--- Received my physical EAD card through mail
08/10--- Interview Day
08/11--- Online status changed to "CASE WAS APPROVED I-485 & I-130
08/15 a.m.--- Received a paper notice receipts "APPROVAL LETTER"
08/15 p.m.--- Online status changed to "CARD WAS MAILED TO ME"
08/18--- Delivered MY GREEN CARD--- right in front of my two eyes and now its in my hand. So, so happy.

My only advise is, be organize with your files/forms, IO will appreciate it. Gather more evidence as much as you can and always be prepare.

Guys, This is a long story of my AOS experienced, but I wanted to let you know that you guys are part of my journey. Thank you for all your helps.
Patient is the number one key, just hang in there guys. I will pray for all of you to have a smooth and positive results. Have faith!

Sending my positive vibes!

Congratulations!!! and thank you for sharing your experience

[faith888]

My Green Card Delivered Today. So happy!

Hi guys,

I would like to share my AOS experienced and interview as well. This forum and you guys are all awesome and I am so grateful and thankful with you helps.

Last August 10th, we went for our green card interview in Chicago, IL., our interview schedule was 11:15am. We arrived thirty minutes early, so that we can check in early with the security. We went at the second floor, we were greeted by a nice male security guard, he's amazing and makes jokes on us, maybe he knew that we are nervous. We went to the window and got our number and waited. Around 11:05am, the female IO calling my name, my husband was kind of surprised that we were called early and we saw that the IO saw how surprised my husband was. She smile and escorted us to her room. The IO, looks nice and I can tell that there's a positive vibes on that day! IO are all smiling and friendly.
We sworn in, she asked for our identification. I brought all the initial filing forms copies that we've submitted, twenty photos of us with our families and friends in an album with description or names of each person. I also make a cover letter and I added our other evidences. Honestly, the IO was appreciated my files and she was thankful because its organized and she smiled. These are the questions that she asked us:

Husband questions:
1. Your wife full name?
2. Your wife date of birth?
3. Your wife place of birth?
4. Your wife current address?
5. Your wife occupation?

Wife questions:
1. Your husband full name?
2. Your husband date of birth?
3. Your husband place of birth?
4. Your husband current address?
5. Your husband occupation?
She asked me again, where we meet and if we have a child. That's all about her questions to us. She looked at our evidences and said " you guys loves to travel" and we just replied "yes". We had a little conversation about the places. She looked at our photos and didn't asked none of the person's name in the photo. She took our additional evidence.

Here are the evidences that we submitted:
1. Our boarding passes, hotel receipts, restaurant receipts, rent-a- car receipts, souvenirs/gifts receipts, shows/museums receipts
2. Our Sam's Club membership and Lowe's membership
3. Health insurance
4. Car title/registration both on our name
5. Bank joint account
6. Tax returns transcript 2016- Married Filing Jointly
7. Tax returns transcript 2015
8. Birth certificate's
9. Passport's
10. Marriage cert. and marriage lic.
11. Photo's (wedding albums, our photos together with family and friends, our scrapbooks that I made)
12. Our relatives wedding gifts receipts, congratulations cards/emails, wedding cards
13. Our husband and wife gifts receipts for each other
14. My parents-in-laws will (they included my name as the spouse of their son)
15. Txts/email communication (I printed it out)
16. Husband mortgage and tax property bill--- although my name is not in the mortgage we brought it, and when the IO asked we explained that he can't add my name because the mortgage company want to refinance the house, and we don't have money to do it. We explained also that we might move to Florida so it pointless to refinance now. The IO are happy with our explanation.
17. Utility bills--- we brought it too, even though my name is not on the account and explained that the utilities company wants only one account holder/person.

She asked me the questions from form I-485, the YES or NO questions. The IO asked me if I want to use my husbands family name. I said yes and she wrote it on the form and asked me again if that is the name that I want to be in my green card. She told us that she got everything what she need from us and everything is okay and she "APPROVED US ON THE SPOT"
She explained to me about the conditional green card and told us that we should expect the green card in 2-3 weeks. She escorted us outside. We are so very happy. The feelings that we can't explain.

Anyways, heres my timeline:

AOS (marriage based) entered on B2 visa
03/28--- Priority Date
04/26--- Fingerprint done
07/05--- Submitted an online SR (99 days)
07/10--- Received a paper notice receipt says "YOUR SCHEDULE FOR INTERVIEW IS ON AUG. 10, 2017"
07/11--- SR was accepted, was assigned to an officer for response (EAD)
07/23--- Received a paper notice receipts says "EAD APPROVAL"
07/25--- Online status updated to "CARD WAS MAILED TO ME" (EAD card)
07/26--- Received my physical EAD card through mail
08/10--- Interview Day
08/11--- Online status changed to "CASE WAS APPROVED I-485 & I-130
08/15 a.m.--- Received a paper notice receipts "APPROVAL LETTER"
08/15 p.m.--- Online status changed to "CARD WAS MAILED TO ME"
08/18--- Delivered MY GREEN CARD--- right in front of my two eyes and now its in my hand. So, so happy.

My only advise is, be organize with your files/forms, IO will appreciate it. Gather more evidence as much as you can and always be prepare.

Guys, This is a long story of my AOS experienced, but I wanted to let you know that you guys are part of my journey. Thank you for all your helps.
Patient is the number one key, just hang in there guys. I will pray for all of you to have a smooth and positive results. Have faith!

Sending my positive vibes!

[CompassRogue]

I'm so glad to see Boston is running efficiently!

I'm waiting for our interview to be scheduled. Portland is our field office... It's been 142 days since my husband's PD. Biometrics are done and EAD has been received. The status on the USCIS tracker still says that they have received our case (I-130) and Biometrics fee (I-485), this update was given to us on April 3rd... Ugh! I'm growing impatient and worried that they might schedule our interview while we are out of town in October in Disneyworld!

[Mercithehairball]

We ordered your new card(Green card)

So happy to see the status updated this afternoon, looks like someone in Boston office is working on Saturday...

DAY 1 (3/16): Package received

DAY 95 (6/20) : received email and online status update as interview is scheduled on July 21

DAY 119(7/14) :New Card Is Being Produced

DAY 124(7/19) : New card mailed

DAY 127(7/22) : EAD and AP Combo card arrived in priority mail

DAY 126 (7/21) : interview day; expecting RFE letter after interview

DAY 133 (7/28) : received RFE letter in mail

DAY 137 (8/1) : document regarding RFE received by Boston office

DAY 141 (8/5) : online status updated as "We ordered your new card"

The waiting is coming to the end, all my stress is off now.

I will post my interview experience in next few days. I really appreciate everyone new or old here, no matter are your answers or questiones, I learn so much from you guys, everyone is so awesome!

[Ctal Lairenlakpam]

Thank for sharing your story and experiences and all the best to you on your future endeavors.

You Welcome

[Agata T.]

Hi Guys,

I would like to share my experienced with the USCIS and If you have any question just let me know, I am a Feb Filler and Located in Boston.

Here are my details :

I came to US on B2 visa on Sept 21,2016 and got married on Dec 21,2016
Waited for sometime as we didnt want to hire an immigration lawyer collected all the required informations.
Then fixed an appointment for medical examinations at Tristan , Total Cost for Medical Exam was $350 and later another $300 charged by lab. I do not have insurance so I paid all in cash.
Got my reports from the Urgent Care, Make sure you do not open the envelope provided by the Urgent Care. Normally they give you an extra copy for whatever is in the envelope in not asked for a copy.
Once I got my reports then I Submitted my concurrent filling.

Filed for Form I-485, I-765, I-130 and I-131 on Feb 4,2017
USCIS received on 06th Feb 2017 and mailed me my Notice of Action
On Feb 22nd the Cheque was cashed.
On Feb 24th Got Biometrics appointment Scheduled
On Feb 27th Got RFE
and I didnt send my RFE for almost a month
Completed my Biometrics on March
On April 2nd I sent my RFE
On April 4th USCIS received my RFE
On May 26th Got an Update that my EAD is being produced and mailed to me
On June 2nd I received my COMBO CARD EAD and AP with it I got mail for Interview scheduled on July 7th
On July 7th I went for my interview scheduled at 9:45am Boston Office
Went there two hours early making sure we are early and on time
My husband was very worried but not me I was calm and cool .My Husband is American and I am Indian, I should be the one worried but I wasnt, the night before my interview I gathered all the docs and Pics.

List of Documents
Wedding Pics
Our First Christmas with Family members pic, I know all of them very well so I didnt need to memorize their names
We had our car insurance on both of us .
Our taxes was filed together.
Our internet was in my husband name so I showed that on my phone as we dont use paper mailing.
Pretty much thats it.

Went in for the interview at 10am , the IO was really nice she didnt take us in separate rooms, We were together and asked my husband my information my name, DOB and where do you meet, where was your first date, who propose and when did you decide to get married. and she asked me almost the same. It didnt take long for us and the IO said that my Green card is approved and since I am not married more than 2years I will be given a conditional card and later I have to apply to remove the condition. We came home happy and on July 14th I got my Green card and my I-130 was approved too.
All pain was worth.
I have been reading this forum and I have seen people getting their cards or interview either quick or pretty late. Mine exactly took almost 5months even though I was late one month submitting my RFE , I thought that would affect my time for getting all this done. Fortunately I was lucky.



Guys again this is for Boston, filed from B2 to Concurrent filling.
Dont worry guys if you have already filed for the forms and are over staying. Its ok to over stay as you are in a process no matter if you dont get your papers before your stay expires. SIT TIGHT and wait and Good Luck.

Thank for sharing your story and experiences and all the best to you on your future endeavors.

[Ctal Lairenlakpam]

I-485 Marriage Based Boston February Filler

Hi Guys,

I would like to share my experienced with the USCIS and If you have any question just let me know, I am a Feb Filler and Located in Boston.

Here are my details :

I came to US on B2 visa on Sept 21,2016 and got married on Dec 21,2016
Waited for sometime as we didnt want to hire an immigration lawyer collected all the required informations.
Then fixed an appointment for medical examinations at Tristan , Total Cost for Medical Exam was $350 and later another $300 charged by lab. I do not have insurance so I paid all in cash.
Got my reports from the Urgent Care, Make sure you do not open the envelope provided by the Urgent Care. Normally they give you an extra copy for whatever is in the envelope in not asked for a copy.
Once I got my reports then I Submitted my concurrent filling.

Filed for Form I-485, I-765, I-130 and I-131 on Feb 4,2017
USCIS received on 06th Feb 2017 and mailed me my Notice of Action
On Feb 22nd the Cheque was cashed.
On Feb 24th Got Biometrics appointment Scheduled
On Feb 27th Got RFE
and I didnt send my RFE for almost a month
Completed my Biometrics on March
On April 2nd I sent my RFE
On April 4th USCIS received my RFE
On May 26th Got an Update that my EAD is being produced and mailed to me
On June 2nd I received my COMBO CARD EAD and AP with it I got mail for Interview scheduled on July 7th
On July 7th I went for my interview scheduled at 9:45am Boston Office
Went there two hours early making sure we are early and on time
My husband was very worried but not me I was calm and cool .My Husband is American and I am Indian, I should be the one worried but I wasnt, the night before my interview I gathered all the docs and Pics.

List of Documents
Wedding Pics
Our First Christmas with Family members pic, I know all of them very well so I didnt need to memorize their names
We had our car insurance on both of us .
Our taxes was filed together.
Our internet was in my husband name so I showed that on my phone as we dont use paper mailing.
Pretty much thats it.

Went in for the interview at 10am , the IO was really nice she didnt take us in separate rooms, We were together and asked my husband my information my name, DOB and where do you meet, where was your first date, who propose and when did you decide to get married. and she asked me almost the same. It didnt take long for us and the IO said that my Green card is approved and since I am not married more than 2years I will be given a conditional card and later I have to apply to remove the condition. We came home happy and on July 14th I got my Green card and my I-130 was approved too.
All pain was worth.
I have been reading this forum and I have seen people getting their cards or interview either quick or pretty late. Mine exactly took almost 5months even though I was late one month submitting my RFE , I thought that would affect my time for getting all this done. Fortunately I was lucky.



Guys again this is for Boston, filed from B2 to Concurrent filling.
Dont worry guys if you have already filed for the forms and are over staying. Its ok to over stay as you are in a process no matter if you dont get your papers before your stay expires. SIT TIGHT and wait and Good Luck.

[faith888]

[QUOTE=Agata T.;512926]

Got mine yesterday in mail

Yay! Congrats! Happy for you.

[Agata T.]

[QUOTE=faith888;512818]

yes, maybe yours is today or tomorrow. I don't sign up with USPS mail tracking.

Got mine yesterday in mail

[faith888]

[QUOTE=Agata T.;512824][QUOTE=faith888;512818]


Me either, reason why because i would drive myself crazy and check for it every 5 minutes lol[/QUOTE

I know, right? Lol.. I suppose to call Customer Service early this morning and will ask for the tracking number, but then I told myself that I will wait until later today. Suddenly the USPS came by. Lol...
Soon it will be in your doorstep.

[Agata T.]

[QUOTE=faith888;512818]

yes, maybe yours is today or tomorrow. I don't sign up with USPS mail tracking.

Me either, reason why because i would drive myself crazy and check for it every 5 minutes lol

[faith888]

[QUOTE=Agata T.;512810]

I received my physical card- EAD today and I am so happy. It was delivered by USPS(Priority Mail).

Ordered New Card--- 07/20
Mailed Card To Me--- 07/25
EAD Received--- 07/27

Hang in there guys! We're getting there.

Sending positive vibes!

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We have similar time line:

Ordered new card: 07/19
Mailed care: 07/24
But I didn't received mine yet, maybe today or tomorrow

yes, maybe yours is today or tomorrow. I don't sign up with USPS mail tracking.