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veronika nika
Apr 13, 2023
Marriage case approved after 29 months at Baltimore FO
Hi everybody, I just wanted to share my timeline and maybe encourage somebody who is still waiting for their decision. I came to the US on a J1 visa with Two years home residency requirement. While living in the US, I met my now husband. Later on, I applied for a waiver of two years home residency requirement and got married to my US spouse. My field office was Baltimore. Our AOS interview was very simple and lasted only 15 minutes. However, our case was held for review and it took them 18 months to give us a decision. I filled out the whole application package with a lawyer and I had a lawyer present during the interview as well. The waiting for a decision was very frustrating but it had one big advantage I got unconditional 10 years green card since our marriage got over 2 years during the waiting time. Here is my timeline: Case received (I-485, I-130, I-765, I-131) on November 16, 2020 I-765/I-131 was approved on August 13, 2021 I-485 interview (case held for review) on September 16, 2021 Case inquiry on January 19, 2022 Case inquiry on June 16, 2022 Case inquiry on March 2, 2023 I-765/I-131 (2nd application) received on March 6, 2023 I-765 was approved on March 9, 2023 I-485 was approved (card being produced) on March 29, 2023 I-130 was approved on April 3, 2023 Card in hands on April 7, 2023 Thank you and wishing everyone good luck with their process!
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Nuha AK
Apr 6, 2023
Petitioning for my Yemeni mother (Part 2)
Sharing my experience to petition for my mother to immigrate in the US. This is post 2 of 4 describing the steps we took. Phase 1 was filing I-130 with the USCIS (Previous post) Phase 2 was submitting DS-260 via the CEAC website. Timeline: - October 9, 2020: NVC sent us an email of the approval for the I-130 and gave us a NVC Case Number and Invoice ID to login to the CEAC website to begin the Immigration Visa Application (DS-260) - October 10, 2020: Paid Fees on NVC Website - February 25, 2021: Submitted DS-260 and and some of the Civil Documents - January 2, 2022: Submitted some civil documents (It took us a while to gather civil documents, more on that below) - April 2, 2022: Email from NVC to update some of the civil documents (birth certificate + death certificate). - July 6, 2022: Email from NVC to replace death certificate for the second time. - Aug 24, 2022: Submitted updated death certificate - October 19, 2022: Documentary Qualified 🎊 Evidence Submitted: - Police Certificates (Countries of residence) - Petitioner's Marriage Certificate - Petitioner's Birth Certificate - Photographs for my mother - Passport Biographic Page for my mother - Birth Certificate for my mother - Death/Burial Certificate for my father For the financial evidence, I had enough income to cover the minimum requirement and w-2 so this is what I submitted in Feb 2021 (Keep in mind that these were later updated) - Form I-864Ez Affidavit Of Support - 2019 Federal Income Tax Return or Transcript - 2018 Federal Income Tax Return or Transcript - 2017 Federal Income Tax Return or Transcript - 2019 Form W-2 Wage And Tax Statement Biggest hurdles: My mother lived in four countries and we were under the impression for the longest time that we needed to provide police certificates for all the countries she lived at. We later confirmed that you only need to get the police certificate for the country of current residence. We also had to obtain a replacement for the birth certificate from Yemen but because neither of us were in Yemen, so it took a while to coordinate someone who can obtain this document for us. In summary, we submitted our full documents in August 2022 and became documentarily qualified in under three months Alhamdulilah. The third post will cover our process after getting documentary qualified and helpful resources for the upcoming stage. Hope this helps! #Yemen #Egypt #Djibouti #DS260 #IR5 #MotherGreenCard
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Nuha AK
Apr 5, 2023
Petitioning for my Yemeni mother (Part 1)
Sharing my timeline if helpful to petition for my mother to immigrate in the US. This is post 1 of 4 describing the steps we took. Phase 1 was filing I-130 with the USCIS. Evidence submitted included: - Scan of the naturalization certificate - Evidence of Marriage or Divorce (if applicable to you) - My birth certificate with English Certified Translation - pdf document spelling my mother's name in Arabic We submitted our application on 3/3/2020 and heard back within 8 months (Oct 5, 2020). Then, the case was passed on to NVC! My second post will cover what we submitted for the second application and the third post will cover pre-interview and interview phase. #Yemen #Egypt #Djibouti #DS260 #MotherGreenCard

IR-5

U.S. citizen filing for a parent

Total Days: 220 days
Case
2020-03-03
2020-10-09
I-130
220 Days
Vermont Service Center: I-130
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