A F
Jan 26, 2022
Case Approved .. From F1 to LPR
Got married in 2017. I was a sophomore in College and my wife live with her mum in a different state. I was on full ride scholarship, so I stayed on campus. I spent all my vacations at my in-law’s( my wife’s mum) house unless I had an internship in a different state during the summer. I was very young and I didn’t know much about the evidence required for interview, especially when not living together. I overlooked certain things and I thought I was going to have a smooth interview because I was in school, but I didn’t. I didn’t really have any strong bonafide evidence between 2017 and 2020 .I filed for AOS in October 2020 and I have shared my timeline. To my fellow F1 students who are staying on campus and not living together with their spouse, try as much as possible to gather a lot of evidence you can, especially proving that y’all see each other frequently or y’all stay connected. My wife didn’t get the chance to visit me in school because his brother is disabled and my wife usually take care of him. The IO even requested for toll receipts to prove that I have been driving back and forth to visit my spouse. I was like “ who keeps toll receipts” . I didn’t know toll receipts was gonna be that important. I got an rfe two months after my interview requesting for more bonafide documents. my lawyer responded and explained my situation and almost 90 days afterwards, my case was approved. (No joint lease, no joint bills but separate bills with individual names, different phone plans,no joint health insurance, only 2020 joint tax). I was worried that my case wasn’t strong because when I read the kind of evidence people submit here, I felt like I didn’t submit anything. But God being so good, my case has been approved. Have been married for almost 5 years now( 2017-2022).
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 466 days
Case
2020-10-19
2022-01-28
I-485
466 Days
National Benefits Center: I-485
Timeline Map
2020-10-19
I-485
Submission to USCIS
2021-02-22
I-485
D+126
Biometrics, i.e. fingerprint and photo
2021-05-10
I-485
D+203
Interview
2021-07-23
I-485
D+277
Request for Evidence(RFE) from USCIS
2022-01-28
I-485
D+466
Decision (Approval or Denial)
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D DJan 26, 2022
congratulations 🎊🎈🍾 if i were you, i’d be worried too. did you submit any transcripts from school?
mik parkJan 26, 2022
congrats 🙏
A FJan 26, 2022
@DD.. I did .. from my undergrad and grad schools
A FJan 26, 2022
Thanks @ mik park
Sammy WhammyJan 26, 2022
congratulations!! 🎉 what God has for you is for you.
A FJan 26, 2022
Thank you @Sammy Gore
