Urgh, you poor soul, Annabel!!!! what a journey!!! I’m so happy for you.

congratulations 🎊

@Annabel Jean ..Congratulation your case similar to my case but still waiting since 2021..

congratulations 🎉 🎉 🎉 and Amen to your beautiful prayer

congratulations @Annabel Jean what evidence did you submit for the NOID? Did you get a lawyer throughout the process?

@Anna Whitty 🥹thank you so much, I appreciate it

@J J thank you so much

@desmond Ade rooting for you. your approval is on the way

@eve eve thank you so much 🙏🏾

@s l thank you! for the documents, I submitted everything we took to the interview. copies of IDs showing same address, joint bank account statements for all the years, including debit cards, affidavits of support for friends, tax returns, health insurance, phone bills, hospital visits. in no particular order or importance, I submitted everything that had both our names on it. nothing is too much to submit as long as it’s to help justify our case. in the beginning of the process, we had a lawyer who wasn’t doing a good job and he didn’t show up on the day of our 1st interview. since then, we continued the process without a lawyer.

congratulations, I had the same issue but I didn’t move same address all through, 2 interviews, a lot of RFE, NOID which we responded, house visits 😢it’s was so frustrating journey, 2021 November to 2025 January we got approved, I wish everyone here reading and waiting, all the best , I hope everything goes well.

@kapi patience how long after NOID where u approved.its approaching 4 weeks since I responded to NOID and I haven’t received any update from them

@kapi patience that’s frustrating. I’m glad you eventually got approved

@kapi patience for me it took a month for them to even update that they received the evidence and another 5 weeks before approval

@s l It took about 2 week for them to update they have received my Noid response then like. month before I got approved.hang in there it shall be well, and fyi I had a lawyer who did nothing I responded to noid my self.

@Annabel Jean am glad too

@Annabel Jean Congratulations Annabel. We have similar timelines. My PD is Feb 2021. I got NOID in Dec 2023, I responded immediately within three weeks. I received RFE medical for my I485 in March 2025 which I have responded to while My I-130 is still pending. I thought was supposed to get my I130 approved before by now before I received the RFE on my I485. I can’t wait to get done too for real. Sick and tired of the long process. Congratulations once again!!!

@kapi patience Congratulations to you too. It’s a good feeling seeing old cases getting approved.

@Rooney Ron I totally understand. my i130 was getting any progress at all just the i485. I also received RFEs for i485. the NOID I received was for i130. eventually the i130 had to be approved first. yes I’m glad old cases are getting results. it was very frustrating to hardly see people with similar timelines as me. with how I almost lost hope, don’t worry it’s coming. also, did you get your congressman involved? I think it helped every time they were getting notified by them.

@Annabel Jean Sure, I got the Congress involved before I was issued the NOID on my I130 in Dec 2023. My case was abandoned two years prior to Congress inquiry. My I130 is still pending since I replied the NOID in Jan 2024. I was surprised when I got the RFE for medical on my I-485 in March this year when my I130 is still pending because I know it supersedes I485. I can only cross my legs and watch how it goes. I trust in God!

@Rooney Ron keep connecting to the person you were assigned to at the congressman’s office. I was reaching out from time to time and she kept sending service requests when we heard nothing back periodically.

@Annabel Jean congrats. my case is so similar to yours. i130 was filed in Oct 2022. we were scheduled for interview in Feb 2025. all went well but I got a NOID that evidence is not enough. we are low on cash and want to respond to the NOID with out a lawyer. Any tips and guidelines will be extremely appreciated. 🙏🏽

@crimson neon we responded to the NOID and the entire case without a lawyer. provide every single evidence in a orderly manner and don’t worry about how much documents you put together. I sent a whole box. I got paper folders and put them in the order of date from when we got married and I labeled them with a sticky note to make it easy for the officer to go through and not miss things. for instance. 1. leases 2020-2025 2.monthly joint Bank statement (2020-2025) 3. Auto insurance 2025-2025 4. health insurance 2020-2025 5. Utilities (electricity, heat, gas, WiFi,) 2020-2025. 6. photo album 7. notarized letter Affidavit of support from friends and family I also added copies of our IDs which showed same address as well as front copies of our joint bank debit cards. I submitted even evidence I had submitted before including new evidence. I hope this helps. let me know if you have anymore questions. wishing you success

@Annabel Jean Thank you 🙏🏿 thank you so much from the bottom of my ❤️ heart . I really appreciate you for responding. Your response means a lot to me. Will it be ok to submit it through the online USCIS portal or by mail? and also did you add a cover letter ? and how long did it take for them to approve after the response was sent? Thank you 🙏🏿

@crimson neon I submitted through mail which I also recommend. so you can add as much documents and pages without hesitation. you’ll hardly be able to upload all that information through the online portal because each page has to be uploaded individually. also, sending in the mail makes it easier for you to arrange it in a way that’s easily understandable for the reviewing officer like I mentioned above to use small folders and sticky notes. I also like that when I send through the mail, you have a tracking number and see that it was signed for. if it was just a simple rfe like medicals or easy stuff then I’ll say upload. but giving them history from 2022-2025 would be alot of evidence to just upload

@Annabel Jean Thanks 🙏🏽 once again. well appreciated

@crimson neon we added a cover left explaining the order in which we arranged and also explaining that we brought the evidence to the interview and interviewing officer uploaded them but there might have been an error why they don’t seem to have it. it took them a month and a week after it was delivered to update that it was received. one month after we were approved. so a total of two months after we sent the evidence

@crimson neon you’re welcome

@Annabel Jean also if I have an original document I need to show as evidence, do I just make a photocopy and include in the response or should I add the original ? Thank you

@crimson neon I didn’t send original documents. everything should be print outs or copies

thank you

@Annabel Jean thank you