Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / March 2005

I noted today that you are all over this board tacking your questions
onto old posts and posts that really have no relevance to your
situation.

So in the interest of unjumbling your obvious confusion, I will try to
take a layman's stab at straightening things out for you.

You have never put your entire situation down in one thread started by
you but I have gleamed the following information about you from your
many tack-ons:

You were married to a USC.  You obtain residency based on that marriage
and your residency was conditional on the fact that you remained married
for the next two years so that conditions can be successfully removed,
or if you divorced you could file a waiver for removal of conditions
based on a good faith marriage and/or hardship waiver and/or abuse of a
spouse.  You received the initial notice of action giving you paper
proof of the extension of your residency.  Six months ago the Vermont
Service Center notified you that they were sending your I-751 to the New
York City district office as you needed to be interviewed for the
removal of conditions.  As of this date, six months later, you have not
received notification of an appointment for the interview.  Also you
have written to NYC DO asking for a status update.  As well, your one
year paper extension is going to expire shortly.

Firstly, the interview is normal for a situation such as yours.  It is
unusual that the service center will grant removal without interviewing
the beneficiary.  As for the appointment date for the interview, you
must be aware that your situation is not a priority one as your status
remains intact until a decision has been made on your petition.  All you
need to do is go to the USCIS website and make an Infopass appointment
to go to the district office to get an I-551 stamp in your passport
which will be further paper proof of your residency status.

As for the date for the interview, I have seen people, i.e. the website
owners of Kamya, who have waited nearly two years for such an
appointment and they were divorced but were then and now viably and
happily married.

So please put your anxieties aside for a bit.  Writing NYC will do
nothing for you.  However, going in person to get the stamp will jog
their memories that you have a case pending in their office.  Also that
can be accomplished by the intervention of your immigration attorney, if
you have one, and/or the status check made by the immigration liasion of
your local political representative.

Good luck.