Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / October 2004

"As of Friday, October 15, 2004 we are currently processing I-130/I-360
petitions that were filed on or before August 9th, 2004."

My fiancée received packet #3 on July 22, 2004. She returned the paperwork
to the consulate on August 2, 2004. We have not received packet # 4 or an
interview date as yet. When I contacted the consulate via email they
responded they were waiting for her case to be scheduled for an ...

I've got some good news
I received my "real" EAD yesterday (10/13/2004) ! I just hope I can get
a job now ...
As in my signature, I went for my infopass appointment to get my interim

Does anybody have any Norfolk interim EAD experiences? Searched high
and low, can't find anything except for someone on visajourney.com
who was denied a real EAD by them for improper paperwork - which is a
bit ominous.

West Palm.Any comments on this

Anyone in the same boat as me with a receipt date of April 16th or
earlier and still waiting for EAD?  I just checked the USCIS site and
currently they are processing I485 related EADs with a receipt date of
June 28, 2004.  Is there something wrong with my case?  Please kindly

On Tuesday me and my wife went to the USCIS office for our AOS interview
and got approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are so happy!
here is our experience:

Well, I've come through the first bit - I'm in the US, and I'm married.
Now, I'm going through the preparations to apply for AOS.  However, I've
a couple of questions that I'd like help with...
1. The information I have says that, in addition to the completable

Five months to the date of applying, I go out to my mail box and there's
my lovely AP, good for multi entries and valid for a year!
In other good news, I've been trying to build my credit score and not
really getting anywhere.  On spec I applied for a BOSE credit card, as I

seems a friend of my wife was talking to an immigration attorney of his
and was talking about cases etc and the topic of background checks on
sponsors came up? Seems according to this guy he said that a new
regulation (how new I do not know) is that they are doing background

Today my wife and I got an approval notice from the Dallas District
Office for our 2 year conditional green card.  We filed for AOS under
the pilot DORA program on July 15th.  My timeline:
April 9, 2003 applied for K1

This is an interesting and helpful community, I've been reading posts
here for a long while but finally decided to post.
Seems like this will be a stupid question, but regardless I need to
know... I'm beginning to understand the order of which forms you apply

About 4 weeks ago we got an email from the USCIS to say that our I-130
case has been transferred to the California Service Center.  From the
other couples on this list we thought yes!! only 3 weeks more!..Well, 4
weeks just went by and we just got an email message saying "On Oct ...

i've been waiting for my EAD for almost 7months  as you can see on my
timeline, so i've contacted the office of our congr rep Max Sandlin ( Go
Democrats,go.....) on Mon Oct 11... his Immigration Liaison, the very
nice Faith White said that she'll contact the NBC.. and guess what...

It's time for my wife and me to file her I-751 since her conditional
GC expires in mid Jan 2005.
Documents I plan to submit are joint income tax returns, bank
statements for the past year with both names listed on the account,