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Today I received the last green card. Some people may go through the same situation, so here is a brief time line. I had an interview on 7/2 for my wife, one of my children, and myself. Everybody was approved, all three passports were stamped. Two days later the kid's status changed to CPO, but...

Several sources (including an official manual posted here by the forum member Raevsky) state that in theory the available visa number may cease to exist, especially closer to the end of fiscal year. Such situation may happen, in my understanding, when a person files his I-485 not immediately...

I-485 application fee for kids filing together with a parent is $600, and they do not pay for biometrics, because they must not be fingerprinted. Makes sense for me, now why do these kids sometimes receive a NOA telling that they need to be fingerprinted? Is it arbitrary? If they do biometrics...

Are there any folks here who have sent packages to Chicago in April? Is it still OK to send? From the signatures one can glean that three months from sending application to receiving a GC is an average time. Am I missing something?

There were many discussions about how early one can send the application - on the 1st of October, or when the number becomes current. How about the opposite question: what is the latest possible date to send the documents? In theory it is the last day of September, '09, I know :-) But I am more...

The USCIS says that adjustment applicants are eligible to efile forms I-765 and I-131 on the basis of an approved or pending I-485. Has anybody who are doing AOS now or did it in the past tried this option?

My native language uses a non-Latin alphabet. When I received the first foreign passport, my last name was spelled (with Latin characters) in one way. After the passport expired, I applied for a new one, which had my last name spelled out in a slightly different way. The second spelling is the...

Here is the deal - my wife needs to leave US for a couple of weeks. She has a J-2 which has expired about 3 years ago, so she'll have to apply for a new J-2. The status is legal. My J-1 expired at the same time. DS-2019, departmental letter, and so on, everything is OK. We are not subject for 2...

Hi friends, maybe somebody knows about possible problems/solutions in a situation, when a person (myself) was born in one place (Soviet Union then, Ukraine now), but his birth certificate states that he was born in Russia? (Soviet rules allowed to enter the place of registration as a place of...