A LUD a day......

sarrebal said:
I live in Manhattan, a 10-minute walk away from the ASC. That's not the point. If they told me to come on July 25 at 3:00pm, I don't see why I should go 5 days before.
Te ponemaish? :D (my USC wife is from the former ussr)
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Ya prekrasno tebya ponimau... and as I have said I do agree with your point and not trying to go 5 days earlier. However, since I need to travel very soon and potentially something like that could speed up the process (I guess that's the point that Addie... was making) why not try to do so...

where is your wife from?
 
pvkby said:
Ya prekrasno tebya ponimau... and as I have said I do agree with your point and not trying to go 5 days earlier. However, since I need to travel very soon and potentially something like that could speed up the process (I guess that's the point that Addie... was making) why not try to do so...

where is your wife from?
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I don't think think AP is affected by how fast we get our FP taken.
My wife is originally from Kiev, but she came here when she was 10 so she's very americanized (but I do practice my russian with parents-in-law and babushka-in-law :D)
 
sarrebal said:
Why doesn't USCIS tell us to go to the nearest ASC whenever we want?
Because there would be HUGE lines like the ones that I used to see at Federal Plaza in NYC until not so long ago.
That's why there's infopass now. What's gonna be next? Walk-in interviews?
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Sarrabel wants to wait thats sarrabels choice, If the opportunity arrives to get some things done early then If possible I will take that opportunity,

it was more a matter of convenience. We were glad NOT to have gone in at our original appt. time of 1:00pm 7/25 where I would have to reschedule patients take time off work, go home pick up my wife & baby and go to the appt. and wait much longer in the middle of the day when the ASC is much busier. We went in a week early before they opened and were in and out in less than 10 minutes.

I have NO problem, going in out of schedule if ASC offices do not have a problem with it, it is not like we are going against policy or trying to make a special request. If ASC's were worried about people coming in early ( after receiving their notices) then they would NOT ALLOW early appts.

Interviews are totally different case, ASC is a Process that is routine and everyone goes through the same process for ASC FP appts. If you have an APPT at ASC at 8:00, there are half a dozen othjer people with the SAME FP APPT. time & date, so It is not a reserved Time for individual th einterview Appt. is an ACTUAL APPT.


At the ASC You walk in they give you a number and your number is called handled much like the DMV, you can go to the DMV before your registration is due and pay it early, they process that payment and get your tags to you that much sooner,

And if even the slight possibility of going in a week early for FP could mean the difference in getting EAD approval a week earlier and being able to get her drivers liscense. The Sooner the better!
I am one who looks for Opportunities and go for them when I see them better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all, And hey what do ya know I tried and succeeded. now next week 7/25 @ 1:00pm i won't have to take time off work, spend extra gas and extra time at what would have been my Original FP, now I can relax and not worry about anything more.

sarrebal don't be such a kiljoy tight ass :( , if the flexibility is there then I choose to take advantage of it.


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sarrebal said:
I don't think think AP is affected by how fast we get our FP taken.
My wife is originally from Kiev, but she came here when she was 10 so she's very americanized (but I do practice my russian with parents-in-law and babushka-in-law :D)
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Agree!
I love Kiev. I think its one of my most favorite cities in the Former USSR. Well let me know how your FP appointment goes. Hopefully things will not take too long and in a couple of weeks we will be talking about how to prepare for the interview...
 
Addie_Goodvibes said:
if the flexibility is there then I choose to take advantage of it.
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The point is that I read the FP notice many times. Didn't find this flexibility.
It says come here at 3pm on 7/25. That's it. It says that you could go any following wednesday up to October if you miss the appt, but it doesn't say that you could go anytime before.
It's good for you that you got it done, but if the officer told you that you weren't scheduled for that day and to come back when your appt actually is, then he would have been right.
 
pvkby said:
Agree!
I love Kiev. I think its one of my most favorite cities in the Former USSR. Well let me know how your FP appointment goes. Hopefully things will not take too long and in a couple of weeks we will be talking about how to prepare for the interview...
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We've never been in Kiev. She never came back since she left 14 years ago.
Her family got back the first time the week after our wedding reception, which was in my homecountry in Italy.

Anyways, if everything goes smooth we should be interviewed in late September or October. Hopefully not on Aug 30,31 and Sep 1 or Nov 27,28 because I do NOT intend to cancel our trips to the Caribbean to make it to the interview.

When I started to get things together NY had processing times as long as 3 years to get your interviews. Now that you could get it in 3 months, it's like a dream.
 
sarrebal said:
When I started to get things together NY had processing times as long as 3 years to get your interviews. Now that you could get it in 3 months, it's like a dream.
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Yeah I agree, they have gotten so much better about the whole green card process. I was really surpised myself when I read that people are getting their letters in a couple of months. My DO processing dates are right around the end of 2005 (even though I assume they are backlogged), but it will be very nice to be done and done by the end of October. I am starting a job in January and really need my green card, since they do not sponsor foreign nationals, so it will be nice to forget about this by that time...I am gradiating in December and if things are finished my then will plan a trip to the Carribean myself to celebrate :)

Really hope my AP comes in sometime in August. My best friend is getting married in Belarus, so gotta be there on September 8...cross my fingers...
 
pvkby said:
Yeah I agree, they have gotten so much better about the whole green card process. I was really surpised myself when I read that people are getting their letters in a couple of months. My DO processing dates are right around the end of 2005 (even though I assume they are backlogged), but it will be very nice to be done and done by the end of October. I am starting a job in January and really need my green card, since they do not sponsor foreign nationals, so it will be nice to forget about this by that time...I am gradiating in December and if things are finished my then will plan a trip to the Carribean myself to celebrate :)

Really hope my AP comes in sometime in August. My best friend is getting married in Belarus, so gotta be there on September 8...cross my fingers...
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Regarding AP, you're tight.
My wife's maid of honor needed one (she's a LPR but she doesn't have a passport, she's also a refugee from former USSR). Her ND was 2/22 (just for I-131) and we got her travel passport at the beginning of May. She got her Italian visa stamp 2 days before the trip.
And you're definitely gonna be ok for employment because you're gonna have your EAD by then for sure, if not the green card (but EAD is enough to be legally employed).
 
sarrebal said:
Regarding AP, you're tight.
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Yeah, I agree that it is really cutting it close. It looks like it takes somewhere between 1-3 months to get it. So with a receipt date of 6/26, I am hoping that it will be somewhere around 2 months when I get it and just enough time to buy a ticket and go home...just in time for the wedding. I mean it is about 2-2.5 months...I just wish they would be more flexible with expiditing the cases...
 
Hi everyone,
I know its ikind of too early to think about it, but here is another delema that I have and need some advise on. I am in school and have another semester until December, my wife graduated in May. My school is in NC, she went to grad school and works in DC. We lived together in the summer of course, but there is a chance she might need to stay in DC in the fall and I will need to go to NC to finish school. The reason why she wants to stay in DC is simply because she has a job and secondly because we both want to live there after I graduate (i have already signed up with a firm there starting in January)...so the dillema is that we do not really have a place that's in both our names, we can get life and medical insuarance in both of our names and do the joint bank account...but I just do not want to do anything that might slow down the process...I mean we have known each other for about 10 years and we have records of all sorts of romantic stuff (pics and letters) and we have been engaged for about 2 years before the wedding and spent A LOT of money on the wedding of course...please let me know your thoughts??
 
pvkby said:
Hi everyone,
I know its ikind of too early to think about it, but here is another delema that I have and need some advise on. I am in school and have another semester until December, my wife graduated in May. My school is in NC, she went to grad school and works in DC. We lived together in the summer of course, but there is a chance she might need to stay in DC in the fall and I will need to go to NC to finish school. The reason why she wants to stay in DC is simply because she has a job and secondly because we both want to live there after I graduate (i have already signed up with a firm there starting in January)...so the dillema is that we do not really have a place that's in both our names, we can get life and medical insuarance in both of our names and do the joint bank account...but I just do not want to do anything that might slow down the process...I mean we have known each other for about 10 years and we have records of all sorts of romantic stuff (pics and letters) and we have been engaged for about 2 years before the wedding and spent A LOT of money on the wedding of course...please let me know your thoughts??
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Not living together usually raises a red flag, but I think with your background it's definitely ok. Just bring all that evidence.
And get the bank account and insurance right away.
 
Today my spouse went early mornign to Houston ASC and they took his CODE 3 FP for both 765 & 485. Spouse's actual appointment date is 07-27-06 but we decided to try today. When you go in the early mornign, there is not much crowd. We thought going early my speed the interview letter...

now will wait for the interview letter.

Timeline:
DO: Houston
I-130, I-485, I-765, i-131 sent to Chicago by Fedex: 06/21/06
Package delivered: 06/22/06 at 9:am
RD - 06/22/06
ND: I-130, I-485, I-765, I-131: 06/27/06
Checks cashed: 06/27/06
Received NOA for I-485,I-130, I-765,I-131 - 06/29/06
LUD (I-485,I-130, I-765,I-131): 07/03/06
FP notice Received - 07/16/06( ND - 07/13)
FP APPOINTMENT date - 07/27/06 but FP completed on 07/20/06
 
Here's some advice: at the interview don't refer to him as "my spouse", not the most effective way to prove it's a real marriage.

workhomes2003 said:
Today my spouse went early mornign to Houston ASC and they took his CODE 3 FP for both 765 & 485. Spouse's actual appointment date is 07-27-06 but we decided to try today. When you go in the early mornign, there is not much crowd. We thought going early my speed the interview letter...

now will wait for the interview letter.

Timeline:
DO: Houston
I-130, I-485, I-765, i-131 sent to Chicago by Fedex: 06/21/06
Package delivered: 06/22/06 at 9:am
RD - 06/22/06
ND: I-130, I-485, I-765, I-131: 06/27/06
Checks cashed: 06/27/06
Received NOA for I-485,I-130, I-765,I-131 - 06/29/06
LUD (I-485,I-130, I-765,I-131): 07/03/06
FP notice Received - 07/16/06( ND - 07/13)
FP APPOINTMENT date - 07/27/06 but FP completed on 07/20/06
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Addie,

I see you keep mention "we" did this, "we" did that....does the sponsor have to show up for the fingerprinting or are you going for support? Just wondering.

Addie_Goodvibes said:
Your ASC / FP appt. is for I-485 & I-765 if you received them both in one notice then they will take care of it in one appt. I wish we received our ASC appt. for 485 & 765 in one notice :confused:

Actually as long as you have both ASC notices you can take care of them together according to the Gardena Ca. Application Support Center. Your local ASC may have a different Policy regarding this, I suggest your bring both notices and ask the Information desk if you can take care it all the same time.

ASC codes mean different things for
ASC code 2 is usually only thumb print and photo submitted with I-765ASC code 3 is more thorough 10 prints and photos submitted for I-485

We completed our first ASC/FP appt. for 485 on Saturday , only to come home and find another FP appt.notice in the mail for our I-765. So we rushed back to the ASC center to see if we could take care of the 765 FP unfortunatly they were closing. they did tell us we could come back anytime.

They did tell us we could come back before the appt. date of 7/25

At least at the Gardena CA, ASC they will let you do your ASC/FP notices at any time as long as you present an Appt. notice.

I am not sure if they will make you wait behind those who have appt. scheduled on that day, I will find out tomorrow morning as We are going in to try to take care of the 765 FP appt. tomorrow.
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eddie_d said:
Addie,

I see you keep mention "we" did this, "we" did that....does the sponsor have to show up for the fingerprinting or are you going for support? Just wondering.
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Good question, I go for support as well as the fact that my wife does not have a US drivers license. mostly for support
 
Thanks, that's what I figured. My wife travels often for work and it would suck if she had to change things around to come babysit me while getting fingerprinted :)
 
eddie_d said:
Thanks, that's what I figured. My wife travels often for work and it would suck if she had to change things around to come babysit me while getting fingerprinted :)
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The unknown eliments of the whole USCIS process can be scary , so being there for my wife put her at ease ,although it was a simple process, it relaxed her and made things easier, for the guy I am sure he doesn't need as much support, but if possible I suggest accompany your spouse / family member it makes the process easier and this is the most important process in your life together, it is better shared in my opinion, we even took picutres in front of the ASC, then afterwards enjoyed Breakfast to celebrate one mor emile stone accomplished in this long process, ;)
 
Addie_Goodvibes said:
The unknown eliments of the whole USCIS process can be scary , so being there for my wife put her at ease ,although it was a simple process, it relaxed her and made things easier, for the guy I am sure he doesn't need as much support, but if possible I suggest accompany your spouse / family member it makes the process easier and this is the most important process in your life together, it is better shared in my opinion, we even took picutres in front of the ASC, then afterwards enjoyed Breakfast to celebrate one mor emile stone accomplished in this long process, ;)
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I've had my fingerprints taken a few times already...I think I'll be OK alone. :p
 
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