It is great to read about all the success stories in this forum. I guess it is now my turn to enter into the "lion's den." I received my interview letter today for an appointment on 4/27/2011. I do have one question. In the section that asks for documents you must bring with you they ask for "a Visa (including extensions)." I have been on an F-1 visa all this time and never left the U.S so Im not sure what is meant by "including extensions" and which document will show this. Since Ive transferred from a Community College to a 4-year college will my I-20s be enough. Wish me luck guys!
It is great to read about all the success stories in this forum. I guess it is now my turn to enter into the "lion's den." I received my interview letter today for an appointment on 4/27/2011. I do have one question. In the section that asks for documents you must bring with you they ask for "a Visa (including extensions)." I have been on an F-1 visa all this time and never left the U.S so Im not sure what is meant by "including extensions" and which document will show this. Since Ive transferred from a Community College to a 4-year college will my I-20s be enough. Wish me luck guys!
Hi everyone, today we got our interview. It was originally at 1400 pm and reached there at 1330 pm.we waited almost 45 minutes and then were called by the officer to his office for interview. Firstly, he asked for passports, I94, original birth certificates, marriage certificate, original DV lottery letter. He also asked my latest degree and told him I have a bachelor degree. Then he asked whether I have it evaluated. I told I didnt do it for university diploma but high school. He said it is also ok and i gave it to him. He was a serious young officer and he even checked my daughter;s birth certificate to make sure that our marriage is not a fake one. I also filled an extra form regarding my visa status(G4). He asked when was the last time I entered the US and if I ve been in US before and when I did that. He asked for the pay stubs, employment letter even though I provided all these things on the previous file.Officer also asked aboout the tax returns but he did not even look at it when he saw the big thing envelope. When we finished the filling the form, he said we are approved and would get the card in 10 business day. Thanks to everyone in this forum and hope you the best guys....
Interview experience: So we got there 9:30am we were called at 10:15am and left the interview at 10:30am. The officer was very professional and he knew a lot about lottery and also 245i. He said we provided all documents necessary and even more than was necessary which made his job very easy . He asked for: both original birth certificates, original lottery letter and lottery payment and all financial documents (he said that for lottery they are definitely looking for that!)So we gave employment letter, w2s, paystubs, bank accounts) and recent tax returns. He asked a few things about our marriage and for us to show some pictures (strange because we are married for ten years!) In the mean time he took our i-94 out the passport and said we are approved because there are 1200 visas for SA and our # is 8XX. The GC should be in the mail in 10 business days. All we can say is THANK YOU for all the help and support from this forum and I hope the best for all that are still pending approval!
Your case number should come up in next visa bulletin. And, you don't need 2nd letter from KCC for adjustment of status. Do your medicals and send your $440 diversity visa fee. Then send your AOS package to Chicago right after the next visa bulletin is published. As you are going to sent your package in the middle of May, you should have sufficient time to process by September.
Hey sharminlee,
Thanks a lot for answering my questions.
I actually received a 2nd letter from the u.s department of state saying:"Thank you for informing us for your intention to adjust your status...." and asking me pay the $440 Dv Fee, So I am assuming that is the 2nd NL. I just payed my DV fee today, Does it matter if I pay it before my case number become current? cause when I called Kcc they told me that it is recommended to wait until my number become current .
Thanks for you help,
Best Wishes.
Reda
Thank you, Sharminlee. I WILL bring back very good news tomorrow!
To R2010 and umuteren: Congrats and enjoy. Thanks for sharing your experience.
To enfl: the same thing is going on with my husband's package March 11th. So we'll see tomorrow what will happen. Check has not been cashed yet.
Fingers crossed......
Congrets umuteren !!!
Folks,
Had a lunch at Chinese place today, and my fortune cookie told me "You'll find today what you've been looking for". My wife didn't know about it, but when I came home she greeted me by saying "We have a game today, called Find Your Greencard". And yes, the Fortune cookie was right, I found it on a bookshelf squeezed between recipe books. So, to give credit to Fortune that's blessing us with sudden favors and teasing us with sudden hints, here's our story.
I was lucky to get to the US for the first time in 1993 as a high school exchange student. Coming from then-USSR i was stunned, more by breadth of opportunities that every kid in my middle-class suburban high school had, than by simply having 20 different brands of shampoos and toothpastes on grocery store shelves. That impression stuck with me forever since, so after returning home and partying for a couple years, I reanimated the thought of coming back, to the US or similar country. I made a career shift to IT knowing that for me the shortest path was to utilize the skilled migration route (Internet and software industries in general were booming).
By 2005 we were in Australia, on my working visa. That country was beautiful, can't take that away from it. We applied for perm in AU in 2007, after gaining sufficient work experience to get advantage based on priorities at the moment. And then the crisis hits, Australia responding by slowing down and revisiting priorities of its immigration policy. At the last step of application, my daughter in Russia had to pass medicals, and due to sheer incompetence of staff at the clinic, her medicals got stuck there for two months. The medicals were one week late arriving in Sydney - Australian government just passed legislation in March 2009 that put our application at the end of the backlog, where it still is at the moment.
We were already in USA though and looked at the nearest neighbor which also had skilled migration program - Canada. We've spent there a few months, while I was working for a client there. Honestly, we hated it. Quebec people and food were great, the weather however, non-existent health care, French language domination and general sense of inferiority vs the US made our stay there downright depressing. Still, we were hoping for a quick citizenship giving a right to live and work in the US. We applied, and right after our application got to the visa office, Canadian government, due to crisis, made the change in priorities, moving our app to the end of the queue again. That was June last year, we never heard from them ever since.
And that's when my wife's lottery win came, when we expected it the least but needed it the most. 10 months later we're already US permanent residents. What brought us here was Fortune, but what led us here all along was hard work and dedication. Don't underestimate these two factors and you'll be all right regardless of where you are.
Now to the people on this forum - I don't know any other community on immigration subject that is as friendly, responsive and supportive as this one. We enjoyed every moment spent here and wouldn't be where we are without your guidance. Keep up the good work and good luck to everyone with your endeavors.
Also, we'll be glad to meet new people who are in the same boat with us. We're Russian-speaking couple with two tots, living in San Jose/Silicon Valley area. If you are nearby and feel like you need some questions answered, or just to hang out - just PM me, we'll be glad to help.
Folks,
Had a lunch at Chinese place today, and my fortune cookie told me "You'll find today what you've been looking for". My wife didn't know about it, but when I came home she greeted me by saying "We have a game today, called Find Your Greencard". And yes, the Fortune cookie was right, I found it on a bookshelf squeezed between recipe books. So, to give credit to Fortune that's blessing us with sudden favors and teasing us with sudden hints, here's our story.
I was lucky to get to the US for the first time in 1993 as a high school exchange student. Coming from then-USSR i was stunned, more by breadth of opportunities that every kid in my middle-class suburban high school had, than by simply having 20 different brands of shampoos and toothpastes on grocery store shelves. That impression stuck with me forever since, so after returning home and partying for a couple years, I reanimated the thought of coming back, to the US or similar country. I made a career shift to IT knowing that for me the shortest path was to utilize the skilled migration route (Internet and software industries in general were booming).
By 2005 we were in Australia, on my working visa. That country was beautiful, can't take that away from it. We applied for perm in AU in 2007, after gaining sufficient work experience to get advantage based on priorities at the moment. And then the crisis hits, Australia responding by slowing down and revisiting priorities of its immigration policy. At the last step of application, my daughter in Russia had to pass medicals, and due to sheer incompetence of staff at the clinic, her medicals got stuck there for two months. The medicals were one week late arriving in Sydney - Australian government just passed legislation in March 2009 that put our application at the end of the backlog, where it still is at the moment.
We were already in USA though and looked at the nearest neighbor which also had skilled migration program - Canada. We've spent there a few months, while I was working for a client there. Honestly, we hated it. Quebec people and food were great, the weather however, non-existent health care, French language domination and general sense of inferiority vs the US made our stay there downright depressing. Still, we were hoping for a quick citizenship giving a right to live and work in the US. We applied, and right after our application got to the visa office, Canadian government, due to crisis, made the change in priorities, moving our app to the end of the queue again. That was June last year, we never heard from them ever since.
And that's when my wife's lottery win came, when we expected it the least but needed it the most. 10 months later we're already US permanent residents. What brought us here was Fortune, but what led us here all along was hard work and dedication. Don't underestimate these two factors and you'll be all right regardless of where you are.
Now to the people on this forum - I don't know any other community on immigration subject that is as friendly, responsive and supportive as this one. We enjoyed every moment spent here and wouldn't be where we are without your guidance. Keep up the good work and good luck to everyone with your endeavors.
Also, we'll be glad to meet new people who are in the same boat with us. We're Russian-speaking couple with two tots, living in San Jose/Silicon Valley area. If you are nearby and feel like you need some questions answered, or just to hang out - just PM me, we'll be glad to help.
hi, how is everything? hoping to hear good news from you.
Folks,
Had a lunch at Chinese place today, and my fortune cookie told me "You'll find today what you've been looking for". My wife didn't know about it, but when I came home she greeted me by saying "We have a game today, called Find Your Greencard". And yes, the Fortune cookie was right, I found it on a bookshelf squeezed between recipe books. So, to give credit to Fortune that's blessing us with sudden favors and teasing us with sudden hints, here's our story.
I was lucky to get to the US for the first time in 1993 as a high school exchange student. Coming from then-USSR i was stunned, more by breadth of opportunities that every kid in my middle-class suburban high school had, than by simply having 20 different brands of shampoos and toothpastes on grocery store shelves. That impression stuck with me forever since, so after returning home and partying for a couple years, I reanimated the thought of coming back, to the US or similar country. I made a career shift to IT knowing that for me the shortest path was to utilize the skilled migration route (Internet and software industries in general were booming).
By 2005 we were in Australia, on my working visa. That country was beautiful, can't take that away from it. We applied for perm in AU in 2007, after gaining sufficient work experience to get advantage based on priorities at the moment. And then the crisis hits, Australia responding by slowing down and revisiting priorities of its immigration policy. At the last step of application, my daughter in Russia had to pass medicals, and due to sheer incompetence of staff at the clinic, her medicals got stuck there for two months. The medicals were one week late arriving in Sydney - Australian government just passed legislation in March 2009 that put our application at the end of the backlog, where it still is at the moment.
We were already in USA though and looked at the nearest neighbor which also had skilled migration program - Canada. We've spent there a few months, while I was working for a client there. Honestly, we hated it. Quebec people and food were great, the weather however, non-existent health care, French language domination and general sense of inferiority vs the US made our stay there downright depressing. Still, we were hoping for a quick citizenship giving a right to live and work in the US. We applied, and right after our application got to the visa office, Canadian government, due to crisis, made the change in priorities, moving our app to the end of the queue again. That was June last year, we never heard from them ever since.
And that's when my wife's lottery win came, when we expected it the least but needed it the most. 10 months later we're already US permanent residents. What brought us here was Fortune, but what led us here all along was hard work and dedication. Don't underestimate these two factors and you'll be all right regardless of where you are.
Now to the people on this forum - I don't know any other community on immigration subject that is as friendly, responsive and supportive as this one. We enjoyed every moment spent here and wouldn't be where we are without your guidance. Keep up the good work and good luck to everyone with your endeavors.
Also, we'll be glad to meet new people who are in the same boat with us. We're Russian-speaking couple with two tots, living in San Jose/Silicon Valley area. If you are nearby and feel like you need some questions answered, or just to hang out - just PM me, we'll be glad to help.
Folks,
Had a lunch at Chinese place today, and my fortune cookie told me "You'll find today what you've been looking for". My wife didn't know about it, but when I came home she greeted me by saying "We have a game today, called Find Your Greencard". And yes, the Fortune cookie was right, I found it on a bookshelf squeezed between recipe books. So, to give credit to Fortune that's blessing us with sudden favors and teasing us with sudden hints, here's our story.
I was lucky to get to the US for the first time in 1993 as a high school exchange student. Coming from then-USSR i was stunned, more by breadth of opportunities that every kid in my middle-class suburban high school had, than by simply having 20 different brands of shampoos and toothpastes on grocery store shelves. That impression stuck with me forever since, so after returning home and partying for a couple years, I reanimated the thought of coming back, to the US or similar country. I made a career shift to IT knowing that for me the shortest path was to utilize the skilled migration route (Internet and software industries in general were booming).
By 2005 we were in Australia, on my working visa. That country was beautiful, can't take that away from it. We applied for perm in AU in 2007, after gaining sufficient work experience to get advantage based on priorities at the moment. And then the crisis hits, Australia responding by slowing down and revisiting priorities of its immigration policy. At the last step of application, my daughter in Russia had to pass medicals, and due to sheer incompetence of staff at the clinic, her medicals got stuck there for two months. The medicals were one week late arriving in Sydney - Australian government just passed legislation in March 2009 that put our application at the end of the backlog, where it still is at the moment.
We were already in USA though and looked at the nearest neighbor which also had skilled migration program - Canada. We've spent there a few months, while I was working for a client there. Honestly, we hated it. Quebec people and food were great, the weather however, non-existent health care, French language domination and general sense of inferiority vs the US made our stay there downright depressing. Still, we were hoping for a quick citizenship giving a right to live and work in the US. We applied, and right after our application got to the visa office, Canadian government, due to crisis, made the change in priorities, moving our app to the end of the queue again. That was June last year, we never heard from them ever since.
And that's when my wife's lottery win came, when we expected it the least but needed it the most. 10 months later we're already US permanent residents. What brought us here was Fortune, but what led us here all along was hard work and dedication. Don't underestimate these two factors and you'll be all right regardless of where you are.
Now to the people on this forum - I don't know any other community on immigration subject that is as friendly, responsive and supportive as this one. We enjoyed every moment spent here and wouldn't be where we are without your guidance. Keep up the good work and good luck to everyone with your endeavors.
Also, we'll be glad to meet new people who are in the same boat with us. We're Russian-speaking couple with two tots, living in San Jose/Silicon Valley area. If you are nearby and feel like you need some questions answered, or just to hang out - just PM me, we'll be glad to help.