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DV 2018 AOS Only

Gucci2507 said:
Hello, I am not an expert, but I think that he should be fine. Do not worry that much.
There will be a number after three zero's. For example mine was EU00023**. Some other people also got good numbers like 0003***.

What did he get?

Hope this will be helpful for your friend.
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This is completely wrong. Please don't dispense advise unless you understand the DV rules and have done the proper home work in understanding the process too or you might mislead one.
 
Sm1smom said:
This is completely wrong. Please don't dispense advise unless you understand the DV rules and have done the proper home work in understanding the process too or you might mislead one.
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I am not an expert and I replied regarding numbers, so I did not say anything incorrectly because I did not mention any Anything about Italy and Morocco.
 
SusieQQQ said:
I'm not sure how far back the post you're quoting is, but your response is incorrect. The person in question incorrectly charged to EU (Italy) when he should have charged to AF (Morocco, where he was born). This case would be disqualified unless the person has an Italian spouse to cross charge to.
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I am not an expert and I replied regarding numbers, so I did not say anything incorrectly because I did not mention any Anything about Italy and Morocco.
 
Sm1smom said:
For the last time, READ THE SPREADSHEET! And please pay attention to what you're reading. There are several tabs on the spreadsheet, one of which is a step by step guide of what happens when.

Even though you claim you've gone through the spreadsheet, it's quite obvious you've not done a diligent job here. I'm sorry I can't spoon feed answers to you - I already went to a lot of trouble to answer the most basic questions you're asking on that spreadsheet.
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You are a rude person. You have to calm down a little bit ok?
You cannot answer simple questions but instead just transferring me to the spreadsheet that I already read.

You must read my questions carefully before you show how rude you are.
 
Gucci2507 said:
I am not an expert and I replied regarding numbers, so I did not say anything incorrectly because I did not mention any Anything about Italy and Morocco.
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You did respond incorrectly because you said he'd be fine. He won't be. He will spend probably nearly $1000 in the process only to be disqualified. By the way the question was actually about Italy vs Morocco and not the numbers in the first place. You need to admit you make mistakes.
 
Gucci2507 said:
You are a rude person. You have to calm down a little bit ok?
You cannot answer simple questions but instead just transferring me to the spreadsheet that I already read.

You must read my questions carefully before you show how rude you are.
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That so called rude person spent hours putting that spreadsheet together and updating it each year, and countless more hours answering questions here.

Every single question you have asked so far already has its answer in the spreadsheet. Perhaps you are the one who needs to read things carefully, anyway good luck finding someone else to help you as I am pretty sure no one wants to waste their free time on people who respond like you do. (Not wanting to speak for mom of course. But generally people appreciate free advice especially when it's good, rather than throwing tantrums about not being spoon-fed.)
 
SusieQQQ said:
That so called rude person spent hours putting that spreadsheet together and updating it each year, and countless more hours answering questions here.

Every single question you have asked so far already has its answer in the spreadsheet. Perhaps you are the one who needed to read things carefully, anyway good luck finding someone else to help you as I am pretty sure no one wants to waste their free time on people who respond like you do. (Not wanting to speak for mom of course. But generally people appreciate free advice especially when it's good, rather than throwing tantrums about it.)
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Still rude.

Putting the spreadshit together is willingness to do so, but being rude is an attitude. Perhaps you are a good person, but you were rude towards me.

Yes, I had issues understanding some key points, but your responses were rude.
You had no patience in our case.

Thanks.
 
Gucci2507 said:
Ok. You are his/her backup right ? Mind your own business please, because I was not talking to you

Thanks
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I understand the panic. I am in the same position. The spreadsheet doesn't seem informative at first but try to check the other thread like 2015 AOS Only or 2014 AOS Only as well then come back and read the spreadsheet. It's really helpful.
 
Gucci2507 said:
Still rude.

Putting the spreadshit together is willingness to do so, but being rude is an attitude. Perhaps you are a good person, but you were rude towards me.

Yes, I had issues understanding some key points, but your responses were rude.
You had no patience in our case.

Thanks.
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Gucci2507. I just deleted your last post. Your attitude and attacks will not be tolerated here. Mind your manners or go and find someone else that will provide all this information for no charge. Or just hire a lawyer who will be paid well to put up with your childish behavior. Ether way - you have been warned.
 
Jarr said:
I understand the panic. I am in the same position. The spreadsheet doesn't seem informative at first but try to check the other thread like 2015 AOS Only or 2014 AOS Only as well then come back and read the spreadsheet. It's really helpful.
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Thanks for advise.

Will do.
 
Britsimon said:
Gucci2507. I just deleted your last post. Your attitude and attacks will not be tolerated here. Mind your manners or go and find someone else that will provide all this information for no charge. Or just hire a lawyer who will be paid well to put up with your childish behavior. Ether way - you have been warned.
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Keep your warnings to yourself. Scrub.
 
Just so everyone is clear. Sm1smom and SusieQQQ have spent several YEARS helping literally thousands of people get through their DV lottery process. Mom created the spreadsheet and without a doubt the leading expert of DV based AOS. They don't get paid to do the work they do, they do it for free because they know what it is to be in a process where very little good information is available. They don't deserve to be treated with such disrespect - and how long do you think their help would be offered if all they get is people being rude for no reason???

A childish rude attitude toward them will earn anyone a ban.
 
Jarr said:
I understand the panic. I am in the same position. The spreadsheet doesn't seem informative at first but try to check the other thread like 2015 AOS Only or 2014 AOS Only as well then come back and read the spreadsheet. It's really helpful.
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Thanks for taking the time to read and understand :)
 
I would like again thanks mom and simon and susie! Yes, it is a very painful learning curve especially for first time winner ( I assumed most winners are 1st time). But indeed, by digging into old posts and read thru the sheet more are really helpful. These ppl had help others with their experience, others' story, and all the other cases beyond this forum. They have gather all the information that can help ppl like me or anyone else that win this lottery. AND they DON'T get PAID!

Just like volunteer. Would you treat volunteer with rude attitude saying that they are not being polite enough? You might can do this to waitress or some other PAID service. But please bear in mind these ppl are doing for free. When you ask others' help for free, be polite, be patient, and be respect! Thank you all, and bless us all!
 
Hello everyone,

First of all, I want to thank you for sharing the wonderful excel sheet and creating this excellent forum to help everyone in this process.

I am a Ph.D. student in U.S. and planning to finish my PhD by the end of summer. I have started looking for jobs and I need to apply for OPT in the next couple of months. Fortunately, I have been selected for further processing in DV program for fiscal year 2018. My case number is 2018AS00003XXX. It seems that the case number is not so high and hopefully, it should be current sometime between November and February.

I have understood from one of the mom’s responses that it is highly recommended to apply for AOS after receiving the OPT approval and EAD card. The only issue is that in my case, I might have to wait until November to receive my OPT approval. So, I am a little bit concerned about the late submission of DS-260 and my AOS package. Basically, I am worried that while USCIS is processing my OPT, my CN becomes current. I also might be able to ask my Ph.D. advisor to let me delay my graduation and stay under F1 status for another semester if it helps for AOS process.

However, I would be grateful if you could advise me in this situation. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your response.
 
KKT115948 said:
Hello everyone,

First of all, I want to thank you for sharing the wonderful excel sheet and creating this excellent forum to help everyone in this process.

I am a Ph.D. student in U.S. and planning to finish my PhD by the end of summer. I have started looking for jobs and I need to apply for OPT in the next couple of months. Fortunately, I have been selected for further processing in DV program for fiscal year 2018. My case number is 2018AS00003XXX. It seems that the case number is not so high and hopefully, it should be current sometime between November and February.

I have understood from one of the mom’s responses that it is highly recommended to apply for AOS after receiving the OPT approval and EAD card. The only issue is that in my case, I might have to wait until November to receive my OPT approval. So, I am a little bit concerned about the late submission of DS-260 and my AOS package. Basically, I am worried that while USCIS is processing my OPT, my CN becomes current. I also might be able to ask my Ph.D. advisor to let me delay my graduation and stay under F1 status for another semester if it helps for AOS process.

However, I would be grateful if you could advise me in this situation. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your response.
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I honestly can't tell you which way you go: delay graduation and thereby extend F 1 status, or proceed with OPT. I'm not an immigration attorney by profession and I'm not pretending to be one. So I typically like to limit my involvement with people's cases to simply providing DV based AOS guidance.

Having said that, I can say I don't know of any situation where an OPT petition got denied due to a pending or dual filing of AOS. I believe we've had cases on some of the past Threads of OPT approval with a pending AOS. However, I like the idea of keeping the immigration journey clean and straightforward, which is why I always encourage making sure one's current status is secure prior to filing AOS to ensure there's a fall back status in case the AOS petition is denied. Hope this makes sense.
 
Sm1smom said:
1. Your DS is linked to your wife's, it's not like you can just go into CEAC and start filing out a form for yourself. A separate form should have been filled out for you when your wife submitted hers. Did your wife list you as FTJ on her own form? Did she fill out DS forms for the kids? Why wasn't one submitted for you when hers was submitted?

2. Yes.

3. Of course, yes.

4. Both you and your wife clearly don't understand the AOS process, talk less of the FTJ option you're trying to pursue. I already gave you a link to the AOS process spreadsheet. You or your wife need to go through that as a starting point.

P.s. There's no need to carryover the numbering from a previous post. Since you're putting up a new post, you can simply number them from one again like I did.
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She was not sure what need to be done for
 
So, my wife and kids are legally residing in USA on TN-1 and F1 visa and are doing AOS. I'm outside USA. We also have Canadian passport.
For her AOS:
1. Does she need original country (the one applied for DV based on) current passport for the AOS process? she has one but expiring in December. She also has the birth certificate from the original country.
3. Does she need any other document from original country?
4. She already applied for DS260, but she had booked a ticket before knowing the dv results and is going out of USA to finish important business out of USA for two weeks, any issue with this? she will not leave USA after return.

For me I'm doing CN:
5. My wife filed her DS260 for herself and the kids, I'm still filling mine on the same link of hers. The problem is I dont remember all the addresses I lived in all the way to 16 years, what should I do?
6. When would I get my interview? she has to have hers first?
 
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