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Both yours and your husband? On hold where? They both can’t possibly be “on hold” if one payment was cashed and the NOA for it was sent. They can’t possibly be “on hold” if you already got bio notice for both.
Anyway, you can start by trying to get a USCIS rep to follow up with your FO to find out about your interview date. Depending on the outcome, you can subsequently initiate a congressional inquiry.
yes, unfortunately. it is on hold on NBC.
thank you so much. I will try to get a Tier 2 callback tomorrow.
 
Hello,

My wife and me did our interviews on August 20th. It went well, the officer told us she would approve the case once she get the background check results. We had our biometrics appointment today. I am a bit worried about timelines. I am from Spain and my wife is from Russia, will our background check be completed in time? Is there something I should do during this month?
No one here can say if your background check will clear on time or when it will. You’ll just need to be patient for a while and keep your fingers crossed. You can attempt to get some update if nothing happens after waiting about 2 weeks.
 
Hello
We had our interview today at Hartford office.it was one hour and half , the officer went through the form ask questions and he gave us the RFE and asked us to bring back form with complete explanation and approve that we maintain status from our last entry to date . He said as soon as he gets the requested documents he gonna proves the case and was worried about the FY .
I will keep you posted and updated.
 
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No one here can say if your background check will clear on time or when it will. You’ll just need to be patient for a while and keep your fingers crossed. You can attempt to get some update if nothing happens after waiting about 2 weeks.
Thanks.

By the way, a little about our interview. We had it at the Nashville FO. The interview lasted around 15 to 20 minutes. She asked for our passports and SSN. She went over our personal data (name, country and date of birth, address, etc) and then went over the eligibility questions. Really fast and straigth foward.
At the end she said that everything looked fine but she couldnt approved the case until after she got the biometric information.
 
You can’t see “anything” like how? You mean you’re seeing a blank screen with nothing, no tabs, not even the drop down window with the limited options like @coffeemonster described?
So, if I go into my profile this is what I see. And I also do not have the info pass or follow up or documents missing thing (although for this last one I guess the missing mail could do? but not the one for electronic copies). If I just put my receipt number on the online case status, it says it was received on June 3rd and that is all. Whenever I tried EMMA to tell me what was up with that, they only said once I was sent a notice they would update it, but two notices later here we are with no updates and that weird discrepancy. I still bring it up every time they ask me if I want to create an online account lol maybe some day someone will do something about it and the tool will be actually useful.

Thank you for asking, once it reached my part of Mississippi it had died down a lot but it really savaged New Orleans, it was insane. They expect to be weeks without full restoration of power. Here where I am things are slowly going back to normal and almost everyone has power back on, all schools will be back tomorrow mostly in person with some online options for those that lived down in the coast. Seeing the images of NOLA and Gulfport was heartbreaking, the hurricane stayed for HOURS there.


As for my case, I called USCIS and they placed an inquiry with a tier 2, but then again is a 30 day wait (which places me right on the last day of the FY) and they said that until the New Orleans office opens, they cannot reschedule nor send out my case to another office, so there is nothing to be done and they don't expect to open for weeks...
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my i140 was approved a few days back. in parallel, for professional reasons, i accepted an offer for which a H1B premium processing transfer has been filed and likely to be approved before my DV AOS interview in September.

will the different petitions in the system be likely to cause a delay in DV AOS approval after the interview assuming everything else is alright with my DV AOS application? just a bit concerned since there's limited time till end of the year after my interview
 
my i140 was approved a few days back. in parallel, for professional reasons, i accepted an offer for which a H1B premium processing transfer has been filed and likely to be approved before my DV AOS interview in September.

will the different petitions in the system be likely to cause a delay in DV AOS approval after the interview assuming everything else is alright with my DV AOS application? just a bit concerned since there's limited time till end of the year after my interview
They shouldn’t.
 
Hello
We had our interview today at Hartford office.it was one hour and half , the officer went through the form ask questions and he gave us the RFE and asked us to bring back form with complete explanation and approve that we maintain status from our last entry to date . He said as soon as he gets the requested documents he gonna proves the case and was worried about the FY .
I will keep you posted and updated.
Was there anything missing in your travel history when you presented your most recent i-94?

I have my interview this Friday and my travel history shows one location departure as "Unavailable." So I printed my itinerary for that date and I also made sure to check the arrival stamp in my passport in case the IO ask about the missing information. I hope that's convincing.
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Was there anything missing in your travel history when you presented your most recent i-94?

I have my interview this Friday and my travel history shows one location departure as "Unavailable." So I printed my itinerary for that date and I also made sure to check the arrival stamp in my passport in case the IO ask about the missing information. I hope that's convincing.
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Judging from our own history this seems fairly common. As long as the dates of departure and arrival are correctly reported, that’s the main thing.
 
Was there anything missing in your travel history when you presented your most recent i-94?

I have my interview this Friday and my travel history shows one location departure as "Unavailable." So I printed my itinerary for that date and I also made sure to check the arrival stamp in my passport in case the IO ask about the missing information. I hope that's convincing.
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They asked for evidence for maintain of status during our stay in US and write statements explain that
I-94 for arrival only
Good luck with your interview.
 
Was there anything missing in your travel history when you presented your most recent i-94?

I have my interview this Friday and my travel history shows one location departure as "Unavailable." So I printed my itinerary for that date and I also made sure to check the arrival stamp in my passport in case the IO ask about the missing information. I hope that's convincing.
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I-94/travel history does not demonstrate how one has continuously maintained their status.
 
1. This morning I got an email from KCC saying my family size is 3 but I made payment for 2 to do AOS. However, on April 8th, I informed KCC about the fact that my husband is not doing AOS, he would do FTJ and received a response on April 12, explaining the FTJ process. I am calling KCC but they are not answering. I emailed them but I don't know how long it will take for KCC to respond. I remember someone had a similar problem. I was wondering how they solved it.
2. Also, can I interpret this like 'IO decided to approve my case and asked KCC to send my files and then KCC thought that I had to do AOS for 3 based on the initial application?'
3. Can expedite request or any other inquiry help me with KCC problem?
Thanks
 
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1. This morning I got an email from KCC saying my family size is 3 but I made payment for 2 to do AOS. However, on April 8th, I informed KCC about the fact that my husband is not doing AOS, he would do FTJ and received a response on April 12, explaining the FTJ process. I am calling KCC but they are not answering. I emailed them but I don't know how long it will take for KCC to respond. I remember someone had a similar problem. I was wondering how they solved it.
2. Also, can I interpret this like 'IO decided to approve my case and asked KCC to send my files and then KCC thought that I had to do AOS for 3 based on the initial application?'
3. Can expedite request or any other inquiry help me with KCC problem?
Thanks
This happened to me as well. I was not apprved the same day of my interview because the IO did not have the KCC file. IO said he will put in a request for the KCC file and after a week or so i got this same email. All i did was reply explaining to them why I made the payment only for AOS.
I would say its safe to interpret this as IO has requested your file from KCC.
 
This happened to me as well. I was not apprved the same day of my interview because the IO did not have the KCC file. IO said he will put in a request for the KCC file and after a week or so i got this same email. All i did was reply explaining to them why I made the payment only for AOS.
I would say its safe to interpret this as IO has requested your file from KCC.
Great! How long did it take to get approved after you replied to KCC?
 
Hi Everyone!

Yesterday we received the official I-485 approval notices and today we received the printed permanent resident cards. Thank you everyone for the help & guidance throughout this process. Good Luck everyone!!
Did you receive an RFE for your older tax returns? Did you send your older tax returns that the IO asked for?
 
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