hamptonevan
Member
As you said, at least we tried all our options, so now we just wait and see with some peace in our minds (knowing there is nothing else we can do).
DV 2024 AOS (Adjustment of Status) Process Only
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Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Sorry to learn the walk-in attempt did not work for you. Meanwhile, can you confirm if your COS has been processed, and your husband's medical cleared?
hamptonevan
Member
Hello mom,
Yes, my I-539 got approved on 8/20/2022, just a day before we sent out the form (what a surprise). So I filled out my status as F-2 and attached the screenshot of the status update on the website with an additional explanation letter explaining why I don't have a hard copy.
My husband's medical exam was also clear on the same date, so we filed the sealed medical exam together with our documents. The only thing that worries me is that our package does not include a copy of the I-539 approval notice, only the screenshot. I'm not sure if that will require us to have an interview.
Yes, my I-539 got approved on 8/20/2022, just a day before we sent out the form (what a surprise). So I filled out my status as F-2 and attached the screenshot of the status update on the website with an additional explanation letter explaining why I don't have a hard copy.
My husband's medical exam was also clear on the same date, so we filed the sealed medical exam together with our documents. The only thing that worries me is that our package does not include a copy of the I-539 approval notice, only the screenshot. I'm not sure if that will require us to have an interview.
@Britsimon, could you please keep updating us on actual figures of issued visas and remaining today and tomorrow so we can have a feel what to expect upcoming Monday?
Update on my case.
In August, we submitted Form I-290B, Motion to Reconsider for my husbend, where we detailed the chronology of events and provided evidence that the newly acquired spouse can apply for adjustment of status together with the lottery winner (with me).
Today, we received the message: appeal was dismissed with the following statement:
After a thorough review, your motion has been denied for the following reason(s):
The evidence provided with your motion does not address the reasons for the denial of your application. The Department of State's Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) packet received prior to adjudication confirmed that KCC was never notified of your intent for Diversity Visa processing.
As a result, your Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal or Motion, has been dismissed. The original decision to deny your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, is upheld.
Could you please advise what step we might have missed? How should we have notified KCC? We paid 330$ for all of family members and got the letter from them with stamp "Paid"
Thank you
I tried a walk-in at noon today and got turned away. The security guards were very nice but unfortunately they don’t allow anyone in unless they have an appointment. Explaining my situation to them didn’t help much. Oh well..
Hoping for something magical to happen at this point lol
Hoping for something magical to happen at this point lol
megdavidson26
Active Member
Did you pay $330 per person that you were adjusting status for?
Adding on to the unsuccessful walk-in attempts, we drove 3 hours (each way) to the Kansas City FO to only return with an unlucky attempt. We spoke with the security guard for over 30 minutes trying to convince to speak with someone to get answers. He was nice but kept telling the same things: call the USCIS agent for Infopass appointment, there is no supervisor available, cases do not get adjudicated by the FO but actually NBC does that, etc. There wasn't any way for us to walk in or talk with someone from the office on our case. So, we had to leave, losing the last opportunity at hand to help with our case. I called a USCIS agent to schedule infopass and she told me Tier 2 agent will call back but they wouldn't approve my schedule request anyway since it's not "valid". The FO didn't answer neither the congressional inquiry nor the senatorial one since September 4th. And we received a generic response to our request through the portal for "missing approval notice", saying the case is within normal processing times and pending. We tried almost everything we can at this point and it seems like we won't be among the winners of green cards this year.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Maybe submission of the DS260 from might have helped. However it is hard to say if the DS260 would have helped, because like I explained to you in this post back in July, the reason for your husband's case denial was listed as failure to include him on your initial entry:
"USCIS has determined that, although you qualify as the principal beneficiary’s spouse, when the principal beneficiary submitted the DV lottery entry he or she did not include your name, biographic information, and photograph in his or her application for the DV lottery”
As a matter of fact, the MTR dismissal response still says the evidence you provided with your motion did not address the reasons for the denial of your application which is failure to include your "spouse" on your initial entry. I am convinced USCIS referred to your claim of being in a civil marriage back in 2022 on your forms I-821 and I-765 as discussed in this post also. Again, I say you were fortunate to have been approved because based on the initial denial reason, your case shouldn't have been approved.
I'm so excited to share the update of our case...
As I already said, we got an interview appointment for September 30th, we tried to do walk-in today at around 11:00 at San Diego FO, I explained the situation to the security that we have an appointment, but for the last day of the month, that by that date all visas will be gone.
Security guard said he will call the superviser. Then we explained our situation to the superviser, he was unsure but said to the guard to let us in. We went to the 4 floor and waited for the supervisor to clarify if we can do interview today. Supervisor went back and said we don't need to worry, "we will allocate more visas on October 1st", and said we should just walk-in on Sept 30th. Also said they don't do interviews today or tomorrow, so there were no people at all...
I printed out the tweet, where there's a prediction that all visas will be gone on Sept 23th, I showed him that tweet, he took it and go back to the office. After waiting 15 minutes more he came back and said: IO will do interview today, please wait. He also asked where our kids, we said they at school, he asked how old are they.
We were so happy that they let us in. Interview overall took like 15 minutes, started with oath, then we were asked the questions from our i-458 form, asked for birth certificates and that's it. The lady was very friendly, she told us our case will be ajudicated today and will send our card to production. Double checked our mail address and that was it, asked do we have a questions. We say thank you for letting us in and we left the office. After several hours status changed to: New Card Is being produced
I want to say huge thank you for this forum, special thanks to @Sm1smom
for FAQ, all guides... replying to all my questions...
I wish all the best to rest folks who is still waiting, I hope you will get your green cards soon!
P.S. early walk-in is really works, just try explain in more details why you need it ASAP
As I already said, we got an interview appointment for September 30th, we tried to do walk-in today at around 11:00 at San Diego FO, I explained the situation to the security that we have an appointment, but for the last day of the month, that by that date all visas will be gone.
Security guard said he will call the superviser. Then we explained our situation to the superviser, he was unsure but said to the guard to let us in. We went to the 4 floor and waited for the supervisor to clarify if we can do interview today. Supervisor went back and said we don't need to worry, "we will allocate more visas on October 1st", and said we should just walk-in on Sept 30th. Also said they don't do interviews today or tomorrow, so there were no people at all...
I printed out the tweet, where there's a prediction that all visas will be gone on Sept 23th, I showed him that tweet, he took it and go back to the office. After waiting 15 minutes more he came back and said: IO will do interview today, please wait. He also asked where our kids, we said they at school, he asked how old are they.
We were so happy that they let us in. Interview overall took like 15 minutes, started with oath, then we were asked the questions from our i-458 form, asked for birth certificates and that's it. The lady was very friendly, she told us our case will be ajudicated today and will send our card to production. Double checked our mail address and that was it, asked do we have a questions. We say thank you for letting us in and we left the office. After several hours status changed to: New Card Is being produced
I want to say huge thank you for this forum, special thanks to @Sm1smom
for FAQ, all guides... replying to all my questions...
I wish all the best to rest folks who is still waiting, I hope you will get your green cards soon!
P.S. early walk-in is really works, just try explain in more details why you need it ASAP
Very good to hear. I was thinking about your case since we are in the same city. Goood luck
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
FANTASTIC! Congratulations
Awesome!!! What a beautiful journey!
Britsimon
Super Moderator
"we will allocate more visas on October 1st"
Holy moly. Answers like that are scary!
Well done for taking matters into your hands!
Britsimon
Super Moderator
As of today 52155 visas have been issued (excluding AOS). That means just over 1900 visas have been issued since last Friday, about half of those coming from 221g clearances. The last AOS number we had was last week at 902 visas, so let's assume 1000. There is a chance that KCC/VO "forget" to add in the AOS cases, but if they are adding it in there should be about 1700 visas left. I'm not 100% convinced KCC will stop the process on September 23, there has not be an official announcement as of now (we can't take the tweet as the official news). There are about 1500 people still on READY status for September interviews and over 3k on 221g. So - they certainly can hit the cap (with or without AOS), so the question will be will they stop the process arbitrarily on the 23rd or some other day, or will they try and observe the cap mathematically.
2024 Houston
Active Member
Hello Everyone,
Our status changed to "New Card being Produced". Houston FO has not waived interview in the past 12 years . Luckily this year they have waived the interviews. I have been to the FO office countless number of times and the folks at FO know me by First name. Even today, when i went the supervisor said, we are working on the cases actively and will adjudicate soon.
I would like to thank Mom and @Britsimon for the selfless support. I know we have annoyed you guys countless number of times but you guys came back with a feedback/information we were looking for. We pray to the lord for your wellbeing.
I think the congresswoman and senators staff also helped us by contacting the Houston FO a dozen number of times.
In all it has been quite a journey for past 15 months full of thriller and allot of anxieties.
Good luck to the folks who are waiting for the good news.
Our status changed to "New Card being Produced". Houston FO has not waived interview in the past 12 years . Luckily this year they have waived the interviews. I have been to the FO office countless number of times and the folks at FO know me by First name. Even today, when i went the supervisor said, we are working on the cases actively and will adjudicate soon.
I would like to thank Mom and @Britsimon for the selfless support. I know we have annoyed you guys countless number of times but you guys came back with a feedback/information we were looking for. We pray to the lord for your wellbeing.
I think the congresswoman and senators staff also helped us by contacting the Houston FO a dozen number of times.
In all it has been quite a journey for past 15 months full of thriller and allot of anxieties.
Good luck to the folks who are waiting for the good news.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
I’m happy for you. Congratulations.
fotorav
New Member
I just had my interview at FO New York City. Everything went exactly as described by those before me. The interview notice will arrive only today, so I struggled with the security guys downstairs. IO was going through i-485 to confirm that nothing had changed. IO was very aware of the deadline, and 20 minutes later, my status was updated to "New Card is Being Produced."
Considering my high CN, I did not expect to make it. When the visa bulletin was published in July, I immediately considered applying through the embassy, but I am glad I found this forum and chose the AOS path (otherwise, I would not make it). I am grateful for all of you sharing your statuses and experiences. This was an excellent patience test. This forum was a place I was checking multiple times a day for the last 11 weeks!!! Special thanks to those running it, @Sm1smom, @SusieQQQ & @Britsimon. I wish for those still waiting for a positive resolution in the next few hours!!! THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
Considering my high CN, I did not expect to make it. When the visa bulletin was published in July, I immediately considered applying through the embassy, but I am glad I found this forum and chose the AOS path (otherwise, I would not make it). I am grateful for all of you sharing your statuses and experiences. This was an excellent patience test. This forum was a place I was checking multiple times a day for the last 11 weeks!!! Special thanks to those running it, @Sm1smom, @SusieQQQ & @Britsimon. I wish for those still waiting for a positive resolution in the next few hours!!! THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
Britsimon
Super Moderator
Curtis posted an update that gave the AOS number as 990 as of the 18th, so we can assume that number is over 1000 now.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Congratulations. Glad you made it through.