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I had the interview about a year ago. And I got pretty much the same responses like you got on spot. But my lawyer confirms that they are the one will say yes or no. And once they said Yes, you are very close to get it. And I got mine like within 3 months. (but without and status updates in the USCIS website tho)

I am in the line to submit my medicals and police cert.. assuming I am all OK. Once I see my paper, how much time (window) i have to land to Canada?

I had my interview prep with my attonery office's senior who he is a USCIS in house consel for 30 years (the guy only do interview prep and interview related issue). He do mentioned the 6 months staying during our conversations.

I first though, if one can use AC21, what is the point for him to stay after he got a GC? Anyhow, I will be hitting my 6 months mark shortly plus during this kind of time, it is better to stay.

Yes, you can get that.. my wife currently claims it 3 mths after we got our GC.

same here. received GC on hand almost a month ago. still no update in CRIS

I was in the same boat.. got interview on 12/1/08.. nothing at all until 3 mths later, we received our GC in mail. up to this minute, there is no case status update in CRIS website.... nor my wife's pending EAD get any news either. But we do have our GC on hand. Be patient.. if you are all cleared after the interview, you should have your GC soon.

We finally got a reply this morning after 10 days of wait. No bad and if you ever compare of what we have seen in US immigrations. :-)

we just finished our personal interview on 3/31/09 and the consul is asking for more dox. Need help to clarify things

1. Police Certificate - Primary applicant required to get clearance for State of New Jersey PD. However, we have never lived or stayed in NJ and we are not sure if we can get the needed clearance without the proper ground of this item.

2. Should all the Police Certificates/FBI check sent directly from the agency to Consulate General office?

3. Medical check - the nearby Designated Medical Practitioners in our state Ohio will require 2-3 hours drive in one way. However, we planned to visit Toronto, Ontario for 5 days in May 20, 2009. We would like to take the advantage to get our medical done by the Designated Medical Practitioners at Toronto locally to save us a trip. We would like to know if this is OK with to use an out of state Designated Medical Practitioners.

4. What are my deadlines to submit

Guys

We all sail in the same boat...We need permanent residency here in United States ...This is the greatest place in the earth..Americans are broad minded..Americans are extraordinarly talented ....Americans are genuine..America, Land of Innovation..Land of Quality.....Land of opportunity...

Let us pray god to make this country shine like before and give us GC...

Long Live America..God bless America and also bless immigrants like us to live here permanently and peacefully...

And land of the great debt........... ;-p

I got my GC in my mail today. But up to this minute, I receive no approval notice, welcome email and the CIS tracking site not even with a soft LUD. So, I don't know what they are really doing there..
My wife still waiting and hope she can get hers too.... We were told in our interview, her (dependent) application is all ready but just waiting for me, what a surprise as she is still waiting.

Also, when I am looking at my card, it said, my PR status begin 12/15/08 instead of anytime near today's date 2/23/09. So, looks like my card is actually approved before last Chirstmas but somehow, we didn't get it until today.

The girl is so afarid to commit. But my lawyer said, this is the last step....
So.....

Can I open a SR and how? What about infopass?

1. You don't have to send anything to USCIS, we have discussed this many times. AC21 is just a law allowing you to change the job. That's all what it is. If you want to inform USCIS, there is no harm in doing so. If you don't want to, no law requires that. What do you want to send them - it's only up to you. You can send them Christmas postcard.

2. The law doesn't specify for whom you can work and how much salary you can get, meaning you can work for non-profit and receive $1 a year.

3. The Yates memo also clearly states that new company can be anything or you can be also self-employed.

4. But!! There is a problem. The law says the job must be "same or similar". If you are a professional claiming to be making $100,000 after getting green card and if I were officer, man, I would never believe that you are gonna be doing that same job for $1. Remember, that the approval is discretionary. If the officer won't like it - he can deny or can request lots of stuff through RFE or put your case on hold for years. Getting salary is crucial in employment based categories, if you won't be making anything USCIS will suspect something and will give you hard time. I would avoid a job where the salary is much lower than one in I-140.

Well, there is a basic on the AC21... your job must be based on your LC & I140. And your I140 is getting approved (most of us do) are based on the LC and a job offer with so much salary.

So, it is as easy as lineay logic.... You must have a job with so much "salary" & "job duties" before you can get your LC and then I140 and then you can execrise your AC21. So, if you worked for a company without salary.. your are OUT of your case.......

Guys

How can we make sure that AC21 and new G-28 documents reached our 485 applications ? I know there is no standard procedure for AC21 and may not be possible to tell. But guys who already experience in this, can you please share with us ?

1)Did you see any LUD on 485/140 after applying AC21 documents ?

It is optional to send the AC21 paperwork to CIS. It is not required by law. In fact, my lawyer said save your time/money and she claimed she can deal with the RFE if for verify employer info from there. Then we got interview not becaz of the AC21 but becaz my wife's J Visa. Nothing happen, we just give all the supporting from my new employer and everything went OK.

I got my finger print appt set for 12/19 after the 12/1 interview. But becaz we don't want to waste anytime waiting, we walk in on Wed 12/10. One can show up and walk in to the appt. May be you can give a try... worst to worst case, you get return to home? No biggies right?

we have our H status and AP and travelled a lot.. Then turns out, the AP never get execrised when we have our AP even we present everything at the POE. The officers kept saying H valid Visa is good enough and return the AP paper to us without even look at it.

Now, our H status expired and will use an AP to travel... we will see what it will come out...

I had a PD 04/2003. Interviewed 12/1/08. Still waiting.........

We just had our interview and the IO is requesting to redo the finger prints becaz it is expired. But can we just walk in to do the finger print?

I congrats you.. but you are not as long way as I am. I got a ROW EB3 PD 4/2003 and waiting for interview 12/1.
But I am happy for you. Enjoy and get a good vacation this season overseas without the fear that they will not let you come in. (And it happened to us one time 3 years ago when we are crossing the US/CAN border).

I've already posted our story in several others posts.

We got the approval notice (from the local office) On March 2008. Till now, we haven't received the card. We already got 2 stamps in the passport. (the local office gives only for 6 months each time).
The case still shows that on Jan 2nd 2008 the file has been transferred to the local office for an interview. (Because of bad processing of FP. Twice. The case was approved right on the spot, Approval notice received 2 weeks later).

After ENDLESS infopass visits and phone calls to the customer service, we've found out that the case was accidentally archived w/o having it:
1. Marked as approved
2. Ordering the card

The local office didn't have any records of the 2 stamps in their records. I was shocked. I knew USCIS are a mess, but that was by far the most weird thing I've ever imagined.

OK. So we've asked them to pull the file out of the archive. They did it. But accidentally (yes again) it went straight to TSC w/o routing it to the local office first. Its been 3 weeks already since it arrived to TSC. and we are just waiting now...

When you said passport stamp, is it the PR stamp that can be used to travel?
Did you ever travel?

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