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  1. I-693 Questions

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    Hey guys,

     

    I'm now in this section after a fairly enjoyable K1 process....

     

    My questions is about this medical. I've done a fair bit of research but I can't quite answer my own question.

     

     

     

    My wife was pregnant during her K1 medical, so she did not get any vaccines. They did not give her a DS-3025 either.

     

    I see via the I-485 instructions...

     

    C. Fiance(e)s: If you are a K-1 fiance(e) or K-2 dependent who had a medical examination within the past year as required for the non-immigrant fiance(e)

    visa, you only need to submit a vaccination supplement, not the entire medical report...

     

     

     

    I don't understand if this means I need to fill out a DS-3025 or just the "Vaccination portion of the I-693". Which is the final page of the I-693.

    I definitely wouldn't want to mail in a I-693 that is totally blank except the vaccination page. Unless this is what is expected. (???)

     

     

    It also states that I do not need to include the "entire medical report".

     

    So it seems that all I need to send in with my I-485, as far as medicals go, is the vaccination proof. I don't even need to provide proof that a medical was done in China (I don't have anything to prove that anyway really) as the K1 visa wouldn't have been issued without it anyway. True?

     

     

     

    Thanks guys! I wouldn't have made it this far without this forum.

     

  4. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted · Edited by JCallaway82 (see edit history)

    Who knows? Maybe she had one...They took her sealed envelope at Detroit Airport when she arrived. never to be seen again.

     

     

    I found your sticky. This is good stuff. (I just now realized AOS is a separate portion and even has it's own forum...doh. )
    http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/41344-us-civil-surgeons-and-the-i-693/

  5. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted · Edited by JCallaway82 (see edit history)

     

    One thing I was thinking of, does anyone know. See didn't get all of immunizations because she was pregnant? How do I handle this? I'm guessing those wait until after the baby is born. I just imagine I would have to submit something somewhere to validate this....

     

     

    Anyone?

    Yes, should handle this after.

     

    I assume at the Visa medical they issued a separate DS-3025 vaccination record in a separate sealed envelope, when filing the I-485 to adjust status simply include the DS-3025, if USCIS decidesthey need an updated record they will issue an RFE for it, if not they probably will not ask for anything more about

     

     

    Unfortunately, I don't see some of the stuff I was expecting. (this DS-3025, and the I-94)

     

    She pretty much arrived with a sealed CD rom of X-rays (Whatever the heck that is for, and a fairly generic looking Medical examination pass record....) Nothing else, Immigration gave her nothing.

     

     

     

     

    -Marriage License? VIsa with stamps should get us marriage license it seems..

     

    -SSN? Passport, Birth Certificate, and I-94 I think is all that is needed. (And it seems I might get that here? https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/request.html)

     

    AOS? Well, I don't know...I see things about the I-693 servings a similar purpose as the DS-3025? (she can't get the vaccinations until after the baby is born anyway...but I still would like to understand it...)

     

    Thanks!!!!!

  9. NVC...just an update...and a question...

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    We have a Case Complete at the NVC! :happydance:

    To add a bit of info, I had read at VisaJourney that a good indicator was the AOS fee status changing from "Paid" to N/A. Not 100% guaranteed, but an indicator that it's a good time to call the NVC.

    I checked the CEAC site today, and my AOS payment status was changed to N/A. I called the NVC, and I had a case complete on Yifang and Ke Yu.

    They told me that they take up to 28 days to mail out the documents to Guangzhou. They said that they don't email them...they snail-mail them.Then they'll sit in the "warehouse of limbo" until customs clears them. But then GUZ will be scheduling the interviews! I'm hoping that we can at least schedule the interview in early December sometime. If we can...the interview itself might be in January.

    Yeah... I'm one of the paper mailers...LOL...don't ask. I got talked into it. But at least I got some info on how they proceed with the physical docs.

    And we're finished with the processing at the NVC! One more step checked off!

     

    :D

    That sounds about right. I think mine took almost exactly one month to arrive in Guangzhou.

     

    Good news! Congrats!

  10. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    One note about SSN, they will not issue one until the can verify status, which usually take anywhere from 10 days to 2 weeks after arrival into the states.

     

    ... some states will not issue a marriage license unless the applicants have SSN.

    Yeah, that's exactly what I'm worried about.

     

    I'm not sure that Texas requires a SSN, but the person I exchanged emails with didn't really understand what I was asking...so I'm calling tomorrow or going down there before she arrives to clarify things.

  11. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    To get her SSN, https://www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnvisa/Handout_11_1.html

     

    When you visit a Social Security office to apply for a Social Security card, take the following papers with you:

    • Your passport with your Machine-Readable Immigrant Visa (MRIV) or Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551) if you have it; and,
    • your birth certificate and a birth certificate for each member of your family applying for a Social Security number.

     

     

     

    If she checked the box for an SS card on her visa application, that may or may not result in a card actually being issued (usually not). You may wish to apply for one directly, at the SS office, once her immigration records have had time to show up on the SSA computers, WITHOUT waiting for it to show up in the mail. The immigration record can take up to two weeks after entry, sometimes less.

     

    The marriage certificate should already be squared away - what are you expecting to have to do here? Unless she's coming on a K-1 visa, in which case you mean you need to get married!

     

     

    Exactly, she is coming on the K1 visa. And I see that some places require you to have the SSN before you can get married...

     

    I emailed the County Clerk Friday and the response was typical junk. I'm not sure they even know what I was really asking.

     

    So, I'm going to call them Monday and try to describe what is actually going in and see if it's possible to get the marriage license before the SSN. (Some people have had luck with showing the K! paperwork and the beneficiary's foreign passport.)

     

    Gotta get the marriage done to add her to my insurance. The baby is coming early December! :sweating_buckets:

  12. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

     

    I just bought her airplane ticket. She should be here in the US next Friday at 5pm. I can't wait.

    Awesome, man! Will you meet her at her port of entry? So glad it is all falling into place.

     

    I am awake early here out in west CN cause my wedding will start in 5 hours. Glad I gave them a gift of a coffee pot a year ago because it is sustaining me right now.

     

    Congrats!

     

    Enjoy the Baijiu drinking games. haha.

     

    Unfortunately, I will not meet her at the POE. I wanted to, but everything happened so suddenly and with her pregnant state, we just got the fastest flight. I have to use my vacation hours for all the appointments I will take her too...and when the baby arrives.

     

     

     

    SO now I'm just stressing over a few more hurdles to jump. Since the baby is coming in December, I gotta get her SSN card and Marriage License squared away. Somewhat confused by what it takes to get the SSN, I'll just have to show up at the SS office and bug them a bunch I guess. :)

     

     

    Have a great wedding and safe journey!

  13. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    I'm grinning all day now just thinking about it....haha!

    Really happy for ya, man! It's good to see a plan comes together (a la Hannibal Smith...)

    At least she'll be coming to Texas in the late fall, so it shouldn't be too tough on her...until next year...

    Thanks Warren!

     

    I just bought her airplane ticket. She should be here in the US next Friday at 5pm. I can't wait.

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  16. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    I take it you were able to get the medical exam results in time for the interview? Or is that still in the works?

     

    Congratulations!

     

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    Congratulations !!

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    Thanks fellas. I'm pretty much over the moon.

     

     

    Yeah, I had her go to Guangzhou a week early and get all of the medicals done first. She basically hung out a week at her sister's place until her interview. (We were hoping to catch an earlier interview spot.)

     

    Then she was straight back to Henan after the interview (I don't think she loved the heat and humidity in GuangZhou. I told her, "Just wait until you get to Texas. hahah"

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  17. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted · Edited by JCallaway82 (see edit history)

    http://www.oceanofweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Success-Kid-e1356573296522.jpg

     

     

    A few simple questions and she was approved. It wasn't bad at all. We had went over much more complicated questions (planning for the worst) and it came down to a few "small talk" type questions. Now to get the visa in hand, some plane tickets, an I-94, a SSN, a marriage certificate, get her on my insurance, find a doctor, have the baby, buy a house.....

     

     

    This should be fun.

    :happydance:

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  22. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

    Also check out the holiday schedule. You are riunning into mid-autumn festival "September 27" and national holiday, basically 1st week of October. Still, your appt is during the Nat holiday, but the med exam office you choose may not be as accommodating. So, if she could get the Ned exam out of the way that could lessen the complication during these holidays.

    I think everytime I try to get something done in China there is some kind of holiday holding me up...haha.

     

    the offices are closed September 26-28 and I think again October 1-5. *sigh*

  23. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted · Edited by JCallaway82 (see edit history)

    I've been able to jump from October 13th to October 6th. So that is a week better...I hope I get lucky enough to find something in September...

     

    Although all this appointment switching is probably driving LiLi mad trying to find a train ticket and get to the health examination....

     

     

    So, with her cooperation, I'm sending her to Guangzhou early. She can knock out her health exam and then if an early appointment pops up I can book it and she's already in the city.

     

    It's a gamble, but she agrees it's a good idea. *fingers crossed*

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  25. Great News so Far! (Update) And what to do after NOA2 (Help?)

    in General Visa Discussion & First Steps

    Posted

     

    We are to the interview stage now. Trying to get an interview scheduled....waiting as patiently as possible. *Chews fingernails to the bone.*

    Just remember: EVERYBODY gets an interview appointment.

     

    It's a shock when you go there and there aren't any. But, one will show up for you. Trust me, it will feel like it's moving fast finally. Hope you've sent her the financial support form w/accompanying docs.

     

    Greg

     

    Greg,

     

    I've pretty much been following everything you've told me to a T. A million thanks as always.

     

     

    It has been working out and we have been given an interview date of October 13th, I just heard today. So that's pretty awesome!

     

     

    However, with LiLi's due date of December 1st...I don't think we're going to make it, as by the time she has a visa in hand and is ready to get on a plane...she'll probably be too far along to fly...

    I've been pretty bummed about that all day.

     

    But what can you do. It looks like the child might be born in China. I'm not ever sure what other processes I'll have to do for that extra complication....

     

    So a bittersweet day for me. :)

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