Organized Paperwork

[jkobman]

Our paperwork moved quickly, probably much of it due to filing through Vermont.

 

But, I am still convinced that organizing the paperwork helped a lot.

Several things that I think will help the Newbies:

 

Put the paperwork in the order that it asks for it to be placed in.

Punch everything with a 2 hole punch ACCO and use ACCO fasteners - these are used in law and medical offices - you can buy the fasteners at Staples and use a regular hole-puncher.

I put in "table of contents" and short memos providing additional explanation about certain things. and put our heading on everything except Govt forms.

(someting like "Jeffrey Kobman and Xiao Wenxia, address, phone #, EMail and any i.d. numbers [i think it's an A#])

When they wanted notarized stuff, I made 5 notarized copies - CYA to the max!

Write suckup letters like "Thank you so much...", "please consider...", blahblahblahblahblah

 

 

When we went to Norfolk for the green card interview, there was all the (tons!) of paper, all punched, neatly organized and everything was easily found by the Hearing Officer.

 

Does anyone else have organize it, do it this way or good war stories?

 

Best to all CFL'ers - you all are an OK bunch!!

Hang in there - you'll get your visa and you can walk around with a smile on your face (like me).

 

Jeff