Got the magic letter!

[EkAurAaya]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

[pappu]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

Congrats.

[EkAurAaya]

Thanks Pappu! :)

Receipt ID: 1992-7024-8941-5645

[shana04]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!!

Now, enjoy your freedom.

Congratulations!

[anilsal]

Please share more info on what steps you undertook to utilize your wife's PD. There are a few members of IV who have two streams (husband and wife) of approved 140s but one set of 485s applied. This info will be beneficial to the community if we can finally add it to the IV wiki.

[YesWeWillGet]

Congratulations to you and your family.

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

[Roger Binny]

Congrats...!!!

Time to change your handle to "EkAurGayaFromGCQ"....;)

njoy the freedom.

[natrajs]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

Congrats and Best Wishes

[waitingmygc]

Hi EkAurAaya,

Congratulations!!!

Please share more info on what steps you undertook to utilize your sopouse EB-2 PD from your already filled 485 as EB-3 primary.

It will help others too.

[nrk]

congrats..


QUOTE=EkAurAaya;1129101]Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless![/QUOTE]

[gc_rip]

Heartiest congratulations.

Sorry didn't read the message completely earlier.

Congratulation to you again!

[vikki76]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

Many congratulations..enjoy your freedom and don't forget IV ! :-)

[Leo07]

I can completely understand the liberation from people who take undue advantage of our status. For now, I can only dream about my liberation:)

Best of Luck with your future endeavors. Please stop by to answer any questions on this forum

Cheers!

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

It has been a very long journey!!! and a very frustrating one for the last few years... but the feeling that I now get is really liberating... first thing I did was thanked God for ending the seemingly endless wait that me and my wife (she didn't care as much) were in.

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!

Just so there is no confusion... my PD was Feb 2003 EB3 but my wife's PD was EB2 April 2004... we got our freedom through her application. If anyone needs more info on how/what/when - i can share that (it had its up's and downs - mainly downs, but all's well that ends well)!

Lastly as a token of my real support to the cause of IV I will be donating a small amount. I have donated in the past... I have participated in conversations in the past... I was not so active on other fronts but I truly believe in this organizations effort to help the community. And God willing each one of you will get this freedom soon! God Bless!

[a1b2c3]

Got the approval notice today :) "Welcome to the United States of America" - ironically i have been in this country for a decade now! finally the "welcome" :)

I'm already thinking of the things I want to do after this new found liberation... it includes showing the middle finger to those who have taken undue advantage of my status :cool: :D and i'm not taking it anymore... I'll be a new person starting Monday!



congratulations! So did you show your middle finger today?:D

[EkAurAaya]

Thank you guys for the good wishes :)

Here is what we learned from my case, please feel wordsmith it and put it on wiki -

Some History:
My PD - Feb 2003 EB3 (140 was marked for CP)
May 2007: EB3 dates move to May 2003 - my lawyer prepared for June 1st filing of 485
June 2007: My wife's PD of April 2004 EB2 (140 was marked for AOS) becomes current - her lawyer starts preparing to file for 485.

We discussed the situation with our lawyers (but we were sure we would go with what my lawyer advices, she always gave good advice - both the law firms are very reputed and well known)

My Lawyers advice: Do not file both 485's at the same time, if the files get assigned with different alien #'s it will be very difficult to get the cases merged. Files could land up in two different physical locations etc... basically huge possibility of delays

Her Lawyers advice: We have not come across such situation, we think we should file anyways.

Our decision: File my set of 485 as we could do that on 1st June itself and apply for EAD for some relief! and not wait for July 1st (at that time we thought with was the best - better file what's current)

Interim efforts: Again discussed the situation with my lawyer as things were not moving, we discussed possibility of changing my wife's AOS application to CP - since dates became unavailable, we though we could probably capitalize on switching to CP with the hope that the files will get transferred to India, and as soon as visa #s are available we will get assigned one and called for the interview.

So we filed i824 - change request on exiting application, the request was pending all this while, we made several service requests in between. Basically it was a wasted effort, seems like USCIS officers didn't know what to do with the request.

Sept 2009: My wife's PD became current, we again prepared for filing 485 (took medical again etc).

Checked with my lawyer what needs to be done... her advice (this time both lawyers had the same advice), file 485 MAKE SURE they use the same Alien # that we got from my application.

Files on Sept 1st > Finger Printing 1st week Oct > my set of 485 files moved from Nebraska to Texas early November > 2nd set of 485's approved late November > 1st set of 485's denied based on 2nd set approval

Hope this helps!

[EkAurAaya]

congratulations! So did you show your middle finger today?:D

:D I did enjoy my stress free day... didn't give the middle finger yet, but did bring up some things that have been bothering me for years... that need to change... no more taking me forgranted :D

[anilsal]

to file a new set of 485s for the new current PD when two individuals have pending 485s and a A# assigned.

The great ways of USCIS.

[EkAurAaya]

to file a new set of 485s for the new current PD when two individuals have pending 485s and a A# assigned.

The great ways of USCIS.

Anilsal.. it is perfectly fine and allowed to have multiple AOS application, and in many ways common too... a friend of mine had his EB 485 pending, he then got married to a US citizen... he had to file another AOS to get GC through marriage.

Sometimes people have FB AOS pending and they apply EB AOS.... so this was nothing out of the ordinary.

The A# is used to merge the applications. So there are no open cases if one is approved... hope this makes sense.

[a1b2c3]

:D I did enjoy my stress free day... didn't give the middle finger yet, but did bring up some things that have been bothering me for years... that need to change... no more taking me forgranted :D

nice! have not yet been able to do whatever you have done.:)

[saro28]

Congrats! I tried the same like you, so far INS didn't respond.

My PD 12/2001 - EB3
My wife's PD 12/204 -EB2

Filed cased independently back in 2007 (pre & post july fiasco). In september lawyer sent
a letter to INS with marriage certificate to adjudicate both the cases together. By september end INS promptly approved my wife's GC. When I spoke to INS over phone, they mentioned the letter is of no use, since my wife's case is approved.:confused:

Any suggestions how to proceed. Out of job now, moving on to EAD from H1 after 10 years!

[EkAurAaya]

Our cases are different - in my case both me and wife were primary and dependent on respective cases.

Did you file a derivative 485 for yourself based on your wife's application before it was approved?

I think your lawyer made a huge mistake of not filing a derivative 485 application for you beginning of September when her PD got current, this would have ensured you got tagged along with her application, mere letter to look at your case when your priority date (2001 eb3) is not current doesn't make any logical sense...

Keep the hope... on the bright side your PD is 2001. Best wishes and good luck!

[saro28]

Thanks. My lawyer was worried to file I485 as derivative due to the fact my primary application is considered withdrawn. So he made a request in letter to adjudicate together instead of filing another 485. I guess i have to wait.