Some good news I forgot to share
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Mayla got her green card!
We were suppose to go to Peru on December 8th. Mayla was staying three weeks, I was going down with her, coming back for a week, then going back down again and coming home together on 12-29.
Then we got a notice from USCIS that our interview was scheduled 12/8. So we moved the trip a day.
The interview went very well. We brought a translator, since Mayla's English isn't good, but it turned out the guy spoke Spanish AND agreed to do so (the second doesn't always happen) so we didn't need him. The interview went very well, we had all our ducks in a row and nothing to hide. He told us before the interview that he was going to approve us.
The card didn't arrive until the day we got back, fortunately about a month before they scheduled the interview they approved her travel permission (oddly and disconcertingly called a 'parole' document), which is why we booked the trip in the first place.
Coming back was a little stressful, technically she was a green card holder without physical possession of her green card, which is normally required for entry. We had read that they might just say 'whatever, welcome home' and wave us in, or they may let her in provisionally and have us take the card to an immigration facility within X days for a proper stamp. In the event they very politely sent us to secondary processing (which we were expecting) and we waited maybe an hour to eventually get the ok to go in.
Then we came home and the green card arrived that afternoon.
It's quite a load off.
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Great news!
Congrats!
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Mayla got her green card!
We were suppose to go to Peru on December 8th. Mayla was staying three weeks, I was going down with her, coming back for a week, then going back down again and coming home together on 12-29.
Then we got a notice from USCIS that our interview was scheduled 12/8. So we moved the trip a day.
The interview went very well. We brought a translator, since Mayla's English isn't good, but it turned out the guy spoke Spanish AND agreed to do so (the second doesn't always happen) so we didn't need him. The interview went very well, we had all our ducks in a row and nothing to hide. He told us before the interview that he was going to approve us.
The card didn't arrive until the day we got back, fortunately about a month before they scheduled the interview they approved her travel permission (oddly and disconcertingly called a 'parole' document), which is why we booked the trip in the first place.
Coming back was a little stressful, technically she was a green card holder without physical possession of her green card, which is normally required for entry. We had read that they might just say 'whatever, welcome home' and wave us in, or they may let her in provisionally and have us take the card to an immigration facility within X days for a proper stamp. In the event they very politely sent us to secondary processing (which we were expecting) and we waited maybe an hour to eventually get the ok to go in.
Then we came home and the green card arrived that afternoon.
It's quite a load off.
@jon-nyc Congratulations!!! Excellent news!!
The whole process is stressful in the best of times, but this isn't the best of times! I remember how stressed it all was when we were applying for Mr SK's visa and green card.
Anyway, I'm sure you were both very relieved!
