DACA to AOS - Page 339

Bumping this seemingly all but dead and forgotten thread to post a no new news update.

Still waiting for USCIS to schedule an interview for my spouse and me. It's been 15 months since I sent my AOS application. My case status has been stuck at waiting for an interview for over a year now.

Damn, this sucks. I'm so close to the end but then I'm not. I dunno if there are massive delays at USCIS, or maybe where I live has long wait times, or maybe it's one last fuck you before finally being liberated out of this undocumented life.

This gon be me when I finally hear something:

Hi,
It is probably your location.
I’m in south Florida and we had our interview 8 months after applying. They approved us the next day and I received my green card one week after the interview.
Good luck to you!

That’s wicked. My brother got his appointment like 7 months after applying

Dude I had my interview, waiting on immigration court to give me an appointment to see an immigration judge, my case has been rescheduled 3 fucken times now. I was supposed to have it Jan 22, then March 22, then April 23, and now they moved it to fucken Jan 13, 2022. Jesus lord it sucks. They have me by the fucken balls, can't travel, can't move my LLC to a Corp because I'm not 100% sure what name they will choose to give me etc. It sucks hairy balls!! Lol. But just take it easy day by day, what I do is I smoke a cigarette and just try to relax and concentrate by time elsewhere. Things will happen when they happen.

I think it mostly depends on the country you are from. I know Mexican has extreme backlogs at this point, over 18 months for most.

It most likely is my location. I'm assigned to the San Francisco Field Office which seems to ordinarily take longer to send out interviews than most of the field offices else where (I'm guessing due to the high volume of immigrants in the region from all the tech industry). But the wait time seems to also have gotten worse due to the delays at USCIS caused by COVID. So I got the double whammy :/ But congrats to you!


Damn, that sucks just as bad as my wait. Fack.

Luckily, work keeps me pretty busy so I don't regularly check my case status, otherwise I'd go absolutely insane about it taking so long.

But you're right, things will happen when they happen. Hang in there bro.


There are no country of origin backlogs for immediate relatives of US citizens (like spouses) because those types of family visas are unlimited. The long waits are mainly caused by the time it takes a service center to review an application and the time it takes a field office to schedule an interview, which both depend on case load.

Finally an update! I received a notice that my interview is scheduled for July 30, 2021.

Whew, I'm relieved, excited, and nervous all in one. I'm trying to keep a lid on the excitement part and not to assume it will be a done deal, because this shit ain't over till it's over.

All is left to do now is prepare and hope for the best.

Let us know how it goes.

Hey everyone! I have been dating a USC for a while now, and we got engaged last weekend! She and her parents know the situation that my family and I are in, and are fully supportive (which is a bit ironic because her hometown is known to be VERY conservative lol - I found a good one!).

Anyway, our wedding is set for next summer, but I wanted to start preparing for the AoS process right away. What are some of the things that she and I can do even before marriage that will be helpful for the whole process? I am not currently living with her and we won't be until we get married. However, we will probably find a place to live in a couple months prior to the wedding and will sign it under our names so Im sure that's helpful! Any other advice or tips for what we can do right now would be great!

Thanks in advance (:

Good for you for taking steps to get out of this hellhole!

Some of the things you could do may be difficult since you are not married yet and since you don't live together yet (i.e. don't share the same address). Here are some things:
-Share a bank account.
-Share one or more credit cards (be authorized users on each other cards).
-One of you adds the other to their car insurance.
-One of you adds the other as beneficiary of life insurance.
-Go on a vacation/trip together and save receipts/records that clearly demonstrate the two of you traveled together.
-Take more pictures of yourselves together, especially of the two of you with family members and mutual friends and at events.