Finally!

[VicFlange]

I received my green card today, which sees the end of an18 month application process. Thanks to everybody here that answered my questions along the way.

[mika84]

Congrats! Could you please share your story

[jollygraces]

I received my green card today, which sees the end of an18 month application process. Thanks to everybody here that answered my questions along the way.

Congratulations. 18 months appears to be a long wait for a GC process.

[dst2015]

Where were you interview field office??

[juand25]

I received my green card today, which sees the end of an18 month application process. Thanks to everybody here that answered my questions along the way.

Congrats! I just woke up to see that I have my interview next month.

[VicFlange]

Congrats! Could you please share your story

Firstly, thanks for the well wishes. And yes, 18 months is a long time. Here's what happened.

In August 2014 I started the application process via the US embassy in London. My i-130 (?) was approved in December of that year and we made the decision to move to the US and continue the process here.

We set up a meeting with our local field office in Syracuse to find out how the application was progressing. After a few visits we got the answer; "not very well". Despite numerous requests by the Syracuse office the embassy in London had not forwarded my file.

Eventually, my file arrived and things seemed to be progressing and 2015 ended with me having my biometrics done.

February 2016 and my EAD was approved and I really thought I was on the home-straight. Then I received a notification that my wife and I would have to attend a face-to-face interview with an immigration officer at the Albany, NY office.

I was confident that it would be an easy meeting as we'd been married for 8 years, had a child and loads of documentary evidence of a legitimate marriage.

During the interview the officer seemed very happy with everything except my medical. It turns out that the doctor checked a box (incorrectly) stating that I had, amongst other things, cholera, syphilis, TB and possibly the bubonic plague. I had to go back to him, get a corrected version and send it to the officer in Albany.

Two weeks later my USCIS account page updated to say that my file had been approved and that I would receive my 'green card' in around 3 weeks.

Four weeks later, it arrived!

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Congrats! I just woke up to see that I have my interview next month.

Good luck. If my experience is anything to go by you'll be nervous as hell tge day before and going in but the meeting will go really smoothly. It was very informal and as long as you take all the accompanying evidence along you should be fine.

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Where were you interview field office??

It was at the main office in Albany, NY.