Hello everyone! I want to share our success story because this forum has helped us tremendously. This morning I got the update that our case was approved! (I-485 and I-130). I have adjusted status from F1, my husband is a USC. We sent our application to the Chicago Lockbox on Oct. 17th, 2019. Our first NOAs took longer than a month to come. I did my biometrics on 12/09. Then radio silence until 1/15/2020. That day, we got a RFIE for my birth certificate and a joint sponsor. For the RFIE, they wanted a translation of the birth certificate, which I provided in the first place. However, the translation I provided was done by a translator in my home country who doesn't know how to do a translation for USCIS. They wanted something simpler, so I paid a translator here in the US to do it. My husband is my sponsor and he makes above the poverty line. However, we sent the tax account transcripts instead of the tax RETURN transcripts and so we didn't need a joint sponsor. If you want to know more about this please ask. After we sent the RFIE it took them a week to update to "ready to be scheduled for an interview". Around the same time I got my EAD. They cancelled our interview the day before. A couple of days after we got a RFE from the local field office (nothing updated online) requesting us to send proof of a bona fide relationship before the end of May. Since they cancelled us the day before the interview, we had all our evidence ready. So we sent what we had to the address they gave us. And Today the magic happened! I am happy to answer questions, I just don't want to make this post longer. Good luck to everyone!
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