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Agreed, excellent work!

Highly unlikely that you'll get an RFE or request for an interview with all that, unless you are one of the lucky ones selected as part of the QA process, which is in itself against the odds. Methinks you'll be just fine.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-09 09:25:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Ken&Barbie,

If you have time to include the official IRS transcripts, then well and good, if not as mentioned earlier you'll have them for your 'RFE' file should you get one.

However, jasminelily mentioned to me in a post within this thread "I don't think you need to worry about much of the TurboTax docs, if they really want to see actual IRS return transcripts, they would have send you RFE already." and she was dead right. Even though I did not include official IRS transcripts, it seems there was enough evidence along with the TurboTax docs and I received an email with my approval today.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-05 21:13:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

I agree. While not absolutely necessary, highlighting important info would be a good idea. I enclosed a lot of documents such as Irish tax-related docs so I could include evidence from the entire life time of our marraige as my wife and I lived in Ireland for a few years before we moved to the US and the IO would not be familar with those types of docs.

Of course as per not including official IRS transcripts and putting in TurboTax docs only without W-2's, I also did not highlight names/addresses on the docs I sent. I found out about all that and thought it a good idea after we sent the I-751...doh!

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-04 13:34:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

If you're using HR Block tax returns and not official IRS transcripts, it would be best to include copies of your W-2's also. I have seen some people getting RFE's for that reason.

Of course, I sent in TurboTax tax returns without copies of our W-2's, but our case has not been decided upon yet. Just in case of an RFE, I have since ordered tax transcripts from the IRS.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-04 10:20:00

April 2008 applicant

Congrats! I filed early April also and got the Bio done in May. My timeline will say when I received the email and when I got the actual card.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-23 18:23:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Excellent news okfir!!!

I was notified via Blackberry also

Then I checked online and the status stated card production ordered...I had to make 100% sure I wasn't seeing things!! I received the approval snail mail today.

Edited by J&D, 06 March 2009 - 02:25 PM.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-06 14:23:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Daniel,
I was touched on the 22nd and on March 1st, approved on March 4th and informated of the approval via email today so I would think you will see also see an approval in the post or via email within the next few days also.

queendlee,
Sorry I missed you in Charlotte. I was the one running around in nothing but boxer shorts muttering "Hurry up and take my fingerprints, I have better things to do!!!". You may have spotted me...?

honeyblonde,
I applied the same day as you so I am sure you will hear something soon.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-05 19:20:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

All,

I'm not in the sooooper-dooooper list above, but just to let you know that I received an email a few minutes ago stating that my card production was ordered on March 04, 2009. Online status has been updated to reflect that. I did not receive any snail mail from USCIS in regard to an approval letter as yet.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-03-05 14:47:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Thanks mbmw and danielbgster, good posts! Fair play to you both as us Irish would say

And agreed, best of luck to us all regardless of processing location.

Best of luck to you also with the move Shari!

reddiablo, I spent xmas down in Naples. A beautiful spot. I visited Sanibel Island on the way back to Clearwater. When I'm rich and famous (that might take a while) I'll buy a place there.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-01-22 10:33:00

Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

Sure do.

Moved here from Charlotte, NC last June and love it here. I live on the intersection of US-19 and Gulf-to-Bay Blvd. so we're close to everything, nor far from the beach and just 20 minutes from Tampa. I'm doing my degree in computer science right now and eventually I'll need to look for a job elsewhere in the US and move again as there's nothing in my field anywhere in Florida, but I'm reluctant to move as I like Clearwater and Florida as a whole so much.

Watching the news and all the snow and people dressed like eskimos up north just makes me even more reluctant to leave here.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-01-21 10:46:00

Calm down guys, as cherr1980 said lets keep it to additions/approvals etc to the VSC timelime as oppossed to it being a childish name-calling session.

brtlmj, not to worry, we know what you meant.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2009-01-20 18:21:00

My wife Denise and I arrived in the US one year ago tomorrow - June 14 - (we had lived in Ireland together for several years before that) so I'll bring her along to see your band on Sunday evening to celebrate.

Hope the concert goes well for The Carolina Chocolate Drops! Looking forward to seeing you perform! Don't forget to play a song for us!

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-06-13 21:06:00

Would that be "The Waybacks & The Carolina Chocolate Drops" on Sunday, June 17 at 8:00pm?

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-06-13 12:06:00

Rhiannon,

This site may be of interest to you:

www.gaeltalk.net

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-06-12 20:14:00

I don't speak Irish and my wife sometimes wonders if I can even speak English

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J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-06-11 09:23:00

QUOTE

J&D- where did you get the docs and the form stating you are ready? I was also under the impression we'd have to ring the premium number, just to get them to send the forms (I-130 etc) to us so we could fill them out and send them back....

I downloaded the I-130 (link below), filled it out, got any other docs together that were required, sent it all into the Dublin Embassy. They gave me a call and I had to go in with my wife for an initial interview with the Consular Officer where he asked some basic questions and we proved my (USC) wife lived in Ireland for at least 6 months, after which he approved the petition.

We were given two forms at the Embassy, one showing what the next procedures were and one that we sent to the Embassy once we had everything so we downloaded the necessary docs from the USCIS website, I did the medical and organized Garda certs and so on and so forth, and once we had everything I filled out the form stating I was now ready for the interview and received a letter about a week or so later with an interview date.

Since my wife and I lived in Ireland and our Irish income was not counted, we needed a co-sponsor in the US so the longest time during the whole process was waiting for our co-sponsor in the US to fill out a form which took him a few weeks to do since he was on a business trip and had little time but even counting that waiting time, the time from the day our I-130 was approved to getting the CR1 visa was only 79 days which I think was reasonably fast.

More info you might want to look at about the filing the I-130 tru the Dublin Embassy:

About filing the I-130 thru the Dublin Embassy:
http://dublin.usemba...g_the_i130.html

Instructions for filling out the I-130:
http://www.uscis.gov.../I-130instr.pdf

The actual I-130 form:
http://www.uscis.gov.../form/I-130.pdf

What to include with the I-130 and what to do once it is ready to send to the Embassy:
http://dublin.usemba...ien-spouse2.pdf

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-09-21 20:02:00

The process I went thru might differ slightly to yours given that your case is complete already and you just need to go thru the interview but I didn't need to call the expensive number, I sent in a form when I had all the necessary docs to state I was ready and then received a letter from the embassy with an interview date, which I was not happy with so called the embassy (the cheap number!) and managed to get it changed to a date much much sooner.

In the interview letter I received from the embassy with the original date, there was a list of approved doctors. I have the list filed away but it would take about a month to find it as it's in one of about 100 boxes stored away with unpacked stuff we do not need in the immediate future from the move from Ireland to the US so your best bet is to call the embassy direct, ask for the immigrant visa section and ask them about approved doctors and their phone numbers in Dublin, then make an appointment for a little more than a week before your interview date as it takes about a week to get the results.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-09-21 09:33:00

It might be worth making sure thru an infopass appointment or phone call to be on the safe side and not assume anything but I would think that should you change the interview to the Dublin Embassy then both the NVC and the Dublin Embassy would ensure the Dublin Embassy had everything they needed.

The Dublin Embassy themselves make sure every t is crossed and every i is dotted from applicants so I would think (hope) they follow that practise themselves and make sure they were just as prepared for the interview and they want you to be.

Edited by J&D, 19 September 2007 - 03:37 PM.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-09-19 15:37:00

Hi Manda,

I have a CR1 visa which was issued thru the Dublin Embassy in May 2006. You won't receive the actual greencard straight away but will get a stamp in your (or your spouses if you are the US Citizen) passport as well as the brown envelope to give to the border patrol at your point of entry to the US. The actual greencard is posted out within a few weeks.

There have been several reviews posted on this site about the Dublin Embassy and you can find those at Reviews: Embassy (link on top of page). I completed a review of my interview at the Dublin Embassy and rather than looking for that elsewhere on this site, I have pasted it below so you can have a read to see if it helps:

"Here is a summary of my interview experience following application for a CR-1 visa directly via DCF thru the US Embassy in Dublin, Ireland.

Rule number 1 is to double/triple check your documentation. The Dublin Embassy will be ####### about it. I was number 3 in line and watched the 2 people ahead of me being told they did not have the correct documentation, one had a baptismal cert not a birth cert as was required and another did not have their spouses 2005 taxes filed and even though they said they had requested an extension with the IRS, they had no proof of the extension. But the staff were nice and explained exactly which documents were missing and told the people ahead of me to contact the Embassy again for another interview when they had the missing documents ready. Although the officer did get annoyed at having to make copies of docs such as Marriage certs that people wanted back but did not bring copies with them, so make sure you bring copies!

When it was my turn the officer asked my date of birth (I guess to make sure it is listed correctly in the system and not confused by American/Irish date formats), then she asked for the documenation which I had ready in the order I had noticed that she had asked the others for it, which was Birth Cert + Copy (I did thankfully have copies of everything!); Marriage Cert + Copy; Police Cert(s); any court orders, deportation or military papers (none of which applied to me); affidavit of support from my wife plus her 2005 1040 (she had a Form 2555 to show exemption from US taxes and no W2 since all her income was made in Ireland in 2005 both of which were fine); affidavit of support from the co-sponsor (since Irish income for my wife and I did not count) plus the co-sponsors 1040 and W2 for 2005, a copy of the co-sponsors permanent resident card and a recent pay stub; Medical exam results; and finally DS-230 Part II.

The officer went thru it all as I stood at the window, then she asked me to pay my $380, took my fingerprints, asked me to raise my right hand and swear that all the info in the docs was true to the best of my knowledge and said that my visa would take a little while and to sit down and wait some more. After being approved I could have waited a week! :-)

Eventually I was called up yet again, given my passport back with a I-551 permanent resident visa and I also received the mysterious brown envelope.

I was in the Embassy for 3 hours, but only spent about 15 minutes in total at any of the windows (doc collection, interview with consular officer, cashier, passport/visa collection). All in all, a little nerve-wracking, especially watching other people being told they did not have everything they needed, but other than that pretty painless. Besides your double and triple checked documentation and copies of everything, just bring water, a sandwich, a good book and plenty of patience (you'll be sitting & waiting 95% of the time)!"

Edited by J&D, 18 September 2007 - 09:13 AM.

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-09-18 09:10:00

Ireland or Prague vacation suggestions

I have not been to Prague, although I can recommend both Budapest and Vienna. But if you decide to go to Ireland, make sure you see the west coast. A lot of people tend to go to Dublin only. Dublin is certainly worth a visit, but make sure you go to Galway city as well as to the Cliffs of Moher which is not too far south of Galway.

I am from Cork City and I suppose I should recommend that too. It is a nice city, but if you do go there, try to see Kinsale south of the city and Cobh to the east. Even though Cotrk City is a great place to visit, both Kinsale and Cobh are far more impressive than the city as is the coastline around them.

Another thing you could consider is the Ring of Kerry in the south west of the country. Some of the views of the mountains there will take your breath away and you cannot get anyone more friendly than someone from Kerry!

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-10-15 07:44:00

Any Irish people here?

I read this just when we're thinking of moving from Charlotte to Florida!

Have you been to Sarasota Aiden...if so...your impressions?

J&D

Male

Ireland

2007-09-06 08:05:00