I-485 Success in Chicago
Apr 25th 2006, 7:28 pm
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I-485 Success in Chicago
Hi everyone,
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
Apr 25th 2006, 7:57 pm
#2
Concierge
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 46,388
Re: I-485 Success in Chicago
Congratulations to you, GK ... Nice write up.
Originally Posted by grimknight21
Hi everyone,
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
Apr 25th 2006, 8:21 pm
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Re: I-485 Success in Chicago
Congratulations! 
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Apr 25th 2006, 8:48 pm
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Re: I-485 Success in Chicago
Originally Posted by grimknight21
Hi everyone,
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone in this
newsgroup for all the help and assistance. Couldn't have made it to
where I am today without you all.
Our I-485 interview was last Wednesday, just been very busy to post
this. We applied for I-485 a month following our wedding in June 2005,
and got the interview notice in around 1 month before the interview.
We'd just moved to Central Illinois following my finally obtaining an
employer and the notice was sent to my parents-in-law house, so it was
quite a shock to find out the day after we moved that I had an
interview in around a month.
We went up the weekend before the interview and grabbed all the papers
and photos we could of me and the wife being together to supplement our
lease and insurance documents. Spent the night before it photocopying
and printing photocopies of a lot of our wedding album.
Next morning we set out early for the train station. Wife wasn't
nervous at all about the interview, while I was. She was so not nervous
about the whole affair that she fell sound asleep on the train for the
entire 3 hour long journey. We arrived at Union station, and grabbed a
bite to eat. Noting that we'd arrived around 1 hour and 15 minutes
before the appointment we decided to walk to the Kluczynski Federal
Building following the directions that a fellow employee at my new
company gave me. Just what I needed to calm me down a bit. We arrived
at the building almost exactly at the 45 minutes to go point. After a
security check, we headed up to the second floor to the INS reception
area. It wasn't too busy, only maybe 25% of the seats were filled. I
handed in my interview notice and we waited. Roughly 15 minutes before
the actual due time of the interview a group of us were called to the
receptionist. He handed us our interview notice and told us to go to
the 23rd floor.
Arriving at the 23rd floor, once again we handed our notice to a new
receptionist. This area was a lot busier, it was standing room only and
we had to wait outside the lobby. Of course the wife didn't let this
faze her in the slightest and immediately started doing wordsearch
puzzles while I was hoping we didn't miss any t's crossed or i's
dotted.
Eventually (after what seemed like an eternity, though in actual fact
only around 30 minutes had passed). A man came out saying our name. We
headed back with him into a small office. After taking off my rucksack
filled with evidence, we sat down. First thing he did was take my
passport and our drivers licenses. We then stood up and swore we were
telling the truth. He took the I-94 from my passport, had a look at the
stamps I collected on my travels to the US to visit my then fiancee. He
had a look through her passport and looked at the stamps she had from
visiting me in Ireland.
He asked us basic information about our new address (he saw it had
changed from our drivers licenses). He asked for our phone number and
me and the wife both said it at exactly the same time. Asked me for her
parents full names, job I was doing, how I found America etc. I had to
hand over new I-864's for my wife and co-sponsor as we'd now moved out
the parents houses. Asked to see the original of the marriage cert and
our birth certificates. He also asked for a copy of our lease and our
car insurance and seemed satisfied with that. He didn't ask about joint
bank account or utilities or anything else. Next up were the photos, we
brought all of our photos of our times together, I was somewhat
disappointed he only took one for the file, though he did have a good
look through some of them asking us where they were taken etc. I was
actually pleasantly surprised and somewhat saddened at the end of the
interview. I'd spent ages getting all of the information together and
photocopying and everything and he only took 6 or 7 bits of evidence.
However, I have to tell you all, it was a very uplifting moment indeed
when he said "I'm going to approve your application" and all the
sweeter when he stamped that on our file. He put the temporary stamp in
the passport and told me that the green cards are running very quickly
at the moment, so I should have it within a month.
With that, we left the building and went on a shopping spree. She
bought Nike shoes, I ended up in the Virgin Megastore on Michigan Ave,
bought some DVD's but to make the day absolutely perfect, the final
cherry on top of the cake that getting the green card made. I found
Irn-Bru in that store. Irn-Bru was the one thing I was regretting about
leaving behind in Scotland and now they even import it! I bought every
bottle I could find of the stuff, and left Chicago on the train an hour
later a very happy man (even if she was snoring on the trip back).
As an addendum I got the "Welcome to the United States" letter
yesterday and it said that green card processing is taking 3 weeks.
Maybe I will get it in only a month. Our whole process from marriage to
AOS took 10 months. From K-1 to AOS it took closer to 18 months. Now
I've only two years to go before removal of conditions and three to go
before citizenship!
Congrats. I love that you found Irn-Bru!
I don't know where you live in Illinois, but there's a chip shop in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis that sells it. The fish and chips are okay.
There's a tremendous International Market www.junglejims.com in Cincinnati, we drive over once ever couple of months to stock up on some necessities... like HP Sauce, McVitties, Jaffa Cakes, Irn-Bru, Lucozade, Uncle Ben's Indian Sauces, etc. I promise you - it would be WELL worth the drive. They sell six-packs of Irn-Bru, too, and Philip and I bought some for a Glaswegian friend. He said that he would open one up and only drink and ounce or two a day to make it last!
Anyway, congrats to you and best wishes for your future.
