🔺 r/USCISuHopeful-Local121·93 days ago
Approved!!!!! family-based AOS
So happy that this day has finally come!!!! This subreddit helped us so much during our application process with good tips and to ease our worries, so I wanted to share some info about our process to help future applicants! My husband and I applied for an adjustment of status for him (I am a USC) from F-1 on STEM OPT. No overstays or unauthorized work, no crime record of any kind. He is from one of the countries on the 75 list. Has had B-2 and multiple J-1 visas in the past. He was subject to the 2-year home-country requirement from the J-1, but applied for an exemption a couple of years ago and was approved with a no-objection statement from his country. We had been married for about 2 months at the point of applying for AOS, had been dating for over 8 years, and had lived together for over 3 years. Didn't apply for early parole or work authorization since wait times are so long. Manhattan FO. Filed ourselves without a lawyer. Just read the form instructions thoroughly and followed Kseniya International's videos and this subreddit for extra guidance. Thank you SO MUCH to Kseniya and you all - we are SO grateful <3 and feel so lucky that this process went pretty fast. :) Here wa…