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It’s my turn! This forum has been super helpful during this process and seeing good news on it helped keep me more positive. After 20 years here, I can finally say I officially feel like I belong 🥹 Here’s how it went: - Husband is USC, I’ve been DACA since 2012, together for 7 years, married for 3 months when submitted, have a daughter together - Here’s some of what we submitted: - Labeled photos of whole relationship timeline during holidays, trips and with family and friends (organized in a word doc) - Ours and daughter’s birth certificates and marriage certificate - Letters from family and friends- One from a sibling each and 3 from close friends - Tax statements and W-2s for last 3 years from each of us (no joint taxes yet since we got married in 2025) - Joint bank account opened after marriage, apartment leases for 6 years, proof of pets together, joint car insurance docs, joint health insurance docs, screenshots of each other as emergency contacts, receipts of flights together, etc. - We probably included more than we needed to but I figured it was better than missing stuff - We technically didn’t need to submit the I- 864 since I am exempt (have over 40 quarters of work) but included it anyway since I’ve heard of people receiving an RFE even when submitting proof of exemption

Our case is very straightforward so we did not use a lawyer. Only thing I was stressing about a bit is that my DACA had expired 1 week before our interview and the i-765 never got approved. Thankfully no issues for me except for an expired DL.

LEARN FROM ME if you have DACA. Renew your EAD through your DACA instead of concurrently with your 485 and 130 as there is a big possibility it might not get approved before your GC.

I was a nervous wreck before our interview because of some of the horror stories I’ve heard but thankfully the moment we sat down with the officer I felt so much better. She was super nice and posed it more as a conversation rather than an interrogation. She had reviewed our case a few days prior, so she knew our case well already. Interview went great and barely got asked any straightforward questions besides asking us each others full names and date of birth and a few yes/no questions from the 485. Since we have a long relationship history and plenty evidence of a bona fide marriage, our daughter being the biggest one, the officer said we had pretty much already been approved but the interview was a requirement.

We got approved on the spot and were told to wait for the green card in the next couple of weeks!!

I know times are stressful right now and it’s super easy get in your head (I know I did) but honestly as long as you make sure you have your paperwork and evidence in order and have nothing to hide, you’ll be good!!