| 6th July 2004 | Clayton and Natalie got married! :) |
| 16th July 2004 | Went to the court house, in the county where we were married, to get a copy of our marriage certificate. Which wasn't there, our Pastor said she turned it in on the 7th the day after our wedding. But the court house doesn't have record of this so where is our certificate? |
| 19th July 2004 | Phone call from our Pastor she had our Marriage certificate, and hadn't turned it in. She's going to hand it to the county office tomorrow the 20th. |
| 22nd July 2004 | Went to the court house, in the county where we were married, and got a certified copy of our marriage certificate from the register of deeds. This cost us $4 for each copy. |
| 23rd July 2004 | Went to the IRS to get printouts of Clayton's last 3yrs of tax returns |
| 28th July 2004 | We sent our forms to the Seattle office. This cost us $7.10 as we sent it priority mail, certified mail and we paid for return receipt. |
| 30th July 2004 | Checked online, our forms were delivered yesterday. |
| 5th August 2004 | Mail from INS- Received a letter and a cash register receipt for $315, also had our Biometric fingerprint check of $70 returned. The letter gave no explination of why it was returned. The letter states that our application will be processed in the order that it was received, and that processing times may vary depending on the type of application. Checked the Seattle Office online, AOS applications can take up to 5-6mths to process. |
| 8th August 2004 | Called the Seattle District office for some answers on the fingerprinting check. Apparently K-1ers in Washington State don't need to have Biometrics done. I had my fingerprints taken at Port of entry, the officer said that is all we require. |
| 9th September 2004 | Went to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) today and got my Washington State ID card. This is so I have some ID with my married name and new address. It looks just like a US drivers licence but has "IDENTIFICATION CARD ONLY" written at the top. I had to show my Passport and Clayton's driver's licence, along with our marriage certificate, to prove my residency. To apply for a State ID Card just go to your local DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) |
| 6th October 2004 | Mail from the INS - our interview appoinment letter. Our interview is on the 29th October 2004 at 10:30am - only 3 months after we got married and a lot sooner than predicted. The letter tells us where to go for our Interview, and which floor to get to. It also tells you what to bring to the Interview, evidence of Co-habitation. |
| 29th October 2004 | Today was our AOS interview. You can read about our successful experience here |
| 16th November 2004 | Received a Welcome Letter from the Nebraska Service Center, confirming the creation of a "record of lawful permanent residence" in my name. You can read about it |
| 20th November 2004 | YEY. I got my green card in the mail today. Here's a drawing of what it looks like:
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| 10th December 2004 | Applied for a SSN at the local federal building you can read about it here |
| 28th December 2004 | Recieved a letter from the Social sercurity office, I should have my number within 2wks. |
| 2nd January 2005 | Recieved card through mail, postmarked 31st December 2004. |
