He is approved! And we are done immigration for a good long while! He will get his permanent resident card in the mail soon and we won't have to renew that for quite some time. His card will be good for 10 years. (And renewing won't be half the paperwork it took to get this far!)
Approved Yay! (Important information blurred obviously)
Below are some key blog posts documenting our entire immigration process up until now. (If you want to see all the posts you can click here: Immigration Process).
Our immigration process started back in 2008. We started doing research the year before we were married because we knew we would have to save money for the fee's.
8-20-2008: Immigration Lawyers
12-19-2009: F.B. & I were married in the Philippines. After we were married I came back to the USA so we could start our immigration process.
01-31-2010: 1st Meeting: Immigration Lawyer
02-24-2010: Moving along in our immigration process
04-11-2010: The Waiting Game...
06-01-2010: Now we're getting somewhere!
07-23-2010: Finally completed our I-864
10-14-2010: NVC: Step 4 of 6.
01-12-2011: Immigration Update
01-19-2011: Yikes! Just 2 weeks until.... (F.B.'s Visa Interview in Manila, Philippines).
02-03-2011: WHOO HOO! (Visa Approved!)
03-06-2011: Busy First Week! (F.B. arrived in the USA)
03-06-2012: 1 Year in the USA!
10-10-2012: Hubby's birthday & getting immigration started again.
12-01-2012: Thanksgiving and Immigration... (Removing conditional status from F.B.'s resident card).
12-20-2012: 3 Year Anniversary! (Immigration & the Holidays)
05-09-2013: Immigration Update: Approved!
NOTE: Our lawyers Peter J. Gonzales & Shanna Stanton have changed firms. They are no longer with Kahiga Tiagha. They are now with Green and Spiegel LLC, and still located in Philadelphia.
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