22 months after the initial discussion with a lawyer, all procedure has been completed for the permanent resident application. At the end of the interview at the embassy, they handed me a letter stating, “You have completed the interview portion of your application and you visa has been approved”, but this still does not put me at ease, as they still have my passport for the next 1 – 2 weeks. Anyway, following numbers are what it took for us to apply for the “green card”.
2 number of visit to the lawyer’s office
55 emails sent to and received from the lawyer
44 pages of documents prepared for the application
42 corrections on documents we requested to the lawyer
3 corrections the interviewer had pointed out to us
2 number of visit to the embassy
823 total of application fees in US dollars (lawyer fee not included)
7-8 number of questions asked to Sahe during the first interview
7-8 number of questions asked to Yoshi during the final interview
7 days took to receive my passport back from the embasy
2 years I will be considered as a conditional resident
45 minutes took to pass the customs at JFK without a green card
15 minutes likely to take to pass the customs at JFK with a green card
Upon completing the second step, we are finally able to move onto the final stage, which is to enter the US. The limit for the entry is within 6 months of physical examination, which gives us until mid-August. We wanted to make sure that this final procedure is taken care of before taking off for the journey, and so it will likely be after the “golden-week” holidays in mid-May. That gives us about 3 weeks before the departure, and we still have so much to take care of. Packing, applications to remove ourselves from the residency, pension and healthcare, choose the shipping agent, apply for visas for the countries to visit, vaccines...
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