One Step Closer...

Dan got his EAD (Employment Authorization Document) today! Now it's just a waiting game until the Green Card interview and Permanent Residency! Hooray!

Adjustment of Status to Permanent Legal Resident

AOS Package required contents:

• Cover letter listing contents for - Immediate Relative (Spouse) Family Based Adjustment of Status Application. List the major contents of the package (i.e. I-485 and evidence, I-765, I-131,etc).
• - G-325a – For DAN
• - I-765 – EAD application
• Application
• Copy of passport
• Copy of Visa
• 2 passport photos
• On back: Name & Alien Receipt Number
• Mail to:
• USCIS
• P.O. Box 805887
• Chicago, IL 60680-4120
• I-485 – Application to Register/AOS
• Mail to:
• USCIS
• P.O. Box 805887
• Chicago, IL 60680-4120
• Copy of birth certificate
• Copy of passport with visa page
• 2 Passport photos
• Vaccination supplement i-693a
• G-325a
• Copy of NOA2- I129f Approval
• Copy of Marriage Certificate
• Copy of Form I-94
• Check or money order for $1010 – payable to U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
• I-864 – For EMILY
• Most recent tax return & W-2
• Copy of passport
• I -864 – For KAREN
• Most recent tax return & W-2
• Copy of passport

Getting married is like buying a gun...

You apply for a license...
And then they make you wait three days.

Things to Do in Boston Next Week

A collection of more to-dos, in the vaguest of chronological order.

• Add my name to the lease for proof of RESIDENCY (Asap)
  
• Sort out health INSURANCE add to Emily's account, or get a separate one. (Asap)
• Start contacting people about JOBS: (Godine & Sedo done), direct e-mails for: Beacon, Boston Magazine, Liz's company, Crimson Life Sciences, Club Passim, Perseus, Shift Comms, German School, Blink Music & others (Asap)
  
• Get an affordable civil ceremony RING (In the first week)
• Apply for marriage license: go to City Clerk's office. Bring ID (passport, birth certificate), and cash (I think $25 if we file in Cambridge). (Asap, by 4th Aug. at latest)
  
• Take a look at the AOS Adjustment paperwork and get applications together (In the first week)
  
• Get a Social Security Number (SSN) (After 2 weeks)
• Open a bank ACCOUNT and a joint account (After getting an SSN) DONE
  

Hopefully most of that can be sorted out before 08.08.08, so that there is less to do then. And I will have a job, I hope! Zaz.

Updated 7/26/08

Movies to see

Feel free to add to or edit this list!

1. BATMAN - out July 18
2. X-FILES - out July 25
3. Indiana Jones - still playing here
4. Iron Man - may still be playing (Did you see this one? I forget.)
5. Wall-e

Photos a day

People look like their dogs I suppose.

Oscar stealing people's seats.

To-Do upon Dan's arrival.

1. ASAP, but a minimum of 4 days before the civil ceremony: apply for marriage license. Go to City Clerk's office. Bring ID (passport, birth certificate), and cash (I think $25 if we file in Cambridge).
2. ASAP, but no more than two weeks after Dan arrives (wait for him to be entered in the system): Apply for Social Security Number. Bring passport, birth certificate, all visa documents, and application form.
3. ASAP: File for AOS and EAD. Much more on this later.