Marriage green card interview at Tampa FL field office — approved after the interview (July 2026)

K-1 route, so no I-130 was needed. Applied for the K-1 in July 2021 as a Canadian citizen and it was approved in April 2023. Moved to Arizona in August 2023, married a U.S. citizen in October 2023, and filed I-485, I-131 and I-765 in December 2023 based on the K-1. Biometrics were in January 2024 and the EAD was approved the very next day. Advance Parole came through in July 2024 and was used six times with no issues at the border. Then came a long silence. A move from Arizona to Florida in October 2024 may have delayed the case. During the wait the polio vaccine requirements changed, which was a worry, but the medical had been done within a year of filing and was still valid. A congressional inquiry was submitted on March 15, 2026, and the case status updated to "Still being processed by USCIS" two days later. An interview was first scheduled in Fort Myers FL on May 11, 2026, then cancelled on May 30 — which was crushing — before being rescheduled in Tampa FL on June 11, 2026. The interview was on July 16, 2026 and the case was approved on July 31, 2026. There were two silent API updates on July 30 with no event codes, and the status never changed from "Interview Scheduled" to anything else before it went straight to "Case Approved". No RFE was ever issued in the whole case.

If the vaccine requirements change while your case is pending, check the date of your medical exam — you are judged by the rules in effect when the medical was done, not the newer ones. A congressional inquiry is worth trying after a long silence; the case status moved two days after ours was submitted. An interview being cancelled is not the end — ours was cancelled in one office and rescheduled in another within two weeks. And don't read too much into the online status: it never moved past "Interview Scheduled" before jumping straight to approved, with only silent updates in between.