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Your refusal to hire an attorney to help with your immigration case is what got you into this situation to begin with. The request for evidence would have been sent to your attorney who would have replied to it in a timely manner. In addition, a "Notice of Intent to Deny" should have been sent to you, giving you time to respond. Your question also fails to state sufficient facts to properly answer your question. With that being said, what is the reason given for the appointment with the local office. If it is to interview you again, then a number of scenarios are possible. You can go to the appointment, be interviewed, and hopefully be granted permanent residency. You can go to the appointment and be served with a Notice to Appear, placing you in removal proceedings. You can go to the appointment and be detained by ICE and placed in removal proceedings. The choice to retain an attorney at this time is up to you. Good Luck.

It is a bit strange that your mother's I-130 petition has not been approved yet. You should call the National Service Center at the number that should have been provided in the e-mail that you received. Prepare to wait quite a while until you get to talk to a service representative. Have your filing receipt number ready. And tell the representative that your case is "outside the normal processing time" (right now, USCIS processes the I-130 petitions that were filed at the end of September 2011, so yours should have been decided about 4 months ago). You need not worry about aging out of the priority category: there is a federal law, Child Status Protection Act, that "froze" your age on the date your mother filed the I-130 petition; until a decision on her petition is made, USCIS treats you as if you do not get a day older. So, let's say, USCIS approves your mother's petition exactly 2 years and 1 month after the petition was filed; and the visa becomes available to you when you are 21 years and 7 months old - under Child Status Protection Act, you age will be counted as 19 years and 6 months, and you will remain in the F2a category.

The minimum income requirement for a family of 2 is $18,912 per year. Add $4,950 for each additional person in the household. Although your husband only made $13,900 last year, immigration will look at his current annual income (average monthly x 12 months) to determine if he meets the income requirement.