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Hello, can you please advise -

If I get college transcripts, can they be unofficial/unsealed or do they need to be sealed?

I read there's something from Social Security - can it be printed from online?

What about property tax records - does that prove presence?

Thanks!

Hello, and thank you in advance but i wanted to know ir someone could help me in formulating a formar expedite request for someone aging out of a F2a category. Please and thank you.

I'm sponsoring my brother and his wife from Bangladesh. After a long wait his Serial number finally happen and I received email to pay Affidavit and visa fee. Now I'm filling up I-864 form. I need a little more clarification about the I-864 question..

Question 1) Me and my wife file joint tax return and my earning is more then triple the poverty limit. If I send my tax transcript for 2024, how would they know what is my earning is because Tax transcript have total income not individual (given I don't need a co sponsor).

Question 2) What other documents I should include with the I-864 form.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Timeline:

May 2017 - applied for I-129F
Late 2018 - I-129F petition approved, came to the US, got married within the 90days

Early 2019 - applied for permanent visa

End of 2019 - application got denied (due to incomplete sponsorship documentation)

January 2020 - applied for permanent visa

January 2021 - Approved (married for 2 years at the time and received a conditional card)

Late 2023 - Receive a 10yr permanent residence card (after battle with the US to correct our card and having the governor to step in and have them work on it, no second interview was needed)

Speaking as the immigrant.

Hi, so in the past year my relationship with my spouse started getting rocky and things gone pretty bad in between us and my spouse finally reached out to me and said they want to end things between us, I havent filed for citizenship yet because this just happened unexpectedly and comfortably still seen a future ahead of us, unfortunately I have to respect my spouse choices and follow through. their decision is final.

The question is, what do I do now?

Must I notify the USCIS of the divorce? and how?

And how does this affect my eligibility to apply for N-400 and what do I have to be worried about?

Are there anything else I should be doing or worrying of immigration wise now that the divorce is happening?

Thanks for the help!

Background: married American serviceman over 20 years ago, LPR status through marriage adjudicated almost 20 years ago, divorced almost 10 years ago, ready to apply for Citizenship on the 5-year rule.

On Part 9 (Additional Information About You), question #6 reads:

"Have you EVER been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with, or have you EVER provided money, a thing of value, services or labor, or any other assistance or support to a group that:

6.a. Used a weapon or explosive with intent to harm another person or cause damage to property?

6.b. Engaged (participated) in kidnapping, assassination, or hijacking or sabotage of an airplane, ship, vehicle, or other mode of transportation?

6.c. Threatened, attempted (tried), conspired (planned with others), prepared, planned, advocated for, or incited (encouraged) others to commit any of the acts listed in Item Numbers 6.a. or 6.b.?"

While I understand the real purpose of this question should be to rule out any terrorist involvement with enemies of this great country, and the obvious answer for any well-intentioned person should be a resounding NO, if we read the question LITERALLY though, what's an ex-spouse of an Infantryman (a mortar man at that!) for the US Army supposed to answer here?

I feel that the answer should be YES to all 3 points, now how to do so and expect not to have an entire SWAT team waiting at the interview I don't know.

Serious question, really. Is this one of those "f... if you do, f... if you don't" scenarios?

Thanks in advance.