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Hello,

I am a UK citizen who has been living in NY for ten years. I met my wife shortly after arriving and after 7 - 8 years of living together, we married a couple of years ago and started the green card process. i was approved 2 years ago. In the last 6 months our marriage has started to deteriorate. When the I751 came through a couple of months ago, my wife told me that I should go ahead, prepare it and submit it. Now that I have the package ready to go she is refusing to sign the cover letter - and has just told me she wants to get an attorney. It's due by May 15th. I am not sure what to do. I entered into this marriage in good faith. We are still married and living together. Thanks for any help you can suggest.

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Hello,

I am a UK citizen who has been living in NY for ten years. I met my wife shortly after arriving and after 7 - 8 years of living together, we married a couple of years ago and started the green card process. i was approved 2 years ago. In the last 6 months our marriage has started to deteriorate. When the I751 came through a couple of months ago, my wife told me that I should go ahead, prepare it and submit it. Now that I have the package ready to go she is refusing to sign the cover letter - and has just told me she wants to get an attorney. It's due by May 15th. I am not sure what to do. I entered into this marriage in good faith. We are still married and living together. Thanks for any help you can suggest.

did she refuse to sign because she doesnt want to continue the marriage, or she doesnt know if its correctly filed (and thus wants an attorney)?

Wife's I-130:

03/15/2019 NOA1 (Nebraska Service Center)

02/11/2020 Case transferred to Vermont Service Center

02/02/2021 NOA2 الحمد لله

02/04/2021 Approval email
02/12/2022 NVC documents submitted

arran Newbie

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did she refuse to sign because she doesnt want to continue the marriage, or she doesnt know if its correctly filed (and thus wants an attorney)?

thanks for your reply. we don't want to continue the marriage - but we had agreed to stay married until my status was sorted out. now she says she wants an attorney to put everything in writing.

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That's an easy one.

You file alone about 10 days before your GC expires. What you need to do Monday morning is to file for divorce. When the AOS people look at your petition, they will send you an RFE for the missing divorce decree. If you don't produce it within the time frame allotted, removal proceedings will be initiated against you, by default. You'll see a judge and your attorney will ask for the removal proceedings to put on hold until your divorce is final and USCIS has decided on your petition. Most likely that will be granted.

The most important thing for you to know is that time is not your friend here.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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thanks for your help - i am concerned that by submitting my I751 alone I am less likely to have it accepted. Whereas if i let my wife get an attorney and let her draw up some papers that say she will stay married to me until it has been granted, i stand a better chance as my I751 joint package has pretty good evidence.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Arran,

you know your wife for about 10 years. Read my lips: unless you really mess up your I-751 applicayion, you WILL be approved.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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