Final few questions before submitting I-130 package

[Gosia & Tito 199]

Yeah, I wish the U.S. government respected its tax paying citizens like the EU respects their's. It's quite pathetic, to be honest. I can see not working. But not even being able to live with your spouse?? What kind of joke is that?? It just upsets me so darn much. In many ways I think America should be more like Europe in that respect.

Yeah, but I don't think Spanish has the cases to the degree Polish does. I mean, 6 endings for each noun/adjective?? Is that really needed? Just boggles my mind sometime how Polish people remember all of that. I was a Japanese major in college and I would take Japanese and its crazy writing system any day over Polish. Hands down. But yes, the pronunciation is crazy and extremely hard at times. Just today I was trying to read a worse that had about ten consonants in it and gave up after the first few because my brain couldn't process them all at once and it just was a train wreck coming out of my mouth. lol

Thanks a lot. I'm a very cynical person and don't trust the process at all, even though unfortunately it's the only way I can be with my wife and we can live our lives. I'm always worried something will go wrong and they'll find some stupid loophole or reason to keep my wife and I apart. It's my worst nightmare actually, especially given that she's pregnant with our first child. Patience is something I have a lot of. It's just trust, positivity and hope that I'm lacking. I hope you're right. Congratulations on the two years.

Being Latin, government is the very last thing I trust to do something right and then I'd probably think it 3 times, but I've learned to choose my battles and instead turn around the rules to my favor. Patience and self control is paramount with immigration: literally one has no control and not even that but the rules of the game can change and one needs to be on top of all that; not to defend USCIS but they are probably drawning in applications of all types and no additional resources; thus is best to use the time effectively to prepare, for example, for the birth, with looking into establishing a family support network. If you always look at the 'something can go wrong' side, I'd say, plan for that and be prepared. In our case, it meant we prepared 2-3 scenarios, form visa not approved to delayed move beciae of work in Poland and were already working the AOS while K-1 was in progress and though we are today about 9months before we can do the ROC, I'm already collecting pics, documents, etc; everything the even remotely could be used; in about 6 months I'll start looking at the portfolio and chosing what is the evidence we'll use.

Another preparation: before my now wife came, I was 'establishing' her credit history with credit cards and such.

[r060106 109]

Being Latin, government is the very last thing I trust to do something right and then I'd probably think it 3 times, but I've learned to choose my battles and instead turn around the rules to my favor. Patience and self control is paramount with immigration: literally one has no control and not even that but the rules of the game can change and one needs to be on top of all that; not to defend USCIS but they are probably drawning in applications of all types and no additional resources; thus is best to use the time effectively to prepare, for example, for the birth, with looking into establishing a family support network. If you always look at the 'something can go wrong' side, I'd say, plan for that and be prepared. In our case, it meant we prepared 2-3 scenarios, form visa not approved to delayed move beciae of work in Poland and were already working the AOS while K-1 was in progress and though we are today about 9months before we can do the ROC, I'm already collecting pics, documents, etc; everything the even remotely could be used; in about 6 months I'll start looking at the portfolio and chosing what is the evidence we'll use.

Another preparation: before my now wife came, I was 'establishing' her credit history with credit cards and such.

Yeah, I hear you on how government can't do anything right. Well said. I'll have to take your approach and do that myself, choose my battles. I'm trying to build my ability to be patient every day, as I know it will be a very long wait till my wife and I are able to be reunited. You make a very good point. I should be occupying my time with important things and not let it slip away from me while we're waiting. I'll likely prepare 2-3 scenarios as well, just have to think about how I'm going to prepare. How did you establish your wife's credit history? Just curious.

Thanks

[Gosia & Tito 199]

Yeah, I hear you on how government can't do anything right. Well said. I'll have to take your approach and do that myself, choose my battles. I'm trying to build my ability to be patient every day, as I know it will be a very long wait till my wife and I are able to be reunited. You make a very good point. I should be occupying my time with important things and not let it slip away from me while we're waiting. I'll likely prepare 2-3 scenarios as well, just have to think about how I'm going to prepare. How did you establish your wife's credit history? Just curious.

Thanks

What I did was to get a couple of my cc providers to issue a card for my now wife, as an authorized user. Once I had the cards, I would use them occasionally for purchases. I started about 1 year before her arrival. A couple of times, I got joint accounts with store cards (Kohl's was one of them), I told the person helping me what I was trying to do. They still check her history and of course didn't find any, but since he knew what was to objective (and apparently, store cards are always being promoted), got us the card anyway (I do have a very good credit rating)

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Of course, when she arrived, I gave her the cards for her use and by then we were already getting unsolicited offers for CC. Soon after arrival, we got her SS card (We married within a week of arrival) and with that, join one of my bank accounts for checks. Additionally, I was already refinancing so I added her to the title. Soon after we started getting an average of one offer every week or two for credit cards. We haven't tried getting one on her name only.

Hope this helps.