K1 Approved: Questions about AOS and Change of address. Living Apart for 1.5 months in the US.

[B & D 0]

Hello everyone, we just received our K1 visa in the mail this week! However we have a few questions about the AOS and change of address during the processing time.

Here is the situation. My fiance will arrive in the US with me on September 30th. We will be married immediately the first week of October in California with my pastor. However, we are planning a wedding ceremony in Minnesota to be closer to my family our friends living there. This wedding will be at the end of November. So after we get married the first week of October, my fiance will then travel to Minnesota to plan our wedding. We will be living apart for the time until our wedding, about a month and a half. During this time I will file Adjustment of Status for her.

Are there any potential problems with living apart until our actual wedding ceremony in November? After our wedding, we will move in together into a new apartment in California.

Do I have to file change of address AR-11, or online, everywhere she goes?

Here are the places she will be living. First, when she arrives, she will be at the address on the K1 Visa. Then she will move to Minnesota with my family. Then after the wedding we will move into a new address together.

I just want to be careful that we dont do anything wrong.

Thank you for your time and kind answers.

[Ning 619]

Hello everyone, we just received our K1 visa in the mail this week! However we have a few questions about the AOS and change of address during the processing time.

Here is the situation. My fiance will arrive in the US with me on September 30th. We will be married immediately the first week of October in California with my pastor. However, we are planning a wedding ceremony in Minnesota to be closer to my family our friends living there. This wedding will be at the end of November. So after we get married the first week of October, my fiance will then travel to Minnesota to plan our wedding. We will be living apart for the time until our wedding, about a month and a half. During this time I will file Adjustment of Status for her.

Are there any potential problems with living apart until our actual wedding ceremony in November? After our wedding, we will move in together into a new apartment in California.

Do I have to file change of address AR-11, or online, everywhere she goes?

Here are the places she will be living. First, when she arrives, she will be at the address on the K1 Visa. Then she will move to Minnesota with my family. Then after the wedding we will move into a new address together.

I just want to be careful that we dont do anything wrong.

Thank you for your time and kind answers.

Just relax. Use your address as her address and if you move notify USCIS of the new address. Make sure when you move to notify the post office and put her maiden name in your mail box because her green card will arrive in that name.

[B & D 0]

Just relax. Use your address as her address and if you move notify USCIS of the new address. Make sure when you move to notify the post office and put her maiden name in your mail box because her green card will arrive in that name.

Ok, so I likely dont have to report the month and a half that she lives in Minnesota preparing our wedding?

Also, you have raised another question about the Adjustment of Status that I have. Do I file everything in her maiden name? Or in her new name after having married me?

[Ning 619]

Ok, so I likely dont have to report the month and a half that she lives in Minnesota preparing our wedding?

Also, you have raised another question about the Adjustment of Status that I have. Do I file everything in her maiden name? Or in her new name after having married me?

If you want you can report all those addresses but you may be very sorry later when the docs you wait for are either sent from place to place or lost. The answer I gave you is clear.

File the docs in whatever legal name she has at that time. Keep in mind her green card will be issued in that name.

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

Ok, so I likely dont have to report the month and a half that she lives in Minnesota preparing our wedding?

Also, you have raised another question about the Adjustment of Status that I have. Do I file everything in her maiden name? Or in her new name after having married me?

Her green card will only come in the maiden name if that is the name you apply with. Don't apply in the maiden name if she is planning to change her name to yours. If she is taking your name after marriage, then you will put her new married name on all the AOS forms so her EAD/AP and green card come in her married name that she will use after marrying you. It is costly to get the green card changed after the fact, so make sure to apply in the name she wants to go by after marriage.

As for the address, put the address on the AOS forms that you will be living at in order to receive the notices from USCIS about your case. If you know the address of the place you will live in California, then use that. Perhaps wait to file to the AOS until after the wedding in Minnesota and you are already in CA. Then there will be no change of address of needed and all the mail will come to where you currently live in CA without interruptions or problems. You cannot really file her AOS for her anyway, She has to sign all the forms, except for the I-864 that you supply.

When you apply for AOS, she will get an NOA receipt notice and then a letter to get her biometrics done. The place she goes for the biometrics will be the local USCIS office based on the address you file with. So again, you may wish to wait a little bit and file with your final CA address.

~ Moved from K-1 Process to AOS from Family Based Visas- topic about AOS not K-1 ~

[Hank_ 9,174]

Just relax. Use your address as her address and if you move notify USCIS of the new address. Make sure when you move to notify the post office and put her maiden name in your mail box because her green card will arrive in that name.

Why would the green card arrive in her maiden name? If she puts her NEW legal name on the I-485, which is her married name, that is what will be on the green card.

Her green card will only come in the maiden name if that is the name you apply with. Don't apply in the maiden name if she is planning to change her name to yours. If she is taking your name after marriage, then you will put her new married name on all the AOS forms so her EAD/AP and green card come in her married name that she will use after marrying you. It is costly to get the green card changed after the fact, so make sure to apply in the name she wants to go by after marriage.

As for the address, put the address on the AOS forms that you will be living at in order to receive the notices from USCIS about your case. If you know the address of the place you will live in California, then use that. Perhaps wait to file to the AOS until after the wedding in Minnesota and you are already in CA. Then there will be no change of address of needed and all the mail will come to where you currently live in CA without interruptions or problems. You cannot really file her AOS for her anyway, She has to sign all the forms, except for the I-864 that you supply.

When you apply for AOS, she will get an NOA receipt notice and then a letter to get her biometrics done. The place she goes for the biometrics will be the local USCIS office based on the address you file with. So again, you may wish to wait a little bit and file with your final CA address.

~ Moved from K-1 Process to AOS from Family Based Visas- topic about AOS not K-1 ~

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[NateFP 10]

I would say put your constant address on the mail. When me and my husband filed for my visa or AOS we put his families address, because we are renting and we could move from one place to another.

[Ning 619]

Why would the green card arrive in her maiden name? If she puts her NEW legal name on the I-485, which is her married name, that is what will be on the green card.

Question as he asked it.

"Also, you have raised another question about the Adjustment of Status that I have. Do I file everything in her maiden name? Or in her new name after having married me" ?

" File the docs in whatever legal name she has at that time. Keep in mind her green card will be issued in that name" .

You must have missed the above.

Edited September 8, 2013 by Ning

[Hank_ 9,174]

Your later post was just "catching up" with what is the reality.

[Ning 619]

Your later post was just "catching up" with what is the reality.

We are so lucky you are here. Moses returning from listening to the talking bush.