Please need help with the adjustment of visa from F1 Visa through marriage.

[GHenry 0]

Hi Everyone,

I got recently married and all the paperwork confuses me and my husband. I came here to the US in 2009 on a J1 Visa and changed it in 2011 to a F1 Visa. Since then I am here as a International Student. I met my husband in 2010 and got married now. My Husband moved a year ago from California to Massachusetts. Therefore, he did not make enough money to be my sponsor, but we have a co sponsor which is my cousin from North Carolina. Do i need another sponsor?

I also wanted to ask which papers we have to file? We printed out the I-130, G-325A, I-485, I-693, I-765, I-864. Do we miss any important papers? Also, there is the question on I-485 the reason why i apply for the visa adjustment. There was not any of my situation that i married and came as a F1 Student.

Thank you all for you help,

Gladys

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

http://www.visajourney.com/content/guides

Here is the VJ Guide.

It is option A in part 2 of the I-485.

Your husband is always the primary sponsor even if he did not qualify, and needs to fill out the paperwork and provide all related evidence. You can have a co-sponsor who must qualify on his/her own.

Do you have a home residency requirement on your J1?

[GHenry 0]

http://www.visajourney.com/content/guides

Here is the VJ Guide.

It is option A in part 2 of the I-485.

Your husband is always the primary sponsor even if he did not qualify, and needs to fill out the paperwork and provide all related evidence. You can have a co-sponsor who must qualify on his/her own.

Do you have a home residency requirement on your J1?

Thank you for your response! Yes thank you for the reminder. My husband filled all the paperwork as my primary sponsor out.

I am on F1 Visa now for almost 3 years. So i have a home residence with my husband.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Some J1s require that the person go home for 2 years before becoming an immigrant. You need to make sure that your old J1 did not have this requirement on it, and you need to supply the proof that it does not, for the AOS. That is something special" because you had a J1 before.

If you had the 2-year Home residency requirement, then you could get a F1 visa without going home, but you cannot become a LPR without fulfilling or waiving the requirement. So you will need to check to see if you had it or not.

That's what I meant. Good luck.

[GHenry 0]

Oh I went home every year before I was applying for my F1 Visa. Thank you so much and i will check if my previous visa status will interfere with our adjustment status.

I hope there will be no complications.