Need your help guys! Bought a car with my husband and now they are saying that i cant be a co-purchaser because my visa is expired

[always_the_sun 1]

I was so happy yesterday when we bough a car with my husband and they said that I could be a co-purchaser. I really wanted to have my name on it, so I can bring it to the interview, and i will have a credit history from now.

This morning the finance manager asked me to send him my visa and all that stuff. He said that my visa is expired and my husband explained to him that thats how it works, that the visa is only for getting married and I am legally in USA since I married him within 90 days. We even sent him a copy of my NOA1 that I have applied for my green card already . Then this manager asked my husband to send him a copy of his passport and to prove that he is a US citizen!!!! REALLYY???? I told him that I wouldnt be able to come here and apply for a green card if he wasnt a US citizen.

So I dont know whats going to happen, i guess they will remove my name from it. Im just feeling so sad... and mad lol

Maybe I dont understand something, but what do you guys think? Can I actually be a co-purchaser? I mean I am already , because we have all the documents now and the car. If they didnt like something they should have told me that yesterday.

Btw, my husband added me to his account and no problems at all. They took my SSN , looked at my visa and passport and thats it. Nobody mentioned anything that my visa was expired or anything like that.

Is there anything else i can do to prove them that I am actually legally in US?

Thanks

[Boiler 46,125]

EAD is usually the first document you will get that provides that.

Or find a different finance source.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Hmm, I know that my soon to be husband and I co-signed on a car loan and car ownership my first week in the US after I arrived on a K-1 visa. We weren't even married yet nor did I have a SSN. They took my Ontario DL and passport as identification, but they only looked at the identification page and did not even see the visa nor the I-94. We told them I was here on a K-1 visa and we were getting married. They wished us Congratulations and that was that with regards to my status. We also took this step as a way to help me re-establish credit since my Canadian credit rating did not transfer to the US and I was basically at 0.

I am very surprised that your status is an issue with the car ownership. Are you financing through the dealership itself or is this an arrangement through your bank? It does sound like it is more of the ignorance most Americans have about how immigration works. The environment has definitely become more 'anti-immigrant (legal or otherwise) in the 10 years since I arrived.

You have the car. You have the signed documentation and contracts. You have legal status in the US even if the finance manager is 'unable' to understand or recognize it. You have provided the evidence of that status. You are paying the monthly installments. If you run into any sort of difficulties or challenges at this time, you also have legal recourse. If they start making 'noise', a letter from a lawyer advising them that they would be in breach of contract might be all that is required. In the meantime, you could send them USCIS documents that explain your legal position in the US - background information explaining the K-1 visa and the Adjustment of Status process. If it were me, I would likely inundate them with 'data', but this really does sound like more anti-immigrant ignorance to me.

Good luck.

[always_the_sun 1]

Hmm, I know that my soon to be husband and I co-signed on a car loan and car ownership my first week in the US after I arrived on a K-1 visa. We weren't even married yet nor did I have a SSN. They took my Ontario DL and passport as identification, but they only looked at the identification page and did not even see the visa nor the I-94. We told them I was here on a K-1 visa and we were getting married. They wished us Congratulations and that was that with regards to my status. We also took this step as a way to help me re-establish credit since my Canadian credit rating did not transfer to the US and I was basically at 0.

I am very surprised that your status is an issue with the car ownership. Are you financing through the dealership itself or is this an arrangement through your bank? It does sound like it is more of the ignorance most Americans have about how immigration works. The environment has definitely become more 'anti-immigrant (legal or otherwise) in the 10 years since I arrived.

You have the car. You have the signed documentation and contracts. You have legal status in the US even if the finance manager is 'unable' to understand or recognize it. You have provided the evidence of that status. You are paying the monthly installments. If you run into any sort of difficulties or challenges at this time, you also have legal recourse. If they start making 'noise', a letter from a lawyer advising them that they would be in breach of contract might be all that is required. In the meantime, you could send them USCIS documents that explain your legal position in the US - background information explaining the K-1 visa and the Adjustment of Status process. If it were me, I would likely inundate them with 'data', but this really does sound like more anti-immigrant ignorance to me.

Good luck.

I sent them my NOA1 to prove that I have filed for AOS, I think I already gave them more information that is actually needed. It's been 2 days now and no answer from them So, I hope thats a good sign, if not then i guess I'll just wait for my EAD, hope it will be any time soon.

Thank you!