Reaffirmed Spouse Petitions

[Life is Life 1]

Hello. If a Spouse Petition gets reaffirmed (after a consular return), and sent back to a US Embassy abroad, do the applications need to be redone and paid for again? Or does the petition just get sent back with the new notes and the new evidence? Thanks.

[JeanneAdil 6,505]

You just posted on the 8th that the case is coming back to the USA

you have no timeline so i will assume this just happened

The case after being returned takes about 6 months before the USC will here what the issues were

Then she is given a time period to respond to those issues to prove them wrong

If she can't or doesn't , the application is revoked (guess that is the right word)

If she does and it is sent back to the embassy,   she will have to do a new affidavit of support (as that will happen late next year) 

so her 2019 IRS tax returns will be due and needed for the new interview

and you will do a new medical exam

 

meanwhile do a timeline on this site so we can know what stage of the process you are in at present to help the VJ community help u

you have a long wait and probably many questions

there are experienced people here to answer them 

but the one we all can not tell anyone is "how long will this take?"

[Life is Life 1]

11 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

You just posted on the 8th that the case is coming back to the USA

you have no timeline so i will assume this just happened

The case after being returned takes about 6 months before the USC will here what the issues were

Then she is given a time period to respond to those issues to prove them wrong

If she can't or doesn't , the application is revoked (guess that is the right word)

If she does and it is sent back to the embassy,   she will have to do a new affidavit of support (as that will happen late next year) 

so her 2019 IRS tax returns will be due and needed for the new interview

and you will do a new medical exam

 

meanwhile do a timeline on this site so we can know what stage of the process you are in at present to help the VJ community help u

you have a long wait and probably many questions

there are experienced people here to answer them 

but the one we all can not tell anyone is "how long will this take?"

Hello. I am the petitioner, and this is my wife I am talking about. My wife got denied on September 30th (just last month), and our case is being sent back to the States. You said that I may have to do a new Affidavit of Support, if our case gets reaffirmed. Will the Petition and the Immigrant Visa Application need to be done again, too, or ‘only’ the Affidavit of Support? Thank you.

[JeanneAdil 6,505]

22 minutes ago, Travel is life said:

Hello. I am the petitioner, and this is my wife I am talking about. My wife got denied on September 30th (just last month), and our case is being sent back to the States. You said that I may have to do a new Affidavit of Support, if our case gets reaffirmed. Will the Petition and the Immigrant Visa Application need to be done again, too, or ‘only’ the Affidavit of Support? Thank you.

Not the application

but the AOS

and her medical

and her ds 260

and her criminal reports

and anything else USCIS or the embassy wants at the interview

 

if they revoke the petition,  you apply again and do it all

Edited October 19, 2019 by JeanneAdil

[Life is Life 1]

9 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

Not the application

but the AOS

and her medical

and her ds 260

and her criminal reports

and anything else USCIS or the embassy wants at the interview

 

if they revoke the petition,  you apply again and do it all

Hi. If our case gets reaffirmed, will they also want the International Police Clearance from my wife (again), at her interview?!? My wife is from Ghana, but she lived in China for one year (about seven years ago), so they asked her for a China Police Clearance and they kept it without giving it back. Will the China Police Clearance still be on file, or will they ask for a new one? I mean, my wife never returned to China since she left seven years ago. It was also extremely difficult and costly to get this China Police Clearance. Thanks!

[carmel34 3,631]

The validity of the police certificates depends on how long the reaffirmation takes.  Police certificates expire just like the medical, so all you can do at this point is wait and see how the process of reaffirmation goes.  If it's fast, you may not need new police certificates.  If it is long, you will need new ones.  Wait and hope for the best, the process is long and takes a lot of patience.  Good luck!

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

[Life is Life 1]

1 hour ago, carmel34 said:

The validity of the police certificates depends on how long the reaffirmation takes.  Police certificates expire just like the medical, so all you can do at this point is wait and see how the process of reaffirmation goes.  If it's fast, you may not need new police certificates.  If it is long, you will need new ones.  Wait and hope for the best, the process is long and takes a lot of patience.  Good luck!

Hi. I know the Police Certificates from my wife’s home country, Ghana, will expire... but my question was, “Will her International Police Certificates expire?” My wife lived in China for one year, seven years ago, so they asked her for a China Police Certificate and they kept it without giving it back. My wife hasn’t been back to China since she lived there seven years ago, so I would hope that the China Police Certificate would never expire, unless she went back to China (which she hasn’t). It took a very long time and cost a lot to get this China Police Certificate...