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Hi everyone,

February 2025 filer. My petition was approved on October 14th, 2025.

I currently live in an apartment which the lease will end December 31. I have the option to go to month to month after the end of the lease. This apartment's address was used in my I-129F petition.

The main issue is, the current apartment will not allow dogs. My fiance and I have a dog together from when I was living with him pre-February 2025 (I was in Canada on a work visa for 3 years), which that dog is currently living at his place of residence in Canada. Once my fiance moves here, I will have to be living in an apartment that allows dogs.

I'm wondering if anyone has had to change their address during the petition process before? I'm assuming that its not easy it to inform the NVC (I'm also assuming that the petition even getting to the NVC at this point will be late December or early January 2026) or the U.S. Consulate/Embassy in Montreal about where my fiance and I will reside during this Visa process.

Please let me know if anyone has any insight. Thank you.

In may 2025 my cousin s friend who s a US citizen came to Trinidad and I met and built a relationship with him.

In June 2025 I came to United States with a visiting visa that gave me 6 moths out of my home country Trinidad & Tobago. In July we got engaged and then on October 15 we got married in the US. I m looking into filing for my green card/ immigrant status as being a resident of the United States, what form/visa is best suited for our relationship/marriage to file for our application?

Do I apply for the k3 visa?
Do I file just for adjustment of status? ( 6 months end on December 18th)

I started the AOS for my mother in May (I130) and I485 in July. She had her biometrics appt back in August. (no fingerprint, just the picture), this morning changed to CASE IS BEING ACTIVELY REVIEW BY USCIS, we are in Texas. How long approx will take from now and what is the next step

Thanks

Registering for CFO. We have to enter the visa number. Usually a diagonal line through the character means its the number zero. However, other characters other places within the visa are clearly number zeros but they don't use the diagonal line. This is stupid. Look at the issue date and expiration date, clearly those must be number zeros in the issue date and expiration date. Even in the control number itself, the first 4 characters must be all numbers to indicate year 2025, and yet there are no diagonal lines through them.

Hello!

A new day, a new question

I wanted to know what are your recommendations about what kind of documents, statements, apostilled documents should I take with me to the U.S.?

For safety reasons, I'm thinking to order a statement that I am not married that is translated in English (from a legit translation company) and get that document apostilled.

I know I will need to redo my drivers license in the U.S., but I was thinking to order a statement in English to at least show them that I have a drivers license from my country.

I'm thinking to order a certified copy of my birth certificate which is translated in English and Apostilled. I already have a translated and apostilled birth certificate.. would it be worth it to make a copy too? Or it would be just a waste of money?

What are your thoughts and recommendations?

I really appreciate all of your previous answers to my questions before! It's really nice that VJ is such a big community that are willing to help each other.