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Hi all,

I would be really grateful if someone can help me with this issue. I went to us legally about 20 years ago but failed to fulfil the requirements of my visa. I got married to a US citizen but was deported and banned for 10 years. I went back to my home country and after few years of my wife trying to get me back to USA, we gave up. My wife initially wanted to get a divorce but then for some reason she did not follow through so we stayed married. I on the other hand got married in my home country (India) and subsequently moved to UK and had kids. My Indian wife and I got divorced few years ago and am single now. My USA citizen wife contacted me out of the blue and told me she had cancer and was undergoing treatment.

Now my question is if I can apply for a non-immigrant visa to go see her at least or in the best case scenario get an immigrant visa based on our valid marriage. We had applied for I-601 when I was in the US but do not know what happened to it.

I am looking forward to your replies which will be much appreciated.

Hi all - is this the correct Canada Police Certificate?

Hi everyone,
We are filing for i-130 and we don't know what is the right approach for filing in regards to our situation.

Situation:
the beneficiary (me) will have the medical exam on the 15th of December, and I want to file i-485 after I receive my medical envelope to avoid delays from RFE. We will also move to our own assigned apartment (we already have it assigned) on the 15th.

Right now we are living in a shared house, and we have a floor for ourselves in that house but the lease is written as a (full house lease with all resident) it doesn't necessarily show who occupies which floor.

Suggestions for i-130 filing:
1. Should we wait till the 15th till we have our new contract which shows that only us are occupying the place for (Bonafede document), and to avoid changing the address between now and the 15th incase we file now?
2. Should we just file now and specify in the rental contract that we rent a separate floor for ourselves, and put the current address then change it in 15 days (How do we even do that?)?
3.Should we file now and specify that we rent a separate floor for ourselves, and put our future address for mailing to avoid changing it in 15 days?

What are your thoughts?

Hello! This website has been a very helpful resource for our Visa journey thus far, so I figured I'd make an account to ask some questions:

The status of my Visa application on the CEAC website has been set to "Ready" since October 3rd, it is now November 23rd and I haven't recieved anything in the mail or by email regarding Packet 3. On top of this, the CEAC website hasn't been allowing us to check the status anymore and doesn't load anything following pressing the submit button. Not even a message telling me that anything was filled out wrong or they couldn't find my case. I can confirm it's set to "Immigrant Visa" and I am entering my MTL number correctly. We've tried multiple devices on different internet connections as well.

I do have all the documents for Packet 3 ready, and I've seen that some users on here have successfully received Packet 4 by emailing their documents to the Montreal Embassy before they recieved Packet 3. Some users never even received Packet 3 at all and followed through with this. Is this a good idea? If so, what email should I send my documents to?

It's almost been 2 months and I'm worried that my Packet 3 has been lost in the mail, and not being able to check the status of my Visa case is worrying me. Is there anything I can do?

I had an RFE from USCIS. They wanted proof of my 1st marriage ending. My wife died in DEC22 and I sent them an original from the Records Office. Somehow they lost it. I have copies of that record but I went back and purchased another official copy and sent it in. The $20 is not the problem. The problem is the lost time. There has already been a complete halt to USCIS processing since they fired the 400 people in APR/MAY this year. People who filed in APR and MAY received approvals in under 60 days. I am on day 150 and counting. This is ridiculous.

I am so happy that Trump has a Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and I certainly hope they attack the USCIS and get them straight. It should not take this long to process these forms. I understand these are government employees and they work at a snail's pace. Maybe they should outsource this to a company that can be more efficient. I will have my approval soon after they review my RFER but hopefully others will benefit from Trump's new policies.