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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,

I am hoping for some assistance:

We received the generic RFE for the I 864 stating that they can't determine if my husband is a valid sponsor or not. Last year his income requirement was $150 dollars less then the amount required for our household size (5) and the years below lower. We added a baby to our household this year. This year he will make about 10000 dollars more than the requirement.

We assumed that the letter was due to the previous years being lower and not consistent. We did feel like they did disregard the current income due to this. Obviously this was stressful.

My husband's parents are more than happy to joint sponsor us. His father is a retired army vet who also receives disability while his mother works. We discussed our household size which I had researched would be 3 (them + me) and what income was required for that. He stated they receive that amount in half a year and had a decent amount of assets. They wanted me to research what is needed for them to help.

1) I see conflicting information about retired sponsors because it seems more a bit more complex. They said the tax return for them (filed jointly) was around 70.000 in the most recent tax year.

A: Statement: A Retired sponsor is an acceptable sponsor if they can provide above the 125% income for the household. Is this accurate?

B: Do we have to split the income between his parents from the tax return (eg state what comes from who) or is it the total amounts that is added on i 864?

It appears that my husband's father would be able to do this without his mother's income. Does she need to fill out the other document or is it not needed?

2) I also read that some of the retirement/disability income is not taxable and might not show past history accurately. It seems like retirement is always taxable? How do I best deal with this issue? I understand that income does not always have to come from "paid work".

3) What documents does the retired person show as current income? I have seen that it might be confusing if I overflow them with too many documents.

Thanks for your help!

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.

Hi all,

I have just received my green card in the post and it is a 2 conditional card not the 10 year card like I expected. I arrived in the USA the day after my second wedding anniversary so I m confused as to why it s a CR1. Does anyone know if I m able to do anything to get this mistake fixed? I purposely waited until after the 2 year anniversary so we wouldn t have to go through removing the conditions. The date I ve been a resident since is the day I arrived in the states so I m not sure what s going on.

There seemed to be issues with the biometrics and I had to go to a USCIS application centre for a new picture but I m not sure if that would have anything to do with the current issue.

Thanks!