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Trending Immigration DiscussionsTopic Popularity Poster #1 TURKISH CITIZEN AND AMERICAN CITIZEN MARRIAGE
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Fiance or Marriage Visa in 2025 ? Pros and cons?
KandB posted a topic in What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration,
I'm 23F 🇨🇿, my partner is 29M 🇺🇲
We want to get our visa going sometime this year and want to be together as soon as possible but we are still unsure which visa would serve us better. I'd like to get married in my home country but on the other side i wouldn't mind getting married paperwise in the US and waiting for my work permit and etc if it would allow us to be together faster and then save up for and have our dream wedding in my home country.
What do you think ? All of this is so overwhelming and confusing and we just want to do the right thing.
I asked the same question on reddit, so many people recommended me to go with fiance visa, two suggested marriage visa. I need more input and advice from experienced people. Thank you
Ps: is it possible to have dual citizenship so i don't lose one from my home country? How does that work ?-
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Supporting evidence for AOS following K1 marriage?
smilingstone posted a topic in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas,
I entered the US on my K1 last week and we'll be planning to get married over the next few weeks. Throughout the whole K1 process I had in my head that we will need further supporting evidence of our relationship/marriage for the AOS process, such as co-mingling finances, opening joint accounts, health insurance, etc. However, now that I'm revisiting guidance on our next steps, there isn't any mention of this.
I am wondering if I misread something early on and it just stuck in my mind, and that we actually don't need to provide anything like this. VJs AOS guide doesn't make any mention of it, and nor does any other immigration-based sites. Is this something needed for the potential interview (from what I understand not all people get called for AOS interview)?
Can anyone confirm or clarify what we need? A run down of the docs you provided, when filing and/or for interview, would be really helpful.
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Tourist visa denied.. worried this will impact future family visa
mnelove97 posted a topic in Tourist Visas,
Hi, I’ve been thinking about this for a few days and feeling a bit worried. I wanted to have my husband visit me while we await our I-130 as I’ve heard some people have been approved while waiting. However he applied for a tourist visa in Jan 2024 and was denied as he said he was planning on visiting with his brother and had no family members here (true we were just snapping/texting).
We got married in July 2024 and he went in Sept 2024 at his 2nd attempt at a tourist visa - this time mentioning our marriage. The embassy worker didn’t give him a chance to speak and just said he’s “lying” because he mentioned last time he didnt have any family members in US (which he didnt). I’m worried this was written down as fraud and he will never get any visa. I’m not sure what the embassy would have written down for his denial?-
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Wife was denied entry into her interview due to Copy vs Original Doc
Rollie New New posted a topic in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures,
My wife was denied entry into her interview on Dec 20th 2024 because she had a copy of my divorce papers and not the original. Our lawyer tried to argue that the original was not required. But the embassy sent us a link that clearly showed the rule has been in place since 2022. Her new interview date is now Jan 23, 2025-
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Can I Travel to the USA with a Pending I-130 Petition?
Rayman2025 posted a topic in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures,
I have been invited to speak at a conference in the USA. My partner, who is a U.S. citizen, has filed an I-130 petition for me as we plan to move there eventually. I also have a job offer, and the employer is in the process of sponsoring an O-1 visa for me.
1. Can I apply for an ESTA to attend the conference, and am I likely to be admitted?
2. Will traveling to the USA on an ESTA impact my I-130 petition or future O-1 visa application?
Thank you!
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DV Lottery of K1 Visa - Can I file for both?
Petrisaint Mpaka posted a topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures,
I applied for the DV lottery 2025 and hope to be selected this year. My fiancé and I discovered that there is a fiancé visa for the USA. Do you think if we apply for the K1 visa but are selected for the DV lottery that we can stop the fiancé visa process? What are the timelines and options here :)?-
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Recent Immigration DiscussionsMessed up my taxes! What do I do? (DS-260) 
12:17 am today
kk5051
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1 RepliesI lived abroad for a long time, and was filing haphazardly for many years. I suddenly got married, and am figuring out what to do now.
Currently, I am back filing now. But I also have a financial sponsor.
I have a business that I've been running online, but only the business is under my name. I don't have any personal accounts that I can report to the IRS.
So as an individual, I don't have anything to show.
However, I am making enough money from my business to survive and bring my wife over.
Can I back file to the IRS, without showing anything in my personal accounts? (How can I do that?)
Is the financial sponsor enough?
I've made a mess, and I need help!
I 130 form 11:17 pm yesterday
Nena Lis
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1 RepliesHello, I have a question.
i am about to submit my I-130 form, however, I am not sure how to pay the $625 fee.
I do not see an option to pay with a check and upload proof.
can someone advise please.
N400 tax transcripts for 3 years 11:05 pm yesterday
MrHanky
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3 RepliesWe won't have 2024 filed yet by the time we file the n400, probably wouldn't be processed in time even if we did.
For what we do have filed, we have 2 years filed jointly, but 1 is married filing separate because the spouse did not have their green card yet and was living abroad.
Is this an issue?
I know this is one of 3 items that they ask for, just wasn't sure if we had enough in the other categories and
Tourist B2 Visa - Worth a 2nd attempt? 10:42 pm yesterday
Mike&Haze
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1 RepliesMy wife has become a USC in 2019 and we have attempted to secure a Tourist Visa for her mother to visit for a week. Her mother is a senior citizen in her mid 60's. She is widowed and has a 35 year old son, grandson and wife living in Cebu. She sold her home after the death of her husband 15 years ago and has a makeshift, side of the road store for income. She presently has a new boyfriend in Cebu. On our first attempt at her visa she was turned down because of not being able to convince the official of her intent to return home. Since her original rejection she has taken trips to South Korea and Singapore with her son's family, staying a week each time. My question is that since she has gone internationally and returned numerous times, would that be evidence of her intent to return after being on a week long trip to the USA? Is it worthwhile to attempt another shot since having this new information?
IR5 Tax return question, consulate interview 8:36 pm yesterday
ivanalex1980
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3 RepliesHi All,
My mom's interview is on Feb 5, 2025.
Will the interviewer in the consulate ask for 2024 tax returns? Or 2024 W2 will be fine since filing deadline is April 15.
Anyone has experienced similar situation?
Thank you
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I had my interview at the US Montreal Consulate on the 15th of December 2022n. At the interview, I was told that I didn’t have a current visa available for my category since I had outgrown it from child of a permanent resident to adult child of a permanent residence and I was told that another option for me was that I must have "sought to acquire lawful permanent resident status within 1 year of a visa becoming available to Me." According to the Consular officer I was then told the only option was to wait till a visa is available for that category and gave me a paper. I checked the visa availability on the visa bulletin it’s just on January 2017 and my priority date is 09/feburary/2017 I tried tracking my visa application and and I noticed it wrote expired when initially it used to refused and that it was undergoing administrative processing and now when I check it says “ you have been notified your immigrant visa has been cancelled, and any petition approved on your behalf was also cancelled. We informed you that your application might be reinstated within one year if you could establish that your failure to pursue your immigrant visa application was due to circumstances beyond your control” I was never informed of this I didn’t even get an email. “ “Since you have failed to do so, the record of your registration and any petition approved on your behalf and all supporting documents have been destroyed. Any Department of labour certification has been returned to your prospective employer.· 0 replies
I literally logged into my CEAC.state.iv and it showed that my case was still at the US consulate in Montreal with all of my documents that was initially submitted.
does that means it’s truly expired or what do I do in this situation
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Permission to post admin. Thank you.· 0 replies
We are still waiting for a case number but I want to make sure I am prepared and knowledgeable about the forms 😊
I have a question about the tax information for the past 3 years, since my fiance is young he has had part time jobs before and didn't last. In 2022 is when he's got a full time, quit it and did 3 other part time jobs. Until 2023 when he worked on his current job, now fulltime. He earns a minimum of $16 per hour. Works 8 hours or more in a day with 2 days off.
He's an office admin there and it's a fulltime, papers are good too. I just want to know if this is sufficient? Or do we need a co-sponsor? We're both single and no kids, so it's only the two of us. But he only plans to get an apartment when Im there, since he's the only child helping his mom with the rent.
Will there not be any issues with his tax for the past 3 years too considering his previous work both part time and fulltime.
Thanks very much!
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afternoon, hope everyone is well. does anyone know how the recent stoppage of visas being processed through the Colombian embassy will affect my Colombian Wifes I-130 application that is still waiting for approval? any info would be appreciated thanks· 0 replies
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Hello, I submitted my wife work permit application I-765 on the Dec 30th. I haven’t gotten any letter saying they have received it, and I don’t have my receipt number to track it. Can anyone help me? I want to know if they got it or not. How do I check other than receipt number?· 1 reply
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