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Hello everyone!

I'm going to work in the USA, so I've applied for a J1 visa for myself (I am french) and J2 for my wife, a Russian national (we've been married since December 2023). On the DS-2019 form, we indicated that she was a permanent resident of France. We later realized that this wasn't quite the case, as she only has a one-year "Vie priv e et familiale" residence permit at the moment, and not yet what's known as a "carte de r sident".

Is it possible to correct this error in the DS-160 that we will present to the embassy at the interview, indicating that she is still considered a permanent Russian resident for the time being?

Thank you in advance for your answers

Hey me and my fianc e are getting close to the end of the K1 Visa but I have a question for the future that maybe someone here might have an answer to.

I (US citizen) am an overseas religious worker and it s our hope to continue this after we get her green card. We would need to be in the US for about a year and a half before going. It is our intent to live in America when I no longer have an overseas assignment but until then we regularly would return for 1 year furloughs, hence the need for a green card. I know about the 131 travel permission form but would this possibly affect her getting a green card due to permanent residency issues?

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?