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Greetings guys, thanks to every community members for all insightful contributions. Please I m looking forward to begin my k1 visa process. My fianc e is an American citizen and I m a Nigerian living the UK. I m 37 while she just turned 55. We have been on a LDR for over a year and she often visit me in the UK.

Note: She has never been married but I m divorced.

We intend to close the distance gap soon and we looking at k1 visa or she come to the uk to get married. What are the chances of scaling through the K1 in relation to our age.

Your valuable contribution will be appreciated as she s willing for me to come to the US on K1 visa. Thank you all

Hi guys,

Which number should the petitioner enter as income for i-864? Line 9 from tax return or adjusted gross income from tax transcripts?

We need help! Two weeks ago my boyfriend who lives in the United States was in a horrible car wreck and lost any feeling below his chest. I immediately flew over on a tourist visa (ESTA) as I m from The Netherlands but we since found out his rehabilitation is going to take a long time in which he needs my help more than ever. He will never be able to move his legs again and the thought of him having to go through this alone as soon as my visa runs out is absolutely gut wrenching.

Is there any kind of way I can extend my visa so that I can take care of him? It s a very unusual and desperate request that I hope someone on here has an answer to. Can anyone recommend a good immigration lawyer or anyone who might be able to help? Any thoughts or advice are very appreciated.

Hello,

I'm from Argentina, and I got married to an US citizen back in my country. We are about to start the application process for my CR-1 Visa, and I have some questions that I hope someone can help me with

We are currently both in the US, living together. I entered with a tourist visa with no intention to immigrate, but we decided to start our lives here. Now the questions:

1- We have a marriage certificate issued in Argentina (of course it is in Spanish)... Would it be better to get married by court here in the US or to translate the marriage certificate to English as proof of marriage? And if the latter, can I myself translate it or have to get a certified translator? I'm both fluent in Spanish and English, so is my wife.

2- Also as proof, we would like to open a joint bank account, but every bank is asking for my SSN or ITIN to let me open the account. Is there any bank that allows to open it with just passport, or any other document, besides SSN or ITIN?

I would really appreciate some insights on these

Thank you!

Is there anybody else in the same situation for an employment-based visa application?

My DS-260 was submitted in late Nov 2025. On the very same day the documents were mailed and delivery confirmed by FedEx three days later.
At the time we had two police clearance certificates still pending, they were going to take (and ended up taking) 5 and 6 weeks respectively to receive, which is why the attorney had decided to submit the DS-260 and mail all other documents.

Once I had both police clearance certificates on hand, they told me that they now have to wait for an official request by NVC to send them, as apparently sending them without an explicit request would not reach my case file in their experience. I wondered how any initial document mail would then reach the file?

So I've now had the missing docs for six weeks and there is still no document review done that would result in their request for the missing documents!

On Reddit people are all claiming it doesn't take longer than two weeks for initial document review (based on NVC's official processing timelines - yet my attorney seems adamant that their cases have been taking 1-2 months for that, and that the processing times on the NVC website would never be 100% correct and that NVC have a massive backlog. And even then, it's now been past the 2 months mark in my case.

I found another person who also submitted his (self-petitioned EB-2 NIW based) DS-260 also just over two months ago, also mailed the documents via FedEx, has delivery confirmation and has not heard anything back.

So I am reaching out here to see if anyone with an EB-visa case, who has reached or passed the NVC stage recently, can shed some light on this for me.