chioparis

I am helping my cousin with her i485 and i130. She lives in border towns (El Paso/Ciudad Juarez). She has a rental in ciudad juarez, and her USC husband lives in El Paso TX, she goes back and forth with a B1/B2 visa. I wanted to pick your brains on some things: >Does she need to settle down in El Paso without crossing into Juarez for a reccomended # of days /months before sending i484 and i130? >When she does decide to settle down in El Paso - does she need to request an i94 permit? She currently doesnt have one because she doesnt travel outside of the border town of El Paso. Thank you in Advance for answering my question.

I am helping my cousin and her husband file for her the i130 and i485, they are married, she entered the US with a tourist visa and wants to adjust status while in the US. This is how I successfully immigrated my husband But then I saw the guide in visa journey: https://www.visajourney.com/guides/i130-spouse-inside-usa/ And it clearly states not to file while she is living in the US... is it just extra precaution?? Doesn't everyone file this way?

Thank you for that. And for linking that forum topic

Just to clarify - My future employer must have in writing that they will hire me once I am back in the United States? Or do they need to put an actual date?

The consensus and the data says none 🙌

...not concealing, but mostly wondering if the relationship would come up at all.

Thank you 🙏 this is what I have gathered from my research as well. We just want to go home with our daughter. No tricks or games, just a young family trying to come home and provide a better life in a better place to our kid! Living here with cartel presence/violence is no joke 😵‍💫

It seems the process doesn't change because we are related... but maybe I am interpreting this wrong? LINK "U.S. citizens wishing to adopt a child relative from abroad and then petition for that child to immigrate to the United States following the completion of the adoption must generally proceed in the same way as non-relative U.S. prospective adoptive parents. "

Is there really a way for USCIS to know we are related unless we volunteer that information? N600k would entail to apply for tourist visa then us citizenship once in USA? It is unknown - he is not listed in her birth certificate and no one knows who it is.

It might seem that way - but the truth is, the only reason we moved here from the US was to become parents for this child. So no tricks- this child is ours and calls us mom/dad. Now we are just trying to come home with our kid.

No - but.... her mother is the only one in her birth certificate and it's a sad reality, but we live in one of the most dangerous cities in the world and she hangs out with the toughest crowds. Would process change if she became an orphan? (Hope I don't sound so dark - but it is really dangerous here)

Yes, she is the granddaughter of my cousin.

The N600k is a little confusing as the instructions state that this process is for children of us Citizens living abroad - but they must be in the United States. So I'm guessing we would have to apply for some type of Visa prior so she can enter lawfully into the US

I've been saving anything that can prove physical custody - but government records might be difficult, specially for the child.

....dumb question. The visa type is determined by USCIS after you file i130? IR2 Would be nice because it would mean automatic citize nship for my child.