US Immigration from Australia

Hi! Quick question.

I will soon be submitting my citizenship application. My seven year old who came with me as a K1 and is now PR will become a citizen when I do, that I know. But there s nowhere online to mention her in my application so that they know she s becoming a citizen? In my previous applications, there was a spot like that. Am I missing something? I don t want to leave her out and make a mistake.

Thanks!

Journey thus far: I (Maple F48) am American and my husband (Acacia M49) is Australian. I hold dual citizenship, having aquired Australian Citizenship in 2009. I have been living and working as a trained Primary (Elementary) Teacher for the past 20 years, having immigrated to Australia in 2001. My husband and I have been married since March 2013, together since August 2011. Due to aging parents and my only sibling is also living in Australia, my husband and I have chosen to move to the US to spend time with my parents (both retired, under the age of 70). I applied for the i-130 from Australia (as I'd read applying while overseas is a much quicker turnaround). The petition was filed on May 5 2024, we are now 6 months waiting for that next step, the online system basically now says "taking longer than normal".

Affidavit of Support Query: If I am working and living in Australia, how does this work when submitting an Affidavit of Support? The forms don't really seem to take into account people who are living and working abroad, who can't leave and start working in the US yet. I could leave and move ahead of my husband, awaiting his approval, but the timeline is super sketchy right now and we could be appart for a long time, which is NOT ideal in the least! If we have a more set timeline, knowing it would only be for 3 months - that's doable, but otherwise...it's frustrating. The plan was to be able to be in the US just after New Years. Being a Teacher in Australia, I would be paid until the end of January, and then will be taking my entitled Long Service Leave for 6 months at halfpay, which would equate/convert roughly to $2000 USD, from Feb 2-Aug 12th 2025.

Any experience or ideas would be great! I have not approached my parents yet for joint support, as looking to hopefully not have to go down that route. But I suppose on that note brings another question, would any pension or retured SS income be acceptable on an Affidavit of Support if it ends up going down that route?

G'day All,

I had My K1 interview on Tuesday 29 October and they have asked for Additional Documents, Original of Certificate of Marriage for me, and Death Certificate for former Husband for my Fiance.

We are getting the documents in order, would have been great to know we needed the originals before the interview but on got the Check list last week, too late to get them in place so only had copies on hand for the interview.

Does anyone have a rough idea of the turn around time once I get the Docs up to Sydney?

Thanks

Darren

At one point during my interview the CO brought up a copy of my I-129F (printed in black and white) and pointed out a photo where I was kissing my fiance at my friend's wedding and said seriously 'This photo looks like wedding, you didn't get married right?'

In the photo, I was holding bridesmaid flowers and my fianc was wearing a suit. I was wearing a light blue bridesmaid dress and so were the rest of the bridesmaids in the background on the chapel seats, but because it was printed in black and white, the dress looked white so I could totally see where the CO was coming from.

Of course I said 'no I was a bridesmaid at my friend's wedding and said I had the original I-129F in colour'. But the CO didn't want to see it and moved on to other questions. ( I had front loaded and sideloaded and brought everything I could possibly think of being relevant to the interview. I didn't get to show any of it lol but I'm still glad I came prepared)

It went well and I got approved verbally after the interview, but wanted to let people know how certain photos might look in black and white ><

I'll be filing an i485 today and have some questions.

1) Should I put anything in the MEMO field of the personal check for the i485 check or the i765 check?

2) Is it a major disadvantage to not file the i693 now? I know they can ask for it later, but how much will that delay the whole process?

3) If I do an examination today to file the i693 with the rest, do the results of that evaluation expire? Someone told me they expire in 3 months and if my packet is still processing in 3 months (as I suspect it will be) I'd rather not have to pay for an entirely new examination.

4) Does it matter what order my pages are in? Right now my packet looks like:

- Form i-485 with a check for $1440 paper clipped to the front.

- Paper clipped to the back of the i485 I have: US spouse's birth certificate, immigrant spouse's foreign birth certificate, 2x2 passport style photos of both spouses, copy of immigrant's passport, copy of stamps page of immigrant's passport, most recent I-94

- Form G-1145

- Form I-765 with a check for $260 paper clipped to the front.

- Form I-864

- Paper clipped to the back of I-864 I have: 2023 Federal tax return