US Immigration from Australia

Hi everyone,

My fianc and I are waiting for NOA 2 but I ve had to move and may have to move again since first receiving NOA1 over a year ago. I ve put a redirection notice for my mail but Australia Post has only sent me 50% of my redirected mail in practice.

Ive noticed online if someone makes an account then a petitioner can change their address or anyone who resides in the US can change their address but there s no place for an Australian beneficiary like me to change their address on their application.

So I rang up their international number this morning: +1 (212) 620-3418 and got a robot.

I said that I m a beneficiary of an I29F form and the robot said said that since I m in America I should make an account to change my address. 5 times we went back and forth where I was like like no I m Australian I live in Australia I need to talk to a person and then the robot was like oh you re an alien here in America would you like me to send you our website information via sms or email? And eventually the robot said if you keep requesting to speak to a live person, I will hang up the phone so I just hung up

Is there anything else I can do? I m worried that I won t receive the packet when we finally get NOA2 because of how slack the postal redirection is over here.

Hi all,

I am just looking for some guidance on this. I understand the general rule of thumb is that you cannot be out of the US greater than 6 months if you wish to naturalize. Is this correct?

What I would like to know is if there is any leniency with this? And if this is a hard and fast rule?

A brief history:

I married my US husband in March 2020 and have my conditional permanent residency now. This expires in March 2023.

In August 2022 we went to Australia for an extended trip. We are still here now. We intend to return to the US in a couple months, but at that point I would have been out of the country greater than 180 days (but not by much). For context I have filed all taxes since becoming a PR and I own my home in the US, so I do have significant ties.

I appreciate any guidance and to hear from anyone who has been able to naturalize despite being out of the US greater than 6 months at a time.

Thank you.

Hey everybody,

How has everyone submitted documents, specifically the I-864? The NVC must have been upset with the clarity of our original documents because they RFE'd us to 'resubmit with handwritten date'; which is obvious bull.

We have a lawyer who is suggesting we submit the same document again and that it should be fine this time; which I also don't understand!

How did everyone else send the i-864?

• Fill entirely digitally and sign via touchscreen/touchpad
• Fill most digitally, print, sign and scan
• Print and handwrite entire document then scan
• Fill document digitally and upload scanned signed page into PDF document.
• Some other way, that I can't think of.

Thanks for your help guys, it's frustrating dealing with this minor step in the process.

My wife and I were planning to go overseas for the holidays this year. We had to cancel the trip yesterday while we were at the airport because she had left her green card at home and we could not check her in for her flight. (She still has a Singapore passport and isn t going to pursue U.S. citizenship.)

Although we initially had the airline reschedule the trip to today, we ended up canceling the trip. Her green card has an expiration date of over a year ago (September 2021). The I-751 NOA, which we received in July 2021, says her conditional permanent residency is extended for 18 months from the date which is on the card (not the date which is on the NOA, so March 2023). She originally moved to the U.S. in November 2018 under the K-1 visa. Her original EAD/AP combo card expired in 2020.

Two employees at the airline check-in, who are immigrants too, told us that the airports in Europe would not allow her to board the flight and she would be stuck in Europe. They also said the airline would be fined $15,000 for letting an illegal immigrant back into the U.S. After we found this thread, we were no longer confident that she could travel abroad even with the green card and the original of the NOA. If she is deported, that is a criminal offense which would kick her out of the U.S. and cancel her Australia permanent residency (which she also has). We want to move back to Australia, so a 10-day vacation to Europe is not worth the risk of losing that.

So this raises several concerns for us (aside from trying to get a refund on our expensive travel)

1. USCIS processing times at YSC for I-751 are now 26 months. Our extension was only 18 months, and the USCIS case inquiry said we could not even ask them about the case until October 2023. How can my wife still legally be in the United States and be able to work while we are still waiting for USCIS?
2. Why don t the extension letters cover this entire lengthy processing time? We filed the correct papers and paid all of the fees why would she be treated like an illegal immigrant?
3. How do we get an extension that the airlines and customs people will actually, consistently, honor? With the documents we currently have, it s luck of the draw and we can t travel abroad without worrying about this.
4. If she had a family emergency and had to go back to Singapore or Australia, how can she do even that travel without running the risk of not being let back in to the U.S.?

Good morning!

Sorry if this has already been asked but I am quite an anxious person when it comes to important things such as this and thus I want to be sure that I understand correctly. For AOS my K2 had her own complete application that was filed with mine. However, am I correct in understanding that for ROC she does not need an application at all and is just listed in the correct section in my application?

Thank you!