US Immigration from Australia

Helping a friend here...

US Citizen is petitioning for her husband, her mother and her father. US Citizen lives with husband (do not know his exact status, but he may be on a business visa...) and their 1-year old daughter here in the US. Mom and Dad will be immigrating from another country.

She needs to prove 125% of Poverty Level for a family of five, correct? She wasn't sure if she needed income for five once, or, since she is sponsoring three people, she needs income for five 3 times. Pretty sure it's just once, but wanted to make sure before I replied to her. She's dealing with an RFE, and I am trying to guide her as to her response.

Sorry if it seems a stupid question, but it isn't something that came up during our own journey...

Sukie in NY

Just wondering if anyone has recently changed their originally designated consulate to London recently for CR-1/IR-1 processing?

I'm a British citizen, but currently reside in Australia. The projected DQ to interview timeframe at the Sydney Consulate is 8-10 months, so if there's an opportunity to shorten this timeframe I'd be interested in reducing it.

I ran into a problem today when I was trying to certify my income for IDR again... because I marked down I was married (since I'm married now, even though I wasn't in 2021), it told me it needed spousal info. Specifically it said :

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Your electronic Income-Driven Repayment Plan Request is awaiting completion by your spouse.

To complete this request, your spouse must log in to StudentAid.gov using their FSA ID.

Your spouse will need:

The reference number listed below and
YOUR social security number (SSN) to access and cosign the request.
The reference number will also be included in an email we will send to you.

Your spouse must enter the requested information, sign and submit to complete this request. Your spouse is not obligated to repay your loan by cosigning the IDR application.

But he can't make an FSA ID because there's no way to do it without an SSN, and he doesn't have an SSN yet because we'd checked the "Get us an SSN with this filing" when doing the 485/etc.

Has anyone run into this before and do they have suggestions? I will try directly calling my servicer MOHELA about this, but the problem is that MOHELA seems to want the info direct from the studentaid.gov DOE site and that's the one blocking it.

Hi Team,

I have seen a lot of previous posts and posts from other countries talking about filling in the cover sheet for the visa interview. What are people talking about?

I emailed Sydney Embassy and asked if my documents are meant to go in a particular order and this is what they sent me:

You may use the following as guidance:

But they didn't send me any cover sheet I am meant to use. I am very confused!

Thank you,

Anushka

** CR1/IR1s who have HAD a interview **

Were you required to update your 1864 and reupload it to CEAC after the interview with your most recent tax return (2021) and police check??

The i864 I uploaded in Oct 2021 did not include the 2021 tax return, only 2018, 2019 & 2020 and police checks have expired as well.

Thank you!