US Immigration from Australia

Hi everyone, I am a dual US/Australian citizen who is sponsoring my Aussie husband. I am reading the instructions for the I-864 and on page 8 it says "You must provide either an IRS transcript or a photocopy from your own records of your Federal individual income tax return for the most
recent tax year." My question is what is the most recent tax year? I have my tax transcript from 2020 but my 2021 tax transcript is not ready yet because we had to file an extension when I did my taxes this year (bad thing to do on the year you are immigrating, I know, but we live overseas and this is as soon as my US accountant could do it).

Can I submit my 2020 tax transcript or should I wait until the 2021 tax transcript is available? Should I submit the I-864 now and upload the 2021 tax transcript when it becomes available? I am not using income to meet the 125% guideline, if that matters, we are using assets instead.

Thank you for your input and good luck to everyone!

Hi everyone, I am a dual US/Australian citizen who is petitioning for my Aussie husband. We are currently waiting for NOA2 but now that the Sydney Consulate is back open I'd like to get prepared for the interview. I am wondering if anyone went through the Sydney Consulate and has experience with proving that domicile was maintained while abroad and/or the intent to re-establish domicile.

I have lived in Australia for 5 years, starting as PR and then I got citizenship last year. While away, I have maintained a storage unit in the US, a checking account, an investment account, an IRA, and I have records of voting, but I have not maintained my driver's license. I use my father's house as my permanent mailing address. I have got quotes for moving our belongings from Australia to US and a quote for relocating our cat from Australia to US. Prior to the interview, I will have correspondence between me and the landlord where we give our notice to move out and emails from work showing that I am leaving my job here (and transferring to US with the company). Based on these, do you think I have enough evidence to prove that I have maintained domicile or the intent to re-establish domicile? And if so, which one? Is there anything else that I could add that I'm not thinking of? Or do you think I don't have sufficient evidence for either and will need to move ahead of my partner and start working and get an apartment and prove domicile that way?

My work will allow me to transfer from Australia to the US, but I know that job offers cannot count towards the income requirement so I will be using assets to prove the financial part.

Thank you for your input and good luck to everyone currently waiting!

Hi all

I am currently in the process of completing my DS-260 and having a few issues with the addresses section. I have been fortunate to live and work in a few different countries and have taken large backpacking trips up to 4 months at a time when in the process of leaving one country and moving to the new one. i.e. leaving Australia and travelling for 4 months in Europe before settling in the UK and finding a permanent address. I have 5 of these gaps since the age of 16. When filling out the I-130a, I was able to add a note explaining any gaps, but obviously the DS-260 requires something to be entered. I know that these forms should mirror each other.

My question is, do I:

a) Fill out the gap in the street address as "TRAVELLING ABROAD - MOVING FROM AUSTRALIA TO UK - NO FIXED ADDRESS" and put the country as my home country and the dates.
b) Fill in my Australian address for the gap which is where all mail would be sent when I was travelling/moving overseas prior to settling somewhere else.

Hopefully this isn't too confusing to answer!

Thank you

So my wife and I have just got back from our AoS initial interview in SLC today. Everything seemed to be going well, IO was nice and had some friendly discussion. Asked my wife a few questions about me and had a quick look at my passport, vaccination documents but didn't ask for much else.

We were then informed that he couldn't see the I-129F petition in our files as well as the Medical exam documentation I took prior to my K1 visa interview. They said I was likely to receive a RFE for another medical or possibly secondary interview if he couldn't chase up the documents.

Has anyone else gone through a similar experience? We were baffled that the files we submitted seemed to be missing from their system

Hi all,

I was hoping to get some feedback or advice on my status and plans!

A quick explainer:

Wife is USC, I am Australian and we are both UK Residents.
I-130 submitted on May-21. No Response yet.
Consular interview location selected at London.
Wife starts new job in US around August 22 (I will accompany to help set up).

Now after my wife moves to the US, we will not have a real reason to stay in the UK as I'll quit my job and our lease is up anyway! The only thing tying us back to the UK is the pre-selected location for the interview.

Is it feasible to change the location to another embassy/consulate? For example after I help set up in the US and with the expiration of 90 day ESTA I would prefer to fly back to Australia to be with family and try and find a quick source of temporary income.
My fear is that changing anything with the application process will result in staggering delays and pain.

My ideal scenario would be, I-130 approved within 13/14 months (May or June 22) and a consular interview in 3 months after the fact which means a quick 1 week trip back to the UK for an interview and a pint then back to Freedomland with my GC.

The threats to my plan are extra delays in i-130 processing and issues with buying a 1 way ticket to the US (as I won't know what date to fly back to the UK for the interview).

It should be noted we have an immigration lawyer, though truth be told, they do not inspire confidence.

Thanks everyone.