US Immigration from Australia

Hi all, I have a query.

How does one get to speak to a live person customer service, when phoning USCIS when in the US on 800-375-5283?

Usually in the past, I have got onto someone.

I'm wondering whether this is a new protocol to save money. Many thanks!

I (30M) am the USC and spouse(27M) and I live in Australia together (I'm a dual citizen). We're shortly to have our CR1 interview, and our joint sponsor fell through. We don't have an option for another one because I actually don't have family in the US because my mom moved back here after she and USC stepdad split up.

I'm an actor (so is spouse), and I work consistently, and I work internationally, including several tours in the US over the past few years. I have an American CPA going through my tax returns, US and foreign, from the past ten years which includes time before I moved to Australia to write an attestation letter to establish that my current international self-employed income as a performer is USD$XX,XXX and that it should reasonably be expected to continue when we relocate to the US. We also have modest cash savings to include as well. This is all to satisfy the income requirement.

Then, we're including evidence to build our case in the statutory factors for consideration (age, health, skills/education, financial resources, family status). We're including pay stubs from very lucrative projects when spouse worked in the US under the OPT and O1 visas, letters from both my talent manager and his commercial talent agent speaking to our employability, transcripts from spouse's and my degrees both earned in the US that correspond to our career paths, perhaps including an opinion letter from spouse's labor union in the United States. We're trying to put together an absolutely rock solid case that we're both employable.

We know it's nontraditional. I don't expect anyone reading this to really understand an acting career. An immigration lawyer that we had a consultation with said we're on the right track, and that he'd be giving the same legal advice to someone else in our position, and that we also present very well. We know we're going to be playing hard to the consular officer's discretion.

I'd love to hear if there were any other interesting, unique, nontraditional I-864 success stories out there?

A little background for no reason. My husband came to the US at the end of November of 2020 on the VWP from Australia and by Christmas... found out I was pregnant. So we decided to get married and he adjust status after consulting multiple attorneys for advice. This was the first time we had met in person after two years of an online relationship and naturally we are worried about how our case will be received because of how little evidence we have of a "true" relationship together.

We had to get an attorney on short notice and just went with the first one to take our case that would do it the fastest and by fastest that still meant a super long wait. He was supposed to leave February 18th 2021. We were married February 9th 2021 and we were notified by the attorney that they filed the first package while I was at the hospital having just given birth on August 19th 2021. I don't hear from the attorney again until the day before I receive a rejection notice in the mail for the "address field was not completed" and the entire package that was filed is being returned and had to be refiled. Well my attorney says to me that they have proof that they had three people go over the papers before sending it and everything was correct. So they send it again. I don't hear from her again and then the September 17th I receive another rejection notice for "Address field" again. But my attorney states that they were sent back the package with it saying a page was missing but it was actually out of order so they were going to resubmit it with a letter to the IO AND a flash drive with a copy of the paperwork on it and the paper package. Then I get another call the other day from my attorney saying that the package was returned again. Because a page was missing again but when it was sent back it was sent back out of order? I have yet to receive the rejection notice in the mail yet so I don't know if it says "Address Field" again but my attorney says that she is going to file online and by mail but online is bad because it "doesn't tell the full story"? and that she called and waited hours to talk to USCIS and see what was going on because she is frustrated and she has heard from other attorney friends that this is happening to their clients as well. Is this happening to anyone else or is this just me and my attorney is making mistakes? My husband is overstaying WAYYYY past and he needs this submitted now. I contacted our local Congresswoman and she is submitting an inquiry on my behalf so we will see what she gets back from the Chicago lockbox on why they keep being returned I guess. Sorry for the long post.

Hey everyone,

just after a bit of help on what to do. So I received my notice of action with the 18 month visa extension (filed in early august) My first name is spelled incorrectly, so i did the typographic error form. Last status update was 54 days ago which said my name was updated.

Just received my biometrics appt but the name was still spelled incorrectly and have since completed another typographic form.

My visa and drivers license expires on 25th October. I doubt the dmv will renew my license with a spelling error on the form that is also my proof of residency. Does anyone think I could get this fixed up at my biometrics appointment? All I need is just another copy of the form but with my name spelled correctly.

As some ROC filers have noticed, the spreadsheet we all use has had some issues. Major issues! The pages are blank. A couple of us have gotten together and tried to revert to older versions, which @KandN was able to find, and which worked for a short time and then they went blank, too. We're not sure of what happened, but it seems like the spreadsheet may have been corrupted. I created a brand new Google Sheet, and copied all our info into it. I wouldn't have known how, if @SoCal2021 hadn't explained it. Everything from October 8, 11:00 AM (EST, I think but not sure) and before is there. If you added anything after that, please add it in again. It should be working. Please, comment and let me know if it looks alright to you. The bright side for me is that I've learned how to do something new!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vonQCJgs9HODO2Y1DdSs3HNyL_FRnMfenlIeDQAUpWg/edit#gid=836994125