US Immigration from Australia

Hi All!

My spouse's interview with the US Consulate in Sydney is in a week (yay!) and we'd like for him to be able to head here as quickly as reasonably possible, presuming everything goes well and he's granted PR status.

I'm wondering if there's anyone here who's applied for an exemption to leave Australia and, if so, what you included as evidence. I have a short list of things in mind, but I've also heard ABF can be a bit finicky about approving these. He will be leaving Australia permanently and not returning for the next few years while we build our lives together. We're not sure if he should buy a ticket to show he intends to leave, or get the exemption first? Any advice would be helpful!

Thanks!

Ayana

My wife has a green card which expires in September 2021, so we ll be filing her Removal of Conditions (I-751) paperwork in June. However, her EAD/AP combo card expires in May.

My understanding was that once we have the green card, we don t need to do anything else to keep EAD/AP going except for Removal of Conditions. But I ve seen a few threads here where other K-1 visa holders are discussing renewing the combo card. Do we need to do this, given that she has a green card already?

If so:

1. Can she still work while the EAD/AP renewal is pending?
2. I had read in another thread that there could be a 180-day extension. But my wife is a teacher, and her school year follows a typical U.S. school year. So an EAD that expires in November would be expiring during the school year. How can we make sure that she s ok to work through the rest of the year?
3. Is there anything that we or her employer can do to expedite the renewal?

Also, thinking ahead to I-751: her green card will probably expire while we are waiting for this to process. As long as we have filed that form, is she still able to work?

Hey All,

We sent of our 1-129F packet on the 26th of December 2020 and it was Received by the USCIS on the 28th of December 2020 (this was specified in the receipt notice), we only received the receipt notice on the 5th of march 2021 I'm assuming because they were backlogged with covid etc.

My question is, does the 5-7 month processing time for the NOA2 start from when uscis received the packet the 28th of December or when they issued the receipt the 5th of march.

Our packet was sent to the California Processing Center

Thanks

Hello,

I am having my Green card interview in 2 days and on the checklist they mailed me with my interview notice, it mentioned that you must bring ORIGINAL documents as well as copies. Being COVID, I have heard that most people are interviewing via iPad and sliding their documents somewhere to be processed 72 hours later. This concerns me because I am afraid of giving away my passports, birth certificates, SSN, marriage certificates.. etc. If anyone has gone through their virtual interview yet, did you only give photocopies or did you ever get your original copies back at a later date?

Hello, has anyone here filled out a W-8BEN form? I just need help on filling out the form. They returned it to me due to some errors. They are requiring my foreign tax number but the customer service rep from USAA that I talked to told to leave it blank. Kind of confused. Thanks in advance!