US Immigration from Australia

My partner & i both live in Australia and we are looking at the online application for the CR1 visa. In contact details it won't accept the Australian area code for our mobile number here. Should we consider putting one of my family or friends? What did anyone else do considering we reside outside of the states. Thanks.

Now I understand why some embassies may be stricter on certain things but I ve had a look at a few P3s and notice the required documents can be quite different.

Not only that, the formatting of the P3 is so drastically different it s unbelievable. Isn t the process suppose to be more uniform?

Even take the UK and Aus for example, while the requirements are similar the two embassies put different emphasis on what is most important and their websites are different as if the IT department is local and different embassies don t consult each other.

Is it really still so local that standard procedures were developed in house 20 years ago and not updated?

Hey guys,

I m just checking to see if anyone who has had their interview and been approved can confirm that the amount of copies I need to provide are as per the coversheet?

For example the i134 is greyed out on the checklist for the original... so I only need to bring 1 in total and not two copies?

Birth certificate for example has a place to tick both original and copy so that s clear.

I just want to double check because they put emphasis on the copies but it seems to only be the birth and police certificate that need a copy? (for a standard born in aus, never married case).

As most of it is copy only is that only 1 and not 2 copies?

Hi,

my wife applied for me in oct 2019 and we are only at the first stage still. This is due to because she is green card holder, she will be receiving her citizenship within may 2020.

my question is there anyone with advice that by updating the green card to citizenship. Is it the same time as would ve applied as she became citizenship, or does that 1 year and 6 months of waiting counts toward anything at all?.

Also, if anyone from Australia is reading this, it would be a great help if you could share your timeline, any advices such as I read on another post that Choose the 33. And not 35 on police verification is important or they will reject. These tiny little things, any useful advice for me to be ready. Would be great.

thank you so much for your time.

The USPS absolutely screwed us over and recommended we send our i-485 as registered mail with priority shipping back on Nov 25th. After it still hadn't arrived at USCIS in mid December we opened a case at USPS and they informed us that it was our fault for sending it registered and recommended we put an intercept on it and ship out a new set of paperwork at priority express, so we did that. Our second i-485 sent via priority express has arrived already, but we have received an email that the intercepted original package can't be delivered to our address and it is now headed back to USCIS. The useless USPS is claiming they can't see where the package is and can't even tell us why the intercept failed. We also can't even get USCIS to talk to us to advise us what to do because we don't have a case number yet.

What will happen if both sets of paperwork reach the USCIS? I already put a stop on the check in the original i-485 paperwork, so at least I won't be out that $1200+ hopefully, but we're worried it will get both sets of documents rejected and further delay her work permit. Does anyone know how we can contact USCIS without a case number to tell them to destroy the second set of documents if we can't get USPS to actually do their job and intercept it in time?