US Immigration from Cambodia

We are getting married Aug 24 via Utah. We are both together in Cambodia. I've been here over 13 months. I'm planning on trying for emergency DCF on the basis of my mother's failing health and that she is the one that watches my children most of the time.

Below is the proof I was planning to provide. Any comments about them or on other things I should start gathering?

- Copy of all 4 children's birth certificates
- A letter from my mother's primary care physician
- A map showing the location of the house I recently bought, my parents house, and their school in the middle (we only looked at houses within 30 min of their school)
- Something showing my 2 kids enrollment at the school
- An affidavit from my mother
- Something showing that one of my children has down syndrome

Hello all!

My husband has his Citizenship interview on Tuesday. My deepest apologies if this has already been asked before (I couldn't find threads for it when I searched through the forum---but I'm not the most tech savvy)

We are wondering if anyone would be willing to share a bit about what the USCIS asks about during the Citizenship interview. My husband has been studying the civics questions, vocab, and practicing his writing. What else should we expect? TIA!

Our K1 was sent back to USCIS. We received the denial July 29 at an interview. I understand (or believe) I should first withdraw my K1 before submitting a CR-1.

- Am I correct that I have to first withdraw, or does that only apply if it's the same visa type applied for?

- I read that a withdraw can take 1-3 months, has to be sent to where the application is currently at (NVC, Embassy, USCIS), and that sometimes it is denied, is that correct?

- So the application is being sent back to NVC, but if I send a withdraw to them and it takes 1-3 months, it most likely won't be at NVC anymore. So wondering, where should I send the withdraw? Well specifically, if I shouldn't send to NVC for that reason, do I need to wait for the notification that it's arrived at USCIS before sending the withdraw to them.

- It seems the withdraw will take just as long as the NOIR, so should I just wait for that?

- Should I wait to receive confirmation of the withdraw before applying again?

- I've read ALOT of conflicting articles related to this online

- Any first hand experience of doing a withdraw, or being in the same boat as me would be great

Umm, last thing, has anyone ever had, or known where it happened, that the application was sent back to USCIS and USCIS sent it right back to the Embassy without doing an NOIR?

I'm preparing to file a CR-1 petition. My taxes last year was $39k, I have 4 children (claimed 2), and am sponsoring 2 people. I'm below the requirements. So I have several questions:

- It says I provide the I-864 after NVC. How long from now would that be? More specifically, am I safe to file now knowing I won't need to do the I-864 until January once I've filed taxes (if I can't add up enough below).

- They ask for 3 years of taxes, is it going to be an issue that I'm only above the required amount on the most recent year?

- I've read online that I would do a separate I-864 for each person I'm sponsoring and that they are counted separately so I would only be a total of 6. However, I've also found places saying the other way around making the total 7.

- My house appraises for $12k over what I currently owe

- I purchased land in Cambodia with my fiance (I don't own, can't here) for $17.5k and we have about $4k left on the loan

- My fiance owns about an acre of land free and clear with a house. I would guess valued around $30k.

- I do pay her a salary as an assistant (and it's income that she would keep, so from what I seen means I can count it), that income would put us over the mark without counting assets, however I put on the K1 that she was a homemaker, so for sure need to be careful not to contradict myself.

- I can save up $1-2k/mo to show money in the bank.

- If I do a sponsor, the easiest is my dad, he already said he would. He has 3 people, and makes over $4k/mo HOWEVER, just now. Last few years he works at a non profit where they provide housing and he receives a stipend, but he just turned 62 and SS kicked in (and previously he made $120k/yr so he gets a decent check). I could ask an Uncle, which I'm SUPER SHY to, but given all the issues I've faced I'm pretty sure one of them would do it, plus they know I'm responsible with finances, just they might worry what if she divorces.

Last, for those familiar with my situation, do you think I should just rule out the idea of trying to do a consular emergency filing to speed it up? My mom has a doctor's note saying I need to return for my mom/kids sake.

Has anyone had any experience reporting a Consular Officer to the Office of Inspector General?

I'm planning to do it. Their website says to first try to work it out with the Embassy, which I'm trying, but they have yet to acknowledge my complaints in the emails I sent (they just give a generic answer saying she was denied), and they haven't responded yet to the complaint I sent last week (so each email I mentioned the misconduct, but then since never addressed, I sent a separate email dedicated to it). Since in my situation 2 laws were clearly broken, another 2 I can argue were, and 4-5 policies were clearly broken, I'm hoping it will help. Also, hoping that having a complaint against the officer would give me grounds to request a different officer down the road when we do our CR1 interview (or if somehow I get another K1 interview before then).

I have a website I put together showing the laws/complaints and also everything I provided, timeline of communication with emails (sensitive stuff redacted), etc. Not sure if it breaks the policy to post a link to a site here, but if not, and if anyone is curious, I'd love to post it. If you look at it I'm sure you will be a believer that I'm being treated VERY unjustly.