US Immigration from Canada

Hello!
I m a November 2018 filer and my 18 month extension letter is expiring on August 20. I m have a MSC number and am in NYC, which is a very slow field office, it seems. My case has been ready for interview since April 4 2019.

I have plans to travel for research to Canada (my home country) in the summer, and ideally would be gone for 1.5 months straight for time/budget reasons. At first I was planning on travelling July and August, but since my extension letter is expiring in August I decided to move it earlier, which is fine.

Except I m worried that if I try to re-enter the states with say, 20 days left on my extension letter that will cause issues?
I would LOVE to go the route of getting a stamp in my passport, but I read that the NYC office will only let you schedule an appointment within 30 days of your letter expiring.

so long story short, here are my two options and I d like to get a consensus as to what would be better.

1). Travel from say, mid June to the end of July, knowing that there will be less than a month less on my extension letter when I enter and hope that that doesn t cause me issues

2) break up my travel, travel from end of may to mid June, come home with in 30 days of the expiry so that I can make a field office appointment, then make a second research trip after I have the stamp in my passport.

plan 2 sounds convoluted, I know, but I ll do it if need be.
I would really like to hear opinions, or hear what other people have done as they are/have approached the expiry of their extension letters!

Of course, this is all assuming that I will not hear anything about my case before then, haha.

Hi I m confused about which AOS a joint sponsor who will be in the same household is required to fill out?! I-864 or I-864a

Hi, everyone. We need some advice. My Canadian girlfriend went to Arizona to visit friends 10/29/19. She decided to stay in the USA . SHe came to LA to stay with me and my girls and to visit other friends of hers. She then stayed over Thanksgiving and went to NorCal with my girls and my parents and brothers, etc. She roadtripped with me and my girls back to LA . Her parents and sister and nephew came to SoCal for Christmas and we all rented a house together in Palm Springs. While there, her parents saw her with my girls and said it's crazy for her to be away from her new family. THey were right. She stayed her and we got married January 10th.

We are now filing an AOS. She lives here. She is a step mom. On insurance. Bank accounts, etc. THis is the real deal and the girls and I need her and love her.

QUESTION -- Is the fact that we got married 81 days after she came to the USA an issue? We just had a lawyer tell us that it's a problem because we got married within 90 days of her coming here even though she truly had no intent to stay here when she came through. She still had a place in Canada. Her stuff was there, etc etc.

Is this 90 day rule a hard and fast rule that should be freaking us out? Or when we have our interview can the office make his or her own judgment based on who we really are? Is it a 90 day line in the sand that we accidentally crossed? Or is it more a guideline?

Thanks for the brutal honesty and guidance.

We submitted the wrong birth certificate in our initial submission to the NVC and it was denied. I called the NVC and was told to put the document as "unavailable" and attach a note explaining that we had applied for the correct birth certificate and that we would bring it along to the interview. I called the NVC after 5 weeks, wondering if perhaps I was given the wrong information, and was told I needed to type, sign, and upload a letter of explanation, not just a note. My question is, has anyone got approved with just a note of explanation? I would hate to re-set the 2 month wait (we do have the correct birth certificate now). Do we have a chance of getting approved with just the note or is it better to take the 2 month hit and re-upload a document?

Hi,

Today, we received an email from NVC to inform us that our documentation is qualified and NVC will work with the U.S. Embassy-Consulate General in Montreal, Canada to schedule an interview appointment. I would like to know, how many months does it take.

Thx.

RCT