US Immigration from Chile

Hi,

My wife Marcela will be eligible to become a naturalized citizen on April 11th of 2025.

We were planning on filing the n-400 application 90 days early.

I see the period for the process is much shorter than naturalization, which was about 18 months in total.

Can appointments like the bio test, language, and history tests, and the interview all possibly happen within the 90 days before actual eligibility?

We want to make sure Marcela is available and prepared for those events.

Thanks Martin

Wanted to get advice. We just made it past the USCIS stage of our spousal visa process, and now filling out the I-864. I (the petitioner) just started my new job in the US (living overseas with family the past 5 years) that is salaried and over the minimum income, but have yet to receive my first paycheck. Questions:

- Should I only use myself as the sponsor (no co-sponsor)? Because technically I do make enough to cover the requirement, though I would only at this time have a signed offer letter that states my yearly salary. Though at the interview I would have a few more paychecks that my wife could show.

- Or should I use a co-sponsor? I had previously asked my father to co-sponsor before I knew I would be moved up before my wife, so no problem there. And I was initially thinking to always include him even when I started my new job (basically just in case), but after reading the instructions better for the I864 I see it says "Form I-864A may only be used when a sponsor s income and assets do not meet the income requirements of Form I-864." So that made me doubt my plan to include him regardless, since I do now technically earn enough.

- If I do include my father as a co-sponsor, should I use the I-864A since currently I am living with him and my mom, until my wife moves up?

Thanks for any help!

Hello everyone,

I need little help or if someone can guide me, I am USA citizen my mom is Chile citizen, her visa to USA expire I want apply for her, for green card.

If someone can guide me wish forms to use I will really appreciate.
Thank you in advance.

Hey everyone!

I met my now-fiance while traveling in 2023, and we have been together for some time now. She lives in Chile and I am a US Citizen. Our ultimate goal has been for her to come here permanently sometime in the future, ideally as soon as she'd be able to. We have a trip planned for her to come to the US in September, and when we planned it out the intention was just to have her visit and spend some time together. However, I recently looked into the immigration process, and realizing how long the timeline tends to be we discussed that it might make the most sense for us to get married while she is here in September, and then file for the CR-1 spouse visa to begin that process.

I have heard conflicting things about if we were to do this, some people saying it is illegal if she were to come here on a tourism visa and intend to get married, but I've heard that only really matters if her plan is to come here on the visa, get married, and stay here from then on. That was never our intent and she does have ties to her home country (full-time work, an apartment she rents, a cat she takes care of, family, friends, etc), so I am hoping that would factor in, but I wanted to hear what people think regarding the likelihood of her being turned away at the airport for any reason. We do not want to lie about her coming here of course, but the main reason she will be here is not just to get married, it kind of just seemed to make the most sense to do that since we'll be together and we want to begin the CR-1 process as soon as possible. In the eyes of an immigrations officer I imagine that may not mean a whole lot, but I'm curious whether or not it would be considered fraudulent if she does not explicitly state that she will be getting married while here. We don't want to jeopardize the application process or make it any harder for her to get here, but we want to marry and begin that process as soon as we can and this way seems to make sense for us.

Any thoughts, or anyone who can share their experience?

I just started my minor step sons i130 (ir2) last night (did not submit it yet) and then spoke with my husband this morning and he got a call from my step sons grandpa. My step son was arrested and was held on charges of illegal concealing and carrying a loaded illegal firearm. Needless to say we're quite upset with him and his behavior, especially after we had previously explained to him, because of some poor choices and bad behavior, the possible reprocussions for having a record. An investigation has been opened and therefore were all waiting to see what will happen with the case. If something like this ends up on his record what are the chances (if any even) of him being approved to come here? If he ends up facing jail time does that affect anything differently? It's besides the point that i'm reconsidering my offer to bring him here in the first place based on the obvious and other previous observations and during the past 24 hours.