US Immigration from Germany

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to post this. I filed I-130 while I was living in Germany and I am now moving back to the States as a US citizen. I could not update my address on the USCIS website because it doesn't let you select a prior address in a foreign country.

I reached out to USCIS which instructed me to mail in form AR-11 to my service center. This form just doesn't seem right as it's clearly intended for an alien to fill out. Can someone confirm this is what I should be doing? Wouldn't it just be easier to pick a random state/zip code from the dropdown in the prior address section because it'll be changed to the new one anyway?

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

I am a US Citizen, and I got citizenship through my parent who naturalized when I was a child at the time. I am planning to fill out the I-130 online for the spousal visa, petitioning for my spouse, but there is a question asking whether I have ever obtained a Certificate of Citizenship. I have asked my parents and they said that I got one at the time, but we cannot find it anywhere! I was wondering if there is a way to still fill out the form online without answering yes or no to the question, or without providing the number of the certificate. Could I just send all pages of my US passport as proof of citizenship? But then how would I get around the yes/no question and the question asking for the number of the certificate, I wouldn t be able to answer no if I received one before? I was reading online it takes so long to get a new one, so is there a way to fill the form out without providing the Certificate? I really do not want to get an RFE for this. And it would be unfortunate if I had to wait an extra 5-8 months for them to send me a new Certificate of Citizenship, and only then start our spousal visa process.

I submitted I-130 on behalf of my husband in September 2021. I ve been living with him in Europe for 5+ years now. Since in all likelihood, we will probably get a visa decision made this Fall/Winter according to predicted processing times, I ve already gone ahead and got a job in the States. I ll be moving back to start my new job soon, so my husband and I will need to live separately until there s a resolution on his visa.

My question is, does this work against us in any way to be living separately, even when it s basically me setting things up in the US for the both of us as we wait for his visa? Is this common to do?

Hi everybody,

My husband (US citizen) and I (German) are living in Germany. Both of us work here at German companies.

My husband recently got a job offer in the US.

He would have to start there in October (which is 3.5 Month from now). In Germany we have to give our comany at least 3 month notice.

So this is almost the shortest amount of time we could make work.

Do we qualify for DCF or is the time until he has to start too long for exceptional circumstances.

We would need to file in Frankfurt, Germany.

I appreciate all your answers and your help.

Every experience is helpful

Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to schedule an appointment for a J1-Exchange Visa and I have filled in a DS160 Form as the instructions say and than wanted to book an appointment. I logged in to my account and went to the page new appointment. I have filled in informations about which embassy and visa type I want to book an appointment for and then got to a page where I should write my passport information as well as the DS160 confirmation number, Sevis ID and project number. I copy paste the confirmation number from my confirmation letter in the mail and clicked next but as soon as that I got an error message saying that "The DS-160 number you entered is incorrect. Please try again." Had anyone here the same issue or knows how I can solve this problem? I have contacted the support 08938036830 but the employer there just said to try it again on Monday. Do you know if there is a technical support team for this? Any help would be really great. Thank you. (I have attached the screenshot of the page here also)