US Immigration from Germany

I'm ready to file for removal of conditions on my marriage-based GC, have amassed a large stack of supporting evidence, from joint tax returns to leases to the birth certificate of our baby daughter. On the sheer evidence side of things, I am not at all worried about this. What does keep me up at night are the horror stories of I-751 applications being denied for "failing to properly fill out the form" by not putting an "N/A" or "none" into every single last correct place.

I'm just wondering if I'm going too far there. Let me walk through the individual sections because this drives my anxiety through the roof. Can someone pleas give me some advice on how to properly do this...

Page 1: Since it's ABOVE the "start here" line, I don't think I'll write anything into the attorney state bar number or attorney USCIS online account number fields. Those I leave blank.

I have not used any other names, so I fill the family name, middle name, and first name fields provided for other names with "N/A" (Part 1 2.a. - 3.c.)

And since my marriage is still ongoing, I also put an "N/A" in the "Marital Status 13." box that says "if the marriage has ended provide the date.

Page 2: Mailing address is our own, so I put "N/A" in the "In Care of Name" 15a field. I also put an "N/A" in the "floor" field in 15c since we are in a house.

I fill fields 17a-c with "N/A"s throughout since mailing and physical addresses are the same.

Page 3: Other Information on my spouse, field 5, she has no A-number since she is a citizen, so that gets an "N/A". I again put "N/A" in the "floor" field for her physical address. I also put an "N/A" in the A-number field for our daughter, who is a citizen.

Page 4: Part 5 field 6b for the physical address of our child, floor field, again gets an "N/A", and I fill every last field for the other children with "N/A"s since we have none. Here I also put an "N/A" in black ink into the "state" fields that have a drop-down menu in the digital form.

Page 5: Here the same "N/A" everything for children we don't have continues from Part 5 24.a.-30.h.

Part 6 4.a.-4.c. I leave BLANK since I do not check the boxes that I need any accommodations or have any disabilities. Now, SHOULD these fields also get "N/A"s? The boxes aren't checked, so the fields aren't really active, but the instructions say to put N/A into ANY field that does not apply....

Page 6: Petitioner's statement: I check box 1a, and leave the fields in 1.b. and 2. empty since those boxes aren't "live" - same question as for Page 5, SHOULD these still get N/A's regardless? I put N/A into the "petitioner's mobile phone number" since my daytime and mobile are the same.

Page 7: I repeat the same as on Page 6 for my spouse, who does not need an interpreter, so the Part 8 1.b. and 2. boxes aren't "live." Same question as above, SHOULD those still get N/As?

Page 8: In Part 9 I flood the zone with N/As throughout from 1.a. to 5.

Page 9: Here I put N/A's in every field except for the 6.a. for "interpreter's signature" - SHOULD that also get one?

Page 10: I add an N/A to the 8.b. "date of signature" field, but leave the signature field itself empty. - SHOULD that also get an N/A?

Page 11: I don't need additional information space, but do I need to flood that whole page with N/As?

Hello,

I received my K1 visa in October. My trip to the U.S. is coming closer and I am figuring out everything necessary for Port of Entry and the first days within the country.

If you follow the official information, you only need:

• the sealed package from the embassy,
• your passport with the visa,
• police certificate (original?)
• birth certificate (original?)
• and the documents from the medical exam.

Is that all that's required?

For the first steps after entry I have this as my focus:

• obtaining SSN (after 2 weeks of entering)
• look into how to obtain U.S. drivers license
• get married

Is there anything I am totally missing here? Feel free to provide some insight

Hi all,

Since the data I found in the general thread is over a year old and apparently the US embassy in Frankfurt is taking over transfer cases from other locations, too, I wanted to ask if anyone has more recent info on how long it'll take from DQ to Interview letter to Interview (CR1, US citizen petition for spouse)

I know it can shift, but we're all trying to plan "wrapping up our life", so it would help me a lot if I had at least a bit of an average time frame.

Thank you!

Nach meiner Teilnahme an der GreenCard-Verlosung wurde ich von einer Agentur kontaktiert und von dieser beauftragt.

Der Mitarbeiter teilte mir mit, dass ich das Formular I-601 nicht ausf llen m sse, da bei der rztlichen Untersuchung im Konsulat in Deutschland mein Impfstatus nicht berpr ft werde.

Kann das wirklich wahr sein?

Ich dachte, bei der Einreise nach Amerika g be es Pflichtimpfungen.

Der Agent teilte mir mit, dass ich lediglich einen Bluttest von meinem Hausarzt mitbringen m sse, der best tige, dass ich frei von schweren Erkrankungen wie AIDS oder Krebs sei.

Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass es kein Problem sein soll, dass ich ungeimpft bin, da ich schon so viele Threads verfolgt habe von Leuten, die eine Impfbefreiung beantragen mussten und deshalb ca. zwei Jahre l ngere Bearbeitungszeit hatten.

Hat jemand damit Erfahrungen und kann berichten?

Hi Visajourney,

I'm looking for some advice on what to do if I received 2x a 10-year greencard with the expiration dates being approximately 2 months apart. I'm not sure which one is valid, and I'm assuming it will matter in 10 years if I have to renew.

Backstory:

Back in October 2020, after a successful AOS interview, I was granted a greencard. However, the USCIS made a mistake and gave me a 10-year greencard instead of the 2-year conditional one that you'd get if you got married on a K-1 visa. (Greencard category IR6 instead of CR). Upon researching and consulting visajourney, I filed an I-90 to correct the mistake and explained that I should have gotten a 2-year GC.

I didn't hear back. Then, in summer 2022, we filed for ROC, and referenced the pending I-90 case.

Then, this year in May (2024), my ROC case was approved and they mailed me a 10-year GC with an expiration in May (ten years from now).

Upon receiving the new GC in May 2024, I sent a letter to the I-90 case cancellation address via tracked mail to cancel my pending I-90 case, and at the same time also uploaded a signed copy of said letter to the USCIS online account as "additional evidence" to the pending I-90 case. I never heard back, until July 2024, when they updated the USCIS online case status to say that my I-90 case was approved and my GC is being printed... And about 2 weeks later, I received a second GC in the mail, this one is also a 10-year GC, but with an expiration date in July (ten years from now).

I closely compared them and the details are mostly the same. The only differences that I found are:

- the expiration date (both are 10 years from now, but different MM/DD)

- the 8-digit number on the back of the card (top left corner)

- the machine-readable letter/number combination on the back of the card (one of them has my I-90 case receipt, and the other has my ROC case receipt)

- some of the numbers in the second line of the machine-readable part on the back of the card in line #2.

- one card is "paler" than the other one, but I think that's just a printing issue and not relevant, haha.

Long story short - which GC do you think would be the "valid" one, or are both valid? Personally, I feel like the one that was issued more recently should the the valid one, voiding any previous cards, but some of my family members disagree, arguing that the one that's tied to the actual ROC case should be the valid one (which is the "older" one from May).

I am even debating driving to the local USCIS office with both GCs and just showing them to the person at the door and ask nicely to be let in, because I need to know which document is valid, lol.

I appreciate any advice.

Thank you!!