US Immigration from Hong Kong

I have a question about the condition of "any previous country or countries of residence if residing there for more than 12 months" needing a Police Cert. Is the 12 months measured in cumulative term?

For the past 3 years, my son has been studying in an overseas university on a student visa. He has never been there consecutively for 12 months, having coming back home during term breaks, but cumulatively yes more than 12 months. Does he need to get a police cert from the foreign country?

We, as a family, entered the DV lottery by our own self. No one in the USA raised the request for us to apply for immigration.

In the part where you need to provide information of Petitioner, how should we do it? Should my wife, who is the selectee, choose "SELF" in the part and me, as the derivative, choose "WIFE" ? Is there an option of "N/A"?

Advance apology if this is a silly question as we have not really logged into the online system yet.

My wife is the selectee in DV2021. My son and I are derivatives. We are from Hong Kong. Case number DV2021AS5XXX.
Questions.

1. Son is currently studying in the UK. Not likely to return to Hong Kong for interview until mid May 2021 when university semester ends. Assuming normal leadtime in terms of paperwork processing and interview scheduling, etc., resumes when the visa offices reopen, what is the best time to start the ball rolling with submitting DS260 so that the interview could be scheduled towards the end of May 2021 when he could come back to join us to go to the interview together as required?
2. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe my case number is relatively low in my region. I assume most people would start submitting DS260 around August / September 2020 or even earlier if they have such low numbers. Will putting off the submission of DS260 until March or April 2021 be a risky move? Is there a chance that I will miss out and be denied an interview for my inaction to file DS260 until that late in the event that the visa quota is already full by May 2021?
3. My wife is a housewife and does not have any income. I run my own business. But since business have been poor for the past 2 to 3 years, my recent tax returns show negative taxable income. We, as a family, do have cash and savings well in excess of the proverty guideline. Is an affidavit to support I-134 still needed to satisfy the public charge condition? BTW, we do plan to work / earn income after coming to the US. Do I need to show any business proposal to solidify my position?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi guys needing some help Im petitioning my mother and currently on the stage of sending affidavit of support just wondering what should I put on the question about sponsor employment.

me and my husband own a small business we are partnership 50-50 but I do not pay my self in the last 3 years I just started to put my self in payroll and my husband has a second job in other company. my question are.I am hoping someone can answer my questions it just so confusing.

1. Should I put my self employed or self employed and put my occupation as owner?

2. What should ?I send we do have have tax transcript and 1040 individual tax income tax

3. Should I include his W2 from his other Job?

4. Does my husband need to sign a form I-864 also since we are filling tax jointly?

5. Can I mail all this document instead of uploading online it just a lot of paper to upload but I did upload the civil document and submit except the federal paper works.

6. They ask for 3 yrs tax my tax yr 2017 was very low we got a big losses in our business but 2018 and 2019 we just recovered and I guessed we are ok. is that a problem if our income in 2017 was low? sorry to many question.

Please help me guys I really need to finish filling up the form..this is all I need to complete so my mom petition will move forward. Thanks a lot in advanced I got a lot of help from this site when my husband started my K1 visa it was so easy but this time I am having hard time about this form.

Hi,

I am wondering if any of you have traveled outside to US with an expired passport ( but with valid green card)? i wanna travel back to Hong Kong to renew my passport but don't know whether i can EXIT the US with my expired passport and got onto the plane. Thank you.