US Immigration from Italy

Good evening,

I would really appreciate it if anyone could share their opinion/experiences on related current acceptable trends for a married couple in a scenario similar to the one I explained below, petitioning for a foreign spouse s permanent residency.

It has been a very strange past year and a half due to Covid.

I would like to know what if any changes have occurred to the adjustment of status/permanent residency application process due to what Covid has done to our society.

In the past, normally one would petition for adjustment of status and they would support their spouse and provide stability and security for them and demonstrate that in their petition.

I am curious to know have there been areas of the process that the requirements have become easier to satisfy or are more flexible when considering one s relatives immigration through marriage petition? Or have they become stricter?

The scenario I am in is a little complicated due to Covid and I would like someone s opinion if my scenario and future petition would possibly set off any red flags or possibly be denied and what adjustments could I make to avoid a possible scenario or denial?

My scenario is as follows:

I am a natural born American citizen.

I was once married abroad to a foreign national in 2007 and successfully completed the K-1 visa process and adjusted it to US permanent residency. After a couple of years, I was tired of the same job and same city and I wanted to relocate. As crazy as it sounds, we decided to leave the USA and live abroad. She surrendered her green card since we no longer needed it. Sadly, after about 7 years of marriage, she didn t want to have children and we seemed to want different things in life so we decided to go separate ways and got divorced.

Eventually, I returned to the USA and have lived here ever since.

I currently am engaged to an amazing woman and my fianc studies at a university and legally works with accounting, however coincidentally she is not an American citizen.

I would like to know have the permanent residency requirements been looked at differently by adjudicators since our current economy and everyday life have been far from a normal year due to Covid? I ask this because coincidentally I was laid off from my job right before Covid. I began studying and developing a business plan and developing products. I was in the process of organizing and starting a brewery business but then the entire country got shut down in the middle of launch and after months of waiting for things to improve, they only got worse and I decided to go in a different direction. So I decided instead of trying to start a business that relied on public interaction and exposure during a hectic worldwide situation, to not let the down time keep me from accomplishing something good for my family. So I utilized the scenario Covid had created to give back to my family and help out on my family s farm and renovate and transform it into something less labor intensive, more lucrative and with a brighter future. I also provided care for my nieces and nephews since Covid created a huge mess for working parents and school and daycare and the workplace. During that time is when I met my fianc .

Luckily, Covid didn t have an effect on my fianc and she works full time and studies and together we were ok.

Considering what Covid had done to mine as well as many other people s lives, is a combined income viewed as acceptable in regards to the proof of financial support/income requirement?

I collected unemployment and I imagine that normally doesn t look attractive on an affidavit of support petition. What is your opinion? Or doesn t it really make a difference since they are more focused on and concerned about a valid, strong and happy marriage?

Also I would like to know if I were to petition for adjustment of status/permanent residency for my future wife, would our combined income be considered to satisfy the income requirement since she is already legally here in the usa and working? How would it be viewed by an adjudicator that my foreign future wife makes more money in the USA than I do at the moment?

If my Affidavit of Support didn t satisfy the income requirement, would it really matter since my wife currently earns 2-3 times the requirement? How would this look to an adjudicator viewing our case and deciding whether or not to deny our request for permanent residency?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

All the best, CP

Hi! I'm going to finally move next week and trying to be prepared for all the following steps.

I was trying to fill in the SS-5 (application for social security card) but not sure on field n. 5 "Citizenship" what is the correct box to check.

I'm a K1 visa applicant.

which you did you use when you completed your form?

1. legal alien allowed to work

2. legal alien not allowed to work

3. other

i would go for number 2 as until you get a green card or EAD you're not entitled to work but on the SSA webpage it seems to be number 1.

https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110211530 (look at K1)

can anyone help please.

thanks!

Hi everyone!

I recently submitted a request for expediting my ROC, because I am moving overseas with my husband, which is a US military member.

Well, the request was received; I never received the email asking for proof so I called USCIS and they informed me of it, saying that it is been happening a lot lately so to not worry and go ahead and send the proof anyways.

I did it, I received an email right away from the TSC saying that my email has been forwarded to the officer that will follow my case. Now, it is been 2 days and I have no updates at all, I called USCIS and they couldn't tell me anything.

So, in your experience, how long did it take to get an answer via email from an officer after submitting proof?

TIA!

Hi VJ, I am writing this for a friend and am hoping this wonderful community which has helped my through the CR-1 and Removal of Conditions processes can help give my friend some much needed advice.

This started last week when my friend went in for her US Citizenship interview. She was told by the interviewer that she had a letter issued to her in 1974 for voluntary departure from the US. Here is her timeline as she remembers it. Please know this was over 50 years ago, so some things are not fully remembered:

• 1969 came to the US on a 90 day visitors visa, applied for and was approved for a 90 day extension.
• 19679/1970 Applied for a 2-year student visa and was approved. Was issued a ss#
• 1972 Applied to Renew the student visa and was approved
• Got married to a US citizen in 1973
• 1974 received a letter telling her to leave the US since her studies should have been completed. Husband scheduled 2 appointments at the country embassy, but they did not attend either appointment. Says her husband filed some sort of petition for her because she was allowed to work. Believed this was resolved.

Fast forward to 1991:

• Under Reagan, she applied for and was granted a 10-year green card through the amnesty program (her husband did not sponsor her). She has renewed it twice so far.
• She was divorced in 1995
• Husband also died in 1995
• 2020 she decided to apply for US Citizenship. At the interview, was told about the voluntary departure letter from 1974. She informed interviewer about the amnesty and green-card she had been issued, and that she had been married to a US citizen. Was told it did not matter that she was married to a US citizen, and that he did not have any information/documents about the amnesty his office, so he issued her a N-652 that said she passed the civics test, but that a decision could not be reached and to await further information.

Does anyone have any idea what this means? What should my friend expect? And what should she do next?

Thanks for your assistance.

I m filling out my I-134 but I m worried about my supporting documents. I was deployed last year and so my pay wasn t taxed during that time, my IRS transcripts that I need to send in make it look like I am below the poverty line when in fact I actually made double that. In addition to my tax transcripts I m sending in my LES s for the year, the statement of service from the virtual MPF, my yearly pay summary from MyPay, and a copy of my deployment orders to verify that I was deployed and explain why that pay wasn t taxed. I will have 7 in my household, my actual take home pay is above the threshold, I m just worried about my 2020 return getting me denied because they aren t familiar with military pay. Should I still get a joint sponsor?