US Immigration from Japan

Our I-130 was recently approved by the USCIS and now I'm in the process of completing the I-864, I tried looking at the instructions but they're not very helpful and I'm a little confused by a few sections and was hoping someone here could help me:

1. In Part 2 (Information About the Principal Immigrant) for Mailing Address, I assume I'm supposed to put information regarding my wife (she's the one immigrating to the States), but it only allows me to put a US address. Is this supposed to be in my name, or hers, and if hers, then what address am I supposed to put here?
2. In Part 5 (Sponsor's Household Size) I think it's supposed to automatically populate but no number is showing and it won't allow me to enter a number manually.

Would appreciate any help, thank you!

Hello! I would really appreciate if anyone could help me out here!

<My situation>

I have an Advance parole(expires in 2025) and am still waiting for my green card.

I traveled outside the US for a consecutive 95days this year. I had no issue of reentering the US with my AP.

In October I want to travel again for 140days consecutively till February, 2024.

But I am expecting and hoping that my GC will arrive before October, because USCIS is currently reviewing my RFE response that "will help them make final decision on my case" according to the RFE letter.

The letter sounds like I might be lucky to get my GC without an interview before October.

<My questions>

1) I heard two different rules so far that you shouldn't travel outside the US for more than 180days, or 1 year in a year.

But both the USCIS and US customs&border protection webpages say that a green card holder can travel upto a year in one trip without reentry permission.

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-we-grant-your-green-card/international-travel-as-a-permanent-resident

https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-820?language=en_US

Where did the "6 months rule" come from? and which is true, 1year or 6months?

Is it the same rule for AP holders also?

2) My friend(green card holder) told me that the US customs and border officer told her "you cannot travel outside the US for more than 180days with GC. The 180days is counted from the first day of your departure from the US."

Has anyone heard or experienced the similar situation as my friend? I cannot find such information neither on USCIS or US customs&border protection webpages.

She traveled for 181days and was finally allowed to reenter the US after a few hours of questions by the officer.

3) If I receive GC before October, is my past travel days outside the US with my AP going to be renewed? (meaning that my travel days will be counted from zero again because I will use my GC in the next trip)

Thank you so much for reading this and I would really appreciate your help!

Best,

Apologies if this question has been asked and answered previously. My online account states that "Request For Initial Evidence Was Sent on May 1 2023". My concern is that I am presently out of the country visiting my wife and am not able to retrieve USPS mail sent to my US address. Furthermore, I don't see the RFE notice under the Documents tab although it is already the evening of May 2. My question is whether I can expect the RFE notice to be available in my account? Is this delay between the case status update and the notice not being available common? Have others been able to view their RFE notices online?

Thank you for any observations you might have!

Very poor experience arriving back at SFO with global entry (which both of us have) and I-751 pending, expired GC and extension letter. My spouse tried to take his picture and scan his expired green card at the global entry kiosk and it just flashed see officer .

Went to the officer who was extremely rude and impatient. He seemed to think my spouse was lying about having global entry, as he said it isn t showing up in the system. I explained that we used it just four months earlier before the green card expired with no issues, to which he continued to act frustrated and implied we were lying about having my spouse having it. He seemed to think I was the only who had it and I was trying to bring my spouse along.

It was just then that I remembered we brought the global entry cards (the ones that they say you don t need to carry with you), which my spouse showed the officer. That seemed to finally get him to believe us. I m so glad we brought those just in case, turned out to be very useful.

After that he said you need to have global entry update your information as it does not show in the system but he let us through.

I don t understand what he means - I didn t think global entry updates anything based on extension letters. Did they really unregister his expired green card from his global entry profile to the point that *nothing* shows up when they scan it?

It was an awful welcome back to the US after a two week trip abroad in my spouse s home country. I don t understand why they have to be so nasty about everything.

my father is going to be my joint sponsor, and we are trying to get all of the supporting documents.

He receives a military pension, and social security.

would the social security statement be the Form SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S ?

My dad isn't sure how to get the forms, and hes not good with computers. Its possible that he has them and just doesn't know what they are.

can someone post instructions on how to get the VA and SS yearly benefits statement for 2023? im assuming that my dad has an online SS account.