US Immigration from Mexico

I just got off the phone with USCIS trying to request an expedite request. They say that since I have a non-US address on my I-130 application (I am living in Spain currently, though I am a US citizen), I will need to write postal mail to my service center to figure out how we can proceed and make an expedite request. This seems kind of silly to me that there is no way to contact the service center other than by postal mail, and not to submit a request but rather just to ask HOW I can submit a request. Has anyone had experience with this?

Hey Guys,

I had my AOS interview today and went well. I wanted to give some information for some questions that seem to be frequently asked. Each office is different so this is specific to Sacramento California:

1) The Sacramento office has their own interpreters. We came prepared with one( via phone) but they ended up using their own

2) Kids are allowed to accompany you to the interviews. We took our daughter and there were many others with kids.

3) Security only lets one group in the building at a time. There are two separate lines for AOS and Citizenship interviews and also ICE appointments and security alternates with letting people in. This means that you need to show up a bit more than 15 minutes earlier than your appointment. We showed up 30 minutes earlier and got in with 5 minutes to spare.

4) Previously, you would go to the specific room number listed on the form and check in at the window. Due to Covid, this is not the case anymore. Instead, there is a desk on the second floor where everyone checks in then they tell you which room you go to. Our interview notice told us we were in room 2-230 but we were instead sent to room 2-220. This is important because some people had gone to the room directly without checking in at the desk and found out the hard way after waiting an hour.

5) The interview questions will depend on the officer you get but ours were straight forward: How did you meet? , where did you propose?, how long did you know each other?, then they just went through the application. At the end, they asked for any additional evidence. Waiting for our name to be called took longer than the interview.

That is really the only advice I can give for now. Good luck to you all.

Hello! How are you?

I'm male 28 years old, I'm in the United States (B1/b2 visa) since 3 months ago and I'm getting married to my girlfriend in one month, she is 23 years old US Citizen. I have to go back to Mexico after the honeymoon and we will do consular processing.

I'm stressed to be honest. We want to start the process after getting married but we won't have enough proof for bona-fide marriage.

We only have a couple of PICTURES, proposal (ring purchase ticket) with her best friends on it, watching movies, going out to watch a hockey game.

Some of my siblings will be at the wedding, and her siblings, parents and friends will be there too, so we will have the opportunity to take pictures at the wedding with our relatives, and also we will have pictures of our honeymoon.

I have shared a lot of good moments with her and her family. However she doesn't like pictures, I completely understand, I love her, I don't like pictures either. But we don't have enough proof that we shared nice time with family.

We also have proof of a lot of texting and calling since one year ago.

I have passport stamps when she visited me in Mexico, but we only have one picture.

We don't have join bank account, or utilities bills because I'm temporarily in the USA I have to go back to Mexico.

I've researched about the USCIS requirements and we don't have all of that. I'm terrified. I love her so much but I never thought this process was so demanding.

I know what helps most to demonstrate bona-fide marriage is like shared finances or property, but since I don't work in the US and I'm just temporary visitor in the US I just think this requirement is hard to have it.

So in summary we will only have pictures, continue communication proof, passport stamps, some purchase receipts and marriage certificate.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All,

I started the process for the N400 for my spouse on Friday. I had a difficult time uploading each of our taxes for 2019, 2020 and 2021 in pdf form because it kept saying the file was over 6 MB.

I finally decided to remove some pages out of the PDF to make it work. I only included the 1040 and the state tax pages.

I didn t want to do it that way but I felt like I had no choice in order to make it all fit. I have not submitted it yet as it is still in rough draft status.

should I submit it like that or is there another way to include all pages of each tax return??

Ok so my beneficiary has lived at 5 different addresses in the past 5 year. I am going to type up a separate document with all the address details. Should I put my name and address on the header or hers? My initial thought Is mine since I am completing the I-129F form, but it is information regarding her so I m second guessing myself. Also should I sign the document at the bottom or have her do it?