US Immigration from Netherlands

Hi,

I am married to an American citizen and have been for 4 years. During this time we have been living in the Netherlands. Due to my father-in-law being ill, we have decided to move from the Netherlands to the US.
We have started the process by filing the I-130 petition. Looking ahead to the affidavit of support, my wife will leave for the US before I will, so I don't expect a problem with domicile. However she can not keep the job she currently has in The Netherlands, as such, she alone does not meet the poverty line requirements. I, on the other hand, will keep my current job. I am a consultant in the IT business and it just so happens my company actually needs an US based consultant, so that all lines up pretty nicely. I'm just wondering, how do I prove my income will continue from the same source after moving? Is this simply a notarized letter from my boss stating that he will continue my employment?

Hi all,

I know that Expeditious Naturalization through INA319b when the US spouse is a civilian employed abroad is already quite a rare case, but I believe that we might meet the requirements but wanted to clear up some ambiguity that exists around the "Qualifying Employment Abroad" requirement and time of employment abroad - source: https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-g-chapter-4; specifically referring to the following:

• American firm or corporation engaged in whole or in part in the development of foreign trade and commerce of the United States, or a subsidiary thereof
• Accordingly, the spouse of the U.S. citizen employed abroad may naturalize if his or her U.S. citizen s qualifying employment abroad is scheduled to last for at least one year at the time of filing,

(POINT-1): In our case - my foreign spouse is currently living with me in Europe (she is a Korean citizen). I (US Citizen) am working for an American multi-national logistics company with it's main headquarters and registration in the US, listed on the New York Stock Exchange; and has been a component of the S&P500 for several decades. I don't want to say which company it is on a public forum, but it is one of those huge companies that every American immediately recognizes..and our operations serves nearly every country in the world minus a few 'no-go' countries.

I feel like this company would meet both of the requirements of the first bullet point above right? It is an American company, and our main operations is literally to move goods and services either within the US, or cross borders; so definitely should meet the requirements of developing foreign trade and commerce of the US. The issue is..how exactly do I prove it to the officers at USCIS in a N-400 application that my company meets this requirement. If one simply hears the name of my company; then they should ideally know it does. But do I need to provide proof via say..a 10-K (annual report)? Does someone in investor relations need to write a letter for me proving such? Of course, I assume I'll need my working contract as well.

(POINT-2): About the 'employment lasting for 1 year' requirement. In my case - I didn't get my job in the US directly and then move within the company to Europe. I finished graduate school in my spouse's home country, and applied directly to the company at their international headquarters in Europe and was hired directly here. Thus, I am not a W-2 employee, I have a local salary of the country I live in and my contract period is 'indefinite' (this means it is longer than 1 year in the country I work). My contract was also given to me by the local entity here in Europe, not the headquarters in the US (although - it is all owned by the US holding company anyways..)

Those of you who have any experience with the N-400 319(b) - do you feel that both of the points made above related to my situation satisfy the employment requirements from the USCIS website on this? I know 319(b) is pretty straightforward for military, other gov't employees, DoD contractors, etc; but not a lot of transparency around civilians employed for American firms.

Of course - this is made with the assumption that we have her IR-1 in hand at time of application (I have significant evidence that domicile has been maintained in the US so shouldn't be a problem to get her green card), and that she meets the other requirements as well (pledges to re-join me abroad, pledges under good faith to return to the US with me after employment termination, etc).

In short: I married my wife in 2016. We filed in july 2018. My teenage daughter from another relationship (I have sole custody of her) and I were approved in september 2019. We arrived in the usa in january 2020, 10 months later she still doesn't have her Greencard! I received mine in july, like 6 months after entry.

Contacted the uscis multiple times and somehow they can't send my daughters greencard out. Everytime I call them they give another reason why they can't. So I filed an i90 3 months ago, yet nothing is happening. The last time I called them (2 months ago) they said the reason they couldn't send it out was because they need new biometrics of my daughter, and that I had to wait till they contacted me for an appointment, still haven't heard from. We got all that stuff (biometrics) done in Amsterdam in september 2019 right after our interview was approved.

My daughters i551 stamp is going to expire soon. This is so frustrating. Anything else who went thru the same? What else can I do to speed up the process? It feels like they will never send it out, and don't understand why. I paid for our Greencards in oct 2019. At least she got her social security number.

Hello everyone! I am a US citizen living in the Netherlands. I have a job offer in the US which starts in a few weeks. I sent the Amsterdam consulate (the only one in the Netherlands) an email asking if I could file I-130 for my wife there. That was a week ago and I haven't gotten a reply. The consulate's phone number doesn't work. I have called the embassy and they said that the consulate is closed due to covid-19 and the employees are working from home. Since I assume that means I will not be able to file the I-130 in the Netherlands, I have sent emails to the consulates in Brussels and Frankfurt explaining the situation and asking if I could file it there.

When nobody is allowed to go to the consulate in person, can you have an appointment with a consular officer by video call to file the I-130?

Is getting a consulate in a country you don't live in to process an I-130 at all possible? Is there anything else I should try?

I received my 10 year Green Card last week (yay!), and it came with the little paper envelope that always come with cards from USCIS. But this time was the first time I actually paid attention to what was written on the little envelope. It says: "We recommend use of this envelope to protect your new card and to prevent wireless communication with it."

I'm intrigued. How does this work? Who or what would want to wirelessly communicate with my Green Card? And how? And why? What information would my card wirelessly communicate to whoever is communicating with it? Also, how exactly does a little paper envelope prevent all this? I am genuinely curious. Any thoughts/ideas?