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K1 Visa - need general help, Russia, joint sponsor
7:35 am December 28, 2024

SpaceCat

SpaceCat

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Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this! This is my first post and my fianc and I are trying to make sure we have everything in order before going through the entire visa process. I would especially like advice from others who have been in the situation of applying with a Russian beneficiary. We are planning to submit the form next month if we have all of the right documentation.
I'd like to clarify a few things...

1. I'm aware the embassy in Poland has been processing Russian K1 interviews. Does anyone know of anything that has changed in that regard?

2. When I send in the I-129F form, I'll need his official translated divorce certificate and signed letter of intent. Will he need to send these to me by mail or is it enough to scan and email these documents for the form? When it comes time for him to take documents to his interview, will I need to send them by mail or will I be able to send him digital copies? The same question with my US citizenship verification. Can this be a photo of my passport?

3. Are records of financial information not needed until the interview? And at that time, I need to file the affidavit of support alongside my joint sponsor?

4. One of my biggest anxieties is that I need to use a joint sponsor because I do not and will not meet the income requirement. My joint sponsor can exceed the 125% requirement. Can they still deny me for my own financial shortcoming if I have a legit joint sponsor?

5. The medical exam can be done in Moscow?

6. My fianc 's biggest concern is going to Poland for the interview. I realise that something could change as the political situation changes, but this is what I gather: He will apply for a Schengen visa to some place like Italy after he receives a date for his interview. When he is approved for the visa, or at some point, he will also buy tickets to Poland. ?

7. And lastly, if I submit the first form next month, how long until he will be able to arrive in the US? We want to meet again before he will come here. Maybe I'll stay in Russia for a couple months if I'm brave enough. But, we don't know how to time it out. I don't want to be needed in the US for something important related to the visa and be unable to do anything because I am in Russia or some other country. (Or him be in another country to meet me when he needs to be in Russia for something visa related.)

If anyone has any tips, we'd really appreciate it.



 
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My wife's N400 denied because we filed 88 days early (corrected version) (Merged)
1:36 pm December 13, 2024

Wouter

Wouter

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Hello, I am confused and frustrated,

She was just notified that her N400 application was denied because "at the time of filing Form N-400, August 18, 2024, you have been living in marital union with your U.S. citizen spouse for 2 years 9 months and 5 days".

We have been married since 02-02-2020. We applied for a CR1 visa shortly after and like so many my wife stayed in her home country while I waited in the US.

When the CR1 was finally approved and issued she entered the US on 11-13-2021 which was also the date on her temporary 2y green card. We filed for removal of conditions before 11-13-2023 and this was approved and she received her permanent 10y green card without problems.

On 08-13-2024 we filed her N400 application for US citizenship, which is 88 days ahead of the 3 year mark of my wife being here with me, under the assumption the 90 day early filing rule would allow this.

She just had her interview on 12-11-2024 and was denied as I mentioned above. Not because her residence in the US at time of filing was less than 3 years but because she hasn't been living in "marital union" with me for 3 years at time of filing! Don't those two things go together for every CR1 situation? How can you be allowed to file 90 days early but then get denied because you didn't live together with your spouse for the full 3 years at time of filing?

It does say that you can request a hearing to overcome the grounds of this denial, but we would probably need a lawyer to help us with that and I have my doubts this would be successful. Should we just file the N400 again now that it definitely has been more than 3 years?



 
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Length of Time for N400 Interview
3:27 pm December 8, 2024

gregoryagu

Gregoryagu

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As noted in my timeline, I submitted paperwork for my wife for the N400 naturalization on July 22 2024. Shortly thereafter we got a notice that the current bio-metrics were still valid and so that would not be needed.

But here we are 4.5 months later and we do not yet have an appointment.

Questions about this: 1. I don't recall ever selecting an Office, but I am assuming that the Tampa Office will automatically be used as it is the closest to our address, correct? In searches I have done, it seems like some of the offices are faster than others, but I don't know that there is any way of changing that, especially at this point.

2. I checked the Processing Time on the USCIS site, and this is what it says:

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So if this is correct, it is going to be April before we get an appointment, correct?

3. After the Interview, then there is also the oath ceremony. I was not able to find an estimate on how long after the appointment this would be for Tampa.

4. In times past, we did not really care how long the process took (we have been married 8 years now). However, we recently traveled for 2 months to see her family in Russia, and then another 3 months in South Africa visiting our Church. (A total of 5 months, below the "6 Month Rule") The concern is that we are going to somehow violate the residency requirements for her Citizenship. We started the application before we left. We have lived in the US the entire time, so our "Continuous Residence" requirement is easily satisfied. The physical Presence requirement is also easily satisfied. And we resided in Florida for the full three months preceding the filing.

Our plan is to be back in the US and then wait for the interview, and then the oath. And at that point go back to South Africa for an extended for 1-2 years.

So if the above estimate is correct, we will need to wait until June for the interview, and then another period for the Oath.

All in all, we would like to have this done as soon as possible so we can finish the work we have started in South Africa (humanitarian work)

Sorry if I am rambling here, but I am trying to put forward as much information as possible.

Our other option would be to abandon the N400, and then be abroad as long as we want, and then take it up again after moving to the US. I don't really see an issue with this because as far as I can tell, the only benefit of naturalization is that you can Vote, and get a US passport. But the lack of a US passport has not been a hinderance to anything we have wanted to do so far.



 
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Need help linking new email
10:36 am November 30, 2024

rikko



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Hello,

My visajourney account is linked to my university (.edu) email account, which has since been closed - I cannot get new emails to that domain anymore. I also do not remember my password so I can't assign things to a new email. Who should I get in contact with to help me switch this account's email? I can neither reset password (don't have access to original email) or reassign to a new email domain (i don't remember my password). I'm only logged in on this device and if anything happens I won't have access to this account anymore.



 
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Solo I-212 processing times
5:40 pm November 26, 2024

Dreamcouple



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Hello friends,

I understand the wait time is estimated here: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ my question is if anyone has had their I-212 waiver processed within the past year or two and can share their timeline. Based on my research I've seen some people have it processed within 2 to 3 weeks and some people wait roughly 8 months. They give a wait time of 30 months which however I feel about it doesn't seem accurate. Our I-212 was filed because we didn't know immigration status after filing multiple FOIA requests that had no pertinent info, and only found out our status after getting our I-130 approved then denied a day later due to needing an I-212. It has been 7 months since filing the I-212 and I guess my hope is that we are a family immigration visa so our I-212 seems to be a prioritized waiver, we updated our medical as it expires after 6 months just in case and are ready to go pending approval. Maybe this will help someone else one day who goes through this as it seems like some form of punishment and can be extremely demoralizing in my experience. Thanks for contributing in advance.



 
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