US Immigration from South Korea

Hi,

I came to the US in May 2019 with K-1 visa, and got married in Jun 2019. We sent my AOS documents in Aug 2019.

I got my EAD and SSN in Dec 2019.

My AOS is still pending now.

Our CPA said we can do tax return jointly but he isn t sure I am okay with immigrant law if I do tax return with my husband(jointly) because my AOS is still pending.
(We know I am a residence in tax law.)

so my question is,

is there nothing problem to get my green card if I do tax return jointly?

Thank you for your helping!

Hi All,

As I am waiting for my N-400 interview, I have a few questions regarding name change through naturalization. I opted to change my name completely (both first and last names).

- I understand that only your new name is printed on the certificate of naturalization. Will I receive a certificate of name change as well at the oath ceremony? I need an official documentation of my name change listing both my old and new names.

- Since I am going through a name change, the signature that will be printed (taken from the bio appointment) will be different from the new signature. Which signature do I use to sign the certificate?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys. Me and my boyfriend are currently trying to start a k1 petition but we re kinda stuck with the question where is your beneficiary going to stay in the united states . He s in the military and staying in the barracks and housing office wont give you a house until after marriage. What can we put in that question? Also, he s born in Germany inside a military base and we re not sure if his birth certificate will be applicable for his proof of citizenship. Thank you in advance for all your help!

I'm trying to make an expedite request on my wife's I-130 application. We currently live in South Korea. Last week, I called the USCIS international phone number (212-620-3418). The person I talked to said he would transfer me to a tier two officer. I got put on hold with a message saying the wait time was 360 minutes and to type in my phone number. I typed in my phone number, but I got a message saying it was invalid. I'm guessing this is because my korean phone number has too many digits. I decided to try again today, and this time the person I talked to said that the expedite request was already made. I'm not sure if that means that my request is being processed or if it just shows on my file that I previously called to make an expedite request. When I asked her, she said had to transfer me to a tier two officer. I told her about what happened before and asked for the information to be sent to me by email instead.

Would an expedite request show up on my online account? I don't see anything different there.

Is there another way to request an expedite other than by phone? Has anyone had success calling USCIS internationally? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dear, Visa Journey colleagues.

My husband (US citizen) and I got married on April, 30th 2018 in Korea and we are currently under the NVC stage with immigration visa (CR1/IR1).

As my husband wanted to stay with him,

I've been going back and forth between US and Korea with ESTA (VISA WAIVER - up to 90 days stay) until now.

We've been on going this immigration process through the lawyer (case priority date ; June, 2018), which is very unhelpful and wasting of time and money ,

And currently we got stuck at NVC stage for document review so long.

After our lawyer's office screwed uploading papers on NVC portal a several times (duh), finally all documents were accepted EXCEPT the J1 visa document related to me.

the J1 visa document was uploaded on the NVC portal on Sep. 2018, but no one reviewed it so far on the NVC end.

the lawyer's office made an inquiry about it, however, all we could hear from the NVC is a sort of generic respond saying, "the document is still under review." .

(Even this moment, we don't really trust what the lawyer office does. we didn't just fire them since we paid the balance and it seems like we are almost done with this painful visa journey)

As I need to go back to Korea again on this upcoming April, to not overstay in the US with ESTA,

We couldn't tolerate that kind of delays any further and finally spoke with the representative this morning after making more than 30 times of calls, needless to say we were on hold more than 40 minutes.

(My husband always calls them but seems like he has more luck when I am with him while making a call )

The lady saying "due to the recent system update, the system might not show the document to the NVC officer for reviewing and that's what happens to you unfortunately. there's nothing I can do with it."

It was really outrageous that we all could see the document on our end but NVC officer couldn't see it...? Even if it is true, c'mon.. How many times we made inquires about "that specific document" so far... srsly....!!

Me and my husband was so furious, literally lost our words what to say, and asking her back how come no one contacts us regarding the issue,,,

she replied to us ; there are so many cases, we cannot just review one by one and revert the opinion back, also said there's nothing she could do about it and just re upload the document on the portal.

I know They have notorious fame with their case handling manner and it has been the issue for so many years and we're very exhausted with this kind of emotional distress.

However, we really want to address this unbelievable issue to somewhere for the immediate attention on the case, regardless it is effective or not,

as we believe some people need to speak their voice for the other people to prevent the same issue.

I mean, We pursue the immigration process in a legit way, but consequently we are the victims due to the ignorance and systemic issue of the government.

So Please Please advise where we could make complaints, either official or not, other than emailing / calling NVC, If you have any idea...

(We already asked the lawyer for the channels, but we don't really expect positive answer from them.)

Thank you in advance,

Sincerely,

K.