US Immigration from South Korea

Hello everyone,

So I'm wrapping up some things for sending my initial CR1/Spousal Visa to send to USCIS. I'm gathering evidence for Bona Fide Marriage and am being told that pictures will only help in the interview stage. I'm a bit confused as to what other evidence would qualify as my wife and I are newly married.

So far I have

Copies of both our license with same address.

Copy of bank statements of deposits she made into my account for rent (She can't open a joint account as she had some debt previously with a family member that she is still paying off)

Copy of some recent utility with same address (Electric is in her name, Gas/Water in mine) I only have this months. I don't keep my statements.

Copy Marriage Certificate (Obviously)

Copy of my Marriage Migrant Visa (f-6) for South Korea

I also have a list of photos with dates and explanations as well as flight itineraries and boarding passes for when she came to visit me in the USA (2x) and a flight intinerary for when we went to Guam last November.

What I'm being told is that I don't need to send pictures with any of this and instead get 3rd part affidavit of support. BTW, I'm using Rapid Visa. I'll probably get shamed for that but it seems that they think pictures won't help with the USCIS petition.

So, is it correct to say I wont need to send any pictures, only bring them for the interview at the US Embassy?

Thank You

I am an American citizen married to a Korean citizen. We have two children who are dual citizens.

Last fall, I completed a master's degree program in education from an American university. This university's masters program allows for students to obtain teaching certification after completing a teaching practicum course on-site at the university. I completed the I-130 application last fall with the plan of enrolling in the course whenever my wife obtained her green card. The application is currently pending in the Nebraska field office, so that most likely means early 2021 according to the timelines on this site.

I just received word from the university that starting in 2021, the practicum course will go from one semester to a full year. Therefore, I need to enroll in the class this fall.

Is there any way for my wife to move with me in the fall? Since I won't be able to work full time while I'm enrolled in the class, we are planning on staying at my parents house during that time. We can't really afford for my wife to rent an apartment in Korea while I live in America, or for my wife to visit and fly back to Korea. Does that qualify as 'severe financial loss" to expedite the I-130 visa? Or, should we try to apply for the K3 visa? Do we have any other options?

Can a moderator help me? I need a moderator asap to help me with something.

So we applied for the SSN before the K1 visa or I-94 expired. However there was a mailing mishap and we never got the card they sent us, so we sent the I-485 with the SSN blank. I have gone back to SSA and they tell us that even though he has a SSN now, they will not mail us a replacement card since the I-94 is now expired. I asked them to at least tell me what the number is, and she wrote it down on a sticky note for me.

Now I have a few concerns:

1) Will we be able to get a SSA-L676 Refusal To Process SSN Application and use that to get a MD driver's license

2) Should I update USCIS for the I-485 that we now know what his SSN is even though I don't have a card to show them

3) Will we be able to get a bank account/credit card/etc with just the number and no card

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share my N400 interview experience with you all. I Was hoping that it would be a combined I751 and N400 interview since my I751 has been virtually untouched for two years (filed in Feb 2018, haven't even received biometrics for this) and I requested that they be adjudicated together in my N400 app; but if you read on, you'll see that that's not what happened ! I filed my N400 in early May 2019. I got the interview notice right before Christmas and got scheduled for the end of Jan 2020. So not a short wait, but still not as long as some other parts of the country.

I had my interview in downtown Los Angeles. Got there 10 mins before the scheduled interview time because traffic and parking was a nightmare. Waited about 20 mins to be called to the window for photo/fingerprints. Was told to go to another room on the same floor. In total, my husband and I waited for a little over an hour. I didn't think I would be nervous, but the wait and the cold fluorescent lighting/bleak nature of government facilities, plus the fact that they were playing the impeachment hearings so loudly just made everything feel insufferable and I just wanted to get out of there as fast as I could. Anyways, I finally get called and my husband walked up with me only to be told to wait in the lobby. I'm starting to think that this isn't a good sign, but remembered reading other applicants' experiences where the spouse doesn't necessarily have to be in the room for the I751 to be approved, so I though maybe that was the case with me. We go into the IO's room and I see my file with the I751, so I'm relieved since online it says its in NBC in Missouri since June 2019. We immediately hit it off and had a great, casual conversation; a lot of it had nothing to do with the interview or immigration. The amount of evidence and stuff I brought with me was bigger than my actual USCIS case file, but the IO didn't look at a single document other than my passport and DL

So about 40 minutes in, the N400 interview was completed, easy breezy-- just your standard asking the yes/no questions on the app, doing the civics/english test, etc. And towards the end, we were talking about the oath ceremony coming up in a month and how I should be able to make that one. The IO was about to print out the form that says I passed and am recommended for approval; I then asked him if this means that the I751 was good to go. He then looked surprised (even though the I751 application I submitted was sitting right in front as the first page of my case folder) and said that he didn't know that it was a combo case . Anyways he said that he would give the I751 file to another officer right away to look at, but that everything looks good with him. I offered to provide updated and new evidence of my marriage to him, but he said that he didn't need it since everything looked good and my husband was here, etc... basically through our conversations, he was able to tell that our marriage was real. I asked if he knew the timeline, but unfortunately, he's not sure. So the form says "a decision can't be made" and I'm slightly bummed, but also relieved that half of the battle is over and that it was a nice and pleasant experience with the IO. I guess there are different levels of IOs so some can only approve one type of application and there are others that can do both?? Maybe he was more junior and I751s are more of a senior thing? No clue. I'm wondering if I should've led with asking if the I751 would be adjudicated during the interview, then maybe he would've been able to take care of that first for me? Many post mortem thoughts in my head!

So it's been a few days now and nothing has updated online and am stuck waiting for the I751. I was praying and hoping that this wouldn't happen to me, but it is what it is and I'm resigned to the fact that there's nothing I can really do now but to just wait; just hoping for the best and that I don't get called back for yet another interview. I was hoping that I could be a citizen before March so I could vote in the primaries in CA, but probably not. Anyways, I hope this was informative to someone out there!