US Immigration from Sweden

WASHINGTON The federal agency tasked with offering citizenship, green cards and visas to immigrants is planning to furlough about two-thirds of its workers at the end of the month after Congress failed to reach a deal on a coronavirus stimulus package.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services notified about 13,400 of its 20,000 employees that they would be furloughed Aug. 30 because of budget shortfalls, which the agency hoped Congress would fill in its next relief package before negotiations stalled last week.

"In the past few months, USCIS has taken action to avert a fiscal crisis, including limiting spending to salary and mission-critical activities," an agency spokesperson said. "Without congressional intervention, USCIS will have to take drastic actions to keep the agency solvent."

The agency had asked Congress for $1.2 billion, and the money had been expected to come through its next coroanvirus relief package. But after about two weeks of negotiations, talks dissolved as Democrats and the White House blamed each other for the stalemate.

In the end, the president signed four executive orders trying to fill the gap on some stimulus programs, though they did not deal with immigration services. Questions remain over whether the orders will ultimately be successful in carrying out Trump's aims.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/11/covid-19-stimulus-deal-us-immigration-services-plans-furloughs/3344178001/

I just noticed that USCIS has completely removed the I-944 from their website now so I think that it is safe to say that they definitely don't want people to submit them as of now.

Just thought i'd share!

We are both going insane over here trying to get my husbands name added to all of our bills as I inititally rented both our last apartment and the one we just moved into.

By the time we file, we will have one wifi bill which will state me and my husbands first name name + my maiden name (they cannot change it to my married name as I have not yet updated my drivers license) so we will write a note explaining that.

We will also have one electric bill in both of our names (his name should have been on the last one but the representative we spoke to did, in fact, not add his name properly).

Will two bills be enough for our initial I-130 filing? We have a lot of other evidence (insurance, bank account etc.) to provide in addition to utility bills but as we are unable to provide them with a lease (it will take some time to get his name added to that) , we are concerned that two bills will not be enough to prove that we live together.

Hi guys!

We are preparing our AOS package (currently here on an F1-visa but just recently got married to my hubby who's an American citizen, yay!) and I was wondering when I'm supposed to get a medical exam done? We talked to an immigration lawyer who said I need to get the medical exam done prior to filing the package. I was always under the impression that the medical exam is to be done closer to the interview date? Would love to hear other peoples experiences!

Thanks!