US Immigration from Ukraine

Back in 2013 I filed a K1 visa for my Ukrainian fianc e. It was approved, but I found out she was unfaithful to me and she returned home within a month of arrival to the US.

Ended up becoming close to her best friend over the last 8 years (Met over 4 times in the past 2 years). I submitted my I129F recently and I am recently divorced (within the last month). Anything I should be prepared for down the road or red flags? We have tons of supporting evidence for proof of relationship. Thank you!

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Things our girls say when they first get here?

Well, I married a city girl with a country girl's heart, which is good because we're building a small house (not a tiny house) on a dirt road, in rural Maine. What does she do? What any self respecting Ukrainian gal would do, go mushroom hunting of course. "Hachu les. hachu les." We're surrounded by woods, knock yourself out babe. We now have several lbs of dehydrated shrooms (reduced to several ounces) in the pantry and now she wants an old cheap blender to make some shroom powder for soups.

I took her kayaking (sit on top) at one of my favorite local lakes. Now its "kagda go baidarka apyat?" Next time we're taking the sleek sea yaks out.

Almost every time we get in the Ram to go to town I hear "Kak horosho" in a very contented voice.

And yesterday when we returned to the apartment (10 mins away from the cabin site) on a rather humid day I hear "switch on the conditioner". SCORE!

She has 2 jackets and 2 or 3 sweaters in the Ram so I can crank the AC.

I'm actually a little nervous about when she finally opens that 6 CD set of Pimsler - Eng for Ru speakers sitting next to her laptop. She's still binge watching shroom hunting and thrift shop videos, so I'm safe for now.

Her SSN and Green Card have both arrived. Now if I can get her to understand she needs to have these things WITH her when we go out (and her fishing license). I want to go to DMV and get her State ID card and open a bank account for her.

Life is good

So to sum things up. My gal's transition is going quite smoothly.

Hard to google this one because all the results are just about expired green cards....

Once we have the new, permanent residency card in hand after removing conditions - what do we do with the physical 'expired' conditional card? Are we supposed to send it back? Can we just shred it? Do we need to keep it for some reason?

Hello,

In the month of March I received I-551 on my passport. The green card and the renewal letter are 18 months overdue. I want to fly to see my parents . Can anybody please share from their personal experience whether anybody has had problems at the airport when boarding a plane under this situation?

Many thanks

Hello all. Thank you for this wonderful group and great support that many people get here.

My question is about taxes. We got married in 2019. My husband filed as single that year because I didn't have SSN. Same for 2020. With reading topics here I learned about ITIN but we were to close to our interview and didn't want to send passports.

Me and our son successfully passed the interview. Got to the US in March. Got our SSNs week later.

On this forum and on Facebook groups people were mentioning amending tax returns after getting SSN. So we got an appointment with the company that did my husband's taxes. They say it's impossible to change anything but from now and on my husband can add us to his taxes.

I don't trust them very much because since 2019 they never told my husband about ITIN which we could easily prepare before 2020 tax season.

So he filed as Single both previous year? Can he amend the tax returns if we got SSN in 2021?

Thank you in advance for your help.