US Immigration from Vietnam

Hello all,

My wife previously immigrated to the US on a K1 from Vietnam, and since has become a naturalized citizen in May 2022. We got her mother a tourist visa late last year to come visit for a couple months to help with the last stages of my wife's pregnancy and first stages of our first child. Her mother liked it here more than we expected, and as the birth got close we discussed and decided she'd be OK to stay for a year or two and help with our baby. We already submitted a I-130 soon before the birth in December and are working on the I-485 now, but had some questions I was hoping this great community could assist with!

Her I-94 notes to admit until May, so I was not sure if that would be extended with the submittal/receipt of the I-485 or we also should submit a I-539? The long flight is a hardship for her so we'd rather she didn't have to go back and forth if possible. From looking at other forum posts, seems like the NOA for the I-485 should extend her visa until the petition is completed?

We also cancelled her return ticket since it was for late January since we realized we would need help longer than that. Would her not currently having a return ticket be an issue in this process? Wondering if we should book another return flight for her around the expiry of the I-94 to show our intent to follow the visa, or if that is not necessary if we are submitting the I-485. We'd like to do whatever we can to help the petition be successful. Any help is much appreciated!

Hello everyone, I m a US citizen. I applied 2 cases for my parents IR5. We are collecting documents in NVC stage. I and my husband are students, we don t have enough income to support my parents, so my sister in law will help with that, she is a single.
I wonder what kinds of form we should fill out for Affidavit of support. So I will fill out I-864 for me and another I-864 for my sister. My question is whether I need to fill out I-864A for my husband or not?
Please kindly share your experience!
I appreciate it!

We were so close to getting meeting the two year date for IR-1 I should have risked it and cancelled our Consulate interview. We had been waiting for the consulate to open in Vietnam while we were living there due to COVID so the I-130 took about 15 months total due to waiting for the interview. They closed the consulate for several months. While at least through that part of the immigration journey I was with my wife and understand that most of you were seperated from your spouses during COVID I was just getting tired of not being able to come back to the US. So, we took the November 1 2021 interview that was finally scheduled after witing since June or so. Had I left the country I wouldn't have been able to get back into Vietnam due to the border closing to all but VN citizens. We got my wife and daughter's medicals done before that interview on October 19, so when we had the interview the CR-1 visa was only good until April 19 2022. Our two year anniversary was April 28, 2022. Had I known how long it takes for ROC after the two year green card I definitely would have risked cancelling the interview even if the reschedule would have been even two or three months later. We had already planned on moving to the US, getting citizenship and then moving back to Vietnam. Now I see that naturalizaitons are being held up because they can't seem to get I-751's processed in a timely manner. I do wish I would have held out for the IR-1. Or, I had heard from others that we should have gone to the interview without the medical done, taken the interview, got an RFE for the medical and waited a bit and then turned in the medical which would have gotten us to be able to use the November 1 date for the start of the six month visa which would have just barely got us past the two year date. But, I was concerned they might just turn us away for not having the medical and not let us interview.

Sorry, just a rant as I'm preparing my i-751 package.

Hello everyone I want to ask that I have married with my husband who is usc and now we are waiting for the marriage certificate to change the status to spouse visa and is it ok if I stop go to college and stop everything of study I am just transfer my Seattle College to talk school to study English and I need to pay money to have the new i20 to keep my status f1 but I have to do that because I want to be safe with my students status ( if I stop study with no new i20 is it bad for me in future of my green card thanks you everyone a lot

Hello all,

My fiance came to the US with the k1-visa, during her 90 day period she obtained her driver's license in Texas. The license expired when her Visa expired.

During that time we've submitted her I-485 paperwork and received NOA I-797 receipt back.

Can she use this to renew her license?

She has her social security card as well

If not, what paperwork will I need for her to renew her Texas Driver's License?