US Immigration from Vietnam

Hi guys. I'm in a tough situation like many of you here. My OPT is expiring in Jan 2023. I have a STEM degree, but my employer (Walgreens) is not willing to fill out I-983 training plan for me as a part of STEM OPT application. I'm trying to fight this and convince them to fill out the form.

However, it seems like the best bet for me is to expedite the pending AOS EAD (F2A). I've submitted an expedited request with the reason of job loss and not being able to pay rent, insurance, and e.t.c. Is this convincing enough for my request to be approved? I'm also thinking to ask for help from my congressman if my attempts don't succeed.

This is a long shot but has anyone here worked for Walgreens and applied for STEM OPT through them?

Is there anything else I can do to salvage my situation? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

My wife submitted her I-751 in August 2020. It went to the Potomac Service Center. Her biometrics were reused in December 2020 and her case was moved to NBC "to speed processing" in December 2021. There had been no case updates until today, when the most recent online status changed to "Case was updated to show fingerprints were taken" again. Does this mean someone is actually - finally - looking at the application? Has anyone else had this status update showing a second biometrics reuse on the same application?

Thanks - Jason

Hi, guys. My mum was approved IR5-visa with I-551evidencing permanent resident for 1 year. Do you know when I will need to renew her visa? 90 days before expiry date?

And the form to apply is I-90? After that, how long will her new green card be valid for? (like 10 years?) Any condition beside not going overseas outside the US for more than 6 months?

Thank you so much!!!

Hi,

Just as the title suggests, do we send originals of Affidavits or photocopies to USCIS? This is in response to an I-485 RFE we recently received. Family attestations about our shared marital life together. The RFE itself makes no mention of requiring originals, but some Googling has us questioning ourselves.

Thank you.

Hi all,

My wife and I recently received an RFE requesting our marriage certificate and 'evidence of shared marital life' and beginning from March 27 2021 (day we got married) to present.

First, is the wording of their request the same as them suggesting and asking for evidence of a bona fide relationship/marriage?

Second, I'm really concerned we may not have strong enough evidence to submit. That's because between March 2021 to present, we've really just been homebodies (that's why we match so well too) not only due to the pandemic, but also because I work so much from home and my wife works FT hours when I am off work, and we honestly have very few friends.

We don't have joint financial accounts as the banks we looked into need her to be a permanent resident. She does have an SSN, work authorization card, and got her biometrics done, etc.

What we do have, includes:

- Both of us are on our apartment lease agreements for June 2021 to June 2022, and another one from June 2022 to present.

- She's on my employer based health care plan, that includes medical, dental, life insurance and is my 401K beneficiary.

- Notarized Affidavit from my father whom we lived with him and my mom from March 2021 until our first day at our new place attesting he was a witness to our court marriage ceremony and that we dined out together, played games, watched movies, helped them around the house, etc..

- Flight receipt for our trip to Georgia to see my sister in 2021.

- A dozen photos but they're of just her and me mostly (and our dog) as I mentioned us not having many friends. There's a few that my parents took at our court wedding ceremony along with the judge that married us as well and her and I with my parents. (Ceremony video recorded as well). It was just me, my wife and our two witnesses were my parents). Middle of Covid spike.

- Joint utilities, joint electric, joint cell phone bills.

- A single credit card statement with both our names.

- Her bank account statement, highlighting her payments for some of our utilities.

- My bank account statement showing me paying for our apartment.

- My driver's license and her driver's permit ID.

Last, should I write a cover letter and a letter of explanation as to why we don't have so much?

What are your thoughts?

Thank you immensely.