Technicalglitch

That's what my husband is saying ... but good points that Pushbrk and OldUser made that it's used for other things too, I didn't realize that. We'll look into it. It's only money I guess, what's a few hundred here and there (yikes!).

Luckily I won't need the EAD this time, I took early retirement (I may work again in the future but it's no rush). What we are thinking right now is that we will stay on the I-485 route, cancel our return to Canada for now and apply for the Advance Parole so that we can make trips home to Canada at some point while the I-485 is pending, since it's a 17 month wait supposedly in Vegas. If anyone sees flaws in that plan please let me know, we are all ears, and very much appreciate all the advice and tips we are getting here. It sucks that applying for advance parole is over $600 now. It was free when I had to request it for work reasons while on the K-3 10 years ago.

Does anyone know how long Consular processing takes compared to the I-485? (We're coming from Canada).

Are we supposed to tell them about the spousal immigration application being in progress without being asked when we cross the border? We haven't mentioned it on previous crossings (have crossed border 6 times since first applying), and they haven't asked us. Or just if they ask us?

If we switch to Consular processing, can we continue to visit the USA during the process? That might work better for us with I-485 processing being so slow, although advance parole would work too I guess.

How do we find that out? We are in Las Vegas. The Phoenix office gives 13.5 months processing for 80% of cases. OK, I just checked for the Las Vegas office and it's 17 months, sigh.

He says the mailing office for submitting is in Arizona, so I guess that indicates the field office? We have nothing else that indicates that.

I think he thought he had the choice of wanting to do it from the US once the I-130 was approved, I remember being personally uncertain on that point though. We submitted before we bought the house here in the US, although we did that soon after as his understanding of the process was that it was required or very helpful to already have the american domicile on his part.

How long does the I-485 adjustment of status take? We just worry about leaving our house there vacant for an extended period. Husband's family is all in the US and I have no kids, the rest of my family can come visit me if they miss me, ha!

Yes, it seems to be a catch-22. I entered legally with no intention of staying permanently until the process is complete, but the process is chugging along while we happen to be here on a visit, we have always visited the US while living in Canada. We didn't realize the process was going to slow down so much when we applied in August of 2023, when it said I-130's were taking 7 months or so at that time.

We are currently inside the US, on an extended visit. We own a house here now so we could stay and do the I-485 from here if that is better, we just weren't planning on it. We're fairly clueless relative to a lot of the applicants, all these I-numbers are a foreign language to us.

Should we submit an I-131 along with the I-485? What is the I-765? (Thanks for the speedy replies, you type very fast! :-D )

I just asked my husband and he says adjustment of status.

Do we have the option of staying here and doing it here? I entered as a visitor on this trip. Is advance parole an option while waiting for an I-485 to be approved? Thanks for the tips you are giving me, it's helpful.

Do you mean that I cannot leave the US at all after I-485 is submitted, or that I can leave but absences need to be less than 6 months? I remember with the K-3 visa I needed advance parole (which I applied for and got as I still did contract work in Canada back then). I know that I can't work in the USA until I get work authorization or green card.

My husband and I are a bit confused about next steps. Our I-130 was approved a few days ago, and we got the electronic notice yesterday. I'm the beneficiary. I previously had a conditional green card in 2015, but it expired in 2017 before renewing as we had relocated to Canada so we are doing the process again. I already have a US social security number. We have been married over 10 years now. The message we got told us to submit the I-485, so we are working on that. But will we get an official I-797 in the mail as an acceptance? Also, our I-130 happened to finally get approved while we are on a 2.5 month visit to the USA, we are here for 6 more weeks. So for our current address we have put our American address (we own the house, we bought it last year when we decided to relocate back to the States, and we visit for less than 6 months per year currently), and we put our Canadian address (we still own it and live there as our primary residence) as our second/previous address. Is that the correct way to do it? Thanks for any tips or advice on this next stage of the process. I've found some online info but it doesn't always seem to match up with what we are holding in our hands. Also, wishing those of you who are living apart from your spouses during the application the best of luck for fast processing and approval. It's so very slow right now.

I'm Canadian (I-130 just got approved) and I visited the USA with my American spouse 6 times while it was pending, no problems. The last time we entered we had an ornery border agent but didn't really have a problem getting in, the agent was just making us suffer a bit (said we didn't act like we were married ... which makes me wonder what all the other couples are doing that we are not! I joked with my husband that we were probably too nice to each other, made her supsicious ...) Crossing alone will probably not be a problem for her either, I used to do it when waiting for my K3 (I'm doing the process for the second time, we lived in Canada for a few years), although the border agents were a little more difficult when I was crossing alone and would usually send me into secondary, before giving me a bogus lecture on something I hadn't done and sending me on my way.

We got our I-130 approval notice today, we were August 30 filers. Approval dated Nov. 22, so they kept us in suspense for the weekend.

Our filing date was August 30, 2023. Today we got a notice that our case is being actively reviewed. It says that estimated time until decision is 4 months (!), but I am guessing that is a canned reply that doesn't mean much, from what others on this forum have said? Fingers crossed that it's within the next few days.

We're August 30 too, nothing has budged for months. Fingers crossed that we will be approved by mid-November?