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pushbrk

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  1. Time for "her", the US Citizen to start doing HER own homework. He can't do anything himself. She must start the process, and best they marry first.
  2. Icing on the cake would be a trip back to your home town alone, to pre-enroll your children for school next year. Check with the school district first. The children need not go with you for this.
  3. A moderator will be along soon, to move this to the correct forum. It's not a visa case.
  4. OK. The OP does mention filing the I-130. Good. This is not a spouse visa case though. It is still adjusting status.
  5. I don't see it mentioned above, but when you marry after the 90 days, you must also file an I-130.
  6. As long as her B1 visa is still valid, there should be no reason she can't leave with you and fly back for her interview, unless the overlap will be too long. It shouldn't be. She's not moving to the USA at that time though. It's you who is relocating. She's coming for a visit and going back for her immigrant visa interview.
  7. The interview is about your marital relationship and whether it is bona fide. (Genuine) Lots of information here about interviews. The simpler and least expensive option to deal with your issue of a three year ban, is to arrange for the interview to occur after that date. You do not have a timeline, so we have no clue where your case is in the pipeline. Has the petition been approved? If so, when? Are you Documentarily Qualified at NVC? If not, have you made the payments and submitted civil documents and affidavit of support?
  8. It's not "tricky". It is what it is. Current income is the king here. State each income by taking the gross pay, for a full pay period times the number of pay periods in a whole year, so times 12, 26, 24, or 52. The form will combine those incomes automatically once entered. You do not have to qualify with any past year's income. Document the current income with a copy of each latest pay stub. You will get a case note that everybody whose last tax return doesn't show qualifying income. Just ignore the notice, and expect success at interview.
  9. If you want to be absolutely sure, file by paper and mail instead. You can also refer to the final section of the form where you can type the address in full, in the appropriate format.
  10. Your plan of documenting your assets is perfectly fine. You do not need to involve and obligate a joint sponsor now, for the visa, or later when sponsoring the adjustment of status. Finding, using, and obligating a joint sponsor, when you are a financially independent adult, is far easier to type, than to do. You're fine. Carry on.
  11. Just don't make the mistake of calling your short visits "periods of residency". They need not be mentioned at all.
  12. Terminology is King here. The US Citizen "files a petition" to start the process. When that petition is approved, the foreign spouse is invited to apply for a visa. Start with the US Citizen becoming an A-Student of the I-130 instructions, a separate downloadable PDF file. You can file online or not, but study of the form PDF....AND.....the instruction PDF, will be critical to your ultimate success. Using the correct terminology is critical to everybody's success, and critical for "helpers" too.
  13. You can use the public inquiry form and ask them to re-open it. Tell them why.
  14. There's an issue with the quality of the biometrics on file. No worries.
  15. Since this is a hypothetical, the above certainly is not. Fortunately, most immigrant spouses will never hear or know of any law firm like you mentioned. It's certainly possible, but if they are going to work, most likely any divorce will be about the same result as with a non-immigrant.
  16. There's a place to upload supporting documents for the I-864. If you didn't already upload it, do it now.
  17. If the foreign spouse never becomes a US Citizen and never gains 40 quarters of Social Security, the obligation is ongoing for life, unless they leave the USA. "Life" meaning it ends when the first of you dies.
  18. Nothing you can do but tell the truth. I would not expect a problem though. Evidently you were unaware, Canadians are limited to a six month stay, AND must be outside the USA more than they are inside. Keeping her ties DID make it possible to travel back and forth, but she didn't do enough of the "back" part of the back and forth.
  19. You got a stock notice everybody whose latest tax return doesn't show qualifying income. Just ignore it and carry on.
  20. They say it's "paid". That means they accepted the payment. Carry on.
  21. If your VA disability income is clearly sufficient, this notice about you income can simply be ignored, if the income is sufficient. You got the notice based on your tax return or no tax return, because you income is not taxable. The income issue will not prevent you being DQ, but you'll need to deal with the birth certificate issue to move forward. Do you have that sorted out.
  22. Your email instructs you to login to ceac and gives you the login credentials needed. Follow those instruction. You'll be paying fees, uploading documents and completing a visa application. The Greetings from NVC contains links and instructions. Use them.
  23. In the USA, you can go by any name you want, as long as it isn't to commit fraud. I used my stepfather's family name for a few years while still in elementary and junior high school. It was a bit tricky to get my school records changed after a divorce, but no big deal. If your wife who is now Mrs. Jones, wants to introduce herself as Mrs. Smith, there is no harm in that, but her ID will be in her legal name. My Chinese ex wife never changed her name, because it was not her custom to do so. Many people thought of her as Mrs. Pushbrk. No harm in that either.
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