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This is completely inaccurate. I might suggest this may be an excellent case for Jim Hacking and perhaps he could give you the logical confidence in the perfectly reasonable and accurate information that has already been provided here on this forum.

The length of time for a K1 whether it is 15, 30, or 90 days is given, I would assume so that the couple that get affairs in order or even plan a wedding. Still, such visas are not a try before buying visas, as you write a letter of intent swearing to the fact that you WILL marry. That of course doesn't mean that things happen and you don't end up marrying... but it is strange to me that people are not intending to marry that aren't serious or committed to their relationships and hinge it on whether they like winter weather or not. It is a big thing to ask someone to upend their entire lives and move to a different country with them - thoughts of winter weather should be rather irrelevant. For any relationship one should be marrying for love and commitment. Marrying later can create issues for the long term, in regards to getting an SSN and obtaining healthcare, getting a DL/ID, and getting in line for AOS/EAD. Marrying sooner protects the immigrant and enables the process to go smoothly. But I would never recommend marrying or even doing a K1 process, if both parties are not sure to begin with. Immigration is hard. Marriage is hard. The insurance you're referencing and that do exist though I'm not familiar with a said UH plan, is a type of ''temporary immigrant insurance" these are not ACA (Obamacare compliant) and you will find coverage dubious at best. Still, some like the ''peace of mind". What is the actual name/type of plan?

Your passport, DL anything will do. But more specifically, you could go to the DMV and get a US ID. Do you have an SSN yet, or your EAD?

My husband says this is an example of what happens when bad IT guys push half-arsed updates to production instead of taking proper precautions first.

As I stated earlier a K1 is eligible for an SSN as soon as they arrive. You could go today and get one if you'd like and I'd strongly recommend that.

I asked my tech guy, and he says "they don't have adobe acrobat reader do they? that's the likely problem. if not chuck the Mac out the window."😋 You came on a K1 and that means you can obtain an SSN within days after arrival. Unfortunately if it's after the 90 days you'd now have to wait. We usually advise people to get the SSN as soon as possible as it's important for health insurance purposes. We went to the SSA the same day we went to the clerk to apply for a marriage license, about a week or so after he arrived, and then followed up at the bank when the card arrived.

I see BofA put you through the same thing that Chase did to us. We just gave up too. The reps were obnoxious and barely literate on the phone it felt like a giant runaround scam. My husband had a secured card when just starting out and moved to a full card not long after, with excellent credit, he makes a decent living, and in good standing with the local bank I'm glad they were willing to give us a chance at least.

I found it kind of funny earlier this year when we wanted to apply for a new credit card at one of the big companies. My husband has a nearly perfect credit score and never had any trouble before, but after applying the company seemed to have some sort of problem that we couldn't quite figure out, and after a few odd phone calls we felt really uncomfortable proceeding any further because it seemed very discriminatory if not shady. So I called our local bank about applying for a card and came in for an appointment and were approved within a day. These days it seems an excellent score isn't the deciding factor.

Well, how do you plan on obtaining her health insurance? Does she work? Does she plan on working? Does she drive? Where will she live? Do you have the ability to sponsor her with no issues? Is your mother okay with being stuck in the US for potentially quite a long while until documents come through? Where was she living in the UK? I mean does she not have a home and bills to pay? The tax implications? Green cards are for living in the US, so is she comfortable with leaving her home country, family, or friends on a fairly permanent basis?

Insurance generally follows the car and not the driver, but there can be some insurances that limit permissive use clauses and require the driver to be listed on the owner's policy. Call and speak to your insurance provider. https://www.marketwatch.com/guides/insurance-services/does-car-insurance-follow-the-vehicle-or-driver/ https://wallethub.com/answers/ci/does-insurance-follow-the-car-or-the-driver-in-michigan-1000143-2140706080/#:~:text=Car insurance usually follows the,the driver%2C unlike liability coverage. For my state as a new driver in the US, my husband was allowed to use my dad's old vehicle which is under his insurance. We were struck by a driver that was using an insured vehicle, and was using it without the owner's authorization. The owner's insurance paid out damages for the car and for injuries. For regulations involving obtaining a learners permit, it will depend on if your spouse has ever driven in their own country with a license before? In these cases, you can often skip the learning process and move straight to testing. If they have never driven before, then you'd be starting from scratch. Make sure when the 10yr green card is received , or when/if citizenship you return to the DMV to update your status.

If you previously had a 1 or 2 dose series of a vaccine, you are covered. A booster is a seasonal vaccine for your own health. USCIS covers this answer as follows: What I'm saying is if you already had two doses previously, then your vaccination sheet DS3025 should be marked as complete. An additional dose is not necessary for immigration purposes. You'll see above that the USCIS mentions I-693 which is not needed for adjusting K1s that have had their exam abroad that is complete. You will photocopy the DS3025 you received from Knightsbridge and add it to your AOS packet in an effort to show your compliance with the rules. If you were not marked complete, or were missing vaccines, then you would need to go to complete them, see a US civil surgeon, and complete the I-693. Sometimes the USCIS will mess up and require a K1 adjusting applicant to go anyway. You said you received two COVID vaccines previously, so the Knightsbridge doctor should have marked that on the DS3025.

If you had your medical last week, was all the vaccines marked as complete? If you have received everything required, and it is marked as complete, then there is no need to receive anything more for AOS purposes and no further civil surgeon is required. If you wish to receive more vaccines for your own personal health benefit, that's fine. The best way is always to ensure you have all vaccines required either before your UK civil surgeon visit, or during that visit.

Happy to say that we've finally got our trip booked for the UK. Still a high fee and a long layover but it was certainly cheaper than going in September. Unfortunately means he will miss his event, but it is what it is. I will be so happy to see the seaside again.

I think the amount of yelling I did and complaints I filed were sufficient. They are barely literate at that post office We once had cards, letters, and packages from the UK go missing via our post office a year. Eventually we discovered someone in the development had been receiving them and was tired of taking it back to the post office (we'd never receive them anyway) so they walked over and handed us a pile. When we questioned our mail carrier, he stated that he knew that person was British so any item regardless of address he'd just assume it was theirs. We said hey did you ever think there might be multiple British people in one area and maybe you should read the address? 😬 Last week there was a letter addressed to my mom. When I say letter, it literally was a letter, no envelope. It was just the letter contents. Four days later the rest of the contents of the envelope and a separate opened envelope with an audiobook cd (crushed) arrive in a Ziploc baggy with a sticker from the post office apologizing. It is terrifying that the state department wants us to send our most important documents through the mail or even has to handle passports in the first place. I paid extra for his UK passport to be handled by courier just so that our post office would never get their hands on it. It's always a relief to hear that people get their stuff back in one piece!

No. Thankfully whomever received the documents were honest and sent them back to the post office. After giving them a piece of my mind and catching them in a lie, they ran someone back over to our house. We put the certificate under some heavy objects for a month to smooth it out.

Hard to say. My husband's certificate (crumpled) arrived a week after his passport - but the postal service delivered both items to the wrong house and let me tell you there was one angry wife on the phone getting that mess sorted out.

To update: A breakthrough on this case, Rachel's rapist and murderer was arrested outside a Tulsa, OK bar. Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador was finally captured, because of the diligent efforts of detectives and the Baltimore FBI that managed to match his DNA from the crime scene to a genetic ancestry match. The CBP also knew that the suspect crossed the border and was removed at least three times. The 23 year old Hernandez, was on the run from murdering another woman in El Salvador, had ties to gangs in MD, and is the suspect in several other cases, including the sexual assault of a child and her mother. We will extradite him as soon as possible. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/rachel-morin-immigrant-killer-dna-LVJ6OYR6IVALVPU5M2BSCW7DWM/

BA doesn't apply that sale to Baltimore based flights for a variety of reasons, so I tried seeing what other flights we could make with connections, still nothing. With our travel points and card we can get a meager discount. One of the sticking points with BA is the enormous taxes and fees they charge on top of the price, and now with the new plane scheme, any money we might save then get sucked up by either paying for baggage, additional connections, or paying to hold our seat so we don't get bumped. Yes we are looking at October now and hopefully that will be more doable. I remember when he came here on his K1, he flew all pampered in business class with discounts and points and spent about the price of an economy ticket. Now it's just crazy. Who are these people paying for these seats? I can't think of a poor person or a business person that would even be interested in paying this much.

If I had picked the dates he wanted it would have been an $8000 trip and a majority of that would be on airfare. I see that once they changed the planes over to dreamliners, they are attempting to herd everyone in like cattle. Our old economy seats are tiny and don't even allow for baggage on a long haul international flight is mind-boggling to me. Limited availability and space for upgraded seats with baggage means they can jack up the price and everyone fights over the seats. But wait, they are then making you pay for choosing the seat, and if you don't then you don't get a seat at all. Even if I get this later in the year I can maybe get it to $4-5k for everything. For one week though it's making me want to run away screaming.

A small rant. We'd like to go visit the UK. In-laws not in best health, need to check on them as best we can. Unfortunately due to work it can only be a week, so a week is better than nothing. He told me to check into this earlier this year, and I said unless we become suddenly made of money the prices were not doable, it would be better to go late in the year. He stewed. I said, well, I don't want to get everyone's hopes up, so please don't say it's anything definite. (Guess what, they thought it was definite). Now into spring, he told me he had signed on to some event in the UK, at a specific date and time in the summer, and that he was sure we could definitely make it and cram that into that week timeframe, even better we'd come in a day early and knock on their door and surprise them all. I told him he was nuts (visions of his mom in her bathrobe and rollers totally unprepared going "what the bloody hell is this?!"), and once again he'd need to check out the prices because I wasn't going to make such a hefty purchase without his approval and that by committing to something in that timeframe meant too many things could go wrong and the price was increasing. Whelp, I was quite right, and by the time he looked into it not only are the prices ridiculous, but there is a) a lack of hotels which would then require more expensive hotels and rental cars b) a lack of seats on the plane to sit on and a c) a 6hr Heathrow layover. Keep in mind I hate plane travel and have a great deal of anxiety, but was willing to work with him until he compounded the problem and delayed so long. Eventually I just broke down crying. We've spreadsheeted and budgeted, but there's just no getting around the cost, lack of hotels, lack of seating on the plane. I even went and looked at other flights and various convoluted ways of getting there within his wanted dates and it was a no go. I am crushed, and his parents will be crushed. He said everything was so much more simple in 2015, I laughed and said we're a long way from that time. But he is right in a way, a long time even before 2015 we were both very accustomed to flying, the prices were not that inflated, and they weren't nickel and diming you, there wasn't a pandemic. Today he tells me it's okay, he'll have to skip his event, perhaps we can just try in the fall.... the very time I said it would likely be more doable and affordable when I first looked into it and I could have booked it long ago..... Bless him, my husband is a man of big ideas and ambition, but not this time. My anxiety has been through the roof, and now we're still going to disappoint his parents when I clarify no we really aren't coming at the date you thought we were that was not definite at all. Hopefully I can smooth it over with later this year, provided he gets no crazy ideas.

Even a king size bed isn't enough for this dog!

It's always amazing to me how such a tiny dog can take up so much room in a bed. 🤣

If there are important mail pieces you need sent to the US, like bank info, student loans, pension documents etc then you'd need to contact each entity in the UK and change your address. You can also pay a fee to royal mail for forwarding. Please keep in mind that any correspondence sent from the UK to the US is going to take a very long time to arrive, and unfortunately may be lost in my experience, so if there is anything financially important try to have something set up online where you can monitor it from there.

Transferring money isn't particularly difficult, and there's a variety of ways to do it by using different services. Back in the day we used paypal or direct bank transfers, though at the time I was questioned rather aggressively by the bank about it. That was a modest amount of money, and because you're looking to transfer something large you'll likely need better advice. For taxes, t's going to be advisable to speak to a CPA, especially one that is familiar with UK/US regulations. Your fiance pays taxes, right? They should have some understanding of how the process works. Since you will be marrying and a resident for tax purposes, you can file married filing jointly if that is best for your situation. There is no harm in keeping a UK account open, though ensure that UK bank won't give you a hassle about it. My husband had two, and eventually closed (and that was a real pain) one because they kicked off about him living in the US. The other bank is perfectly fine with it. It's helpful if you still have student loans in the UK, or any other financial responsibilities abroad, or even for visits back home. When you leave the UK, please remember to notify the HMRC via a P85. Chances are, you'll get some money back.

I don't think it has anything to do with the health of a relationship. Personally I sleep better next to my husband and vice versa. But we also have a dog sandwiched between us. I would say the dog is the biggest disrupter of sleep by far.