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Being a widow or married isn’t the issue. She is a permanent resident for life unless she abandons the green card. Even if her husband were alive she would be in the same boat-if she’s been out of the US for years, they will consider her to have abandoned her green card unfortunately.

I thought you were in removing conditions, but I think she can try to adjust status on her own. Also uphill since she is getting a marriage based green card and is not in a bona fide marriage

If she’s just now removing conditions and you’re not divorced-well, she’s in a bad position if you don’t cooperate. She has to be divorced to do it on her own. Do what you want with that info. You are just theoretically responsible for her having a place to be to not require government assistance. If she ran off with a broke dude, she made the choice

I don’t think you can technically divorce if you weren’t legally married. It should be annulled though.

I think the entry stamp can be worked around as they will use their own information and they have record of her arrival. If it’s requested as a document in AOS, I would write a cover letter explaining it. I don’t think they would hold everything up to make you provide information that they already have

One instruction is to contact the embassy that processed the visa, though it doesn’t really say what happens there. The only thing is if she has already arrived and her info is in the system, you may not need to provide a physical passport to adjust status at this point. I didn’t go through that process so I may be wrong-but they already have it digitally and you have pictures of it. The green card doesn’t depend on a physical passport. From there, options don’t look super convenient -cross to Mexico by land and get a new passport at an embassy there as she can cross back with a green card alone (by land, not air). Or wait three years and apply for citizenship and get a US passport. That’s assuming contacting the embassy that did her visa won’t help.

It’s not mandatory at all. It won’t affect anything.

The senior plan is for those who qualify for Medicare. It would be subsidized by Medicare enrollment, which wouldn’t make it an option.

Glad it ended well in the end. The N400 for my husband was pretty upbeat and friendly. When we went for the interview to remove conditions, he seemed very gruff at first. We settled in for a lot of grilling. But he just said, “you’re good. You’re approved.” Then he complimented us on the the good documentation. It is funny how they can shift personality so quickly

They really only care about the outbound ticket for visitors, not immigrants. In our experience there was not a question about the ticket type, and I don’t know of anyone else that’s been asked. It’s not unusual for someone to arrive to activate their visa and return to finish up loose ends in their home country. With the visa, your spouse can travel in and out again so I don’t see a problem or a reason it would be looked at.

I don’t like LAX-the non-citizens line is very slow.

We are a same sex couple in a country that doesn’t recognize the marriage and isn’t particularly gay-friendly. It was not brought up at all. They asked when we first met, got married and a few other things that would be asked of any couple. It was fine.