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Thanks! I will make sure to use priority mail for returning the GC, great tip, thanks! We don't have any travel plans or need for proof for permanent resident for now but we will definitely use the passport stamp if needed. Also, can i make info pass appointment in case passport stamp expires and proof of permanent resident is needed? Or i90 receipt together with color copy of 2 year GC is good enough?

Yes i made a digital and hard copy of the 2 year green card. Both color copies. I still don't understand how USCIS can get it wrong and won't follow their manual. I called USCIS 2 times and spoke to a level 2 officer before paying for the green card and before the Green Card showed as produced and i though for a moment that perhaps we will be getting the right green card but not, 2 year GC was sent out to us :(

Yes, i read the instructions as well and i guess the best way to do this is to file by regular mail and send the GC along with it. That's why i asked if there was a benefit in filling online and wait for the RFE. Thanks again for your response. I guess getting my wife state ID was a smart move, since we will be returning her green card soon.

Hi, Thank you for the response. Can you please tell me more about not sending the actual physical green card when filling i90? I was about to send the physical 2 year green card along with a cover letter explaining that my wife had her consular interview just few days before our 2 year marriage celebration, therefor her immigrant visa showed as CR1 but she entered the United States with her immigrant visa about 1 month after our 2 year marriage. I already took my wife to a local motor vehicle and applied for state ID, my wife does not have a need to travel in the future, even if she does, i guess she can still use her passport stamp that serves as 1 year resident. Other than that, do you think is better to file i90 online and keep the 2 year gc until they send a RFE? Thanks

Just quick update regarding my wife's green card. Today after 6 weeks of waiting for the green card to arrive we finally received. And guess what? We received the 2 year green card instead of the 10 year green card, even though my wife arrived to the USA 1 month after our 2 year marriage. Looks like USCIS is still making mistakes and they still follow whatever the CBP (port of entry) writes upon arrival to the united states. In this case, CBP did not want to listen to us and decided to process my wife as conditional resident, instead of permanent resident. I guess my only option now is to file for i90, correct? Can i expedite this i90 process? I already took my wife to local motor vehicle and apply for a state ID because we will be returning this green card soon.

CRBA should be pretty quick if you have all the evidence and paperwork they ask for. I don't know about other countries but I did my child CRBA in Peru and all was done under 4 weeks since the date of appointment until receiving child US Passport. I did my child's CRBA after one month of birth, perhaps this somehow helped the case. As previously said by other members here, 6 months (immigrant visa validity) should be more than enough to get the child CRBA if the child qualifies for it.

As others members said, the question is clear as crystal water. If you read the instructions for each form you will not be confusing at all. If you the US Citizen is petitioning for your parents or any other family member here in the United States or outside the United States, they are subject to the public charge, period. Why? Because they will be getting a green card and they are not US Citizens yet. Only US Citizens and other type of applicants such as vawa or asylee are not subject to the public charge. Will your mother have US Citizenship with this application? No Is your mother adjusting status through asylee or vawa? No. So that means she is subject to the public charge. Does it means that she will need public charge? No necessary, especially if you the us citizen or the sponsor (if you happen to have an sponsor) meet the income requirement. Only some petitions or applicants are not subject to the public charge, such as vawa and asylees applicants. Read the question carefully, the questions is simply asking whether your petition falls under the public charge category or not, in this case it does since is a family based petition, is not asking you if the applicant will be a public charge or if the applicant will need welfare because if you or your family meet the necessary income than there is no public charge or walfare need here. The correct answer here would be Yes for 61 and then answer the rest for the household members and income requirements. 👋

I will correct myself here but I won't delete my original response in case the info is useful for other people. I completely misunderstood your situation, looks like your wife does not have her visa yet and your child was already born. To answer your question, if you are completely sure that your child does not qualify for a CRBA then the best option will be to file for IR2 (the regular i130 form) and try to expedite it, someone with more experience can guide you regarding this in case is possible to expedite. Original response: Does your wife already has her immigrant visa with her? Physically? If so, was the visa issued the same, before or after the child was born? I believe If the visa was issued before the child was born then you should be able to bring your wife and your kid, the infant can travel without a visa. Just make sure to bring your child birth certificate at the port of entry here in the US. Also, I don't think the interview date is important, what matters is the date of the visa was issued, sometimes or many times the visas are issued days after the actual interview date.

Part 3, Family member 1 and 2 should be empty. Family 2: Your step child should have her or his own i864 form. No need to include it in this part of the form. Your step child is not a derivate from your wife's immigrant visa application. (apply the same rule and logic for your step child i864 form). Family 1: Your wife is already included in Part 2, so no need to include it again in part 3.

Like others already replied, don't enter anything in Part 3. Part 3 is about information regarding the immigrant that you the sponsor will be sponsoring and this should be only your wife (already named in part 2) not your step child since your step child is not a derivate beneficiary of your wife's immigrant visa application. Read the instructions before filling up the i864 form, you don't want to re submit it and get it wrong again, this will delay your wife's case at NVC. Take your time to learn, read and look for help if necessary. Good luck.

If you filed i130 for each of them and i864 for each of them then the only thing that could be wrong is what they marked. Part 3 question 2. It should be empty since your stepchild is not a derivate beneficiary.

I forgot to add that if you are the only sponsor for your wife and step child, make sure you financially qualify (i864) for both of them.

The petition you filed for your wife is a i130 petition (immediate relativd petition or category ), meaning that no derivate beneficiaries are available for this type of petition. In simple words, your step child is not a derivate beneficiary, the embassy in Bolivia wants a separate i864 form for your step child. Also, did you filed a separate i130 form for your step child as well? Your step child needs her or his needs own immigrant visa application. Part 3, question 2 should be empty since you need to file a separate petition and a separate i864 (financial form) for your step child.

With all the respect I was just given my personal opinion, I do apologize if my opinion was wrong or misinformed, it was never my intention at all. I will carefully review my opinion from now on before posting a comment again. Thanks!

Even if you believe your husband does not have a copy of his citizenship, perhaps he does. Keep looking, maybe there is a digital copy. This happened to me before, I was pretty sure I did not have any copies of my citizenship and after looking carefully I found one but to my surprise at the end I was never asked for proof of citizenship, officer had everything already in the system, so Iesson learned, don't stress too much for things that are perhaps more simple than you think. Current US Passport is a solid proof of US citizenship and should be enough if asked for, even the passport card is proof of citizenship, although for unknown reason (maybe somebody can instruct me here) there are certain situation where an officer requires to see the actual citizenship certificate, especially when you are a naturalized citizen. Good luck 👋

Just make sure to file correctly the joint sponsor part, the i864. If I were you, I will look into a US Citizen to be the joint sponsor instead of a green card holder. Especially when the Green Card holder just arrived to the country and was also sponsored by someone else. Also, make sure the joint sponsor does not currently lives in your household, otherwise you need to submit another form, I believe is the form i864A Good luck and keep us posted.

How about if he means that he will be working for a Canadian base company from where he holds citizenship? Or perhaps he has his own online business also based in Canada?. Does he still need a work permit from the US in order to work remotely while been abroad? The reason why I am asking this is because I see many Americans who travel abroad doing this, they keep their business in the US and keep working remotely from other countries while on long vacation, some of them even stay abroad for several months or years.

I will wait and see if others can advice here. I am happy this great community exists to help people. 👋

Thanks for the quick reply, I was actually thinking the same, going to the CBP and make the correction there won't make any difference but I read in other places that it needs to be corrected by CBP at the local deferred inspection before the GC is produced by USCIS. I don't know what to do. I don't want to pay for the GC and get the 2 year GC by mistake and then file for i90, I was trying to avoid this path since is a long wait.

Just bringing this up to see any replies or advices regarding my wife's CR1 stamp upon entry to the United States after 2 years of marriage, I was thinking about going to a local deferred inspection and see if they can correct the stamp before paying for the Green Card production, should I go this path first? Or pay first and then wait for the green card to arrive and if is the 2 year GC just file the i90. Any advice helps 👋

Also, forgot to mention my point of my view for the downsize of the i864ez that I could think of. There is no really any downsize except that I believe uscis is so used to the regular i864 that they may have a hard time when they see a i864ez application.

Hello there, I am pretty sure there are more people here with more knowledge and experience about this but I will suggest you to stick with the regular i864, even if you qualify for the i864ez. The i864ez is a short and simple version of the i864, for those who qualify for. Example, use i864ez if the petitioner is the only sponsor and his job is the only source of income, also use the i864ez only if you the beficiary is the only family who will be immigrating to the US with no other derivatives. Hopefully this info helps.

I would like to thank again all of you who responded to my thread here, all responses were carefully taken into consideration and helped me prepare for this immigration journey. My wife had her consulate interview abroad several weeks ago and no questions were asked about what was worrying me the most here, the public charge. She is finally here in the United States with my US Citizen Child. The officer at the interview was straight forward and was focusing more on the bona fide marriage and making sure all the paperwork was filled correctly. My advice to those in a similar situation is to make sure to fill out the right paper work, have enough proof for your bona fide marriage and don't be afraid to file a petition for your spouse or other family member even if you believe you won't income qualify, that is what the co sponsor is for. Also, upon entry the United States, my wife was stamp under CR1 category even though I instead the CBP officer to stamp IR1 instead since my wife arrived weeks later after our 2 year anniversary (marriage) but the officer refused and I did not want to push it. My wife immigrant visa was printed as CR1 because her immigrant visa interview was scheduled couple days before our 2 year marriage. I was doing my research and I see that I can easily correct this by filling i90 after we get the Green Card with the wrong classified category, but I would like to fix this ahead of time before paying for the Green Card to be mail with the wrong category. What do you guys recommend? Should I wait for the GC to arrive and see if is CR1 or IR1? I believe is going to be CR1 even though others recommend to wait and see what USCIS mails. Can I fix this at my local Deferred inspection site? I tried making an info pass appointment but the site won't let me, I tried calling USCIS but the wait time is too long. Any advice? I don't want to deal with a a removal condition status just because a CBP officer is not well prepared for their task, she even said that a CR1 is a better green card then IR1. 😏

Just in case I uploaded a copy of my child us citizenship status for the NVC's convience. I was also able to obtain a better copy of my the birth certificate. Hopefully everything works! I will keep you updated and once again thank you for your time and help!

Thanks I Wil leave this alone. The question was: Is this child also immigrating to the United States? We answered YES because if we answered NO, the next question was: Date in which this child is planning to immigrate to the United States? There was no option in the DS-260 application to enter our child citizenship status or whether the child has his or her own petition, that is why we decided to answer YES to this question, at the NVC interview I will advice my wife to have our kid's documentation just in case they ask for it.