Mike E

You are not entitled to a 20 year green card. If your visa expires after your 2 year anniversary, you should have waited to enter the U.S. Perhaps the biometrics taken by the embassy or its contractor are not good enough for USCIS. Or perhaps CBP’s biometrics showed too high a deviation from the consular biometrics.

On the day you arrived in the U.S. on your CR-1, were you married for at least 2 years?

How old is she?

Yeah but as someone who doesn’t believe in an after life, it does bother me that civilization could permanently end and thus the species will go extinct after the next super volcanic eruption, or major asteroid / comet strikes. Reversing CO2 emissions is a bad idea.

As you can see from the above, we have reached peak temperature and reached trough ice volume. The next Ice Age is in fact due and we can only hope than man made CO2 and other man made green house gas emissions will delay it. I am not convinced current technology will be enough to allow civilization to survive the cooling when it inevitably comes. Certainly the recent ice storm that affect 47 of 50 states doesn’t give one much confidence. When the ice age comes, those ice storms will be the norm for weeks and then months on end during the winter. Summers will barely support crops. There is a reason why civilization is under 10,000 years old: civilization (which requires agriculture) wasn’t possible until it warmed up. Scientists don’t want to talk about this as it doesn’t fit the narrative. https://books.google.com/books?id=3D4vHo4nDtYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:"Peter+D.+Ward"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitlfP-ypv8AhUkHUQIHfPhA1cQ6wF6BAgJEAU#v=onepage&q&f=false is an exception

See:

Assuming the marriage isn’t salvageable (I assume so given the physical battery), * file for divorce this week * bring the divorce filing to the interview * request to amend your I-751 to an individual filing with divorce waiver * if you have a police report, consider also asking to check the abuse box on the amended I-751 You will get an RFE for the divorce decree. The RFE deadline should be automatically extended by an additional 60 days due to Covid, if the RFE is issued before January 24, 2023. Consider hiring an immigration lawyer. You also want a divorce lawyer to accelerate your divorce.

A decisive was made to reuse biometrics. The results of a quality review or a random selection over turned that decision.

Another slur. Welcome to the list. This will be my last reply to you. The INA act says assets can count in lieu of income at a rate of 5 to 1 of the minimum required income. So yes the law yes we should be treated differently based on net worth or income. When you get a job with USCIS, ICE, or CBP as an officer you can look it up. But then again if you had such a job you wouldn’t have difficulty producing an acceptable I-134 or I-864.

When your ancestors immigrated to America, did they keep their original name or did they AmericanIze it? If so, do you like it when people insist on using the name that is not on your U.S. birth certificate? As a person of 100 percent ethnic German, ancestry, I find your slur to be offensive. German immigrants were victims of bigotry and discrimination in this country and it appears to continue here on Visajourney. We changed our names. We gave up our language. It will never be enough for us to assimilate, will it? Assuming: 1. he filled out an I-864 for his wife’s parents (presumptuous given Melania Trump was a well paid model and it is likely she had sufficient income, even if just residuals) 2. he did an income based I-864 then he likely hired attorneys that understood the INA law better than you, me, and any consular officer, and thus showed his real income versus taxable income was enough per the INA law. Any consular officer with an incorrect understanding of INA would be corrected. If he did sign an I-864, I doubt it was income based. There are asset based I-864s and given he is a billionaire he would easily have had enough assets. Regardless he is a billionaire and based your posts you aren’t even a ten thousand-aire. You should not expect to be treated equally to him.

40 minutes total on average to process an I-129F, DS-160, medical, and interview? Nope. I will concede 2 staff hours to process a simple K-1 from I-129F to visa issuance. But some K-1s take 2 or more years to process due to security de-risking. If 99 percent take 2 hours and 1 percent take 200 person hours then that is: 300 * (2 * 99 + 200) / 100 = $1194 on average per K-1 There is no majority support among voters for watering down the security checks. Trust without verify ended after 9/11. The majority of voters think this process should be difficult. Fwiw (nothing) I don’t agree with that majority of voters, and fwiw (less than nothing) most of my political views are extreme right wing. I think the process should be streamlined for simple cases with clean documents and would like to see an “EZ” version of every form to address those cases. I also think it is time to retire K visas. This would streamline the process. They no longer serve any purpose in 99 percent of the cases and the 1 percent (K-1 with K-2s aged 18-20) could be addressed with a legislative tweak that grants derivatives to stepchildren under age 21, provided the couple married after the stepchild of a citizen reached age 18.

1. 4 months away, I’d say she is no longer living with you. Since she apparently is a U.S. citizen, doesn’t impact her. Might be a minor impact on your story for bonafide marriage. 2. Single money order. https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator confirms it is $680

Yes. Get ready for some contrarian advice. Get married this week or next using Utah County web marriage service. Meet up. Then cancel I-129F. File I-130 / I-130A. This will not let you start your lives together faster. It will however let your spouse work immediately upon arrival into the U.S. versus waiting 12 months or more employment authorization. If by some miracle I-129F is approved after you marry and before you meet in person, the K-1 path is still alive as long as you don’t meet. Hence my advice to not cancel I-129F until after you meet in person.

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Why I'm Glad Joe Biden Beat Donald Trump https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/why-im-glad-joe-biden-beat-donald As 2022 winds down and we approach the halfway point of President Biden's first term, it's probably a good time to talk about all the wonderful things he has done for the world and remind ourselves how bad it would have been if the election results had turned out differently in November 2020. Here are the top seven reasons why I'm very glad Joe Biden won that election instead of the evil, sinister Donald Trump. 1. Trump would have continued abusing immigrants and keeping kids in cages. Thank goodness that's over now … https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/why-im-glad-joe-biden-beat-donald

There are several publicly accessible databases that have your work history. The Work Number for example. The government already has the answers to most of the questions the N-400 form asks. N-400 is mostly a test of your character. There is no point in trying to hide anything. Secondarily the N-400 process is an opportunity to have you attest to material false statements. These can be used against you in the future if the government wants to get rid of you through denaturalization.

This is an unfortunately someway apt analogy: people who are nominally adults nonetheless think like 5 year olds and so think it is their right to my tax dollars despite me voting for a Congress that passed public charge laws and military weapons appropriations in my name. Where the analogy breaks down is I never conceded thousands of dollars of my money to my 5 year old in order to avoid a disagreement. Instead what I learned to do was give my 5 year old a choice among two or more acceptable alternatives. And the choices for those who are nominally adults who want me to fund their romance, are to instead get a job, find a sponsor, change the laws through the electoral process, or move to another country. One of those options is not practical.

USCIS is fee based. USCIS attempted to raise fees years ago. The courts struck these fee hikes down. https://www.basseylaw.com/citizenship/court-strikes-down-attempt-to-raise-naturalization-fees/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aGyZNwlMAY32yjbEb_YY_QREID6rEiGq/view?usp=drivesdk Since then the CPI has risen 14 percent. ( https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=202010&year2=202211 ) The people who work at USCIS are seeing higher costs to live just like you and me. The people who lease the buildings USCIS occupied are seeing higher costs to live just like you and me. The utilizes providing power and water to USCIS are seeing higher costs just like you and me. USCIS’s costs are thus increasing while its revenues per case are flat. The only way USCIS can operate without going out of business is to lengthen the case times or find efficiencies. I agree it could do more of the latter but there are limits. If you want better service, it states with (albeit doesn’t end with) higher fees. Until people stop filing suit against fee hikes, nothing will change. And anyone can sue and find judges (who aren’t impacted by inflation because their salaries just go up and up and up) to block fee hikes. So the prospect of increasing the supply of USCIS services is hopeless. Help yourself by * abandoning your I-129F * get married virtually * meet in person * file I-130 * time the medical so that you can enter after the 2 year anniversary of your marriage. You will thus avoid I-485, I-765, I-131, and I-751 and end to end triple the speed to get a 10 year green card at a third of the cost. If you already have a 10 year green card, help yourself by abandoning your I-90 and file N-400 instead. You will never have to deal with USCIS again and you can watch this organization slowly implode.

Did you ever get a separate I-797 that extends your green card for 24 months from its expiration?

Likewise Likewise. I similarly fail to understand the non citizens in this equation who fail to grasp that their destitute fiancé(e) is in no position to take on this financial responsibility. One should marry for love for sure, but ignoring the financial prospects of a potential spouse to be a bread winner makes zero sense. While a case can be made for a smaller military budget, I don’t follow the logic for applying the savings from lower military spending to be spent on helping destitute Americans import destitute people to start destitute families. I can think of dozens of higher priorities for reallocated budget. I’m pretty sure if you poll citizens the majority will agree with me. If one can’t afford $2K for a lawyer one can’t afford a $9K bond that one won’t be invited to pay regardless. Yet somehow one can afford to maintain a long distance relationship, including international air travel.

I don’t know if the extra day will be a big deal or not and thus unless I was sick to the point of being incapable of moving, I would strive to do what I said I was going to do. What does the I-94 say (yes Canadians now get I-94s)? Some are assuming there is a 6 month authorized stay but that isn’t always the case.

I would do a new medical versus risking I-485 being denied and going through the appeal thing. Since this is an RFE and not notice of deficiency, it means your interview likely to be waived.

If you filed online, add this as unsolicited evidence. Regardless bring this up at the interview

Because Turkish Airlines stranded an LPR who had an extension letter. https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/wy8ge3/stranded_in_istanbul/ Delta stranded an LPR with a 10 year green card (https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/791976-reapplying-for-petition/#comments) and also won’t board LPRs to Mexico who have extension letters ( https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/) Spirit stranded a passenger with en endorsed immigration visa (https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/762755-traveling-outside-of-usa-before-receiving-green-card-merged/)

A-team and B-team are American slang referring to competency. The people who answer the phone and illegally order the airline to not board an LPR who has a valid I-551 are the B-team: not competent and definitely malicious. See CBP was called three times. First time the A-team authorized boarding because that is the law and policy. The second time the B-team answered and said do not board and gaslighted OP on CBP’s published policy. Third time, the A-team answered and authorized boarding. Over 99 percent of the time it is when you return to USA. I had a gc for over 30 years and traveled 100s of times outside the USA. Three times I was required by the airline to show my I-551 before I left the USA.