Mike E

Well you have received different instructions since the last time ypu asked for a stamp. It is free to ask for an ADIT, and free to get an ADIT. Filing I-193 at the port of entry is not always free.

Yes I would. Make the effort and record it. Do not cancel your travel plans because USCIS is incapable of operating competently. If “next week” is Friday, I would say there is a 50 percent chance GC will be in hand by Thursday.

Barking up the wrong tree, but if you think I’ve committed a ToS violation report it. if you think OP and me are the same person, let’s see the evidence.

My money is on both. The kids can attend the oath ceremony to try to straighten it out, as long as they understand they must not give up their GCs or take oath of citizenship. If there is any doubt about resolve, stay home.

Except that they have to pay market rate now. 😂

I see no chance the embassy will give OP a boarding foil. Unless OP is a U.S. citizen (and can prove it) or OP can find a way to Mexican / U.S. border, I think OP is stranded.

Legally, not possible. Some airlines will not board you with an expired 10 year gc, though legally they can. Avoid Delta airlines. I have interacted with several people who have found themselves with expired GCs in the DR. None have ever escaped except one who found out he was a citizen. Apparently there is a cabal among all customer facing workers across all airlines in the DR to deny boarding. Puerto Rico is so close to the DR, yet so far away. Got any friends with boats? How old were you when you became an LPR?

You will her naturalization certificate and other original documents such as your long form Canadian birth certificate

So did you expect any other reaction?

I would not suggest hiding immigration intent. At this point I see only one viable option for her to both complete her education in the U.S. and get a greencard: file an I-485 package now, and wait for the APD before travel. Had she not filed I-693, she could have opted for consular processing after her return to the U.S.

I would never suggest lying to a federal officer, especially a federal law enforcement officer. Then let us hope for her sake the officer asks her if she intends to adjust or at least asks her how long she plans to stay, and she answers truthfully.

She has certainly declared immigration intent by seeking an I-693. Seems like a pretty clear cut case to deny her I-485 if she got the medical before she left the U.S. Or CBP goes through her phone and finds evidence of the I-693 in progress. F-1 visa gone. Lifetime ban for misrepresentation.

Her authorized stay for F-1 is measured in years. Her authorized stay for I-485 is conceivably until death. So will she misrepresent herself at the port or tell the truth?

I just know you have been waiting at least 11 months to post that. I hope you win day today.

Will she tell the CBP officer that she intends to file I-485?

K-1 procedures are dependent on the consulate. I suggest you contact the consulates for next steps.

And your timeline shows N-400 is pending.

1. There are house that were built before the current border between Canada and the U.S. were built. 2. Some houses happened to have been built on the border. This means the border literally runs through the house itself. 3. The U.S. and Canada continues to allow these homes to be occupied. So if you own or rent one, you are free to enter Canada or U.S. as you move from the bedroom to kitchen or living room. You can even cross the border and back while mowing the lawn. What you cannot do is enter the house from the American side of the border and leave or from the Canadian side, or vice versa. Instead you would enter from the U.S. side, leave from the U.S. side, drive to a CBSA port of entry, and enter Canada that way.

Subject to CBSA approval. Perhaps you should rent a house that straddles the border. This way you can live with her. You just have to take care to leave the house from the U.S. side, she has to take care to leave the house from the Canada side. Edit: oh this is a repost

If you have not entered the U.S. yet, you do not have an I-551 stamp. You have an unused visa. This is likely why they are not extending an offer. That visa is still worthless for getting a job. Its worth happens when you travel to the U.S. and you are admitted for entry on that visa. You need to provide I-9 documents. Your foreign passport plus the endorsed visa will be a List A I-9 document. So definitely fly into the U.S., and while there fill out an I-9 ( https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9-paper-version.pdf ) and bring it, your passport, and you to the employer’s office. Show them in the I-9 instructions how your passport and endorsed visa is a valid List A document: LIST A Documents that Establish Both Identity and Employment Authorization [..] Foreign passport that contains a temporary 1-551 stamp or temporary 1-551 printed notation on a machine-readable immigrant visa https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-resources/handbook-for-employers-m-274/120-acceptable-documents-for-verifying-employment-authorization-and-identity/121-list-a-documents-that-establish-identity-and-employment-authorization shows a partial example of a endorsed visa acting as an I-551. Partial because it does not show a stamp. https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2019-Mar/2019 Carrier Information Guide - ENGLISH.pdf has a proper example

Logically, given the number of people who have no idea they need to pay this fee to get a GC (some figuring this out years after the fact after living in the shadows of society), to pay the fee requires a U.S. mailing address, Sure enough: https://my.uscis.gov/uscis-immigrant-fee/enter-data “ Confirm Your U.S. Mailing Address To Receive Your Green Card Now that you have paid your USCIS Immigrant Fee, USCIS will prepare to mail your Green Card to the U.S. mailing address you gave the Department of State (DOS) at your visa interview. To ensure that we send your Green Card to your correct address, create a USCIS Online Account to verify or update your U.S. mailing address.”

No issue. I did the same

Once a CBP officer decides she is not entering the U.S., how that happens falls on a spectrum and also depends on whether she is traveling from a Canadian pre clearance airport. The worst would be expedited removal. This means she is inside the U.S. at a port of entry. Meaning she entered the U.S. by land, or flew from Canada from a non pre clearance airport such as Regina or Billy Bishop aka Toronto Island . Expedited removal is deportation without immigration court proceedings. Any deportation carries with it a 5 year ban. Second worst would be cancelation of her B visa. This can happen at any type of port. Third worst is an invitation withdraw her application to enter. If she agrees, no ban. She might even get to keep her visa. If she disagrees, it is all but certain she is getting a ban. This can happen at any type of port.

I would wait: any upside to paying now is dwarfed by USCIS sending GCs to the wrong address.

If she is invited to withdraw her application to enter the U.S., she get still get an immigration visa. If she is given an expedited removal, it is a 5 year ban, including an immigration visa.