Mike E

Not surprising. You need to visit SSA offices in a spiral pattern until you get satisfaction.

Because Abu Dhabi is a U.S. port of entry not inside U.S. territory. Therefore if you lose your documents, CBP can legally deny you entry. I’ve contributed all I can, and I don’t wish to argue or bicker, so I won’t post more in this thread.

I am not voting for DeSantis in the primary. Why buy a ticket for the tribute band when the original is still performing?

I know of nothing in INA that says otherwise. AFAIK, CBP did not find Judy to have abandoned LPR status when Judy returned.

I do not think it should be. LPRs cannot be denied entry to the U.S. when arriving at a port on U.S. soil. Worst case, lack of an original extension letter will result in an I-193 fee. Now given your port of entry will be Abu Dhabi, if you lose your extension letter, you might be cursing my advice to use that route. But then again, it is on you, not me, for losing such a valuable document. ESTA, pre-clearance, API, no fly lists, etc are all designed to keep undesirable humans (whether they are U.S. citizens, American Samoans, LPRs, and other non citizens) out of the U.S. Once on U.S. soil, Due Process gets in way of keeping undesirables out.

I always use the exchange rate as of 12/31/YYYY

Ok Jan 1 2019 to Jun 30 2019 is 181 days including Jan 1 and Jun 30. The day of departure from U.S. and day of return to U.S. count as days in the U.S. 181 - 2 = 179. I am not seeing the problem. File N-400 in 2023. September 20, 2023

I do not think you should feel guilty. It is likely you will bring more economic value than the average family based immigrant. EB-1 has a maximum of 40,040 visas per year, and yet until August, FY2023 RoW EB-1 was current. This means that demand for EB-1 has historically been less than supply. I think this will change in future; you managed to get in before the coming EB-1 apocalypse. Whereas there are no annual limits on “spouses/children/parents” “of US citizens”. So premium processing for $2500 would not make a difference because of the demand. There are 1.2M new LPRs per year, and 40 percent are immediate family. So 480K immediate family LPRs. X percent of EB-1s opt for premium. If X is 90, then USCIS has enough capacity to process 36000 EB-1s each in 8 days. 36,000 / 480,000 = 8 percent. So if premium processing for immediate family is just $2500, and only 8 percent want it, I could see it working. But I think demand will be at least 50% at that price. So $2500 is too low. I think to limit demand to just 36,000, the price would need to be 2500 * 50/8 = $16K And if X is say 20 percent; then the immediate family premium processing fee would need to be: 8000 / 480,000 = 2 percent 50/2 * 2500 = $63K. Whether it is $16K or $63K, can you imagine the howls of outrage if news and social media trotted out a narrative that rich people are cutting the lines to immigrate? Me: I would have paid $63K to get my wife a GC in 8 days. Cheaper than what I paid for my car.

We always keep electronic copies of GC, extension letter, passport, etc on our phone.

All you need is evidence you married their parent before they reached age 18 and that they qualify as children of a U.S. citizen. So for each child’s I-130: * your U.S. birth certificate * your marriage certificate to their parent * child’s birth certificate * if your spouse was previously married at the time the child was born: - marriage certificate to previous spouse - divorce decree, annulment decree, or death certificate as appropriate * birth certificate of your spouse You can include of copy of your spouse’s I-130 in the event the ISO wants to consider bonafides of the marriage. no No. I-130 is always filed by an adult petitioner on behalf of a beneficiary who is not the same person as the petitioner. IOW, even if they were age 18 or older, they could not file I-130. I-130 is family based, and so self petitioning is not an option. Note that if you adopt them after they arrive in the U.S., they will immediately become U.S. citizens, and will bypass I-751.

11+2 = 13 2+9 = 11 13+11=24 5+24=29 not 31 Moot point though. Working outside U.S. for those absences of 181+ days broke continuous residency

1 I-130 for each child. Which is dangerous because F2A has a 9 year wait now, and usually before the 9 years the LPR petitioner becomes a citizen. After that no more derivatives. So for that and several other reasons, I-130 should always be filed for each child.

January 1, 2023. File N-400 January 1, 2028

I am well aware of that case. I missed the part where OP is divorced. OP referred to a spouse not an ex. I’ve contributed all I can, and I don’t wish to argue or bicker, so I won’t post more in this thread.

You will want to limit absences from the U.S. to a maximum of 179 consecutive days.

my read of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_VII_of_the_United_Nations_Charter is that the UNSC decides peace keeping operations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Protection_Force UNPROFOR was created by UN Security Council Resolution 743 on 21 February 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence.[2][3 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_743 Voting summary 15 voted for None voted against None abstained https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/past/unsmis/ Monitoring a cessation of armed violence in all its forms Established by United Nations Security Council resolution 2043 of 21 April 2012, initially for a 90-day period, to monitor a cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties and to monitor and support the full implementation of the Joint Special Envoy’s six-point plan to end the conflict in Syria. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2043 Voting summary 15 voted for None voted against None abstained

China and Russia each have a veto at the UN Security Council

1. No 2. IMHO, yes. I entered with my fiancee 3. Neither. The visitor line. 4. At the port of entry, non CBP employees will demand you use the U.S. citizen line and/or separate from your fiance. Do not listen. They have no power over you or CBP. Better than 99.99 percent chance of him being admitted.

Legally K-1 is a non immigrant visa. So I would not stress over this just yet.

I expect there to be a problem with your CR-1. Your ex-fiancee might know based on what USCIS sent her when it canceled I-129F. You can try to get an FOIA from USCIS for your entire A file.

Seems like a good sign. This will be an interesting data point if approved.

it is not. Complete agree with that part. U.S. citizen sponsor can cause I-485 to be canceled by withdrawing I-864. Or, refuse to attend an I-485 interview, assuming there is one.

I expect so. Why was K-1 denied?

I do not see anywhere in I-485 where the petitioner (U.S. citizen spouse ib OP’s case) signs I-485.

Yes. Sorry about that. I would go with alien number. Resident since date plus 6 years