Mike E

4. This month I learned there is a ferry service between Bahamas and Florida. Bahamas has a visa waiver for green card holders. I do not recommend flying from Bahamas to the U.S. because flights to U.S. go through CBP pre-clearance, meaning CBP could stop @wateryourroses from boarding the flight. British Airways flies to the Bahamas.

I only give suggestions that are beneficial to the immigrant. You can delay starting the process as long as you want. And wait longer for a process that is averaging 559 days ( https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/irstats.php?history=90 ). You actually want the process to take 580 days from date of marriage. Then after visa is issued wait until the 2 year marriage anniversary to enter on the visa and avoid I-751.

If she gets an ITIN and if she agrees to let the IRS tax her world wide income. Given U.S. does not double tax, it is likely a net benefit to the couple.

yea 90 day rule is fake news. You can enter U.S. to get married. You can start cr-1 process as soon as married. Then leave the U.S.

Get married online. This starts a 2 year clock. Meet up. File I-130. Time NVC process so that the medical exam will be no sooner than the 19 months after marriage. Enter U.S. on or after 2 years of marriage to avoid I-751.

And be prepared for an expedited removal and ban.

She needs to leave the U.S. and serve out her ban for overstay. Dad, and each sister need to file I-130s.

Correct at interview

LPRs cannot be denied entry. SB-1 is a waste of time in most cases, and likely will be in this case. I do not understand the advice to apply for ESTA. Just board the flight to the U.S. with the gc and present the gc at the port of entry. These are the possible outcomes: * admitted as a returning resident * admitted as an arriving alien and is given a notice to appear. * voluntarily signs I-407 and is admitted under I-193 (fee might or might not be assessed) The option she should reject: * voluntarily signs I-407 and is denied entry. Even if she managed to successfully get ESTA, if she presents herself as anything other than an LPR to CBP, she is misrepresenting. This makes the advice to apply for ESTA even more puzzling.

English will be fine. Options: 1. Book a round trip to Male, Maldives or to Victoria, Seychelles. From there book a flight to the U.S. 2. Book a round trip flight to Toronto, Canada from Pakistan. Your green card is a visa waiver for Canada. Once you arrive in Canada, take a taxi to Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport and fly Porter Airlines to Newark, NJ. This way you will not be blocked by U.S. pre-clearance in at Pearson Airport. There is a risk with this option in that Canadian immigration officers are likely to give you more scrutiny. 3. If you are ok with traveling with just a carry on, then more possibilities open for you. You book round trip to one of the few countries that does not have a visa requirement for Pakistanis. Then at a transit airport you check in for a flight to the U.S. This is dependent on airport. I personally have done it at Hong Kong (where the transit desks are before the security check point (X ray, walk through metal detector), and at Bangkok (BKK). In the case of BKK the transit desks are after the security check point and I had to talk my girl friend at the time (Burmese) and I (Canadian) through security, showing our itineraries for our next airport (Manilla). Frankfurt has transit desks before security as I recall.

2018-2022 (2023 tax returns are not fileable until 2024). And yes you should.

There is option “C”: CBP admits them as returning residents. I’ve see enough of these that option B is the least likely.

My understanding is, yes.

Very good, you have become a great student of how to get home (🇺🇸) Why Qatar Airways is arguably the best choice for a Pakistani: * It is not PIA. PIA has been known to ask LPRs how long they have been out, and then deny boarding. * Pakistanis have a visa waiver for Qatar. You can enter Doha city. Chill for a day or so. And get on your flight to the U.S. So if the airline denies boarding on your two segment trip to JFK, book a round trip to Doha, and then while there, book a oneway to the U.S. Double digit percentages of cases like yours do not get a secondary. Your trial would likely take years. By which time you might have graduated and are earning money. If you are going for a masters, then you likely have a bachelors. So worst case you delay school, and start earning money to save for your defense. Or maybe you find another path to a new gc. IOW cross bridges if (not when) you get to them.

In before the purge: Speaking of the under educated … Aussie is a Maori term that means “West Islander”. It comes the root word, “Australia” which means “West Island”. I really do not understand why your husband gets so wound up when folks get his island of birth wrong.

On PIA? possibly That and you were in situation where you were unable to act for yourself due to: and Why were you gone long? Why couldn’t you return? Do you have any IRS tax return transcripts? Are you returning to the U.S. now after 9 years because you plan to petition a spouse or child for an immigration visa? Is anyone paying you to move back to the U.S.? As Lil bear said, refuse to file I-407. Prepare for a long day at JFK. I’d say half the time in these cases, CBP says nothing. Most of time there is no Notice to Appear. In fact across reddit and VJ, for the past 2-3 years I only know of one NTA for abandonment of LPR status: That was a case where the LPR was going back and forth, spending most time outside the U.S. After you enter the U.S., I prefer if you not leave until after you naturalize.

News to my wife. She joined ACA while still an LPR

Let’s go over it again, and you might see why * you might be wrong and * I might be right It says principal beneficiaries. It does not day what relationship these beneficiaries are to the petitioner. “Their” refers to the principal beneficiaries. That is indisputable to me. “ immediate family members” refers to immediate family members of the principal beneficiary. That is also not disputable. What an “immediate family member” means is murky. But we have a hint with “qualifying”. But that too is murky. Maybe it means true derivatives, which would eliminate aged out children of principal beneficiary, married children of the principal beneficiary, parents of the principal beneficiary, and siblings of the principal beneficiary. Or maybe it means something else, perhaps broader, perhaps narrower. I am certain spouses of F4s will be included. Minor children of F4s too. All I know is there are lawyers who think F4s will be paroled in this year.

For reasons that defy logic, USCIS is still allowing F2A I-485 at least through the end of July 2023, as per the visa bulletin from DoS and USCIS’s statement for July 2023. It is going to be hellish renewing EAD and AP for next 6 years. And the new fees are hideous: no more free EAD and AP. But perhaps not as bad as being separated for that length of time.

So get married this week.

With SB-1, I have no idea what your “resident since” date is. Did you get a new gc after you entered the U.S. on SB-1? Anyway, if you have an I-90 case number, you can write to USCIS, and explain you think you got the date of admission wrong.

1. Did you file online or by mail? 2. Do you have your I-90 extension letter?

I will not beat around the bush: you are collecting social security. So you are likely age 62 or older. I suspect you are male. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html says you have at least a 1.5 percent of dying before your next birth day. I have seen too many cases where the beneficiary could have had more than one petitioner, and to “save money” only one petition was filed. Then the petitioner dies, or withdraws the petition. At that point it is a cluster. It is always tragic when immigration plans fail without a viable backup plan. It is the children who bear the brunt of the tragedy. And I will always advocate for the kids’ needs ahead of the adults. Petition early, petition often.

As a gc holder, my big rule was never remove my gc from my wallet while outside my home except for airlines, cruise lines, INS, BP, and later DHS. Bringing my gc to a court house for a show and tell is an excellent way to lose your gc to people who neither care nor understand that loss of gc is disastrous for an LPR. There is no control over the situation once you enter a place with armed deputies. Recall all the GCs SSA lost during covid. So before court houses had internet, sending a photo copy was the lesser evil. In 2023, there are processes to upload images. I am out