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A couple of issues: 1. Tourists are not legal residents of Canada. The child might have a right to be there, but that status will need to be changed if the child was admitted as a tourist to Canada and obtained citizenship after entry. Mom can't interview in Canada as a tourist. Stepdaughter requires a legal residence to interview in Canada. 2. If you filed in August and they were already in Canada as tourists, your fiancé has long overstayed. She was likely issued a 10 year, multiple entry visa, but a single visit cannot last longer than 6 months. Overstays are not kosher with Canadian or US authorities. 3. Does your fiancé have full legal custody of the child? If not, the father will have to provide permission for you to bring the child into the US for the purpose of immigration.

Correct - those with dual citizenship that applied using their non-banned passport are supposed to remain eligible for a visa.

Did he formally rescind it?

Just curious why you didn't file the I-130 a year ago when you inquired here previously? You'd have been close to having actual I-130 approval already. The domicile bit still stands.

Pretty impressive that this flight attendant has survived. https://www.foxnews.com/us/laguardia-crash-air-canada-jazz-flight-attendant-survives There's a video on here that shows the moment of the collision. https://abc7ny.com/live-updates/laguardia-plane-crash-airport-reopens-collision-kills-pilots-air-canada-flight/18756609/ Condolences to the families of Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther.

Cotton On has all the baggy sweats, jeans, linen pants, cargo pants, and shorts. They have a bunch of stuff on sale, too. Not super cheap, but probably cheaper than Hollister. They are also pretty good quality as both Kid1 and Kid2 wear them. Kid1 stole half her bf's sweats...poor dude will never get em back. Uniqlo is another place to look. I've been pretty impressed with their stuff. Kid2 has a Sponge Bob hoodie that has been through the wash a bazillion times and the screen print is fully intact, no cracking. The elbows are more likely to wear out first. Same goes for a Dragonball Z t-shirt - been through the wash tons of times and the screenprint looks brand new. I just watch for sales. It's tough being a manyager, though. Kids are definitely judgy little *beeps* sometimes.

Montreal is one of the slowest consulates out there. DCF is a shortER process, BUT, it doesn't necessarily mean it's fast. Expect 6-8 weeks for Montreal to look at anything.

As Appleblossom stated, Montreal has some of the longest wait times of any consulate. Some older "wisdom" a while back was to check shortly after midnight ET for appointments. Not sure how accurate it is, but apparently that's when some get released. Again, YMMV, but it certainly can't hurt. Good luck!

This is exactly what we did. It was significantly easier and it was definitely cheaper. Yeah, you want to begin your life together, but if it's a short amount of time, well worth it IMHO. We crossed into the US 1 day after our 1yr anniversary and received those 10 year greecards, even though our temp I-551's in the passports said CR-1/CR-2 (I have kids that were minors at the time). You have plenty of evidence, so don't stress about it. Having the actual boarding passes and other evidence of actual time spent is hugely helpful. I wouldn't stress about photos too much. If you had a nice wedding, excellent and sounds like you have nearly all of what you need from that alone. I wouldn't stress about a bank account, either. You can, however, list each other as beneficiaries on life insurance, pension policies and other long term, not so easy to change the beneficiary accounts, which definitely lean towards the side of serious, long term commitment from an outside viewer looking in. I don't blame your wife for not being transparent on socials. People are ugly out there and don't need to be all up in your business. My hubs isn't on socials other than LinkedIn and then my oldest got him watching TikTok videos; he's a shadow lurker by nature. I keep my own profiles locked down and don't share a lot myself. People that are invited to know, will know! We work at the same place and many people had no idea for years that we had dated, let alone gotten married. One of my colleague friends didn't clue in until she showed up at our house to borrow a ladder LOL! She assumed it was just my house. File taxes as married, filing separately as you'd stated, and get that I-130 filed.

There's always options...ICE or Musk...you know which one Trump is gonna choose! https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/elon-musk-offers-pay-tsa-salaries-amid-budget-battle-airport-lineups-2026-03-21/

I'd have thought so. There will be no question after this! https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/bush-hobby-airport-tsa-shortage-shutdown-secruity-wait-times/285-d1d9faa7-56cd-48fe-99f0-02cca3997a70

Someone on socials had posted the ATC dialogue at the time. Sounds like the fire unit was supposed to turn at D but turned at E and didn't listen when ATC called to stop. United had asked for the fire unit after smelling fumes. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/major-incident/air-canada-crj-collides-with-fire-fighting-truck-on-landing-in-new-york/

Correct. She needs her own account for her own petition.

Yes, you can. Yeah, the house is rented, but you're looking at more than a year before she can move. Having the house leased if you're living in MX isn't that unusual. USCIS and the DoS are well aware that things can change. It's more that they want to know your spouse is actually going to physically move and reside in the US, not play the border jumping game.

If your wife was the beneficiary and received an IR visa, then SHE will be the one applying for naturalization, not you. She needs to have a USCIS account and she needs to fill out the paperwork. This tool will help. It doesn't guarantee eligibility, but then you can research further to ensure she meets the full eligibility requirements (sufficient years married & living together, domicile, physical presence). https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/learn-about-citizenship/naturalization-eligibility-tool-0 Agree - NEVER use AI for immigration advice.

Your child will be a citizen of both the DR and the USA. You will file a CRBA to obtain a consular birth record and then apply for babe's US passport. Once your partner is awarded her I-551, she will travel to the US on her DR passport with the visa and your child will travel on their US passport. https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/living-abroad/birth.html

Welcome to the forum. You've landed in the correct place - we're all about DIY. If you search the "Guides" tab at the top, you'll find what you need. If there's nothing exotic about you or your spouse's past histories, then there's no reason you can't successfully navigate the immigration process yourself. You can file the I-130 while living in MX. The big thing will be once it's approved and you move onto the next phase of the process where you'll have to prove domicile. That's a hot minute down the road. I wouldn't mention anything about the rental house. It's not relevant at this time. The I-130 is essentially a character petition - USCIS are checking backgrounds for criminality and verifying whether or not you and your spouse fit into the honorable, not a menace to society bucket.

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I can't really argue the incompetence part. It seems that there are a lot of incidents in that district. We've had issues, but we're also in MoCo so they take it pretty seriously. There was a kid stabbed with a wooden stake on campus 2 years ago but the kids that stabbed were from a different school in district. Something else happened that year too, but I can't remember what. We haven't had many issues that way of late, knock on wood. Our issue is the incompetent board so I suspect we'll see more issues because they are laying off support staff in an effort to save money after their outrageous overspending. Kid2 only has the rest of this semester and then 2 more years in district and I cannot WAIT to be finished with it.

Blower motor for the main floor air handler is presently dead. Noticed a message on the "smart" thermostat on Saturday. Tech came yesterday - board on the motor fried. Had to wait until today to get the part. Soooo tired of "smart" things. It's a furnace blower motor...like why does EVERYTHING need a stupid electronic chip?! Needless to say, we had no AC yesterday and have no heat this morning until the HVAC guy arrives with the new one in hand. I have a little oil filled radiator style heater in my office with me. My doggo is laying near it. She runs pretty warm typically, but clearly even she's finding it a bit less than optimal since our windy cold front has rolled in.

They did. It was the visitor that let him in. He didn't get past the second set of secured doors, so the front office area. The campus administrators called the armed security person on campus and the incident was addressed. I saw the actual school released statement. That said, good ole Harris County set his bond at a measly $75K. That said, there were 3 separate incidents on 3 different Klein ISD campuses last week. One kid showed up with an unloaded handgun and was showing it to others. He was arrested by campus police, emergency expelled and the ISD is pursuing felony charges. On another campus, a kid brought a firearm and accidentally shot himself in the arm. Klein ISD seems to have higher numbers of these incidents and now the parents have banded together and are in the process of starting a safety coalition. The parents don't feel like there is sufficient response from district and state leadership.

Actually, it is VERY relevant. USCIS can find out this information and if they decide to use it against you, your overstay won't be your only worry. You guys have to file income tax as married now, for starters. Irrespective of whether or not you have your PR, if you meet the IRS substantial presence test, your world wide income my be subject to US taxes. If you get your PR and abandon it straight away, you are more than likely subject to income tax on your world wide income. You need to worry about more than just whether you'll be able to visit the US at this point in time.

Have you been running your company while you've been in the US?

The Snapple drinking, granola eating one. The other one, which hasn't observed time change in 60 years, is full of miners and agricultural workers. Did you unmute in the app? Sometimes you have to get to the stupid muted speaker, click and then hit volume up. https://www.airrosti.com/houston/?utm_source=paid-search-google&utm_medium=text-ad&utm_campaign=brand-houston It's unpleasant, but it works. My shoulder was frozen right up and they managed to get me moving and pain free. Spring break this week for us, thank goodness. That said, Kid1 is struggling again. Mental health is a real deal. They're cold! Kid2 changed out of Welding, thank goodness. He would NEVER in a million years be successful. That said, he has 7 AP courses next year 😲. Ugh...drives me bananas. Fine educators that can't English properly...just crazy.

Your phone broken? It likely has both Google Maps AND a flashlight! How novel! Physio or Airrosti? Time change is the biggest scam of all You really enjoy making your mornings more difficult, it would seem. It's significantly easier to rouse a manyager when you can open the curtains/blinds/etc and the light shines them in the face. DST is dumb. Period. I'm annoyed with the Ontarians that came up with the concept and as for countries adopting it, it hasn't been WWI for over a hundred years, and the art of war has changed dramatically, so why are we still changing clocks? At least my home province ditched the idea in 1966. Summer = sunny. Winter = dark. Done.