SteveInBostonI130

You want to petition your mom to immigrate only to be a babysitter for you?

This is confusing. I will assume that you meant your husband was an LPR and petitioned you as F2A. If that is correct, your first GC would be for 10 years. Edit, your first GC should have been 2 years. This is the first time I saw a situation of someone entering in less than 2yrs of marriage on F2A.

The most important question is are you planning to move permanently to the US? Typically the driving factor for the spouse visa is that the couple/family plan to live the US. Then if they somehow not get the visa, they make new plans as appropriate. It is unusual to "see if the IR1 is approved" and then decide to move.

There are a lot of red flags in your case. 1) Why is your profile country Burkina Faso when you stated you married your second wife in your home country (India)? 2) You refer to your first wife as "my wife" when you moved on from that relationship, married someone else, had children, set up a life in the UK, and gained UK citizenship. In most cases people would refer to the person as "my first wife" rather than a more familial "my wife". 3) What happened to your first wife in the years since she was going to divorce you? Did she re-marry? Did she have a family with someone else? It seems you only kept up your relationship with your first wife until your attempts at immigration through her failed. And now when you see a possible chance you can immigrate through her, you are all about her being "my wife". 4) Your first wife didn't want a long distance relationship, didn't want to move to be with you, and wanted to divorce you. You had zero cares for this as exemplified by not following up with her on the divorce process, not inquiring about the divorce papers for you to sign, and not wondering why you didn't get a divorce certificate. You didn't even confirm with her your marriage/divorce status when you met your second wife and wanted to marry her. You just went and did it. But now you are a caring husband to your first wife and want to "help her as much as I can"? 5) As another VJ member stated, your original post declared that you preferred to pursue an immigration visa. Your above post about helping your wife as much as you can seems to be a manufactured justification for trying to get a visa for someone you really do not know anymore. 6) What does your current family think about this? Your children? Do they not need your help and support? Do you not share custody?

If you have not filed for AOS and EAD you are not allowed to work unless you have a work visa or status, such as H1b. You living apart from your wife to work is an issue.

No. AP cannot be expedited. Pakistan does not accept police clearance certificates because they are unreliable. They have an agency to perform the background check on your spouse. A WoM can lead to denial if it forces them to make a decision before the background checks are complete.

I initially thought you were having a go, but I think you are actually serious. Here's how DOGE can make USCIS processing "efficient". Let's say goal is to have CSC process I-129F in 90 days: Any current applications that are waiting to be process: Reject and purge Simple applications (no divorce, low fraud country, no criminal past, fast background check from DOJ): process normally Slightly difficult cases (one party divorced, DOJ taking longer to get back with criminal check): Track processing, transfer to Vermont after XX days Moderately difficult cases (foreign fiance is divorced, high fraud country): transfer to Vermont Difficult cases: Transfer to Vermont. Typo on application: Reject, pocket the application fee. Missing information: Reject, pocket the application fee. High application countries like Philippines, automatically reject 50%-75% with "missing evidence" reason. Pocket the application fee. RFE: gone. Why waste time and resources on communications when it's simpler just to reject the application and pocket the money? Public inquiry: Make 100% AI driven. No USCIS employee to man help lines. Any escalated inquiries send the petition to Vermont to the back of the queue That is how to get "90 day processing" statistics on paper. Just like how Japan has a high homicide solve rate because they classify a murder as a homicide if they have already identified a suspect and have some evidence. All other cases are classified as "found body". And, in the above scenario, your application would have been rejected twice. You would be submitting your 3rd,4th or 5th I-29F application. But hey, at lease USCIS is now processing within 90 days.

There is that. The other hurdle for spouse visa petition is proof of bonafide relationship. You being married to another person and having children with them are not great evidence that you and your US citizen wife have maintained strong relations. It's not impossible, but I would estimate your chance of an immigration visa very very very low. Why do you want to be with your first wife? It seems like both of you have moved on. You have your family in the UK and India to look after. Do you want to abandon them on a longshot chance of US immigration?

Also, to help you with your dealings with Boundless, have them look at Form I-130, Page 7: The form clearly states to fill out 46.a. to 46.d. if the beneficiary is currently in the United States.

Boundless should know better. I would ask for a different agent. EDIT: If you use a lawyer or an immigration prep service like Boundless, you should still familiarize yourself with the process. Go over all the forms and read all the instructions. There is also a guide here for spouse visas - please review it.

How long have you been a legal permanent resident (i.e., had your greencard)?

You have the choice to go to Pakistan, marry and live with them.

You only need to enter the I-94 information if you are CURRENTLY in the US. Please review that section of the I-130.

List of travel dates, yes. But not proof of legal entry: multiple I-94s are not needed.

No. Married filing Jointly would help. Joint bank account would help. A joint bank account where your paycheck and your spouse's paycheck being deposited would be better evidence.