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When did you go to this interview? Your VisaJourney timeline needs to be filled out. Regardless, usually K1 interviews are done by the Immigrant Visa section of the consulate as opposed to the Nonimmigrant Visa section that handles B2s, and they would not necessarily follow the same practices.

Noted, I don’t think we’ll have any shortage of evidence to provide regardless.

...and just uploaded another 4 months of unsolicited evidence today. Since we filed at the beginning of 9/2023 that makes an additional year of evidence that we have uploaded, in three parts: 9/2023 to 12/2023, 1/2024 to 4/2024 and 5/2024 to 8/2024.

No update on the case status but I did upload four more months' worth of unsolicited evidence to myUSCIS today, making it now a year's worth of additional evidence that we've submitted since filing.

In addition to the other answers and advice in this thread, you will both benefit greatly from studying the I-751 instructions and making sure you fully understand them: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-751instr.pdf The instructions contain the answer to your original question and for this type of information it’s usually best to go straight to the source.

The fact that they asked you to translate your Irish birth certificate, without giving the direct source of what documents are acceptable as @crazycat did and without providing more details on what translations are accepted as @Marieke H did, which then led you to start this thread venting your frustrations, is a big clue.

Many people on Reddit are reporting the same issue, I would just wait and try again later.

Appears so from my end.

@wangaturtle, I understand the points others are trying to make about what evidence should be included but as things have already been submitted I wouldn’t worry too much or second guess yourself right now. Hopefully the adjudicating officer will weigh the totality of the evidence presented and assuming you are in a legitimate relationship, any question or concern can be addressed if/when it comes up. For what it’s worth, in my pre-VJ days I did include a receipt and photos of the engagement ring as part of the K1 evidence submitted. Also for what it’s worth, eventually we cut our losses and started over with the (in my opinion) far superior spousal visa, so even if the adjudicating officer were to consider you “too married for a K1”, know that there are other options available.

I would also make sure that this or any affidavit you submit does not include the title or wording “Affidavit of Support” (as you have written here), since USCIS uses that term to refer to form I-864 and not these types of affidavits confirming personal knowledge of your relationship.

Maybe as a last resort, if you save a version without fillable fields you can still add text using Preview in Mac by using the text box feature in the annotate menu/markup toolbar.

I just checked and did not have this issue either on Windows with Acrobat Pro or Mac with Preview. Were the numbers appearing as soon as you opened the file downloaded from the USCIS site (i.e. before making/saving any edits)?

I was going off of this post:

As was mentioned by the OP, proof of residence is covered.

That’s what I would think too. Might be worth pursuing that angle a little further before giving up.

Back in 2021-2022 the GC took about 4 months (after US entry) to arrive for us, sounds like these days it could take even longer. The package(s) should be sent with tracking and if the address you listed is enrolled in Informed Delivery then you can get a notification there with the tracking number.

So it sounds like the I-751s were submitted while they were outside the US? In my opinion the biggest concern would be if somehow the I-751(s) had been denied while the LPR was out of the country - there are threads on this forum to people that this happened to. But if you have been keeping up with the case status and correspondence hopefully this wouldn’t be an issue. Once back in the US, if their myUSCIS accounts allow for uploading Unsolicited Evidence I would highly recommend doing so since I imagine you would now be able to produce evidence that wouldn’t have been available during the initial filing. This is a fairly unique situation (spending almost the entire conditional residency period outside the US) so I will be very interested to hear updates on those cases.

That’s great that things worked out for you, but you can also understand that since this goes against the instructions provided by the IRS and various software packages, I am not going to give that advice in this forum. @Equardo it looks like some of the big companies are finally catching up to e-filing with a non-resident alien spouse, see this from Turbotax: https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/file-taxes-spouse-nonresident-alien/L4AuRKrMd_US_en_US

I wouldn’t recommend doing something like entering all 9s for the SSN unless you can find instructions saying to do that. If you want to e-file MFS with a non-resident alien spouse with no SSN, TaxAct used to allow that but I haven’t checked in a few years. There are potential tax savings to be had by filing jointly if you apply for an ITIN. There are lots of threads here on that topic but the IRS instructions for Form W-7 are probably the best place to start.

I can’t think of a situation where this would be the case for work outside the US. Remote work for a foreign employer (or in this case, running a foreign business) while physically present in the US is a different story as mentioned upthread.

If you know that this is the situation ahead of time, a K1 visa followed by Adjustment of Status is not a very good fit. Two alternatives that seem more appropriate could be: 1) Get married and file for a spousal visa, delaying at the NVC stage as needed until she is truly ready to immigrate to the US. Depending on how long it takes to wrap up things with the business, she may be eligible for a 10-year GC and avoid ROC when all is said and done. 2) Get married and file for a spousal visa, and if she is still not ready to live in the US by the time the visa is issued, have her apply for a re-entry permit and complete biometrics after entering the US with the visa and before going back to Colombia. Even better if she were to wait until the GC is in hand before leaving the US. I realize you may already have started the K1 visa but speaking from experience, that doesn’t mean you can’t still change course (sunk cost fallacy and all that).

Was the appointment at one of the Taxpayer Assistance Centers that provide in-person ITIN document review listed here? https://www.irs.gov/help/irs-taxpayer-assistance-centers-providing-in-person-itin-document-review Even if it was, my understanding when looking into this a few years back was that the completed tax return and ITIN application would only be accepted in person if the applicant (in this case, your wife) were present.

That is helpful to know that a properly filed N-400 could be approved (i.e. no pending or missing I-751), however there are still other questions as summed up in this post:

I wanted to be sure that @lanre charles does in fact have a 10-year GC since it wasn’t 100% clear from the post and that is an important detail.

And the expiration date?