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Since you know that the tax return was filed without reporting a significant amount of income, then amending it seems appropriate to correct that. As for how to report it, without knowing more details the possibilities might include asking the employer to provide a W-2, reporting it on Form 4852 (if the employer will not provide a W-2), or reporting it as self-employment income; in the end it would be advisable to consult a tax professional to be sure. In order to calculate the actual amount to report, you would have to go back through whatever records are available. Records like bank statements wouldn't necessarily be sent with the (amended) tax return but as with anything you report on a tax return, you would want to have documentation available in case of an audit. Spreadsheets are useful for this. Did you have authorization to work during the time that income was earned?

Without knowing any more details, the only suggestion would be to try to make an emergency/urgent in-person appointment for renewal: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast/emergencies.html (if applicable) or https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast/passport-agencies.html Edit: this assumes the family member is currently in the US, which was not specified.

Sorry if this sounds like an obvious question, but have you been to Vietnam before? By all means do your research online beforehand, including both official government sources and online expat communities (as was mentioned, VisaJourney is mainly about immigration to the US and not the other way around), but also consider taking an initial trip to visit, get to know the country more (if applicable) and/or gather more information about the immigration process while on the ground there. And if you go that route, maybe a good first step would be to read the information provided by the Embassy/Consulate(s) of Vietnam in the US.

@christopher76, the answers to these questions will be important in order to provide the most relevant advice.

Depending on your work situation, it may also be possible to increase your AGI for these purposes by minimizing pre-tax deductions from your paychecks (e.g. contributions towards various benefits). Even if uncomfortable for you, it might also be worth approaching a few more people about joint sponsorship; the worst they can say is no. In any case, if your wife and stepdaughter are now out of status you need to resolve the income issue and resubmit the I-485 package ASAP.

As was mentioned, give it a little time and the status should hopefully update to something more accurate. Not much else you can do in the meantime other than be patient and optimistic.

Newer IOE cases are allowing this - see the other recent thread in this subforum:

Another possibility would be to send what you have now, and then once you have the IRS transcripts (always a good thing to have), upload those as Unsolicited Evidence in myUSCIS once the case has been created.

The change of address form has nothing to do with your work situation or income, which is why I think you may still be confused. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, change of address should be filed with USCIS as soon as possible when moving during the immigration process. Which form you submit depends on whether you are the noncitizen or citizen (to use USCIS terminology), but for married couples who change address it generally means one person files the AR-11 and the other files the I-865.

You may be confusing the I-865 (Sponsor’s Notice of Change of Address) with the I-864 (Affadavit of Support). Cases here commonly involve a foreign spouse beneficiary married to a US citizen sponsor/petitioner, and in that case the change of address needs to be filed by both. The foreign spouse beneficiary completes the AR-11 (Alien’s Change of Address) and the US citizen sponsor completes the I-865 (Sponsor’s Notice of Change of Address). You’ll have to decide whether that applies to you.

Technically you only need the extension letter if you are out of the country after the expiration date on the GC. Either way, it would seem prudent to file early rather than at the last minute for several reasons: - If for some reason there is a problem with the first submission, you still have time to refile before the deadline; - Better to have the extension letter in hand just in case travel plans change; - Better to have correspondence from USCIS arrive when you are in the US to receive it versus out of the country; - Peace of mind.

Perhaps @Mavus101 made a typo, but since they haven’t completed their VJ timeline it’s hard to tell. @Mavus101, is the Resident Since date on your green card within two years of your marriage date? According to what you wrote in your earlier post (married in 2018 and entered in 2021), you would have been eligible for a 10 year GC.

How many pages are in that scan? Ours only shows a random selection of 25 pages, and I have heard the same from others here. As for your question, we are planning to submit additional unsolicited evidence as time goes on, maybe every 6 months or so. It would just be evidence similar to what was included in the original packet, accumulated from the filing date onward. I am sure that we’re in the minority with that but my feeling is that it won’t hurt and might help.

Yes, we sent the package via Priority Mail Express to the 85036 zip code and the Proof of Delivery document listed 85034 for the Location.

I know someone who did exactly that, moving to the US as a citizen in their 40s with family in tow after being born in the US, leaving as an infant and never going back in between. Of course, that made them a natural-born citizen as opposed to a naturalized citizen which I think this thread was presumably about.

You mentioned uploading additional evidence so I assume you have access to the case on myUSCIS. Hopefully in the future you can check that more frequently since, for us at least, any notice from USCIS has appeared online there at least 1-2 weeks before any paper notices came in the mail. Every location is different but here the staff at the local Application Support Center was friendly and seemed to not be very busy during my wife’s biometrics appointment, so I would echo the recommendation of showing up and trying to talk to someone there.

Got the paper biometrics notice in the mail yesterday. 9/11/2023 Package delivered to Phoenix lockbox 9/13/2023 myUSCIS status update: Case Was Received And A Receipt Notice Was Sent 9/15/2023 Check cashed 9/22/2023 Extension Letter received (dated 9/16); myUSCIS status update: Biometrics Appointment was Scheduled 10/02/2023 Biometrics notice received 10/11/2023 Biometrics appointment scheduled

Just looked back through this thread and it looks like no one has received a paper biometrics appointment notice in the mail yet. We’re still waiting on that, too.

A couple thoughts since others have already given good advice: 1) It could be slightly less than 4 years depending on various factors (exactly how far along you are now with the residency requirement, whether you file as soon as the 90-day window opens, what your local field office is, how long it takes to process the case, etc.). Of course, it could be longer, too; no guarantees in this process. 2) Many of us on this site, myself included, waited or have waited for a lot longer than 4 years to be together full-time with loved ones. That’s a reality of immigration. Some things are worth the wait, but you’ll have to decide for yourself if naturalization is one of those.

Your experience is not the norm since the I-751 is supposed to be adjudicated before a decision can be made on the N-400. Did you follow up with USCIS about the status of the I-751 or did this come up at the interview?

Like @top_secret, myUSCIS is also showing the case status as Biometrics Appointment was Scheduled as of today (9/22). The notice appears in the Documents tab and is scheduled for 10/11 and the notice date is also today, 9/22, so we will see when the physical letter arrives. 9/11/2023 Package delivered to Phoenix lockbox 9/13/2023 myUSCIS status update: Case Was Received And A Receipt Notice Was Sent 9/15/2023 Check cashed 9/22/2023 Extension Letter received (dated 9/16); myUSCIS status update: Biometrics Appointment was Scheduled 10/11/2023 Biometrics appointment

Extension letter arrived in the mail today. Current recap: 9/11 Package delivered to Phoenix lockbox 9/13 myUSCIS status update: Case Was Received And A Receipt Notice Was Sent 9/15 Check cashed 9/22 Extension Letter received (dated 9/16)

I would just say send what you can. My approach in general is to try to connect the dots for whoever is reviewing the file. So for example, we had a couple of shared credit cards where statements weren’t generated during certain months because we didn’t spend anything on them. I still made sure to put a placeholder in the packet explaining that no statement was generated that month. Your explanation of why the transcript is not available would be along the same lines. FWIW, when you do get the transcript it would probably be useful to upload to the unsolicited evidence section in myUSCIS (assuming you don’t get it until after you file the I-751).

Same with us for the G-1145, no text or email was ever sent.

The PDF of the extension letter just showed up in the Documents section of myUSCIS for us as well (no physical letter received yet). Curiously, there is one scanned .tif file in the Your Uploads section right now which only includes 25 of the more than 800 pages of evidence we sent with our packet. Will be interesting to see if that is ever updated.