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Doesn't hurt to have any income statements as long as your income is 1.25 * poverty guidelines for the number in your household + K1 beneficiary. 1. Do you mean the estimated tax vouchers? If yes, then that's not a problem. Just show your past 3 year's tax return transcripts showing you paid your taxes. 2. Can show appraisal values of properties and/or deeds. Are properties collecting rent payments? If yes, then that should show up in the tax return transcripts. And you can show rent deposits and explain in the last part of Addition Information. 3. Do you have 1099-R? Distributions should show up in the tax return transcripts. And show the bank deposits of the distributions. Is your income 1.25 * poverty guidelines for the number in your household + K1 beneficiary? If yes, then you don't need a joint sponsor. You can also include a bank reference letter showing your gross deposits and withdrawals from the past year. I-134 is not legally binding. I-864 is legally binding.

If you are talking about the I-693 medical exam, I don't think any insurance covers the costs or even partial costs. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/798091-request-for-form-i-693-courtesy-email/page/2/#findComment-10826873 The Civil Surgeon we went to was in our health insurance network, but the clinic did not deduct any of the costs even with our health insurance card. You can call around / shop around, but the costs I found in Atlanta were around 300-400, even if you want the doctor to do the minimum like transcribe the vaccine record. In our case, my foreign spouse was missing a vaccine dose, so we paid an extra 160 just to get it done that day. We could have probably gotten the vaccine dose at Kroger for free, covered by our health insurance, but we wanted the I-693 paperwork done ASAP to submit to USCIS. Do you have dental coverage from work? Even with most dental coverage, expect the extraction and crown to be 500-1000 or higher.

Do your research on how long it will take to get your marriage certificate. Depending on which county clerk, it can take a few days to over a month to get the marriage certificate, which can be your official name change. @Loren Y is a marriage officiant in Las Vegas that can get take your marriage license, perform a short ceremony, file for your marriage certificate and you can get the marriage certificate the same day. Don't know if he still logins to VJ? If you can send off your I-485 within 1 month of US entry, then you are balling. You should make sure that you have enough time after getting the marriage certificate to update name changes (if you have name change) to banks, state ID, SSN, etc. before the I-94 expires.

Good idea! ADIT can buy some time till oath and US passport.

The extension letter is nothing without the green card? So in other words, can not travel after green card is surrendered and before the US passport issued?

I'm asking for someone not on VJ. If an interview is scheduled, can one travel outside of the country before the scheduled interview and return for the interview using the GC and 48-month extension letter? Or will the interview be re-scheduled? If an interview is scheduled, can one travel outside of the country after the interview but before the oath if the GC is taken back? Or after the oath before the US passport? Thanks in advance.

You can follow the AOS guide at https://www.visajourney.com/guides/adjustment-of-status-k1-k3-visas/ AOS needs to include marriage certificate from the county clerk, not just the marriage license. It doesn't hurt to include some bona fide relationship evidence with the I-485. But you definitely need to include more evidence of bona fide relationship with the I-751.

You can follow @Sukie advice to include affidavits in your I-751. After moving each time, did you update with the AR-11 to USCIS? https://www.uscis.gov/ar-11 You should have updated the drivers licenses/state IDs and statements with the updated addresses after each move. I'm a big fan of using the I-751, Part 11, Additional Information, to explain unique situations and evidence like address history, etc. You can also include copies of driver's licenses or state IDs with matching addresses or joint bank account(s)/credit cards with matching addresses, etc.

Do you mean these data? https://www.casestatusext.com/forms/I-751/IOE-LB https://**.today/uscis_cases/type/I-751?case_center=IOE

Please complete your Timeline. If you already filed, then it's too late anyway to worry. The 3 tax return transcripts should be sufficient. If not, USCIS will send an RFE.

I think applying for naturalization actually shortens the green card process for many.

If you have an end date, then the consulate may assume the K1 beneficiary has no intention to AOS and plan to return to home country after marriage. For my K1 beneficiary, we put No End Date.

Has the I-129F been sent to the consulate yet from the NVC? You send the I-134 to the K1 beneficiary to take to the consulate interview. Wait till the consulate has the case and the K1 beneficiary has scheduled the medical and interview before putting down the From date estimate. For the To date, select No End Date. Then send the I-134 with the latest financial support information to the K1 beneficiary. You can look back at our Profile->Our Story to see our sequence of events/actions. Edit: I see that medical is in 2025-01 and interview is in 2025-02, so you should send the K1 beneficiary now. And put down the anticipated From date.

The K1 interview can be requested for any third country consulate as long as the K1 beneficiary can show legal status there. Plus, the consulate interviews may ask if they resided in any country(s) illegally. Given what you wrote, it may be best to get the Portugal residency first, before the K1 interview. Or if the Portugal residence does not come first, request the K1 interview in the home country Peru, and have a detailed explanation of the Portugal residence and work situation. To make a change in the consulate interview, best to do it before the NVC stage.

If you look at our Timeline or Our Story, it took us 6 months to get the EAD after expedite request. AOS was approved after 9 months. Approval times can vary greatly. VJ members data for EAD at https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/eadstats.php VJ members data for AOS at https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/aosstats.php

Yes. As @SalishSea said you can request the K1 interview be at a 3rd country provided the beneficiary has legal status there. According to the latest VJ data https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php The average number of days from the consulate receiving the case from NVC to the interview are: 34 days: Pakistan 78 days: United Arab Emirates So Pakistan seems faster to the interview than UAE. The consulate would want police records or single status document of both the home country and the third country. For the beneficiary who wants to continue working in the 3rd country while waiting for K1 approval, these are the trade-offs

800 pages is over 4 inches thick? Our's was around 400 pages or about 2 inches thick.

Yes, I believe the K1 is good for 6 months after the medical?

Let's see from your TImeline. 2024-11 is your NOA1. The latest VJ Timeline K1 data are at https://www.visajourney.com/times/k1-fiance-visa-historical/ 2025-04 to 2025-05: Texas Service Center NOA1 to NOA2 is on average 140-166 days (5-6 months) 2025-06 to 2025-07: NOA2 to NVC is about 68 days (2 months) 2025-08 to 2025-09: At NVC (32 days) to consulate (3 days) For Italy, the days receiving from NVC to interview is about 78-92 days (2-3 months) https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php 2025-10 to 2025-12: You can choose to schedule the medical or interview for later dates in a window of 4 to 6 weeks (about 1 to 1.5 months). The K1 visa itself is good for 5 months after it is issued. 2025-03 to 2025-05: K1 expiration, unless I'm missing some calculations? So I would not request a NOA2 extension but instead, after the consulate receives your case, schedule the medical or the consulate interview for later dates in the window of 4- to 6-weeks as that may give you more control of the timing and schedule.

Did you have US work income as a tourist ESTA?

Yes, the OP has a TPS (Temporary Protected Status) with the USCIS, not a green card. OP is applying for a family-based green card again. Passport renewal is for the Ethiopian embassy to waive the green card requirement in lieu of the TPS.

Ethiopian passport renewal questions are for the Ethiopian embassy, not USCIS. Try calling or emailing https://ethiopianembassy.org/about-embassy/

I'm not familiar with the MENA (Middle East North Africa) beneficiary requirements being any different to USCIS? For Part 2, Item 54, it sounds like you two have met in person within the past 2 years. So list the dates when you two met and list the copies of the evidence for those dates like boarding passes, flight receipts, photos, etc. and include in the I-129F. Put in Part 8, Additional Information if you need more space. For the interview, take all the original evidence in case the consulate asks for them. The interview comes down to is the beneficiary familiar enough with the US citizen to marry and can the US petitioner support the beneficiary? Does the beneficiary know your work or how much you make (from I-134)? Know your family members? Does the US citizen know the beneficiary’s family members? Specific details of first meeting like when or where or what, etc.? Specific details of the relationship like special dates you two celebrate, or religious conflicts, chat logs? etc. Trust me, the wait and the interview is too stressful to fabricate a relationship. The consulate staff is trained to spot fake relationships. They may ask questions they already know the answers to see how the beneficiary answers? Best to keep everything truthful and simple to prove bona fide relationship. Pro tip: while waiting for the USCIS approval and for the interview, spend the time getting to know each other deeply. Be conscious of the details of how your relationship is developing, etc.

There is no order or reason why some cases get processed faster than others. Unless NVC has a phone number you can call, it sounds like you are doing the most allowed with the NVC public inquiry form. You can wait and submit another inquiry next week? But I wouldn't try to do too many successive inquiries at once.

As others have said, you can submit a copy of the DS-3025 with your AOS to get the process rolling. USCIS may or may not ask for an I-693 RFE later. If you do receive the RFE, you take a copy of the DS-3025 to a US Civil Surgeon for the I-693 medical and the doctor will determine the course of action.