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Took about 10 days for me in 2021. I'm saying 4-6 weeks based on what I see in the last 2 years on VJ.

What do you mean by she's doing the divorce? You can file for divorce without her permission any moment. With children involved it's harder, for sure.

Do you have a valid WAVA case? Did she physically abuse you? Do you have police reports or restraining orders? Did you suffer mental abuse that is documented? Do you have witnesses? It sounds like a weak / no WAVA case so far.

You probably have to divorce and move on / find a different avenue for staying in the US. Staying married means you'll be liable for any new debts she's accumulating.

I see, I don't think I ever had an alert from them 😅

Capital One? BoA? I think at the point of notification to accept / decline, the transaction is already dead in most cases and requires attempting paying again. At least in my experience with those two banks. I cannot say with certainty about others.

Bring to the interview. You're likely going to be asked whether you had any trips between filing and the interview.

A piece of paper with a table and three columns. First column - question number and page, second column - current answer, third column - correct answer. Give it at the interview to the officer. It doesn't matter whether it's paper or online application. You can bring this as well as any additional evidence in printed form to the interview.

How is NVC related to this? This is naturalization / removal of conditions case. No visas, no embassies involved.

Prepare an errata sheet, bring to the interview and tell IO at the beginning you have few corrections to make. Give them the errata sheet.

Well, I anticipated this in November: Based on that thread, you were also concerned about it. Did you find a joint sponsor in the meantime? Finding a job now is probably a very late move that won't work.

To keep or bring? To keep because USCIS wouldn't play games saying they don't believe copies. If they're documents on watermarked official paper it's hard to say they're fake. I know I'm too defensive when it comes to keeping paperwork, but you can never underestimate the federal agency's ability to cause issues in the future. There was a thread recently about DOS not issuing passport to a young US citizen, doubting their whole naturalization

My advice is to keep original case receipts and approval letters in addition to what you're keeping. In addition, it wouldn't hurt to scan everything you have and store in the cloud AND USB stick AND computer. Keeping three copies in three different places ensures you can recover data after natural disaster / fire or computer malfunction. You never know when you may be asked again to reprove everything. The chance of it happening is low, but it would be hard if you destroy all evidence. It's a lot of work to scan, but the cost of storing it in the cloud is free or close to 0.

Yes there is a limit of 2 attempts only, after which you have to file a new N-400.

What matters is not a pick up date but post mark date. And it got marked before 04/19, so you're good. I wouldn't worry about this. USCIS comes and empties PO box in batches, not daily from what I understand.

4-6 weeks is typical to get extension letter / receipt after filing. You mailed it on Saturday, I'd think you should get news by May 6 - May 20th. Ideally you should have filed in February-March

But it can be few months. We just don't know because USCIS is not consistent processing these cases.

It is. Good luck!

That's the classical tactics by USCIS, I've seen it few times now. The only problem is, some get lucky but eventually the resources get shifted elsewhere and processing becomes slow without any warning. Good example is I-751. When I filed mine, California Service center was one of the fastest. Within a year it degraded to be one of the slowest, while Potomac improved.

You need to answer three questions and back it up with evidence: 1) Why are you living apart? Show the letters ans other documentation proving your grad school obligations and her internship. 2) What effort do you take to see each other and keep the marriage alive? E.g. show plane tickets, hotel and other reservations, photos together, events you attend together, vacations you take together, affidavits from friends and family. You should start comingling finances. Can you both open a joint savings account and start saving for a common goal such as deposit for lease, or downpayment? Doesn't have to be big contributions, if both of you can start saving $100 a month that's already something and better than nothing. 3) What is the long term plan? You need to be able to explain how you will build life once one of your finishes their obligations. Are you moving to her city? Is she moving to your city? What's the timeframe? These cases are harder but approvable if you can document everything well and convince immigration the marriage is geniuine.

There's a possibility of it taking a year or so. It's hard to predict.

It's worth trying. I wouldn't trust it 100% though. Many banks have advanced AI fraud detection systems. Humans (even security team) often cannot do much about it, or override it until charge actually is attempted and denied. I read when people attempted giving notice to the bank, the person on the call said they did something on the backend, only to find later transaction was declined.

With any evidence - provide all pages or take a risk of receiving RFE.

You call, there's no right or wrong answer. I bet if you include boarding passes, passport scans will make very little difference. It may give a slight indication that your spouse is trusting you with their very important document (passport) but that's a very very minor point and also just my opinion, not supported by evidence.

You're solid then.