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Isn't this normal and how it works? I did some house improvements at my house, finished a basement, added HW floors, etc etc ... and my tax bill increased when the appraisers came out and appraised it at a higher value.

We had the exact same thing happen a few weeks ago with my mother-in-law's passport. Its so frustrating that their new courier doesn't deliver to remote addresses! I even emailed the 2GO support line several times prior to ask if the address is deliverable and they didn't answer. And was unable to reach them by phone. In anycase, after getting that same message from VFS, we chose a 2GO facility. But the 2GO location in the official new list was actually closed 2 years ago. What a mess!! I emailed VFS to ask about the fact that the 2GO was closed and moved to a new address, if that would be acceptable location to pick it up. They did not reply. Rather than risk using the new address of them, we chose a different 2GO office that was still open and listed in the official list of supported premium pick up locations. Then when we paid the 600php delivery fee we used the 2GO address .. we put "first and last name followed by c/o 2GO and the address of the 2GO office. I did not want to risk using the home address .. I wanted to make sure they sent it to the right place! After doing that and emailing the VFS that we chose that office and sent them the receipt, we got 2 emails saying the passport is out for delivery but do no pick it up until the tracking shows it is delivered. However, the 2GO tracking website is down and was unable to track it or reach by phone. Emailed them and they replied it is in transit and waiting for final delivery. But the same day 2GO did called that it has arrived, and my brother-in-law picked it up with an authorization letter. Great new carrier ....

Have you even met in person or know who your fiancee will be? (A lot of Indian co-workers here go back and meet with several eligible choices chosen by their parents)

File a dispute with your credit card company.

Yup, all we sent was the marriage certificate and maybe some wedding photos. You just arrived from overseas, and just got married. Unless it looks like fraud for some reason, that's all you need. It is for the ROC, I-751, that you need all the evidence to show that you are living as husband and wife. Keep in mind to plan ahead for doing a joint lease or joint house title, because that is one of the keys. and comingling the finances.

Since you asked .. I'm giving my opinion .... If the "differences" broke you up getting married while at the most exciting and easiest honeymoon period, then most likely the "love" (if not fear of no green card, or just the feel of losing something), is not going to be enough to handle years and years, if not even a month, of differences that affect and gnaw away at your everyday life, self-esteem, building an every increasing amount of resentment and hatred, .. it probably won't even be long enough to file the I-751. You're just delaying the inevitable and going to cause a lot of pain. So I think the best thing is to find a more compatible partner .. because the "love" is not going to last long given your differences.

When I had my ICE, I would be filling it up every 3 - 4 days. I didn't find it inconvenient, but I hated fueling it in the winter time. Yup, taking a road trip will take longer, that can be a show stopper if you don't like to take breaks. But I enjoy using the gas savings on nice restaurants when I stop. Countless co-workers have EV's. I never ever heard any of them saying their car is superior than someone else's ICE. But everyone does tout, praises, and love the advantages that it offers them, which is not the same as saying they are better than ICE... Everyone I know certainly understands an EV is not right or better for everyone. In fact for me, I got my daughter an ICE car, but my Wife and I love our Tesla's. I can't live without the self-driving, but that is not specific to an EV. Its the same deal with everyone saying discussing one brand or model vs another, EV or not. Everyone has their own preference without claiming their car is better than someone else's. Though it does seem that BMW owners at work say their car is better than the Audi owners. and vice versa, lol .. so maybe I'm not exactly correct! lol But in my experience, the satisfaction and subsequent loyalty to an EV is very high .. higher than owning any other car. For the general public, without the ability the charge the car at home, and other requirements, it certainly is still a niche market ... no one I heard is saying that everyone should buy an EV or its better, its just better for their own needs .. That wouldn't make any sense.

Same, I bought my 2nd Tesla just before it endedd. Got Federal tax credit, State EV credit, and a nice local EV tax credit. Electricity in my town is municipal, only about 0.14/KW or something like that. All the surrounds towns are much more though. With all the mileage I drive everyday, zero maintenance except for tires, and a good resale when I traded my old one in, the car practically pays for itself. I have a 50A circuit for charging 2 Teslas .. That guy says 75A doesn't know what he is talking about. Now, when I drive by a gas station, they feel so foreign to me .. The thought of pumping gas turns me off ...

It is very common for Filipinos to move their maiden name to their middle name when getting married. My Wife did it, as well as all the other Filipinos we know. Never heard of any issues. There was no issue in getting the green card., driver's license, and social security card all with the new middle and last name. I believe any combination of your old name and new last name is fine. Its not like you are changing it to an arbitrary name. I was even able to swap my middle and first name at the social security office with my marriage certificate. For USCIS purposes, there is no need to do a name change in your original Country. If your passport will not expire before you get your citizenship, then just use your old passport when traveling but be sure the airline tickets will match your passport name. Then when you become a citizen your new passport will have your new name. Disclaimer: I don't know if there any odd situations with Canadian laws if you every need to do any government business. But in our case, plenty of people don't go through the hassle of changing their legal name in the Philippines, while still using their new married name in the USA. But again, Canadian laws can be different.

Going back to the original topic of mother-in-law from the Philippines ... Thanks, you were right, My mother-in-law in the Philippines just got her tourist visa too,

So why don't you take your Wife for a visit to your family, and submit lots of proof, while they process the 221-g?

Making ties more stronger will only hurt your chance of getting a visit visa. But its a moot point, because you won't get one anyways due to your immigrant intent, marriage to a US citizen who still lives in USA, not to mention suspected visa fraud which you nailed the coffin shut on. Just curious, why couldn't get the W2 and tax returns within the 6 months? That sounds fishy.

I can't log in to use online services without going through one of two verification methods. Either ID.me or Login.gov (names might be slightly wrong, but they are the only 2 options to log in). I am able to log in and see a dashboard, but can't do anything there without verifying myself with a valid ID through one of those two sites. I have tired this with both to no avail. >> One of those, I forget which one, should accept your passport as an ID. Once you are logged to SSA you can verify if they really have your SSN matched to your correct name and spelling. If that is the case, it proves your issue is just a matter of establishing a credit history. That has been discussed before how you can do that, for example, open a secured credit card, joint with Amex, etc.. You can also try some credit reporting apps, like Credit Karma, Experian, etc.. but I don't think that will help since you have no credit reord at this point.

Are you saying when you try to login to the SSA webpage, it does not find a match for your SSN and name?

This is really strange. You filed the I-130 just a month after the marriage, and you said you included evidence and such. They can't possibly expect you to co-mingle everything while she is still overseas and only married for a month. That is one reason it is a CR-1 and not an IR-1. It almost seems like the adjudicating officer was new and got confused that this is a CR-1 and you were just married. Hence, it could just be a simple mistake. Or else there is something very suspicious and odd about what you submitted that made them think this is fraudulent. If that is the case, you need to figure out what that is to overcome it. Or maybe they lost all the evidence you submitted and got angry that you submitted nothing? Or maybe you didn't include it properly, for example, did you write the names, dates, and location on the back of all photos? Did you include photos with her family? Usually people put 4 per sheet and add a caption with minimum names, date, locations. I would suggest including a very clear letter explaining your relationship timeline, your Wife is overseas and you just got married, and how you have been preparing for her arrival in usa to start your life together. Unfortunately, at this point, you should submit the kitchen sink with this. Include an inventory letter for all the different evidence. I would suggest you take your package and review it with a top immigration lawyer to make sure. You don't want to cut any corners, need to overkill it, and cover every possible angle

OP needs to answer the question if he received an RFE before the NOID, and if so what did he send it? It would be odd if he is married in May, then filed in June they would expect so much .. seems like there was a RFE that he didn't reply to.

Wow, that is all so incredibly wrong 1) You absolutely can file taxes without an SSN for your foreign spouse. You just need an ITIN which can be requested by filing form W-7 the first time you file jointly (even without an SSN or ITIN). 2) She can't simply file as head of household for many reasons, including: - There are requirements such as paying at least 50% of the cost of keeping up a home. She may not qualify if she is spending 6 months+ overseas and getting money from her husband. - You need to have a dependent parent that you pay for, or a dependent child living with you that is not taken as a dependent on anyone else's tax return. There is no mention of of this in the thread that she qualifies for this. - You must NOT be married per the IRS rules, which is not going to help your case with the USCIS especially if you don't qualify. - The IRS considers you married if you were legally married before the end of the tax year. So per the IRS rules, they are considered married Hence, For the same reasons they can't file as single, they can't file as HOH. If you have been filing as HOH without meeting the above qualifications then you have been committing tax fraud and should amend immediately.

Its impossible for anyone to know why the CO might have been suspicious of you. I bet its not from the tax return, but no one knows. It may even have nothing to do with anything you submitted. In anycase, the CO will look at the totality of all the data they have to judge whether your marriage is real or not. They are very good with their vast databases and experience at determining fraudulent VISA and marriage based applications. So don't worry, they won't decide just on one ignorant tax error.

True, sorry, I went on an tangent. I thought that was clear when I said "this will not work for the PSA or CFO:. But the reason I thought it was important was for those who are in different shoes and searching for "ROM", they could get confused. It is really frustrating when people in my shoes give or get so much mis-information about the ROM. But you are right, I admit, the tangent didn't belong here and only made things confusing for the point at hand,

Sorry, but I am going to both agree and totally disagree with that simplistic view. For a simple business, or maybe you could even say for "many" self-employed business owners, sure it can be simple and have only one way of doing things. They collect their pile of receipts, books, etc..and so forth, hand it over to the CPA. And its so easy to do that, I don't know why they just don't do it themselves with Turbotax home and business edition. Its not hard as you said. On the other hand, a top sophisticated and clever CPA can work with a more sophisticated business owner to do things in ways that are extremely complex. I know people who started their own small business, have only 1-2 employees, and the taxes they do are incredibly complex the way they handle everything .. They also setup LLC's and other complex structures to meet the unique needs of that business. And again, I am not talking about a large corporation, just a single owner .. So Yes .. there are so many many different ways to set up a small business and manage the income,expenses, and so forth ... It can be very simple as you said, to extremely complex and mind blowing with techniques that I can promise you that you never heard of (I didn't until this guy explained me all the things they are doing) ... Going back to this OP, we have no idea whether he has just a simple business or a complex setup that his CPA did .. But ok, I admit, this sounds like something very simple .. and I bet we don't have all the facts and truth's about what both the CPAs really said and whats really going on ... So all our speculating is just making a huge set of assumptions .. But I bet this is all about him trying to manipulate things to qualify ;...

Self-employment taxes are very complicated and very nuanced. There was a money article a while ago where, for an experiment, they took the taxes to many different reputable CPAs. Each one came up with a very different tax return, some where dramatically different. Even a simple thing like doing Amazon vine reviews (doing reviews in exchange for receiving the products) there are a dozen totally different professional opinions from CPA, and so forth on how you must declare the income (value of the free products that were reviewed). Most of them are totally wrong. No CPA is going to propose to amend 3 years of tax returns and pay interest and penalties. Therefore, this suggests that there was nothing wrong with his taxes, and this CPA was requested to come up with a solution to how to massage the tax return to meet the USCIS requirements. Nothing illegal about this since there are so many ways to do and file the taxes. But this is a very unwise choice that will cost thousands of dollars, and has a risk of failure, since you will now need to include the whole amended and previous tax return instead of transcripts. Its likely USCIS will not have a clue how to read the returns and figure out the mess. Or maybe they will just be so confused they will ask for joint sponsor anyways. Its not a good path to go in, and others have said, get a joint sponsor at this point.

What is your plan B if the mother is denied an expedited VISA appointment or if she (most likely) gets denied a visa?

And interest and penalties

We did not file a ROM and I had no issue at all in using our USA marriage certificate to recognize our marriage and get a Balikbayan visa on arrival to the Philippines. In addition, I had no issue at all using the USA marriage certificate for a local bank in Manila to recognize our marriage. Originally the bank asked me to get it notarized at the Phiippine embassy in USA. But they said no because the Philippines joined the Apostille convention, so all I needed to do was to run into Boston and get an Apostille stamp for it to get it recognized there. But of course, the PSA is not going to accept it if my Wife wanted to change her passport name. LIkewise, the CFO is not going to accept it without a fight.

Yes, that is the number I have too. Sorry, I don't remember the options I pressed. But i remember that I started calling them just before they opened, Manila time in order to try to catch them before they got swamped by calls. I estimated how much time to get through the menus so that they would just be opened by the time they tried to transfer me From the website: Pease contact the Customer Service Center for help in making these appointments.  English and Filipino-speaking customer service agents are also available at telephone numbers (02) 7792-8988 or (02) 8548-8223.  The call center is open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Manila time), except on Philippine and U.S. holidays.  Callers in the United States should check the local time in Manila before they call (703) 520-2235.