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The person you are really messing up is your older daughter. She will grow up feeling like an American, but will NOT be one. She has no path to a GC unless she marries an American.

Yup

Before you file i-130, do you qualify for direct consular filing? Can you get a US based job offer?

I have helped a few on Reddit who did not know that they were U.S. citizens at birth (seems to rife in Canada). 1) was your daughter born in wedlock? If not, you need to have spent only ONE year in the U.S. prior to her birth. 2) in wedlock - 5 years, 2 of those after 14. 3) are either of your parents US citizens with the required 5/2 residence? She would qualify by filing N600k.

IF2 IF1 for wife. https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/lawful-permanent-residents/immigrant-classes-admission

Buy her a plane ticket and apply for 1st time passport.

How did you become a U.S. citizen?

Answer is no.

Asked and answered. There is no space on an i130 or i140 or DV form for a second spouse. ZERO. Man can divorce one wife. Talaq, talaq, talaq while wife is not menstruating. Be fair and give generous spousal support. Man can include ALL of the children + one wife. Exwife can be sponsored by a USC child once that child is 21. When exwife comes, you can cohabit without getting married. Immigration is only difficult for POLYGAMOUS Muslim men.

It seems fairly clearcut. I'm going to leave out diversity - how he have filled out the diversity entry is probably his best way forward (and divorce the other one). Polygamy is legal for Muslim men in most Muslim countries. If the husband is a US dual citizen, then he broke the law. Pick one wife, divorce the other. It is arguable whether the non US wife broke any laws here. So ASSUMING US wife is sponsoring him, then he has to go with that US wife and divorce the other. The US wife (however) broke US laws by practicing polygamy - so entirely possible embassy will never give him an immigrant visa. ASSUMING someone else is sponsoring him, he WASN'T committing a crime by practicing polygamy. Now that he desires a US green card, he must divorce one of the wives. That wife gets to immigrate with him. He will have GREAT difficulty bringing the other wife even if he divorces 1st wife and sponsors the other. Someone who is of the mindset that polygamy is OK (given the great SOCIAL costs of legal polygamy in Muslim countries) should maybe reconsider his decision to immigrate.

Just gave you guidance. 1) f you are the US citizen (note that you it is a grey area whether you BROKE the law by practicing polygamy even though you have only 1 spouse): Your husband must divorce wife number 2. You (as ONLY wife) may sponsor him. It must be a real divorce. He can sponsor his children by the 2nd wife. He must make sure to add them to his i130A and DS260. He can never THINK to sponsor the 2nd wife by divorcing you and marrying her. 2) If someone ELSE is sponsoring your husband (be it employer or his US parent or his US child): Your husband MUST pick one of you to divorce. Could be wife 1 (you) or wife (2). He can sponsor all his children.

A few, yes. Anecdotally, on reddit - there are complaints by Eb3 unskilled filers who admit to using agencies - they are assigned to jobs that don't pay enough for where they live. You'll see on Hacking, people who get GCs when they arrive but there is no job for them. Hacking is very suspicious but if you make yourself available for the job, I don't think it's a scam. Maybe just never naturalize and be happy with a GC. There is a website that claims to show the employers who file for EB3 petitions. You can't sort by unskilled/agencies BUT you can sort by salaries. https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/green-card/ My hunch is that salaries under 50k, 40k are EB3 unskilled positions. Top industries are poultry and other food processing jobs. There looks to be a high rate of approvals, so I'm sure the process completes and I'm also confident that "Wayne Farms" and "Catfish ..." recruit through agencies. If one looks at where those factories are located and add a google search for "recruitment agencies", I'm sure you can figure out the name of the agencies. Back when M was active, he said that he thought it was a little known but (relatively) cheap way of getting a green card. Better than EB5 if you think about it - no conditions to be removed.

Absolutely, CSPA matters. It's a matter of law. If you are under 21 according to calculations, you qualify as a derivative. Let's rewind. 1) date of filing of application (i130) 2) date of approval of i130 3) What month and year did you turn 21?

Just intellectual curiosity. Tons of people on various expat forums talk about it openly. Nobody puts a name to the agencies. It's fine - @Family, there's probably a public resource out there naming ALL the Eb3 sponsoring agencies. I happen to be curious about the cottage industries springing up around getting people workbased visas. @Kate8kate0, divorce does not impact either of you whatsoever in terms of green cards. There are no conditions to remove.

@Family, not as much as 30k. Mercan and BDV are mentioned quite a bit.

Congrats. Did the child enter with a visa?

You need to check the requirements of every transit country. What this says to me is that people forge the i551 stamps to get into the U.S. @Crazy Cat, wanna bet that some people forged the i551 stamps. Got into U.S. somehow. Though presumably caught at CBP. Then claimed asylum at the airport. Maybe then they claim asylum? Would not surprise me if CBP starts expanding its presence overseas with preclearance.

@Lyz, do you have the card and extension letter? Is the letter still valid? Maybe FedEx to Nairobi.

They have the authority with respect to boarding a plane landing in the U.S. They were not talking about a plane landing in the UK.

@FONA, you can answer no to all the questions. If you interpret the resolution to mean “acquitted = never arrested.” Sure, i will give you that point. Everyone applying for a visa at the consulate has to supply a police report. Everyone. What will your police report say if you are completely acquitted? Will it still note the arrest? It is up to the officer. They may approve you or most likely look into what the arrests were for. If they do, you will be ruled inadmissible. Or they simply sit on your case and the visa allocation runs out, making your lottery win useless.

The consulate will deny you even if your crimes do not technically reach the level of moral turpitude. And there is no appeal. Even if you are acquitted, they can still deny you if you are applying through a consulate or simply issue you a request for more information and send you for additional screening. That screening will take forever so that you can never get an immigrant visa. Also, it isn’t just a question of filling out DS260. A police report is required,

I would just get a letter from his doc now. If they ask at the interview, present that. Military records should be good. SS records don’t prove physical presence. I would think the military records are solid. Do you have copies of his university/HS diploma? Also good.

Always get the certified translations.

This N600k is interesting for children of USC if USC has insufficient requisite physical presence. Get it or lose it before 18. Whereas the child of a USC with sufficient physical presence is always a USC from birth. Whether or not anything is filed.

I would read this thoroughly.