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Your son in law should get one too along with tax return transcripts.

See above. Send through attorney if she has one or send it in via mail yourself. Don’t give it to her to upload. Give your son in law copy in sealed envelope marked for government official’s eyes only.

True - but just to avert trouble have the entire package ready to go (i30+i485 docs). Just in case the clerk is some busybody who has a relative in ICE.

1) you can try to keep it private - but obviously go through it carefully to make sure it is filled out 100 % correct. use this strategy - https://reddit.com/r/immigration/s/OUq15jMJId 2) what country?

@Haltech007, i downloaded florida marriage license apps from a couple of different counties - you don’t need a an SSN. Valid Taiwanese passport will do. https://www.browardclerk.org/Web2/Marriage/MarriageLicenseApplication Seems very straightforward in Florida. One pager. Can use in any county.

1) yea, file k3 2) did your daughter fill out i130 with the consular option picked and adjustment of status blank? 3) she could have filed in May 2022? Any reason she did not? 4) what country?

What state are you in? never mind, i see Florida.

I think you know the worst on here - someone who was out for a few months (but a pattern of doing so more than once) was given an NTA in a month’s time. Unlike the Filipino (kids) who were out for a decade, expired card, had not kept up taxes or the Pakistanis with the overvigilant exit control, you have been paying Uncle Sam. Your business just took longer to transact with Covid AND you are flying LHR to JFK with a UK passport with your US wife. No reason to think you would not fall in the overwhelming majority who enter successfully. You have only carry on and you can use MPC. Good luck and report back.

I am flying to jfk from Milan sept 30. I will NOT use my global entry and use mobile passport control and tell you what that is like.

He/she made it back after being denied boarding on last leg of flight.

@UKspouseUSwife, this kid made it back with expired card and renewal receipt after 13 years absence. Philippines. https://reddit.com/r/immigration/s/aQBNYcPcKE 1) both of you sign up for MPC 2) your wife holds the 2 passports, her US passport on the outside as you walk through. I’ll find the other anecdote on here where some kid made it back after interrogation and airline not letting him/her board.

Even if your wife has an i130 for each of her children, her grandchildren will likely age out. Realistic non family based immigration: 1) train as a nurse, there are agencies who get GCs for nurses. 2) train as a doctor, medical residency in US, GC if working in underserved area 3) stem bachelor degree or masters - 3 year work visa and hopefully your employer likes you enough to sponsor you

No.

More than 1 year is nothing. Get on plane.

@Slim213, no more travels for now. Writ of mandamus with good law firm.

Was this on this forum or Reddit? never mind - i remember now.

Yes, but I can tell you the officer just asks your name - most of the time does not even look at ID. I have flown Europe to JFK/EWR at least 10 times in the last 4.5 years on global entry. 6 times since March 2020. Maybe more. 3 times in the last 8 months.

@UKspouseUSwife, mobile passport control is the way to go. You go to global entry line at jfk. https://reddit.com/r/Flights/s/aj9xut6emT

I fly into JFK and Newark all the time from LHR. You probably don’t have global entry (lovely - just facial recognition. Try downloading mobile passport control (i never used it) but i think it is an expedited line too. People denied boarding with valid cards fly from places like Pakistan with exit controls. You have no checkin. Get mobile boarding passes, and the only check will be boarding. I really doubt you will have issues at the gate with British passport and GC, with US wife.

1) you cannot transfer i130s. 2) because you had a removal case, you can’t just file i485 with uscis. After i130 is approved, lawyer needs to close the case with immigration court and then get i485 adjudicated either by court or uscis. Did your wife have a removal case? 3) have you been paying taxes under your own SSN/ITIN?

The form asks for 5 years of trips even though you need 3 years of residence.

As @Mike E says, you should be fine to return. The record here was 9 years out of the US with expired card and green card renewal receipt. You have a 10 year GC and I assume you were filing US tax returns (not that matters at the border so much) and you are flying from UK - you should be fine. Do NOT sign i-407. If you absolutely have to leave March 2024, I would file i-131 reentry permit as soon as you land and do the biometrics. Make it for 2 years. You don’t HAVE to use i-131 but it will make your life easier when you go back and forth. Never leave again without i-131 field and biometrics done. If you are a risk taker type, I would file for N400 at the 3 year mark. Document and be truthful about your absences and make it clear that you reside in the US and were taking care of business in UK. The danger here is that the N400 form will look at your last FIVE years. So they may end up saying that you lost your GC. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-400.pdf page 7. Less risky is to wait 5 years to apply.

If I do a cursory google of "Japanese citizen" and "dual citizenship" - what I see is article after article of Japan NOT enforcing these rules. So, if I were you, I would naturalize AND keep renewing my Japanese passport.

What @Mike E says. With his criminal record, I would just try to enter with his GC at land border. File as many tax returns as possible. Unlikely he owes anything. Get an attorney before renewing GC/filing N400. Did either or both of his parents naturalize? And how old was he at the time? This is important as he may be a U.S. citizen.

If she has been here since Covid - what have the kids been doing for school the whole time?