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OH, before I forget, I was naturalized in order to become a U.S Citizen over 10 years ago, but on the applications it does ask for Alien Registration numbers for myself, do I need to provide these even though I am a US Citizen and that number is no longer relevant in my day-to-day life, should I include this?

Does anyone know whether they want an original copy of our marriage certificate in the package (concurrent filing) or a photo-copy? And on my wife's I-94 it says she was admitted as a WB, so Business Waiver Tourist, however upon her last entry they waived her through at the Global Entry line and did not ask her purpose of travel or such (neither did the kiosk), she has no business in USA so WT (Visitor for pleasure, waiver tourist) seems more applicable, should we only put (where it asks class of admission on some of the documents) what is on the I-94 or her actual purpose? Does this matter?

I ended up purchasing A4 .. lol

Is there a way to print including the footer? Everything else seems to print correctly on my printer, except for this, which it shows the footer in the print preview but changing size of paper, "fit to printable page" and scaling isn't including it. Tried downloading as a PDF and printing directly from their site..

Hi, sorry, me again, upon printing the documents I am noticing within the print preview it shows the footer (a barcode, edition, the name of the document and page numbers etc) but when printing it does not include the footer, is this a necessary component?

Yes I meant I-130 and I-130a, with the parenthesis. What is the travel authorization document used for, so she may exit the country when she wants during greencard process or? Oh awesome I didn't even realize G-1145 was a thing, are we "lockbox" filing? Got it, won't use the word illegally 😄 thank you for the clarification on no extra form for the overstay forgiveness

Sorry for the confusion, yes I'm aware, what I meant was I need to remember to put her married name in any fields instead of maiden name, as she wants her married name on any future documentation 😄, really just a rambling comment to myself there so as to not forget to do so

Also, when including the checks, should they be separated (535+1225) or joint (1760)? And what happens if the I-130 is rejected, will the check for I-485 still be cashed just to be told to re-do (aka, lose the 1225)? Or would they cash the checks consecutively, so only when I-130 is approved cash the I-485. What typically will make an I-130 be rejected? Aside from triple-checking our information (including inputting my wife's name as her married name rather than her maiden), is there anything else we can do to avoid it being rejected? Thanks a lot for any info!

Ok so we are somewhat ready to file, getting all the documents in order (printer issues slowed us down sadly, so will still need to print at a Walgreens or something😕). Will we need to file anything in addition to the I-130(a), I-864, I-485, and I-765 considering we will be filing while she is now here illegally? Something to ask for the overstay forgiveness? Also, I am compiling the evidence, but to go so far back in our messages to get screenshots from there seems like it would take a while, will pictures of our travels together, flight tickets, pictures with family at events, wedding photos, gifts, screencaps from family's social media posts etc be enough without the need for lovey-dovey texts? A lot of (not all) our messaging was also on a platform that is username based so not tied to our names, which seems like it would be pointless evidence.

We are filing from Florida

Awesome thank you! When you say the marriage certificate is the legal name change document, does her name on the certificate have to be her new name? As it's not, it's her maiden name on there.

Hey so update, we got married, but now the confusion lies in she wants to change her name legally but we're unsure what the process for that is / how to do it, and whether or not we can file our documents before legally changing her name but with the name that she wants instead. What's the best path to change her name legally (her passport will have the wrong name) and make sure if/when she gets her greencard the name on it is her new married name?

Here it says that a copy of the birth certificate is needed, not original, am I missing something? Also, does anyone know how to provide proof of bonafide marriage if we don't have a joint ownership of property/she's not on the lease (maybe I can change that? she wasn't in the country when I started my tenancy here)/no joint bank accounts/no children/ we CAN get affidavits of bonafide marriage by family/friends. We can provide evidence of a relationship but not this typical marriage stuff yet considering we are yet to marry.

We are marrying during her legal stay, but how would the clerks office/court know whether or not the person marrying is out of status or not? No I don't believe she has the original, she might do, but it can be mailed worst case.

This is true, my bad for that, however pre-applications don't exist anywhere in the USCIS world as far as I'm aware so my response was saying I don't know why you'd think I would think of something non-existent Yes, I have not looked into much about immigration and blindly trusted an attorney I thought would know the best route considering.. he's an immigration attorney, so I definitely was lost. There were no hard feelings I appreciate the help everyone has given and maybe after my process I can help others also. edit: and I will surely have plenty more questions as the process continues lol

So, I'm unsure if this is a spanner in the works, but I was reading some stuff and it says things such as "overstayed a visa" and "can be forgiven if inspected by CBP". Does this apply to my partner? As she entered the country on a visa waiver program and using global entry, so she technically doesn't have any visa (tourist/work/school etc) and she was never inspected by CBP at the airport, she said they just allowed her to scan her passport at a kiosk and then the officer called her name and waived her through, no "inspection", just called her name and said welcome and she headed straight to baggage claim. Is this an issue? Can they make that an issue?

I will be utilizing this site 100%, I wonder why these attorneys seem to be consistently incompetent.. I wonder if they are giving advice that would be more work = more money to hire them. He was as unprofessional as they came anyway..

What part of "pre application" indicates anything to do with the visa process is what I am confused about with both of your responses, as far as I am aware there are no pre-applications for the I-130 or I-485. I even stated in my previous comments that I would still need to get all my evidence and such compiled before even thinking about submitting, please read..

I am talking about the process for getting a marriage certificate, the online pre-application, and getting married. Why would I ever think you can submit papers for your spouse without a spouse 🤔😆. As far as I am aware there are no pre-applications for the I-130 or I-485 unless you know something I don't

So I'm doing the online pre-application, and it is asking for my partner's currently residing city, county and country, would this be my US address or her home country's address? Considering we are planning on adjusting status and it says "currently", and she is currently here. Does this even matter?

Oh of course, I'm not going to intentionally wait on anything, my question was just to know what would have happened had I not posted here and received the responses I did and instead blindly followed one persons advice (to do everything after the 90 days). Shh you can't be exposing my 20 minute old throwaway account like that, haha. I'll be ready to file once I can get a court wedding date and my horrid printer working to complete all the documents needed, gather evidence (photos, family posts, texts etc).

I have little to no trust in what the attorney I consulted told me at this point, so hypothetically if we did what he suggested (got married and send documents after her 90 days), what would the legal ramifications of that be? Let's say, anywhere from between 1 month to 1 year of illegal stay before filing. I just want to know what he would have gotten me/my partner into had we done that instead😕 edit: oh wow, why/when are they near to doubling those costs? That wouldn't be relevant to us until a couple of years after she would (hopefully) receive a greencard though right? So more than likely the cost will be $1195 for us. Sorry for the tag but I feel your expertise would be a good addition to these questions 😜 @Crazy Cat

You're a saint, thank you so much!

Sorry for the confusion @Mike E, yeah my reason for asking is in fact the attorney was talking so much about proving there was no prior intent which got me paranoid about there being an issue like that in which proving so seemed like an impossible task, she had no issues with CBP, in fact during her 2nd visit she panic booked a last minute flight in order to not break any rules (her trip was for 91 days not 90), she is way too anxious of a person (for legal stuff) to intentionally break any rules/laws. Are there any popular threads on this site where someone has gone through this process I could look at? But that first link you gave @Crazy Catcovers everything I would need to know, I'm just curious now on other peoples experiences for this. I feel you there.. how do you think I felt in an hour long call, the guy was so unprofessional, thank you for all your advice sir!

Ok, thank you so much, he was very unprofessional during the consultation so I guess it makes sense now.. he went as far as to calling people oriental and it sounded fetishizing, telling me a long list of personal life stories and a lot more that seems I have blocked out of my memory