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Happy to see I’ve received an interview date for the third week of February too. Seems a long way to go but I know the time will fly!

Thanks - yeah as a US expat and citizen she still files a US tax return and the AGI is what she earns in the UK in her job here. It is accounted for under the foreign earned income exclusion tax agreement the US and UK have so US citizens earning abroad don’t pay tax to the IRS on income already taxed provided it is less than $126 500. We have enough savings to do an asset only application - but sounds like a joint sponsor residing state side might be a good idea.

My wife (US citizen) and I live in the UK. She is sponsoring me to move to the US. As part of this we are both quitting our jobs with her quitting ahead of me and moving a few months in advance. She currently has a job earning above the Poverty Threshold. Does she put down her current UK income in form I-864 or does she put down $0 as her income since she's handing in her notice? Also is there any point in me filling in a I-864a as a joint sponsor if I'm also planning on quitting my job in the UK? We have a US based family member willing to sponsor us but want to ensure our own I-864 is as accurate as possible.

Possibly thanks, it would be a FRC (Family Registration Certificate) I'd need which would require a fair bit of leg work to obtain but might be doable. According to the link above: My certificate is issued by the Municipal Corporation of one of the above cities so in theory it should be acceptable if the officer reviewing my case is willing to accept my certificate as-is. That's correct, my name, my father's name, place of birth, gender and of course date.

I'm a UK citizen, lived in the UK all my life but was born abroad in Pakistan. My original Pakistani birth certificate only lists my father's name - from what I understand that was common back then. I believe newer certificates have both parents' names but obtaining a new birth certificate would be a nightmare to say the least. I have my parents' marriage certificate to prove that they were married at the time. Is this sufficient?

Your case is assigned to a service center - when I'm not sure but it appears (at least in my case) to be closest to the US address you give on your application form. To obtain the center I'm assigned to we logged into our USCIS portal and then asked for help from the chat bot - if you do it during working hours you can chat to a person who will give you that information. Regarding the case being stuck in “it’s taking longer than expected” mine is the same and I'm a text book case which is super straightforward. I imagine the Afghan refugee crisis has put a huge load on US immigration right now. To check the case estimation for your servie center visit here: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ You can also check the case status directly by filing a message within the USCIS portal (I haven't done this since my service center processing time is 13 months and I've yet to hit that).

Same. It was 5 weeks, then 2 weeks then 1 week now:Your case is taking longer than expected to process. You do not need to take any action at this time.

My USCIS estimate was 7mo in May, it says 5 weeks now. We’re assigned to VSC. It fluctuates a lot.

We filed our I-130 and I-130a mid November 2022. NOA1 came a few days later with Nebraska Service Center stated in the bottom left. Asking Emma states that it's now Vermont with an estimate of 7 months. Guess we'll see...