LucindaLou

Thanks for your reply, hopefully the German police cert will do as I have never been to Pakistan 🙂

I am in the same boat, but I would not expect miracles. Well I have left the US sooner then you, nonetheless the documents such as marriage certificate and birth certificate do not change. I would prepare for the long haul to be honest.

Thanks so much, I suppose my google skills leave something to be desired. It makes sense really, as the US government should have access, but since everything takes forever I wanted to make sure.

This may well be a stupid question, but after googling I have not found the answer yet. If I am not totally wrong I will need the police certificate during the NVC stage. As I am a German citizen living in Germany it is clear to me that I need the German certificate, but as far as I know I will need a certificate for any place I have lived for more than a year before. Does that include the US? I left the US in 2004, but lived there for more than a year. If the American certificate is needed, where do I get that? Again thanks so much for the help!

Really curious about the answer here. We were told by our lawyer not to worry about income as we have assets.

According to the embassy in Frankfurt as well as the lawyer we are using, the I 407 must be filed before being able to apply for a new Visa.

According to reddit users it has to do with the wait times on the visa bulletin. Mine dropped from 11 to 9 months. @jweldon08 USCIS sure makes for easy planning, I feel your pain.

Things have changed a fair bit since 1998, but back then it was no problem that my husband had been divorced only a few months before we got married. And we were not married that long before applying for the GC. Nonetheless, the past 20 years a lot changed in the process so not sure about today.

There should have been a letter with instructions that went with the notification. You set up your account the first time.

As far as I know you only file the I-485 if you file for the Green Card within the US. Once the I-130 is approved you will file a DS-260 and so on , to finish the process in abroad. Once she enters the US the Green Card will be mailed to her.

WMU - Western Michigan University

I suppose I will raise the issue with our lawyer. Thank you for your input, worth checking out. However the original question still remains, will the previous green card have any impact on the application for the second green card.

By now he is a government employee and has retired from the military. They probably run through a bit of a different process. But will check that out, thank you.

Hello there, my husband (USC) and me (German) are currently applying for the green card the second time around. I had originally been issued a green card in 1999 but as a family we returned to Germany when my husband was PCSed. As we knew that his last two years in the military would be spent outside the US I decided to stay in Germany. Raising a child is much easier with family support ;-) Now my question is, we have gone through the entire process once before, our family situation has not changed in 27 years, we are both living in Germany at the moment, .... will it have any impact (positive or negative) on the second application. As we really got burned twice in the original process, I would love for this one to go a bit smoother. Any answers would be greatly appreciated, there simply don't seem to be any on the internet. Thanks for the help!