iwannaplay54

You’re not allowed to work while waiting for your EAD card not your green card. With a pending AOS and a Canada license you should be able to get around. Read. Shop. Watch Netflix. Hit a gym a few times a week. Join a fitbit step challenge. Learn the area. Use Uber to get around, it’s cheap. My wife took “drive on the correct side of the road” driving courses and made me take her somewhere new every weekend. LOL You can go back to Canada and re-file an I130 if it’s that bad. You can work while you wait.

It isnt difficult but the cost of “maintaining ties” can be ruinous. Most don’t do it.

A passport name change before the visa is issued will domino flip all of your other documents (visa, SS card, and green card) into your married name. It’s the easiest way to do it.

Minnesota doesn’t decide that for you

You turn in your green card with your application. If you get the visa the green card is returned at POA. It’s in “the envelope that shall not be opened”. Im not sure if she got it back and I’m wanting to know what happens to it if a determination is made at an embassy that you did in fact abandon status.

That’s a good idea Mike

It was Dhahran, the consulate is in constant contact with USCs in the area. It should have been easy but there was a local at the desk. I was exasperated and finally a real CO got called out to settle it. Absent US citizenship our daughter was on the road to “stateless”. There was no way I was walking out like that. KSA doesnt award citizenship to anyone but a kiddo born to a Saudi father.

They’re strict. I grew up here and kept having to get more data - college transcripts, address records, and finally when I dug up my 1974 passport that wasn’t renewed until 2006 they got the point that I never left the US for over two decades. No passport no travel. You’re gonna have a tough, tough interview. I was pretty mad after mine. Had to call “the dude from the back” to get that application in. Employment letters are going to get tossed. You will need physical proof of address and employment like tax returns and W2’s. That crazy lady even implied “you could have been out of the country between semesters” because my data was spotty - until I asked her “how without a passport?”. That did it. School records, address records, employment records backed by W2’s would be a good start. Try pulling driving records showing active drivers licenses, etc. You need a stack dude or they’re going to send you out to get it.

Did they return her green card? This will answer the elusive question of “do you get it back after rejection”.

This is how to do it.

We have nothing to do with Ghana, we just know how to enter/exit on two passports

Fly in and out with your US passport, enter and leave Ghana on your other passport

Netflix worked during COVID lol

We got one visit and married on that first visit. We had nothing but marriage docs because I filed as soon as I got back. We were fine. The big packages packed with evidence are usually stapled to the I130/I485 applications. Those couples already live together in the US.

Its the absolutely uuuuuuuuuuge packages that get dumped on them.

It’s a travel document and allows up to two year absence. She needs to keep ties to the US while she’s out

If you had a ban it has expired. Declare your overstay however immigrant visas are processed, not approved, by DOS and this will not effect you unless you have an active ban in place. You will not even need a waiver.

He’ll know what to do.

It’s a choice, not a mandatory step. To be consistent name change is best started with the home country passport, which will trickle down to green card, etc.

Under the three year rule you want to show Co-habitation for three years (matching drivers licenses, car insurance, rent or home ownership). We sent a copy of our house deed. Mingled finances (bank statements from three years ago to current, we sent three - one from 2018, one from 2020, one from 2021) Mingled credit (credit card statements). Same time period on those statements. Other: Health insurance cards with both if your names if you have one Birth cert for kiddos if any The standard is a lot lower for N400 but you want to demonstrate a valid marriage for the past three years and show that it is still current.

Ignore the above

It’s an ACH payment, he should just enter it like an electronic check. It isn’t a wire transfer.

We printed the list and I quizzed Mrs Wannaplay for about a month on those questions. We used the 2008 list. It’s verbal, so that’s how she studied. The practice tests on the USCIS website are good to fill your spare time. They’re multiple choice.

You have enough. They dont even look at the evidence at the interview but bring it anyway. We did a bank statement from three years, 18 months, and current No pics. Unnecessary. If that’s your child you need to submit a birth cert.

My wife never had fingerprints accepted from 2008 to N400 in 2021. I swear she could be a cat burgler if she wanted to. Once they’re rejected twice they just process the case without them. For AOS they made us go get a background check and bring it to interview.