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Good grief. I’m beginning to understand that deleted post. It means there are people who have successfully petitioned (5) different fiancés

Has your petition been denied? What specifically is the problem with your case?

My suggestion is activate the visa (enter the US) as planned then you can travel as you wish. Not advised to stay out for longer than 6 months HOWEVER another option would be enter the US, apply for I131 travel document, wait until your biometrics are done, and that travel document will allow you to stay out of the US for up to two years. Best of luck

We scanned in real size, didnt crop, didn’t reformat.

Ours is interchangable

It’s OK your post was not wrong Since 2006 I’ve seen many, many K1’s denied for “looking too married” for the most foolish of reasons. Denied for dressing wrong (in traditional wedding clothes) at an engagement party Denied for having other various “engagement ceremonies” especially in cultures where they are not supposed to spend time alone without first signing a marriage contract Denied for using “husband/wife” terms of endearment Denied for signing “contracts” to marry The unfortunate couples’ only course was to go get officially married then start over and re-file for CR1 visas. What’s done is done here. Pictures (unless they are “vacation” photos) and chat logs of personal convos do not belong in a K1 app package. Chat logs do not belong in ANY package. The OP needs to be aware that this issue will potentially come up, prepare for it, and fully understand that Plan B, if denied for this, will be get married and start over.

Neither are changes of address. If you change your drivers license address, bank, etc because you move? That’s a change of address. I doubt you do that just because you stay with someone else for awhile in another state but return to your primary residence. If you get a travel doc and take an extended trip overseas (two years) but return to your primary residence? That isn’t a change of address either.

Print transcripts only. All years.

Chat logs are unnecessary and we should stop suggesting these applicants submit them There is a chance you will be asked. As noted above, couples have been refused for less.

It always says that until the visa is processed

Dont worry about it. They use what they need to meet their checklist and ignore the rest.

Same here. They use 000-00-0000 “pending SS card” exactly like adding a newborn.

My wife was added right after marriage and before she ever stepped foot in the US. It is not necessary to wait for a green card before you can get health insurance. You qualified to be added to your spouse’s plan on date of marriage.

If she had stayed in her home country 60 more days? You’d have a 10 yr card and would have skipped this I-751 step.

You’re going to file I-751 in the spring. When you do they will send your wife a letter extending her green card. You can fly out and return using the expired green card and that letter. Make sure you don’t time it so she misses her biometric appointment. She got her green card in 2021? She can file for citizenship on the three-year rule in 2024.

Your advice is solid. We’re a lot more conservative because we were not in her home country and not in a place she could stay if she was turned back so we never ever left for the US with anything except for the correct documentation.

I’ll take it. We didnt even try to fool with finalizing the I-751. It was less trouble just to file a new petition. I know there are some options after denial IF you’re in the US but from overseas? We saw no path in after a skipped biometrics re-do. We’re really good at navigating the USCIS / visa rapids, but OP’s case is rough. Im sticking with the advice for “Plan B”, thanks for the clarifications above.

Goobies: We played this game for years. We did what you did during lifting conditions - couldnt make the second biometrics (fingerprints failed first time) and just turned in the (then expired) green card and re-filed a new I130. No consequences. We doubled down with a 4-year absence on the ten-year card and managed an SB1, one of the few here who pulled one off. It’s two interviews. I, and she, got grilled at the interview counter at the “qualification” step before she could apply for the actual visa. Im looking at your story here and on a denied I751 + extended absence that is due to marginal at best circumstances outside of his control my call is: you need to prepare a new I130 petition and plan to file immediately after they deny the DS-117 at the first interview. It’s brutal with a card that still has 5 years of validity. The State Department cannot however over-rule a denied I751. It is outside their power to do so. That denied I751 is appealable when denied but it was never appealed. Right now your husband has no status, and a consular officer is not empowered to give it to him unless it is processed under a special circumstance DCF which still requires a new petition. When you submit the DS-117 application you submit the green card with it. If denied I do not believe they return it. Advice is put together a Plan B. I had a petition ready if we needed one.

You can file a new petition. Best if he surrenders his green card at the embassy to clear the old A-number out of the system. We did it that way awhile back, didnt hurt us.

Houston was the same for us earlier this year Congrats in advance by the way. Take lots of pics!

LA - not sure Houston - I attended but they didnt let me in. It doesn’t take long, I advise to go. At least you can flip the building off as a team on the way to the parking exit.

Answer: A full and complete return with all attachments suffices for the support affidavit. The rest was just e-teasing. Best of luck!

It’s December. You both dropped the ball. Make sure the entire return and all the attachments are brought to the interview. W2’s, 1099’s, the works. If it’s stamped filed then it suffices.

A USC who “plans” (excellent observation on your part) to skirt immigration laws will have willfully and with premeditated intent violated those laws. Planning it here is not welcome.

A student or someone here on a work visa who gets married and adjusts status gets enthusiastic support. They’re already here under one status, their circumstances change, they adjust status, and that is what the process is for. In your previous post you expressed a desire for your significant other to enter on a non-immigrant visa with immigrant intent. You spelled it out. The act of filling out that application for one reason (tourist) but intending to use it for another reason (immigration) is illegal and we can not and will not advise you to do that. We did not write that law and we did not set those rules.