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Filed: Country: India
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This board has been extremely helpful in helping us navigate this process (specifically www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=i130guide2) , but we had a few questions. Any more help would greatly appreciated, thanks, in advance!

LE

Background

  • LE (me) is a U.S. Citizen (born in Washington, DC)
  • FA is an Indian citizen with a valid H-1B and is working in the United States
  • LE and FA got married in November, 2009 in Virginia
  • LE lives in Boston, MA
  • FA lives in Connecticut
  • We don't know where we will be living together (or exactly when that will happen)
  • FA and LE want to go to India in June, 2010.

General questions

  • Should we submit both the I-130 and 485 together (as per the guide's instructions) or should the I-130 be filed first?

Questions on Form I-130

  • Should we leave questions 2 and 3 blank?
  • Question 18 (Address in the US where your relative intends to live): We don't know where we will be living yet, is it ok if LE puts FA's Connecticut address for now?
  • Question 21 (If filing for your husband/wife, give last address at which you lived togther): LE is filing for FA, but we haven't lived together yet, should LE write 'N/A' here?
  • The form asks for two biographical sketches (G-325A). At the bottom of the G-325A, it asks "This form is submitted in connection with an application for: Naturalization, Status as Permanent Resident, or Other. Which one should we check?
  • At the bottom of the G-325A, it asks for the Applicant name. Should both G-325A forms have LE's name listed there?

Questions on Form 485

  • Do we need four separate G-325a forms in total?
  • The form asks for two biographical sketches (G-325A). At the bottom of the G-325A, it asks "This form is submitted in connection with an application for: Naturalization, Status as Permanent Resident, or Other. Which one should we check?
  • At the bottom of the G-325A, it asks for the Applicant name. Should both G-325A forms have FA's name listed there?

Thank you very very much!

LE

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If your wife has a valid work visa and the two of you want to move to India in 5 months, why filing anything?

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

Filed: Country: India
Timeline
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If your wife has a valid work visa and the two of you want to move to India in 5 months, why filing anything?

Thanks Just Bob! Actually, we want to be able to *travel* to India in June. We plan on living here in the US, and she'd like to interview for more jobs that are not H1B constrained.

Thanks,

LE

 
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