I-485: Payments

[Darthabyssus 0]

Hello,

This is my first post to this site. I am Canadian. My wife and daughter are American (daughter is actually dual citizen) and while visiting the mother-in-law at x-mas my wife decided she wanted to stay. So here we are in Texas getting ready to do the I-485. My mother back in Montreal has offered to pay the fee, but I can't seem to get any info on how best to do this from the local office.

She's offered her Credit Card, but will they just accept numbers? Should she put money in my account? Send a check?

Anyone with information will earn my eternal gratitude.

[Adam & Anne 0]

Definitely send a check, drawn from a US bank in US funds. My husbands parents sent us a bank draft in US dollars drawn from a US bank, so we went ahead and deposited that into our US account here in the States and wrote out a check for the fees. That's the easiest way to go. We have also been known to deposit Canadian checks (drawn from a Canadian bank, our Canada tax refund to be exact) into our US accounts with no problem. The US bank does the conversion. The check will take 10 days to clear though.

[Sirdaniel42 86]

As suggested above, you want to use a check.

Here is some info from USCIS, http://www.uscis.gov/forms/paying-immigration-fees

[KayDeeCee 4,892]

It needs to be a check or money drawn from a US bank. You also will need to pay the fee for the I-130. Guide > http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

The info can be found in the I-485 instructions > http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485instr.pdf

Use the following guidelines when you prepare your check
or money order for the Form I-485 filing and biometrics
services fee:

1. The check or money order must be drawn on a bank or
other financial institution located in the United States and
must be payable in U.S. currency; and

2. Make the check or money order payable to U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.

NOTE: Spell out U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; do not use the initials "USDHS" or "DHS."

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