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Case:

Me (husband): Egypt passport, permanent resident in Canada (where we all currently work and live), will apply for Canadian citizenship in 6 months.

Wife: US citizen (born in US but left with family at 2 years of age)

Son: 5 months old, Canadian citizen, born in Canada and not eligible for US citizenship automatic transfer according to USCIS rules.

Plan 1:

• Wait for my Canadian citizenship (in approx. 9 months) then I can find a software eng. job in US and go on TN visa.
• Son (on visitor or TD visa) and wife will follow.
• Wait 90 days and apply for AOS for me and our son.
• Wife will have established domicile in US and we can use my US income to apply. (In this case, we don t need a co-sponsor?)

Plan 2:

• Apply now from Canada
• Wife will have an issue establishing US proof of domicile (she only has a US passport and SSN).
• It will be hard for my wife to travel to US alone to establish domicile.
• Anything can be done from Canada to prove intent to establish domicile once me and our son get the green card?

Other questions:

• Since our son was not eligible for the automatic US citizenship transfer from his mom, can he get the US citizenship right after his green card is approved (form N600 ?)

Greetings all,

I will soon be restarting the IR1 process for my wife. We have been married since 2012, as we married while I was living in Bogota, Colombia for four years. Due to some traumatic life circumstances we decided to put a pause on our relationship and I returned to the United States in 2016. That changed two years later after she ended up getting her tourist VISA in 2018 and has visted me three times and will return again this summer.

So the question being, should I wait to start the VISA process again until she visits on her tourist VISA this summer or should I just go ahead and start the porcess again now. Once again, we are legally married in Colombia and we got all the way up to the "waiting for the interview to happen" when we cancelled the process before, which of course I now regret, because I have to start all over again. The only reason I would delay starting the process until she visited is because I dont want any conflict with her existing toursit VISA and the IR-1 process. Thanks for any advice and help.

Don

Hello,

My mom filled for AOS from turist visa. Sent the i485 in February, in April she received a rfe for medical( form 693) with a due date in July. She hasn t been vaccinated as an adult at all , based on her personal believes, although she only had 1 vaccine as a baby so now 74 years ago but none during the adulthood.
So now with her being already in the USA and form i485 in pending can we just submit the waiver so form i601 now or we have to wait for her case to get denied?
Thanks!

I m visiting the US currently in the visa waiver program and have been here for 80 days. I am with my fianc and we don t want to be separated again once my 90 days is up so we were thinking about getting married then adjusting status so I can just continue to stay here with him.

How do we do this, since it s not a K1 visa nor a cr1 visa so I m unsure what paperwork we need or even where to begin.

Also, what would happen if we married and applied to adjust status but my 90 days were up, I d be overstaying, would this affect my immigration prospects?

How long on average before I d be able to leave the US to visit my family?

Good Evening family, can someone help me which documents should I include for my i130 petition, to send it to uscis?