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Married for 22 years to USC, but living in Canada.

Relocated to US in 2022-2023.

Mailed the N-400 (3-yr) on 9/8/2025

USPS confirmed it arrived on 9/12/2025

Waiting...

I am currently filing my Fathers I-130 application. My father is a Mexican born Citizen, he came to the US undocumented and still currently resides in the US.

When filling out the Beneficiary s Physical Address, should I put his Mexico address or his US address?

Also, I should note he was deported back to Mexico in 2009, then came back to the US undocumented. Any advice would be helpful.

Disclaimer: I come from a culture where living in a joint family system is common. You might guess, yes, it's an Asian culture. Nothing wrong with living this way AFAIK, other than seeming weird to some folks. In my opinion it's not too bad if the house is big enough for a multi-generational family.

Anyways... I'm a USC and my wife has a CR1. We consider ourselves residents of place 'A'. We have a joint lease, joint taxes, joint bank account, joint health insurance at 'A'. I have a driver license for this state but she doesn't because she doesn't drive yet. I work remotely but my company has an office here and she's a stay at home wife.

Wife got pregnant and we wanted to have the baby at my parents house in a neighboring state (let's call it place 'B'). Since I can work remotely from anywhere in US, and the state of place 'A' lets me remain a domicile resident as long as I intend to return there, we essentially went and started living with parents at 'B', gave birth and it's been 3 months since then. I didn't realize I should change wife's address, because it was a temporary stay and we still have a lease/joint bank/insurance in place 'A' and go back there from time to time.

Question is, should I file a 6-month late AR-11 for wife? Or should I not file because we didn't 'officially' move to my parent's house in city B? We never intended to remain at B this long. AR-11 says you need to file even if its a temporary move, which I didn't realize initially... Should we not file it at all because we didn't intend to move to B? Or just be 'honest' and do a late filing? I'm now stressed about deportation, etc because they didn't use to pursue these issues, but now they might.

Additional info: During all this time, my parents and I closed on a house that I helped them purchase; it'll be in my parents name but we will rent from them. So next month, me, my wife + child and my parents are moving to a large permanent home, in the same state as 'A', but in a different city (let's call it place 'C'). At C, my wife and I will have everything together: Joint lease, utility bills, bank, health and car insurance, matching driver's licenses, etc. And we will never come back to 'B'.

We plan to file wife's I-751 at the end of Jan 2026.

Hey guys,

I am watching a YouTube video of the next steps in the process and in the video she says you should bring your noa1 and noa2 to your embassy appointment but I can't find my noa1. So what do I do?

Hi, all. My wife (Filipina) and I (US citizen) embarked on the Filipino name change rigmarole just recently. I have an I-130 petition in progress, FWIW. Tomorrow, my wife was scheduled to visit the DFA to change her name on her passport to her married name, which would be the first of several name change efforts. Unfortunately, after booking the non-refundable DFA appointment and hostel stay (she's traveling to Dumaguete from the Cebu area as the Cebu DFA is completely booked out several months), she learned a surprise requirement that isn't found on the DFA website: she has to have attended the CFO PDOS seminar! Now here's the problem: the CFO's scheduling website requires visa number and visa expiration date! She doesn't have her visa yet, so we don't know what to do. We did some additional research and found several non-DFA online references to having to complete the CFO seminar before the DFA allows passport name changes. Has anyone run into this problem? How do we proceed?

An additional question is will she have to attend the PDOS again later on when her visa is approved, or can she just go back to the CFO office to get a sticker on her then-changed passport (although I remember reading that CFO doesn't issue stickers anymore)?

Gripe: Please, DFA. Please update your requirements to be accurate for spouses of foreigners. We could've saved PHP 1000 plus the hostel booking if you just better documented your own processes.