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Hi all!

Sorry for the dumb questions regarding the packet but I'm getting some conflicting information so I thought I'd ask for people's opinions:

1. Have you all included your marriage certificate in your packet? I'm trying to understand if it's necessary as that was included in our original packet for the I-130.

2. Should I include photo evidence that I included in my I-130 in addition to new photos since I entered the US?

3. How many affadavit letters of support from friends and family did you submit? I so far have 7 and have some more being written.

Thank you so much! Sorry for my nervousness - I just really don't want to screw this up lol

Hello, I have a question on what NOT to say during border check. Some background:

We live in Japan. Me (US citizen) applied for a I-130 for my wife (non-US citizen). My two US citizen kids are moving to the US to go to school and will stay with my family until I-130 clears for wife. I have a very high paying job here so no immediate plans to move until the whole I-130 thing is done, and even then I may not move. However, wife is worried about the kids being without dad and mom, so she wants to go visit kids/help them adjust (she retired early so has a lot of time) using her ESTA. Wife has no intent of cheating through AOS etc., especially since she has a ton in assets back home and has no desire to live in the US. (I'm not trying to sound snobby, just giving some background facts.)

Wife has an ESTA and is planning on spending maybe 60 days in the US, 60 days back in Japan, and so forth, during a single school year (and not doing this for more than a year). She isn't worried about being denied entry, but I am. I would appreciate advice on what not to say if asked the following questions:

1. Purpose of visit

-Can she say she's here to visit family, or that kids are going to attend school while living with family and she is there to help them get settled in? Or leave out the "living with family" part?

-Or should she just ambiguously say she is visiting friends and family?

(basically I don't want her to offer up any more information that could trigger any red flags)

2. Duration of stay

-Assume she can just say the date she will leave the US?

3. Where will you be staying

-Should she say (and stay) at a hotel? Or is it OK to say she is staying with family/friends?

4. Do you intend to return to Japan?

-US citizen husband is still living in and working in a high-paying job in Japan

-She has a multi-million dollar home in her name at home, where we live, along with a ton in financial assets, etc.

-All of her family is in Japan, except US citizen student kids

Many thanks in advance!

Hey everyone! So all our documents were submitted to NVC on July 4th. On July 16th, we got an email from NVC saying that they needed the divorce decree from marriage #1. (Mike is marriage #4, no judgements please)

Anyways when I provided all my documents to my attorney's office almost 2 years ago, I forgot to scan in the first page of my divorce decree to husband #1. The paralegal handling my case caught it and I sent it to her.

Well when she uploaded my divorce decrees, she didn't add the first page to it. I am beyond livid about this.

My question is am I gonna be stuck waiting almost another 2 weeks for them to DQ us now because of her error? Or since we already were under review will they just go ahead and check it?

hello everyone,im a winner of dv lottary 2025 with case number eu23015,i saw tge cut offs for september went 23000,do i still have a chance to get an interview or no

I used the online form filer provided by state.gov. Under "have you used any other names "it had two separate boxes for "first name" and "last name" online but when I printed it out it just came out as one. Like if my maiden name is Jane Doe... And after marriage is Jane Smith. Do I put Jane Doe in other names used or just doe since Jane has remained the same.The form filer form makes a distinction but the paper form I printed out with the bar code doesn't? Does it really matter either way?

2. The check I will be using has my and my husband's name since we have a joint account, is that an issue?

3.for parents place of birth, we just add the city and country if there both aren't us citizens?

4.in the instructions it says to have applicant's full name and dob printed on the front of the check? What exactly does that mean? Do I need to write my name on the check? Thanks