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Hi Everyone, So i'm planning to get married to my US partner, as a French citizen (born and raised here), I went to the mayor offices to ask the requirements, and they ask for him to be present for an interview, but he can't until next spring but it's way to late. I was wondering what other ways we can get married maybe in the US ? but will also be married in France as well ?

Does it take a long time to do if we celebrate it around may 2026 and i move around june / july with him

Thank you all !

Hello all, I am in a bit of a situation with my fiance and her K1 interview. She is a Russian foreign national who was originally scheduled to have her K1 interview in Warsaw Poland on August 26th. Her Schengen visa was approved from Greece originally to cover the date. However, when she went to her medical exam they forced her to return on August 27th for further inquiry into her medical history ( which in my opinion, was complete <DELETED>but thats another story). We got her interview date in Warsaw switched and then she went back to Moscow to reapply for a new Schengen visa once her old visa expired.

She reapplied on September 1st and on September 6th she was denied this time, despite having the exact same application as before. The only difference is she doesnt work anymore because she quit her job to leave the country. She had more money in her bank account than the first time and i used myself as a supporter of funds as well. We had a cover letter also that explained our situation and why she didnt have a job compared to last time. Also, we of course had all of our flights and hotels mapped out to where we were staying and we stayed more days in Greece than Poland as well. We also, just like the first time had a flight showing us leaving Europe.

We are utterly devastated because now she cant get to Warsaw. Is there any advice you guys could give me in what we should do? My lawyers are now trying to get the case moved to another embassy but I doubt this will work. Has anybody had any success? I have yet again called my senators office to see if there is something that they could do.

NOTES:
1. Hi just to give context of why I pursued to give an SB-1 a try again in 2025 is because I already had an SB-1 Case back when I was a minor approved in 2013.
2. Yes, I have read the thread regarding Light_Warrior SB-1 Denial and other threads warning about SB-1.

3. A bit of a long, so please bear with me, today was a very disheartening experience.
4. For this SB-1, I did it all on my own, as we are not that well off to personally hire a lawyer/immigration lawyer to process it for us. For my mom as a single parent was hard enough to raise two kids on her own in a Third world country.

My Case & Timeline:
2010-2011: Arrived in the U.S on January 2010. But my father died in 2011, my brother (12) and I (10) were sent back to our mother in the PH as they were not legally married and she had no green card (Hence staying in the PH).

2011-2013: Continued my education from grade 5-6, Expressed our desire to come back, I guess my Uncle felt sorry or felt the GC was a waste as we were then informed that we are in the process of being sent back with the help.

2013-2014: We returned back to the states in 2013 with a successful SB-1. We continued our life that we once had and education, until personal and family problems arise, and suddenly he no longer wants the responsibility and decided in the middle of the school year to send us back. He just told us on a a random afternoon to pack our things as we are going back to the PH, and there's nothing we can do as the ticket was already bought and is the very same day we were informed.

• We were just 12 and 14, we had no choice but to just follow suite as Asian household are really strict about age, so we just have to shut our mouth up and accept our situation. This was sprung upon us without no warning, no consent, no nothing. Next thing we knew were back to the PH, not being able to finish our studies and had to repeat that grade back in the PH.

2014-2025: Back in the PH again to our mother which was also shock as we are as she was also not aware that we were being sent back. No choice but to continue living life and studies.

• We had no idea of what our category actually or even how coming back to the U.S works for all these years as we were a minor and those are things we don't think too deeply, as all of these were done by our guardians/adults. So we just figured we can't comeback as there's just no one willing to pay or take care of us back in the U.S.
• I also though that green card and citizenship is the same, as all my aunts and other adults kept on saying that it was unfortunate we couldn't become a Citizen. So I thought at this point there's no going back. It was a hard pill to swallow over the years.
  

Present Time: Now I (24) only just realize that we were a green card holder after finishing college this August. As now I am not under the obligation of my mother's care (Asian culture is very family oriented) I decided to try my luck on other countries.
I asked my mom for my passport and other documents since I was planning on applying for any possible job Abroad.
That's when I saw the physical copy of my GC and SSN, and realized that we were actually a LPR (Since 2010: Expired in 2020: Category F25: 10 Year GC)
I then researched if it actually means what it said, and yeah that's when I realized I was a LPR all this time since 2010. I then searched if i can come back and the SB-1 Visa came up.
Saw on my old Passport that there was an SB-1 stamp on my passport and that was when I realized I already had gone through this same process before.

SB-1 Visa Denial
Gather all the information and documents for my case, researched regarding the topic of if I fall under the category of the SB-1, and believed so that I fit the criteria.

• Have physical copy of GC
• Have SSN
• Circumstance was out of my control (Was forcibly sent back without consent as a minor again)
  

Also found same threads in reddit in the same boat as I am and was actually approved for their SB-1. So I got my hopes up. Shouldn't have after seeing the absurd amount of people saying to not do so, but I was na ve and was just hopeful since I always wanted to return and this seem to be the most straightforward and logistically correct choice, especially I was gone for 11 years.

Today was my appointment, was at the consular for even less than 2 minutes. He just asked for my name, how I got my GC, if ever travelled to Guam. Said no. Left, made someone from the back sign my paper. Came back said, I was denied. Asked for why I was denied, said I should have at least tried to come back to Guam 7 years ago (or 6 as he might be implying when I turned 18). I was dumbfounded as he never even looked at any of my documents nor asked me why.

Question:
1. What I want to know is, is the pathway back to U.S through CBP still a viable under trumps administration and all the new law that was establish these following years.
2. What are my next step to take (File and I-90? or??), I know that now I will have an SB-1 denial show up in the system.
3. Should I just forget my chances, and move on with my life in other ventures? (I honestly don't want to since my LPR is the last thing that my father gave us for a better life)

Hi quick question related to yours, If a sponsor is married files jointly the spouse will be filling out i864a to complete poverty guideline now there are several siblings each one needs separate i864 and i864a applications, how is the household number supposed to be answered when there are 2 separate families coming at the same time or within 6 months?

Does the income have to cover the families in total?

My wife became a US Citizen today, she has a 16 year old child and wants to apply for his certificate N600. Do people normally also apply for the passport now as the same time as the N600? What would you recomnnend?