US Immigration from Brazil

Hi,

I've been married for 3 years to a US citizen. I adjusted status from an F-1 visa. I got my conditional green card and have since applied for removal of conditions, which I'm waiting for now. I'm eligible to apply for citizenship in February 2024 if I stay married.

I love my husband very very much, but we have some potentially irreconcilable differences that have me thinking of divorce more often than I would like to. We've gone to couple's therapy (but he has all the receipts), I've gone to therapy specifically to discuss whether to get a divorce about a year ago, and I decided to stay. A year later, I still think of divorce frequently, but I'm afraid of the implications for immigration.

My husband has visited my home country once, and my parents have visited us here in the U.S. once. I'm close with his family and he's reasonably close with my cousin who also lives in the U.S. (we have pictures and airfare tickets to support all of this).

Other than adding the two years for citizenship eligibility, what are my risks here? He's been known for some "petty revenge" (never against me) in the past, so I'm afraid he could do something to negatively affect my status. Does he have any recourse?

If I want legal advice, do I go to an immigration attorney or to a divorce attorney? How do I find an attorney that specializes on both things?

I'd love to get a no-fault divorce due to irreconcilable differences but he's not open to discussing divorce as a real option right now -- I've mentioned it a few times and he just shuts down.

What do I do? There's been no violence or cheating involved (thank goodness), just good old "we're too different and we fight too much and I'm unhappy about my marriage and feel like I've tried everything else already."

Thanks!

Hello all - I have been rummaging through USCIS/Lawyer/VisaJourney/Reddit/Govt sites and can't seem to get the 100% clear answer to my following doubt:


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Background Information:
To start - we are currently filing the IR1/CR1 Spousal (we are at NVC stage)

I am a freelancer whom works for a US company (though I work remotely outside the US) and get a 1099 - my past 2 tax returns include 1099s also - 2 years ago(2021) I made slightly under the 125% (by $200), last year I made well over the 125%, and this year I have already made over the 125% -
Additionally, I have enough liquid assets to cover the 125% x 3 were it needed.

I plan also to get a letter of continuing employment for myself (to also show proof of reestablishing domicile)

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The Actual Question/Doubt:

Where my doubt is the following:
I have seen mostly people talking about people whom are already living legally and working in the US as the intending immigrant and therefore using their income at that point.
Is that the case? or can we use a letter from her employer?


Am I able to use my intending immigrant spouse's income as part of the Affidavit of Support under the following circumstances?
1. She works for a large multi-national where she is currently employed in Portugal
2. The multi-national has already agreed to transfer her position to the US upon moving there (it was agreed since the beginning)
3. They said they will write her a letter stating that she is currently employed and how much she makes - and that they will transfer her job to the US and how much she will make when she can work in the US

USCIS says the following:

1. If you included the income of your spouse listed in Part 5., Item Number 3., any child listed in Part 5., Item

Number 4., any dependent listed in Part 5., Item Number 5., or any siblings, parents, or adult children listed in Part

5., Item Number 7., each one of these individuals must be over 18 years of age and must complete Form I-864A.

2. If you included the income of the intending immigrant who is your spouse (he or she would be counted in Part

5., Item Number 1.), you must provide evidence that his/her income will continue from the current source after

obtaining lawful permanent resident status. He or she does not need to complete Form I-864A unless he or she has

accompanying children.

Source: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-864instr.pdf


I don't think it will be 100% necessary to use her income - but it would be useful to know this because then it will remove any doubt at interview stage. Since I am not their ideal W2 earner with a "stable" income that they seek - I just want to have all the backups I can incase anything happens.


Thank you!

Hi, everyone!

I'm either too anxious or too burnt out to find the answer to this question (and I searched in the search box)... LOL...

I have my interview in a week and am finishing organizing all the supplemental paperwork (all sort of financial documents from the last 3 years, pictures, our son's birth certificate, etc.).

If you had an actual interview to remove conditions, what questions did they ask you? What documents did they require? Did they ask your partner questions too?

Thank you!

Previous thread here for more context.

So my brother's son (US citizen by birth) is currently residing in Brazil and since turning 21 recently, he petitioned for my brother, also in Brazil so both can immigrate again to the US. The case was submitted through the NVC with a mistake being made on the I-130 at the beginning where the son entered my (uncle living in the US) address as his current residence. We were advised here in the thread above to correct the address on the next step/application.

Everything was submitted to NVC but some items returned. The most notable and worrisome is this one:

PETITIONER might not have a principal residence or be domiciled in the United States. Please submit proof of domicile. For more information on domicile requirements, visit https://nvc.state.gov/fin.

As noted above, he is currently in Brazil so technically, not domiciled in the US as he left at a very early age.

What should be done here to prove domicile? Apologies if this question is very obvious.

Also, there were about 5 messages sent through the portal asking to correct a few things but when viewing the documents section of the portal, only two files show a DECLINED. Should we do everything being asked through the messages or only submit the files that show DECLINED?

Hi everyone. Our standalone I-130 was approved a few days ago and we're getting started on collecting the civil documents for the NVC part of things. When I go to the website to see what civil documents my husband will need to gather, we find that the link is broken and we can't see the examples of the Brazilian Civil Documents. I was wondering if someone knows of a website outlining everything we will need or if you personally have gone through it and could point us in the right direction. It's mainly the police, court, prison and military records that we need help with. He was never convicted of a crime, never been to prison, he was dismissed from military duty and all that jazz.