US Immigration from Canada

The instructions for an I-864 say the sponsor is responsible for supporting the immigrant financially, should they require it. There are exceptions for immigrants to not have a sponsor. One of which is the following:

"Any intending immigrant who has earned or can receive credit for 40 qualifying quarters (credits) of work in the United States. In addition to their own work, intending immigrants may be able to secure credit for work performed by a spouse during marriage and by their parents while the immigrants were under 18 years of age. The Social Security Administration (SSA) can provide information on how to count quarters of work earned or credited and how to provide evidence of such. "

As I understand it, the financial sponsor is responsible for the immigrant until they naturalize or have met 40 qualifying quarters of employment.

In my case, I was employed for 21 quarters of work prior to our immigration journey, while I was legally working in the US on an L1 visa. So, is hubs on the hook for only 19 quarters? Do my previous quarters count, despite not being 40 full quarters? This is totally philosophical in nature as I'm completely happy in my relationship and will be applying for citizenship next month under the 3 year rule, but I'm curious, none the less.

Hi all!

I came to the US on a K1 Visa and have my Legal Permanent Resident card (expires October 2029). I want to go to college for Electrical Apprenticeship to better my career, but the 10 month course is $18,499.

My understanding is that in my current status I am NOT allowed to receive any sort of federal assistance, including FAFSA, otherwise the federal government can and will sue my wife for the amount received.

Does anyone know if that applies to FAFSA and other federal grants or loans? I ve been trying to find this information online and it s very sparse.

Thank you all!

Hey gang - I've moved back to Canada, and have tried to give up my green card at the US border a couple of times while traveling back there, but they always give me some scary speech about why I shouldn't do it and so forth. I've made up my mind to give up my green card, but I was wondering what the official end date is when you submit I-407 by mail? If at all possible, it'd be nice to be able to have this year be my final year filing taxes in the United States. If I file my I-407 by mail, what's my residency ending date for tax filing purposes? Based on the form and some online discourse, it looks like it'd be the last time I went to the United States as a permanent resident, but I wanted to check here to see if it was the day where the form actually gets processed by USCIS.

Does anyone have any information or experience with this? I'd like to avoid traveling to the United States to do this because the agents at the border kind of make it an intimidating transaction.

Edit - also with form I-407, i'm not 100% sure if I have a USCIS online account. I immigrated back in 2012, and I don't remember that being a part of the process. Is it a massive deal if I leave that blank if I DO have such an account? I wouldn't begin to know how to retrieve that account.

I filed my AOS package (I-485, I-141, I-765) on December 3rd and just got the receipt notification texts from USCIS this morning. However; they haven t cashed our check yet. Is this normal? In most cases I ve seen, they don t sent the NOAs until the check is cashed.

Hi all,

Long story but I wanted to come back to VisaJourney and confirm a few things because with my previous visa process these forums were a huge lifesaver.

• I divorced my green card holding spouse (he received his 10 year sometime during it all. It was already processed/approved, he was very fortunate with the timing) because he cheated on me in late 2019-early 2020 and I found out in March 2020.
  • We started dating in 2014, got engaged in 2016, he moved here in 2017 and we had our wedding party in the same year.
  • Our marriage was failing in the 3rd year and we did go to couples therapy but he wasn't honest so it went no where.
  • I did try my best to fix things but in the end he had already "checked out" mentally and it was difficult to reconcile.
  • I do have correspondences, photos, a mortgage, car payments, wedding photos, wedding bills, etc. to prove it was a bona fide marriage.
  • I do have the option to request an affidavit from my ex spouse stating that it was a bona fide marriage. We are not on good terms but I believe he will cooperate.
  • I do have evidence of his infidelity. Not sure if this would help my case but figured I should mention it
  • Last bit I wanted to mention, we separated in April 2020 and officially divorced in August 2020, I have the divorce decree as well.
• I did a search on Google and found that there is only a 1 year wait time for the petitioner to get married and petition for another K-1. Is this correct?
  • My boyfriend has not proposed yet but we have spoken about marriage and likely to pursue a K-1 visa around 2024. This is just me being proactive :).
• My boyfriend is Canadian and we got together late 2020. I know I moved on quick, unfortunately my previous marriage was going downhill for a year. After I found out my ex was cheating I could see a light at the end of a very dark tunnel. An answer to the question I hadn't been able to answer for a year as to why things felt different. I am so much happier now and no longer living in a constant state of worrying and self loathing.

Thanks for reading and any advice/help you may have!