US Immigration from Canada

Interview is coming up soon and I had a quick question. If we're using 3 different types of assets (bank account balances, real estate properties, and certificate of deposits), but let's say 1 of the 3 assets ends up being more than enough to qualify us, what happens to the other 2 assets? In our case, we believe that the real estate properties will be more than enough to qualify us. At the interview, can the CO "remove" the other 2 assets from our I-864A, or will they still need to be considered? I'm asking because there is a lot of paperwork for all 3 assets, so using just one asset would minimize a lot of paperwork and time for the CO.

Hi all,

I had my interview in Montreal on May 4 and my visa was refused because of the background check (The visa clerk said it would have been approved if I had the fingerprint background check)

I had the name/DOB police background check not the RCMP fingerprint.

The visa clerk told me 1-2 weeks when they receive it I should have my visa issued and sent out however I am now in week 4, going into week 5

I was able to get the fingerprint background check completed and back within a week and the consulate mailroom received my documents on May 19.

In anyones recent experience, how long did it take for you to receive your visa after they received the correct paperwork?
Do you remember what day the tracking number was emailed to you? I thought I read somewhere that visas are generally issued on Wednesdays and shipped Fridays. Any insight would be really appreciated

TIA

My wife and I recently filed her AOS package, and today we received an RFE for the I-864s we submitted. Can anyone have a look at it and let us know what they think we may have been missing?

We submitted two I-864s, one from me (the USC spouse/primary sponsor), and one from my aunt (the joint sponsor). I have been disabled since childhood, have no income (before getting married I received SSDI; I am no longer qualified for SSDI since marrying), and have never filed tax returns as I have never earned enough taxable income to be required to. My aunt is retired and makes well over the 125% federal poverty guideline (in pension, etc.) to be a sponsor. For my I-864, I submitted the form, my US birth certificate, a letter explaining why I am not required to file taxes, and the SSA-1099s from 2019, 2020, and 2021 showing my SSDI income. For my aunt, she submitted the form, her US birth certificate, and her 2021 tax return transcript.

Some ideas we have about what the problems might be:

1. My wife and I reviewed the scanned documents that USCIS have in her My USCIS account, and although we carefully assembled the packet with cover letters for each form and duplicates of the documents required for each of the I-485, I-864, I-765, and I-131, we see that USCIS have some documents uploaded under the wrong form: among them are my birth certificate and my aunt's, which are uploaded instead as employment authorization evidence. Is it possible they need those sent again?
2. Do they need my aunt's full form tax return? We thought the tax return transcript would be acceptable/preferred. Should we send the last three years too? Should we include assets as well (they shouldn't be needed to reach the $ guideline; her income should be enough) or some other evidence?
3. I have no idea what else I can send for my evidence as I obviously have never qualified financially as a sponsor, which is the point of having my aunt as the joint sponsor. On my I-864, I listed my "current individual annual income" as the amount I received from SSDI from January this year until marrying and losing SSDI. Should I have put the figure for 2021 instead?
4. I'm aware household size is a common mistake; however we did not miscalculate and count my wife twice as some people have done. My aunt and I each sent an I-864 with a household size of two (my aunt and my wife; me and my wife). Does USCIS instead want a household size of three (my aunt, my wife, and me)? My aunt does not live with us but does live in a different apartment in the same apartment building, so I'm unsure if USCIS thinks we are a single household, or if we should be considering ourselves a single household for this form.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. We have until September 8 to respond, but we want to make sure we do this right.

I had my interview on October 29, 2021. I ve received 221G after interview. To date, my case is still under administrative processing. It had many few updates, -the last one in this month. My case is stagnant and I was wondering if this has happened to others. Any recommendations please. My wife and I are separated and financially drained by the process. We are about to lose our home in the states due to financial problems and travel cost are too much to bear. How could the greatest country in the world have such a poor 221G administrative processing? It s about five years since we started the immigration process. I understand the COVID problems but 221G needs overhaul.

Just had my N400 interview at the Portland OR field office. Appointment at 9am, they let me bring my coffee inside, started at 9:20am.

Got the six questions including the Federalist Papers one that I don't think a single American knows the answer to. Went through the rest of the form. I did end up mentioning my red light camera ticket I got after I applied, got a chuckle, we moved on.

Got to see the entirety of my USCIS history and it was like four inches tall. I'm sure some of yours will be even higher. Jarring.

At the end, I was asked if I wanted to do the oath right then and there. I said of course. The officer reminded me that I'll have to surrender my green card so I better not have any immediate travel booked. No ma'am. Took the oath in the same interview room, told to go downstairs and wait for my certificate. 20 minutes later, got my certificate and I'm now a US citizen!

Super easy and no games. Everyone was super nice. Within an hour literally the whole process was completed and you're done with USCIS!

Good luck everyone!