US Immigration from Canada

I have recently been DQ d at the NVC and am awaiting my interview in Montreal, (hoping for August). In the meantime, I have a Canadian passport, can I still enter into the United States for a weekend visit with my Dual citizen wife and children? I m not certain as this is the first time I ve travelled since submitting my immigration paperwork due to Covid.

Hi there, my wife (USC) and I (Canadian citizen) are currently living in Canada and are finishing up our NVC stage of the application. We were told that it's best if we have a joint sponsor, but I'm thinking that we arguably do not need one.

Our background: My wife's current income (at her job in Canada) is roughly $50,500 USD (converted at today's market rate). Our total value of liquidable assets in Canada is equivalent to $69,000 USD. Given that our household size is 2 (should we not use a joint sponsor) and the Federal Poverty Guideline is $22,887 - we are well beyond the FPGx3 number ($68,661 USD).

My wife and I are not going to be continuing our current jobs after we arrive in the United States. Therefore, I have 2 questions:

1. Is my wife's current income (at her Canadian job) countable towards our net worth as it relates to our application or not?

2. Do we actually need a joint sponsor, given all of the information above, or can we just apply as a 2 person household and be sure to include evidence for all of our assets currently in Canada (i.e. savings accoutn statements, investment account statements, etc.)?

Thank you so much for your help!

Hello!

Should I submit my daughters court ordered custody papers onto ceac for the NVC? Or just bring them to the interview in case asked? Has anyone had any experience with this bringing their kids to the US and what the consulate needed?

Hi, we're going to be attending our medical likely in the next couple months and just want to make sure we have everything needed. I just realized though that my parents (who were born in India but now live in Canada) don't have their immunization records. Does this mean they will need to receive all the necessary vaccines prior to attending the medical? We live in the Greater Toronto Area btw, if that helps.

Thanks!

Hello,

My wife and I were hit hard by a big surprise: we went to the AOS interview this past Thursday (May 5) only to be told, at the outset, that I would have to come back, alone, in a month or two for a second interview regarding my criminal history. The officer strongly recommended "off the record" that I come with an attorney. This would be the first time we'd be using the services of a lawyer in this entire process. It's related to some of the questions I answered (truthfully and honestly) on I-129 three years ago. I admitted to marijuana use and being arrested once for assault, all in my home country. This was in my teenage years, almost twenty years ago. The assault charges were completely expunged, and all I got for marijuana use was a $70 ticket on one occasion. All this was before my eighteenth birthday, and in Canada, under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, such "summary offenses" (misdemeanors) are wiped from your slate once you turn eighteen.

The USCIS officer was satisfied that we had a bona fide marriage and told my wife she would not need to come back a second time. In other words, next time it would need only be myself and an attorney. They are going to seek grounds of inadmissibility based on these things I did as a teenager. (I have no criminal record and have undergone five or six background checks in the past few years, both for employment and immigration purposes.) The officer led me to understand that they actively seeking a reason to throw me out, and so I will definitely need legal assistance.

I have come to understand that I will need to obtain what's called a waiver of inadmissibility. But apparently this waiver is very hard to obtain. I will be hiring a lawyer in any case, but my question on this forum is the following: have any of you had such experiences before? I did not know this would become an issue only now, so close to the end of the process. I would have expected them to have raised the issue earlier. For those of you who have had such experiences or know of others who have had them, do you think I stand a chance, provided I adequately prepare my case with an attorney and he/she come with me to the second interview? I have also heard they weigh the pros and cons of denying me entry. We have two small children and my wife just quit her job to be home with the kids. My deportation would impose years of severe emotional and economic hardship on my family.

Note: I understand none of this constitutes legal advice; I'm just asking if anyone else had been through something similar.

Thank you very much.