US Immigration from Canada

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been asked before (I did try to search but couldn't find the same question). We sent our K1 application in October 2020, before I discovered VisaJourney, and in our letter of intent(s) to marry, we didn't write '...within 90 days of arrival in the U.S.'; I wrote "intend to marry in 2021".

I'm thinking we will likely receive an RFE (or would that be considered an RFIE) but am wondering if it would be worthwhile to send it to USCIS now.

Is this something that would help the timeline of our petition or should we just leave it and wait for the RFE? I'm not sure if sending additional paperwork after the initial filing is encouraged or discouraged.

Thanks for any feedback you may have.

Has anyone moved to the US on a CR-1 green card that owns a business? I own a web design business in Canada and am wondering what I need to do.

The day I cross the border with my green card, I am no longer a Canadian resident. Does that mean any income I claim from that day I eventually file with the IRS?

Does anyone have any resources about moving with a business? Maybe I just need to call the IRS for some information?

I assume as well I stop charging tax for any Canadian clients.
Most of my clients are US residents already.

Thanks for your help!

Hello,

I've very new to everything, and I've been working on the K-1 visa form and gathering documents that I know to be needed. I have some questions though, and my research for these answers haven't quite hit that marks. So if you will please help me with this, I would very much appreciate it. I want to be as thorough as possible with everything because this is so important to us. Please forgive me for my bluntness.

Major questions:

1. Part 2 - 24.a.-33.b. -- Her Father - her situation is one of those where her parent's split at a very young age, then her mother maliciously kept her father away. We know next to nothing about him other than his name (which I have my own doubts as to the validity of what her mother said it was). He died almost 20 years ago. Both my fiance and I have researched anything we can about him e.g. birth/death/marriage certificates, grave yard and tombstone records, and/or anything with his name in it (ancestry.com has been no help). Everything that comes back doesn't fit his demographics. There is so much unknown information; what do I put in the fields for her father?

2. Part 3 - 4.a,4.b.,&5.d. -- I have 2 arrests (I'll list the details below); one in 2011 and the other in 2017 - both of which I got a lawyer for and never had to go to court. In 2020, I had a background check done for employment, and it only came back with the 2011 arrest. So, on 4.a. I feel I should mark "Yes"; however, on 4.b. (also Part 8. Additional Information), I don't know if I should list both arrests. I'm not sure if what the background check came back with is what I should go by or not, so I'll put the details below. Btw, besides the background document, I have paperwork of the arrests such as lawyer correspondence, bail bonding, pink carbon copies from the court, letters, and receipts. How should I answer these?

2011 Arrest: Charges - (all misdemeanors) malicious mischief under $500, trespassing, and public drunk. So this was a church I broke into then out of while suffering a concussion after a totaling motor vehicle accident. The more important thing is that we (parents and I) got together with the church and agreed we would pay for the damages, and the church dropped the charges. I attended the next service to fully apologize to the reverend still fresh injuries and all.

2017 Arrest: Charge - Simple assault. This one is simply a mess for many reasons. The victim of the alleged assault was my super possessive and emotionally unstable girlfriend at the time. I could go into many details on this, but the short and sweet of it is that she immediately paid money to have the charge withdrew and dropped. I may not have even needed a lawyer for this, but a piece of mind when someone tries to frame you has no price.

Minor question:

Part 2 38.a.-38.h -- She just got her passport, but has never traveled out of Canada - we are working on to see about her flying here soon to visit if possible. Do I need to fill these out?

Again thank you. It means a lot to us. Please let me know what I should do.

PenguinS

Hello,

my fianc e and I were notified that our case had moved from the NVC to the embassy in early March. We have still not received any communication from the embassy about our P3 instructions. Because of this, I emailed them a week ago, asking if and when they sent out our P3 instructions. I received an email back stating they were sent to us on March 23, 2021. It is now April 22, nearly a month later and we haven't seen anything. I emailed the embassy to tell them this and confirm the address it was mailed to.

My question is, for anyone else who is also waiting or has waited for these instructions in the past: does it normally take this long?

Thank you for your comments and help.

Our Case is F4

Initial interview was in Nov 2019. We got 221g for petitioner domicile. We were asked to establish petitioner domicile. So buying house opening bank accounts ID credit card and other items took 3-4 month. We submitted our docs in April 2020 ban was in force. We gto a reply from consulate in Dec 2020 that our Docs were accepted and we were asked to refill DS-260 on CEAC. It has additional question than our original submission.

Our recent timeline is as follows:

Mar 8: Sent an enquiry to Embassy about case status.

Apr 12 Embassy requested New Medicals and Photographs (via CEAC upload)

Apr 16 : Medical were completed

Apr 22 : Medical package was received from Wilcare

I saw two status updates on CEAC. Once on Apr 12th and other today on Apr 22nd. It still say refused.

Can some one share their experience after submitting 2nd medical to Islamabad embassy and how updates work on CEAC? An when can we expect to receive visa.

Thank you,