US Immigration from China

Hello everyone, I am currently filling out the I-130 form for my spouse, and I have a few questions regarding some of the questions on the form.

1. Is there any benefit for submitting physically or online? I am thinking of submitting online but wanted to see if there were any strong opinions on one way or another.

2. For listing the previous physical addresses, since I was still a student for some of those years, I would live at home during the summer. Do I need to list each of those summers individually? (Always same address)

3. For the question on "Intended address that you and your spouse will live at" - again, since I am a student, I do not know where I will be living at in 1-2 years time. Can I put my parent's address instead? Since that will be permanent.

4. My husband and I stayed together for about a month at the end of his study abroad in America around 4.5 years ago, can I use that time for "when we last lived together?" Or is that time period too short. In addition, he wasn't on my lease, so I wasn't sure about the legality of it as well.

5. For the question, "was the beneficiary ever in the US," this counts trips for visiting correct?

6. It asks for the beneficiary's I-94 arrival-departure record number. This is just the I-94 number for his most recent visit correct? I was able to find the number on the I-94 website but just wanted to double check.

7. My partner is currently abroad in China in Beijing. Even though Beijing has a consulate office, he and I have seen most of the applications go to Guangzhou. Is this also where he will have to go (and the address we put for the application)?

8. Do I have a USCIS online account number if this is my first time filing?

9. If I file online, for uploading the 2x2 picture, is it okay to upload the electronic version of the front, and then a physical version of the signed back? Or are they looking for a picture of the 2x2 picture of the front and the back (signed)?

10. My partner's passport was just recently renewed. Should I include his old passport number anywhere? I wasn't sure because I didn't want them to try to compare his previous visits with his new passport number and see a mismatch.

11. On a similar note, my passport will expire in 2 years. Since I dont know how long this process will take, are there any precautions I need to take in regards to the passport number potentially changing throughout this process?

Thanks for all the help, and sorry for all the questions. I appreciate any help I can get.

My spouse had her interview in Guangzhou China. The original I-864 that we submitted to NVC listed only assets with no US based income as we were both working in China at the time, making RMB. Our assets showed roughly $260K, mostly cash and mostly all in USD.

At my spouses interview, this I-864 was immediately denied since the interviewer wanted to see US income. Since we thought this would happen, we had a back up I-864 to provide with a joint sponsor with retirement income, well above the guideline - Which was proved by their benefits papers from the government. The interviewer also denied the joint sponsor s I-864 because the tax return showed a negative number for total income.

luckily, we had a third I-864(just mine, no joint sponsor) that showed Chinese real estate in my spouse s name - all totaling assets over 500k and this was ultimately accepted. (Joint sponsor s wasn t taken)

hard to believe all of this, I know. But I thought I would share my story to help out a bit. Thanks guys.

This might be a silly/obvious question but I have read online (I know, not the best sources) somewhere that if you are out of status on an F1 visa without being deported and left before the expiry date of your visa you should still be fine moving forward to immigrant visa application (CR1 in my case). I wonder if that's true? I had stayed for a year but COVID played a big part in why I couldn't leave and later on I met my husband and got married immediately.

Second question is if I should file CR1 first or vice versa? I read the timeline of someone here they didn't file for i601 until their K1 was denied, and they received their K1 after waiver being approved. So I wonder if I should do the same. Thanks for everyone's reply in advance and thank you for ur help!

My wife has been here almost 8 months now. Life is good but now she wants to bring some family, mainly her daughter, son in law and their only child of 14 years old. The child has a great talent that needs to be fostered and trained or educated more might be a better way of saying it. The school here in the US agrees and is accepting her at their school and has written her an admissions letter for the school. It's a prestigious school.

So now the intensive work begins but I don't know where to start and what to do. I don't have the time to research it as I work way too many hours right now. If you have good suggestions, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance, T Town Hombre

Hello,

I am currently filing an I-90 for green card (AS7) renewal. My spouse got the asylum status, then helped me get the asylum visa, then I entered USA as a refugee's spouse, then lived in US for one year, then applied for the green card.

Here is one question on the I-90 form:

Did you enter the U.S. on an immigrant visa?

Immigrant visas are processed and issued by U.S. consulates in foreign countries. If you have obtained a green card by applying for permanent resident status after entering the United States, you are not entering on an immigrant visa.

I don't know how to answer that question. The asylum visa of a refugee's spouse is an immigrant visa or not?. Based on the explanation by USCIS, it seems that it is not. But I'm not 100% sure. Please help me!