US Immigration from China

Preface: By searching in this forum and online, I understand that as a joint sponsor in I-864 for an approved and green card issued Family Petition (I-130) IR5, I am responsible until the sponsored immigrant:

• Becomes a U.S. citizen
• Can be credited with 40 qualifying quarters of work in the United States
• Ceases to be a lawful permanent resident
• Sponsored immigrant dies

Question: I am posting here my situation to understand if I have any remedy under bullet point #3. What are different scenarios that someone loses their permanent residency?

Situation: I agreed to become a joint sponsor of my in-laws after they stated they were retiring and just wanted to be close to their daughter as well as help care for any upcoming grandkids. They all claimed that they didn't have the need to work as they will be getting pension payments and just wanted to spend time with their daughter.

Shortly after arriving, not even two weeks in, they started desperately wanting to find work to earn "leisure"money. At times becoming aggressive for not finding jobs as is not an easy feat around these parts when they don't speak English. We finally started placing them in jobs, which they couldn't keep for more than couple of months. They found the jobs too hard, paid little or didn't give them weekends off. Six months in, they were talking non-stop about relatives in NYC living in very affordable apartments, free health care, paid less taxes and had a "card" for free groceries. Ultimately, they wanted to move there. I explained that it was very likely their relatives were obtaining public aid and committing tax evasion, something they were not allowed to do as I was a join sponsor.

Because of the behavior above, I asked them to move out into an apartment in town and hopefully by having expenses, it would incentivize them to be less picky with their jobs. It worked. However, after two years and half, they called it quit and decided to quit their jobs, end their lease, sell their car and left for their home country on the other side of the planet with no intentions to return as they own an apartment there.

Two weeks ago and 5 months after leaving, their daughter noticed a new background during their video call. Sunlight was accidentally let into the room. That's when they confessed they had returned to the U.S without telling us. They refuse to tell us where exactly they are but we have intel that they are in NYC.

I have a high degree of confidence that they will not pass the citizenship test and they will become a public charge sooner or later and is concerning how secretive they are despite knowing that we are sponsors.

I've learned my lesson about sponsorship and I before I seek a lawyer, I am brainstorming for any options available that would release me from any responsibility for their actions.

It's been 2 months since i submitted I-130 petition to USCIS for my wife who lives in China.

And I just realized today that my wife's case was sent to California Service Center where the USCIS website shows the processing time is 22-33 months, which is more than 2 years...originally i thought it would only take 6 month...me and my wife are very frustrated right now and don't know what we can do....

Guys, please help! Is there any way I can do at this point? Any way that I can expedite our case?

I'm at the very last stages of filling out our packet, and the last box I need to fill is Page 8, Part 5, #4. I previously sponsored my now ex-wife; I don't have anything from that petition saved, and have had basically no contact with her for years. It's asking what day I filed her petition, over a decade ago; by going over old emails, I figured out approximately when, but don't have an exact date. If I just put month and year and leave the days X'ed out or with question marks (05/XX/2009 or 05/??/2009, for example), would that be acceptable?

I really don't want to contact her and would rather just keep communication lines down. I'm currently on hold with USCIS to try to speak to an agent; it's been an hour and I'm concerned I won't be able to get ahold of anyone.

China

Original File Date 2/8/19

Visas are moving! Keep your heads up!

My wife has had a B2 visa since 2017; we traveled to the US twice. Now, we are in the US, and want to file for an AOS. She filled out the DS-160 online at the time that she got her B2, and it seems she didn't save the PDF. We had a printed copy of it, which, of all the documents we gathered and triple checked, she left behind in China. I'm not able to log into the State Department page because she doesn't remember the answer to her security question. And of course, all of this is my fault...

In filling out the I-485, she watched a video in Mandarin, in which the creator warned that if the answers on your DS-160 and I-485 don't match up - "even if one letter is off" - it will make "big problems" and you will be rejected. She's now panicking because we can't access the DS-160, and she doesn't remember how she phoneticized our Chinese address, or whether she put the English or Chinese name of our business, whether she put her parents' names as two or one word, etc.

Is this true? It seems a bit heavy-handed to me, so I'm disinclined to believe it.