US Immigration from Colombia

Hello all,

I was recently laid off. My W2 will show plenty of income but I dont have a current job with paystubs. I am self employed in the same line of work.

Is this an easy fix with a co-sponsor? Since my income from being self employed will only be 2 months by the time of interview is it acceptable to use this income as a replacement for the income on the W2 from my previous job?

My uncle can co-sponsor. He has assets and/or income to show.

From my self employed income I can document:

- Partnership agreement

- Bank deposits for Dec/Jan (personal & business)

- EIN business filing

Thank you!

I'm planning to propose to my long-time girlfriend soon, and we might go the K1 route, or just do a courthouse marriage (bigger ceremony/party later) and go the CR1 route. She's Colombian, has a tourist visa, and will soon be graduating from her university there with a bachelor's degree. The thing is, we would really prefer to close the distance (to the extent possible) in a timeframe shorter than the 1.5-2 years I understand it takes for those visas to be granted, and if we can do so while she's working/studying here in the US in a way that advances her career goals, all the better.

It seems that her doing a relevant Master's (or other graduate certificate) program in the US on an F1 visa or a long-term internship/traineeship for a company here on a J1 visa would both be options that would fit the bill, in terms of advancing her career goals, and allowing her to stay in the US for a longer period of time than her tourist visa would (12-18 months for the J1/F1, as far as I can tell, vs. 6 months for the B2).

My question is whether she will run into any issues filing for a J1 or F1 visa for the purposes I described above, if she has a K1 or CR1 visa petition already pending/being processed? Also, I'm assuming here that it would make sense for her to file for the CR1/K1 before the J1/F1, given the longer lead time, but if the reverse would make more sense for some reason, I'd love to hear differently. Thank you!

On September 2020, my good friend filed a I-130 for his daughter. She was 19 yo at the time, ( five months away from turning 20) and pregnant. About 8 months after filing, he received an RFE asking for proof of relationship between him and his daughter. When filing the I-130 we submitted a copy of birth certificate where is stated that she is his legitimate daughter, he did not know what to send so he did not send anything and pretty much gave up. With this situation and his daughter moving to Norway with the father of her child, he did not think of it anymore. Fast forward on october 28 2022 he received an email from the NVC saying: "Notice of Immigrant visa creation" stating that they received an approved application from USCIS and they were ready to process his daughter's immigrant visa. His daughter is back in Argentina, still unmarried but with a baby and having lived in Norway for only 9 months.

Question: Since clearly now she has turned over 21, has her visa category changed? How can we know her visa category?

Thank you

Hi. My husband and I are doing the CR1 process outside of the United States, through the Embassy, but we got married in the United States. Since our marriage certificate was issued in English and in the United States, does it need to be apostilled/authenticated for our interview at the Embassy?

Hello there.

asking to file i864 and i864a

I need to add to my current income, the taxable income + the non taxable VA disability compensation benefit. We r not 100% but 90% disability.

1. Is possible to add that kind of income in part6. item 7 and

2. in the part of tax returns, do i have to put the year and the taxable income without the non taxable income? how is the proper way. thx you very much.

I m sponsoring my dad IR5 and i m a USC.