US Immigration from France

HI Everyone?

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if anyone had an experience with inquiry about tourist visa issuance by the Paris consulate.

I'm a US citizen married to a French citizen. We live in Paris. My US employer asked me to move temporarily (6 months) for a work mission, and my wife would like to join me. While she could enter the US with an ESTA, to avoid having to leave after 90 days, she applied for a tourist visa at the Paris consulate. She had her interview and was barely asked any questions before she was given a paper saying that her visa was "approved". She did not have a chance to ask the consular officer about processing time but asked a French employee inside the consulate who told her that it should take 5-10 days.

It's now almost 3 weeks since the interview and the application status remains "approved" on ceac.state.gov and the indicated last case update is still the day of the interview.

Does anyone have any similar recent experience with the Paris consulate?

Is there a way to call/send an inquiry to the consulate?

Can I send an inquiry on behalf on my wife as a US citizen?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Hello,

We're currently filing for the CR1 and were wondering if these documents are enough as proof of marriage and ongoing relationship.
We have none of the documents asked on the USCIS website. For context we live in 2 different countries and got married online through Utah last time he came to visit me. We also filed for a K1 that got approved in the past. But due to personal issues I couldn't stay in the US and had to go home.

So we're thinking of sending the following:

• Letter of validity (because we got married online and received a letter if validity from Utah county certifying our marriage)
• Pictures of our relationship since we met until we got married
• Texts and call logs since he visited me and got married
• Copie of all of the past plane tickets + ticket for the next trip planned in the fall.
• A copy of his life insurance stating that i'm a beneficiary
• And finally, I know that it may not be necessary but I was thinking of adding a copie of our approved K1 with a letter explaining the K1 and why I didn't stay last time I entered on a K1. Or I may add that to additional information.

Also, we don't have pictures from the online ceremony, is that bad?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help.

We have received an RFE for I-864, Affidavit of Support yesterday.

My husband is my sponsor and has been making over the poverty guideline for the past 3 years (2021-2023). On my USCIS online account, USCIS uploaded a scanned version of our I-864 and all the supporting documents we have provided with it so we are able to double check what we have sent them. We used the last version of the form, we sent all pages, the form is signed, the household size is correct (2 as it is only my husband and I, no kids).

In 2023, he made 63k, in 2022, 60k and in 2021 51k. All of this in NY state. We proved this with the IRS tax transcripts for these years. Now we are in California where our current household income (only his) is 120k. We supported this amount with 7 months of paystub, his contract and employer letter and 2024 W2s.

Yet we received this very generic RFE (see attached) and are pretty confused about it. I compared this RFE to other I-864 related RFEs on this forum and reddit and it seems that everyone is kind of getting the same. I saw some RFEs saying specifcally that the I-864 had a deficiency that needed to be addressed (and our RFE does not say this). I have attached a copy of the RFE we got if it can help.

My husband and I are wondering whether they are expecting us to provide a 2024 IRS tax transcript? Our Package delivery date is February 10th and at this time my husband had not filed is taxes for 2024 yet. He is planning on filing his 2024 taxes and send them the transcript when ready. Also should we list our assets (even though we should not be required to do that because he exceeds the 125% poverty guidelines) or get a joint sponsor (again I do not see why we would need one)? We were also wondering if the current housefold income (we listed 120k should match the 2023 IRS atx transcript which was 63k)? Should we resubmit the whole I-864 form or just tax transcripts?

Thank you for your help!

We're going ahead with the K1 process at the moment but still weighing all the options.

The question my fiance has is: Can he and his daughter enroll in college or certificate/training programs while waiting for the right to work?

He doesn't want to "do nothing" while waiting and he'd like to pursue something that can assist him (and his daughter) in finding employment once the I-765 is approved.

Would he be permitted to do this?

TIA!