US Immigration from Germany

We are stationed overseas in Germany. My wife has to renew her Green card after the initial 10 year period. We started the renewal process, gathered all the correct documents and mailed the package directly the Potomac Service Center in Arlington, VA. We used the provided address from the letter that was sent to us. After shipping it on 14 June, it was just returned back to us. Apparently they moved from the location or the address is no longer valid. A quick Google search on this turned up others experiencing similar problems. Despite the wrong address given, some got through, others didn't. Apparently they said it goes through another facility to check for suspicious packages. Ours didn't get through and now its returned to us on 13 July. It is due on 2 Aug, but we're not sure we can get it shipped back there in time. More importantly, we don't know what the real address is. Its insane that they sent us the wrong address and I feel we're still going to responsible for their mistake. Has anyone experienced this? We really don't want to have pay another $500 or so for an error on USCIS's part. We have tried calling, but its tough from Overseas, its hard to reach a human and wait times are over an hour!

Looking for any tips or suggestions to resolve this issue.

Good day,

I am a Filipina and my husband is a dual citizen (American and German). However, all of his life he only lived in Germany.

We are planning to proceed and file our I-130 via direct consular filing as he had a job offer with short time relocation notice.

My question is, what do we put in the mailing address portion considering that we don't have a place in the US yet? We are also not planning to get any lawyer and will just do it on our own. Can I put there, instead, the address of any relative that we have in the US?

Thank you for your insights.

Hey there! I don't know if this Group already exists or if this is even allowed just yet lol But... I am gathering all my paperwork to send in the new big packet in August.

Who else is going to file in August?

Dear all,

the I.130 for my children via DCF was approved in Frankfurt. My husband is the petitioner. I am unclear about the next steps and had assumed we would receive another email clarifying the information.

Am I right thinking we need to fill out the DS-260 AND mail the original documents to Frankfurt prior to making an appointment as well as upload them on CEAC? We have two kids and would we need every document (such as marriage certificate and divorce decree) as an original twice?

I can't find a good list of what we need but I am assuming the following:

1. Divorce decree previous marriage - husband and ex-wife as well as mine and my ex-husband

2. Marriage certificate previous marriage husband and his ex-wife

3. Marriage certificate my husband and I

4. Birth certificates husband and stepchildren.

5. His orders?

6. Biographic page of passports - all three.

Am I missing anything?

I would really appreciate if someone could shed some light into this.

Hi all,

Was searching this forum all day to find something similar to my situation but failed. Trying to make this short.

Back in June 2018 I entered the US with my ESTA to see my GF for 5 weeks (been together long-distance for 18 months by that time). We decided to get married at the end of my trip and 3 days after that I left the United States as I was still bound to the German military and had to get back to work.

We hadn t decided yet if we would move to Germany or settle in the US. But we decided to create our own Homebase and rent a place. So whenever my work would let me, I came over to the US to see my now wife, helped her signing the lease (we are both on it) and moved in. We have been living this life for three years now, with us traveling back and forth whenever we could.

At some point (14 months before my contract with the military ended) she told me that she doesn t want to relocate to Germany as she is not ready to give up her work/family/friends etc. which I totally understand and I didn t really care where to start over after my discharge.

My wife is a US-Citizen so she filed a I-130 petition in April 2020 for the consular processing. It got approved and forwarded to NVC some time later in 2020. We got our logins and I started gathering the documents. At some point (early 2021) we noticed that our Visa Class is categorized as F21 instead of CR-1/IR-1.

We emailed NVC several times but no answer on that (by July 2021).

And now (entered the US in June and my flight to my home country is August 5th)

that I am back home for our three-year-anniversary she is telling me to file for AOS as

we had a pretty tough discussion about I don t want to wait any longer to have my husband over here and I have been waiting for three years . I refuse to do so because I want to do it the right way, but I am willed to give in for the sake of this marriage without putting everything in jeopardy. Just trying to get some more information as the majority in this Forum is getting married with ESTA/VWP and do AOS after that.

Citizenpath says it is possible to switch from consular to AOS in their FAQs at the bottom.

https://citizenpath.com/adjustment-status-vs-consular-processing/

(please edit if I am not supposed to post links)

The mind-boggling thing is the mentioned 90-day rule. Does it affect me as we have been married for three years now? Some say it does, some say it doesn t. Some say there is no 90 day rule, some say there is.
Should I go and look for a immigration lawyer in my case?

Maybe some of you know more and advice would be appreciated.

Thank you