US Immigration from Hungary

My wife overstayed a tourist visa for roughly 500 days. She was a student on a F-1 visa when we met and got married - after she finished school, we briefly left the country to visit her family, and then she returned on a tourist visa. At this time, we had planned on moving to Europe (she is an EU citizen), and we were only returning to prepare for the move. It was then we found out about our first baby, and my wife was diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy (I have these documents). So, we decided to stay and submitted theI-485 (the I-130 has already been approved by this point).

After several months of processing, the form was returned to us because USCIS wanted a newer form version (we had to wait several months before submitting to save the money, but I had already filled out the form and had it ready to go). I don't have any documentation of this. By that time, I had a job offer abroad, so we made plans to move and left about three months after. It was then that we found out about the ten-year period of inadmissibility, which of course we are very regretful.

So, our current situation is we live in the UAE - we are ready to file the AOS and the IV, but of course we realize that in the visa interview she will be found inadmissible. We have two small children - my wife is from Hungary, and I don't speak Hungarian (I am not sure if I could earn a sufficient living there). I know the I-601 is really hard to get approved (especially without a lawyer), but my hope is someone may be able to provide me with an informal opinion or some additional information. At this point, I'm wondering it it's even worth trying. Thanks so much for reading!

Hello,

My wife's I-130 was recently forwarded to the NVC, and the interview location is listed as Budapest, Hungary (my wife's home country). We are currently living in the UAE, and we plan to move from here in 2022. We listed the interview location as Budapest because things in the UAE are quite unpredictable, and we didn't want to delay the visa by having to change interview locations. Getting to and from Budapest for the interview is no problem.

My question is, can we proceed with the interview location as Budapest, Hungary, even if we don't currently reside there full time? Will it raise eyebrows if we list our current address as in the UAE (we do also have a domicile in Hungary)?

Hi Everyone,

We are having our AoS interview on 3/17/21 in Newark, NJ. How soon after getting the approval notice (fingers crossed) can we travel abroad? Do we have to wait for the actual GC to arrive in the mail or can we leave the day after we get the approval text message? In the later case we would have the GC forwarded to our foreign address before returning to the US.

Thank you,

Peter