US Immigration from Japan

Hi, my spouse and I want to file CR-1 visa.

For the form I-130, I have a question in Part 4.

"If filing for your spouse, provide the last address at which you physically lived together. If you never lived together. type or print, "Never lived together" in Item Number 59.a."

I'm a Japanese citizen and traveled/ lived in a couple of different countries in past 5 years, I have not really lived in Japan during in relationship with my American spouse...

1. Met my wife in Dec2018 during my trip for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

2. I visited my wife in Apr-May2019 for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

3. I came to the US from France and stayed in the US for 3 months with visitor visa.

4. I moved to Canada for study and stayed for 6 months. I visited her for 10 days during Christmas with visitor visa. She visited me in Canada for 5 days.

5. I'm in the US for 2.5 months with visitor visa and we got married last weekend. I'll fly back to Japan and will stay there until my visa is approved.

On the 3 and 5, I traveled in the US with my wife for her work. But she has a living address.

Should I put those term as lived together and put her address in my address history even though I was in the US with visitor visa??

Or should I put my home address in Japan on my address history during the term even though I haven't been back to Japan?

I know my history is complicated...

I hope someone can help me out...

Thank you for your help!!

Hi all,

My husband and I have gotten to the uploading of civil documents for the Consular Electronic Application Center. We are applying for a CR-1 visa from Japan.

He got his police certificate and we uploaded it to the website due to these instructions from here:

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: Japanese Police Certificates are issued in a sealed envelope. If the seal is broken, the certificate is considered invalid. Visa applicants should not open a sealed envelope containing a Police Certificate. The applicant must bring the original Police Certificate in a sealed envelope to the U.S. Embassy/Consulate at the time of his/her interview. Applicants should only send a photocopy of the sealed envelope to the National Visa Center, but not the actual police certificate itself.

We scanned the sealed envelope and uploaded it.

Today, we got an email from the CEAC. The message said:

The police certificate required for JAPAN does not need to be submitted through CEAC. The issuing authority will send the police certificate directly to the interviewing consulate or embassy. Please use our Document Finder at https://nvc.state.gov/find for acceptable documents guidelines.

What???

This is super confusing- we are located in Japan so my husband could go get another police certificate, but do we need to?

I also cannot remove the Police Certificate upload from our documents.

I don't know what to do :< Any guidance?

I'll try to keep this brief.

My girlfriend and I have been dating for a while and we want to get married. She is on an F-1 Visa which I believe should be valid for another 3ish years or so (I should ask her to clarify). We both feel we want to get married, but we are not engaged or married yet. Originally we wanted to get get engaged early next year, then get married and do a reception in her home country, and do a reception in the US after that, but after researching a while and reading this forum, I've concluded that this is a bad idea.

So here's my plan, please let me know of any potential flaws you see based on your own experience:

1. She says she has to go back to her home country next spring, so I can go meet her family but we'll wait until AFTER she returns to the US in the spring to be engaged. As long as we are not engaged or married her only reason to be in the US is to study, so I don't see any issues of intent here as far as USCIS is concerned. I'm not sure how long is necessary to wait to be engaged after she returns (I don't want to wait at all, ideally it would only be a few weeks). We want to get married at the end of next summer if possible so we can avoid the hassle of trying to move in together during the middle of a semester.
2. After getting married in August, wait until the end of the year to apply for the AOS. I don't want to mess with the 90-day rule or whatever it is.
3. When we apply for the AOS, also apply for the I-131. If lucky, we'll get that in time to do something in her home country next year and do the original honeymoon abroad we wanted to do.

Are there any potential problems here? I don't want to do anything to jeopardize her status and cause us to be separated for a long time and disrupt her studies, so I feel that we should wait to decide to be engaged until she knows she can be in the US through the length of the AOS process (with the hope we can do something with the approved parole). Additionally, I met her after she had already been in the US for a few semesters, so her intent was originally to study (which she made so painfully clear to me when I was trying to date her after I met her and was interested).

Also I have another question. I'd like to avoid using a lawyer as it is expensive and we have some time before she graduates. If we meticulously fill out the forms ourselves will that be okay? If there happens to be an error, does UCSIS send it back, or do they simply reject it? Would we have to pay the fees again?

got DQ last month Sept 23 just waiting for my interview date, Non expedite case... roughly waiting time from DQ to Interview Date any idea??

I'm just trying to figure out for my medical....

should i proceed for my medical exam without my interview letter yet? or should i wait for it?

I found the below link which seems to indicate that this form is no longer required for the K1 Visa (or other) interviews:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/update-on-public-charge.html

Can anyone else confirm? I cannot find any discussion of this on VisaJourney. The current DS-5540 form seems to have expired on 08/31/2020. If this still needs to be completed, does anyone have the current form?