US Immigration from Lithuania

Hello VisaJourney community!

So nice to see amount of help people are sharing and receiving here! Hope you guys can shed some light for us too

Sooo, my now husband and I got married yesterday at the Florida's Broward County Court Office by Deputy Clerk. The only thing we received is a signed and stamped document, which has all 3 parts on it: Application To Marry + License To Marry + Certificate Of Marriage. All 3 main parts are signed, completed and stamped, except for the part at the top/header of the document that has a section to fill in with details of State File Number, Date Returned, Recorder (Book, Page) and bottom/footer which includes our passport numbers and information for vital statistics. Enclosing picture of it. We were told by dep. clerk that filing and mailing a fully completed certificate will take 6 weeks! And there's nothing to be done to speed up the process. And my ESTA runs out in a week.. Clerk thinks that current copy might be ok for immigration, however he's not 100% sure. Soooo.. we are a in a bit of a pickle. We asked couple of lawyers for the advice and both gave different opinions - one advised to wait for the complete certificate even if it means that I'll overstay my ESTA (which gut feeling says NOT to overstay ESTA), whilst another - we have a right to send it as it is, better not to overstay ESTA, however we would be at USCIS's mercy - they can accept it as it is for now, ask for ROE or even reject the whole application, so it sounds that it depends on a person going through it.

Has anyone been in similar situation? I'm very reluctant about overstaying, since I'm not on a proper visa, but ESTA.

Any experiences/advices would be really appreciated!

- Laima

My fiancee has her medical and interview scheduled in Vilnius. What is a bit confusing to me is how informal and inconsistent the Embassy's instructions have been, so I am hoping to double check with folks here who may have dealt with this embassy before.

1. I (the petitioner) notified them of the K-1 court order asking them to process our application. (it was at NVC at that time).

2. They replied stating they will take action and request the case from NVC. They also emailed me a checklist of items that my fiancee should start preparing for the interview. Nothing unusual in this list. But they say do NOT email anything to us.

3. Case goes to Transit, then Ready.

4. I email then asking for an interview date. They respond with the date and state again to bring all documents to interview.

So a couple of things I am not sure about.

1. Even if I CC my fiancee, they reply only to me and they have not sent her anything at all. All communications seems to go through me. There is no "packet 3" or anything and my fiancee has received zero communication directly from the embassy.

2. The initial checklist they emailed me has a sign off portion on the bottom and states to email that to them once docs are collected, along with the DS160 confirmation, but their email instructions say to NOT email anything.

I am just trying to do things correctly and at this point I am inclined to follow their email instructions. They don't really answer detailed questions, which I have tried to ask, only repeat to bring docs to interview. I don't want to pester them with questions, but I assumed I would need to email them a few things ahead of the interview. I guess not.

Thanks for the responses.

Hi all,

I am the petitioner.

We were waiting to file our entire package (I-130, I-485, etc) until I got my new social security card that reflected my name change so that we had at least one document with my married legal name (haven't been able to change my Driver's License/Bank Accounts without my social security card reflecting my married name). However, I just received my social security card and they spelled my new last name wrong. I thought it was a mistake on my part, but the SSA mailed back our marriage certificate and I have a copy of the name change application, all of it with the correct spelling. I am not sure how they misspelled my new last name.

Is it worth sending in a copy of incorrect social security card with our AoS package with a copy of a new application to correct the spelling? Is the marriage certificate enough to show proof of name change?

Additionally, my husband's work visa expires December 1, 2020 (this Tuesday). I know we really cut it close with planning to submit on November 30th... Would it be OK to file after Dec. 1st? Would I need to include a letter explaining why we are filing after his work visa expired?

Thanks for your help!

All best,

Joanna

The K-1 is a Non-Immigrant Visa, but on the NVC's website, if I choose non-immigrant visa then it gives me an error.

However, if I choose Immigrant Visa, then it gives me my case status.

Is this something I should be worried about or contact the NVC about?

Non-Immigrant One

Immigrant One

Hello!

Haven't been here in a while and kinda lost the plot.
Wife has 2 year green card, and this month is our 1 year anniversary. Originally came here on K-1. We need to remove conditions and as far as i know, researched before, we can file N400 and I-751 together, and have one interview.

Can we still file those two together to have a combined interview? Hope nothing change since my last visit here.
What is the time window to send in those forms? (1 year, 90days before the expiration of GC?)

Do the checks have to be separated for each form? (assuming yes)

The proof of relationship is the usual stuff, Lease, insurance, 401k, photos etc. Right?

Everything else seems fairly straight forward and less of a hassle paper-wise than AoS or K-1.

Probably a redundant question - if this was recently answered - i'll delete my post

Thanks!