US Immigration from Netherlands

Hello everyone,

I m looking for advice or experiences with expediting a I-129F petition due to financial hardship.

We filed 6 months ago (end of October), and it looks like USCIS has just started working on September cases. There seems to be backlogs and our case might take much longer than we expected.

Our situation is the following:
I currently live in the Netherlands with my U.S. citizen fianc . He will need to move back to the U.S. at the end of July, as he is starting graduate school in August. Once he leaves, I will be responsible for the full rent, which I realistically cannot afford on my income alone. This means I won't be able to cover basic living expenses. (I earn 2100 EUR and our rent + utilities is over 2000 EUR).

We re trying to understand if this could qualify as severe financial loss for an expedite request. We have proof of my income, our rent + utilities, his acceptance into grad school and the apartment we will rent in the U.S.

I understand that expedites are rarely approved, but I d really appreciate hearing any real experiences or advice. Thank you in advance!

Hello fellow VJ friends,

I have both my I-751 and N400 filed. I received my I-751 interview slot 2 months after filing my N400.
Went to the interview in Chicago the other day and was told my Green Card is extended, however I was fully expecting them to process the N400 at the same time (they used to combine these, right?). To my surprise, that did not happen and the Officer informed me that the Chicago Office has not been processing N400 interviews for over 6 months! Is that true? I thought it was only for select countries.

I was told to sit tight and wait, with no indication of when I can expect a N400 interview.

Hey folks,

This year we decided to rent out the home I own in my home country. Tax season is upon us, and now we have no idea how to file our taxes correctly as I have two incomes (here and overseas). Also, my husband is a server and things have changed for him too. We don't know what is our best course of action. Do you guys have any advice?

I-130 was approved recently. I am currently on medical leave (employed, but on leave; exhausted FMLA protected leave though). I am getting short-term disability payments and they have been approved for a few more months from now. Unclear whether or not yet I'll have a job to go back to but so far I am still an employee on leave.

Disability payments are well above threshold (as is my normal income at this employer). Previous tax return income going back many years is well above threshold.

Should I wait until returning to wage (job based) income before submitting the affidavit of support? Or are the short-term disability payments and the fact that I am still (for now) an employee on leave enough to proceed with the affidavit of support?

Alternately asked, would it be "safer" to wait until I'm back working full time, or would it not make a difference?

Thanks.

Hi y all,

Yesterday I finally got reunited with my fianc (yay!) The poe was Washington DC, while the process smooth and calm (especially since there was really no line)

But here comes the issue, while I was waiting for my connecting flight I checked CBP link to make sure my I-94 was entered. Which it was but it showed December 3 instead of March 3. My stamp in the passport definitely shows 3/3/2026.

So my fianc and I decided to visit the closest Deferred Inspection Site since they only accept visits. While we were gathering the evidence we went to the website instead of the CBP link app. Where we found out that on the website it does show the correct I-94 entry date.

We are still going tomorrow to make sure there will arise no issues, but I was just wondering if anyone else dealt with this before?

Thanks!