US Immigration from Netherlands

Background: I have a 10 year GC that will expire in Spring 2024. Atm I am living abroad, waiting on my Re-Entry Permit approval for the last ~7 months.

I used a lawyer to help me apply for the Re-Entry Permit at the beginning of the year, and recently inquired about help with my GC renewal since I will be abroad until Summer 2024. The fee for the lawyer would be more than $3000; is this worth it? It seems like a crazy large amount to me.... But will I run into any problems applying for the renewal because of the situation I am in? Or is it the same straightforward application as it would be if I was in the currently in the US?

Has anyone here dealt with GC renewal while abroad temporarily? Any advice would be appreciated.

Hello! finally after 2 years I am reunited with my husband in california and now I am busy arranging practical matters.. I need to transfer money from my dutch bank account to my new American bank account. Does anyone know the rules regarding foreign transactions? Are there any limits on the amount that I should be aware of? thank you!

Our cr-1 case was dq on September 20th. Now waiting for an interview date at the us embassy in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Somebody familiar with their waitingtimes?

As per title. We got DQ'ed today, but the beneficiary wanted to use their married name.

Dutch passport holds both maiden and married name under "surname". Got the new passport before starting the CR1 process.

i130 is filed with married name

DS260 is filed with married name

Then, now after DQ, the beneficiary entry on the NVC website and the notification in email came with the maiden name.

If I go to IV application, it shows maiden name as clickable, then if I open the corresponding DS260 it shows married name.

I am confused why this happened and if this will have any effect on the Green Card. Beneficiary would really like to go by married name.

Did anyone ever experienced this?

Lol, all of a sudden the update of the timeframes webpage shows that they are working on cases from August 17! https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html

It has been one week processing time for months and now I can finally upload it is one week.

Just submitted everything.

Not an informative post, just frustration.