US Immigration from New Zealand

CR1 visa: We've been waiting since 16 November for the consulate to return my husband's passport with the visa plus original documents. This seems like a very long time almost 3 weeks and they haven't even shipped it yet. CEAC is showing the status as "Ready". Does anyone else have a similar experience?

Hi all,

I received an email from the NVC last week confirming that my IR-1 interview has been scheduled at the Auckland, New Zealand Consulate (phew! ). I have a date and a time, and I've booked in for my medical exam a few weeks in advance. At the moment I'm trying to piece together exactly what I need for my interview based on the link that was included in my NVC email https://nvc.state.gov/prep (specifically https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/ACK-Auckland.html). Some of it isn't very clear and I'm a little confused as to what to do.

• One page in the link above says "You do not need to bring your Affidavit of Support or financial evidence you submitted to NVC." whereas another page says "The appropriate Form I-846 Affidavit of Support for each financial sponsor along with a photocopy of the sponsor's IRS transcript or most recent U.S. federal income tax return, and any relevant W-2s.". If I've already submitted an I-846 and tax transcript to the NVC, do I need to also bring the original to the interview as well?
• The Auckland Consulate instructions page requests that I deliver a packet of documents to the Consulate by hand a week in advance of the interview, but there's no mention of being able to courier these documents. I presume that I'm able to courier them?
• I was reading interview reviews for the Auckland Consulate and I see a few mentions of bringing a 'self addressed courier bag' to the interview. This isn't mentioned anywhere in my NVC email or in the link above. Is this something I need?

Should I expect to receive an email directly from the Auckland Consulate which will clear a lot of this up? I'll email the Consulate directly if I need to in order to get some answers, but I figured I'd ask here first.

Thanks very much for your help!

does anyone know how to write extreme hardship. Im having problem where and how to start. any help would be great

So I've finally gone through the chore of changing my name - I've done my ss card and license and just sent off my passport yesterday.

As the Sponsor/Petitioner do I have any paperwork that needs to be done with USCIS for this??

Hi all,

It's been a while. My husband FINALLY received his green card in the mail (he arrived in June!) and we are finally starting to feel a bit settled.

We recently moved to a new City/State & wondering how we go about changing our address with USCIS/NVC ?

1) is it necessary to change it or can we wait until we apply to remove green card conditions - our previous address was at my parents so I'm not concerned about not getting mail more so just concerned about due diligence

2) if we do have to change it - where do we do this, my husband said he updated his USCIS account address but I was under the impression there was a form or something that we needed to complete.

Cheers