US Immigration from Romania

I married a US citizen in July 2020, a month after marriage, I started noticing the change in behavior of my wife. Her mood and countenance changed drastically I mean a 360 degree change. Every time I tried to talk to her, she would not listen and this started with verbal abuse then gradually to physical abuse. I noticed another drastic change, she started hanging out with some strange people that most time she would return home with always drunk and high on drugs. She wasn't like this when we were dating and after we got married. Each time I tried to talk to her about it, it always resulted in big quarrels and fights. I don't hit but she has always been the one hitting me. An incident occurred where she actually threw an object at me luckily I moved fast and it was only a surface wound I had. Three months after our wedding, she left home and abandoned me. I have been trying to get hold of her so that we can get this issue resolved, but can't because she no longer answers her calls. I have not yet filled in my document for change of status as well as Employment Authorization Document.

Please I would like to know if there is a way I can file in these documents without her and if I can go for interview without her. This marriage will be in its second year by July 2022.

My country is at the border of Ukraine, is anyone else in this situation and what are the concerns with the war and challenges on obtaining the visa?

We sent the form l-129 with the documents in to Dallas uscis office, it was delivered, my petitioner got an sms that it was delivered along with a receipt, but he was told on his uscis account to follow the instructions in the notice. The notice in the sms says he will receive a receipt notice in mail.

Will he get further instructions in the mail with it? When is it supposed to arrive?

Can other couples tell us from experience what happens next and what we need to do? We're struck by anxiety and it would help a lot. Thank you.

Good morning!

I have been lurking here for several years now and my husband and I are just about ready to submit his petition. We have been married for almost 3 years and lived together in Romania for about 18 months. Since the bulk of our relationship and marriage has been long distance I don't have too much joint stuff with both our names on it. When I was living there, they would not add my name to his account because I did not have an income or a residency permit from his country. Let me list out what I have and hopefully it will be enough.

1. Flight Itineraries and passport stamps from 6 years of flights to meet up and visit each other. I always went to Romania because the one time we tried to get him to visit the US, he was denied a tourism visa.

2. Rental contact from where I lived with him in Romania with both of our names on it (it was translated into English and notarized locally there).

3. Life insurance policy through my employer showing him as the beneficiary.

4. Photos of our time together including engagement photos in Spain, pictures with his family, photos of our wedding with his family, and a handful of other photos of our time together both before and after we were married.

I don't know if there's anything else I could include that would strengthen our claim of a valid marriage but any advice is welcome. I have screen captures of a few chats between us including talking about getting married and wanting children together, but most of our communication is done through Facebook messenger video chat where we spend hours upon hours on video chat and I don't know if there is a way to log that.

Thanks for your time!

Hi all,

Didn't see a topic for N400 February 2022 filers so though will open one.

Not sure if it will help or not since I would say the processing times will depend a lot on the local office.