US Immigration from Russia

I plan to marry my Russian citizen fiance' in July of 2023. She has a son who is currently 18 years old. It is my understanding that we can't file a I-130 because my soon to be wife and I weren't married before he turned 18, so he won't be my legal stepson. How can we petition to bring him to the USA? He will be under 21, but over 18.

Thanks!

My Russian fianc has her interview in Warsaw on Feb 17th. We got a Spanish Schengen visa for her. Are there any issues flying into Paris instead, as it's easier for me to fly and meet her? or do I need to book a layover for her in Spain?

My thought process is the Schengen zone has open borders, so they wouldn't know if we then from Paris, were planning on traveling down to Spain. Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks in advance!

I'm just being lazy and wondering if anyone here has the answer for this:

For 2022, I'm going to file Married Filing Separately for ease (I know, won't get as much of a tax break, but the whole "non-resident alien filing special papers to qualify for resident status" is just... weird.) My wife hasn't yet received her visa, and hasn't been in the US/lived together with me. She also does not yet have an ITIN.

Does anyone know, based on that alone whether she qualifies for contributions to a traditional IRA account? I might just call up Fidelity and see if they can advise.

My wife's case number was recently appended with 01 ATA at the end. Does anyone know what this means?

Hey everybody! I wanted to share an unexpected change that just happened to our cases. I have 2 IR5 cases for my parents (DQ December 20 and 21), we were waiting for the interview to be scheduled in Poland. Today we got these weird emails from NVC saying that our interview appointment was cancelled, but we never got any notification from them about interview date or anything. Soon after that I wasn't able to login to CEAC, as it started saying that our case number can't be found. Then finally a few hours later we get an email about our cases changing from Warsaw to Almaty! The interesting thing is that I didn't ask for this at all, my parents actually have Schengen visas. I wonder if Almaty is actually busier than Warsaw and the interview might take longer to schedule.