US Immigration from Russia

Hi All,

Apologies if a similar question has already been asked before

We're planning to file for K-1 visa while my fianc e and I live together in Russia and when the visa is granted move to the US. I'm going to fill up the 129f petition and send to Dallas lockbox within DHL international mailing

My question is the application asks to write the address in the US my fiancee intents to live but we don't have the exact address right now and are going start looking for a place right before we leave. What's the recommendation in this case? Can I just write UNKNOWN and add explanation in the addendum.

P.S. if anyone has any tips about filing from abroad, it'd be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

My mom and her husband (mom is a dual French / Russian citizen, husband is just a French citizen by birth) want to visit my husband and I in the US.

She's been to the US many times before (both to visit me and her friends from long time ago) and always had a tourist visa as she was traveling as a Russian citizen at that time.

No overstays or unusually long trips. Obviously no criminal history. She actually won the DV Lottery ~9 years ago but never pursued it since she had already met her now husband then but has since visited the US with no issues.

This is going to be her first time applying for ESTA and I was wondering if her case is pretty straight-forward and easy or if there's something I'm missing.

She is in her 60s and her husband is in his 70s. Her husband is retired and I don't think he's traveled a whole lot outside of EU but my understanding is that it's pretty normal for French folks to travel once they retire

Thank you!

Hi guys, I really need your advice.
I'm currently waiting for my work authorization and adjustment of status petitions, I filed both of them in May, there was barely any progress on both cases.
We moved to a different town in July, changed the address straight away, even got the CONFORMATION that it has been changed. In the end of September I suddenly get a message that i missed my biometrics appointment, and the notice has been returned back to USCIS because USPS "could not deliver it". I obviously called USCIS right after, I've been told that the address has not been changed at all and that I have to do it all over again in order to get my bio rescheduled. I did change it, with a conformation on the phone, after that I've been promised by several different USCIS representatives that I will be given a new biometrics date within a month. So, I did everything right on my part, but they still messed it up, and now I have to deal with this. I'm waiting for that reschedule since September. I call them like 10 times a month, constantly asking what the hell is going on, I always get the same response - "you have to wait for 30 days in order for us to schedule it. Can't help you right now, you have to wait"

I really don't know what to do. I cannot get my biometrics rescheduled since the end of September, and every single time i call USCIS they basically tell me to piss off. Have any of you guys had the same problem before? Is it even possible that I will get it rescheduled eventually or do I have to hire a lawyer or something to make these idiots do their job?

Given current ROC processing time, if my interview for citizenship is before ROC is approved, can I still take the oath and become citizen? Thank you.

This site was incredibly useful for us 15-ish years ago as we got married and she came to the USA. I've done the career thing and will soon retire. What's good for the goose (living in the USA during my career) is good for the gander (returning to Russia when not constrained by work to live in the States). So we're looking at a return this year or the next or surely the one after that. Starting to plan, that is.

I'm wondering if there are others here who've come this far in the journey and getting ready for an adventure like we face? We've lots of practical questions, often the reverse of those often asked here.

Cheers!