US Immigration from Scotland

I m sure it s all fine, but would value you guys thoughts or opinions.

After usps taking our i129-f on a magical mystery tour, it finally arrived at Dallas lockbox.

However 1 week later we have not had notification from uscis and usps tracking information is the same .

Your item has been delivered and is available at a PO Box at 6:49 am on April 20, 2025 in DALLAS, TX 75266.

Is this normal? Should my fianc e (usc/petitioner) not have received a text message by now?

Please put my mind at rest lol.

Thank you.

My Fianc e (Petitioner/USC - currently in the US) and myself (beneficiary - currently in the UK) are right at the beginning of our visa journey so please go easy lol. We are in the process of completing the I-129F and have read and familiarised ourselves with the process as much as we feel is possible, however there are still a few questions we are unsure of. Please can anyone offer help/advice?

Part 2 (Information about your beneficiary).....

Q24. requests details of my parents names etc. Should we put the details of my biological parents? or my adoptive parents? (I was adopted at the age of 12) or can I use either?

Q39. asks if I (the beneficiary) have any children. - My daughter is age 19. My belief is that she should be excluded from this section/question as she is an adult, but I believe some laws/rules in the US consider a child to be up until the age of 21

Part 3 (Other information) and Part 4 (Biographic information).....

Am I correct in assuming that at this point, the requested information has returned to being applicable to my Fianc e (the petitioner)?

Thanks in advance

Joe

Hi all,

I am filing my i-131 separately from my i-130, i-485 & i-175 packet (already submitted) and was wondering if I have the list of evidence right. I am currently on a J-1 visa that expires May so I am wondering if I will need to give all the documentation for that with my application as well.

List of evidence:

• 2 passport style photographs
• Passport Biographic page

Evidence of status (this is where I am confused)

• Receipt notice for i-485
• DS-2019 for my current J-1 visa
• J-1 visa page
• Latest I-94 arrival/departure record

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi! I'm looking for information around the 4-years-plus-1-day timer before applying for citizenship after a break in residency. I'm over a year away from applying, I'm just lining myself up to make sure I have what I need.

I have a green card, granted in June 2016. Soon after I received that, I took a job I couldn't pass up outside of the US. I definitely broke continuity on my residency (timeline below) but I've been unambiguously employed and living in the US since I returned two and a half years ago. Although I typically have a trip abroad once every couple of months, either for work or to visit family, I've accrued most of the time required to pass the physical presence test already.

Technically I fall into the 4-years-plus-1-day category because I've resumed my residency, but I'm interested in the details therein. I gather that they still actually review the full 5 years prior to the application, but I was out completely in the year prior to returning so I gather that's a bad approach. Is that true? I don't own property nor was I working for a US organization. I did maintain bank accounts, I paid taxes (including California state, so as to not trigger any marks for becoming "non-resident"), and I had my mail directed to a friend's house the entire time I was out.

I've heard also that waiting until 4-years-plus-6-months is a better approach. Do folks have experience with their application in either case? Pointers welcome.

My timeline:

• November 2016: I left the US to start that job. I applied for a re-entry permit ahead of time.
• The re-entry permit arrived at the embassy abroad, expiry date set to March 2019. I returned to the US 5 times in this period, all short trips, but never more than six months apart.
• March 2019: I returned to the US to work for 6 months. Aside from two business trips abroad, I was in the US until September 2019.
• October 2019: I took on another job abroad, and again I applied for a re-entry permit ahead of time. The re-entry permit was granted with an end date of September 2021.
• Then, of course, COVID. I didn't travel until I was fully vaccinated in July 2021, so continuity was unambiguously broken. I understand that COVID is not a consideration for the application.
• August 2021: I returned to the US full-time.

Forgive me if this is somewhere on the site but I haven't been able to locate it so far.

My understanding is that each of my four children here will need to submit their own N 400s with the possible exception of my daughter who is under 18 - almost 15. The others are 18, 21 and 23. So though they are listed in my filing we need to submit one for each of the older ones. Is that correct? Will my daughter be considered under mine?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks