US Immigration from Singapore

I am a naturalized US citizen and I sponsored my brother and my mom for PR in 2013. My mom has gotten her PR about 6 months later while my brother is still waiting for his after 8 years now.

I heard that for a PR mother to sponsor her son, the process is quicker, about a couple of years. My question is if my mom submit an application to sponsor a PR for my brother, is it an issue that my brother will then have multiple applications in the system? If not, then is it worth it to get my mom to sponsor him or should we just to wait out the PR application that is already being processed (going on its 9th year now)?

My mom and brother reside in Washington state. My brother is currently in the US on a F1 student visa.

So our interview went well and my wife was approved.

She received her passport in the mail a couple of days later. It has the actual visa printed on it.

However on the website I keep hearing about this sacred visa packet. And to not open it and pay the fee and all.

However, we never received a visa packet was it supposed to come with the passport?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Dylan Holmes

Any fellow Massholes around? I'm working on our 2020 tax return, which will be the first one we file jointly after getting married in 2019. My wife entered the US with a CR1 in January 2021 and now has her SSN (we filed MFS for 2019 because she didn't have her SSN and we didn't want to send in her passport with Covid-related delays). All looked good, including claiming the previous stimulus checks as the Recovery Rebate Credit, until I got to the state tax return. Her foreign income was well under the threshold for claiming the full exclusion on form 2555.

Apparently, MA does not allow you to deduct foreign earned income on your taxes, even though it's federally deductible. So, to get the $1800 in stimulus payments, we end up owing $2050 in state taxes on her foreign income. Since she was a nonresident for the entire year of 2020 and earned no income in MA, she is not required to file a return in MA. Does anyone have experience with filing a MFJ federal return and then a MFS state return for just the US-based spouse?

So, we just had our interview earlier today and we were approved!

However, they told us we need to register Passport Delivery Information in order for them to return the VISA to us.

So, they say to go to the ustraveldocs website, and signup and all. However, we already had an account from when my wife applied for a J-1 visa a while ago.

So, we just log into that account, however there is NO option for "IV Register" like their document states us to select.

The only way for me to select delivery information is to schedule a new appointment. But we already had our appointment.

It is past the call hours of the Embassy / website.

Any Help?

Hello,

We received an email giving us an interview date of March 3rd.

However, we weren't sure if we could get the medical exam done in time before the interview.

So, we tried to reschedule the interview on the cgifederal website.

This prompted the NVC Embassy to call us and tell us to not do things on the website, that they will call us and reschedule when medical exam is ready.

And the March 3rd date is just a placeholder.

However, we did complete the medical exam and get results in time, but haven't heard from the NVC, should we still show up on the 3rd?

Or assume they will contact us again with a new date?