US Immigration from Thailand

I am 66 years old and have traveled to Thailand to meet my love. We got engaged before I returned home. We are planning on filling a K1 visa. But I was wondering about health insurance for her. I am on Medicare and retired. What do people do in my situation.

I need some input, as I think this is all bad. My friend is doing the K1 visa route. His fiancee came and got married ( I officiated the wedding), and he filed for AOS already. They had applied for her SS card a week after arriving in the US, but never received it. They completed the fingerprinting and photo for AOS last week. It has been 10 weeks plus and still no SS card. He made an appointment and returned to the Social security office today at 9am eastern time to check the status of the card. They said they don't know what happened , but for some reason it didn't go thru, but they would fix it. Their method of fixing it was from my conversation with him was that the lady said since it was past the I94 expiration obviously was to put her in the system as a US citizen. I kid you not, they put a K1 visa arrival, that has just started AOS in the Social security computer as a US citizen so she would receive a Social Security card. I am assuming this is not good at all. They won't know for sure until the card shows up in about a week, but if she gets an unrestricted SS card, I told him that will be all bad. This would fall under registering to vote, or something similar as it is a misrep as claiming to be a US citizen when you are no where near US citizenship. And as I recall you have to return to the SS office after obtaining your Naturalization Document to have them put you in the system as a US citizen. Maybe I flipped out and panicked without cause ( I don't think so), but I have never heard of this being done. Has anyone ever hear or seen this done. If this did happen, I can only think bad things will come from it down the line. Any thoughts? I already have him on the phone making a return appointment for the office to get that on the books, but what would be the options. I can't believe a SS employee could be this naive. Any input is welcome. He said it was a nightmare there, and they had like 10 sheets of paper spread out over the desk with like 3 people including a supervisor trying to work it out. Typical government efficiency at it's finest.

I was sent i-824 form because I want to transfer my i-130 to nvc

any experience how long does it take? I haven t seen a lot of people have to file this form much

it been 96 day already but didn t get approved

my original case was file (i-130) was approved I started send it til Aug 2019

but stuck with this i-824 form

I haven't seen this discussed anywhere and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this.

We have filed I-485 adjusting from a K-1 and the supporting I-864. Like most people with similar timelines the process has taken much longer than we expected when we started, and if I can believe the various estimates we're probably looking at an approval in Q3/Q4 this year.

I'm considering retiring sometime this year and am wondering if this would somehow delay the process since obviously the I-864 info would no longer apply. I can imagine being asked to confirm the information as part of the interview and having to admit to a change. (Note: retirement income would still be well above the guideline minimums).

Luckily the timing of the retirement decision would be up to me unless something unexpected happens. Again, my only concern would be triggering additional administrative delay with the AOS process.

I was asked for an RFE on my K1 application for not providing evidence of the two year meeting requirement. I suppose a personal statement and photos were not enough. Looking back and reading more, this is obvious now. But since we met in the US during the start of COVID, I did not have hotel receipts, tickets, boarding passes, or really anything with both of our names on it (so I thought). We lived together briefly but did not share any utilities, rental agreements, or anything official.

I guess I assumed they would have just known she lived in America at the time we met and that was ok.

Well obviously I was wrong. I was mildly panicked when I received the RFE. I started trying to think what would count as evidence of our meeting. We saw each other all the time! You never think you have to prove to government agency you know someone at the time. Since the petition was filed I have visited my fianc e in her country but evidence after filing the I-129F is not applicable.

So here is what I submitted for the RFE:

• A revised personal statement that included how we did not stay or travel anywhere due to COVID-19
• Her original visa (J1) and passport stamp showing entry into the US
• Her arrival stamp back in Thailand
• 5 instances of our credit card statements matching up at various merchants on the same day (Amazing and lucky being together over a year and only had 5 instances of these matching up! Usually we just took turns buying stuff.)
• Credit card statement of fianc e showing her address as my address for the last few months of our relationship where we lived together
• Copy of my lease showing that I do indeed live at the address on her credit card statement
• Chat log records from dating app we met in indicating a location we were going for our first date
  • Our phone tracking logs showing us going to chat log specified location at specified time

I think it was the credit statement and possibly the original visa/entry stamp. I cannot imagine it was the dating app/GPS logs but I was throwing everything and the kitchen sink in there to see what stuck.

Anyway I got my NOA2 just the other day and whew was that a big relief! So I'm just tossing this out there in case anyone else has a similar situation.