US Immigration from Ukraine

My friends (USC/Ukrainian) have been married for 4ish years but never got around getting her a green card.

Now they are 100% ready to go - they promise. She obviously has a tourist visa.

Can he initiate the AOS whilst she pops over to see her father in Ireland for a bit?

She is closing in on 180 days on her current I91

Will there be a problem with her re-entering while an AOS is in process?

TIA

Hi everyone,

So kind of a weird situation with my wife and her trying to get an updated social security card with my last name on it. We got married in September 2022, applied for I-485, and she received her permanent resident card on February 2. We went into the social security office today with all necessary documents to get her name changed on her social security card from maiden name to my last name. The clerk at the office was going through the normal review routine, and when she went to pull up my wife's name in her system, she said that she couldn't find her name. My wife received her green card from USCIS, we have all the official documentation, but it didn't show up in the SSA system.

From here, the clerk copy scanned her green card, marriage license and a couple other documents we brought in. She gave us a document that states, "Before we can issue a Social Security number card, we must verify the document(s) you gave us to show your Alien status with the Federal, State, or local office in the United States that issued the document(s). This may take up to 4 weeks." I asked if this has happened before and she said yes (then why don't they fix the process...), but it's a gut punch to my wife who was ready to take her driver's test this week and begin applying for jobs.

Has anyone else ran into this problem before? Hoping it doesn't take a full 4 weeks and I'm not worried since she has an official permanent resident card. Just sucks that it's more waiting and we thought she would basically be all set after receiving the green card to get a job, car, open a bank acct, etc. Never a dull moment with government agencies!

I would like to ask for some advice for my father's case which is currently at NVC. I filed 2 petitions, one for mom and one for my father. Both were approved by USCIS. A few days ago I completed DS-260 for both of my parents, uploaded civil documents, filed I-864 and all supporting documents and after that filed two expedited request based on humanitarian reasons and attached mom's and dad's passports proving that they are Ukrainian nationals. My mom was approved but for my father I received the following message:

Unfortunately, the National Visa Center (NVC) does not have a procedure in place allowing the expeditious processing and review of the documents submitted to us.

We review documents in the order of which they are received.

If you want to request that we expedite this case, please provide us with more information. Please send your request with the supporting documentation (such as medical records, a letter from a medical doctor, or deployment orders) to NVCexpedite@state.gov.

Enter the case number in the subject line of the email. Within the email itself, please include all of the following:

The reason for the request

The petitioner's name and date of birth

The beneficiary's name and date of birth

The beneficiary's two local contact phone numbers.

Does it mean that i can send another expedite request? What additional inofrmation would you suggest to provide? This is war and everyone knows how brutal it is. what sort of proof might work?

Thank you!

Not quite sure where to place this, so I'm hoping a Mod can route it to the correct forum.

My Ukrainian Mother-in-law arrived in the US (after escaping occupied Ukraine thru Turkey) in April '22 on her B2 visa. We filed for a TPS because she arrived during that week between Apr 12, and April 19th. We received an RFE for proof of residency, which is not a problem as she has always had a home with us for the years she has held her B2 visa, but she doesn't have her name on any mortgage, or utilities since we own the home. Part of the information for RFE is an Affidavit of Residency, and the question for this is, does it need to be notarized as it will be scanned into a PDF and uploaded to her case?

Hi has anyone recently made this trip? I am planning a trip to Kiev in a couple of weeks (trying to be there for Woman's Day)? Would like to know issues that i should prepare for. My plan is to fly to Warsaw and then train to Kiev. thanks