US Immigration from United Kingdom

I applied on March 18 (expedited) and got my passport back on April 9th. But no sign as yet of the certificate. I suppose strictly speaking I no longer need it because I have the passport but I d like some idea of when I should contact them about this. And in fact, who should I contact? Applied in PA, passport came from Little Rock.

We are trying to file our taxes using the Turbo Tax platform and it asked about if I made money Woking outside of the US and if I had foreign bank accounts. I worked in the UK until the end of February before coming to the US with a K1 visa so I am not sure if I should say yes. I already paid taxes in the UK and don t know if i will be able to get earning statements from the UK if I have to.

Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Like many I've been waiting quite some time for my AOS interview (Seattle field office/Covid etc). We're now approaching our 2yr marriage anniversary. I'm just wondering, presuming you get approved, if you've been married for more than 2yrs at the point the interview happens do you "skip" the conditional 2yr GC and get a 10yr one straight out of the gate?

I filed an I-130 for my wife shortly after we got married. She intends to take my last name now that we re married, but because all of her documents at the time stated her maiden name, we used this for her name on all forms for the I-130 filing. We included her married name in the other names used section of the forms, though.

Now it appears that by the time she has her medical and interview, her current passport won t be valid for long enough to meet the requirements for visa issuance. So we need to renew her passport.

The ultimate goal is that we get her passport and green card in her married name. Should we ask for a name change when we apply for the passport renewal? Will it cause issue with anything further down the line?

I know she ll need her passport for her medical. I assume that she ll need to carry her marriage certificate with her to that to prove the name change, in case the appointment is in her maiden name.

I recently filed an I-130 for my wife at the US Embassy London under exceptional circumstances. The filing was accepted and the officer at our appointment said we should expect to get a case number and instructions for a medical and interview within weeks.

We d like to travel ASAP (hence our method of filing), so we re getting together the documents we need in order to be good to go.

Part of our exceptional circumstances claim was that my wife should not be separated from me for a long period due to her mental health. She s an NHS worker and the stresses of the pandemic caused her issues with sleeplessness, depression, and anxiety. She received therapy, had to take medical leave from work for 4 months, and was put on one type of antidepressant that would also help with her sleep. Though her condition is improved, there is a worry of regression if she and I have to be separated for months, given that it s just the two of us living together.

She s back at work now, and her antidepressant dose is being pulled back (should be at the lowest possible dosge in a month) because her medication has to be slowly reduced to avoid complications. And her therapist has said that she seems to be at a point where further sessions won t be necessary.

She s never been unstable in any way. She s never had a risk of hospitalization from her condition. She s never been threatening to anyone. And she s never been a danger to herself. She simply had to deal with horror on a daily basis at work during a pandemic, and that proved unhealthy for her mental state to the point where she couldn t work for a bit.

The question is, as she s still prescribed a small dosage of her medication, should we obtain a note from her GP about her condition for when she gets her medical? If so, what information should we ask the GP to include. Of course we don t want to tell the doctor what to write. But we d like to be able to give him some questions to answer in his report so that his job is as easy as possible and we get what we need.