US Immigration from United Kingdom

This might sound crazy but given the current wait times, maybe not.

im filing in Seattle where the wait times are currently some of the longest in the country. I ll hit two years later this year and I ve seen other forum members who are in danger of making it to 3 years.

Can you start the process of getting a US passport in year 3 without having had your AOS case approved and a green card issued?

My spouse and I live abroad. We have cash assets that are well over the required 3x (or 5x) poverty level amount for the i864. We also recently purchased a house together.

I note that we may use the value of the property for the 864, if using assets instead of income. Do we have to? Proving we have cash seems easier than getting another valuation, mortgage statements etc for a house we may choose to keep as a rental/second home anyway.

Totally fine if we do have to do it, would just rather avoid one more task/expense if possible!

Hi all,

I'm looking to get your opinions on marrying and adjusting status directly from VWP/ESTA. My fiancee and I filed our I-192f in December 2019, and the last update we got was NOA2 in April 2020. Much like many other members here our case has been sitting at the NVC since then waiting for the embassy in London to resume routine visa services. In November 2020 we decided to go the third country route to circumvent the presidential proclamation, and she has been with me in the US on VWP since then. Her current authorized stay expires on the 3rd of Feb.

With all the uncertainty around when routine processing will resume, we are considering just marrying while she is here and filing forms I-130 and I-485 (along with everything else needed) to adjust status directly. Having seen numerous other threads on this topic here, I decided to call an immigration attorney to get her opinion on going this path. She advised that doing this was a "violation of the underlying visa" and would almost certainly result in a lengthy investigation period during which we would not receive EAD/AP nor would there be any movement on our AOS case until this was completed.

I found this quite surprising as the general commentary on this forum seemed to be that marrying and AOSing from VWP was generally an OK thing to do. I'm not sure why it would be a violation of the Visa Waiver Program, either, as we genuinely had no immigrant intent when my fiancee entered the country and only recently began considering this due to changing circumstances. I know we're not immigration lawyers here (or at least not most of us), but what are your opinions on abandoning the K-1 and going this route? Have you heard of anyone who tried this ending up under investigation like the attorney I called indicated?

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of filling in my AOS paperwork and i've noticed on the i-765 it asks if I want to be issued a social security card. I already have a social security card but on it ,it says 'Valid for work only with DHS authorization' due to being on a J-1 visa. Do I ask for a new social security card or leave it and then get this adjusted once my paperwork comes back?

Thanks in advance for the support.

Hello everyone!

My husband has been here for a few years and unfortunately is having trouble locating his passport. We are still earnestly looking for it, but want to start getting prepared for the possibility of ordering a new one from in the U.S.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where we could go to get a passport photo taken that meets the UK guidelines? Better yet, with Covid in mind and wanting to limit contact, has anyone here ever taken a UK passport photo themselves that worked when uploaded?

Any hints or tips at all regarding getting a new UK passport issues while overseas are very helpful and appreciated!