US Immigration from Uzbekistan

On 8/7/2024 at 3:49 PM, Dashinka said:

I would not pull the current I130 as you are able to keep it is stasis indefinitely once it reaches the NVC stage until your plans become solid. She can also try for a B2 application that may or may not be approved.

Good Luck!

Kind of unrelated to the topic at hand, apologies for changing the subject, but could I ask you to elaborate on "keeping your I-130 petition in stasis indefinitely"? Is there no set period within which you have to submit your immigrant visa application after your I-130 petition is approved?

My spouse and I are currently living abroad and are unsure of when exactly we will relocate to the U.S. I haven't filed our I-130 yet for this reason, on the assumption that we would need to be ready to relocate ~2 years from when we file. Do you mean that we could take some time before proceeding with the NVC stage once the I-130 is approved?

Hello all,

I'm getting ready to submit our I-130 petition for my spouse. We're currently living together in their home country and intend to do so until they receive their CR/IR-1 visa. We've traveled internationally together several times both before and after we were legally married, so I'm planning to submit scans of our passport stamps as proof of our relationship. I just had a few questions in the hope someone might have some useful advice:

1. In addition to our travel together, we've both traveled internationally separately, for work and leisure. Should I include scans of all passport stamps over the course of our relationship, including solo travel, or is this unnecessary? Should I just go ahead and scan our entire passports, or would this be excessive?
2. I recently renewed my passport from abroad and still have my old passport, as my then-current visa was in my old passport. (I've since been issued a new visa in my current passport.) Some of the passport stamps I plan to submit, as well as previous visas demonstrating my continuous residence in spouse's home country, are in my old passport. I plan to submit scans of the bio pages for both passports, as well as the confirmation letter I received from the Consular Section when I received my new passport which includes both passport numbers. Will this be too confusing? Should I include a written statement explaining all this?

Thank you for any advice you can offer!

I had my N-400 interview in October 2023. I successfully passed it but the officer told me she can t approve it because my I-751 is still pending. It s been more than 5 months since the interview and nothing has changed: I-751 is still stuck on biometrics and N-400 is on interview scheduled. I submitted an e-request in Feb and got genetic response that the delay is due workload factors not related to my case.

I also reached out to my senator last week, but it did not help.
Anything else I can do? Any advice would help!

My spouse and I currently live together in her home country (Uzbekistan). We plan to get her LPR via consular processing and live here together in the meantime. My spouse has never been to the U.S. before, I have some family obligations (a family reunion and a wedding) back home this summer, so I thought this would be a great opportunity for her to visit and meet my extended family. Given her nationality, she needs a visa, and I thought we had a compelling-enough story to overcome the presumption of immigrant intent (at least at this particular time). Apparently not. She just had her visa interview and was rejected due to a failure to demonstrate nonimmigrant intent. As soon as the consular officer learned her spouse is a USC, the interview was over. Apparently our documents from relatives showing we have a specific reason for a temporary visit, our documents from work showing that we both have permanent employment here, and visa from previous trips to Europe, weren't enough to satisfy them.

How am I supposed to maintain my family ties while living abroad if that means choosing between visiting my family, or being with my wife? I had also put off filing her I-130 in the (mistaken) belief that it would harm her (apparently already doomed) application for a nonimmigrant visa. Visa waiver is not an option given her nationality. Are we basically just screwed in terms of being able to visit the U.S. together until her IR1 visa comes through? I'm just so frustrated right now and not sure what other options we have.

We have met a family that is helping us by providing Nanny care to our toddler son. They came from one of the border towns in Ukraine about 1 year ago. They have no relatives or family here in the US that they could seek to adjust under, just husband, wife and their 9yr old son. We took the immigration journey 10yrs ago on a k1, but have no clue if they have some way to stay and adjust status. Could not quite find the answer in some of the other posts.