US Immigration from Vietnam

Howdy, my wife is the petitioner in form I-130 for her unmarried child under 16. It was recently approved and is processing in NVC currently.

My question is she is awaiting her 10 year green card and her current card is long expired. She is hesitant on making that trip for the interview without the 10 year green card in hand.

Does she have to attend the interview for her child or can I or a family member over there attend with her child?

I am sorry if this is confusing. I tried to word the situation as best I can. Thank you for your help.

Not sure there are many people with the same issue, but I'll ask anyway . . .

My wife got a 551G stamp in her passport in November for international travel while waiting to remove conditions. She was just scheduled for her citizenship interview in January, which we assume will be a combined green card and citizenship interview. We are leaving to travel overseas 10 days after the interview. If approved, she probably won't have the 10-year card in hand before we leave. Is the 551 passport stamp still valid if the green card is approved, "being produced," or sitting in our mailbox? Thank you!

Hello helpful Visa journey friends,
Iam interested to know what experience you have had upon entry into the USA if you were initially a CR1 visa holder upon issuance but decided to wait to enter the USA past your two year wedding anniversary.
Upon entering USA did you need to tell the immigration officer anything about the two year rule? Show your marriage license? Did you need to have this discussion about your new eligibility as a permanent resident vs conditional? Or was it automatically in the system? Did he comply or tell you he can t help you?

interested to know what your experiences were. Thank you!

Hi all,

I asked this same question at the tail end of topic I started in this forum, but I think it deserves its own thread and sincerely apologize if it doesn't.

Long story short, we received an RFE to provide 'Evidence of a shared marital life together'.

The RFE states they must receive an answer by December 22nd, 2022.

We put our response together and mailed it via USPS Express mail. We have the USPS receipt and it says the package was signed for back in late October 2022. No other details like the name or initials of who actually received and signed for it.

If we don't see any status update through the USCIS online portal by, say, December 15th or so, should we prepare a digital RFE response of the same content and upload it to them? That way, we can at least have a digital trail and screenshots we submitted on time.

The last thing we want is for USCIS to say they must not have received it and there's no particular employee they know of, who accepted it. Maybe I just don't know how USPS Express works, but not having an actual person's name or initials who signed for it, makes me nervous.

Would you also submit your response online if the time is ticking down without any progress updates?

We used Rapid Visa up to this point, so they've always mailed things on our behalf.

Thank you very much for any information and assistance you can provide.

Our immigration attorney used my my wife's (US Citizen) Maiden name based on her Form N-560 Certification of US Citizenship before her first marriage. We had to call our attorney through Zoom to arrange for my I485/I130 application due to the Pandemic, mistakes happen.

She currently using her first husband's last name and kept it since even after the marriage with me (Applicant for Adjustment of Status) to avoid complication due to name change (all of her business and bank account document used the first husband's last name, and Covid really made everything difficult).

We have documents to show that her last name changed (marriage certification & divorce certification with the first husband). Would this be enough to avoid complication? I'm currently talking with our immigration attorney, but I want to ask for your opinion as well.