Gosia & Tito

It's rarer than snow, ice or sleet coming down in Houston that I disagree with your posts Darnell -just happened couple of days ago, but I disagree on the disagree.
A fiance/e can be told repeatedly and in explicit terms what to expect; fiance/e might have been visiting in the US for some time, and it still can be a culture shock.
Some recover quick and adjust promptly without much of a problem; others take time -short, long, and eventually make the transition; some others never do but make it bearable; others will eventually return to their homeland with or without spouse. Seen at least one case of each and often the USC spouse has a great deal of impact (but not 100% in my anecdotal experience) in the final outcome.

It's rarer than snow, ice or sleet coming down in Houston that I disagree with your posts Darnell -just happened couple of days ago, but I disagree on the disagree.
A fiance/e can be told repeatedly and in explicit terms what to expect; fiance/e might have been visiting in the US for some time, and it still can be a culture shock.
Some recover quick and adjust promptly without much of a problem; others take time -short, long, and eventually make the transition; some others never do but make it bearable; others will eventually return to their homeland with or without spouse. Seen at least one case of each and often the USC spouse has a great deal of impact (but not 100% in my anecdotal experience) in the final outcome.

It seems you are trying to rationalize and justify your actions. It seems you are smart, intelligent and hard worker; and expecting your partner to be likewise. Nothing wrong with that, but what you described on his actions thru thru the process shows that he was not; yet you continued the process to finally -when he shows up- come to the inevitable conclusion that you were not compatible.
A lot of what you write is the view from an American perspective; nothing wrong there, but in the kind of relationships we in this forum are, it is imperative that one thinks from a multi-cultural perspective. There will be culture shock, no matter how much you prepare your partner, even if the partner had spent some time in the US.
Some actions could've been taken along the way but it's irrelevant at this point.
He might have left a life behind, or not; we don't know that, only he would know.
In terms of legal or financial responsibilities, you are in the clear as others have noted. Now, ethically or morally, only you can judge that and decide what to do about it.

It's rarer than snow, ice or sleet coming down in Houston that I disagree with your posts Darnell -just happened couple of days ago, but I disagree on the disagree.
A fiance/e can be told repeatedly and in explicit terms what to expect; fiance/e might have been visiting in the US for some time, and it still can be a culture shock.
Some recover quick and adjust promptly without much of a problem; others take time -short, long, and eventually make the transition; some others never do but make it bearable; others will eventually return to their homeland with or without spouse. Seen at least one case of each and often the USC spouse has a great deal of impact (but not 100% in my anecdotal experience) in the final outcome.

Not sure what is there for you to sign, let alone 'relieve financial responsibility'.
His brother can get him to CA if he wants to, but at the expiration of the I-94, he is illegally staying in the country; not your problem mind you.

We never had an interview for AOS. Filing for ROC in 3 months

2nd post...just wanted to separate the answers clearly...
There is something not clicking here, I never knew anyone "Not knowing" what visa he/she is applying to, especially with the requirements for a K-1 that have several that clearly indicates to anyone that you are getting married (unless you absolutely speak 0 words in English, and if even if so, there is the question of signing something you do't understand)....
Secondary, the beneficiary receives a packet that describes exams and paperwork requirements; and he still shows up with none? Something is not right here.
As others have said, I'd make sure I'm getting the entire straight story before proceeding. As well, consult an attorney and the only way this attorney can help is by knowing the entire true story, otherwise you are just wasting your time and money.

2nd post...just wanted to separate the answers clearly...
There is something not clicking here, I never knew anyone "Not knowing" what visa he/she is applying to, especially with the requirements for a K-1 that have several that clearly indicates to anyone that you are getting married (unless you absolutely speak 0 words in English, and if even if so, there is the question of signing something you do't understand)....
Secondary, the beneficiary receives a packet that describes exams and paperwork requirements; and he still shows up with none? Something is not right here.
As others have said, I'd make sure I'm getting the entire straight story before proceeding. As well, consult an attorney and the only way this attorney can help is by knowing the entire true story, otherwise you are just wasting your time and money.

There is no real correlation between wait time and results IMHO; what there is -also IMHO; is a correlation between country of origin and length as well as result. There are unfortunately a number of countries considered high fraud and those are the ones that tend to have longer process times and higher rate of denial. Process times swing up and down for a number of reasons, when we did ours, the K1 was about 5-6 months in average; earlier this year it was getting around 1 year in average (or looked like), then it seems it started to reduce again. The load of cases moves slowly and is not very predictable, in most cases there is a 'luck' factor of when you file as to where the load is moving. In our case, times had been shorter around the time we filed, and "luckily" we got into a wave of many petitions that were sent to California, 'for faster processing' according to the letter we got...what a joke...around that time, we started calling the 'black hole California center' in here.
Sit tight, I would say that news are coming.

Just a thought, how about your passport and a US bank statement with your name? In TX they valid documents for the MVD (or DPS as it is called here).

We had my wife's stuff sent from Poland regular mail; every week or two my step son would send a box or two, standard issue European post, wrapped in plastic per post direction. Shipped the cheapest, it would take a few weeks to make it here. Nothing ever got lost or broken. Might have been 25 boxes total, each 36x36x36cm. Since it's international post, there was a 'manifest'; customs never opened any to check. USPS postman delivered to our door, signature needed. By the time it was over, we were in first name basis with him.

Reply now, with "Not a USC"; anything else equates to representing you are a USC and that is a big no no. It is immaterial what you will be on the day of the jury duty summons, they draw this requests out of driver's licenses records usually. There have been other posts here about this and I sort of recall one in which now the person was in a deportation process.
I can see your logic of waiting until the day of the test; but I think is safer to do it now.

Reply now, with "Not a USC"; anything else equates to representing you are a USC and that is a big no no. It is immaterial what you will be on the day of the jury duty summons, they draw this requests out of driver's licenses records usually. There have been other posts here about this and I sort of recall one in which now the person was in a deportation process.
I can see your logic of waiting until the day of the test; but I think is safer to do it now.

Few things you should take into account:
This is primarily a DIY-do it yourself site, and I'd say the vast majority is discussing a fiance/fiancee or marriage immigration case. There are certainly a number of people that has other family related discussions, but in general, not sure that you would get the good advice you are looking for. Sorry about that.
As in most investments, and EB-5 is an Investor visa, you have to be ready and prepared for the possibility of loosing the entire capital invested; if you are not, you should not play this game. Your post seems to indicate that you might not, nothing wrong with that, but it is the first indication that perhaps this program is not for you.
Assuming that you are prepared for full loss, remember that the US Government is who define the rules of this game, and rules can change with no notice. A change of the rules is not inherently wrong, but it could impact negatively your prospects. One particularly important is that the program is not permanent (as far as I know), that is, it is extended every so many years. A worst case scenario is that while you in the program, it does not get extended. Not saying it will happen (as it has been extended many times), but if it does happen, but outcome is that all applicants in the program might not be allowed to continue process. Of course, it is also possible that those applicants would be allowed to complete the terms of the program and eventually get a GC.
One other particularly important question you have to ask yourself is: Why would a project or business need a loan from an EB-5 program? If the business plan is sound and the return/risk ratio was adequate, they should be able to get a loan from a bank or other financial outfit. The kind of projects that have a real high risk (with a big potential payout) are mostly directed and funded by VC-venture capitalists, who understand the high risks and know they would lose a lot, but that a few payout will still keep them ahead.
You need to check stats related to the EB-5 program. SOme I've seen seem to indicate that there is only about a 50% overall success (that is, of the total number of applicants in the past 10-20 years, only 50% eventually got permanent resident cards and/or citizenship). That doesn't seem to me as a good success record.
Read the article below. It's a couple of years old, but can get you something to think about, and CaNam is mentioned
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/22/us-usa-immigration-business-idUSTRE6BL2KJ20101222
Of course, there are also success stories, but it seems it's only half of the time.
Good luck in your plans.

Culturally, there will always be differences, even if the couple comes from the same country but one has lived outside that country for a long time.
And also, we need to be aware that you can't stereotype your partner as all LatinAmericans are same. They are not, I should know because I am one, and born in Peru actually.
But regardless of country, something that is quite important is that each of the person in the couple needs to adapt to other and meet half way so to speak. Just saying, 'that's how I am and I can't/won't change' does not fly or at least should not. Those differences you are finding now will only amplify over time. We as many others, have our differences, lot of it because we were raised in different countries and there were initial expectations of how the other should be. For example, I'm very much in favor of women independence, something I got used to from the time I lived in Sweden. But I've found that Polish women don't (not all) necesarily want to have that independence, thus I adjust and I now make some decisions, but I always consult.
It is also normal thatr as a couple, dynamics change, and some things you did not do before now you do, and viceversa. Now, something I can say is that for most Latins, what others consider a 'horrible fight' is just what we could call a difference of opinion; what happens and this I also can say first hand because my wife has pointed out, the fact that I move my hands a lot when talking seems to her that I'm fighting. I'm not, is just how I talk; but the feedback is good, so now I tone it down some, being conscious that it does have an effect.
So, bottom line, there is an adjustment, but it has to be on both sides, a unilaterla one wil only cause resentment in the long term IMHO. Also, because of hwo the dynamics work, now, one we reach some agreement or decision, I go thru it again in detail to make sure that I got it right and that she got it right; my latest example, our next trip out of the US requires that she meets me in another country, but not before she stop over in a third one, on her own; so I need to make sure that she undertands that she will be on her own -sort of-, because I can make arrangement for a relative to meet her in the airport in that 3rd country and even take her home for rest if she feels like; and make sure she boards the next flight right. Esentially, I assume nothing and ensure that it is very explicitly defined what will happen and what not. Last thing I want is a wife in an airport where she's never been and where she doesn't speak the language and I'm 5000 miles away.
In summary, talk talk talk; and that does not mean one talks and the other listens all the time.
Hope this helps

The job I was noting is one with an industrial company, for example Air Liquide, that has extensive operations in the US but is EU based; and if someone needs environmental engineers is them; and I do know for a fact that they have internship programs for recent graduates. A consulting like KPMG or others would have more limited positions to what you are looking.
The student route is an interesting one. Grades play a role but actually your chances are not based just on A's; it is often a matter of hitting the right college looking for the right graduate student, which does not necesarily even mean the degree you've got. I know this first hand, as I originally came to the US on a student visa and with no $ on my name. The RA/TA (Research assistant, teaching assistant) is one way to work on campus for a decent wage and with the possibility of having your tuition paid on top (I did). Engineering degrees are more likely to get funding to the student, foreign inclusive: the fact is that engineering schools in the US have few US citizens as students; most are foreigners.
I'd start looking at programs/colleges that you are interested; it is a real advantage if you have someone you know inside already as they can speak for you to the professors. Professors are always looking for assistants: the tenure of a professor is tied to the grants they get, and to get grants they have to produce results; on the other hand, student assistants are "cheap labor" (dont' take this the wrong way, but it pays enough to support yourself). Of course, having someone inside will help you land a position as oppose to trying to get one by e-mail/letters (which is not impossible but you start with a disadvantage already. If there is a professor from your country I'd definitely contact him/her. Applying to college from outside the US is a matter of timing: you should target a start of next Fall (Aug 2014), for that, applications are being considered possibly from around December of this year. Notice that in some colleges, applications are reviewed as they come; which means an early application has more chances even with lower academic credentials. Keep track of deadlines for international students that are different than if you were here. In the meantime, ensure you have the standard tests they will ask for (GRE and GMAT for example), but defer taking them until you have some candidate colleges with possibilities, because you can select where the scores will be sent when you register but you;ll have to pay extra if you want the scores to be sent to additional schools later.
It is possible to obtain a permit to work off campus, not easy but possible. But, I'd not go that route as you would most likely need to work hourly and those are not going to be evry highly paid.
Good luck

ALso, to take into account:
If you marry and file AOS soon, you'll have an EAD and have the potential of working and making $ for a few months before birth and then 30-45 days after. A second consideration is that being married and with child, tax deductions for BF will increase and overall you might be better off.
On AOS, and depending on times, you might have a GC well before the estimated bith date and might (depends on how far into pregnancy and whether is a risk or not to fly that late), notice again the might, be able to fly home and give birth there.
It's time to make some decisions and then go the path decided. As others have said, check the insurance clauses for coverage and make sure not only that you understand that well but that the interpretation is the same for the insurance (the HR in the company people will help you BF on that, no need to get with the insurance).

Yes, as long as you are fluent in both and certifiy (paragraph stating that in translation)

Unless you have some good reasons to follow thru in moving, I'd be dropping this guy without thinking it twice. He needs to man up and bring something to the table. It seems from what you relate that he's only complaining and expecting things to be arranged to his likeness. Getting a DL is fairly simple, even without going trhu the manual in detail, of course, this requires a minimum of willingness and intelligence, I would assume the later and question the former. Many Latins come to the country illegally and ake their way, he has what others would consider gold: a GC; wanting to work presumes you look for a job yourself and not handed down a job; even in the most remote and rundown town, there will always be something to do, even if that means running your own business, which could be buy/sell in ebay or make some handcrafted goods to sell via ebay. You don't get rich necesarily but get yourself busy and bring some money in; and what the hack was that about not wanting to watch over your kid when you are working??
People work in whatever they can or is available; at the beginning there is no standing to be picky. Once some experience and history is establish then you can move on to better positions.
As for learning English, there are self taught classes available online. I would advise against having your daughter out of the country; you might have problems getting her back.
If you are open and willing then move down there; but take a deep and good luck at the whole picture of living there in terms of raising family, establishing a long term home, job opportunities, schooling for both you and daughter, etc.
Seems to me that he's full of it and you should then send him home without your daughter. If he can find a job in Peru (which frankly I'd doubt exists, and if it does, check what are the $$ as I'm sure that would not even be close to what even a low wage here would provide), he can very well find one here.
Sorry to being harsh, but it from what you say, I think you are better alone than with this weight pulling you down.

No new number. Reason is not in the system your loan office uses is because it takes time for SSA to distribute updates and for those to propagate across authorized databases, that time is measured in weeks as in more than 1 month in many cases. And then it depends on when this loan office would update their data, it might be only on the quarter or even mayb couple of times a year, why you would ask? Because there is a lot of non-educated people out there that has the following line of thinking: only new bornes get SSN, a new born is not going to ask for a loan for a while and people don't give birth more than once a year, thus to keep family info up to date on the parents getting a loan, twice year updates is plenty. They absolutely don't think that new immigrants would get SSN all the time. You can see this line of thinking quite a lot actually, though sometimes is subtle. For example, my credit union uses this challenge questions when you want to reset your password. They have setup a list of questions, and I'd say that a foreigner and/or immigrant would be able to maybe answer 1 out of the 15, while you need at least 3 to set this up. For example, one question is what state where you born, and then a list of the 50. How would a foreigner answer this?
Other questions ask for your favorite NFL, MBL, NBA team. How many recent immigrants would even know what those leagues are?
Reason people "have not seen" the first few numbers is because numbers used to be assigned by geographic area so it was possible to tell in what state/area someone got a SSN, but that is changed more or less recently and now numbers have nothing to do with where you got the number and would appear as "new" to some.
As for the loan, ask for a supervisor or office manager to clear the situation. After all, all they need to see is a SSN and you are getting them one.

Unless you have some good reasons to follow thru in moving, I'd be dropping this guy without thinking it twice. He needs to man up and bring something to the table. It seems from what you relate that he's only complaining and expecting things to be arranged to his likeness. Getting a DL is fairly simple, even without going trhu the manual in detail, of course, this requires a minimum of willingness and intelligence, I would assume the later and question the former. Many Latins come to the country illegally and ake their way, he has what others would consider gold: a GC; wanting to work presumes you look for a job yourself and not handed down a job; even in the most remote and rundown town, there will always be something to do, even if that means running your own business, which could be buy/sell in ebay or make some handcrafted goods to sell via ebay. You don't get rich necesarily but get yourself busy and bring some money in; and what the hack was that about not wanting to watch over your kid when you are working??
People work in whatever they can or is available; at the beginning there is no standing to be picky. Once some experience and history is establish then you can move on to better positions.
As for learning English, there are self taught classes available online. I would advise against having your daughter out of the country; you might have problems getting her back.
If you are open and willing then move down there; but take a deep and good luck at the whole picture of living there in terms of raising family, establishing a long term home, job opportunities, schooling for both you and daughter, etc.
Seems to me that he's full of it and you should then send him home without your daughter. If he can find a job in Peru (which frankly I'd doubt exists, and if it does, check what are the $$ as I'm sure that would not even be close to what even a low wage here would provide), he can very well find one here.
Sorry to being harsh, but it from what you say, I think you are better alone than with this weight pulling you down.

Unless you have some good reasons to follow thru in moving, I'd be dropping this guy without thinking it twice. He needs to man up and bring something to the table. It seems from what you relate that he's only complaining and expecting things to be arranged to his likeness. Getting a DL is fairly simple, even without going trhu the manual in detail, of course, this requires a minimum of willingness and intelligence, I would assume the later and question the former. Many Latins come to the country illegally and ake their way, he has what others would consider gold: a GC; wanting to work presumes you look for a job yourself and not handed down a job; even in the most remote and rundown town, there will always be something to do, even if that means running your own business, which could be buy/sell in ebay or make some handcrafted goods to sell via ebay. You don't get rich necesarily but get yourself busy and bring some money in; and what the hack was that about not wanting to watch over your kid when you are working??
People work in whatever they can or is available; at the beginning there is no standing to be picky. Once some experience and history is establish then you can move on to better positions.
As for learning English, there are self taught classes available online. I would advise against having your daughter out of the country; you might have problems getting her back.
If you are open and willing then move down there; but take a deep and good luck at the whole picture of living there in terms of raising family, establishing a long term home, job opportunities, schooling for both you and daughter, etc.
Seems to me that he's full of it and you should then send him home without your daughter. If he can find a job in Peru (which frankly I'd doubt exists, and if it does, check what are the $$ as I'm sure that would not even be close to what even a low wage here would provide), he can very well find one here.
Sorry to being harsh, but it from what you say, I think you are better alone than with this weight pulling you down.

Unless you have some good reasons to follow thru in moving, I'd be dropping this guy without thinking it twice. He needs to man up and bring something to the table. It seems from what you relate that he's only complaining and expecting things to be arranged to his likeness. Getting a DL is fairly simple, even without going trhu the manual in detail, of course, this requires a minimum of willingness and intelligence, I would assume the later and question the former. Many Latins come to the country illegally and ake their way, he has what others would consider gold: a GC; wanting to work presumes you look for a job yourself and not handed down a job; even in the most remote and rundown town, there will always be something to do, even if that means running your own business, which could be buy/sell in ebay or make some handcrafted goods to sell via ebay. You don't get rich necesarily but get yourself busy and bring some money in; and what the hack was that about not wanting to watch over your kid when you are working??
People work in whatever they can or is available; at the beginning there is no standing to be picky. Once some experience and history is establish then you can move on to better positions.
As for learning English, there are self taught classes available online. I would advise against having your daughter out of the country; you might have problems getting her back.
If you are open and willing then move down there; but take a deep and good luck at the whole picture of living there in terms of raising family, establishing a long term home, job opportunities, schooling for both you and daughter, etc.
Seems to me that he's full of it and you should then send him home without your daughter. If he can find a job in Peru (which frankly I'd doubt exists, and if it does, check what are the $$ as I'm sure that would not even be close to what even a low wage here would provide), he can very well find one here.
Sorry to being harsh, but it from what you say, I think you are better alone than with this weight pulling you down.

You provide a written/signed statement (each of you) that you are intending to marry 90 days upon fiance/e entering US. You can have some preliminary places/ceremony details (full blown wedding at hotel X, court side wedding in County Court Y, etc). Just don't book anything if it means $. Assume 9-11 months end to end and you would have approximate dates.

You provide a written/signed statement (each of you) that you are intending to marry 90 days upon fiance/e entering US. You can have some preliminary places/ceremony details (full blown wedding at hotel X, court side wedding in County Court Y, etc). Just don't book anything if it means $. Assume 9-11 months end to end and you would have approximate dates.