Bill and Vicky

Besides you and your fiancee, how would anyone know she's your second cousin?
Don't mention it. If you are specifically asked, you can explain, but I don't see how it would come up unless you volunteer the information. As you point out, it's legal to marry your second cousin in the United States, but why create a problem by bringing it up? Let's not make the IO's job any harder than it is.
And no, it's not lying. It's not volunteering information that will cause problems you don't need.
Regards,
Bill

Besides you and your fiancee, how would anyone know she's your second cousin?
Don't mention it. If you are specifically asked, you can explain, but I don't see how it would come up unless you volunteer the information. As you point out, it's legal to marry your second cousin in the United States, but why create a problem by bringing it up? Let's not make the IO's job any harder than it is.
And no, it's not lying. It's not volunteering information that will cause problems you don't need.
Regards,
Bill

Besides you and your fiancee, how would anyone know she's your second cousin?
Don't mention it. If you are specifically asked, you can explain, but I don't see how it would come up unless you volunteer the information. As you point out, it's legal to marry your second cousin in the United States, but why create a problem by bringing it up? Let's not make the IO's job any harder than it is.
And no, it's not lying. It's not volunteering information that will cause problems you don't need.
Regards,
Bill

Besides you and your fiancee, how would anyone know she's your second cousin?
Don't mention it. If you are specifically asked, you can explain, but I don't see how it would come up unless you volunteer the information. As you point out, it's legal to marry your second cousin in the United States, but why create a problem by bringing it up? Let's not make the IO's job any harder than it is.
And no, it's not lying. It's not volunteering information that will cause problems you don't need.
Regards,
Bill

ONE major illness and you could lose everything... I don't understand how anyone could live in the US without Health insurance.

She can apply before her ROC is approved.

My husband travels frequently for work. When he traveled close to the expiration date the IO said "make sure to renew this" and let him in. We had already submitted ROC paperwork by then and were just waiting for NOA1 letter.

She gave up everything she had in another country to move here and be with him. The situation is untenable.
I can think of states where, upon filing, she would immediately receive half of his income until the issue was resolved in court.
Regards,
Bill

If you want to get divorced from your husband, you have rights. You need to talk to a divorce attorney.
Why not get a court order that requires your husband to pay you some sort of alimony during the divorce process? Then you would have money.
You appear to be at the point where your marriage is a business decision. If he wants out, fine, but it'll cost him. You might even negotiate: I'll give you a divorce with no alimony requirements, but you're going to have to pay me an up-front settlement so I have money to go home.
If your marriage is over, get the emotion out of it. Become very clinical and business-like. You need a solution to your marriage that will allow you to get back to where you want to be. Don't let your husband excuse his way out of it.
Regards,
Bill

yes, you can change your address here https://egov.uscis.gov/coa/displayCOAForm.do
Make sure you include all the petition numbers (485, 765, 131). I guess your husband also will need to update his for the 864. Just make sure you don't do it until you actually establish residency there as USPS might not deliver mail addressed to you if they don't know you're living there.
Make sure your housemate will keep an eye out for mail that arrives after you move since it's not always immediate. You could call the service center a week after filing or so to see if your address change went through.
Good luck!

It means someone "touched" your file. It means they are working on it.

If you want to get divorced from your husband, you have rights. You need to talk to a divorce attorney.
Why not get a court order that requires your husband to pay you some sort of alimony during the divorce process? Then you would have money.
You appear to be at the point where your marriage is a business decision. If he wants out, fine, but it'll cost him. You might even negotiate: I'll give you a divorce with no alimony requirements, but you're going to have to pay me an up-front settlement so I have money to go home.
If your marriage is over, get the emotion out of it. Become very clinical and business-like. You need a solution to your marriage that will allow you to get back to where you want to be. Don't let your husband excuse his way out of it.
Regards,
Bill

If you want to get divorced from your husband, you have rights. You need to talk to a divorce attorney.
Why not get a court order that requires your husband to pay you some sort of alimony during the divorce process? Then you would have money.
You appear to be at the point where your marriage is a business decision. If he wants out, fine, but it'll cost him. You might even negotiate: I'll give you a divorce with no alimony requirements, but you're going to have to pay me an up-front settlement so I have money to go home.
If your marriage is over, get the emotion out of it. Become very clinical and business-like. You need a solution to your marriage that will allow you to get back to where you want to be. Don't let your husband excuse his way out of it.
Regards,
Bill

Congrats on winning the DV!
Bring any documentation you have. You probably don't have the receipt from when you first applied for the DV lottery, but if you do bring it. I'd rather bring too much documentation and not need it than not bring something and have them ask for it.
You need an I-134 if you don't have enough money for yourself. You can certainly use your bank statements to prove how much savings you have. If you have to get a sponsor, they can fill out the I-134 and send it to you. They sign an oath on page 2, and a notary is not needed.
Look at the following:
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/pk%203%20supplements/MTL%20-%20Montreal.pdf
It's not specific to DV recipients, but it gives you an idea of what to expect.
Try to get as much of the documentation as you can. You're single, so if you have *never* been married then you don't need a marriage certificate. If you *have been married in the past*, then you need the marriage and divorce documentation. If you have no kids, then you don't worry about custody, etc.
Regards,
Bill

Don't sweat it. Just be truthful at the interview if they ask you about it. Always be honest in your answers.

Find a good local ethnic market where your partner can purchase food and ingredients that's more suited to their palette.
Print out local maps to places of interest they might enjoy that's commute friendly.
Prepare emergency contact info, hopefully won't be needed but it's nice to know who to call in case something happens.
Find a local library, it's nice to be able to check out easy to read, or to learn new things.

Hey everyone
Just sent in my AOS packet after spending hours sorting all the paperwork! Didn't know how much there was to send , the weight of it ended up being 2lbs of paperwork.
I'm adjusting from (F1) on OPT. Just starting this thread so we can all follow each other along this journey:)

My wife did it. We had been notified that her green card was in the mail, but we knew she was going back to visit her family and it wouldn't arrive in time. So she went to the San Francisco office and they put an I-551 (?) stamp in her Indonesian passport that allowed her to return to the U.S.
Regards,
Bill

Go to the interview and inform the CO.

People who are throwing about "statutory rape" please realize that being legally married provides an exception.

Disclaimer: I have not recently completed my interview.
When I did it in 2011-2014, they accepted my bank statements as I printed them off on my home printer with whatever logos are at the top I did NOT need to get them printed from the bank.
Regards,
Bill

That is why you walk with both. This is not an uncommon situation.

Since you are changing your name, I would use your new name on the AOS forms where you enter it as the USC.
Good Luck!

You're a UK citizen. Do you have any requirement to pay UK income tax on foreign income?
Regards,
Bill

You should include copies of what you are planning to present to them and take the originals to the interview.