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San Francisco filer here. Filed in June.  No interview scheduled yet (in line since September 13th). So looks that this is going to take a minimum of 10 months up to a year. Even if these guys would send me the letter for an appointment  next week, this date would be for the end of March. Then, after the interview I would have to wait one more month at least for the scheduling of the Patriot ceremony in Oakland. In my case, I am moving out of the country in a month so the only option, if you need to leave, is to change the address to someone you know and prepare some extra cash for flying back twice once they decide to "work" in your application. 

I am in line since September 13th for an interview. My frustration is growing even more because I read in another forum that other june filers in the SF office have already been scheduled for the famous interview where, not being the official language, you have to pass an English level test.  Since they pay the same money I paid, why this is happening? And why in some offices they give you the certificate after the interview and in other offices you need to wait even more and go to their patriotic show? Are not we paying the same $800ish? My solution would be this: no fee. You set the fee. So if I pay the most than all other applicants,  my application should be taken care first. Rich first, poor second. Since they can play with our lifes and our future, including our american family,  why not with our wallets? 

The federal government is a mess, that is why some newer applications are being processed before yours. I am in the same situation but in my case waiting for the interview for my N 400 application and then, God knows when, I will have to wait once more for their oath show ceremony. So here we are,  playing their game of giving us uncertain time frames. Legal inmigration is not a priority for politicians in this country so if you have to wait one year with no green card  just wandering around the States without being allowed to work,  they dont care.

13 hours ago, Etienne Nahayo said:

It is important for you to become a United States citizen, please stay in US for all required time.

Let's get real. For many people getting the citizenship is not a priority but a mandatory US goverment requirement so they can leave the country as freely as they want to work or live somewhere else and be able to come back a year later to visit family or friends. With the green card Uncle Sam denies you this freedom unless you go again to the i485 process meaning more money to Washington. 

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Hi,

is the I 131 Advance Parole already expired? She can use that if not.

If you have been waiting more than a year means that something is wrong and the mail is lost. Have you change address during that year?

What I like about the US are the curfews! What a nice thing to have a government telling you to be out of the streets and out of your business at 10PM! Looks that North Korean type of laws are necessary to keep the prison system alive!

Am I to understand that if you are working here with a green card, you do not pay income tax?

Green Card = Report your WORLWIDE income to the IRS

US Citizen = Report your WORLDWIDE income to the IRS

No Green Card, No Citizen and NO living in the US = bye bye IRS and their accomplices (Turbotax, HR Block, etc.)

Because maybe in a few years when I will be living in Europe with my wife and we want to come back to spend Christmas with her family I do not want to:

1) Apply for another Green Card or other kind of visa a year in advance and pay these Government (Republican or Democrat) $1000+ so they can use that money, for example to finance the "War on Drugs" that Nixon started.

OR

2) If I decide not to pay for a visa and I use the tourist line at the airport, it is not my dream to be denied the entry by an arrogant official who is going to question me about my "suspicious" intentions of coming back to his/her country with an American family member who by the way is crossing the border thought the "citizens" line... Meanwhile I will be already on my way to the secondary inspection office when I will be asked if I have been involved "in genocide or espionage or whether I am seeking entry to engage in criminal or immoral activities".

Really, I do not want to deal with the Department of Homeland Security ever again. However I am not sure if it is worse than to deal with the IRS for the rest of my life... What a dilema!

While this is true the numbers only tell part of the story. I lived there for 2 years and my grandparents are from Spain, so I very well know what the situation is there. Here is the lowdown: These numbers are inflated because of heavy immigration. Spain was #2 in immagration after the US for many years. That 25% unemployment rate is for the most part immigrants. Among people who are from Spain that number is much lower, below the10% mark. If you are a native Spaniard, your prospects for getting a job are good. The natives there (with very few exceptions) aren't looking to move to the USA. It really isn't that advantageous to get a green card in the USA. Also, the standard of living is very good, overall just about on par with the USA.

To get back to the OP, there is more to the story than what is being told.

"If you are a native Spaniard, your prospects for getting a job are good." Here we are with another Zapatero voter: denying the reality. If you live happy like that good for you!

You just completed the most false statement in this whole page.

Your lawyer is wrong. Follow these actions: 1-redo the DS (it would generate a new Barcode with the correct information). 2- Bookmark visajourney in your browser for easy acces to help you during the rest of your visa process. 3-Tell your lawyer that she/he sucks and that you would not even trust him/her with the easiest case ever. 4-Save your money for better things than a lawyer for this process.

It is more than clear than he did not come to the US to marry because you both wanted to do the K1 process. Marry and that's it. In 3-4 months she will have the green card for 2 years.

Is this is a legal question or just a life question? You can get married wherever you want and in the way you want: it is called freedom. Many people get married in their houses but they are not married under the eyes of a government. That does not mean they are not married. In the eyes of the government you need to get married (in this case I call it civil marriage) in order to get rights that only a government can issue (immigration rights for example). You marry the way the system wants and you can enter the system. So if your intension is coming to the US does not matter if you married here or in your homeland always thats is done in an official way and how the government wants. Consider that outside the US in some countries you can civil marry a lot of women but that would be not acceptable for the US government. US government wants you to be civil married in its way in order to have immigration benefits. So to sum up: if you ask a government to recognize your marriage you can use that document to your immigration purposes. If you want to get civil government marriage in the US tho, you need to ask permission first to the federal government and thats called K1 visa and starts with your fiance/e sending the form I-129.

I sent I-129F April 2012. I had the interview in Madrid October 2012 (Madrid Embassy got the papers from the USICS in September (around the 2nd) and send me a letter a week after and then the interview day another week after (that is September 20th more or less). I got the visa 3 days after the interview in October. 6 months and couple weeks in total. I think, as far as I am reading, now they are taking couple months longer due to sequestation and the usual inefficiency of all government work.

In Spain many teenagers gather in a city/town square around midnight, any day of the week works, and drink alcohol beverages previously acquired in liquor stores.Around 2 or 3AM they go to clubs without paying the outrageous alcohol prices set in those places. Then, they get home at 7AM and sleep through the day in their parent's house, where they live does not matter the age, while mom and dad, sometimes granpa, are praying that the 50% unemployment for youth stays as it is so they can have their kids at home until the end of times. It is a national sport.

Yes you can. Being married with an US citizen makes your overstay "OK". My advice: don't leave the country at all until you have the Green Card on hand. Your overstay would make your return impossible. Be prepare also for some questioning by the USCIS officer in the AOS interview. They would like to know if you got married just to stay in the US because you did not get the O1 visa. You will need to explain the good faith of your marriage with photos of the marriage, personal questions... Start the process filling I-130.

I would recommend you to write as first address the one in Denmark. There is where you are living now and also that will proof that you are living with your fiancé (or in the same country) and meet the 2 years requirement. Then you can list all your past addresses in the last 5 years. So you have to go back where you were living 5 years ago and so on. You can avoid some of the residences for not filling an extra paper. 5 addresses including the Danish one are enough. In the next question of "more than 1 year residence outside" you can simply write "none".

Don't worry, the process is really simple and coming from Denmark is not a big deal. It is more a matter of time. My process took 8 months in total so that's the average.

As an American you can travel to your homeland anytime you want.

No way. Probably her fiancé filled the papers for her and hold a photo from her. He did not ask for anything else because he had it before hand.

The transcripts are exactly what you need.

If the conditional GC is expired she cannot have the 10 years one. You have to do the process all over again. But if I were you I would be happy because you do not have to be his sponsor anymore. Also with her attitude I would do couple things: get the divorced and fight for the custody of your American son.

They asked you to send evidence that you have seen your fiancée in person in the last 2 years. So after your trip you are fine with that. Now unfortunately you have to wait the 60 days they told you. If you do not get any response by then you can call them. If you called before probably they are going to ask you to call back once the 60 days past.

About the photos: they do not need to be signed. With the names and the date in the back is enough.

About the letters: if you did not even sign the letters of "intention to get married", you have many possibilities that they are going to ask you to resend them with the new date and signed (in blue ink). This is going to delay the process a bit. Although all depends of the person's "discretion" who is looking at your petition.