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It's my understanding that if you get divorced prior to the 2 years, you still file for ROC. You just have to prove that the marriage was real and you entered it in good faith. USCIS doesn't force you to stay married to keep your greencard. Marriages fail all the time (50%, right?).

I never meant to imply that meeting someone online means the relationship is doomed. I actually met my husband online, and we were a "couple" for 3 years before meeting in person. My marriage to him is far better than my first marriage, to a USC I met through more traditional means. Of course it's possible to do what you, I, and some others did and make it work. But I think we are the exception, not the rule.
What I was talking about was people getting caught up in the romance of the thing. Not spending years working on a relationship, but spending only the required time working on a visa. In those cases, I don't think people really get to know each other. They just believe their relationship is special and unique and "love conquers all." Too caught up in the fantasy to pause for a moment and consider the possibility that their long distance partner isn't who they want them to be.

Really? I would have guessed they were just protective of their personal information on the internet. In the age of facebook, that might be a little unusual, but it doesn't make one a bad person, does it?
But, perhaps you two have a history that I'm not privy to...I rarely stray into this forum. It makes me sad.

Topic has been moved from General Immigration Discussion to AOS from a Work, Student or Visitor Visa forum as the OP and his wife are applying for AOS from a visitor's visa:
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USCIS understands that sometimes foreign nationals are in the US legitimately and their circumstances change while in the US so that they now become eligible to become a permanent resident This is called Adjustment of Status - changing the status from their original entry status (e.g. visitor) to Permanent Resident. The warning you quoted states that this change of circumstance has to happen after the individual is in the US and is not part of the reason why the individual entered the US. Since you only decided to marry after you arrived in the US and did not enter the US with this intention, your wife is eligible to change her status from visitor to Permanent Resident based upon her marriage to a US citizen.
You establish her 'right' to do so by filing the I-130 along with the I-485. The I-130 establishes the relationship between you and recognizes you as the petitioner - requesting permission for an eligible family member to be allowed to apply for Permanent Resident status. TheI-485 is her request to become a Permanent Resident. Both of these forms need to be submitted together as without the I-130, USCIS has no grounds upon which to grant your wife's PR status as you have not established her eligibility yet.
It is considered visa fraud when you knowingly use a visa issued for one purpose - to visit - with the full intent of using it for a different purpose - to immigrate. Immigration is a more time-consuming and demanding process so some people do try to short-cut the system entering on a visitor's visa with no intent of being a visitor but of being an immigrant. That is what the warning you quoted is about. It does not seem to fit your circumstances but you should be prepared to explain what happened at your interview to reassure USCIS that it does not apply to you.
As others have mentioned, do read over the guides available on Visa Journey very carefully. Print out the actual forms and the instructions for the forms and read over all of those very carefully. Make a list of all of the attachments you need for each form and treat each form as a separate entity, even though you will submit them all together. The actual immigration process is not particularly difficult, it is just very detailed oriented and if you fail to pay attention to a detail, it can come back to haunt you in potentially catastrophic ways.
Definitely file for I-765 Work Permit (EAD) as well as the I-131 AP - travel permission. Even if your wife does not intend to work in the US, the EAD card becomes a useful sort of proof of status that she can use as a form of US identification as well as to get her Driver's License and SSN card. Once she files the AOS package she will not be able to leave the US until she gets either her green card or her AP (which now comes in a card with the EAD). AOS can take a while and the EAD/AP generally come within about 3 months. If she leaves the US without it, then she has abandoned her AOS request and will not be allowed to re-enter the US without a CR-1 visa.
Good luck.

Capitalism?

Capitalism?

Bill I don't understand why you keep complaining about your ex wife.What do you expect, you got what you paid for? Nothing in life is guaranteed, but you married a hooker and she is 32 younger than you... Man up and admit that YOU made a bad choice. It's time to accept your age and stop with this kind of "business arrangement" where she gets a green card, money and security and you get youth and beauty for a while... It's disgusting to say the least.

He got what he paid for, what is the problem?

Someone hasn't had their morning coffee yet...

There are generally 2 ways an employer checks your background. One is by calling the references you provide - that's how they check your employment history. It's not easy to tell if that employment was legal or not, but your former employer might pretend they've never heard of you, since you weren't working legally. I can tell you, if I call someone's reference and they say "she never worked here" I figure something's wrong and I don't hire them. So if you think your former employer won't give you a reference, don't list them.
The other way they check is through fingerprints or a background check service. Those are looking at criminal background and you should have nothing to worry about there. They aren't too worried about if your former address appears on your credit report or whatever. It has nothing to do with your ability to work.
The problem you had with the cable company was because they weren't able to run a credit check for you. Shouldn't be a big deal with an employer at this point, you have a SSN now.
Of course none of this applies if you're applying for a job that has Homeland Security requirements. But if that's the case, then you might as well tell everything because they'll find out anyway.

I never meant to imply that meeting someone online means the relationship is doomed. I actually met my husband online, and we were a "couple" for 3 years before meeting in person. My marriage to him is far better than my first marriage, to a USC I met through more traditional means. Of course it's possible to do what you, I, and some others did and make it work. But I think we are the exception, not the rule.
What I was talking about was people getting caught up in the romance of the thing. Not spending years working on a relationship, but spending only the required time working on a visa. In those cases, I don't think people really get to know each other. They just believe their relationship is special and unique and "love conquers all." Too caught up in the fantasy to pause for a moment and consider the possibility that their long distance partner isn't who they want them to be.

I think any time you marry someone you don't really know, there's a high potential for problems.
The system as it is now isn't conducive to getting to know a person, or to really spending time with them. You meet someone (often online, these days) and think you're in love. Of course, you can only know part of a person online, the part they want you to see. Then you get caught up in the romance of it all. It's a perfect love story - you're destined to be together, but the bad guys (the government) are in the way. You have to overcome it all to be together! The problem is that you're so caught up in the romance of it, you don't stop to actually look truthfully at your "relationship" for all its flaws. When the fight is over, so's the romance, so's the fantasy, and reality can be very disappointing.
Well, that's the way I see it, anyway...

I never meant to imply that meeting someone online means the relationship is doomed. I actually met my husband online, and we were a "couple" for 3 years before meeting in person. My marriage to him is far better than my first marriage, to a USC I met through more traditional means. Of course it's possible to do what you, I, and some others did and make it work. But I think we are the exception, not the rule.
What I was talking about was people getting caught up in the romance of the thing. Not spending years working on a relationship, but spending only the required time working on a visa. In those cases, I don't think people really get to know each other. They just believe their relationship is special and unique and "love conquers all." Too caught up in the fantasy to pause for a moment and consider the possibility that their long distance partner isn't who they want them to be.

I never meant to imply that meeting someone online means the relationship is doomed. I actually met my husband online, and we were a "couple" for 3 years before meeting in person. My marriage to him is far better than my first marriage, to a USC I met through more traditional means. Of course it's possible to do what you, I, and some others did and make it work. But I think we are the exception, not the rule.
What I was talking about was people getting caught up in the romance of the thing. Not spending years working on a relationship, but spending only the required time working on a visa. In those cases, I don't think people really get to know each other. They just believe their relationship is special and unique and "love conquers all." Too caught up in the fantasy to pause for a moment and consider the possibility that their long distance partner isn't who they want them to be.

I never meant to imply that meeting someone online means the relationship is doomed. I actually met my husband online, and we were a "couple" for 3 years before meeting in person. My marriage to him is far better than my first marriage, to a USC I met through more traditional means. Of course it's possible to do what you, I, and some others did and make it work. But I think we are the exception, not the rule.
What I was talking about was people getting caught up in the romance of the thing. Not spending years working on a relationship, but spending only the required time working on a visa. In those cases, I don't think people really get to know each other. They just believe their relationship is special and unique and "love conquers all." Too caught up in the fantasy to pause for a moment and consider the possibility that their long distance partner isn't who they want them to be.

I think any time you marry someone you don't really know, there's a high potential for problems.
The system as it is now isn't conducive to getting to know a person, or to really spending time with them. You meet someone (often online, these days) and think you're in love. Of course, you can only know part of a person online, the part they want you to see. Then you get caught up in the romance of it all. It's a perfect love story - you're destined to be together, but the bad guys (the government) are in the way. You have to overcome it all to be together! The problem is that you're so caught up in the romance of it, you don't stop to actually look truthfully at your "relationship" for all its flaws. When the fight is over, so's the romance, so's the fantasy, and reality can be very disappointing.
Well, that's the way I see it, anyway...

is the "in Jesus name" part necessary?

Please to write 11 paragraphs, each paragraph 11 or more sentences, each sentence 11 or more words.
Good Luck !

Online and for-profit University is a useless enterprise, and the degrees are usually not worth the paper they are printed on. Murysa is doing great and has professional daily help and counsel. Great news and keep it up Murysa!

Hey - some movement ! That's always a plus. Good news on the VAWA case, bad news on the court hearing about temporary visitation rights. I sense it could have been handled differently if you had an attorney present. The only way to fight an attorney is with another attorney, even in court.
Can you get a court-assigned attorney for the rest of the proceedings/hearings you will go through, and soon? Usually ask the clerk of the court about it...
For the moment, you can file a motion to overturn the judge's 'ruling' about visitation rights, citing lack of evidence review by that judge. Do that, soonish.
For now, practice writing 'letters of attestation' about the husband's abuse. Have other people review them and suggest corrections. You can make it 'one letter per instance of abuse' and then you will have a stack of them, later. IMO, if you show those to any judge during a 'temporary visitation hearing' then the judge must be compelled to rule in a different way. You'll also need these letters of attestation for the divorce hearing, itself, submitted in the discovery phase, and you will need them for the VAWA case.
Is ok to practice writing them via hand, using paper and pen, not need a computer for this practice. Later and soonish, you'll need to put them on a computer, and print them out.
Hang in there!!

They don't like you.

sorry, you have found the idiot enclave.
Unsure what to tell you, for 'this week fixing', as yer past the 2 week window of the first I-94.
If I was in your shoes, I'd be getting names at each turn, and complain a lot till I got what I wanted.
But I'm an azzhole, always.

It doesn't matter if they see it as a red flag or not. She would be adjusting status after a legal entry WITH inspection and marriage to a US Citizen. End of story.

Ok, so the fiance isn't supposed to enter on a Q visa with the intent to stay. We've established that. It's fine to enter with the intent to get married. She can use the visa as long as she plans on leaving at the end of it.
So, someone here who knows more about spousal visas jump in, please, but can't they apply for it while she's here and then she just has to go back to her home country prior to the interview? That would cut down on the separation time, and no one's doing anything illegal.
Isn't that an option?