David R

Hi Everyone,

I am not sure if you guys will be able to help me but I actually have a tax question regarding separation after marriage.

As you know my wife and I filed for divorce in Feb this year, we actually separated on Dec 30th of 2015. That is the "separation date" on the papers we filed with the courts.

I went to do my 2015 taxes yesterday with HR block and explained the situation to the tax professional. She said I needed to file as single as we separated within the 2015 year.

So I filed as single for 2015 even though we literally only spent one day separated for the entire year.

I am interested to see if anyone has any experience or knowledge on this topic that may be able to provide an insight for me.

To me it seems strange that I would file as single for the whole tax year while we were only apart for one day of it.

Also, I am nervous that USCIS may see that we filed as single for the whole 2015 tax year and it may raise concerns as we only removed conditions of my GC in OCT of 2015.

Anyone know if this will be an issue at all.

Thanks again for all your time.

David

Hi Everyone,

I am not sure if you guys will be able to help me but I actually have a tax question regarding separation after marriage.

As you know my wife and I filed for divorce in Feb this year, we actually separated on Dec 30th of 2015. That is the "separation date" on the papers we filed with the courts.

I went to do my 2015 taxes yesterday with HR block and explained the situation to the tax professional. She said I needed to file as single as we separated within the 2015 year.

So I filed as single for 2015 even though we literally only spent one day separated for the entire year.

I am interested to see if anyone has any experience or knowledge on this topic that may be able to provide an insight for me.

To me it seems strange that I would file as single for the whole tax year while we were only apart for one day of it.

Also, I am nervous that USCIS may see that we filed as single for the whole 2015 tax year and it may raise concerns as we only removed conditions of my GC in OCT of 2015.

Anyone know if this will be an issue at all.

Thanks again for all your time.

David

Thank you very much. Appreciate all you guys helping me out.

Thanks Jimmy,

That clears it up for me. Our marriage was definitely the real thing, we lived together the entire time, had joint accounts, pictures etc..

I guess the only thing that made me a little nervous as to how it would like to USCIS is the fact that we got divorced only a few months after I actually removed conditions.

Hopefully the evidence that we already have is more tha enough to prove there was nothing fishy about our situation.

Thanks again for your time and input, it is very much appreciated.

David

ok, got it, thanks very much for your help. My mind is now at ease.

ok, I changed my address online with USCIS but I am unsure if I am obligated to inform USCIS that we are getting a divorce.

Is the divorce something I should be informing them? Or will they somehow know already? or is it kind of for lack of a better phrase "none of their business" as I already have my unconditional status?

I just want to make sure I am doing everything "by the book" and if I am required to tell them about the divorce I want to be proactive and do that instead of them finding out through the county office or something and me getting into trouble for it.

Thanks so much everyone for all your help.

David

ok, I changed my address online with USCIS but I am unsure if I am obligated to inform USCIS that we are getting a divorce.

Is the divorce something I should be informing them? Or will they somehow know already? or is it kind of for lack of a better phrase "none of their business" as I already have my unconditional status?

I just want to make sure I am doing everything "by the book" and if I am required to tell them about the divorce I want to be proactive and do that instead of them finding out through the county office or something and me getting into trouble for it.

Thanks so much everyone for all your help.

David

OK, our marriage was very typical and we had lots of pictures and documentary evidence that our marriage was the real thing.As I mentioned before my wife and I are still on good terms and there is no way she would ever lie to USCIS to spite me/get me deported or anything like that.

If other cases have been denied do you think they would have been different to my situation or is it just the luck of who looks at your case i.e. the denied applicants were looked at by a much harsher officer while the applicants who were granted citizenship even after divorce were the lucky ones who got their cases reviewed by a more reasonable officer? Or would there be something in these denied cases that differs from our case?

Thanks again everyone!

OK, thank you very much for your replies and insight into this.

It is very much appreciated.

David

Thank you for your responses so the summary dissolution will be the exact same thing as a regular divorce in the eyes of USCIS?

I do not want to do something that will make it seem that the marriage was never actually legit i.e. a summary dissolution. I am not sure if this will do that or not?

Good morning,

I have a question that may be a little beyond the general scope of this site but I have used the experience and advice of people on here to go through my entire immigration process so I am hoping there may be someone on here who can help with this also.

I got married to my USC wife in April 2013, in October 2015 I removed the conditions on my permanent residence and was given my unconditional permanent resident status/green card.

My wife and I have decided that the relationship is not working and we want a divorce. We are now in the process of figuring out how to go about this and before we do anything I want to make sure that I am not doing anything to jeopardize my current immigration status or future ability to naturalize.

We live in CA and are tossing up between the regular divorce or the summary dissolution. An attorney has advised us that the quickest, cheapest and easiest way for us to go about this would be the summary resolution but I want to make sure this will not adversely affect me in any way.

We have no community property, no children, no disputes about money or anything at all, we still are friendly with each other and neither of us wish to fight anything in court so from what I can tell the summary dissolution fits our circumstance.

I just want to make sure that doing this "easier" method will not result in any issues for me either with my current status or down the line when I attempt to become a US citizen i.e. a summary dissolution being something that USCIS may view as though the marriage never actually happened as it is not a regular divorce and therefore putting my immigration status at risk?

I just want to cover all my bases before I sign anything.

Hopefully we have some attorneys or people who have been through something similar on here that can help.

Thanks so much for your time.

David

Ok so should I tell them about my address now or leave it until I have an application pending? I don't have anything with them now so I'm not sure why they would need to know?

Does anyone know if I will I need to let USCIS know that we have gotten a divorce when it happens and let them know of my change of address or is that not needed considering I already have my green card and do not have a pending application with them?

Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know if I will I need to let USCIS know that we have gotten a divorce when it happens and let them know of my change of address or is that not needed considering I already have my green card and do not have a pending application with them?

Thanks in advance.

ok, thanks, I am not sure what I could try to collect if I had to anyway.

ok thanks, is there any documentation or anything I should be gathered now in case they ask questions about the marriage?

That will be hard considering we are separated.

Thanks again.

David

Thanks so much for the response. So when it comes to the citizenship process I will have another interview? (man, I thought they were all done) and in that interview they may ask about the marriage etc...

Is there some type of information and documentation I should be gathering at this point for that interview to prove the marriage was entered into under good faith? We have photos, joint accounts/leases etc.. for when we were together but obviously will no longer have that kind of info now that we are separated so I am not sure what I could get?

Thanks again for the help.

David

Thanks so much for the advise, its nice to have one thing in my mind at ease when there is so much negative.

Thanks again.

Good afternoon,

I came to the US on a K1 fiance visa in 2013. Since then I got married to my USC wife and recently removed the conditions on my immigration status and received my unconditional permanent green card. This happened in early November.

Unfortunately my wife and I have decided to get a divorce, nothing signed yet but we have made the decision to separate.

My question is will this change of circumstance have any impact at all on my immigration status? As I mentioned I have already received my permanent resident status and have my permanent green card so I think I should be ok but I wanted to see if this would likely effect me in any way at all?

I understand I will need to wait 5 years instead of 3 years to apply for citizenship but other than that is there anything else I should know or be aware of or am I ok as I have already received my card/status?

Thank you in advance for your help.

David

Yes that is what I meant, thank you so much for the response.

My ex and I are still on very good terms and I am sure she would hold off on the divorce proceedings if it would be better for me to wait. The fact that my removing of conditions only happened a few months before the divorce will not have any negative impact when my citizenship process comes along?

Thanks again for the help.

David

Good afternoon,

I came to the US on a K1 fiance visa in 2013. Since then I got married to my USC wife and recently removed the conditions on my immigration status and received my permanent residence status and green card. This happened in early November.

Unfortunately my wife and I have decided to get a divorce, nothing signed yet but we have made the decision to separate.

My question is will this change of circumstance have any impact at all on my immigration status? As I mentioned I have already received my permanent resident status and have my permanent green card so I think I should be ok but I wanted to see if this would likely effect me in any way at all? Either with my current immigration status or with my citizenship process when that time comes?

Thank you in advance for your help.

David

OK, thanks guys.

Did you have to go in and take any photos or schedule an appointment or anything like that at all?

Good morning everyone,

I just received my approval letter to lift the conditions on my Permanent Residency last week.

I have read some things about needing to submit photos/go in for an appt etc... to get my final green card.

Can anyone who has been through this process recently give me an idea of the next steps involved.

Also, the approval letter mentions that the green card will arrive within 60 days. Can anyone tell me how long they wanted for their card after approval?

Thanks so much for your time.

David

Thank you for your help.

Yes I sent mine to California.

Hi Everyone,

I sent my 1751 package off almost 2 weeks ago and I have not received my NOA1 back nor have they cashed my check.

Shouldn't they have sent this by now? I know it has been delivered by the USPS so what could the hold up be?

Any ideas or perhaps suggestions on what we should do would be appreciated.

Thanks so much for your time.

David