Stressed Out

This is general advice that applies to you and to everyone dealing with USCIS, either by yourself or by an attorney: always, always keep a copy of everything you submit to them, and the notices they sent you. 
I still think that the denial did not come because of a mix up of addresses. There has to be something else. Maybe your ex sent them a letter stating you married to get an immigration benefit. 
If I were you, I would retain a top notch attorney and ask them to file a FOIA  (Freedom Of Information Act) for you. That way, you can see what is on your file and see if it is something you can overcome. It's certainly not a DIY anymore.

So my husband has been living in the US legally since January 2015. He's been eligible to naturalization for over a couple of years, but we've procrastinated due to work and recently adding a LITTLE ONE to the family as of 2018 (yay!). Now that we moved into a bigger house and are settling in, he's decided he won't even bother submitting a Bbg with the German government to retain his citizenship. He's warmed up to calling America his permanent home, so he's prepared to move forward with his N-400 packet. Wish us luck! His is a pretty simple app since we've both only been married to each other, no criminal records, always paid taxes, recorded address changes, signed up for SSS, etc.
 

I think you're talking abot the ECRIS system, which would make sense. I would email the embassy to ask if they accept that you've obtained certificates for all other non-EU countries, but that your home country is the central repository for all EU-related crimes on your record.

"The system gives judges and prosecutors easy access to comprehensive information on the offending history of any EU citizen, no matter in which EU countries that person has been convicted in the past. Through removing the possibility for offenders to escape their criminal past simply by moving from one EU country to another, the system could also serve to prevent crime."
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/criminal/european-e-justice/ecris/index_en.htm

I wouldn't necessarily come in food-stained Walmart pajamas, but they also don't need you to come in a Hugo Boss suit. Jeans and nice shirt is fine.

Chicken salad made with walnuts, grapes and apples.

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

Howdy y'all!
It's been I guess well over a year since I've logged on. Our new life has been going so much smoother than our old one in Germany. We more than doubled our income. Linus has a job utilizing his German degree as a quality assurance worker for a local billion-dollar food factory that matches 7% on its 401k program, offers premium health care (I've had no co-pay on our prescriptions or doctor/dentist visits - the few ones we've had) and gives each of their 300+ employees at his factory about $400/month in profit sharing. We bought one used Fusion and one brand new Challenger last year and in two weeks from today we'll be closing on our first house! We've been making many new friends who share our love for cars and have a very bright outlook on our future here in the States.
I pray for all of you currently fighting for your visas and for all those loved ones separated by such a stressful process which you'll eventually overcome. I'm going to try my best to find more time to come on here and offer help from my experiences for anyone needing it. We wouldn't be here as we are now, living the American Dream, had we not found this site and all the awesome individuals who helped answer all my annoying questions. Just remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to Customs/Immigrations!
Good luck, fellow VJ'ers!

You have 6 months after the visa is issued to move, or you need to start again.
The process from filing to interview takes about a year, and you can delay it some by taking your time returnign paperwork at various stages, but 5 years is unrealistic.

Yeah just leave it in the original language. I wrote my addresses in German as well, I only translated "Deutschland" to "Germany". Same as "Espana" to "Spain". The rest can stay the way it is.

Correct you can write the statement yourself - no set format is needed. And yeah we just submitted the last year of tax returns and all was good.

1) Have her fill in Unemployed and Student.
2) For the current annual income bracket she can write "NO INCOME".
3) For the income brakcets for each respective tax year have her enter "NOT REQUIRED TO FILE - NO INCOME" (she'll have to attach a written explanation stating why she didn't have to file taxes for having earned under the threshold - this can be typed up simply with a Word Doc type program, nothign fancy nor notarized)
4) In the I-864 instructions they simply ask for: Federal income tax return, including W-2's and Form 1099's. If the joint sponsor happens to be self-employed they typically don't have the W-2's/1099's and you can attach a written explanation for that as well.

Hope this helps...

No I'm saying you and your immigrating spouse. Just don't count them in the "spouse" box as NLR said as you'd be counting them twice.

"Household" in the I-864 is a tax term meaning people you're financially responsible for not necessarily the people you live with.
Even if you lived with your father, unless he claimed you on his taxes or you were under 21, you would not be part of his "household" count nor he on yours.
Your father counts 1 for the immigrant, 1 for himself, 1 for any spouse, and then any other dependents or other children he may have.
You count 1 for the immigrant, 1 for yourself but do not put 1 on the spouse spot because you already counted your wife as the immigrant.

Your dad would count the intending immigrant, his spouse (if he has one) and himself as 3 people. On your I-864 you'd just count yourself and your spouse as 2 people.

It was a breeze for us. The I-864 stuff freaked me out the most since I didn't know if we'd get a checklist for something or not, but not a thing was asked about it other than asking simply whose form was whose, haha. I hope yours is as quick and painless as ours only minus the mess-up with them printing out my husband's summary sheet with the wrong birthplace. It was annoying, but they were very quick about correcting it and sending it all back to us.

Yeah the IVU in Naples will give you your case number and through DCF it typically doesn't take long at all for the case to be transferred from USCIS to your respective IVU. In our case in Germany it took them 10 days to receive the forwarded case. Almost there, guys!

13a-c in that part is asking for what's on their tax return, so just write the total income from the brother and his wife in those boxes. My parents also filed jointly and I had them write in their household income in those boxes and then had them show their individual income (in this case, it was just spilt 50/50) on part 6 question 5 and question 6c.

It's all in the wording. 13a-c asks for "My total income" and then above that for questions 5 and 6c it asks for "current individual income"

PS - if your husband's brother needs to combine his income with his wife's to meet the threshold then his wife will need to submit an I-864a "contract between sponsor and household member" to accompany her husband's I-864.

You'll give them your intended US address on the DS-260. And are you simply unemployed?

Well I was unemployed for 3.5 out of my 4 years in Europe, so I wasn't required to file taxes (you have to include a written statement saying so). I wrote in those three income boxes for the past few tax returns "NOT REQUIRED TO FILE - NO INCOME" and for your current individual income I would just write NO INCOME. There's something about writing "$0" that they just don't like. I've seen too many people get checklists for that, which is why I did it like I did. Had no problems.

Do you live with your father? An example of proper use of the I-864/I-864a forms is how we did it...
I, the petitioner, submitted my own I-864
My dad, my "only joint sponsor", filled out his own I-864
My mom, my dad's "household member of sponsor" (in this case meaning also joint sponsor), filled out an I-864a to combine her and his incomes shown on their joint tax returns.
PS - signature can be updated by going up to the top right corner of the page where it shows your username and a white arrow to the right of it. Click that then "My Settings". Then you'll see "Signature" as one of the fields you can edit there.

Yeah just do what I did and put down the foreign address. Only section where I mentioned US domicile was on the I-864 where it asks for country of domicile where I wrote USA. As long as they have proof of reestablishing/maintaining domicile then it's not such a huge issue.