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    Is there any other options I've overlooked? Travel/Removal of Conditions

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    Background info:

    My wife traveled here on a K-1 Visa in 2013, we got married, and I applied to adjust her status to permanent resident, which was approved and she received her greencard June 18 2014. We have since had one child, now 6 months old.

    Our plan:

    We want to travel back to her home country (Cambodia) and stay there for about 6 months so that her parents get a chance to see their grandchild, and I'm also looking into possible academic research opportunities that I could work on while there, and possibly get a stipend to do so. Regardless of whether I do or not, we definitely want to go.

    Originally we started planning it fro Feb 20th 2016 through August 20th 2016. This is what our ideal is, but I no longer think it is possible, unless I have overlooked something

    The problem:

    Her conditional greencard expires on June 18, 2016.

    Backup plans:

    We could change our itinerary so that we leave a week early, and then come back the second week in June. That would give us 4 months there. The only reason we don't like this is that the summers here are really hard on her, and we'd get the full blunt of an Arizona summer. Are there any other problems anyone could foresee with this plan?

    We could wait until I send in form i-751 and get NOA1 (This extends her permanent resident status by 1-year, correct?). That would mean possibly having the letter by the first week in April, then we could spend April through August in Cambodia. However, I see that the Biometrics appointment is generally 1-month after NOA1. Can this be rescheduled to several months later? What happens when you miss a biometrics appointment? Is this not feasible?

    Any other things I might be missing here? What about an i-131, can it help us in any way? Thank you for your responses.

    ~David

    Interview Monday, found a discrepancy, please help!

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

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    This is a really big problem, because of her signature on the DS-230.

    However - it's fixable.

    How? Bring new forms, and a letter of attestation about the discrepancies in the dates on her parents birthdays between her birth certificate (and parents) and her family book and parents ID cards. No one can fix the birth certificates, family book, or parents ID cards, quickly, but

    a letter of attestation is useful, to explain the discrepancy.

    Thanks!

    I've reprinted form DS-230 with the correct information, and even the G325-A (although I doubt they will want that as it's a DOH form and we are dealing with the Department of State).

    We've also gotten the Village and Commune leadership to sign a statement basically reading that the Family Book and National ID Cards are in error, and that the birth certificates are correct, and intend to take those with us in case there are questions. After this I am paying to get my in-laws ID Cards and Family Book re-created correctly so we don't run into this again in the future.

    This should be enough, right?

    Interview Monday, found a discrepancy, please help!

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    After our long and arduous journey, we are almost there. Interview is on Monday, and my fiancee and I are going over her interview packet forms.

    There is a discrepancy of the dates of her parents birthdays between her birth certificate (and parents) and her family book and parents ID cards. When I filled out form G-325A (biographic data for the I129F) and DS230-I (Biographic data in packet 3) I used the data I had available to me which were the family book and national ID cards.

    It's too late to contact the Embassy or USCIS before we interview, so my only foreseeable option is to submit a new ds230 and maybe G325 when we show up, explain the situation, and hope we can work through it.

    Any ideas? Experiences? Please help, my fiancee is super stressed because of this

    Is there any benefit if the Petitioner also Attends the Interview with the Beneficiary?

    in Bringing Family Members of Permanent Residents to America

    Posted · Edited by DavidLovesPheap

    I've read through a lot of posts and it seems that being it can only be beneficial. In most cases the CO is impressed the USC made the trip to attend, and I can't think of any case where the USC attended and they denied the visa (doesn't mean that doesn't happen, just haven't happened to come across anyone in that situation). Even if you aren't allowed to participate, I would recommend being there if possible

    same sex fiance visa

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    File right away. The fastest petitions approved are like 3 months, but usually are around 5-6 months average (mine was 4 1/2 months). Either way, by that time, as long as you make enough such that you have a job that could support 3 (assuming you don't have anyone else you will be supporting in the US), which would be $24,412/yr minimum, which is like a $13/hr FT job. If you have any kind of education or a little drive there's no reason you couldn't make twice that.

    What to do before he has permission to work

    in Moving to the US and Your New Life In America

    Posted

    If you are members of any religion then there are usually some resources available there as well. I intend to enroll my fiancee in LDS Institute of Religion courses during the day to help her out with her English and help her meet friends here while I work during most days, and will join her days I don't work since I have a day or two off each week normally. That works well for us, as she already has moderate English language skills, and we are both members of the LDS Church, but I'm sure there are resources available through just about every religion and/or denomination.

    Fluctuating income I-134

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    I have a question regarding the I-134. Question #7 asks what my annual income is.

    I'm a little confused what to answer here, as my income from week to week fluctuates. I am a full-time employee, but one week I may work 40 hours and the next 90 hours so I really am not sure what my annual income is yet. Attached to my I-134 I have last years tax return. I only worked 1/2 the year but since then I have received a sizable raise per hour. There is no doubt that I will make over the 125% this year (I have the copies of pay stubs to prove so.) I guess I'm just confused on what to answer there along with the fact I was 300$ short of the new 125% put out this year but only because I worked half of the year. My tax return states this, so I'm guessing I should probably just go with a co-sponsor. Otherwise I'm going to be pretty worried about getting the I-134 approved.

    Go to your bank and get a statement of all deposits in the last 12 months (I'm assuming you worked the last haf of last year). It even recommends to do so in the I-134 Instuction PDF

    I-134 questions

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    I would refer to http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-134instr.pdf. All you are doing really is building a case for yourself, showing that you can support you immigrant and everyone else dependent on you. The evidence you have listed is a good start, but the more the marrier. It's up to the consulate what is enough, however, I've heard of denials for people that make more than the 125% because the consulate did not see the income as "stable". Besides that, I would look into getting maybe $500K in a term life insurance policy as well, as it will probably only cost you less than $20 a month if you are young (I pay $16/mo.) and shows your fiancee would have support, even if the worst were to happen. The more you can show the better. I've never heard of anyone denied due to "too much evidence"

    Cheap Flight Tickets

    in Off Topic

    Posted · Edited by DavidLovesPheap

    Anybody know the website for cheap international flight tickets?? I have been looking at flight tickets and they are relatively expensive. Or should I go through an agent for the flight tickets?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    I travel back and forth to Cambodia somewhat often. Usually Eastern China Air is the cheapest (and you can find the flights on Orbitz or Expedia), but it kinda sucks. I prefer to fly EVA air (I buy the tickets straight from their website) when the price difference is not that much. Also, If you have a connecting flight in the US, buy separate tickets. International flights, and the operators of most domestic flights have different baggage rules, and you will pay the greatest common denominator. For example, if your international flight allows 2 free bags, but the domestic flight only allows one, and charges $100 for a second, they just add that price into the ticket whether or not you have 2 bags. I recommend Southwest Airlines for connecting flights, as you can take up to 2 bags no extra charge, the rates are cheap, but you can only get them thru their website, not through Expedia or Orbitz. Hope that helps

    DS-156 Error

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    i eliminated all the commas from my submission, and it still errors out, so that is not the problem.

    If this is indeed an error 500 ... that implies that their back-end server that processes the data is down. Which means, at best, it probably will be down until monday since if they don't even bother to monitor their own systems, they probably don't have anybody working over the weekends to restart the service. But it sounds like it's been down at least this past Friday, if not part of thursday, so they are really out of touch with their systems... probably nobody has been able to communicated directly with the system administrators of the box to let them know it's even having problems. Argh... You're in the Army now... Hurry up and Wait....

    What we are getting is an "HTTP 500 error" This means that there is a programing problem on their side of things. There is nothing we can do about it. If you are getting the "your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements" popup then you need to update your browser and your adobe acrobat.

    I just tried mine no and it is coming up with 'an error occurred....' I am so annoyed. Does anyone know what is going on?

    Thanks

    has anyone on here manged to fill in the ds-156 online successfully in the last couple of days? e.g. clicked continue and got the barcode?

    Same Problem Here. " Error occurred" everytime I click in Continue. I don't know what to do anymore.

    I'm getting the same error, I've tried on 4 different computers, through chrome, firefox and IE and all come back with an error and to contact system administrator. This is the last form I need for packet 3 before I send it off and I got packet 3 about a week ago. sad.png

    Someone suggested not using comma's on the form. I hope it is fixed soon, is anyone sending in packet 3 (I know most likely country specific) anyways?

    I am also having this problem right now! I can't submit my DS-156 after completion sad.png

    Woohoo, just tried it again, and I got the form generated. Let me know if it's working for anyone else now

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