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oh boy, I think everyone above is right and My Boyfriend has lived in the US for about 6 years, had credit cards, financed a car and built his credit But Credit Karma is Very Strict with the Details, EVERY LETTER has to match what the credit bureaus have on file and in your case since your name is so long even missing one letter will make them say that. so Good luck, My boyfriend STILL can't log on to credit Karma.

I guess yes too much security but better a lot than nothing.

Btw my wife is still outside the US. I just filled I130 for her so my only options now is to be an authorized user on my brother's credit card and get a secured credit card for myself.

thank you all for the suggestion. I think you are all right. Best thing to do now is wait till 6 monthes has passed and I will try to get my credit score. I was scared at the beginning thinking it may be related to my name. I will try to apply for a secured credit card at capital one with a $200 limit to see if I will be accepted or no. I think it won't hurt to try.

Im beginning to think that even if you are added to a spouses credit card as an authorized user it doesn't do much for your credit score, I was added to my husbands credit card a few months ago, the card is paid on time every month and credit karma cant even give me a credit score as I have what they describe as a "thin file". In other words, not enough credit to give me a credit score.

When did you get your ss number? Since when did your husband add you as an authorized user?

I am thinking it may be because I am in US just 4 monthes now. My brother has like 800 credit score but he added me like 3 monthes ago. I was thinking it is either because I don't know how the SS administration has declared my name or because I am still new in US. Maybe should I wait till I am 6 monthes old here in US.

Hello everyone,

I have moved to the US on the first of november 2013. I got my social security card ant the end of november 2013. My brother has added me on his credit card to help me build my credit score. The problem is that my name is too long to fit on the security card but it fits on the green card. When I went to check at the SS administration office, they told me that they can do nothing for me and their system won't accept my whole name and that they will truncate it.

Yesterday I tried to get my credit score from anual report and from credit karma. Both told me they cannot get my credit score because the information I submited does not match what they found.

So I am concerned is it only because I am new in the US (only 4 monthes in the US) or is it because I type my full name which may not match the name that ss adminstation has submitted? How can I fix it?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone and thank yo in advance for your precious help. I don't know in which topic should I write my question so I write it here:

I got my green card on first of November 2013, I was working in France in 2013.

I got married on January the third of 2014.

Now I am preparing to US 2013 fill tax returns in which I am planning to declare my overseas revenues I was planning to fill a W7 along so my wife get an ITIN number.

My question is should I fill 2013 Tax returns as single and fill as married jointly next year since I got married in 2014 and not in 2013 or should I just fill now as married filling jointly.

If I should fill as single should I go and fill anyway the W7 or should I wait till next year tax return?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Hello everyone and thank yo in advance for your precious help. I don't know in which topic should I write my question so I write it here:

I got my green card on first of November 2013, I was working in France in 2013.

I got married on January the third of 2014.

Now I am preparing to US 2013 fill tax returns in which I am planning to declare my overseas revenues I was planning to fill a W7 along so my wife get an ITIN number.

My question is should I fill 2013 Tax returns as single and fill as married jointly next year since I got married in 2014 and not in 2013 or should I just fill now as married filling jointly.

If I should fill as single should I go and fill anyway the W7 or should I wait till next year tax return?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Thank you everyone for your answers. I wish I could bring both birth certificate since I can't get hers from her birth country. I can only get hers from France delivered from the french authorities :/

It will have her full name, her full parents name, her date and city(country) of birth and wil mention her previous divorce before me and her wedding with me and a note that she became a french citizen since X date by naturalisation.

so she doesn't really have a birth certificate from france but a naturalization certificate from france which is different from a birth certificate. I am not sure if she will have to provide both but maybe you can go into the forum from france and ask if someone has the same situation. And a US citizen does not get a birth certificate after naturalization because he or she wasn't born here, you have a naturalization certificate. You get a birth certificate from the country you were born.

though naturalized US citizen will get birth certificate. Here in France if you are naturalized you will get a French birth certificate like anyone who were really born in France but stating his real birth country

But how does she have a birth certificate from France if she was born in Morocco?

Since she grow and has done all her studies in France she got naturalized and now she can get a birth certificate from France that stats too she was born in Morocco. I think a naturalized US citizen will be able to get a birth certificate from US after naturalization no?

When you summit the application what you need is her birth certificate, marriage certificate( a full translation of both certificates if it's not in english) a copy of your green card and social security back and front, and passport size pictures of both of you, the background has to be white. That's what I summited with my I-130

I am already preparing her marriage and birth certificates issued by the French authorities since I came back to France temporarly to marry her and translate all the papers from French to English. What scares me is at the day of the consulate interview they ask her for another birth certificate from Morocco since she can't go to Morocco get them. But she has a birth certificate and marriage certificate issued by the French authorities here.

Even if she gives them a French birth certificate?

Thank you for your answers. Last question. Is there any chance they ask her to bring papers from Morocco? Can she just tell them that she doesn't live there anymore and she can't bring any paper from Morocco. I don't think they will ask her police certificate since she left Morocco at the age of 7.

I didn't mean a table per se when I said column.

Question number 22. I am not going to type the whole thing. If you look at i-130 Q.22. you will understand what I mean my columns. It's formatted to look like column.

OMG thank you rocketman. Guess what? I have never read it because when I read the bold title of question 22. I see that it does not apply to my case and I jump directly to question 23. That will teach me to always stuff that does not concern me too. Thank you again ^^

in i-130, Question ( tricky question) you write N/A in first and second column, and then in 3rd column (visa abroad) you put the city of the nearest consulate in FRANCE and write FRANCE as Country. Later when you get NVC case#, check the first 3 letters of it. The letter correspond to the consulate. You can do a search here http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_3830.html to find the abbreviation for consulate in France.

If for some reason they assign a Moroccan consulate, call and tell them.

Also when you submit i-130 include an explanation sheet why your wife's address in French though she is Morocco citizen. Include a copy of her French legal residence permit or what ever they have to show her legal status in France

I can't get what questions you are talking about? Which columns there is no table in the I130 form. Can you give me the question number? Are you talking about G-325a form? by the way she is a French citizen she has dual citizenship (French and Moroccan)

Thank you rocWhat address did you put on i-130? What consulate did you chose on i-130? Does she legally live in Morocco?

Thank you rocketman for your answer. I did not fill I130 yet I am just preparing the necessary papers to fill it. I am planning to put her address in France since she is living in France since she was 7 years old. No legally she lives in France. She was born in Morocco and lived there till she reached her 7th aniversary and left it permanantly. She travels once a year or two to Morocco though but just for less than a month's visit.

I did not know we can choose the consulate on the i-130?

Hello everyone,

As usual I am very thankfull for your efforts on the forum and for your valuable solutions and directions. I am planning to fill I 130 for my wife (I am a LPR). My wife is a dual citizen (Moroccan and French citizenship). She was born in Morocco and lived there till the age of 7 and left Morocco permanantly and was living in France since then. My question is when the NVC fix for her an interview at the consulat. Will they ask her to do the interview at the Moroccan consular or the French one? Also will they ask her papers from Morocco or only France? I am asking those questions because it will be very difficult for her to go to Morocco since she knows little people there and nearly all her familly is in France.

I don't know how the NVC determine which consulat will the person go to. Thank you in advance for your valuable answers.

Regards,

You shouldn't do two trips of 5 months in one year. No more than 180 days per year.

If you're abroad Jan to April in 2014, you should avoid being abroad again for more than 2 months in the same year. If you need to stay abroad longer, you need to apply for permission to not risk losing your GC.

I will see how fast I finish all my stuff in France inmy actual 5 monthes trip and decide about a re-entry permit or a second 5 monthes trip. I'm trying to avoid the re-entry permit to not reset the naturalisation clock to 0. My mom used to do it for 7 years and last time the agent at the POE paid attention for that and gave her a warning now she has a re entry permit. A guy I know told me that they won't bother me for that the first year.

I won't do like mom of course but I will try to have proof like looking for work, paying phone bills, filling taxes, transfering my money to US to prove that I am intending to stay.

Yes, you can do that. You're just on vacation. Be careful with such a long trip that you're not out of the USA for more than 6 months. You can lose your GC staying out of the country too long.

Thank you lost_at_sea for your answer. No I won't stay more than 5 monthes. I may come back again later for other 5 monthes but no more. You know it takes time to stop my actual work in France, sell my properties and all the stuff. I will bring with me to US each time my US bank account that shows I am transfering my belonging from my France bank account to the US one in case the POE agent start asking me questions. That should proove my intention to stay in the US.

Hello everyone, Since I can't find a similar situation like mine I am openning a new topic about it. I just passed the POE last week (1st of November) with an immigrant visa (F2B). For the moment I have the I551 stamp no plastic card yet. I applied for a social security number but didn't get it yet neither. yesterday i went back to France to settle my things and to get married. I am planning to stay till April before going back definitly to US. My brother will send me via fedex my plastic card when he receives it.

To speed up things I want to know if I can fill the I130 form for my wife, state my US address of residency and send it from France to the Chicago lockbox or should I be physically present in the US the moment I send the I130? By sending it from France i will avoid wasting $1000 on the plane going to US and coming back again to France.

Thx in advance.

Perfect!! Thank you

Hello everyone,

I have a question concerning my case that I can't find an answer on the forum. I am on F2B category. I've got an immigrant visa like 2 monthes ago. I am planning to go to US on the 1st of november for the first time to activate my green card. POE of IAD. I am planning to stay till 11th of November and go back to France to get married at the end of November. My question is can I go back to France with the I551 stamp on my passeport before getting the plastic card and gettign marry? Or should I wait till I get the plastic card?

I was planning to go back with my I551 stamp and let someone send me the plastic when it arrives by fedex to France.

I can't wait my plastic card because I need to go back to France to settle everything once and for all.

Thank you for your reply.

Regards,