jm25

Your statements make little sense. Also, if you are here on expired H4, it means you either are or were married (unless you are a child of H-1B holder) - which - in addition to your posts making very little sense, will be another problem.

I think you are misunderstanding me somewhere. What does not make any sense to you?

I came in as a child of H1B. My h4 expired 7 years ago.

I couldn't find a job. That's why I said I'm not ready for us to live together just yet --- thus the reason we don't have shared bills and accounts.

Is this about the same time frame for I-130 + I-485 with USC spouse sponsor?

(OP mentioned the case was filed at California service center.... Was thinking his is only I-130)

Expired H4.

Been together for 6 years, closeted, long-distance same-sex relationship. Got married when California Prop 8 was struck down. USC Partner lives in NY, I live in CA.

We currently don't live together, so no shared bills, accounts, etc. What we have for proofs are our airline tickets to see each other and trips we went together - we see each other at least every 3 months (so in over 6 years we have about 40-50 cross-country flights and I have every single airline ticket) and the last 18 months of phone records showing we talk almost everyday an average of 30 minutes. (18 months is the farthest I can retrieve online) and pictures through out our relationship. We keep our relationship hidden from our families and friends for fear of coming out - so no pictures with families and friends.

We are not ready to move in together just yet because we both want to be able to equally contribute for bills and expenses and I, having no sustainable job, it's something I don't want to impose on my partner. We will live together as soon as I find a job.

Any opinion on our case? Is this kind of relationship common enough in the eyes of USCIS?

Hi I posted this on another thread but I haven't gotten decent replies.. I thought perhaps I'd have better luck here.

Long time lurker, new member, and first time poster here. I have questions regarding my same sex adjustment of status case -- please don't get mad if I posted at wrong thread but I couldn't find a more appropriate one to post at.

Here's my story. I've been in a relationship with my partner since 2007. We are both "closeted" so we kept our relationship in private. None of our family members and friends know. Because of the understandable non-traditional nature of our relationship we tried and kept our relationship as "downlow" as we could. He, a natural born US citizen, lives in the east coast, and I, on the other hand, on an expired H4 visa (and no criminal background and not in deportation proceeding) lives in the west coast. Our geographical distance worked to our advantage as it made our relationship easy to hide. For 6 years, either of us visit/fly to see each other for up to a week or more, about every 2 months. In some cases 3-5 weeks apart. We made it a point to see each other as often as we could and we've been to about a dozen trips just the two of us together -- Hawaii, Miami, Chicago, etc.

Also for the past 6 years, we talk on the phone almost everyday -- from about 10mins to more than 1 hour each time. When DOMA was struck down we both decided to get civilly married in private: just us two and a commissioned employee at a city hall in California. Now we are in the process of gathering evidence for adjustment of status.

Here's all the things we have:

Airline tickets to see each other

Hotel/car reservations for our trips

Years of phone records

Photographs of just him and me from our different trips

Photographs from a couple concert events we went to together

Due to the nature of our relationship, neither of us have photos with either of our families. We know each other's immediate family members by name but he never really met my family aside from "hellos" when he come to pick me up at the house. I haven't met his family at all.

Also because we live apart we don't have joint bills and bank accounts and co-mingled funds. We both plan to live together in the future and share bills and have them under each other's name -- but that probably won't happen anytime soon as I plan to go back to school here in the west coast once I get my paperworks done -- and he cannot leave his job in the east coast at this point.

So with this situation, what's our chance of being successful in the immigration AOS process?

Any insights will be appreciated.

Thank you friends!

J

Hello guys!

Long time lurker, new member, and first time poster here. I have questions regarding my same sex adjustment of status case -- please don't get mad if I posted at wrong thread but I couldn't find a more appropriate one to post at.

Here's my story. I've been in a relationship with my partner since 2007. We are both "closeted" so we kept our relationship in private. None of our family members and friends know. Because of the understandable non-traditional nature of our relationship we tried and kept our relationship as "downlow" as we could. He, a natural born US citizen, lives in the east coast, and I, on the other hand, on an expired H4 visa (and no criminal background and not in deportation proceeding) lives in the west coast. Our geographical distance worked to our advantage as it made our relationship easy to hide. For 6 years, either of us visit/fly to see each other for up to a week or more, about every 2 months. In some cases 3-5 weeks apart. We made it a point to see each other as often as we could and we've been to about a dozen trips just the two of us together -- Hawaii, Miami, Chicago, etc.

Also for the past 6 years, we talk on the phone almost everyday -- from about 10mins to more than 1 hour each time. When DOMA was struck down we both decided to get civilly married in private: just us two and a commissioned employee at a city hall in California. Now we are in the process of gathering evidence for adjustment of status.

Here's all the things we have:

Airline tickets to see each other

Hotel/car reservations for our trips

Years of phone records

Photographs of just him and me from our different trips

Photographs from a couple concert events we went to together

Due to the nature of our relationship, neither of us have photos with either of our families. We know each other's immediate family members by name but he never really met my family aside from "hellos" when he come to pick me up at the house. I haven't met his family at all.

Also because we live apart we don't have joint bills and bank accounts and co-mingled funds. We both plan to live together in the future and share bills and have them under each other's name -- but that probably won't happen anytime soon as I plan to go back to school here in the west coast once I get my paperworks done -- and he cannot leave his job in the east coast at this point.

So with this situation, what's our chance of being successful in the immigration AOS process?

Any insights will be appreciated.

Thank you friends!

J