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They cannot immediately file an I-130 after a Utah Zoom marriage. They must have evidence they have been together in person, between the date of the ceremony and the date of filing the petition.

Yes, I'm sure.

Nobody said that about London. However, you still must properly state current income.

Be aware that your emotional responses to the current political climate have no connection whatsoever to your spouse visa process.

Then my advice is to get that tax return filed. Your current income is the "Total Income " number. Same for that section where you enter tax return information. Yes, this may delay your I-864, but the cause is your lack of preparation.

My advice is file properly on paper and pay the correct fee. Why complicate matters further?

If you are a landlord with rental income, you are both employed and self employed. You must state your "current income" by entering the number on your latest tax return labeled "total income". In many cases, landlords' current income is reduced by their expense and depreciation deductions. You BE both, but you cannot have it both ways.

The bold above is incorrect. Quite wrong for a self employed person. For the self employed, "current income" is the number on the "total income" line of the latest federal tax return. For the employed, it's the gross for a full pay period, times the number of pay periods in a year. In some cases that might be what is expected for 2025, but not in all cases. Nowhere in the instructions is "expected in the current calendar year" mentioned. It's not current year income. It's current income. The OP's question cannot be properly answered without knowing whether they are employed or self employed.

Are you employed or self employed. If employed, the answer to your question is different than if you are self employed. In general though, the year you sponsor an immigrant is not a good time to file for an extension.

List current step children. Step children from a former marriage are no longer step children. This is because of a change in the form. I did not check all versions in between 2013 and now, but the 2013 version says does not mention step children. At some point this changed, but you would not list former step children.

You can enter your PO box as your mailing address, and your son's address as your physical address. Yes, USCIS will mail to a PO Box.

Excellent advice, but just to clarify, it is the US Citizen spouse that needs legal help, not the OP.

The address where you are staying with your son, will do nicely. The tense of your question is confusing though. As written, in the present tense, you are still living at the home you will be moving from. Enter the information that is correct on the date you file.

Do be aware that when you start a new business, you become self employed, and the business does not produce what is "income" in this context until that income shows up on the total income line of a US Federal Tax Return. What the business initially produces is "revenue" not income. (Again, in this context) Income is profits shown on a tax return, after you deduct business expenses from revenue.

Agreed. As mentioned already, if the crime falls under the Adam Walsh Act, big problem. If not, probably not an issue. Do not file the I-129f for spouse.

I tend to agree, but the first interview regarding the I-485 would normally be a joint interview with both spouses. Something doesn't sound right here.

No need to file a new one. Carry an up to date affidavit of support to the interview. If your circumstances require a joint sponsor at that time, then bring a full package for petitioner and joint sponsor to the interview.

Correct. Just enter zeros instead. When the number is available, just use it going forward.

Quite possible. This kind of thing happens when somebody thinks the I-130 is a visa application instead of a petition for alien relative.

When you "file online" you do not upload a scan of a signed I-130. You fill it out and sign it online, then upload the scanned I-130a (signed or not as applicable) and and scans of supporting documents.

Your first post refers to your wife signing the I-130 as the preparer. Your wife does not sign the I-130. You do. This is true whether you file on paper or file online. The denial language you posted refers to the petition being improperly signed, not the I-130a.

Your question confuses me. It seemed clear you filed by mail using paper forms. You do not digitally sign those forms. They are hand signed and mailed. The USCIS intake facility then scans them into their system to create a digital file they work with. When you file online, it's an online signature process. Please clarify.

The best evidence of relationship is evidence of time spent together in person. Photos together are secondary evidence. Passport stamps, boarding passes, and hotel receipts, etc. are primary evidence. Do bring recent photos together and if the petitioner has visited since filing the petition, updated evidence will be available. Just as a point of education, the bar to get a petition approved is very different from approving a visa application. At the petition stage, all that is really adjudicated is whether the petitioner is indeed a US Citizen, whether both of you were free to marry, when you married, and that you actually are legally and lawfully married. Although relationship evidence is expected as supporting documentation, these cases take so long, that there is usually updated evidence available. It is the Consular Officer only who will decide about the affidavit of support (public charge concern) and whether the marital relationship is bona fide. This is where the "rubber meets the road", not the petition stage.

I wrote a complete sentence. No period was in the place you put it in your quote.

Correct. Your financial situation in your home country is not relevant to visa approval.