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No, it is not misinformation. Although there is plenty of bad advice on Filipino FB groups, it is common to upload updated, financial documentation, even new affidavits of support when there are significant changes or a new tax year filing deadline has passed. However, the two documents you say she uploaded would not be necessary. Even so, what she did should not hurt anything either. I'll just add that advice in these groups is given in the local language, which is very inefficient when discussing details. Terms tend to be vague, so it is easy to interpret too broadly. No harm here though, in my opinion.

We would need to understand the nature and sources of the income. Yes, there are facts that go along with your expressions of indignation, but those feelings don't help us help you.

Unless your employment has changed, just bring the new tax return or tax return transcript and a current pay stub.

No need to sign tax forms, return copies or return transcripts.

The other documents that show your current address are the petition, and the affidavit of support. If you live in the USA and your forms say you do, the lease contract is cake icing that is better to have than not have, but probably won't be needed. Domicile is really only an issue for petitioners living abroad.

Please let us know the results of the interview. Once the results are in, the options become more clear.

See how the interview goes. If denied on public charge grounds, you would be wise to start over with a spouse process. Where you get married depends on what you can arrange. It doesn't matter to USCIS or the Consulates. If he is approved for the K1, improve your income with a second job. You can state and document your home equity but because it is not liquid, (See definition of liquid in this context by studying the I-864 instructions.) it's not going to help you qualify as his sponsor. You are in this pickle because you failed to do the necessary homework. Time to get to studying now. It's not that the immigrant will be living in your house. It's that the sponsor, you, cannot liquidate that house without "harming" yourself. Study those instructions. Become and A-Student of them.

Yes, that and showing your current address is the same as that apartment address. Probably still good enough if you don't live there yet.

The I-485 is not used in a spouse immigrant visa case. It's for adjusting status from within the USA.

It's not wrong to show 2 and 3. Consular Officers would apply the correct income requirement anyway.

Yes, if you want to be together it will not be in the USA.

First, when properly completed there is never a 1 person household because the sponsor is also counted. Always use an Adobe product to complete any USCIS form. Your children are not derivatives but, my advise is not to use the EZ version. It's always ok to use the full version. If you want to have the household size properly computed on the form, the count the two children as Other Dependents, on the wife's form, then count the wife on each child on each child's form, and the other child as 1 other dependent on each child's form. That way, all forms will show a total household of 4.

You are going to go through extra processing because of the immigrant visa. You cannot use Global entry fast lane for this entry. If you try, you will be redirected. When you ask, they'll tell you that, for this time. You will never again use your visa to enter the USA. It will be your passport and green card, or if before green card the "endorsed visa" is a temporary green card.

"Originals" typically means the foreign spouse's certified copies of their civil documents. Yes she can bring printouts of what you submitted.

Correct, but the answer is yes, a print of the Tax Return Transcript PDF is as "original" as is possible. They know this.

One in the same. If that's how the State issues Certified copies, then it will be accepted. An electronic signature is a broad category that includes digital signatures, while a digital signature is a specific type of electronic signature.

Sure, but don't really raise your hopes. The time to do that would have been as soon as you got your receipt notice for filing the I-130. If it helps it helps. Good luck to you, really. In the meantime, go visit your husband.

Further, you will never use ESTA again unless you lose or give up your LPR status. You are using your foreign passport plus the US immigrant visa as your travel documents. In the future, you will use your foreign passport and green card to enter the USA. If and when you become a US Citizen, you MUST ALWAYS enter the USA as a US Citizen with your US Passport, no matter what or how many other citizenships you may have.

Yes, it's ok. No, they are not asking for original tax returns. There's really no such thing when you file electronically anyway. Always read carefully, and it will become clear what "original" documents are needed. Even then, they are almost always "original certified copies". Misinterpretation of instructions is common. Pay close attention and interpret literally.

Replying to myself to show example of Consulate Issued digital signature.

If the official document is digitally signed, then you upload the actual PDF, then take a printout of it to the interview. There are no wet signatures on digitally signed documents, but the face of the document indicates it was digitally signed and by whom.

Yes Embassies understand these documents. Specifically, my deceased friend's widow received a digitally signed Consular Report of Death Abroad from the US Embassy in Manila last week.

You asked somebody who advised you without doing the proper research first. No, it's not "risky".

You are not an LPR and cannot use ESTA this time. Just enter as a foreigner. You'll get the appropriate attention and processing. Don't expect anything like expedited.

One would not get the idea they must prove they have insurance, from reading that article. It's first paragraph is an update indicating it's no longer even a phantom issue. We never saw an issue from it, probably because people who have qualifying income or assets are able to get health insurance through the ACA marketplace. I said it was never an actual issue because it never was.