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All good except the bold above. China is an exception to all the USCIS translation guidance. All Chinese documents must be translated at all levels, an must be from the government Notarial Office.

The Police report for China must be from the Gong Zheng Chu, which is a government Notarial Office. This is true no matter where you interview. An earlier statement about translation not being needed if interviewing in China, is incorrect, even though not applicable to you. Expect your case to be initially assigned to Guangzhou, not matter what you requested, but once at National Visa Center you can have it transferred to London. Instructions here. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/China.html

Don't expect a letter of explanation. It is standard practice. The explanation is the benefit was received by virtue of an approved I-130. This also is information just as available as the information about filing the I-129F for a spouse to begin with.

If the marriage was solemnized in the Philippines, you will need the PSA Marriage Certificate to file with the I-130. The first one you get would be from the local Civil Registry. Anything before that is just a souvenir.

Not an issue, particularly because the IRS is NOT saying you didn't file. They said they DO have a return and want you to verify your identity. What you sent is all the Consular Officer needs anyway.

If you are only marginally, over the minimum liquid asset threshold, I would not be comfortable. Consular Officers know you'll face significant relocation costs. But the real decision will be made at the interview. Circumstances may be improved by then if you return to US Employment.

By "accepted" do you mean by NVC? Are you now DQ? (Documentarily Qualified)

No. If your "residence" while NOT traveling is your parent's address, then that is your address for the I-130.

You cannot pay the fee before you have the visa in hand. After that, sooner the better.

Correct. Once the case is assigned there, you retain the option to interview there. However, at or just before the interview, you'll need to provide an address to send the passport and visa. That address must be for a place you can get to without the passport in hand. To my knowledge, no passport is required to travel between Italy and Germany.

If you want the interview in Naples, do nothing. If you want it in Frankfort, contact NVC now.

Evidence of time spent together is always most important. For people who have never lived in the same country, commingling of finances is not expected. The least important and best to leave out is affidavits from other people. About the same for receipts for the petitioner sending money to the beneficiary. Leave that out. You can only send what you actually have. Contriving evidence is not going to help. It's easy to spot, and hurts you.

An official job offer for her would help the totality of circumstances but that would just be a supporting document. With only money going out and nothing coming in for you, your asset picture is going to deteriorated significantly between now and the interview. Still better you go back to work.

At most, in twenty years, I've heard of kids being asked if they knew the petitioner and wanted to go live in the USA.

You will not find this information, because it is incorrect.

No Mexican Embassy will be involved. No US Embassy will be involved. The US Consulate in Cuidad Juarez is where the interview will be. The wait there is far more than two or three months. It's more like a year.

There's space at the end of the form to add any information that doesn't fit above.

Misrepresentations noted but for them moment put aside, an immigrant visa can be used this way successfully once or maybe twice. By the third entry, it will be very obvious the green card holder is not residing in the USA, and they'll be denied entry. The issue I see, is to wonder how they got past NVC to an interview. NVC would have wanted evidence of domicile in the USA, or the petitioner's intent to re-establish domicile. Neither would be truthful. Whether material misrepresentations or not, is a separate question. Please do raise these concerns with the attorney BEFORE the interview.

Click on the word "guides" at the top of any page here.

The bottom line is that unless you can convince the National Visa Center you, the petitioner, are planning to relocated to the USA, there's never even going to be an interview scheduled. She does not need to wait for the green card to travel internationally, but she must intend and actually BE a permanent resident of the USA. Why not delay the process until YOU are ready to live in the USA again?

Bold above, is the key. Better to go back to work, if you can.

A situation that makes it uncertain the petitioner will ever be in a position to provide full financial support long term, is definitely NOT the reason there's a joint sponsor option. It is used successfully most often for temporary issues, but the totality of circumstances will still prevail. We don't know what those are, except that if you don't go back to work soon, you'll go broke. Is the sponsor really going to support you and your wife, if you don't go back to work before then? That's part of the "totality of circumstances" Consular Officers are trained to consider. The issue is not whether you have a qualified joint sponsor, but the judgment being made is about the likelihood your foreign spouse will become a public charge. You don't think it will be permanent. What do the facts and your doctor say about that?

It seems the above reflects a worse case scenario and worst case interpretation of the known facts. If the US Citizen is able to support them both, most of the above will not be applicable. I would not presume a disability income from Canada would cease once the recipient comes to the USA. We don't even know the source of the income, or the nature and duration of the disability.

This seems to be the key to me. If the appeal costs $780 and online refiling costs $710, you'll get faster and cheaper results but just filing a new N400.

Probably less expensive and more likely to succeed, if you simply apply again.