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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.

My only experience is with using somebody who has direct access to a family book. Maybe a former co-worker could recommend an attorney. What you want is a police certificate, translated by the Notarial Office.

Most likely no longer an issue, if you are already documentarily qualified. 😉

It is not normal for the US Citizen petitioner to be called in for biometrics. It happens when there is a "hit" (bad thing) on your name, and they are ruling you in or out as that person. For your mental well being, I suggest you stop checking status. The times are meaningless.

This is a non-issue. Just use the new address going forward.

The question is not about a joint sponsor. In this situation, it is appropriate to combine income with a household member, BECAUSE neither of them qualify on their own. Circumstances matter.

Yes, it is possible to use your mother, who is also a household member. Since neither of you qualify on your own, combining income is appropriate. You will need to explain that the grandchildren are no longer dependents and hope they accept that.

Yes, that is certainly one of the considerations. So, why do you not just hire a caregiver to be there in your absence? It is also a hardship to all of you, if you lose your job because of this. Lots to consider, including other solutions.

Petitioner is the husband.