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  1. pushbrk
    Some card companies, (Capital One, for example) will initially decline many online charges, until you acknowledge their email or text about it. Call the number on the back of the card, and explain what you are doing. The agent can flip a switch that allows the charge the next time you try.
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    You are interpreting that one line as a firm request, but you do not quote enough of the instructions before that to determine proper context. There ARE situations where a female petitioner would provide a prior marriage certificate, as evidence of a name change due to marriage. On the other hand, is getting the marriage certificate a big problem?
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    If you are self employed, your current income is stated based on the "total income" line of your latest filed US Federal Tax Return. There is no way around that. You now know that the year you sponsor an immigrant is not a year to show too little income on your tax return, but too late now. If you have to wait until July, so be it. It's that or get a joint sponsor. AGI and Total Income numbers are sometimes the same, but thinking you use the AGI line means you didn't read carefully enough. You missed everything that told you the one and only circumstance where AGI is applicable.
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    Just photocopies.
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    Petitioner's birth certificate is only applicable if it's being used as evidence of US Citizenship,, but applicant should have a copy of the birth certificate with them, anyway. Take everything.
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    The issue you are facing is that USCIS does not issue visas. No visa has been applied for yet. Once you hear from the National Visa Center, you will have some documentation related to actually applying for a visa.
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    A link to the guide has been provided. Start there. 18 to 24 months is the proper expectation for when you will have an immigrant visa and can move to the USA.
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    That would be the solution. It is NOT correct that a job offer will carry the day on this. File the petition. You will state your employment status, but it is not a criteria for petition approval. In about a year, but before the petition is approved, would be the best time to return to the USA and go to work. Returning after the petition is approved is also OK, but that will delay the process, as you will not be able to get into the interview queue until your affidavit of support is submitted and accepted. You need at least one pay stub for a full pay period to document your new current income at that time.
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    USCIS is not involved at this stage of the OP's process. An interview is scheduled already. USCIS does not issue visas. That is the Dept. of State's job. That said, a photocopy of a Certified Copy of the divorce decree mentioned should already have been included in the I-130 filing. Taking a copy to the interview is a good idea, as is taking a copy of everything submitted. The OP's question is about whether they need an Apostille in addition to the Certified Copy. The answer is no. Nothing submitted as part of the US visa process, needs an Apostille.
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    In that case, you will be able to get a Certificate of No Marriage, CENOMAR from PSA. That and the Marriage Certificate and evidence of being together during or after the marriage, will do instead of the CEMAR.
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    No need to obligate your mother. You qualify easily. Best to create a new I-864 stating zero income, and stating the current value of the accounts. Upload along with at least the current statements. You can carry the past statements to the interview.
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    So YOU are the US Citizen. Your male fiance was married to a Filipina before, and divorced in the USA? For the USA, there is no Federal or National registration of marriage. Your marriage certificate from the State of Utah/Utah County is all you will need as evidence you are legally and lawfully married. The Filipino or Filipina to which you are married, will not be able to get a CEMAR from the PSA showing you are the only registered spouse. The Certified Copy of Divorce Decree obtained in the USA, will be satisfy USCIS and later the Consular Officer.
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    That much in liquid assets will carry the day with zero income. Should be no need for a joint sponsor. Do include statements for the accounts. One from a year ago, and one each three months up to the most current. They want evidence this is YOUR money, not a "loan" etc.
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    If he is self employed, he does not have a "salary" AND he has no "income" that he can count as "income" until it appears on a US Federal Tax return as "Total Income". You "might" get by with this and you might be required to obtain a joint sponsor. His contract would state his payments, which are "business revenue". Income is revenue minus expenses. The self employed have no income until it shows on a tax return. They only have "revenue". Another way of saying it is that his employment ended or will end when he leaves the UK. He will then be "self employed" or "in business".
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    If she will pick up the Passport with visa at the Consulate, then it might not matter, but you have not really provided enough context to be sure. What is the actual sentence or instruction that precedes the blanks to fill in an address?
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    Correct, upload AND bring. In this situation and most others, the word "or" in the instructions is there for a reason. As in "Tax Return Transcript" ....OR.....complete copy......
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    "As a contractor" indicates self employment, not continued employment. For a self employed person, current income comes from the total income line of a US Federal tax return. If he's still in the UK working, that number probably didn't change. Please clarify.
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    I would not do that. It might work, but it might get it sent back. I said it the way I meant it, the first time, but I guess it wasn't clear. Return the first money order and buy one for the right price. You will only pay the cashier's check issuer the difference. The priority is not your convenience. The priority is to make it difficult for them to cause you a problem.
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    Mark the first question, then very carefully review every little bit of the form, before resubmitting. That they mentioned you not answering the first critical question, does not mean they even looked further at your submission. Review the whole package. Check the instructions for the I-130 to be certain you submitted all the "required" supporting documentation. Since you are the purchaser of the financial instrument you used for your first payment, the issuer should only charge you the difference for a new one for the increased fee.
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    Earlier you said I-130a. Please clarify.
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    How much IS the current new immigrant fee anyway. I'm not finding it on the list. Am I blind?
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    Correct but you would also have put an address in the USA where you will be living, when you completed the DS 260. To be double sure, make ask and inform upon entry.
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    Or, if you prefer, you can simply get a new passport in the married name, before the interview.
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    To clarify, the "fee" is a filing fee. You are filing two petitions, so two filing fees. All but the smallest of the four fees you will pay the US government will be per person. The filing fee increased April 1st.
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    Do you see your other supporting documents?
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