Dashinka

This may be helpful. Good Luck!

It seems KK is also quite petulant when she doesn't get what she wants politically. Even Joe Biden can’t stomach Harris’ fit of pique in hurricane spat with DeSantis No, the truth is much more incriminating. It’s not that Biden wants to blow up Harris’ campaign, it’s that he can’t possibly abide her self-centered tantrum. Despite her attempted rebrand as an amiable consensus-builder, Harris has none of those attributes. For her, everything — including 170-mile-per-hour winds and deadly floods ripping through the southeast — is about her, and how she can use it to her political advantage. That’s why she’s so angry that DeSantis has spent no energy feeding her ego, and has even gone so far as to manufacture a feud about it. https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/opinion/even-joe-biden-cant-stomach-harris-pique-in-hurricane-spat/

Seems Ms. Strassel is thinking along the same lines. It appears the Democrats are trying to pivot now and try to save the Senate, not sure that is going to work either. Empress Kamala’s New Clothes This week’s political headlines were eerily similar in feel to those of early July, following that momentous Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate. It’s the feel of a Democratic Party realizing (again) that the looms really were without thread, that their nominee—exposed to the nation—is looking a bit bare. “Democrats start to hit the panic button.” “Kamala Harris Is Making the Same Mistakes She Made in 2019.” “Democrats grow anxious.” Ms. Harris “struggling to break through with working class” and “struggles to differentiate herself from Biden” and “struggles to answer questions” and generally . . . struggles. “Kamala Harris Could Be in Trouble.” Pray tell, how? Weeks ago, Ms. Harris was the standard-bearer of “joy,” “freedom” and “opportunity,” the “juggernaut” who exudes “quiet prowess” and “humiliates” her opponent and delivers a “debate knockout” and runs a “brilliant campaign” and “dominates” among voters. The “Gen Z Meme Queen” whose party had woefully “underestimated” her “raw talent.” These superlatives came from the same partisan press corps that insisted Mr. Biden was fine—until it couldn’t. The same media that before the Biden debate warned against Ms. Harris’s enormous liabilities—until it got stuck with her. The same press corps that is now discovering that even unrelenting hagiography can’t make up for those Harris weaknesses. Her problem—like Mr. Biden’s—comes from finally being seen. She outperformed Mr. Trump in their debate a month ago, though she did it by saying nothing of consequence. She’s since embarked on a “media blitz,” and in doing so confirmed the wisdom of all those advisers who fought never to let that happen. Recent weeks have shown a candidate whose answer to every question is canned, memorized, substance-free. Twice this week alone she flubbed softballs designed to let her discreetly break with the unpopular current president. “The View”: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden?” Ms. Harris: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” https://www.wsj.com/opinion/empress-kamalas-new-clothes-2024-presidential-election-issues-402058dd?st=v4ECKG

Scripted. What else is new.

Where we are heading with Democrat/establishment policies.

Kamala keeps saying it is time for a change too.

So Obama is showing his true anti-capitalist colors. I get it, KK all the way even though you still have not elucidated any of her actual policies. It is interesting that Obama is calling for change, is that change as compared to the last four years?

So doubling down to defend this extreme leftist professor who appears to be quite misogynistic in his leftist views. I get it, KK all the way, but should people be shot for fulfilling their constitutional right if they do not follow the extreme left/Democrat dictates? As to your apples to watermelons comparison, one can see through political rhetoric vs an extremist dictatorial view, but enjoy your broken windows.

All you can do is try.

Just to be clear, this is what I found on the Travel.State.Gov site. You will be fine traveling with the valid visa in an old passport and also a new passport. Good Luck! My old passport has already expired. My visa to travel to the United States is still valid but in my expired passport. Do I need to apply for a new visa with my new passport? No. If your visa is still valid you can travel to the United States with your two passports, as long as the visa is valid, not damaged, and is the appropriate type of visa required for your principal purpose of travel. (Example: tourist visa, when your principal purpose of travel is tourism). Both passports (the valid and the expired one with the visa) should be from the same country and type (Example: both Uruguayan regular passports, both official passports, etc.). When you arrive at the U.S. port-of-entry (POE, generally an airport or land border) the Customs and Border Protection Immigration Officer will check your visa in the old passport and if s/he decides to admit you into the United States they will stamp your new passport with an admission stamp along with the annotation "VIOPP" (visa in other passport). Do not try to remove the visa from your old passport and stick it into the new valid passport. If you do so, your visa will no longer be valid. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/frequently-asked-questions.html

The US punches a hole in the bio page, then sends it back to the citizen I believe so as to allow any valid visas to still be used. In the case of the OP, it really depends on if Sweden does something similar. If Sweden does not return the old passport, then the OP will need to work something else out after their US entry.

That depends. For instance, I still have a valid visa for China in my old passport and it still works for entry (I just did it that way back in August). It really depends on if Sweden allow its citizens to keep their old passports after renewing it.

If you can do it before you arrive, and if Sweden allows you to keep the invalidated passport, do it at that point. Good Luck!

So are you equating voting with someone blatantly breaking the law? It seems you are with your apples and artichokes comparison to defend this Professor Phil Lowcock. I bet he was mercilessly teased as a child, doesn't excuse his political petulance.

Glad to hear you are safe and Naples was not hit to hard. I heard the eye came in just South of Sarasota (Siesta Key area). I am not sure if my brother and SIL plan to head back down from Atl. as I haven't talked to him yet, but I assume the power situation there is a bit shaky. Their house is right off 41 just South of Venice, so not right on the coast, but not too far away. Last time the storm hit Ft. Myers, they only lost their lanai screen and one tree, hope it is not too bad for them this time as well, but they were on the higher surge side this time.

Sounds like the aunt would be the joint sponsor for I assume her brother. That is perfectly legal, so both your friend and the aunt will need to fill out I864s for the father/brother. This is fairly common, the aunt could also file an I130 for her brother, but that will take 20-25 years, however your friend's I130 will be much faster, and there is no law saying that the intending immigrant has to live with the primary sponsor of the I130.

It is amazing how easy it is to gaslight the “educated” petulant Democrats.

I assume when you say partner you mean legally married. I haven’t heard many stories of DCF from Auckland, but here is a thread that may be helpful as to the generic process steps to attempt DCF with exceptional circumstances. I also posted the contact information for the U.S. consulates in NZ. I would start with the email address for the Auckland consulate. You as the USC requesting the consulate take on the I130 can use this email. Also, I assume you have not already filed an I130, and also that your child already has a U.S. Passport. Good Luck! https://nz.usembassy.gov/contact/#embassywellington

Spousal visas or other Immediate Relative visas do not allow for derivatives. As @JeanneAdil stated, each step-child will need a separate petition assuming the step relationship was created prior to the child's 18th birthday.

She can try, but it will be a hard bar to overcome immigration intent with an I130 in process. A denial should not impact the spousal visa case unless she would materially misrepresent herself with a B2 interview or on the DS160. Good Luck!

If they need additional information, or to do other work such as background checks, you could get a 221g and the color of that paper is meaningful. If the CO does not give you a 221g, then all you might get is a verbal approval, but even that is not final. What you need to look for is "Issued" in the online system. As to how long it takes to get the passport back with a visa, that is highly variable depending on the case and the consulate. Anywhere from a week or two to over a month or more. Good Luck!

Yes, Democrats are definitely no friend of Democracy, or at least any Democracy that might cause them to lose power.

Journalism today? Whatever, wash, rinse, repeat seems to be the Democrat, sorry Petulant Democrat, playbook. NPR has not independently verified the account, which was based on interviews with unnamed sources.

The K1 visa was used for an entry, so nothing needs to be done (K1 is single-entry, so when CBP endorsed it, the visa becomes invalidated for any other potential entry). You should be fine with moving to a spousal visa, don't worry about the previous K1. Good Luck!

Going to put this here as KK admitted, her and Biden were one and the same at least policywise. When Is Blowing Up the World A Success? Did Biden’s 2019 campaign assurance that China was not in competition with the U.S. detour China from its subsequent combative stance toward Taiwan? Did giving millions to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Hezbollah persuade them not to send some 20,000 rockets and missiles into Israel after October 7? Will giving Lebanon some $157 million in “extra” aid persuade the population to turn on Hezbollah that has stored some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel in their midst? Did prior aid result in only 9,000 missiles being launched from Lebanon at Israel? Did the DEI mandates and advertising, the new woke protocols, and the vaccine expulsions all explain why the Pentagon was only 45,000 short in its targeted manpower recruitments? So please, Secretary Blinken, President Biden, a Vice President Harris, and candidate Walz, do not in the last weeks of the election gaslight us, the American people, that a world now in freefall and on the threshold of multiple theater-wide wars, all involving nuclear powers, is somehow a sign of a “stronger geopolitical position.”