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Huh, guess you're right. I was under the impression most basic plans don't cover vaccinations for adults with the general trend of trying to cut cost wherever possible. My bad.

Are you sure your health insurance will cover the vaccinations? I'd be very surprised if it did.

Still waiting here.

as harpa said coming to the US on the VWP with intent to marry and adjust status is without a doubt fraud, no bueno. You have 2 options, an 129f for k-1 or get married now in Chile and petition an i130 for cr1 visa. Either way she will have her interview in Chile. the k1 is much faster at the moment. Study the guides at the top of the page. Good luck

They can't, because bigotry.

OP: You're pretty much stuck with the K1 if you want her to come live with you in the US. You could get married in, say, Argentina, and file for cr1, but they take about a year. K1's are going much faster now. I sympathize. Wish I had stayed and adjusted status.

Congrats!

Don't know. We have the same dates as you and still nothing. Let us know what they tell you if you decide to call.

"I figured, well, it is time for conservatives in Congress to step in and define morality for them."

Ahahahahaha

Whichever name you use will be on her green card. So what do you want?

Just saw this. Ohio has this thing called immediate residency for tuition purposes. If your spouse is employed on a self-sustaining basis (i.e. you and your spouse don't receive money form people or organizations outside your state) in Ohio you're eligible for in-state tuition. Worth it to check out whether your state has something like that.

Opposite-sex people have this problem sometimes with their home passport. In some countries, you can't change your name on your passport after marriage. They just don't recognize it and won't do it. In the US, once you get your GC in your married name, that will get you a SSN in married name, and then you can get a state ID in your married name, and you don't need to show your marriage cert any more, right?

From what I've read it's not unusual to take up to a year to get your green card, and in many places you're only allowed to drive on your foreign license for 30 days. What are we supposed to do, not drive for 11 months?

I stand somewhat corrected, I guess. And thanks for answering my question, I had no luck with it before. I'm fortunate that I can afford to not drive for however long it takes to get my green card. As things stand it would be impossible to change the name on the license after I get it.

IMO, I don't know if we really need a whole sub-forum, but pinning the posts where they already exist and are quite long would be great. Regional forums provide a lot of emotional support and space to discuss country specific things, both related to immigration and not. We don't really have a place like that, but I can see where that would develop into "why not have that for *insert other specific situation*". That said, there are a lot of issues that same-sex couples are facing for the first time, now that DOMA was struck down, some of them immigration-related and some not. It would be nice to have a place to discuss them. There's been talk of an emotional-support type sub-forum, and it would fit there. I don't really know the best way to handle this.

Can we add something along the lines of "if you are filing for a person of the same gender and you live in a state that doesn't have marriage equality, you must specify which state you intend to get married in in your letters of intent". People have been getting RFE's for that.

There is no "one size fits all" for immigration There are special requirements for other opposite-sex couples too, like first cousins. The whole reason K-1 was invented was because some people can't marry in the foreigner's country, either it takes too long, or the country doesn't allow their type of marriage (like an interfaith marriage). All of the "issues" with SS applications already exist in opposite-sex immigration law and practice. I can't think of a single thing that is unique to SS couples.

Separating SS couples from this discussion is a disservice, imo. There are all sorts of couples.

But this thread is how Arizona is a horrible state. Let's stick to that

One thing that's specific to same-sex couples is name change after marriage. The federal government will recognize your marriage certificate as a legal name change document, but your state won't. This isn't an issue for first cousin marriages because states recognize first cousin couples married in states where such marriages are legal. So you have one name on your green card, and the other on your license. You could get a court order, but some (most?) places require you to be a resident for a year. What do you do in the meantime? I still don't know.

I'm not sure I'd want a whole sub-forum, but is a pinning the threads already there too much to ask for?

Come to think of it, now that marriage based immigration benefits are available to married same sex couples, is there a sub-forum for the same sex families going through the process here? I'd imagine that those couples face some issues that are unique to them since this benefit became available to them just recently. Or do we limit dedicated sub-forums to groups such as our family friendly hetero sexual divorcees?

It's been discussed and denied because "the process is the same for everyone". There are several few-dozen pages long threads scattered around the forum, but the important stuff is easy to miss. Like for K1, where you have to specify where you intend to get married if you don't live in an equal-rights state. I wish it were at least added to the guides or pinned somewhere in the K1 sub-forum. Think they might let us have a sub-forum for family-friendly same-sex divorces? We could sneak it in there.

Are you sure?

I'm sure.

If your Internet, cable, or cell phone service goes down for two minutes, these companies will have service personnel out to fix it immediately. Why then isn't the same required of the US government who charges tax payers for services they pay contractors ten times more?

Are you seriously equating net, cable and phone providers, whose sole purpose is to provide those services (and rake in cash), to a module on a web site that lets you check up on your immigration case? Yes, those must be the same level of priority and urgency in both examples.

Are we allowed to talk about gay people still?

I mean, they've removed my CARTOON AVATAR because it wasn't family friendly.

Gay people are perfectly family friendly, thanks.

http://kingston.usembassy.gov/emergency_policy.html

Okay, so they do have emergency appointments. I would go ahead and pay the fee and book an appointment asap. Then, send an email to the address provided in the link explaining why he needs an emergency appointment with the info they require (name, relationship, place and description of the situation, and contact information for the attending physician or funeral home). Also write that he has a terrible stutter and is very distraught and ask if they'd allow his nephew to come with him to the interview. The nephew can help him send the email (read write it for him and send it from his address, with his knowledge of course). Make sure he brings lots of proof of ties. I really hope things go well for him.

Yep. For almost a full day now

Then he can be your co-sponsor! Have him fill out the i-134 with a household size of 2 (himself and your fiance). You will also need to give them your i-134 with a household of 2 even though you don't meet the requirements.

I suggest you ask on the regional forum about whether Haiti allows co-sponsors first, and if they would prefer an i-1864 as well. Good luck!

Isn't technology wonderful!

Yes, it lets you complain about temporarily not being able to do something that technology allows you to do.

He could email the embassy and ask. I know that the one in Croatia does allow emergency appointments and they specifically list funerals as one of the reasons. If you tell us which country he's from maybe someone can tell you something more concrete. Good luck!

Congrats!

...they work on Saturdays?

Does your brother have a wife or any children? Does he claim anyone as a dependent on his taxes?

You got very, very lucky, and most people won't be. Average time between noas for December CSC filers was 44 days, and some of them still haven't been approved. Only 70% of January CSC filers have been approved. We're at 41 days and still waiting. I think one month is a very optimistic estimate.

SoyDeEI... I think the only way you can avoid the wait related stress is by going to your fiance and spend time till all is over I am sure within a month you will get your NOA2 as approval pace is damn good now days..,mine took 18 days only. By the way.. did you get registered in the USCIS website so that you may receive updates related to your application by email and/or text?... that way, you don't need to go to the website ... Good Luck and stay stress free!

NOA1 isn't important. No one will ask for it..