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    Need some help!

    in US Citizenship General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by jwbthailand

    Nick D thanks for the info..I'll check it out with the hospitals.

    As for midwivies and birth in home...My wife is rather small and a ceserean most likely will be the ticket...she will try vaginal birthing but odds aren't with her there. Then place a price tag of around 5,000 without any issues! Gives me pause!

    I am looking over the citizen route but the times are around 6 months: If we got held up or denied this might place my wife on a 28 hour plane to Thailand during her third trimester..bad idea! If it worked out, Awesome!!! But I'm not sure I want to make such a gamble with USCIS...can you blame me?

    My plan, "Send my wife to Thailand to be with her mother, grandmother, father, sisters and friends around the end of her first trimester...stay in our house by the hospital and have our child there for under $1500.00 US spending up to 5 nights in the hospital with doctors and nurses, and with a price that includes ceserean if needed! I plan to travel to Thailand during month 7/8 and stay through the birth! I have built up enough FF miles to cover both tickets. The only thing that sucks about this is I will be away from my pregnant wife for 5 months. However, I'll be working in a job that has me killin it for 80 hours a week out of town(secured resent)but doesn't have insurance...yet pays really well. The job is seasonal so I will be able to get to Thailand during the end of her 7th month! It's not all perfect but seems well thought out especially with my wife being with her family and friends and me being able to finance it all.

    I do have concerns: This is what I need help with? *****Please help answer these questions********

    My concerns: She may be in Thailand for up to 10 months for birth and care of our child before she/he is ready to come back to the USA. How does this affect her becomming a citizen and her re-entry to the states?

    Since, she will have our child overseas what is the procedure for me to declare him/her a USA citizen? I will join her for the last 2 months of her pregnancy and his/her birth!

    Need some help!

    in US Citizenship General Discussion

    Posted

    You can keep your insurance, and so can your wife (assuming she was on your plan) thanks to COBRA. You should receive something in the mail less than a month after your last day. If you did not, contact your employer &/or health provider. No need to send her back to Thailand.

    In hind sight it was stupid...but back 8 months ago I turned it down then applied for new coverage that didn't cover maternity and cost far far less! Pregnancy wasn't planned now I'm shooting from the hip! She has to go back to Thailand to have the baby...I don't see another way!

    Need some help!

    in US Citizenship General Discussion

    Posted

    My wife came here on a K-1 visa and now we are ready and she is finally willing to become a citizen...for the longest time she didn't want to give up being "Thai" in anyway. Now. we are ready to start the paper work and we just found out my wife is pregnant. She is only 6 weeks. I'm in a bit of a fix because I'm gonna have to send her back to Thailand to have the baby due to lossing our insurance as a result of being laid off. I looked into CHP+ and medicare but she doesn't meet the 5 years rule for benifitts, she has been in the USA for 4 years married to me, I'm the K-1 sponsor too.

    My concerns: She may be in Thailand for up to 10 months for birth and care of our child before she/he is ready to come back to the USA. How does this affect her becomming a citizen and her re-entry to the states?

    Since, she will have our child overseas what is the procedure for me to declare him/her a USA citizen? I will join her for the last 2 months of her pregnancy and his/her birth!

    Thanks for the help!

    How You Met Your Fiance

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    I'm a firm believer that you should fill in forms with only the essentials. After that in the please include section: fill their shelves with tons of information. In all my dealings with the "gov" I brought 2 or 3 boxes of information. From albums filled with pictures, to over 1000 emails, mags in both names, bank statements, gift I bought her, Every time in all interviews the agents are glad to see me gone. From the word go I've had pictures, stories and details ready to onload on them. I make it clear to everyone that I'm in this and it's real and you'd be an absolute idiot to rule against me.

    The Place to VENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    THIS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well VENT AWAY, cause in know there are plenty that need to....whatever your reason is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have so many friends FEED UP with this stuff...

    I does get hard.

    Only advice I can give is schedule a infopass appointment at www.infopass.uscis.gov do it every week until you get action! This will help, I did for me!

    Dave

    10 day's...interview is July 25th

    in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas

    Posted

    We are finally here...

    After a delay of filing our AOS until April we didn't get notices or a NOA1 or 2 until after we made a info pass appointment in Late June. From the 27th of June we are speeding to a Biometrices on the 10th of July and then recieved the notice for an interview on the 25th of July. My head is spinning... I will never give a physical address to any government agency when they ask the question? "Physical address" when mail is only received at a PO Box. Even when you fill in mailing address they still send to your physical address...I'm over it! They even mis-typed my case number on the back of the cashed check. I honestly forgive them for everything now that our case is speeding through...it's Karma!

    Now that the AOS interview is ahead what are some things to look out for?

    What should I expect at the interview?

    What time line are we on after the interview?

    What is the next step in the process?

    Thank you everyone for your help and support!

    I mean it...

    Dave

    Will I still be Thai!

    in US Citizenship General Discussion

    Posted

    Hello,

    If any of you lucky souls :innocent: have married a Thai girl you have already realized they are VERY nationalistic. So my wife keeps bugging me as to the fact that if she becomes an American Citizen will she still be a Thai Citizen? I've no idea... I tell her she will always be Thai or both but I really don't know! Anyone know?

    David and Sumitra

    Have SS number but says with DHS approval on it!

    in Working & Traveling During US Immigration

    Posted

    The employer is actually legally required to ensure their employees are legal to work in the US, and it is the employer who will be fined if they hire illegals.

    However, AFAIK, as your wife has a K1, she is only eligible to work until the expiration date on her I-94. After that, she no longer has DHS authorization, and she'd have to quit her job until she receives her EAD.

    She could also get into a little trouble, but the Employer is the one who fills in the I9.

    I am surprised because CO has had a big crackdown, all over the news.

    I am assuming she did not enter via JFK and obtain the temp EAD stamp, sems unlikely.

    What would a EAD on the I-94 look like?

    David

    Can you file an EAD before AOS!

    in Working & Traveling During US Immigration

    Posted

    Went back to the SS office and was told by another officer that my fiance could work under her k-1 visa, I-94 and SS# that she could work for the 90 days until her K-1 expires and the DHS authorization was given on my I-94 card. She told me we were legal and able to work.

    I then called the USCIS and they told me somthing totally different ending in she had to have a EAD apart from the K-1 to work and even went further to say that my AOS had to be filled within the 90 days to remain in good status. She then told me you have to file AOS and EAD together or the AOS first then the EAD something about EAD questions about begining the AOS process.

    In the end I went to the court house applied for a marriage lic and was married by a judge shortly after the lic was filed. I think we will quit her job and wait for a EAD it's just not worth it to get in bad status with the USCIS or INS. It just really bugs me that I almost hung myself on the words from the SS office in town!

    Anyone have any ideas?

    David

    Can you file an EAD before AOS!

    in Working & Traveling During US Immigration

    Posted

    Due to my fubar in the SS# stuff or so it seems I'm getting married today! No reason to really wait as we've been together for almost 2 years now I'll post my story later.

    Can I after I get married today send in a EAD and wait to send in my AOS until after the 1st of the year. I want to use my 2006 tax returns on the Affidaviat of support that will give me 3 years of earning over the 125% line. In 2004 I quit my job and traveled around the world. My earning are like $6,000 that year!

    Thanks for any help!

    David

    Have SS number but says with DHS approval on it!

    in Working & Traveling During US Immigration

    Posted

    The employer is actually legally required to ensure their employees are legal to work in the US, and it is the employer who will be fined if they hire illegals.

    However, AFAIK, as your wife has a K1, she is only eligible to work until the expiration date on her I-94. After that, she no longer has DHS authorization, and she'd have to quit her job until she receives her EAD.

    She could also get into a little trouble, but the Employer is the one who fills in the I9.

    I am surprised because CO has had a big crackdown, all over the news.

    I am assuming she did not enter via JFK and obtain the temp EAD stamp, sems unlikely.

    She got her job from a mom and pop store in my valley. They asked her if she had a SS# and we said yes! I still haven't given them the paper work for the Employment Eligibility Verification or the W-4 forms most use to get work. After reading about the lot of this I'm worried. My timeline in the matter:

    Went to SS office to get SS# and was sent to us within 10 days of her entering the Country! The SS officer told us she could work after she had her ss# and showed her I-94. 3 days later we got her a job! After 2 weeks of working I read in the newspaper about all the busting of illegals. I got worried and decided to check out my fiance papers to make sure in the event she somehow got tangled in this stuff I had my ducks in a row. I realize they may not be and the information the SS agent told me was wrong or so it seems from everyone feedback!

    So to clarify if my Fiance has a SS number, K-1 visa and a I-94 she still needs a EAD card to work legally?

    Since, the paperwork (w-4 and employment eligibility verification) was never filled for her to get "paid" so to say she is ok she was asked if she had a SS# but it wasn't given yet to her employer!

    Also, to clarify why this information hasn't been sent in is due to my heavy work load and the inability to help my fiance with filling it out. This laziness on my part will have saved me in the end if we are in fact illegally employing her.

    Should she quit her job?

    She shouldn't fill out any paper work?

    Thanks

    David

    SAWASDEE 2

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    Dave,

    What is it that you are concerned about? What prompts this question?

    Yodrak

    Is it important to go to the amphur and get a letter from them saying my finacee is single? Or will a updated id card work if it says, "Ms" on it?

    Do I need this?

    Thanks,

    Dave

    Yodrak,

    Nothing really. I just want all my bases covered. I want to make sure I don't get caught by anything. Our interview is in about 10 days and I will be joining her in Bangkok for it. I don't want the needle in the haystack to ####### me. So another fear: does the dates on the I-134 matter (can they be notorized after she sent in packet 3 checklist and Ds-230 part 1 in). I want to re-adjust this form before I go, seems like I gave incorrect information on the surrendor value of my Life insurance policy and don't want this to invalidate the form. So I want to get another one done on Wednesday!

    Dave

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