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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from Mollie09 in Is this a 221g?   
    So, the only thing possibly keeping your husband from a visa or not....is Facebook?
    I knew Facebook was huge, but wow, that tops the cake.
    Good luck!
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from Kolewenoik31 in living away from wifey   
    Hi everyone, i'm sorry to butt in, but would this not raise red flags with immigration if he moves 6 hours away from the person he received the visa to be with, his wife, in the first place? I'm not trying to judge your situation by any means, I was just concerned that going to a job interview the same month you arrive six hours away from your spouse, who you are there on a CR1 visa for, would cause major immigration issues? Correct me if i'm wrong, but you do have to do an Adjustment of Status interview at some point, right? How would you explain immediately taking a job offer six hours away and only visiting your wife, the U.S. Citizen, on the weekend?
    Personally, I would avoid the out-of-state job at all costs. You spent 10 months apart from each other and I couldn't imagine any genuine visa applicant/petitioner on this page wanting to see their spouse take a job that far away after arriving for a couple of weeks. Not only that, but it could be perceived like you are there for employment opportunities instead of being with your spouse. Not only that, getting a SSN isn't as easy as walking in to the office and saying "Hi, i'm here and i'm new, can I have my card please?" It takes a bit of time and processing and if you do ANY work before you can fill out the W-9 (That is the employee tax sheet for employers right?) then you've just committed your first crime in the states.
    You really need to consult an immigration lawyer before you make any kind of decision like this, but from one person to another person, it sounds like you've been apart for 10 months already, and that is far too long for any genuinely married couple.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from CanadianMom in Is this a 221g?   
    So, the only thing possibly keeping your husband from a visa or not....is Facebook?
    I knew Facebook was huge, but wow, that tops the cake.
    Good luck!
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from Hotter Otter in Risk of helping a friend on B1/b2   
    I'm so mad after reading this post and your consistent attempts of trying to say "I won't help, but..." trying to get more information about the trouble you could get in to.
    I think I've spent the past half hour writing some extremely angry responses, just to delete them because you are obviously not getting the message everyone else is telling you.
    Pathetic. Everything you have written, suggested, or mentioned since your first sentence on this post is pathetic. I hope she is denied entry at the PoE when the Borders and Customs officers inquires about her nature of visit.
    P.S. - Sorry, i'm the petitioner, the U.S. Citizen responding here. And I have every right to these feelings when you are condoning someone trying to defraud MY government who was gracious enough to allow her to visit and enjoy what we have to offer for the duration of her tourist visa.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from Jon York in Risk of helping a friend on B1/b2   
    I'm so mad after reading this post and your consistent attempts of trying to say "I won't help, but..." trying to get more information about the trouble you could get in to.
    I think I've spent the past half hour writing some extremely angry responses, just to delete them because you are obviously not getting the message everyone else is telling you.
    Pathetic. Everything you have written, suggested, or mentioned since your first sentence on this post is pathetic. I hope she is denied entry at the PoE when the Borders and Customs officers inquires about her nature of visit.
    P.S. - Sorry, i'm the petitioner, the U.S. Citizen responding here. And I have every right to these feelings when you are condoning someone trying to defraud MY government who was gracious enough to allow her to visit and enjoy what we have to offer for the duration of her tourist visa.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from IslAmy in Risk of helping a friend on B1/b2   
    I'm so mad after reading this post and your consistent attempts of trying to say "I won't help, but..." trying to get more information about the trouble you could get in to.
    I think I've spent the past half hour writing some extremely angry responses, just to delete them because you are obviously not getting the message everyone else is telling you.
    Pathetic. Everything you have written, suggested, or mentioned since your first sentence on this post is pathetic. I hope she is denied entry at the PoE when the Borders and Customs officers inquires about her nature of visit.
    P.S. - Sorry, i'm the petitioner, the U.S. Citizen responding here. And I have every right to these feelings when you are condoning someone trying to defraud MY government who was gracious enough to allow her to visit and enjoy what we have to offer for the duration of her tourist visa.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from d&C in Risk of helping a friend on B1/b2   
    I'm so mad after reading this post and your consistent attempts of trying to say "I won't help, but..." trying to get more information about the trouble you could get in to.
    I think I've spent the past half hour writing some extremely angry responses, just to delete them because you are obviously not getting the message everyone else is telling you.
    Pathetic. Everything you have written, suggested, or mentioned since your first sentence on this post is pathetic. I hope she is denied entry at the PoE when the Borders and Customs officers inquires about her nature of visit.
    P.S. - Sorry, i'm the petitioner, the U.S. Citizen responding here. And I have every right to these feelings when you are condoning someone trying to defraud MY government who was gracious enough to allow her to visit and enjoy what we have to offer for the duration of her tourist visa.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from d3adc0d3 in Can somebody please explain to me what this letter means?   
    Relax, relax! This is not a bad thing at all and no reason to get nervous!
    Jury Duty is a responsibility that a U.S. citizen must fulfill if called upon. You will go to court and if you are selected among the other people who were also sent the same letter you received, you will be part of a Jury to determine if a person is Innocent or Guilty of a crime. Basically, what you will do is listen to the lawyers talk about the issue, and then you and the other jurors must make a decision if the person is Innocent or Guilty of the crime he or she is at court for.
    You did nothing wrong to deserve this letter and the reason you got it is because anyone with a U.S. Citizenship is selected RANDOMLY for this duty.
    You will get paid for your time doing this and you are basically being asked by the government to help them pursue justice
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    AnnaMaria reacted to Merrytooth in Can somebody please explain to me what this letter means?   
    Probably your name was picked from DMV or some other agencies
    http://www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm#tab24322
    How did you get my name?
    All potential jurors are selected at random from lists. Courts use Department of Motor Vehicles and voter registration lists.
    It is important that you reply back that you are not a US Citizen yet.
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    AnnaMaria reacted to NikLR in Can somebody please explain to me what this letter means?   
    You should not have been selected as an LPR.
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    AnnaMaria got a reaction from DrewC in NVC Received Approved I-130 Package, but...Problem?   
    Hello everyone, we've encountered a kind of confusing situation. This is very long as I wanted to give you all of the information we have to ensure that you can provide the best response possible.
    Our I-130 was approved at the CSC USCIS and we received the NoA 2 E-mail on July 30th. Along with the e-mail that day from the USCIS stating our I-130 had been approved, we received an e-mail regarding Card/Document Production as the subject and that it was returned by the post office as "Undeliverable." We called immediately and were assured that it was most likely an error and that everything was processing as normal and it would be sent to the NVC.
    Yesterday, on August 14th, we received the following e-mail :
    Your Case Status: Card/ Document Production


    On August 14, 2014, the post office returned your document I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN as undeliverable. If you do not contact us at 1-800-375-5283 within 180 days from August 14, 2014, this document will be destroyed and you will need to file a new application with fee.
    Now, we began to become very concerned because this was the SECOND time we've received this exact same e-mail from USCIS regarding a Card/Document production being returned, and we still had not even gone through the NVC Process. At this point, we decided we would call and find out what was going on.
    Of course, the initial customer service representative was clueless and we were escalated to a higher level supervisor to explain to us what was going on and we found out the following information.
    On July 15th, 2014 we made a change of address because we moved back to my wife's family's house so we could be a little more financially prepared for the move back to the states when the visa was finished processing (Both of us have been living in Romania since August of 2013, and we only moved to an apartment about 45 minutes away in the city). We had the receipt number and a confirmation e-mail from the USCIS stating that the Change of Address had been completed. The Tier 2 Supervisor explained to us that the USCIS system is unable to change address internationally and therefore the customer service representatives who do them over the phone must find workarounds and make notice of the comments section of the petitioner/beneficiary's residence. We were informed that although ALL of the information was correct, the city and country were completely off. We have lived in Bucharest, Romania and at our current residence, combined, since August of 2013, long before we filed our I-130. He explained that the Customer Service representative who had taken our change of address did not acknowledge the comments that we were both currently living in Romania and therefore put our address with a New York, New York address. Apparently, the e-mail of undeliverable mail was in reference to trying to send us our Approval of I-130 NoA 2, which definately would never have reached our hands since we're living in Romania and no where near New York. Upon instruction of the tier 2 supervisor, i promptly sent a message to the e-mail address he provided me with the receipt number of the change of address and explaining the situation that they had made an error.
    Ok, now that you understand the situation, here is my question.
    After we received all of these e-mails on August 14th, our case status on the USCIS website was completely blank, no Post-Decision activity or anything. Under Case State it was just blank. So we called the NVC hoping it was there. The NVC recieved our approved I-130 package on August, 13th. I assume that processing will continue as normal, but will the change of address issue the USCIS caused be any delay to us? Upon waking up today on August, 15th, I had 3 e-mails from the USCIS. One was from an actual Immigration Officer with an attachment of a duplicate form of our Approved I-797 Notice of Action. The other two e-mails were from USCIS, and upon logging in to the case status website to see what was going on, it shows our I-130 case back in the Acceptance phase with the following message: Status:
    AcceptanceOn August 14, 2014, a duplicate notice was mailed to you regarding a decision on this case, or describing how we will process the case if it is still pending. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your case is at our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location. If this I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN is still pending, you will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move and this case is still pending, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address or call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.So, as of current, the NVC has received our approved I-130 package, our hard copy of Notice of Action 2 (Approval) is currently en route to our correct address in Romania, and the USCIS website is showing us in the Acceptance phase again. The Immigration Officer I spoke with last night assured me that this would not cause any delays and that processing would continue as normal at the NVC, but my question is, why is it back to the Acceptance phase at the USCIS if it is with the NVC now? Is this a set back in the fact that the NVC will not begin further processing until the USCIS sends another I-130 package with our updated address or is this just some goofy USCIS error that we're needlessly concerned about? I would call them again, but we cannot afford to spend those kind of cell phone minutes getting scripted answers from the initial customer service, just to get put on a 35-90 minute hold to speak to someone with half of the right answer.
    I understand this is long and appreciate you reading it, but I figured knowing the whole story versus bits and pieces could help you provide us with a more accurate response.
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    AnnaMaria reacted to NikLR in Received Case Number and IIN today from NVC   
    Perfectly normal. Keep checking the website once a day to see if they invoice you. You'll probably get a termination message or something similar when it happens.
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