MUXAGIRL

Jesus Christ, what's up with some USC spouses thinking they can put their "real doll" foreign spouses back on a plane when things don't work out! Bringing them to the US might have been your doing, putting on a plane back home is not.

Jesus Christ, what's up with some USC spouses thinking they can put their "real doll" foreign spouses back on a plane when things don't work out! Bringing them to the US might have been your doing, putting on a plane back home is not.

Jesus Christ, what's up with some USC spouses thinking they can put their "real doll" foreign spouses back on a plane when things don't work out! Bringing them to the US might have been your doing, putting on a plane back home is not.

Jesus Christ, what's up with some USC spouses thinking they can put their "real doll" foreign spouses back on a plane when things don't work out! Bringing them to the US might have been your doing, putting on a plane back home is not.

Jesus Christ, what's up with some USC spouses thinking they can put their "real doll" foreign spouses back on a plane when things don't work out! Bringing them to the US might have been your doing, putting on a plane back home is not.

Surprise surprise, women do too have rights in the US, and CAN divorce their husband/lord/master anytime they please.
Does your "friend" want to live in the US after the divorce, considering women with equal rights walk among men?

Surprise surprise, women do too have rights in the US, and CAN divorce their husband/lord/master anytime they please.
Does your "friend" want to live in the US after the divorce, considering women with equal rights walk among men?

Surprise surprise, women do too have rights in the US, and CAN divorce their husband/lord/master anytime they please.
Does your "friend" want to live in the US after the divorce, considering women with equal rights walk among men?

Gosh, what a difficult situation! How come you believed your husband when he said he could not come up with less than $1500 over a half decade time period, the money absolutely necessary to hold his family together by sponsoring his wife's green card?

@Dave&Roza
The CO was correct in dividing the assets by five. It says so on the instructions of form I-864. The only thing that does not have to be five times of the minimum income threshold is your income from a job which can be documented by w2.

If you fiance's name is, say, John, without anything else as last name, you need to fill out the form as following,
Last Name: John
First Name: FNU
FNU means first name unavailable. Many Asian countries including India allow for people to have only given name on the passport without a last name and it's not a problem except filling out paper work for US visas etc. in the US you must have a lat name. In the absence of one, the entire given name turns into last name and the first name is FNU.
Even if you fill it out as it is on the passport, with only first name and no last name, when it comes to issuing visa, they will put FNU for first name and his given name as last name on the visa. It's no big deal, don't worry too much about it. No need to go for a name change, unless he really wants to.
BTW, I am speaking from my own experience, you are welcome to follow my advice only if you want to.

I very much doubt it will be "C" ever again in near future, best scenario is a six month lag instead of two years, but that's also unlikely.
But I do believe Oct 2014 VB will progress into first quarter on 2013 at least. If the immigration reform goes through, then all F2As would be saying goodbye to all this PD nonsense and filing as IR1/CR1, and will go to the US with special spouse visas to adjust status instead of waiting years going through NVC and consular processing. That would be truly great.

How about your husband comes to stay with you in Paris during his vacation? Is that a possibility? It is not a guarantee that your visa will be approved on the day of your consular interview, they might run administrative processing. But if it is approved the same day, you will get your passport with visa back along with the visa packet in about a week.
I am sorry, but one can not have it all during US immigration :-(

@casualsurfer
I am going to help you out here, because I have been through this myself two months ago. What you can do right now is DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO NVC ANYMORE. sorry for all caps, but it's important. The file is out of their hand, it's with the consulate now. All paperwork should be sent to your WIFE from now on, she has to carry them by hand to her interview.
My case was also expedited in May and within three days it had arrived at the consulate in India from NVC. The consulate did not contact me, I contacted them after I checked my case status on CEAC and then they sent me link on ustraveldocs to schedule my own biometrics and interview online.
Here is what you can do, go to ceac.state.gov and under immigrant visa category check your case status. You can put your case number and it will tell you if it is "At NVC" or " In Transit" or " Ready for interview". If its " ready for interview" it's already in Taiwan, you can contact the US embassy customer service by sending them email at <support- taiwan@ustraveldocs.com>, then they will guide you from there.
You spouse can go for her interview within a matter of days now, depending upon the available interview slots at the embassy and her readiness with required documents. I would advise you to not be too hasty and do your AOS paper work first and send them to your wife before scheduling anything with the embassy.
The IV fee can be paid at the embassy at the time of interview. To the embassy, your spouse should carry the exact amount in CASH, they do not take credit cards. You can still check online on ceac.state.gov if IV fee payment option is available to you now or not,
your wife should fill out DS-260 online if she has not already. I am assuming it should be available to her even if IV fees are not paid, since this is an expedited case. If its not available yet, she should contact the embassy and they will assist her in accessing it online.She needs couple of printouts of the DS-260 submission confirmation page.
Since you were in the stage of paying fees, I am assuming the civil and AOS documents have not been sent to NVC. If you have not done that, the best thing you can do is DHL the following to your wife ASAP
1. Filled and signed I-864. If she is the only person immigrating and you are the only sponsor and sponsoring from your income which can be entirely accounted for by W2, it is advisable to use I-864 EZ instead. Much less headache.
2. About six or seven recent pay stubs of yours, originals not necessary, xerox will do. If you are using other means as proof of income, then documented proof of that, including bank statements. Please note, bank statements are not necessary if the income stated on your W2 are above required minimum amount, which is around $22k/yr.
3. Your 2013 tax return transcript or copy of your 2013 form 1040 which you submitted to IRS. This is mandatory.
4. Optional is previous two years tax return transcripts, you can add them if you have them, or download them from IRS.gov
5. Your job letter, if any, which states you salary, length of employment etc.
Your spouse should not schedule the interview in haste before all the documents are received by her and are ready.
For civil documents, she should carry her original birth certificate, original marriage certificate, any record of previous marriage(s), divorce record(if any), original police clearance certificate from her local passport office, two 2by2 passport photographs, her DS-260 confirmation page and of course her passport with at least six months left on it.
AFTER she receives all the AOS documents from you, after she has successfully submitted DS-260 online and prints out the confirmation page, when she is confident she has all the AOS and IV docs ready to go, she should call the embassy again to schedule her biometrics and interview. She can do it herself online on ustraveldocs.com/tw or schedule it over the phone. She should print out the IV interview schedule confirmation page which will have her name, the time of biometrics appointment and time of interview on two different days, her passport number, her visa category etc.
Next thing she has to do is call the US embassy approved doctor nearest to her and schedule her physical. They will need the interview confirmation page, which is nothing like the interview letter people generally receive from NVC and they will need the DS-260 confirmation page which has her case number along with 2by2 photographs, and her original passport for verification. Most people, starting from the doctors assistants to the embassy officials, do not know how to go about an expedited case, so they might keep on asking for the NVC interview letter, but she needs to explain that hers is an expedited case and take a copy of the expedite request approval letter with her if available.
She needs to have enough time in between her medical and biometrics appointment so that the doctors report is ready before she goes to the embassy.
Doctors reports come in two sealed envelops, one is her medical checkup report and the other is the Chest x-ray. She needs to bring only the smaller medical report with her to the embassy on the day of the actual interview. She is not allowed to open those envelops.
To the biometrics appointment, she needs to take the DS-260 confirmation page, her biometrics and interview schedule confirmation page and her passport. The process takes couple of minutes. they will stamp the interview confirmation page after the fingerprints are taken.
To her actual interview, she needs to take that stamped page from the biometrics along with all her docs, which will include, but not limited to
1. Her valid passport and all her previous, old, expired passports if she has any, including passport of any other country if she has dual citizenship.
2. All her AOS docs from you
3. All her original civil documents plus photocopies of the said documents
4. Proof of bona vide marriage. You know this can include a lot of things, but lots of photographs of the two of you is a must.
5. Her sealed medical report.
6. Again, the DS-260 confirmation page and the stamped interview confirmation page from the OFC appointment. The biometrics appointment is called the OFC appointment.
7. A great attitude.
Phew! I hope this answers your question.

Unless her case is as urgent as the Sudanese lady Miriam Wani, I don't see the US embassy granting her an emergency asylum. But I could be wrong. Since you are an USC, why don't you make an appointment and go discuss this with a CO? After all, apart from granting visas and doing business, their another priority is assisting US citizens abroad. Also, technically it would be a refugee application, not asylum. Asylum application can only be made if the person is already on US border or soil.
There are very narrowly defined criteria for refugee status, and she must be able to prove it that there is just no way the law enforcement in her country Peru are not going to handle the situation, at all and she must be able to show the following: (copied and pasted from Nolo.com)
You are unable or unwilling to return to your home country because you have been persecuted there in the past or have a well-founded fear that you will be persecuted if you go back.
The reason you have been (or will be) persecuted is connected to one of five things: your race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or your political opinion.
I don't see a crazy ex fitting anywhere in that description above. The fastest way might be DCF.
And Why would there be any legal problem for your fiancé if her ex is crazy? Has she done anything illegal herself? If not she is fine,

Yeah, the way the system keeps crashing, they have to block print visas with a hand held plaster of Paris mold in future;-)

@ casualsurfer
I just noticed in your time line that you have sent the AOS package to NVC. But have they reviewed it? If they have not reviewed it, chances are those docs have not been forwarded to the embassy. This happened to me. When my case was expedited, all our fees were paid, I had submitted DS-260, our AOS package was reviewed and our IV pack was received but not reviewed. And guess what, NVc did not forward the IV docs to the consulate! Thankfully, I had another set of IV docs with me, except my MC. Just recently NVC returned my original IV docs to my husband in the US and advised me to " carry them with me to the interview". My interview was almost two months ago!
Anyway, I strongly advise you to send another set of AOS docs to your wife in Taiwan, just to be on the safe side. That means filling out another I-864 with your original signature.Everyone is really confused when a case is expedited mid processing, so chances are NVC has NOT forwarded the docs which are not reviewed yet.

@casualsurfer
I am going to help you out here, because I have been through this myself two months ago. What you can do right now is DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO NVC ANYMORE. sorry for all caps, but it's important. The file is out of their hand, it's with the consulate now. All paperwork should be sent to your WIFE from now on, she has to carry them by hand to her interview.
My case was also expedited in May and within three days it had arrived at the consulate in India from NVC. The consulate did not contact me, I contacted them after I checked my case status on CEAC and then they sent me link on ustraveldocs to schedule my own biometrics and interview online.
Here is what you can do, go to ceac.state.gov and under immigrant visa category check your case status. You can put your case number and it will tell you if it is "At NVC" or " In Transit" or " Ready for interview". If its " ready for interview" it's already in Taiwan, you can contact the US embassy customer service by sending them email at <support- taiwan@ustraveldocs.com>, then they will guide you from there.
You spouse can go for her interview within a matter of days now, depending upon the available interview slots at the embassy and her readiness with required documents. I would advise you to not be too hasty and do your AOS paper work first and send them to your wife before scheduling anything with the embassy.
The IV fee can be paid at the embassy at the time of interview. To the embassy, your spouse should carry the exact amount in CASH, they do not take credit cards. You can still check online on ceac.state.gov if IV fee payment option is available to you now or not,
your wife should fill out DS-260 online if she has not already. I am assuming it should be available to her even if IV fees are not paid, since this is an expedited case. If its not available yet, she should contact the embassy and they will assist her in accessing it online.She needs couple of printouts of the DS-260 submission confirmation page.
Since you were in the stage of paying fees, I am assuming the civil and AOS documents have not been sent to NVC. If you have not done that, the best thing you can do is DHL the following to your wife ASAP
1. Filled and signed I-864. If she is the only person immigrating and you are the only sponsor and sponsoring from your income which can be entirely accounted for by W2, it is advisable to use I-864 EZ instead. Much less headache.
2. About six or seven recent pay stubs of yours, originals not necessary, xerox will do. If you are using other means as proof of income, then documented proof of that, including bank statements. Please note, bank statements are not necessary if the income stated on your W2 are above required minimum amount, which is around $22k/yr.
3. Your 2013 tax return transcript or copy of your 2013 form 1040 which you submitted to IRS. This is mandatory.
4. Optional is previous two years tax return transcripts, you can add them if you have them, or download them from IRS.gov
5. Your job letter, if any, which states you salary, length of employment etc.
Your spouse should not schedule the interview in haste before all the documents are received by her and are ready.
For civil documents, she should carry her original birth certificate, original marriage certificate, any record of previous marriage(s), divorce record(if any), original police clearance certificate from her local passport office, two 2by2 passport photographs, her DS-260 confirmation page and of course her passport with at least six months left on it.
AFTER she receives all the AOS documents from you, after she has successfully submitted DS-260 online and prints out the confirmation page, when she is confident she has all the AOS and IV docs ready to go, she should call the embassy again to schedule her biometrics and interview. She can do it herself online on ustraveldocs.com/tw or schedule it over the phone. She should print out the IV interview schedule confirmation page which will have her name, the time of biometrics appointment and time of interview on two different days, her passport number, her visa category etc.
Next thing she has to do is call the US embassy approved doctor nearest to her and schedule her physical. They will need the interview confirmation page, which is nothing like the interview letter people generally receive from NVC and they will need the DS-260 confirmation page which has her case number along with 2by2 photographs, and her original passport for verification. Most people, starting from the doctors assistants to the embassy officials, do not know how to go about an expedited case, so they might keep on asking for the NVC interview letter, but she needs to explain that hers is an expedited case and take a copy of the expedite request approval letter with her if available.
She needs to have enough time in between her medical and biometrics appointment so that the doctors report is ready before she goes to the embassy.
Doctors reports come in two sealed envelops, one is her medical checkup report and the other is the Chest x-ray. She needs to bring only the smaller medical report with her to the embassy on the day of the actual interview. She is not allowed to open those envelops.
To the biometrics appointment, she needs to take the DS-260 confirmation page, her biometrics and interview schedule confirmation page and her passport. The process takes couple of minutes. they will stamp the interview confirmation page after the fingerprints are taken.
To her actual interview, she needs to take that stamped page from the biometrics along with all her docs, which will include, but not limited to
1. Her valid passport and all her previous, old, expired passports if she has any, including passport of any other country if she has dual citizenship.
2. All her AOS docs from you
3. All her original civil documents plus photocopies of the said documents
4. Proof of bona vide marriage. You know this can include a lot of things, but lots of photographs of the two of you is a must.
5. Her sealed medical report.
6. Again, the DS-260 confirmation page and the stamped interview confirmation page from the OFC appointment. The biometrics appointment is called the OFC appointment.
7. A great attitude.
Phew! I hope this answers your question.

@chanhphamvn
How do you now about Sept 2014 VB already? It is not coming out for another three weeks! Please cite your source. It's good to be hopeful, but false news is not appreciated. I personally would be ecstatic if the PD does indeed move to Dec 2012 by September as my PD is Aug 2012. But if it's not, I don't want to harbor false hope.