Ian H.

Pls. don't pay anybody online just to get forms to file for your wife's I-130 and her I-485 Adjustment of Status. All the forms are free. You can even request the USCIS to send the forms to your address or you can go to public library to print it. You don't need to pay anybody to help you fill the forms. The visa journey members are willing to help you and guide you if you don't understand what to do and what to write in the forms. When I applied for my AOS and my husband for I-130 he spent too much for the lawyer, and the lawyer just guide us in filling the forms and what documents we needed to produce. He also file the packets to USCIS and that's all the service he provided. He even asked my husband additional fee if he represent us during the interview but we did not hire him anymore. I wish I knew this visa journey website first to spare big amount for lawyer's fee.

I think someone already replied to some sample questions for you, but you can also read my experience and the Lima embassy review here:
http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Peru
I went with my wife and daughter to the interview in Lima on Sept 3 and most of the questions were the common ones, How did you meet? When, how long ago? We first talk to a CO and while she was reviewing and asking all our documents one by one she asked us a couple of questions (very politely) and then when we saw the Counsul he also asked us a couple of questions as well. He asked me where I work and what I do for a living. About the evidence you have,I put mine in a binder with inserts well organized: photos, plane tickets, phone conversations, text, and bills of our wedding with our names. The CO after she took the required documents she said: " did you bring evidence of your relationship?' we said yes and she told us the Consul may want to see some of them so have them with you when you enter to speak with him. We all three went in as whe told us to, my wife, daughter, and me to see the counsul. He actually said he did not need to see any more evidence and that our visa was approved and gave us the apporval sheet and told us that we should get our passports return within 7 days which it happened via DHL. If you can print the confirmation that you signed for DHL delivery and the location you selected, bring it and give it the the CO or counsul, he asked us if we sign up, and I said yes and gave him a copy.
Good luck to both of you on the interview :-)

Let me try to clarify what's happening here; it's not that California doesn't give you proof of name change, it's that certain USCIS offices in Northern California, including San Jose and San Francisco, have stopped holding judicial ceremonies.
An "official legal name change" requires you to fill out forms that are then signed by a judge. This isn't necessary if you are just taking your spouse's last name.
So here's what's going on:
-To do an official legal name change through the n400 process, you have to be naturalized at a judicial ceremony.
-Your office does not do judicial oath ceremonies, so you can't do an official legal name change with the n400.
-When you do an official legal name change, you get a name change certificate. That's true anywhere in the country, including California, but you can't do a legal name change at your USCIS office.
-If your n400 was being processed in San Diego or Los Angeles, you would be allowed to do a legal name change and you'd get your proof of name change.
-If the only change you are making is to take your spouse's last name, then you don't need a legal name change - they will just print your naturalization certificate in your new name.
-Since there's no legal name change you don't need a judicial ceremony and an administrative ceremony will suffice. You will also not get proof of the name change.
-The marriage certificate is considered proof of the name change, even if the marriage certificate shows the wife's maiden name as her last name.
-Even though taking your spouse's last name doesn't require a legal name change, you can request one anyway if your USCIS office holds judicial ceremonies.
So what's happening is that San Jose USCIS isn't giving you an official legal name change (because they can't), they're just printing the certificate in the married name. If you ask them to change your first name, they will refuse.
If you were living in Los Angeles and your wife wanted to change her last name to take your name, you would also not necessarily get a name change certificate (unless you asked for a judicial ceremony and insisted on an official legal name change). However, if she wanted to change her first name, she would get a name change certificate.
After naturalization, your wife will be able to change her name on her credit cards, bank accounts, drivers license, etc. using her marriage certificate. This may not be, as you say, good enough for the Indian consulate or the Indian agency where she will surrender her indian passport.
What I advise you to do then, is to not go through a name change as part of the n400. Either before she applies for naturalization or after she is approved and gets her certificate, go to the court house and file for a legal name change there. You will then get a court document showing the old and new names. This will have nothing to do with USCIS and so will not be affected by the USCIS office regulations in San Jose. You will get a county court issued name change certificate.
The only disadvantage of doing this is that it costs money and takes time. In Houston it costs $400. In New York it costs $65, so you need to check with your local court.

That's great. As long as your phone is unlocked you can just walk into any AT&T store and tell them your iPhone is unlocked and that you want a gophone plan. They will set you up right away. They will only ask you for your name and maybe id which you can just use your passport, no SSN or anything like that.
Now the $45 plan is only available over the phone or in Walmart, I believem so you can try going to Walmart first. If not you may have to add a different plan and then change it. You can get the $60 plan which gives you 2.5Gb of data.

You're welcome. By the way, if you need a cellphone now, you don't need an SSN to get one. You can get a gophone plan on AT&T or some other prepaid plan with Verizon or T-Mobile. I have the $45 plan from AT&T and it's great. It comes with unlimited talk, text, and 1Gb of data. And they don't ask you for an SSN, EAD, or check your credit. Then when you get your EAD and SSN you can transfer your number to your husband's account and get a family plan and keep your number.

It's $450 worth of difficult.

They won't. That guidance/updating has been in the works for years. They are slow.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

Just weighing in here . . .
To the OP, you lose nothing by filing concurrently for the K-3 and CR-1 since there is no extra cost and only the time needed to prepare the K-3 paperwork. You would submit both the I-130 -which is already required - along with the I-129f. The paperwork will continue as a K-3 until it reaches the head of the line and is processed. Then, if the I-129f petition is first processed, it is likely to continue on with a K-3 visa. The waiting time for the I-129f, however, is currently longer than for the I-130 (and has been for a number of years now) so what is likely to happen is when the I-130 is processed, USCIS will administratively close the I-129f K-3 visa and officially transfer the file to the CR-1 process. Regardless of what you think would be the better visa, the route that is selected will be the one that will provide the greatest benefit 'sooner'. You do need to remember that having a green card is seen as being a greater benefit than the physical presence in the US, so that is the route USCIS will prefer. (It is also cheaper in the long run).
Belinda stated very clearly the pros and cons about having a baby in the US on a visitor visa and having the baby in New Zealand. As much as you would like to have the baby born here in the US the liabilities and expenses are much greater in your current situation. There are far more benefits to having your wife give birth in New Zealand while you are waiting for the immigration paperwork to process. Your child is automatically a US citizen because you are the father. You just need to register the birth abroad at the US Consulate, then arrange to get a US passport for your child. You can do this while your wife's immigration paperwork is being processed so that they should both be ready to travel when she receives her visa. Unless you added her to your health insurance when you were married, a US birth will cost you between $15,000 for an uncomplicated in and out the same day delivery upward to $45,000 or more if there are problems and she needs to stay overnight.
I will also add that it is easy for someone who is not in your shoes to suggest you try routes that short-circuit or try to bypass the legal immigration processes set in place. Please remember that they are risking nothing and you are risking everything. They will not be the one who is subjected to a refusal or a denial or a penalty such as a multi-year ban. Just because others appear to have 'got away' with doing something not quite kosher doesn't mean that it won't come back to haunt them at a later date, nor does it mean that you would be as 'lucky'.
Visa Journey's Terms of Service are in place to protect members from receiving information or 'advice' about the immigration process that could actually end up causing them harm, thus a moderator will leave a warning when the 'advice' crosses that line of safety or will actually remove posts that violate this Term of Service.
So, good luck to you and your wife and much joy with the coming birth of your son or daughter. For their safety and well-being, I know you will want to make sure everything about their immigration journey is above board and legal, because they are important enough to you that you won't want to put your lives together in the US at any sort of risk.

Haha! So much for all that stuff about state department regulations!
Congratulations on your new passport.

I received my passport today and it has PALESTINE as country of birth. Amazing!

You are from the UK. they reject less than a 1 percent of visa applications.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

This kind of post really rubs people the wrong way because we all are working/have worked so hard to be with our loved ones. What you're going to attempt is clear cut immigration fraud. Your actions are the reason legal immigration is harder for the rest of us.
Judging or not, that's why you're getting attacked on here. So if I were you, I'd talk about it with your husband and your kids and leave Visa Journey out of this.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

A K3 visa is a nonimmigrant visa which allows the spouse of USC to travel to the US and adjust status here, rather than waiting for an immigrant visa abroad. It was convenient back when the processing times for the I-129F were much faster than the I-130. Some people had their petitions approved in as little as one month. Nowadays with the huge backlogs, the K3's are becoming virtually obsolete.

Expect problems, because on the surface it looks like you married an American in order to evade immigration law and facilitate your children's father's entrance into the US.
Does your current husband know you are planning to divorce him? In order to naturalise under the three year rule you must be living together with your US citizen spouse in a true marital union.

That wouldn't be necessary because he has only been here for 18 months. It would be obvious to the NVC as well as to the CO the reasons for not filing taxes in 2012, or 2011.
You only have to include a statement of why you didn't file taxes, if you were otherwise required to file and didn't or had some sort of exemption, like low income.
The OP filed taxes for 2013 which was when he entered the US, as well as it's the most recent tax year. Now if he had come here in 2012 and didn't file for that year, THEN he would need a statement as to why he didn't or wasn't required to file.

I'm sorry, but this all sounds too convenient. You came here by marrying a USC, you want to divorce after getting your GC, remarry your first husband and then petition for him to come here, it sounds much like immigration fraud.
It doesn't matter that the marriage to your first husband was legit. They will look at why you married him the second time. Even if you genuinely got back together, you will still be heavily scrutinized.
Now, I'm not accusing you of fraud, but that is what it sounds like and that is what USCIS and the CO will see. I don't know you and I don't know your situation, but here is what would happen:
If you do decide to divorce your current husband because you want to marry your ex, you will have to prove with a very great deal of evidence, facts, and I don't know what else, that:
One: You didn't divorce your ex to marry a USC. (Sham divorces are also a very big deal for USCIS)
Two: That you didn't marry your current husband for immigration purposes.
Three: That you didn't marry your ex again for immigration purposes.
There are people that are married, divorce, marry other people, divorce, then marry their ex's. But when immigration is involved, the suspicion of fraud is going to be very very high.
If your plan is to get married for the purposes of bringing your children's dad and not because you genuinely want to get back with him, then don't, just don't. Let one of them petition for him when they are 21 and is a USC.
If you and your current husband aren't working out, then that is another story and something that the two of you would have to deal with.

You are right. This forum is to help people after you have done your due diligence to inform yourself about the process. There are ton of information here, but you need to look and do your homework. It might not be your intention, but coming across demanding it is not going to get you anywhere. This is not a government site. Go to the previous link posted, read and inform yourself.

I wrote a letter too and my then girlfriend was denied.
It does not make a difference. Your family members may have gotten the visa regardless. In fact, by having a "support network" the Consulate can deem you "at risk" to stay. It is not as simple as you make it. In fact, it annoys me that those that receive their visas say how "easy" it is because they were accepted and that they know the "secret". There are no formulas for getting a tourist visa. Many "qualified" people are and will be denied regardless of evidence/letters.

K3 visa isn't a viable path because it is taking about the same time as the IR1 process. It's much more likely that you will receive the IR1 visa. In either case the baby would be born before before any visa could be issued because of the length of the wait. You are a USC and your child will be one upon birth so that's not something you have to worry about. As for your wife, since you are already married you have to start by filing form I-130. Here is a link with the process:
http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1

Agree, my cousin's K1 interview was a day before they changed the prices about 5 years ago and they had to pay the difference even though they argued that they didn't go into effect until the next day.
Better safe than sorry, especially in DR.