victorbrown

I am and always was a us citizen my wife (formerly costa rican) is now a us citizen so she can file the I130 and I485 for her mother... problem is her mother has been here in the us since 1999 she entered legally but never left wondering if any simalar cases around ? I will start a new thread jst wanted to respond to the old one

I am and always was a us citizen my wife (formerly costa rican) is now a us citizen so she can file the I130 and I485 for her mother... problem is her mother has been here in the us since 1999 she entered legally but never left wondering if any simalar cases around ? I will start a new thread jst wanted to respond to the old one

I am and always was a us citizen my wife (formerly costa rican) is now a us citizen so she can file the I130 and I485 for her mother... problem is her mother has been here in the us since 1999 she entered legally but never left wondering if any simalar cases around ? I will start a new thread jst wanted to respond to the old one

I am and always was a us citizen my wife (formerly costa rican) is now a us citizen so she can file the I130 and I485 for her mother... problem is her mother has been here in the us since 1999 she entered legally but never left wondering if any simalar cases around ? I will start a new thread jst wanted to respond to the old one

It looks like im reading that my wife can not leave for more than 6 months a year.

hi victor, did you read that here at VJ? Can you show me where?

I ask, because that is a rumor among new PRs, that they can not leave for more than 6 moonths at a time. It is not true.

Please see the links in my signature, especially the first one. It details important rights & responsibilities, including information about living outside the US. You want to be particularly concerned with 'maintaining permanent resident status' and you seriously might want to meet with a lawyer about the best strategy for your wife to keep her PR status current. Your situation is sufficiently unique that this would be worth your money and time.

The consequence is your wife being stripped of her PR status and having to re-immigrate or get a different visa.

The 'six months' is not a phantom--if a PR wants to naturalize to USC, they have to be aware that an absense of +6months at a stretch impacts their eligibility to apply for USC. But the rules for just remaining a PR are different.

Thanks i appreciate all the advice i can get. I will just go back for 3 and half months from December14 to march 31 i think just to play it safe.

I live up in maine and this is no place for costa ricans during that time.

My wife speaks perfect english and is very book smart so getting her naturalisation should be no problem.

So i just have to be carefull not to leave to long for the first 2 years then get the naturalisation.

Then i should be able to come and go when we want.

I am a builder so this is a pain i wont be able to have projects going here and down there and go back and forth when i need too.

I dont remember were i read the 6 month thing i thought it was on the big welcome to america download.

Again thank you so much

Victor

I dont think ive ever got the same answer to the same question when dealing with immigration.

But after last week being told it would be 1 to 2 more weeks. they told my wife 2 to 3 more weeks.

Then yesterday morning my wife called again and they told her it would be over a month.

Then she called me crying.

Then an hour later they called her to tell her that her visa was done to come pick it up.

The last 2 months was the most frustrating experience of my life.

I want to thank everyone here.

And i will check back and try to help out others.

Now i have to start reading about what we have to do next.

Again Thank you

Victor Brown

Victor

Way to Go! I'm happy for you dude. We both are out of the woods with the Adam Walsh fiasco. Looks like we both got our visas within days of each other.

I know it was a pain in the butt, however, all things considered we got off easy. there are a lot of good people out there who are still going through the hassle.

Good luck with your new life

captainButch

Thanks Captain It was rough and i really feel for the others still waiting.

I can only imagine how many people still out there that dont know about this website and are just calling and getting different answers all the time.

The reports of people starting to get appointments and such that got posted here really helped. Especially yours since we were dealing with the same district.

So Thanks alot

Felicidades, Victor y Senora Victor!

I'm so glad to hear that your logjam has broken. Your life in CR sounds so idylic tho--can't believe you're leaving even for a little while!

Happy travels!

Thanks I only come back to the states here and there for a couple months at a time to work with family. I dont know when those times will arise.

So i couldnt plan ahead to get a visa everytime for my wife. It looks like im reading that my wife can not leave for more than 6 months a year.

I really only wanted to come back here for 2 or 3 months a year at most.

I just did 3 months without my wife and son and i dont want that to happen again.

I dont think ive ever got the same answer to the same question when dealing with immigration.

But after last week being told it would be 1 to 2 more weeks. they told my wife 2 to 3 more weeks.

Then yesterday morning my wife called again and they told her it would be over a month.

Then she called me crying.

Then an hour later they called her to tell her that her visa was done to come pick it up.

The last 2 months was the most frustrating experience of my life.

I want to thank everyone here.

And i will check back and try to help out others.

Now i have to start reading about what we have to do next.

Again Thank you

Victor Brown

CaptainButch

Thanks so much.

We filed on Nov 10

I was told a couple of weeks ago by the embassy in Costa rica that just my name was being emailed to Hounduras.

For the Adam Walsh check.

Just the glimpse of some hope feels so good.

Thanks Victor.

[quote name='captainButch' date='Mar 14 2007, 07:18 PM' post='7

Thanks captain, I am in the states right now. I came up here right before she had her final appointment to get a house and start working.

I had lived in CR for 3 years I live out in themountains by the Nayauca waterfall between Dominical and San Isidro de General.

I am way out in the boonies so i dont have to deal with any tico politics. Cell phone electric bill and truck only time i have had to deal with anything.

And they were all hassles. I did the birth abroad hing for my son at the embassy and that went easy.

I know the tico denile ways very well. I do all my work myself i wont hire anyone to even chop so they can claim injury.

If it wasnt the most absolute perfect climate. where i live the temperatures are perfection and no misquitos. And the Barucito river i live on passed as drinking water. But during the rainy season from August to december i have to leave my truck before the river and then go horse back up the mountain. And with a new baby i just dont like it. So i came up to the states to get set up so i can live up here from August to december.

Till my son gets a little older. Even later on i would like him to get some schooling up here. I am trying to get the best of both worlds.

My wifes father is a Nico in fact her last name is Ortega. I wanted to like Panama because of the good roads because i was into restoring antique cars. But the temperature and no misquitos and 30 minutes to the beach just outweighed all the negitives of CR.

Where in CR did you live?

And thanks so much for saying you will keep me posted of any news you get.

you can look at some of my pics at myspace.com/victormbrown

I'm very sorry with what you and your wife and son are going through.

Has the embassy in Costa Rica requested that you just send a new set of I-864 since it seems like they're not making any effort to find the one you fed-exed originally?

I hope it gets sorted for you soon.

I didnt fedex the first 2 sets to them I fedex them to my my wife they were held at the fedex office and my wife picked them up.

The first set right before her January 16 appointment . the second set right after the January 16 appointment when they said one box of her birthdate wasnt filled out.

I have sent another set to them directly because it is 5 hours for my wife to travel with the baby.

I still cant get over the fact that they said. I never gave them any.

But i even showed them an email they sent to me asking me to write a letter explaining why i didnt file taxes for the last 3 years.

I said how can you ask me for a letter saying that when you say you havent seen my I-864.

I didnt try to make them upset. I just want to point out i now have spent 83$ 3 times sending the same documents.

I just read the post about someone getting some kind of responce from Nicaragua

about Hounduras starting to do something.

Costa rica just says we know nothing were waiting for Honduras

Thank you all

My wife and i had our interview on November 10 2006 Then we got her medical and police report done

Then we got an appointment for January 16 2007.

Since all the papers were good her medical and police report.

And i was using a wealthy co sponsor, my brother in law who has great tax returns for past 3 years.

I didnt work past 3 years.

So me and my co sponsor filed out the I-864 forms the embassy had given me and old one done in 2001

that had a space for a notary. I saw the new I-864 ones and they didnt have the notary space.

So me and co sponser filed both out. 2 sets of I-864 each just to be sure.

Well at my wifes January 16 appointment they told her one of the boxes on the I-864 that i filled out i forgot fill out the box with her birth date. They told her she couldnt just write it in . I had filed our origal I30 and done birth abroad for our son and every thing. Her birthdate was filled out on all the I-864

except one. They said if it was filled out she would have got her visa that day. They told her to have me send another I-864 and she could just bring it in next week with no appointment. And they told me to write a letter saying why i didnt file taxes the last 3 years. So i fedex it down.

She travels 5 hours to San Jose with a 10 month old again the following week on January 23 and is told about the Adam Walsh thing. I started a job in the states that would cause alot of people to lose money if i left. Plus i rented a house bought a truck etc. etc.. Plus i gave up my house i was renting in costa rica i missed my sons first birthday and first steps. I have put them up in an hotel/apartment she is stressed to the max. Over 2 months and no one can give us a possible day week or month time frame.

2 investors and 5 employees will lose their jobs and money and hurt all their families if i leave.

I spend 10$ every night talking to my wife who is all alone with a 1 year old she doesnt have much of a family. She has a good day and thinks about how good life will be when we are together but alot of bad days thinking she will be alone for months more.

Last week they tell us they dont have my I-864 forms . I had given them 2 sets. They said i didnt.

They said they need a my I-864 and a letter saying why i didnt file taxes.

They said they have my co sponsors I-864

I tell them they have 2 sets of my I-864 they tell me im wrong

I say how can you ask me foir a letter saying why i havent filed taxes if you havent seen my I-864

and how could you have my co sponsor I-864 without mine.

I email them the fedex slips showing the dates before and after the January 16 appointment on both slips written in the discription it says I-864 immigartion documents.

I email phone records of calls to them after the first appointment. they just say i never gave them any.

So i have sent more and now i just sit and everynight spend 10$ calling trying to make my wife believe it wont be much longer.

I just always need to know worst case senerio of anything. We only plan on living in the states a few months a year (during the rainy season in costa rica).

But if we seperated in 5 or 10 years could she then just move to the states and demand assistance.

I mean she would have to be disabled to collect she couldnt be just lazy and demand money.

So what happens. Say me and my spouse seperate does she take the sponser to court. Does she file for goverment asistance and then the goverment goes after the sponser.

Is there any where to read about it or any documented cases.

is the anything explaining what could possibly happen to a sponser.

Like how much it could cost them if things went wrong?

You can do direct consular filing in Costa Rica, and I recommend it. MUCH faster than filing in the US. Both you and your wife have to be there though for the first interview when you file. You will need the original marriage certificate, do you have that yet? If not, they will start a provisional file for you and you will have to come back when you have the original certificate.

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I just went down and got married and signed the birth certificate and was told it would take a month or 2 for those to go thru the system. I am now in the states for a couple of months.

Do you have experiance with this in costa rica?

thank you

i just made an ipass appointment for tomorrow it was easy online

Not really sure what you can do honestly, if you dont' plan on living full time in the US, even a green card for her isn't going to be very helpful.

As a green card recipient, I don't think she can live half the year in the US and half the year in Costa Rica. You may want to make an IPASS appointment with an immigration office to ask them what your options are.

I dont care about her working here i just need to be able to travel back and forth with her and baby without visa hassles.

We will live in costa rica most of the time.

How do i make an ipass appointment?

Thank you

my son was born 3 months ago , i just went down and signed birth certificate and got married

This is in costa rica we dont want to live full time in the states just august thru december during the rainy season.

I belive i might be able to do direct consular filing in costa rica

I just bought a farm in maine so i have to be here right now.

I was told when i was down there that it will take a month to a month and a half to get originals of marriage and birth certificates.

I asked some questions to this website before i forget the username i had then.

Because i was waiting for a dna test , all the answers were about love and dont get married and stuff like that.

So just to stop the love questions i do love her we had one problem i am a moutain jungle mqan and she was a city girl. I was just down for 2 months and now she has the baby she doesnt get bored out in the boonies.

We fine and happy and i love her.

So we got married 2 weeks ago i signed the birth certificates.

Whats next.

Thank You