pj1959us

We didn't specifically sign up Chris (the K-2) with the Selective Service so it must have been done automatically with one of the billions of forms we've (um, I've ) submitted. There was a special card that came in the mail that confirmed that he had signed up. I don't recall the exact requirements but do double-check to ensure that he's abided by them. Anything you don't do that is required is bound to cause problems at some stage!

Bio appointments are usually pretty flexible from what I have seen. If there is a phone number on the notice you should be able to call it to reschedule (do note who you talk to/when/etc). I've also heard there's pretty much an "open door" policy if you just show up on another day in some areas but they should be able to tell you that when you call if it isn't listed on the notice itself.

Have a nice visit!

PJ

Sorry, didn't see this until now but just wanted to mention that in our case, age did matter. Chris (the K-2) was over 21 when David (the K-1) filed his I-751 also. We included Chris on David's I-751 but it was rejected and returned with a note that "since Chris is over 21 he is no longer considered a child and must therefore file his own I-751 (even though they both received their green cards the same day). He was 19 when they arrived and adjusted originally when he was 20.

Please let me know if yours processes with your child; I know of at least one other on this forum a while back whose I-751s were processed together but we were not so lucky. Hope yours works out alright.

PJ

I'm so sorry for your loss.

PJ

I am going to echo what R-Jo stated...do remember there is no appeal if the AOS process goes sour.

Some issues I can see at this point are: 1) you mentioned he was living with his father and taking care of him. Is there someone now to take over that care? There will be several months in which your SO will not be able to leave the US if you take this path. 2) Your SO quit his job before coming to the US. To immigration, that *could* be a red flag, showing intent to immigrate.

I don't say this to sway you from marrying and filing AOS here. Just be sure to always cover your bases so that you have whatever proof of no-intent to remain upon entering the US. Whatever issues that he must wrap up in Australia now (closing bank accounts, etc), try to have proof that those were done after entering the US and you married, so that they can be presented if needed.

Best wishes to you,

PJ

Sure, she can leave the US. Getting back in will be the problem without either a green card or advance parole.

Congratulations!!!

How did these morons (posts 106 -111) get into this PI thread? Don't they ever discern how foolish they are and how hollow their feeble minds are? VJ should be a better arena without these phantoms and gangsters.

My spidey-sense told me that there was someone spewing injustice and generally stupid stuff in Post 94.

I personally believe that if someone is not a true born again christian, there is at least a 90% chance they will cheat if they are in the relationship long enough. Statistics also show that the divorce rate of born again Christians who attend church every week or read their bible every day is less than 5%. What is the divorce rate of regular people? 60%? 65%? Cant argue with statistics. The family that prays together, stays together.

Non-Christians are very likely to cheat. They dont see any consequences to their actions and they believe that if the spouse doesnt know about it, nobody is getting hurt.

Apparently, this is where the saying "about 72% of statistics are made up" comes from. I notice you didn't cite your source for the divorce rates of "regular people" vs. born-again Christians. Care to share that?

Going to church makes you a Christian about as much as standing in a garage makes you a car. Not everyone needs to cling to a particular religion in order to have morals or know what is right or wrong.

Maybe it'd be different in my case because my hubby is English and there's not really much of a cultural barrier between himself and the employers in the U.S.

Your bloke must not be living here yet. I was surprised after David moved here in 2004 just how much of a cultural barrier there was/is, with not only me but where he worked. Wait until he is asked for the 10,000,000,000th time if he's from Australia!!!!

Hell, I even thought David spoke English until I started living with him!

Good thread, DM, hope it might help some think a bit.

PJ

Juliette, you are almost American now!

Hey, now, there's no reason to get nasty.

Darn she really must be a lot more like Cheney than previously thought.

All she needs to do is shoot someone in the face while hunting and she's right on!

At least I don't think she's done that yet

This summer, Alaska wildlife agency personnel staked out a known wolf denning site – a practice that is illegal under Alaska law – and, using helicopters, gunned down 14 adult wolves from the air. When they landed, they found 14 helpless pups in the nearby dens – infant wolves just weeks old – and methodically shot each one in the head. 28 wolves gunned down in all.

Due to a loophole in federal law, Alaska is the only state in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to shoot wolves or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank. But the practice of "denning" – the killing of wolf young in the den – is prohibited even under Alaska law.

During her two years as governor, Sarah Palin proposed a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf and introduced legislation to make it even easier to use aircraft to hunt wolves and bears. But it's time that Governor Palin call for a thorough investigation into the killing of these 14 wolf pups, and bring any Alaska employees who acted illegally to justice.

Source for the above excerpt and online petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/...2?z00m=16758525

PJ

Unless you HAVE to travel in the near future there is no requirement that you file the I-485 for your daughter at the same time you file. Why don't you get your GC so you can work to save of some extra cash and then file her AOS before she is 21?

Cheers!!

My daughter needs to get her papers too so she can apply for SSN and get a job too after her GED course. Well, that's how it is here. We cant just be sitting pretty.

It is necessary that you file for the K-2's AOS asap, especially if she is 19 now due to past issues of those 21 or over adjusting status from a K-2. It is imperative she adjusts status, not just files for adjustment, before she is 21 to avoid any problems. Be aware of the processing times and alert the USCIS of her possible age-out if her AOS is not completed within 6 months of her turning 21 years old.

PJ

To my knowledge their are no age limits with the I-751,

Just to note our personal experience with this. Chris, the K-2, arrived and adjusted status at the same time as David in 2004, the K-1. When they were due to file the I-751s we included Chris on David's I-751 (Chris was 19 at the time he entered the US, and 22 when the I-751 was filed).

Both I-751s were rejected and returned; the reason stated on the rejection notice stated that since Chris was over 21 years of age that he must submit his own I-751, along with fees. However, I do know of at least two K-2s that were over 21 and lifted conditions successfully before ours (and had the over 21s on the same form as the K-1). I know one of the successful ones was filed at the TSC (ours was at the NSC but was transferred and rejected by the CSC).

I don't know if this was a nasty fluke or a change (I haven't seen anyone over 21 file the I-751 since we did) but just wanted to give others a heads-up.

PJ

I was driving when her speech was given. I caught part of it on the radio and read the transcript last night. Some of the things she said, particularly about Obama, were false. Just because you say something doesn't make it true.

Fact check:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_.../cvn_fact_check

broken link.........so much for that fact check

This was the "fact check" article that was on Yahoo earlier:

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

central Illinois.

PJ

PJ....you would be a most welcome guest

When you rent/buy please be sure to get a place with an extra bedroom. Some of your VJ friends flee their homes in the winter for warmer climates.

Of course, a couch will do too.

PJ

I've never reported you or anyone else either but I am making an exception. I am reporting this thread because now I have that darned song stuck in my head and that's just cruel!!!!

PJ

I have seen others include their over-21 "children" on their I-751s and remove conditions successfully. However, when we attempted the same thing, theirs were rejected and returned to us, with the reason that since Chris (the K-2) was 21 or over, he could not be included on David's (the K-1) I-751 and were required to re-submit both separately (with separate fees of course).

I haven't seen any similar cases to ours since and the ones that were successful were before ours. I don't know if this is a "new" perspective or if we were hosed. When I reviewed the rules of what is defined as a "child" they were technically correct, and since they were close in their 2-years expiring, I didn't contest it.

Your mileage, of course, may vary.

PJ

I got drunk and missed it

I'm sure that was more fun

Maybe until this morning! If not, some hair of the dog is in order!!!

PJ

Your USC husband should submit an I-130 since you married before she was 18 years old and submit the form where it states to on the form. The NOA(s) would go to your home. I have heard it can take up to a year for the process to be completed (I-130 through to visa).

Sorry I'm unfamiliar with the process once it reaches the Embassy portion; my stepdaughter adjusted from within the US so the I-130 and I-485/etc were submitted concurrently.

PJ

Our condolences to family and friends

PJ & David