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Another AOS question... I am filling out the sponsor form. My K1 fiance (husband in 10 days, yippie!!) is a second marriage, so my old taxes are joint filed with my ex-husband. The form (either I-864 or I-864EZ) asks me to fill out gross income from my 1040 forms... so how should I fill this out? Do I separate out my income and put the amount from the W2? Or do I put that total income, that seems wrong. There doesn't even seem to be a place to specify it. Argh.

Depending on where you are, these folks make really good meat pies at least, I am not sure about their haggis but it must be nice:

http://www.cameronsofkearny.net/onlinestore/main.cfm

OK, while getting ready for the wedding we are getting our AOS paperwork together.

On I-765 #15: "Current immigration status"... if he is here on a K1 Visa and is submitting the I-765 with the AOS application, what would his current immigration status be? K1, since he is still on the K1? Something else?? Why is it this form has like 80 pages of instructions but does not make that clear?

Ingimar went to JFK and wrote his personal effects on the form (including laptop and guitar) but didn't know what to write for the price. He asked the customs officer and the guy said he didn't care, he said "They are your things and you don't need to pay any duty on them."

Should one apply for one's civil surgeon vaccinations interview before applying for AOS or is it something that can be done while waiting for the interview?

Like has been said in another post, he can't come to the country on VWP, get married, stay in the country, and apply to adjust status. He'd have to go back to the UK and you'd file for a K-3.

When we started our process, we originally wanted to get married in Iceland, since all his friends and family are there. But then we'd have to go the K-3 route and at least when I checked let's see, 6 months ago or so when we were looking into things, it would have been much longer for him to have visa in hand. We didn't want to have to wait to live together just so we could have a party with all his friends and relatives, so we decided to go for the K-1. Because of your being pregnant, I'd look into processing times but chances are the K-1 is the faster approval still and you should probably go with that. You don't want him to have to go back to the UK to wait for the visa approval while the baby is just born, that would be awful.

It really depends on the airline. Give a call. It may end up cheaper/better to FedEx/ship the extra.

My friend flew from Dublin to the US for work and they would not let her pay overage charges. She had to get a second bag and put the extra luggage into that. I can't recall which airline this was.

Icelandair is usually good, and not that expensive for overage. But I think LHR to REK to JFK to Pittsburgh (forgot the airport code) just sounds painful.

When I was in Iceland last, we visited a friend's mother's horse farm. So when I was coming back I figured I'd better be honest and check Yes to the "were you on a farm" question (or however it's worded, but it is worded such to show exposure, not bringing farm animals with you).

When I got to the customs officer he asked "Do you live near any farms?" I said no, I live in the suburbs. He said, "OK, bye!"

So if you live near a farm, maybe they will spray his shoes, but I still feel like you are better being truthful.

Good thing we made a point to take so many pictures, huh?

(We are both the types to forget to take pictures, we went to NYC last year or maybe it was earlier this year and didn't have a single picture of us together there which is really lame. This visa thing is a good excuse to actually end up with nice pictures for your photo album.)

I'll let him fill in the details but YAY HE IS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have learned that I SUCK at painting (painting to get ready for the wedding since he can't be here to help).

I have also learned that I am definitely marrying the right person because I have never known anyone in my life that would be so worth the waiting and the difficulties we have to go with this process. The fact that with all this stuff going on and I can still be happy because I am so happy to have him in my life.... that is just such a sign that he is the one.

This sounds intriguing but I think I'll keep my shampoo. It makes my hair nice and shiny.

I LOOOOOOVE the Lush seaweed shampoo bars...

So if he has an IDP is he better off waiting for the Green Card to apply for an in-state driver's license? I thought you had to get a driver's license after living somewhere for a certain amount of time.

I am in CT, but I think these cover your area too...

Some guys at my work SWEAR by Tracfone (I think I spelled it right). Check them out. It has free incoming text messages.

My fiance's US phone is on Cingular Go Phone, because I have Cingular as a wireless carrier so it's more or less free for him to call me. We have had good luck with that one too.

BOA gave me no trouble. They did tell me I had to pay for it. I went in the office (big city office) and filled out a standard form and they sent it to me in the mail in a few weeks.

I speak English and French and I am learning my fiance's language (Icelandic). I feel like it's very important to know your SO's language.

Yeah there are certain foods that are way easier to eat with chopsticks: dumplings, sushi, rice, noodles. Maybe I am biased because I have been using them since I was little, my grandmother was born in China.

I dont get not *subjecting* your son's to circumcision, but giving them NO choice on religion.

If a man wants to convert to a religion in which circumcision is required, he can then choose to have that done ceremonially when he converts.

I mean, non-Jewish babies aren't given a bris when they are circumcized in the hospital. So isn't it still different anyway?

I never dated a man with something nasty like that.. oh hell no..

I could see making this comment about a tattooed #######, or about a guy with a bizarre genital piercing...

But something they are born with????? "Something nasty like that"?

Maybe you should call the embassy, if they let you, and ask.

My fiancé's experience was really weird. He dropped off his paperwork in person, because he is near the embassy. When he dropped it off, the guard or somebody said to make sure to not schedule the interview until the medical was done. So then he called and scheduled the interview himself right after his medical.

I don't think most embassies work like this, I think maybe it's because Iceland is such a small country. I am really glad he was able to drop stuff off in person though because otherwise we would have been confused.

Note that nowhere on the paperwork did it tell you this. (I read the paperwork too so it's not just one of us misunderstanding it.) Nor was it really clear how the medical appointment happened or how the interview appointment happened. Luckily he had already scheduled his medical because our friend got married to a USC and was able to give him some advice.

You know, maybe it depends on the culture of your SO. Mine is Scandanavian and I think they are more gender-equal in general, so male-female friendships are often just friendships and nothing more. In an Asian culture I think a male-female friendship doesn't exist as much, so it might arise suspicion.

Well we have to move to America now after 3 years living in France together because he donesn't speak french good enough to have a good job, so we leave and it really sucks. Even him would love to stay in France and only go to the States sometimes, we both prefer the European lifestyle.

Well we will work hard and move back somedays.

If he is really dedicated to learning French better, he should read lots of French novels, watch movies, talk to you in French. If you move near a big city, like Boston, there may be French social groups that you can join. Take him on trips to Montréal (they have a funny accent there, but still). Good luck.

Like so many others, I can't because of my kids. But I wish we could live there. The weather is nicer and the food is nicer. (Why can't you get decent dairy products in America???!???) We are both close with our families, so it's hard for either one of us to be far away, but it's how it goes. (At least plane flight time isn't so bad, but it's still expensive to go back and forth). We are hoping to have our own child and maybe move there for a little while when it is still young (and mine are older) so it can experience the language and culture and so on.

I was sitting in her seat in a seedy bar in Reykjavík at The Iceland Airwaves Music Festival. I gave her seat back to her.

No fair! You stole my answer!

OK, I was watching his band play in said seedy bar.

OK I am going to embarass my fiance by responding to this one.

I agree with luvaLimey here, I think CUT ones are yucky. I don't really get why so many women think they are better looking.

Maybe it's different because when I met my fiance I knew he had lots of female friends, but it doesn't bother me at all. He's not like that. He has a band member who is a girl (of course she is also practically married to a friend of his). We ran into a few female friends of his in the mall. No big deal.

Anyway, maybe it's different because I am in a mostly male industry, so most of my work friends are guys. So I don't see opposite sex friendships as weird. And that doesn't bother him either.