SalishSea

I assume the 3-year multi-entry means that they can come for up to 6 months per visit with unlimited visits for those 3 years correct? No!! It means nothing of the kind. “Unlimited visits” would be an egregious abuse of the B visa, and it would be revoked. They would likely be sent back on the next flight. How can they afford to stay for 6 months, if they have jobs and responsibilities back home? The length of stay will be granted at POE by CBP. If they did get a 6 month stay, the recommendation is to leave before the date on the I-94, and spend at least a year out before trying to come back. Please do some reading about this. If your in-laws plan to use a visitor’s visa to try to live in the U.S., it will be rightly denied or revoked. Abusing the terms of tourist visas can lead to issues for them later if they want to come back. If they want to spend more time in the US than for normal vacations, they will need immigrant visas.

There is only one option for them: B-2 visa. They apply on their own, and approval is based entirely on their own merits/ties to home. There is no sponsorship. They will have to disclose that they have family in the US when it comes time. I'm not sure if Russians are still eligible for 10 year visas, but since there is no functioning US consulate in Russia, they will need to be prepared to travel.

At one time that omission added around a year's time....not sure if it still does.

No. You don’t get to choose field office or processing location. It is assigned by USCIS.

The transcript is a record of taxes paid/filing info. So if you haven’t filed, you won’t have a transcript. Filing status and W-4 are unrelated.

Do you understand that you can file MFJ even if she doesn’t work? Anyway, you can’t bring what you don’t have. You’ll need to focus on whatever evidence you can gather.

And here is where you’re confused….by the two meanings of AOS…. The tax transcripts referenced in the list are joint tax transcripts, filing MFJ, which shows marital commingling of finances (the point/focus of even having an interview), NOT a repeat of the same documents sent with the I-864.

You’re using AOS as affidavit of support, and I’m using it for adjustment of status. You need to show marital commingling of finances and other aspects of life. Yes, they looked at everything we brought. They asked for a new I-94, and we hadn’t brought that. Husband had travelled to Canada on AP, so they wanted the I-94, but the passport entry sufficed.

They can’t ask for a waiver until the visa is denied for an incomplete medical. The waiver will add an extra year to the overall process.

How would you have already had joint tax transcripts when you filed for AOS?

Normally, a year at least has elapsed between sending your packet and having the interview, so there is a lot of updated info to bring. Most people won’t have tax transcripts or joint bank statements at all when they send off the AOS packet, if they marry and file immediately.

Print out and bring an updated I-94.

Won’t the 21 year old age out?

Does your lawyer think you are a US citizen? Because for your visa class (F2A) the wait time is years, not months.

It will entirely depend on whether you can convince them that you will comply by the terms of the nonimmigrant F-1 visa, and return home after your degree is completed. If you’ve had family members come over as nonimmigrants and stay, that doesn’t bode well.

Unfortunately, a “100 % guarantee” from friends to help you may not be acceptable.

In theory, but it’s no more likely to work out for him. Unless the CO failed to consider evidence that was presented or could be presented, it will be denied. Cant show evidence you don’t have. Usually, this results from marrying at first sight and very little time spent together in person combined with other red flags/fraud indications, etc.

So you’re now trying to sponsor a second relative to adjust from a tourist visa? Eventually they’ll stop giving your relatives visitor visas…..

As you found out in your previous thread, you can’t bring a sibling to the U.S. for at least 20 YEARS. these visas are for “family reunification.” If you’re not even living in the U.S., there is nothing to reunify.

A friend’s just took over a year out of Seattle. Hopefully it has sped up by now. She received her new card in October.

Then why are you worried?

So she will need a waiver?

No, he won’t be able to do that.

“Opt out”. Does she have the cash to pay for whatever medical services she might need, like surgery, cancer care, drugs, etc?

Kinda like how Stockholm covers Norway…..