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I just found out we need to fill out form I90 to fix it.  It says we need to send in her green card to get it replaced.  We have international travel in July. 

How can we make sure that my wife is still able to enter the United States while her green card is back with the USCIS?

Also, on form I90 it says that if you can prove that it was the DHS's fault that a mistake was made, then they waive the replacement fee.  What proof can we show that it was their mistake?  I don't know what else to send in besides our whole packet again to prove that we were supposed to get the category of "wife of US citizen".

My wife was looking at her green card and got curious what the category code was. We looked it up and it said that the code is for “stepchild of a US citizen”.

Do we need to fix this mistake?

How do we fix it?

My wife from the Philippines came to the US on a k-1 visa and we got married here. We started filing the paperwork for AOS and everything related to that. I have not been enjoying my work lately so my wife encouraged me to reach out to my previous job in Japan and see about returning there to work long term, most likely for many years even possibly to retire from that position. 

In my research, I saw that if she were to stay outside of the US for more than 6 months, she would abandon the permanent residence status and would not be allowed to return.

The problem for us is that if we both want to come back to visit my family for holidays or for her to come with me to a funeral, she would not be allowed to because of abandoning the permanent residence status. Would it be possible to get another visa for her that would be multi entry that would allow her to come back to the US with me to visit when I need to?

Thanks in advance. 

My wife and I sent our AOS packet to the PO Box in Chicago and it was received on November 20 According to USPS tracking. It has been 10 days and we have not heard anything yet about it being picked up. Is this normal or should I start to get concerned and send another copy of it?

Thanks in advance for any help. 

Thank you for all the help everyone! We decided to just get the legal part of it out of the way and get married early on in the courthouse. That seems to be the safest way. Then we’ll do the ceremony in a few months when we’re able to and have the time to. 

My fiance is going to be arriving on the 13th of September.  We have been looking at wedding dates and one we have found with a venue that we like is available for December 1 which is day 79 of her visa.  90 days for us will be on December 12.  Is that enough time to get the wedding license back so that she won't be considered overstaying her visa?

Thanks for the reply! I’ll update it right now. I haven’t been here in so long that I forgot that there even was a timeline. 

A few weeks ago we got notified that our case was approved by the USCIS. I called the NVC to ask for the MCN and they gave it to me. It’s been about three weeks and our case status still says at NVC.

Will it be okay to submit the DS-160 before the status online says ready? What problems, if any, might come up if we fill it out and submit it too early?

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

You need to file taxes

 

You need to currently meet income requirements

 

I think you are conflating two seperate requirements.

Ok thank you.  So since my current income is in the US and above the poverty line, and I have filed taxes in all the previous years, does that mean that I should be in the clear on that?

3 minutes ago, Naes said:

exactly foreign earned income does not count.

 

are you working in us right now?

You can use pst 3-6 years pay stubs, employment letter and explain even though they won't count the money they may count the explanation.

 

or do you have money in the bank? That can also be used.

I am currently employed full-time as a teacher in the US and have been since August of 2017.  My salary is currently a little over $42k/year.  I did not save my paystubs from when I was working in Japan, unfortunately.

When I moved back to the US, I brought my money from Japan with me.  When I first moved I had about $16k in the bank, but I had to buy a car (which I bought with cash so I wouldn't have to take out a loan) and I have had moving expenses since I moved from Michigan to Florida for this job.  So now I have about $6k in the bank.

I'm still a long way away from sending this to my fiance, but I have a question about it so I can be ready as soon as my NoA 2 comes about 6 months or so from now (hoping it comes in sooner haha). 

For a little backstory, I lived and worked in Japan from February of 2012 - March of 2017.  All of my income was foreign earned income while I lived there.  When I moved back to the United States earlier in 2017, I worked a couple part-time jobs before I started my full time teaching position at the beginning of the 2017 - 2018 school year.  Since I started working In August, my full-time salary is a little over 42,000 per year which is well over the poverty line.  I saw that I will need to provide my tax returns and my W2s from 2015-2017 when I send in my Affidavit of Support.

Now for my questions.  Since the equivalent of the W2 that I received while I was working in Japan is in Japanese, will this be a problem for the people who need to look at it?  I asked somewhere else online and I was told that since it was foreign earned income the US government does not count that, and I will need to get a cosponsor because of that.  Is that true?  Also, I have read in various places that the Philippines does not allow a co-sponsor for the K1 visa.  If this is the case, what can I do?  I want this process to go as smoothly as possible and not have to be denied because I was working overseas for 5 years before moving back to the US.

For some backstory, I currently live in Japan teaching English and I met my girlfriend when I was on vacation in Hong Kong about two years ago. She was a home care provider there and we really hit it off. Since then, she has moved back to the Philippines to work in a hospital as a nurse so she can get more experience. I've gone to visit her a few times in her home during my periods of time off that I get, but we've had to do long distance for the majority of our relationship.

I'm going to be moving back to the states and I will be proposing to her in a couple months. We're currently trying to figure out the best route to get her to the US so she will be able to continue working as a nurse when she comes over. We don't know if it would be better for her to come over on a fiance visa, get married, then have her get her paperwork through to take the NCLEX and become certified in the states, or if she should get certified first then come over on a work visa and get married after she has a job in a hospital.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!