Khallaf

On 3/12/2024 at 12:33 AM, EyeofHorus said:

Hello 👋🏽 filing taxes has been a pain. Spouse doesn’t have an Itin number and it’s impossible to get it unless he mails his passport to me or I take it with me to us which lawyer is advising against both. Accountant said he can file a paper return and write Non Resident Alien in place of the Ss#. He said these are taking about 5 months to get processed. If the i130 gets approved soon I’m gonna be screwed waiting for that return. Anyone dealing with this? Filing single instead of married? 

a friend of mine her husband is from Egypt it took over 2 years for him to arrive, she filed single both years amended the return after he arrived, and he is now a USC, as the IRS does not keep records of each persons marital status, it doesn't hurt anyone but the person who is filing the tax's due to the higher tax bracket.

45 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Lying to government agency is never a good idea. What's even advantage of filing single and not checking the right box? You don't gain anything other than having to amend it...

I never have but people have done it and then amended later and no issues came of it. when you are in a bind and you need them sooner rather than later it is perfectly fine to file single/

The timeline to stay out of USA is as follows:

The temp stamp in your passport serves as a temp green card but only for 1 year from the date of the stamp.

if you stay out less than 6 months out of the year there is no issues over 6 months but less than 1 year you will disrupt your ability to file citizenship and the continued residency requirement resets.

if you are out over 1 year with no reentry permit, you have abandoned your green card, and will have to start the process over from scratch.

people have filed single even though married many times, there is no issue if its a temp situation and you can go back and amend the return when spouse arrives. 

filing single puts you in a higher tax bracket so it helps the government.

I know that this response is a bit delayed but there is no issue filing single for the short term until the spouse arrives.

If you want your child to come to USA, most certainly wife is not needed to travel, I think you are capable of taking care of your own child, if it is the expense for the child while you work, and you have no other family certainly would be best for the child to stay in the country with your wife, as millions of babies are born and survive in Egypt.

With the surgery it all depends on the depth and complexity of the surgery, I had surgery on my dominant side, to fix a rotator cuff, and a torn labrum. My husband might have been here but was working a lot, and I was left to my own devices and had no issues.

I know that you want your family here as soon as possible and the waiting game is hard, I am not trying to dimmish what you experience, but we will only know what we are capable of when we are forced to go at it alone. 

11 hours ago, TrinitySnow said:

No, I am just going to visit friends and family back in Canada for a couple of weeks. I am just wondering if I can do so while still working a 9-5 remotely.

if your company allows you to work remote for the few weeks you are there, that would be up to them and their IT on how that woks.

As far as paying for Canadian taxes you do not have to.

you are not going there to live, you are not abandoning your residency, you are going on holiday so nothing would change.

it is not likely they will ask you if you are going to work while you are there, your main objective is to go for a visit.

50 minutes ago, Fidel said:

Hi house, yesterday makes it two months I submitted my documents to the consulate (my wife transcripts and my ID) two days ago my wife email them to know the status of my visa and we got the shocker.. That my wife didn't meet the income guidelines and we are asked to submit a joint sponsor.. What baffles me is that she passed the income guidelines and we never thought that would be obstacles for us.. Moreso the Lagos consulate would have kept quiet if my wife didn't email them to know the status 

... Now we need to look for a joint sponsor 

.. Also I need someone to put us through on how to submit new joint sponsor 

if you know for sure the wife passes the income requirements for the household then she/you needs to send an email back to them, take a good look at the I-864 that was filled out make sure it is correct and then send it back with proof of income with wage and tax transcripts.

2 hours ago, Rania Ibrahim said:

 can I submit the same translation papers to the NVC that I send it before to the USCIS 

If not I'm from ALEXANDRIA where can I translate police certificates, marriage certificate and birth certificate 

we submitted the same translation for the Marriage lic all the way through, once the marriage lic is translated your good.

As far as the police certificate as long as it is in the countries native language there is no need to translate it for interview.

Remember in Egypt you will need to also provide a family registration of course unless your female, then not needed.

On 11/16/2019 at 3:09 PM, Husam Attalla said:

I thought there were no backlogs on immigration visas for spouses as there are no caps on them...... I was DQ on November 6... I hope I don't have to wait 5 months......

sorry can expect a visa interview for spouse in Egypt for DQ in November to be sometime start of 2020 likely Feb or March, if you are lucky you might get one in Jan and that is just for the letter.

If you get IL in Jan interview will be the following month. Make sure you join your spouse at interview, it seems those who do not go with the spouse will end up in some form of AP, I didn't get with my husband and he got handed an AP letter, no reason just straight into AP.

On 11/17/2019 at 4:05 AM, Exanuage said:

 

It's very frustrating for sure. Stay strong.

sadly, even spouse visa get backlogged due to how busy some embassy can get.

Those who were DQ in May are not getting interview letters for Egypt.

Mexico is backlogged almost 1 year even for spouse visa.

Embassy are just getting overloaded with not enough spots to put everyone, they only open so many spouse visa slots, K1 spots and visit visa slots.

so if you just got DQ in November you can expect sometimes Jan-Feb even March of 2020 to get your interview letter.

11 minutes ago, YpsiFella said:

Thanks Mollie.

 

I can certainly get birth certificates for them but it will slow me down.  So I was thinking I would submit online without them but order them to have for the interview.

 

Did you apply online?  If so, did it ask for them?

I could be wrong but if they are in their 30's and 40's the only one that can apply for them is the mother when she arrives and gets her green card.

or am I lost as to what interview?

42 minutes ago, Manoo678 said:

Hello everyone...I am new here... I need help from VJ family.. please guide me about filling i30 petition to interview....how  much  time takes f2A visa?

https://www.visajourney.com/cr1-ir1-spousal-visa/

1 minute ago, umerdec08 said:

Yes we have reached to Senator Lindsey Graham, and his PA contacted us . But embassy response to him was the same that case is under AP , now we are still waiting but we both are thinking about name change and later filing a Writ of Mandamus .

I do not recommend a writ of mandamus, all that will do is force them to make a decision if the background checks are not complete it will come back with a rejection, it will then take 1-2 years to fully complete to second interview.

going through the steps to chance the name will not likely have any effect on the decision of the case, if its a personal choice go for it, but if you think it will help the AP it likely will not.

try sending off another email checking status all you can really do is wait it out. I have seen couples in both Pakistan and Egypt sit in AP for up to 2 years before.

and more and more rejections are coming down the pipeline from Pakistan.

IMO and I know its hard to do and easy for me to say but stay patient and send them an email every 90 days to check in.

if you haven't seen an update since July I would shoot them off an email to check the status.

12 minutes ago, umerdec08 said:

Interview was relatively long , I was noticing time for many Candidates (mostly Females) compared to them mine was 10-15 mins longer , Yes they still have my passport , at first my case updates every month but last it update in July than they haven't updated until recently 8 November . 

has your wife reached out to ask her state senator to reach out to get a status update?

31 minutes ago, umerdec08 said:

To all the respected and experienced members here, I have a question to ask about that my case is in under Administrative processing since 12th December 2018, upon our wedding my Wife wanted to change her name officially by putting my name in her last name, but we did not went ahead cause it would require her to go back to US, and do the process legally which even cancel her family insurance which we could have needed, but after a little bit of reading i got mixed opinions from Attorney's , some say its not required/important for a spouse to change her name officially but some suggests it does puts a positive effect on your petition/case , Now we both decided to go ahead and change her name officially meaning on her Passport , Social security card , etc but as our case is in administrative processing i would like to know If we can do it ? and how do we even inform the Embassy that the name of Petitioner is changed ? Should we wait until the AP ends ? 

1. send the proof of name change to embassy

2. its just another small piece of evidence on marriage not that it makes it bonafide in the name change. I never changed mine, the AP for my husband lasted 42 days

3. what took place at interview? did they keep the passport? have the updated CEAC date regular?

5 minutes ago, Martacz said:

Hi folks,

 

I am about to start a new job in the beginning of December and decided to visit my family first. I have an ongoing application for AOS (got married in April 2019 on K1, filed AOS/EAD/AP in May 2019) and have been issued combo card EAD/AP in August.

 

My question is: when I was moving to the States in February 2019, I had to get a round trip flight (because it was way cheaper). Back then I picked December 12th 2019 (it was hard to estimate when I would be visiting my country again) and have now rescheduled a flight to November 14th. Both on the ticket and in my passport, there's still my maiden name printed. Is it going to be an issue if I travel using EAD/AP that has my new last name (I have kept my maiden and just added a my husband's one after "-"). 

 

Also, any advice what other documents should I take with me (I'll definitely take a copy of my marriage certificate) to be paroled into the States again in early December? Do I have to file ESTA coming back to USA? Poland has just been enrolled in visa waiver program starting TODAY and ESTA is a completely new system to me.

if you have your combo card you can't file for ESTA.

On 11/8/2019 at 9:56 AM, Vdesouky said:

  Hello all,

 

          My fiance printed out what we thought was the confirmation page and took it to the bank to pay the visa fee, but the bank teller told him that it was not the correct page for the confirmation page.  Can anyone please explain how to get the confirmation page, and what does it look like?  We can't find any other page that we think could be the confirmation page.  The one my fiance printed out has a bar code in the upper right corner and has his photo, the word "Confirmation" under "Online Non-immigrant Visa Application (DS-160), a number in red ink, and then instructions under all of that.  Is that the confirmation page?  Or if not, where do we find it?  

 

          Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance,

 

                 Virgie

didn't you put out a post that you sent a letter to withdraw the petition, sending an email to the embassy to withdraw even if not in an official letter is going to create issues, your really going to be better off going back to Egypt and getting married and to file the CR1.

Personally do not risk it getting through the interview getting the visa and having it caught later and having the green card stripped deported, and given a ban.

The ban would come if they question it at interview and you try and find a way to back it out. (side not: I am not saying that you would do that) however it is too big of a risk to continue at this point.

On 11/10/2019 at 5:43 AM, Exanuage said:

Hi! Our CR-1 application got documentary qualified on Sept. 24th. We are wondering how long does it usually take until we get our interview email or date in Egypt?

If anyone went through this recently can you please tell me how long you waited for the interview after you got DQ?

 

Thanks.

currently Egypt is about 5-7 months backlogged.

you can expect it to be at least that long to get an interview, those from May are still waiting, some even as far back as March.

Good luck in your journey.

2 hours ago, Nody said:

Good day everybody!

I got my interview letter for my CR1 visa this morning and I was trying to print out the aramex confirmation page but at the bottom of it I get the same ds-160 confirmation number of my previous k1 visa however I updated my profile!

Is that okay ?

 

And the confirmation page doesn't state my interview date and time as my k1 confirmation page 2 years ago! 

Is that normal ?

Thank you!

the confirmation page for your CR1 will not have the date and time on it since the letter came from NVC

54 minutes ago, MB and MG said:

Iam done with the interview. My status is non immigrant ap. Now i was reading the topics here and noticed that the ds-160 should include the middle name on the given name.. I did not. The consul did not say anything.. What should i do? 

if your in non immigrant AP your on the way to being issued, if you have a middle name you could have given it, if there is non, you enter it as it reads in the passport.

On 9/21/2019 at 5:24 AM, ricksme1983 said:

 

Hello everyone,

   I applied for ir1 immigrate visa but refused under 221g documents needed after interview.document embassy asked is like this 

( 1. Required affidavit of support and proof of status for joint sponsor.

 

2. Signed form I864 from you hoint sponsor. The hoint sponsor and all household members must include evidence of current employment and income, by virtue of their latest fedral tax transcript or,a copy of latest tax return along with proof of income in the form w2. If the sponsor and house hold members are jointly filling their taxes,then an original I 864A between the two parties is also required.

 

3. Joint sponsor need I 864, one of the joint sponsor required both I 864A but not required from same house as petitioner address.)

 These documents they want now i am confused which document i have to submit from sponsor side and which from joint sponsor side and what document please any body can help in this.

you need to create your own thread, you can't hijack anothers post.

16 hours ago, waa2100 said:

that's what I told them.

the problem now they went to an attorney and filled a petition for their son, USCIS will find out about their misrepresentation and will revoke their green cards.

I just knew about the petition today and I really know how bad to make misrepresentation to obtain a green card

if they are from Egypt they can surly expect the green cards to be revoked, Cairo doesn't play around with people who lie to obtain green cards.

On 9/6/2019 at 11:01 PM, Crazybell said:

Interview August 27th approved. Aug 28 issued both of us (my spouse and myself) then sept 4th changed to administrative processing (spouse). Mine is still issued

Today spouse still administrative processing but we got 2 emails with the same tracking number which not scanned in system for courier yet till next 1-2 business days( passports returned)Does it sound visa applications denial? Mine is still issued today. Please help

Update: Will get passports on way delivery ready next Monday September 9th..  Ceac status still showed administrative processing (spouse). Mine issued.  We are so anxious to find out when parcel arrives on Monday. Still am on stomach butterflies. What you think??(my brother - petitioner F4 category)

I hope that you are both going to get your visa, but it sounds as if his might still be in process, and they might be sending his back with out a visa, I hope the best for you both.

On 9/6/2019 at 8:21 PM, Maranda said:

 

I just wanted to follow-up on this topic in case anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation...

 

Thanks to the great advice here, everything was successful. My mother wrote a letter explaining our living / household situation (separate financial households, etc.). Both she and my father signed it, included their social security numbers and a copy of both driver's licenses. We emailed it as a .PDF, and a week later received a reply that it was satisfactory, and to please mail his passport. 221g case closed, whew!

 

His visa was issued on the 4th, and he received his passport back today, ready to go!

 

Thank you so much for your help! @Khallaf

I am so happy for you that it worked out, and he got his visa to arrive, I wish you all the best and have a happy life.

12 minutes ago, Michelle Reid said:

Hello when filling out the forms if a question doesn’t apply to me or my husband do we put n/a  instead of leaving it blank

that is what I did