Q&W

11 minutes ago, elmers said:

Congrats!! No interview then, I am assuming?

 

8 months is REALLY good for LIN, which was moving very slow until fairly recently.

nope, no interview!

we filed mid oct. 2020 (receive date 10/15/2020), got our biometrics waved sometime in late november. i check the case status probably about once a week and i did it a few days ago, and there was nothing new, but today, i got an approval letter in the mail! it says that my card will get to me within 60 days but i just checked my case status again and usps has already picked up my card and it's on its way here. it took well under a year; that is so much faster than i expected!

fingers crossed for anyone out there experiencing radio silence 🤞🤞

14 hours ago, RS2016 said:

They get the photo from a biometrics apt, in this case they reused your biometrics (fingerprints and photo from your last application).

wow, didn't realise i'd be stuck with that picture for years and years 😬 thank you!

hey all! this might be a really dumb question (?) but here goes: we didn't include a document style photo with our i-751 petition because by the time i hopefully get approved, it will have been way longer than 6 months (everything i read in preparation of filing said that you really don't need to include it with the petition for that reason). so at what point/how do uscis get people's photos for the 10 year green cards? i got notified that they've added my fingerprints to the case so that sounds like i won't need to attend another biometrics appt. so when do they get my photo??

thank you so so much for your response! this is very helpful!

hello, june 26th filers here! as the date of our noa2 is (hopefully) approaching, we've been trying to prepare for the interview as best as we can and learn as much as we can so i don't feel rushed and panicked when i finally have the interview date scheduled. more specifically, we're looking for answers about affidavit of support. we've asked my USC fiance's brother to be our co sponsor (because even though my fiance is working full time, he might just barely make the required income or not quite make it at all) but there's a couple nuances to his situation: he requested a tax filing extension for which the deadline, as i understand, was in october but he still hasn't filed his taxes yet, and another thing, he works for a company partly owned by him, so on paper he is not self employed but he doesn't have any actual pay stubs because he'd be the one writing them and he never saw a point in doing that.

so the questions are as follows:

• is the co sponsor required to show tax returns, if so, what if he's still working on filing? 
• what alternatives are there for showing co sponsor's paycheck stubs?
• i'm not sure if he files his taxes jointly with his wife, but if so, what impact does that have on what documents i'll have to show at the interview?

gotcha! thanks!

thanks for responding!

so turns out he filed his taxes for 2014 and 2016 but he's not sure about 2015. he didn't have a real reason to not file his taxes in the past, other than being a young adult who doesn't quite understand the whole tax filing/tax return thing. and i, as a european, understand even less about how all that works.

so is it very likely that the embassy is going to want to see three most recent years' tax returns from him?

hello everyone! we submitted our i-129f in late june so we're still waiting on our noa2 and trying to learn as much as possible about what we'll need when we finally get it.

here's my question - my usc fiance has only the most recent year's tax returns to show because he hasn't filed them for the years before that. i've heard that some embassies require to see three most recent years' tax returns although on the official uscis website there's nothing about it being a compulsory thing. i just tried searching the forum for a definite answer about this, but i couldn't really find anything satisfying so now we're freaking out a little bit.

is it required to show his tax returns along with affidavit of support (we're also using a cosponsor)? do we need three years worth of tax returns or just the most recent?

12 hours ago, Theresa Famiia said:

Not sure about the law in that country but our experience in the DR, we got to the interview and fingerprints showed a fight from 2010, we had to get a letter from police department, letter from attorney general, letter from the jail, all translated to English and it has to say my spouse haven't had any issues since the 2010 issue and we had to get another police report after we had fingerprints expunged from the attorney general, all notorized, a letter in your spouse words explaining the issues of the arrest..after the interview they will give you a letter of denial with a explanation what is needed to complete the process and remove the arrest record...Good Luck ours took a couple of months and it wasn't cheap

Thanks for the response, but we were asking about criminal records of the U.S. citizen, so it's a very different situation. We can get the documents very easily, but we just wanted to know if we need to include certified originals in the package, or if we can make photocopies

Hello! We are an American/Lithuanian couple and we recently decided to get married! VisaJourney has been a huge help for us already while trying to learn as much as we can about this process. We're super glad there's other people who are going though the same thing and are willing to answer our questions.

So here's the thing, my U.S. citizen fiance has a criminal record, so do we have to get certified copies of every arrest (in reference to question 4.a. on the I-129f)? Do we need to include original certified documents or can we make photocopies of them for the petition?

Also, I have been been married before (very briefly, a joke gone too far) and according to the I-129f instructions we need to provide evidence of the annulment. Do we need a certified copy of the annulment documents? We want to be completely sure before we spend the money on certified copies.

Thanks!