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Being a widow or married isn’t the issue.  She is a permanent resident for life unless she abandons the green card.  Even if her husband were alive she would be in the same boat-if she’s been out of the US for years, they will consider her to have abandoned her green card unfortunately.   

I thought you were in removing conditions, but I think she can try to adjust status on her own.   Also uphill since she is getting a marriage based green card and is not in a bona fide marriage 

If she’s just now removing conditions and you’re not divorced-well, she’s in a bad position if you don’t cooperate.  She has to be divorced to do it on her own.   Do what you want with that info.

You are just theoretically responsible for her having a place to be to not require government assistance.  If she ran off with a broke dude, she made the choice 

8 hours ago, nastra30 said:

I will assume you'll also have to divorce current husband and re-marry him. I might be wrong.

I don’t think you can technically divorce if you weren’t legally married.  It should be annulled though.

On 1/2/2024 at 12:20 AM, derrick and Ana said:I took a picture of both of them once we received them but I do not have a picture of the entry stamp that was on her visa. If I can get her a military dependent ID card then this whole situation won't be as bad and she's fine with waiting to get her US passport and then traveling back to Venezuela to replace her other passport.  

I think the entry stamp can be worked around as they will use their own information and they have record of her arrival.  If it’s requested as a document in AOS, I would write a cover letter explaining it.  I don’t think they would hold everything up to make you provide information that they already have

One instruction is to contact the embassy that processed the visa, though it doesn’t really say what happens there.  The only thing is if she has already arrived and her info is in the system, you may not need to provide a physical passport to adjust status at this point.  I didn’t go through that process so I may be wrong-but they already have it digitally and you have pictures of it.  The green card doesn’t depend on a physical passport.  From there, options don’t look super convenient -cross to Mexico by land and get a new passport at an embassy there as she can cross back with a green card alone (by land, not air).  Or wait three years and apply for citizenship and get a US passport.  That’s assuming contacting the embassy that did her visa won’t help.

It’s not mandatory at all.  It won’t affect anything.

The senior plan is for those who qualify for Medicare.  It would be subsidized by Medicare enrollment, which wouldn’t make it an option.

Glad it ended well in the end.  The N400 for my husband was pretty upbeat and friendly.  When we went for the interview to remove conditions, he seemed very gruff at first.  We settled in for a lot of grilling.  But he just said, “you’re good.  You’re approved.”  Then he complimented us on the the good documentation.  It is funny how they can shift personality so quickly 

They really only care about the outbound ticket for visitors, not immigrants.  In our experience there was not a question about the ticket type, and I don’t know of anyone else that’s been asked.  It’s not unusual for someone to arrive to activate their visa and return to finish up loose ends in their home country.  With the visa, your spouse can travel in and out again so I don’t see a problem or a reason it would be looked at.

I don’t like LAX-the non-citizens line is very slow.  

We are a same sex couple in a country that doesn’t recognize the marriage and isn’t particularly gay-friendly. It was not brought up at all.  They asked when we first met, got married and a few other things that would be asked of any couple.  It was fine.  

The time for an interview changes all the time.  We filed several years ago and it was about 10 months till the interview.  

No.  They’re more interested in the dates.  I didn’t translate ours, and I didn’t include full conversations.  That piece is more likely to be checked at the embassy where they will have speakers of both languages.  But the short answer is no.  Just focus on dates.  They want to see there’s regular contact.

The previous name would be in their system. I would just file the documents as you have them, and just state the name was changed at the time of naturalization.  They can see other names someone had with them.

He’ll want to show travel together as much as possible.  If he saved any receipts of airline tickets (emails sent by airline), hotel and the like, that is useful.  It sounds like this has gone on for years so he may have to work with what all he can get his hands on along with the passport stamps.

Pictures together-especially together with family and in social settings.  Label and date them.  Cover a span of time.  You don’t need hundreds, but a couple per year.

Printout snippets of chats together.  The content isn’t important as much as a regular communication.  Emails to each other.

Any document at all that was given to them as husband and wife.  Invitations or anything.  Email printouts as well.

Records of money remittances.

If he made her an authorized user on a debit/credit card, record of that.

Any other bank or credit card records showing he spent money in her town.

Anything else, no matter how random that has their names on it together can help.  

Really anything more than 30 minutes isn’t any advantage.  It may be different in different Embassies, but they had us outside in a line (one for immigrants and one for tourist/visitor) and we all went in together as a group.  We all sat down and they called people up working cases from a stack that was already there.  So, those that got there earlier had no advantage as the people working the cases had no idea who was there first or last.

16 hours ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

Don't they have the old passport they used to fly back to Honduras with a stamp to prove their entry back into their own country? 

 

And they must have many documents: energy bills, some sort of property tax document from back then, old ID's, pictures, etc.

30 years is a long time to hang on to electric bills and such. I’ll see what they might have.

I realize that, but if the dates are listed, they often don’t take much of anything at the applicant’s word.  Hoping they don’t ask for an old lease, the flight ticket out, etc.  

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

The threat title says:

“Parents inspected nearly 30 years ago”

 

So which is it?

My bad-uninspected.  Going to try and change if edit lets me into the title 

27 minutes ago, Boiler said:

They obviously will declare it, having left 29 years ago there is no ban. I assume if they get quizzed they can show they have lived in Honduras for the last 3 decades.

True-we will declare it, but just wondering if they will need something to show it.  I don’t think they held on to much of anything.  USCIS likes stuff documented.  

Getting prepared to petition for USC’s parents.  They came to the US uninspected over 30 years ago, left voluntarily 29 years ago without coming to the attention of CBP or USCIS (no removal/entry denial records).  One parent did fly back home out of the US.

Does this get reported by their best memory?  Not sure if there’s any documentation to use, since there are no A numbers or Social Security numbers to work with.  I thought of doing a FOIA request but I don’t know if a name and birthdate with no other identifying information are enough.

Has anyone on here worked with this situation before?
 

We all hate the “asking for a friend” questions, but this is following a conversation I had with someone I met through here.  I actually met the immigrant’s spouse here as he had a K1 visa for someone from the same country as my spouse and was also a same sex marriage they would have to petition.  We texted a bit about the process.

We kept in touch regularly with the immigrant spouse for several years.  The USC had serious emotional issues and it was worsened by the fact Covid hit a month after he got here (lockdown).  
 

They divorced in January of this year and it’s final.  There are some saved texts and voice messages that are abusive.

He can file for ROC as a divorced person and saved documents.  Is there any advantage in filing as VAWA or would it add an unnecessary layer?  I did give the number to an attorney to ask but I was curious if anyone knew if one route  was more beneficial?  The 90 day window for ROC opens later this month.

He discounted VAWA as an option thinking it was for physical abuse only.

10 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

And no joking at the CBP port!

Not even a pun!😂

17 hours ago, marshalliv said:

That's reassuring to know. So, I guess I should feel content in knowing the hard part is over. It's been a long and stressful journey, but I'm glad it's nearly over with. 

Yes!  We all know the feeling-like it’s too good to be true or there has to be another twist.  Don’t bring drugs or guns and you’re all set!