Filters

14 hours ago, Filters said:

Also once the visa comes through, how long before my husband has to come to the USA?

The visa is good for max. 6 months, meaning as long as good as the medical report is.

6 minutes ago, HuberKimFamily said:

AH!! Thank you for responding! 

Awesome...So far our i130 is taking forever. But oh well~~~

 

Also once the visa comes through, how long before my husband has to come to the USA?

 

Thank you!

 

Yea yall hang in there. The wait is the hardest part.

As soon as your husband holds the visa in his hands, he can theoretically go straight to the airport.

To my knowlage he should unregister in Switzerland before he leaves (because of taxes and millitary and so on).

Thats what im about to do. I dont think it will take long.

12 hours ago, HuberKimFamily said:

 

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Question: Once everything is cleared, where would my husband go for his interview or the visa? 🤔

 

Also, I am still waiting to hear back whether or not the I-130 has been approved. Seems like that takes about a year? Give or take. 

 

We have been married for about 1.5 years and we do have a son. I will be moving back to VA this summer to resume my job. Obviously my husband and I will be going back and forth between Switzerland and USA. 

If your husband is Swiss-citizen or Swiss-Resident, he will go to the Embassy in Bern.

After everything is finished ofc...

Here how it was for me, (i just got my visa this last week 11.04.2019.)

USCIS (i130&I130a + proof + fee) (took about 7 months to get NOA2.)

After that everything will be sent over to NVC. (took about 1 month) 

NVC (DS260 & i864 or i864ez + a couple of documents like IRS Transcript and others + 2x fee) (takes about 1-2 months)

After that everything gets sent over to Embassy and they will give you both a date when your husband can come in for the interview. (took about 3-4 weeks)

Your husband will have to scheudle a Medical Checkup by a approved Doctor before he goes to the interview. (either in Bern, Zürich or Geneva). (This will cost something too ofc...)

From the interview date email to the interview itself it took about 3 weeks.

After the interview it took 2 days until my passport could be picked up at the embassy. But they also offer to send it to you per mail, if you bring a envelope incl. stamps.

8 hours ago, afk said:

Ah thank you!

My husband is here with me but his US address is my mother in law's right now so I always ask her if she received anything in the mail yet. She can't wait for us all to move back! We can't either... Haha hope to share good news soon too! 😊

Oh im pretty sure you will have some good news very soon too. According to your timeline something should be happening in the coming weeks. But im sure you already know this.

I got a kinda offtopic question. Was werdet ihr mit all deinen grösseren Sachen machen in Österreich? Oder besser gesagt wie nimmst/sendest du sie rüber?

2 hours ago, afk said:

Wow congratulations!! 

How did you find out? Online? New website? Old website? 

Thanks yall.

My wife (petitioner in the states) got the hard copy in the mail yesterday (sep.14). The new & old webpage and also the app updated to it as well a couple hours later.

Good luck to everyone. 

On 9/2/2018 at 3:59 AM, Filters said:

Nebraska here as well...

 

NOA1: 02/12/18

 

NOA2: 09/14/18

approved

16 hours ago, VicZ said:

myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov

perfect, thank you

Nebraska here as well...

NOA1: 02/12/18

Still waiting...

I see ppl talking about a new page? Which is the new and which the old?

I saw a page once where you also could check your status on your cell with an app. But i dont find it anymore. Anybody knows about this?

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Exactly my point

Well we got number 5 & 6 from that list.

1-4 we dont have since we dont live together yet.

Number 6 are all those printouts. Its better than nothing i would say.

15 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Wow

 

Mayve spend some of that 10 weeks looking at what is required.

I know what's required and that's what i did bring. See the thing is we are doing CR-1 and you did K-1. It might have been different for you.

12 minutes ago, Michael2017 said:

Especially as the US letter and Euopean A4 is not the same format so your package will look mixed up when you add her documents on US letter format to it.

Good to know, so your saying it is better if everything is in the same format? I will do that then. Thanks

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Begs the question what these printouts are of or for.

Facebook and other messenger conversations, skype call logs, pictures from vacations together, christmas cards, love letters and so on. As proof of a bonafide relationship.

6 minutes ago, Boiler said:

very confusing especially as you work in IT.

Im not sure if i understand your answer right.

We are talking a couple of hundert printouts. Ofc i could have just sent it all over per messenger or even per mail. Now we just did it that way. Meaning i did bring all those printouts already printed out with me. I am aware that this was probably not the smartest way to do it.

21 minutes ago, Boiler said:

No need for you to be in the US to file an I 130.

You are right. But what about the evidence of a bonafide relationship? I had to get pictures, conversations, letters and so on. We had planed for me to come back anyways, to spend time together. So it was easyer for us this way than me sending all the stuff over. Is all that stuff not a requirement to send off in the I-130 packet? If not then now im just confused.

16 minutes ago, Michael2017 said:

Did you mention to them that you are married? "I  told him for vacation, where i will visit friends and the trips we have planned"

If not, it could be held against you as in reality you visited your wife, however, if they did not ask directly, you would be most properly alright.

 

They want to see ties to your home country when you visit, this is what they mean as documentation.

If you mention in May that you visit your wife, and that you filled the I-130 it could be that you are ok, as now they know

why you spend so much time in the US. You are from Switzerland, together with Austria , Scandinavia, Canada and Australia one of the best developed countries in the world. I think you can give it a shot if you prepare yourself well and bring enough ties to your home country with you.

I didnt mention it. Which now afterwerts in my opinion was stupid.

The reason i didnt was i was trying to go tru the easy way without allot of questions just like i did in the past and all went fine.

My story was not a lie. I did visit with friends. I collected proof of that as well.

But like you said they also didnt ask me directly. They where more interested in my "red eyes" than in anything else i was telling them.

If im coming back in may, i will mention it and i will also prepare myself with allot of evidence and proof that i intend to go back home.

7 minutes ago, Michael2017 said:

70 in, 100 out, 70 in (as you suggested), means simple math, at the end of your trip, you would have stayed for 140 days in the USA, while 100 abroad.

Do you work for clients outside or inside USA while on your visits?

No. I dont work while im in the states. I would not know where to start here anyways, plus i know thats not legal and im not even going there. And i cant do work for clients back in Switzerland while im here, since i  mostly work hardware.

7 minutes ago, Boiler said:

just working part time does not look that good I would take their advice seriously. Perhaps if you get a full time job things could look different.

I forgot to mention, we didnt send off I-130 yet, since i had to go back home to collect all evidence of a bonafide relationship.. But we are doing it now on my stay. This is also a reason why i came back to the states to do this together with my wife and ofc to spend as much time as possible with her.

Just now, Boiler said:

Sounds like you are spending more time in the US than your home country, you mention vacation what do you that gives you so much time off?

I freelance IT Support.  It sure looks like i spend more time in the states, but fact is i aint. i stayed 10 weeks in the states so  approx. 70days  after that i stayed over 100 days back at home.

Hello everyone,

so i wanted to share my story.

My wife and I got married last year in july, after i stayed for 10 weeks.

At end of November i came back to the states and i was asked how long i want to stay. I told him 10 weeks.

I got asked why 10 weeks? What will you do? and so on. I told him for vacation, where i will visit friends and the trips we have planned.  And the reason why 10 weeks i told him, because i am allowed to stay up to 90days and i would like to stay as long as i can afford. So I answered all questions truthfully. Then i got asked are you high? Since according to the officer i had red eyes...

I told him no i am not. He didnt believe me and sent me to another officer. This one asked me are you on alcohol? (i was thinking, wth?)

Anyways i told him everything again. He was very unfriendly and didnt believe me either i guess. So i recieved a Yellow envelope and had to go to an office with it.

After a short wait a 3rd officer called me up and told me the reason why im in here is because i wanted to stay 10 weeks.  He was friendly. Nothing about intoxicated or anything like that.

He told me he will let me in, but i should not come back till next november, except i got documentation for my stay, or a emergency or for buisness.

After i showed him my backflight ticket he stamped my passport and i was free to go.

Im not sure what they mean with documentation.

I would like to come back this comming may. But i am scarred now.

Ok, thank you guys for the quick answers.

Another thing about this new 90 days rule you mentioned in another post geowrian.

This confused me a bit. Is this something i have to worry about?

AOS isn't a visa. It's handled by USCIS. Visas are handled by the embassies, which are under DOS.

 

The new rule regarding preconceived intent is a DOS rule, and is not adopted by USCIS at this time (and doing so would be difficult due to past court cases). Technically, due to this change, going for a CR-1 visa after marrying within 90 days would be more difficult now. Some background info for others not familiar with the change:

http://www.nafsa.org/Professional_Resources/Browse_by_Interest/International_Students_and_Scholars/DOS_Expands_Presumption_of_Misrepresentation_Rule_to_90_Days/

Hello everyone,

First of thank you all for this forum. I already learned some things i didnt know about.

To my Story:

My Wife (U.S Citizen) & I (Swiss Citizen) are since almost 8 years in a relationship. I go over to visit her every summer and sometimes in winter. Long story short, as often as we can afford. I visited 9 times so far, and this comming winter will be the 10th time. I mostly stay 10 Weeks +/-. Never over 90days.

This past summer we got married shortly before i went back to Switzerland. We where thinking thats the right thing to do, and then file CR-1. But after reading here a bit, now im just confused.

We didnt send anything in yet, but are filling out i130 & i130a, g1145, & gathering evidence (pictures, tickets & all that).

Is this the right thing to do?

Or would it have been better, if i just would have stayed and did AOS?

I hope someone of you guys can help me with some advice.

Thanks