Chrisunknown

I got approved today♥️😀 i arrived on a k1 originally and now living happily ever after with my beautiful wife in California 

December 7th 2020 they received it

April 30th 2021 fingerprints was waived 

June 11th 2021 approved and new card ordered 

We had the similar issue, my wife's income the year before we filed was lower than what was required but her current income was well above it. I was told my a immigration officer they use the previous year tax returns as if you also have student loans etc then your adjusted income will be considered less then the one on your paystubs. 

In the end we just got a cosponsor.

17 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Exactly. It's an extra 30-60 min of work in most cases, but lets you instantly write off an extra $12.2k in income....in many cases resulting in thousands of dollars more in a refund.

Yep, just got to go over some small things with our tax person about the form 2555 and it should be done as the wording seems to be aimed at an American citizen 

On 2/2/2019 at 11:55 AM, Wuozopo said:

 

No you don't but you will probably do better on taxes if you do.

Thank you 

We had a look at it both ways and if we do file jointly we get an exfra return just a lot more complicated but nothing we can't handle 

First we will be getting this all looked over by a tax preparer but wanted to see how other people have gone about it as I see a lot of people who moved to California on here from the UK

I moved to America in July using the K1 visa got married and applied for the AOS and EAD which I got January 24th and my AOS interview is in a month

I worked in the UK jan-June 2018 but have not worked in USA due to not having my EAD until last week

Do we have to file a joint claim and then write off my UK income using the form 2555

How have everyone else done this

I called them and they told me they do go off your previous years tax return not your current year 

OK we got the notice and says my wife doesn't meet the poverty deadline 

Last year she didn't but this year she will

Do they base it off of last year or the current year as she is already over the 125% of $20600 

Also they say they want the w2s 1099 and the 2555 forms

We already sent in the w2s so are confused 

ok we will wait and see what they exactly want, We are going to go through what we sent as we made a copy 

I checked the uscis website and it now says form I-485  Request for Initial Evidence Was Mailed

What does this actually mean as we thought we included everything in our packet so this is confusing to us

Thank you all for the advice

we managed to get the bank account all sorted we just provided proof of identity my UK passport my ss card and a noa1 letter with my USA address for proof of address

i will call the dmv hotline and see what they have to say about everything as you all make valid points and I currently don’t need to drive here but will when I get my ead most likely so would like to get it all sorted sooner than later

On my wife’s policy we only had like three weeks and it took us longer to get our marriage certificate and my ssn so will look into my own policy and is this a legal requirement for the AOS

That’s what we are going to do today go to other banks and see what we can do

i spoke to the dmv and they said I need my green card and how do you drive here with the international permit as you need insurance and again they needed a state id

I appogies if I’ve put this in the wrong forum 

I’ve recently moved to California from England on a k1 visa we got got married it was amazing and perfect now it’s time to set everything up but I keep hitting hurdles

ive applied for AOS and my EAD and I have my SSN

we tried to get my driving license but can’t until I get my AOS even though I’ve held my UK one for 12 years

tried to get added to my wife’s bank and can’t without USA government id

the health insurance was the same and out of season or something like that

what have other people done or any advice would be grateful 

1 hour ago, Alabamak1 said:

@Chrisunknown don't mean to lecture you, but would be a good idea to be on top of the amount of paperwork you need to be already informed of and the process of. It can be  challenging to be doing stuff for immigration last minute.  I am going from the idea your wife (asuming she is USC) knows more than you about the process. If anything, VJ is a good nightcap read and be informed of what can, will or might go wrong in the whole immigration process. 

 It’s not that I don’t know a lot the issue is so many things on here give you contradicting information so isn’t it best to ask to see what others did more recently to help with my case rather then make mistakes.

5 hours ago, Alabamak1 said:

it will take you I-94, birthcertificate and passport with k-1 visa on it. I highly suggest to get on it. You could've been gathering bonafide marriage evidence by now for AOS. 

Do you mean for the interview or we got to send more proof of marriage off with this packet too?

I only arrived in the USA 6th July so will try look into it for sure 

thank you

2 minutes ago, Alabamak1 said:

hopefully you guys filed for SS# also by now. its been taking some time if you get manual verification. Waiting for EAD to get SS# is not a good idea

No we haven’t applied for the ssn I thought you do that with these forms as one of the boxes asks if you want too

how else do you get one?

Thank you we will do that too

No we haven’t do you have to do that one or is it just if you plan to travel abroad 

We are going throuhh the process of adjusting my status and going to be sending the forms off for me to work along with it. 

We got married July 20th and got all the paperwork we needed today so be sending everything off.

I just want to double check something if we file for the adjustment of status along with the  permission to work do we just pay the one fee along with the biometrics fee. 

The total is $1225 is that correct 

Flight all booked for next week. 

The original parcel contained this plus my passport with the visa page in it.

my police certificate was in it too.

honestly it all happened pretty quick, I had my medical 12th June I called every day and got a cancellation then had my interview 21st and a week later I’ve got my visa in hand. I wish the rest of the process would have been this quick.

Woohoo I’m getting it tomorrow I had it delivered to one of their depots for free 

4 hours ago, Brittani said:

If you're talking about on CEAC it never changed from issued to dispatched. 

He got his last Friday and it still shows issued.

Thank you I can’t wait to get it

3 hours ago, Brittani said:

Yeah, my fiance's got a text message stating he should expect it within 1-2 days of receiving that message. It gave the tracking number as well you just track it through the DX website.

Does it change from issued to dispatched 

18 hours ago, Brittani said:

That's awesome, congrats! It should come soon. Ours from the time we filed to when he will be getting here was roughly 9 months to the day. So happy to finally be ending this chapter and starting a new.

Thank you

did they notify you when it was sent

On 6/23/2018 at 10:06 PM, Brittani said:

It's normal. 

I was you literally a week ago. My fiance's interview was June 12th, changed to AP the next day then on the 18th it changed to "issued" and he got his passport with visa inside on the 22nd.

Ours got issued today, hopefully next week I will get it so In total since we started this it took us ten months