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Hello @mychin, you do not need a passport photo of the foreign spouse when filing I-130, only for the us petitioner. You do need one for the foreign spouse at NVC, but not for I-130. for bonafide evidence, we also added more „strong“ evidence: shared bank statements, evidence I was an authorized user on my wife’s credit card, beneficiary on each others life insurance policy, notarized power of attorney for each other, listing each other as emergency contacts, boarding passes/passport stamps for all prior visits to each other

Hey we got DQ on 9/22/22 - and got the Interview Letter on the same date as Denise (11/25/22) and also had the interview on the same day 1/5/23.

Yes, you’re right. My mom is still in the very early stages of diagnostics, no treatment plan has even been made yet. She told me on the phone that the growth in her breast seems to be pretty big (i.e. wasn’t found early) and she wants to go on her planned vacation in January - which all made me feel like it’s a death sentence, because who would want to go on vacation unless there was no hope for recovery. I’m a total overthinker, my mind always jumps to worst case scenario first. It makes me feel better knowing if I have a plan for worst case scenario, I can also handle all other scenarios. i literally opened this thread within an hour of receiving her phone call but matter of fact is, we don’t know yet how bad it is, what possible treatment looks like, or anything really. She’ll have more scans and biopsies this week. Thank you for all your warm words! I truly appreciate it! @Jorgedig @STO Overland @Kanja ❤️

Thank you! also thank you to everyone else who took the time to respond! I never expected to have to deal with this dilemma at this point in my life, but I guess life always throws you a curveball when you’re least expecting it…

Thank you for your sympathy and advice 🙏 Are there any hard rules that i would have to follow? Such as don’t stay out of the US longer than I’ve been inside the US?

Thank you @Letspaintcookies, I will look into that. my wife actually already lives in Germany with me - temporarily to be able to still claim domicile in the US, we are using assets only to sponsor as we don’t have a reliable co-sponsor. My wife doesn’t enjoy Germany at all, and doesn’t want to live here long term. I’m worried if we stay here a lot longer (than necessary), it won’t be as easy to claim she’s got US domicile anymore

Hello VJ-members, I am very close to receiving IR-1 visa, assuming everything will go smoothly at my Interview on January 5, 2023. However, my (German) mother just called me saying she has breast cancer. This obviously comes as a shock to me, I haven’t even told my family that I will be moving to the US soon, because I didn’t want to upset them before it’s even happening. On the one hand, I don’t want to jeopardize my visa (which has been such a long journey - my US citizen wife filed I-130 in March 2021), on the other hand I don’t want to just abandon my mother when who knows how long she’s going to live. She’s only 55 years old and her possibly dying has definitely not been on my mind - until now. I’m trying to think about what would be the best thing to do in this situation. I had previously planned to move at the end of April 2023 (assuming I’ll get the visa right after interview and I have to give 3 month notice to quit my job in Germany ). now I just don’t know… should I try to move the interview to buy more time? (I’ll have to redo the medical, since I already did it on Dec 8 and it’s only valid for 6 months) there is no way to extent the validation of 6 months to enter, is there? (I’m talking visa, not medical) Could i enter the US as planned and visit my mother in Germany? if so, what exactly are the rules to avoid abandoning LPR status? my mind is just running crazy right now, and I don’t know what to do…. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. 🙏

Congratulations 🎉 super happy for you!!

Where does it say that? On Ceac case status? our ceac case status showed waiting for documents (or something like that) all the way until we were DQed, so for like 75 days from submission, no change in between at all On ceac case status no, but on ceac platform where you upload, it should say submitted - on the bottom of the front page. As far as i know, every update to mandatory documents (and a push of the submit button) will push you back to the end of the line at NVC. If it does say submitted on the front page, i would not push any more buttons if it doesn’t, maybe what you’re referring to, is the final submit button after you have uploaded everything - you do have to push that once.

Hey! i think most of you guys have probably already completed your visa process, but I wanted to share with you anyway that we finally got our Interview Letter today! the interview is on 01/05/23 wish me luck 🍀

Omg!!! we just got our Interview Letter from NVC 10 minutes ago! we actually did send an inquiry to nvc yesterday, but that probably didn’t have anything to do with getting the IL. my Interview will be January 5 2023

I haven’t yet, because NVC takes a long time (Multiple weeks) to respond to inquiries and I was hoping to receive the IL before the inquiry is even responded to i also felt bad for making a possibly unnecessary inquiry, because that just adds to NVCs workload and makes everyone’s requests take longer to receive a response. but I guess I’ll just go head and submit one, since it doesn’t seem to be normal to wait this long for a Frankfurt 🤷‍♀️

That’s exactly what I thought…. I also already emailed the consulate, they responded super quick, but said they can’t do anything until they have received the application from NVC… 🙁

Hey, my case status showed the exact same message all the way until I was DQed. i did not mail/email anything to NVC and only uploaded on the ceac platform.

Hey! I’m sorry you’ve been waiting this long! I’m German and also still waiting for IL from Frankfurt, however I got DQ later than you, on 9/22/22. everyone keeps saying Frankfurt isn’t busy, which makes the wait feel even longer - I check my email and junk folder soooo many times a day. my case status also still shows “at NVC” I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you as well!

We did already, they said they haven’t received the application and it’s still at NVC, so there’s nothing they can do….

Hey, it’s been 8 weeks since we got DQed on 9/22/22 and we are still waiting for IL from Frankfurt….. i haven’t found any timelines that match our DQ date that haven’t gotten expedited. is there anyone else waiting for Frankfurt Interview or has already gotten IL even although their DQ date is later? We got our hopes up, thinking IL in Europe take 2-5 weeks after DQ….

they will have to file I-130 with uscis - it can be filed online as well

Do you mean TOEFL the English language test? you definitely don’t need to be within the USA to take it - I took it a few years ago from Germany either way, If you’re not planing to work, study, or immigrate, sounds like B2 would be the visa you need

It completely depends on which consulate you’re interviewing at

I think so, too. Our I-130 (USC filing for spouse) took exactly 14 months to be approved…

Hi, here’s the link: https://www.uscis.gov/i-864p so looks like $40,587 for a 5 person household at 125% of the poverty guideline, assuming you don’t live in Hawaii or Alaska

Congratulations! You’re such a valuable asset to this forum! Wishing you the best!

Hey! What website are you referring to? I tried googling and couldn’t find anything. I am also still waiting to receive IL from Frankfurt for IR1 - we were DQ almost 7 weeks ago (on 9/22/22), and there’s very few timelines to compare to on here. - never mind, I found it