Yannary

2 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

Did you keep a copy of it?

Cri cri still no notification for us. I am always unlucky when it gets to initial notifications it seems!

No copy, we did the packet in a binder and then read here that they don't like binders. So we redid everything and kept the binder as the copy. I remember signing the form in the binder. But I was so tired when I was putting the second packet together that I honestly can't remember if I signed that or not. Husband says he signed both times so hopefully I did too. 

Still no text message for us. Every horror scenario possible is starting to play in my head. Now I am questioning whether I signed the form or not, as I have no recollection of doing so 😅

Our packet was delivered Monday the 31st in the morning via UPS. Still no text message but I am thinking tomorrow, hopefully. 

After waiting 526 days from them receiving our I-130 to the interview day, no amount of wait time can phase me anymore 🤣

3 minutes ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

Two things are very important: sending documents that cover the whole duration of the marriage and including a letter explaining why some common evidence they might expect to see is lacking. 

We couldn't send anything for the whole duration of the marriage as we weren't living together for 2 years of it. So they only got the past 22 months since his move to the USA. I honestly didn't know what else to give them. 

6 minutes ago, flowergirls said:

Hi thank you so much for sharing your experience it's very helpful!

 

Did you file for divorce while your i751 was pending? If so, did you notify immigration that you divorced? 

No, I filled for divorce 5 months after I received my 10 year green card

Hi, me and my husband divorced 9 months after I received my permanent green card. There was a bit of an issue when I applied for my citizenship, as in the lady that interviewed me for my citizenship really poked and prodded and tried to catch me in a lie regarding timelines, the whole interview was extremely uncomfortable. They ended up granting me citizenship 10 days after the interview regardless of everything. 

I didn't have a lawyer. I did meet with lawyer and she assured me everything should go well and it did. 

I should mention I applied for citizenship just 1 year before my 10 year green card was expiring and was already remarried by then so I honestly just couldn't remember the time line of how things went during the interview. 

We mailed our packet on Friday and it was delivered yesterday. We redid the packet and kept the one we had in the binder as our copy. It's nowhere near as thick as some of the packets I've seen on here so a little bit nervous. But we sent all we've got. 

Hello everyone, we are finishing up our packet and hopefully mailing tomorrow. I have few questions and was hoping I could get some opinions. 

Do we need to fill all empty fields on the i-751 form with n/a? I remember our lawyer said nothing can be empty. Does that mean we write n/a everywhere, for example, my husband cannot remember and we cannot find the uscis account number, do we just write n/a? or leave blank?  And it asks for our twins A number but they were born in the usa, so do we write n/a or leave blank?

Also, is it ok to mail everything inside a binder? Like this?

Thank you all so much!

1 minute ago, Rocio0010 said:

Remove the “perhaps unusual”

will do, thank you!

super quick question, we are putting everything together this weekend and I am writing the explanation note about why we dont have a joint mortgage and why my ex husband is on the mortgage  bill with me, does this sound ok? 

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

This note is an explanation of the perhaps unusual mortgage situation. 

We needed a bigger place to live due to my unexpected pregnancy with twins. Because XXX XXXX still hadn't received his visa by the time I was purchasing our home and my income wasn’t enough for a loan. I needed a co-signer to be able to receive a mortgage. We are currently waiting for XXX XXX to have 2 years of work history in order to refinance and add him to the mortgage and remove the co-signer. The deed to the house is in my name only which shows on the County property search print out included. 

Respectfully,

On 1/16/2022 at 7:55 PM, Jorgedig said:

Off-topic, but if he is the sole breadwinner as you say, this is hugely risky.  What if he gets COVID, or appendicitis, or into an accident?  I personally have seen young, healthy people lose everything to medical bills.  If you can't afford health insurance, you certainly cannot afford hospital bills.

 

With the US job market on fire just now, it may be a good time to look for something that offers health insurance as a benefit.

He's been applying for other jobs but haven't had much luck yet, unfortunately. This is definitely a huge concern of ours and are trying to solve this. 

6 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

If you scroll down to the second post in this thread, this person posted a very complete template for their package. Notice how in the letter they state what each piece of evidence is for, e.g “joint bank account showing numerous every day transactions for groceries, rent, etc”. This is nice because it leaves no room for misinterpretation. You have to connect the dots for the officer. I am using this template for my own package, and find it extremely useful:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/699699-i-751-march-2019-filers/?do=findComment&comment=9598888

Thank you so much for such a thorough reply! That is incredibly helpful.

Few things

- Auto insurance I can add, we have that

- Health insurance we don't have, me and the kids have state insurance and my husband just doesnt have any as his employer doesnt provide it and we just cant afford it

- no retirement accounts at all

- DL we already have included, just forgot to type it out

- Emergency contact information - we don't go to doctors so there is probably only the one from the hospital when twins were born but no idea how to get that. I don't work, we can include the one from his place of work as he listed me on it. 

As far as covering the whole marriage, we lived apart from the day we got married until he moved here in February 2020 (waiting for CR1 visa), as such there was no evidence of us living together. Taxes I filed as married filing separate because he didnt have a #ssn yet and it wouldnt let me file jointly without him. So we really only have 1 year of taxes filed together. 

I will go read through the links you shared. Again huge thanks!

Hi, my husbands green card expires on February 27th this year and we are getting everything ready to be mailed out this week hopefully. We just realized we dont have hardly any photos together. There are actually hardly any photos of me from the past 2 years. It's always my husband and the kids, because I take the photos (also hate having photos of myself taken).

The other evidence we have is:

utility bill showing both of our names

car finance in both of our names

checking account in both of our names

internet for our home address in my husbands name

twins born to us in 2020

taxes filed together for 2020, havent done last years yet

The house we live in is mine, but the mortgage has my and my exhusbands name on it as he had to cosign with me otherwise I  wouldnt get the loan, so not sure if I should include this or not. 

Do we include photos of my husband with our kids even though I am not in them? We do have few selfies of us from a date night we had for our anniversary. But thats about it. We honestly havent been anywhere, havent done anything, covid and newborn, now toddler twins and 3 older kids (mine) really make it impossible to do things on our own. Or just honestly do anything in general. Would it help if I wrote a letter explaining the lack of photos.

Frankly, I am freaking out, we've been putting things off because of holiday and just general life stress and now I feel like we're running out of time. My husband is our sole provider and the prospect of his green card expiring and him not being to able to work is terrifying.

Any help/pointers would be hugely appreciated.

Hi, I was hoping someone on here might be able to point me the right direction. So my UK husband has received his green card and we have been living in the US together. Our twins were born in 2020 and as they're growing without being able to see family we sort of came to the decision that we would like to move to UK as soon as my husband gets US citizenship. I would imagine the process is very similar. I was wondering if anyone went through this, or is planning it and if there might be any resourceful community pages such as this one that would be as helpful. I am mainly concerned about the inability to use joint sponsorship for spouse visa. Any info is greatly appreciated! 

18 minutes ago, razorontour said:

@Yannary or anyone else who has experience with the London consulate!

 

I recently got the DQ email so just waiting for my interview to be scheduled. I read somewhere that both the petitioner and the beneficiary would be notified once the interview date has been arranged. I know the beneficiary will get a letter in the post but I was wondering how the petitioner is contacted, via email? I ask because it can take a while for the letter to work its way from the States by snail mail and I want to know immediately the interview has been arranged so I can start preparing. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

I have never received a mail in the post not sure if my husband did in UK, he hasn't mentioned it. We both got an email though. The interview is this Wednesday. 

Edit to say just checked with husband and he didn't get a letter in post either. Just email. 

Hi everyone. My husband's interview is in 2 days and he's printing out some documents etc to bring with him. He just noticed that his electronically filled ds260 has lots of errors on it such as mothers name spelled as Tracy when it's Tracey. Or occupation is IT engineer which is correct but then intended occupation in US just says Engineer. Education says he went to school for engineering but he went for IT. 

His place of work is misspelled twice the o different ways and the zip code of his work also has an error. 

We have fired out lawyer months back for other issues and never thought to check this until now. Which obviously kind of late. 

Do we just leave it be or is there anything we can do about it? Does my husband mention it to the interviewing officer or wait for them to say something? I can't have anymore delays, I am 5 months pregnant with twins and work is starting to be difficult, I need my husband here. 

9 hours ago, PSB said:

Hi

Can u say when did u do your first submission?

Our first submission was May 20th.

6 minutes ago, Uzzy said:

congrats 

when did u last submit ur documents?

November 2nd was our last submission. 

3 minutes ago, USS_Voyager said:

If they rent, a copy of the lease. If they own a house, copy of the deed showing them as the owner. Copy of driver license/ID showing that's the address. 

 

All of it. The whole thing. My tax return is 60 pages long.

the address on his drivers license and his w2's taxes everything is his mother's house. He doesn't have a lease there and he doesn't own it. Could a bill or bank statement be used instead?

Hi guys, I have 2 questions I am hoping someone would be able to answer for me.

1. We just added joint sponsor on CEAC and although the sponsor lives in the usa and has never left usa, doesn't even have a passport they are asking us for proof of us domicile. Would state tax return for 2018 be sufficient for this? Or what else can I use? Thank you.

2. When uploading federal tax return for last year do I only upload form 1040? The tax return our joint sponsor gave me has tons of pages and I am at a loss of what exactly to upload. Pages 1-6 all say form 1040. Pages 7-12 have different form numbers: Form 8880-Credit for qualified retirement savings contributions, Form 8867- Paid preparers due diligence checklist, and Form 8879 E-file signature authorization. Do I upload all of this? Or just what says 1040? I know there was some issue with my tax return when it was being uploaded but our lawyer did that part and we have since fired said lawyer so I can't ask him. 

Thank you in advance