milimelo

Your semantics are slightly off. The time for adjudication is less than an hour. The time waiting for adjudication is because there are petitions waiting in front of yours. Anyway, I confirmed this in an earlier post.
USCIS doesn't need additional funds. They are already almost entirely funded by fees paid by petitioners, employers, and immigrants.
You're presumption is also probably false. They wouldn't hire additional adjudicators. They would simply reallocate some of the existing adjudicators to handle the "fast track" petitions. You're presuming USCIS actually wants to eliminate the backlog. As I stated in my earlier post, they want to maintain a reasonable backlog to ensure that the adjudicators are always working, and they remain fully funded. Because the backlog varies, they don't hire more adjudicators until the backlog becomes unreasonably long, in their assessment, and they are reasonably certain that it isn't going to ease up anytime in the near future.
If they completely eliminated the backlog then there would be adjudicators sitting on their hands waiting for petitions to come, and not enough incoming fees to pay those adjudicators. USCIS doesn't hire and layoff with the changing trends. They try to maintain a steady workforce. It takes too much time and money to train adjudicators, and there isn't a supply of trained adjudicators waiting to by hired at the whim of USCIS.

No, you do not file AOS and ROC at the same time. Ever. Erase that idea from your brain.
You should file concurrent I-130/I-485 and get your 10 year GC. It is $420 + $1070, plus a new medical. It sounds like you entered on K-1 and have been given advice to add the I-130 as well, to make sure a 10-year GC is issued and not a 2-year one. That is sound advice, and you will avoid the $590 for ROC altogether. It's $170 cheaper in the long run.

Both times? If yes, there's your problem - overstay on WvP and subsequent usage of WVP when no longer entitled to it. Nothing to do with number of days in overstay.

Country specific items don't make it to the general guide. The CFO is a Philippine government requirement, not US.
Looks like you got the proper link already in the thread.

One concern I haven't seen raised yet that the OP will need to consider relates to providing health care insurance for a young family after he retires. He will qualify for medicare but his wife and children would not. The OP mentioned that in 2 years he would have a financial set up in place for his wife and child if anything happened to him, but what if something happens within those two years before this is set up? There are practical financial concerns involved in being an older parent that have more relevance than they would for a younger parent - and yes, anyone may end up in the situation without having access to health care, but as a retiree, one needs to know if your income is going to be sufficient to cover the probable significant costs of health care premiums for a wife and children. Children are expensive on their own and arriving at a time of life when one's own income and resources begin to narrow should be part of any consideration. There are certainly advantages to being an older parent - but there are also liabilities and the all-too-looming reality that personal health issues increase with age as well.
I certainly applaud the OP for taking a serious and detailed look at what is involved in having a child at this time in his life. Only he can know, however, if the rewards will be worth the financial costs and personal sacrifices.

I sorry, but I’m just going to come out and say it...
While you are entitled to your own opinion, this is the most stupidest idea I have ever heard.
You want to turn the visa process into a profit based business, which means by law the main motives/goal of the company is to make profits. So anybody with a wheel borrow full of money can get a visa for themselves, their mother, their cousins and their dog. Yeah I don't it's going work...
You can say there will be checks and balances but money/profits is a powerful motivator, we have checks and balances now but they fail all the time...Enron, the current economic mess we are in right now, did we all just forget what just happened already???
Leaving it in the hands of the government means they are not motivated by profits, which also mean they have no reason to be efficient and speedy, but I personally am willing to wait in line if it means that only the people who should be here gets to come here...

That sucks, big time. Another reason not to take the Green Card out of its safe!
The next time you start a new job and need to show documentation of who you are and that you are authorized to work, leave the Green Card (List A document) at home and show your driver's license (List B document) and your unrestricted SS card (List C document).
The math for I-9 form purposes is: 1 (List A) = 1 (List B) + 1 (List C).
In plain English: you do not need to show your Green Card to any employer at any time ever.

Since you just mailed the petition last week, put a stop on the check and that will get it returned to you - whole petition. Usually it takes them up to a month to process the payment and issue a NOA-1.

What you're considering is called "preconceived intent" to use a non-immigrant visa to immigrate. It's illegal. You're attempting to bypass the normal immigrant visa process by taking a shortcut. Adjustment of status is meant for people who enter with visas that allow for immigrant intent, or whose circumstances change while they're in the US with a non-immigrant visa. It's not meant to be a convenient alternative to immigrant visa processing.
A B2 visa requires an alien to NOT have any intention of immigrating when they enter the US. If CBP sees any evidence that the alien might intend to immigrate then they may deny them admission, subject them to secondary inspection, parole them into the US with a bar on adjustment of status, or simply admit them and note the evidence in their file. CBP is not required to share their knowledge of this evidence with the alien. If the alien states that they do not intend to immigrate, and subsequently applies for adjustment of status, then they are guilty of material misrepresentation. USCIS can deny the AOS and order them deported with a potential lifetime ban from the US.
The risk of getting caught may be small, but there is zero risk in going through the normal immigrant visa process and entering the US with an immigrant visa. Do the right thing.

Well, you can afford giving birth and paying it off, perhaps for a long time, but wouldn't that be the most selfish act a person can commit?
In the old days, having as many children as possible was not only a sign of health and wealth, but often necessary when 3 or 4 generations lived under one roof and all the young ones had to help out on the farm. When the parents grew old, the children took over and that was the secure retirement plan. The more children, the more workers and helping hands, the securer the retirement.
That's not the case anymore. It's the 21st century and most children move out into the world as soon as they can. We don't have big family farms here anymore, and in order to have a chance of a decent life these days, education is of paramount importance. It will cost in the neighborhood of about $250,000 to provide a child with a decent education and thus a start to a life that can be rewarding and fulfilling.
The pro life movement is actually a pro birth movement. Pop 'em out, and then tell 'em good luck. How many children are born that have no chance of a decent life? Just have a look at the children of illegal immigrants who were brought to the US when they were really young. They can't get a real job, have even problems to find something to flip burgers at minimum wage money. That's cool when you are 18 or 19, but not so cool at age 40 or 50. On the same token we have to look at babies that are born into abusive households and poverty or to parents with very little means. Those parents may love their child dearly, but if the funds are missing to provide what's essential in order to succeed in this dog-eats-dog society, it's a selfish act to give birth under such circumstances.

I don't think its a good idea. Imigration and Naturalization into the US is better left to the government. The US is not a factory and its not about getting immigrants into America as quickly as possible. There's a reason it got put under the Department Of Homeland Security and it will take a huge act of congress to change that. So good luck with that.

I personally dropped by the SSN office on the way home from my oath ceremony. I had prefilled the form and had it ready. They made a quick change in the system and took a photocopy....done like dinner.

The fact that you would have to prove that you can't live in Pakistan would normally be the challenge here.
Not so in this case: your husband is inadmissible to the U.S. for life. He will never be able to get any kind of visa to the U.S. again based on the drug conviction. No lawyer, not even he very best expert and at a retainer of $25K (which it can cost) will be able to help you here. It's not because of a mishap or an accident, it's because he got in trouble with the law more than once, and one of them is a serious illegal drug offense. It will never go away in the eyes of Uncle Sam, you will need to come to terms with that and try to live your life outside the U.S.

Please remember that it is a violation of TOS to encourage others or to provide them with the means to commit visa fraud - using an easier to get visa issued for one purpose and bypassing the proper process to obtain the correct visa - such as using a visitor's visa and then coming and working in the US. Visa fraud is illegal and people have been deported for such activity as well as have had all future immigration related benefits denied for violating immigration law in this way.
"Work' as defined by US immigration authorities includes any sort of work for which someone else would normally be paid, so it does include babysitting, grass-mowing and housework. It also includes any sort of volunteer work that would normally be done by someone being paid, or volunteer work that has expectations of turning into paid work when a work visa is available. These activities are all considered 'work' and a work visa is required.
USCIS does not have a good record recognizing traditional family based activities such as family members visiting to assist in baby care, invalid care or help around the home. These are not the 'norm' in the US, so do not garner an exception to the work visa requirement.

Actually yes he has worked because you paid him to cut the lawn and if he is asked at an immigration interview he would need to honestly answer that he has worked in the US.

Here is a spin for all to consider.
It's work looking after a newborn. I don't care if you do it for love alone. It is still work even if no money changes hands. Anyone who has ever had to take care of a newborn will tell you that it is a lot of work.
Child care is considered work. If a US person can be employed to do it, then it is work. Lots of parents hire other people to care for their children and pay them, therefore child care is work.
A person can come to the US on a visitor visa to visit a grandchild. A person cannot come to the US on a visitor visa to provide child care for a grandchild. (YES - it's customary in many cultures for the grandmother to spend time caring for a newborn grandchild. These cultural customs don't matter when it comes to immigration laws and employment laws in the US.)
So, it does matter what a person say when interviewing for a visitor visa. Visiting a child = okay for a visitor visa. Caring for the child = not okay for a visitor visa.
What's the difference between visiting and doing things for a grandchild and providing child care???? I don't know, and I don't care. What I do know is that mentioning caring for the child is a BIG problem in getting a visitor visa.

This is it in as plain as it can be stated. There is No wavier available for him.

They have stated that the drug conviction has no possible waiver ( meaning EVER) so that he is permanently denied coming. You have shown you can live there by doing so. I don't think there is much hope of ever getting a visa for him to enter the US unless immigration changes its attitude about drugs and guns

If that's your plan then be prepared to save for quite a while. The total costs for having a baby can easily top $20,000, and that's if there are no complications. One of the factors that really sucks is that the amount they bill CHIP is often substantially higher than the actual costs would be if everyone were paying directly. This the called the "deep pockets" effect, meaning that when the payer has "deep pockets" (i.e., lots of money) then medical service providers tend to bill much higher in order to pay for new facilities and equipment, as well as offset the costs of providing care for low income or indigent people with no medical coverage.
That's a really strong reason why the government shouldn't be getting involved in health care. They already pay nearly 60% of all medical expenses in the US through Medicare (the elderly are responsible for the majority of all medical expenses). That, more than anything else, is the reason costs are being driven up much faster than inflation. All that money helps to fund great high-tech health care, but it's not much comfort to someone paying for prenatal care out-of-pocket to know that they're helping build that new high tech cardio unit on the other side of the hospital.

Why would I waste a moment of my time?
The OP is asking about a sponsorship question. Without income tax returns her father will not be accepted as a sponsor as he has no proof of income and no proof he can financially support her fiance.
He could go ahead and file his past due returns, show the income and go with your position and then everything would be OK.

The OP appears to be Indian, because he said it is a traditional arranged marriage, and that he is of the same caste etc as his wife. He knows full well about all the "cultural" stuff going on there.
If it is a traditional arranged marriage, and they didn't bother to have the traditional religious ceremony, but rather did the bare minimum to get a legal marriage, and furthermore lied about what ceremonies they had actually had, then you can see why the CO would be suspicious.

I'm usure of you first few questions.
The Co-Sponsor is a USC and does not file Taxes. There are few exceptions to avoid that. Making less than $5000.00 a year is one but still must be disclosed. Even self employment requires taxes to be paid and a tax return.
If the Co-Sponsor has money in the bank and does'nt file returns then thats a scary story. There might be more to this but Your Father should get out of Dodge City before signing any papers making good money and not reporting income.

You're okay with your husband possibly being sued by the US government? Having THAT on his record? Not to mention you're not eligible until you've been an LPR for 5 years.
Please try to think more seriously about the possible impact of this when there are other options.

Passing a school bus with the red lights flashing is a big hitter and thus very expensive, for a reason. However, while this has to be mentioned on part 16 of the N-400, it has no adverse effect on the naturalization process. Uncle Sam wants Americans-to-be to have a good moral character, but they don't have to be perfect. Now if your wife had run over a child that had exited the school bus, it would be a deal breaker.

I went to the DMV in South Florida... to update my status and to register to vote... was told I dont have to unless I want to spend $25, and it would NOT change my expiration date... I was told I could just mail the application to register to vote along with a utility bill to prove the address. Got my voters reg card in the mail in 2 weeks... Nothing changed with the DMV... Am not worried about it.