ChrisJay11

I just got a case complete notification on September 12. I uploaded my AOS documents on August 28 and civil documents on September 2. I got my first response on September 10 asking for an additional police certificate for a country my spouse resided in for 10 months.  I uploaded a document in that slot saying that police certificates were not required for countries in which the IR-1 or CR-1 beneficiary resided for less than a year.  I got a response on September 11 requesting the same police certificate again.  Then I called NVC the morning of September 12 clarifying whether CR-1's needed police certificates for countries in which they had resided less than 12 months, which is different than the K-1 visa requirement. They said the beneficiary needed police certificates for all countries with more than 6 months residence. A few hours later, I got an email saying our case was documentarily qualified and that NVC would schedule an interview. I do not know what happened, but I'm guessing a supervisor took a quick look at my case and decided I was correct. I had emailed the Spanish Embassy months ago asking this very question and they had verified for me that my spouse would not need a police certificate for that country. Fingers crossed that there's no more hiccups for us.

I just got a case complete notification on September 12. I uploaded my AOS documents on August 28 and civil documents on September 2. I got my first response on September 10 asking for an additional police certificate for a country my spouse resided in for 10 months.  I uploaded a document in that slot saying that police certificates were not required for countries in which the IR-1 or CR-1 beneficiary resided for less than a year.  I got a response on September 11 requesting the same police certificate again.  Then I called NVC the morning of September 12 clarifying whether CR-1's needed police certificates for countries in which they had resided less than 12 months, which is different than the K-1 visa requirement. They said the beneficiary needed police certificates for all countries with more than 6 months residence. A few hours later, I got an email saying our case was documentarily qualified and that NVC would schedule an interview. I do not know what happened, but I'm guessing a supervisor took a quick look at my case and decided I was correct. I had emailed the Spanish Embassy months ago asking this very question and they had verified for me that my spouse would not need a police certificate for that country. Fingers crossed that there's no more hiccups for us.

Interview letter received now via email.

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Just got the email with our Case Number and Invoice ID Number. Trying to explain to my husband that CEAC is down and he’s asking how the USG can let this happen. Haha... if he only knew how many systems problems we have from time to time.
 
Hoping it comes back soon so we can pay our fees and keep moving.

Just got the email with our Case Number and Invoice ID Number. Trying to explain to my husband that CEAC is down and he’s asking how the USG can let this happen. Haha... if he only knew how many systems problems we have from time to time.
 
Hoping it comes back soon so we can pay our fees and keep moving.

Just got the email with our Case Number and Invoice ID Number. Trying to explain to my husband that CEAC is down and he’s asking how the USG can let this happen. Haha... if he only knew how many systems problems we have from time to time.
 
Hoping it comes back soon so we can pay our fees and keep moving.

Once you’re a lawful permanente resident (entered the US with an immigrant visa like CR-1 or IR-1) or have you green card if oh adjusted status in the IS, you are required to stay in the US for the majority of the year. In practice, this is 6 months out of the year. If you’re out of the US for more than a year you’re at risk for losing your permanent residency status unless something happened beyond your control (medically emergency or otherwise). 

THe older version of the I-864 had a barcode. Current version doesn’t.

THe older version of the I-864 had a barcode. Current version doesn’t.

This California code explains which marriages aren’t permissible according to State Law. First cousin marriages are not among the list and are widely interpreted to be legal in the state of California.
 
California FAM Code subsection 2200
 
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=2200&lawCode=FAM

This California code explains which marriages aren’t permissible according to State Law. First cousin marriages are not among the list and are widely interpreted to be legal in the state of California.
 
California FAM Code subsection 2200
 
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=2200&lawCode=FAM

Hey @girlonfire! Embassy Madrid emailed me back confirming that for a CR-1/IR-1, you only need police certificates after twelve months of residence in a country if it’s not your country of residence or your country of nationality. Did you hear the same from Dublin? I think the requirement may be different for K-1 visas from what I’ve been reading in other fora. Anyways, my mind is arbitrary ease not having to get more PCCs than what I have already.

Depends on how much of a rush you are in. Six weeks is nothing in non-pivot cases. For pivot you’re submitting things online anyway so if you already have your documents on the cloud maybe you could do it from where are you are. I would enjoy my vacation. No point cutting it short assuming you don’t have some other urgency.
Yes it’s possible.

You don’t need to provide tax returns if you provided tax transcripts for CR-1/IR-1. If you filed married filing jointly then you also need to submit your W-2 in addition to the tax transcripts. Good luck!

Most countries have you go through their Embassy or consulate when you’re abroad. What’s annoying is if you don’t live near said Embassy or consulate.

Yes, my husband is going to get his police certificate this coming week. We’ll be ready.
 
I didn’t realize that about the payments. I thought you couldn’t do them close together based on what I read. Good to know you can. Thanks! 

Agree with you. I think if there’s a field asking for additional Police Certificates, that I’ll plan on uploading the letters that NVC employee told you to do. I’ll also look into how hard it would be for my spouse to get PCC’s from the other two countries he’s lived in for more than 6 months. He’s Spanish living in Spain so I’m hoping it’d be quite easy to get French and Italian PCC. I’m going to email the Consulate in Madrid to doublecheck as they’ll have the final say on what documents we need.

I don't think this is true. As shown in screenshot from travel.state.gov, the 6 month and older than 16 years old rule only applies to the country of your nationality and the country of your current residence. All other countries, should be 12 months in order for you to need a police certificate.
 
Did NVC specifically request all of the places you were at for less than 12 months (with the exception of the countries of nationality and current residence)?
 
 

It doesn't say that on the instructions though. It clearly says 12 months or more. 

You’ll need fern insteuctions on how to pay the USCIS immigrant fee when you pick up your visa. You go online enter the case number and A number and then you pay with credit card.

That's awesome news. Good to hear my friend.

Requested an expedite though my California Senator, Kamala Harris. My senator’s office informed me today that USCIS had approved my I-130 and would be forwarding my case to NVC. They said I should get my NOA2 in 3-5 days. As it’ll forward to Paraguay where I’m residing throughout August, it’ll be more like 2-3 weeks. Our situation is very specific however so I don’t think my lessons learned will apply to many others unfortunately.

My job entails reviewing a lot of passports. For the majority of countries, a renewed passport never has the same number as the previous passport. Still, the number is irrelevant. You could show up with a new passport and passport the day of your immigrant visa interview and it wouldn't matter.

And canadians aren’t required to have a B2 visa while they’re visiting as tourists. Passport and/or certain kinds of enhanced driver’s licenses will work. More info here:
 
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/619/~/visiting-the-u.s.---documents-required-for-canadian-citizens-%2F-residents-%2F