Brett Tapia

Right, not official US embassy. Thanks for the advice. Cheers to you!

Thank you.

Thanks for reading. Embassy reopened means I returned my wife's passport with the expired IV in it, so they could stamp it (I forget the wording), then they reopened the case for us. Your comment got me thinking about the I-130 from a different angle, though. The Consulate here in Taiwan said after we returned the passport, the registration of her case would stay open for a year, and we have to update / resubmit the DS-260, and obtain all the documents to her case. Back when we first got the IV, there was a co-sponsor for the Affadavit of Support, but now we aren't using a co-sponsor. Do you know if we'd need to refile an I-130 if we change that element of our case?

Yes, haha, like the rest. Thanks, good advice, work with the consulate.

Thanks a lot for the information and helpful comment! Cheers Got it. Thanks for your time

As my wife is a Taiwanese citizen, and I am an American citizen, can we first move to USA together, her with a visitor visa, and file an I-485 adjust status, along with all the other Immigrant visa paperwork and documents, for her to get her immigrant visa, all the while living in the USA? I saw a posting online, stating one's spouse could already be living with them in the USA (not sure about what visa), and file the I-130 and I-485 at the same time, for the path to getting the green card. To give a little background about the details of our case, we already had an immigrant visa issued to my wife a few years back and were unable to use it when it was valid. We re-started the process last year, sending in her passport with the IV to the U.S. Embassy and they reopened our case. Would we need to refile the I-130 in America to do the above? Or is it too late to do this option as we've already started our case and the Embassy here in Taiwan knows all about it? Hope to get any helpful comments. Thanks!