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I am serious about this, it's going in the mail. 

Congratulations!! 
Another one with a later PD than mine 🤐
Any day now, any day now🙏

Yep, that’s how it hurts. My PD is 11/14/18 and still not a peep. It’s so bloody unfair.
Of course I am happy for those approved but you can’t help but feeling frustrated, “Why them and not me”
I am getting mad at TSC😡

If I were you, I’d include 2 passport photos of your wife, as well even if they are NOT required. There are several couples here that got RFE for that reason.

I think she meant to say, the potential adoptive parents for her yet unborn baby.

I think she meant to say, the potential adoptive parents for her yet unborn baby.

I agree, the wait is maddening. I can’t understand why the couples with a later PD than us are approved already, and we are not? Same Texas Processing Center. 

I did it for my husband (he is from France). I just did the translation myself in Word document, typed the Translator's Certificate text below (with my name on it), went to see a notary, signed in notary's presence and got it notarized. GEICO accepted the document without questioning. I am not sure about DMV though, but it never hurts to try.

Thanks for telling your story. You were lucky to be able to afford seeing your hubby so often (sigh). The wait for NOA-2 is long and difficult, and the long separation makes it a torture. 
Congratulation to your both! It also may be useful remembering that there can be more difficulties with adjusting and making life together, but true love conquers all!

Please do your Timeline.

I believe the passport photos of beneficiary are NOT required for I-130. They are needed later, after the approval.
Your post makes me confused. Because I did not include my husband’s photos (beneficiary) in my initial packet.
Now I wonder if a RFE is coming soon...

F4 petitions (siblings of USC) are processed ONLY in California Center, no exceptions. 

I think this is the right decision to go see your husband and try to work things out. If it won’t be successful at least you tried everything you could. Chances are 50/50. I sincerely hope you will succeed. Good luck!

It's 5 years from the date on your green card. So you can apply as early as 90 days before that 5-year mark.

Daphne, I appreciate your concern. It's not up to me to be "okay" or "not okay" in this. They are two grown adults, and I cannot prohibit them to do what they want.
A question to you: How can you be 100% sure it's a scam? Are you an oracle? You can see into the future?

Thanks for the advice. I do NOT get involved in this. I just provide my friend with information when he needs it.
As to them continuing to "date", it's not really practical. She lives in Tijuana, he in Arizona (look at the map), it's quite a distance.  She is willing to drive all the way to Nogales to meet him, and he appreciates this. 
I don't think they both can afford traveling back and forth a lot.
Also, when you are at his age, an idea of a long-distance dating seems ridiculous. How much years are there left to enjoy life, who knows?

High fraud country or not, we are always taking a risk. I mean a foreign spouse. It may work out in the end, or it may not. Fifty-fifty, basically.
No risk, no champagne.

High fraud country or not, we are always taking a risk. I mean a foreign spouse. It may work out in the end, or it may not. Fifty-fifty, basically.
No risk, no champagne.

High fraud country or not, we are always taking a risk. I mean a foreign spouse. It may work out in the end, or it may not. Fifty-fifty, basically.
No risk, no champagne.

I added photos of screenshots of our Whatsap chats, and they are in French language, and I did not care to translate them. What the heck.
Their purpose is to show the ONGOING communication between the couple. Nobody at USCIS is going to read those chats, anyway.
If the chats do not carry any weight in proving a bonafide relationship, they are not going to harm our case, either.

Why bother?  It's going to be denied.   You are wasting resources.  Ignore her mom.  There's nothing you can do.  The extension is going to get deny,  mom is going to stay illegally, your wife will get citizenship under the 5 years rule, and then she will successfully adjust mom's status.  
 
What are you to do?  Whatever you want, but the results are not going to change.  Mom will get her green card. 

This sounds like misguided revenge.  ###### mom over doesn't get you anything.

Focus on the divorce and what's best for your child.  

Not to file immigration papers for a spouse is a form of abuse, IMHO. Especially if there are children. Her US citizen husband keeps her as a house plant; she has no right to work, drive a car, go to a school, etc. It's a form of control on the husband's part. I bet there must be at least some form of emotional/psychological abuse, too. And as she mentions "welfare", then economical abuse, as well.
Look, lady: You need to look for help. To search for a pro-bono immigration attorney (Legal Aid) that can help you to self-petition for permanent residency (VAWA-based). You don't have to divorce your husband for that. You don't have to leave him for that. You don't have to inform him of your self-petition. 
But if you think you (and/or your kids) are in danger, then you have to leave him ASAP.

Not to file immigration papers for a spouse is a form of abuse, IMHO. Especially if there are children. Her US citizen husband keeps her as a house plant; she has no right to work, drive a car, go to a school, etc. It's a form of control on the husband's part. I bet there must be at least some form of emotional/psychological abuse, too. And as she mentions "welfare", then economical abuse, as well.
Look, lady: You need to look for help. To search for a pro-bono immigration attorney (Legal Aid) that can help you to self-petition for permanent residency (VAWA-based). You don't have to divorce your husband for that. You don't have to leave him for that. You don't have to inform him of your self-petition. 
But if you think you (and/or your kids) are in danger, then you have to leave him ASAP.

Not to file immigration papers for a spouse is a form of abuse, IMHO. Especially if there are children. Her US citizen husband keeps her as a house plant; she has no right to work, drive a car, go to a school, etc. It's a form of control on the husband's part. I bet there must be at least some form of emotional/psychological abuse, too. And as she mentions "welfare", then economical abuse, as well.
Look, lady: You need to look for help. To search for a pro-bono immigration attorney (Legal Aid) that can help you to self-petition for permanent residency (VAWA-based). You don't have to divorce your husband for that. You don't have to leave him for that. You don't have to inform him of your self-petition. 
But if you think you (and/or your kids) are in danger, then you have to leave him ASAP.

Not to file immigration papers for a spouse is a form of abuse, IMHO. Especially if there are children. Her US citizen husband keeps her as a house plant; she has no right to work, drive a car, go to a school, etc. It's a form of control on the husband's part. I bet there must be at least some form of emotional/psychological abuse, too. And as she mentions "welfare", then economical abuse, as well.
Look, lady: You need to look for help. To search for a pro-bono immigration attorney (Legal Aid) that can help you to self-petition for permanent residency (VAWA-based). You don't have to divorce your husband for that. You don't have to leave him for that. You don't have to inform him of your self-petition. 
But if you think you (and/or your kids) are in danger, then you have to leave him ASAP.