KhoaKim

You refile.   You can't use "I sent the wrong photos" as an excuse because you are an adult.

Tips: To talk to a real person, either keeping hitting "0" or just talk non-sense to the recording voice, eventually it will realize that it won't understand you and transfer to a real person. 

Possibly a good indicator of why you are not approved 

Well apparent after calling USCIS 10 minutes ago I found out my case was approved 9-11-19. No update yet on both website. Oh yeah! I’m beyond excited, 😁😁😁😁😁😁🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😘. It’s been a gruesome, mentally exhausting and depressing months me and my wife have gone through with all the setbacks/delays with The Nebraska Center and it sure has its effects on our marriage . I can’t wait to get see the update online and get the Notice of approval letter. My wife will be so excited to find out this breaking news at break of dawn. Bye Bye Nebraska 🤞✌️✌️✌️✌️ Wish everyone else to get approvals soon for the September 2018 PDs and earlier as well that have yet to hear anything. Or try calling too to find out. 

The reasonable course of action of when people have irreconcilable differences:
Talk to your wife, and discuss things. All of the things. Start couple therapy/talk to professional If the child matters to you as you say, then it might be more reasonable let your wife get conditional green card, but it will mean you are locked into I-864 Go on with a divorce if things cannot fixed, use a lawyer, then have a joint custody, where child at least gets to know both parents, regardless which one has physical custody. Both of you move on with your lives in US, staying civil with each other as you will have a child in common. Ex-wife will eventually file I-751 with divorce waiver, it should not be an issue, and won't be your problem. From child's point of view, going by limited and one sided information that was provided that, to me, seems like best course of action. Withdrawing I-864 in secret, while sharing house, and staying married is shady and indeed "vindictive" 

I hope by GOD - she gets a good lawyer gets child support, spousal support and takes half your assets on her way back to china with your child in tow. You wife is not some pet you knock up and ship back to wherever she came from now that you have buyers remorse. 

You said this multiple times. You also said she is "vindictive" In reality, I have no idea what it means in your story. What you can do, and what your right to was covered. I-864 is "your" form, it is the only form in I-485 packet that bears your signature. You can withdraw it at any time for any reason right up the moment green card is issued, at which point it is locked in and can be no longer withdrawn. 
 
The rest is family matter. Remember though, this woman is here because of you. You petitioned for her. You fathered a child with her. And, based on your posts, I am really not sure how effectively you were communicating with her or understood what her needs and desires are. Remember these things that you do, they cannot be easily undone. There is no withdrawing withdrawals. So far I haven't seen or heard anything about what have you done to actually work on your marriage. Or hear what is your actual plan for the child that will be born in 2 months. 

Check out basic jobs like housekeeping at hotels, cleaning on university campuses or in hospitals.  There are lots of immigrants who get those jobs with very limited English.  Some are full-time, some part-time.  Keep working hard on the English!  Hopefully there are free adult English classes in your area.  Good luck!

Congrats! We were in the same month filing in 2018 and both of our spouses are finally here! Time really flies by! 
 
He got his ssn but no green card yet. He arrived on 7/25. He is the process of getting his driver license.
 
My husband has limited English skills. We have been trying to find him a job but no luck. Do you have any advice where we could start? 

I'm currently en route to Brazil to be with my husband, and this time, to bring him to the US with me.  It has been a very emotional two-year journey since we first met online, met in person multiple times, got engaged, later got married in Brazil, and filed for a CR-1 visa.  We were lucky and our CR-1 process only took 11 months.  Now he has his CR-1 visa and is making final arrangements to make this very big change in his life, leaving the job that he loves and all of his friends and family in the city where he has lived all of his life, to move to California so that we can finally live together and wake up next to each other every day.  This will be my 10th trip to be with him and my head and my heart are filled with all kinds of emotions as I sit in airports and deal with flight cancellations and make this long 30+ hour trip to be with him again.  Some of our friends and family think we are both crazy for doing this, but they don't understand the power of true love to transform and change everything, the very trajectory of our lives.  I'm posting this because I think sometimes we feel very alone in this journey, being so far away from the one person we love more than anything or anyone in this world.  Sometimes we have doubts or fears too, if it is really all worth it.  But in the end we do this for love, and to be with our husband or wife and hope that it all works out in the end.  I'm sharing this with the VJ community because I think many of you understand, you may have these same emotional feelings, you're not alone!  Hang in there, it will be worth all the time, money, patience, and pain of being apart, because soon you will be together and your love can continue to grow and flourish.  Sometimes we get so caught up in the long bureaucratic hassles of dealing with US immigration that we forget about the bottom line for many of us--the incredible power of love!  Good luck to you all in your journeys!

Most international student office tell students in no uncertain terms that they may not work except in specific circumstances.
 
You deserve the punishment.  You need to look for another country - including your own - in which to study. Your poor judgment has doomed your future in the US. You will get no sympathy or forgiveness in the future.

Green card can take up to 120 days. Some people got it at 60 days or less and some were over 120 days. It's a mystery. 
 
For the social security card, some people received it within a week after POE and some got it after 1 month. And there are people who never received it so they had to go to the Social security administration office to apply in person. A lot of people didn't want to wait long so they went to apply after 2 weeks of POE date and some even went after a few days of POE date. 
 
My husband immigrated to the U.S. on 7/25 and no SS card or green card yet. We are going to the social security administration today to do his ss.
 
 

Then, Good luck, Hopefully you are working hard enough to be able to afford visa process + attorney ( as you mentioned )+ other expenses and not leaning on your wife's income  

What makes Nigeria hard is that young men are known to search the internet to find a path to the US.  Even more so now that Nigeria is no longer eligible for the DV lottery.   Most of these men prey on lonely older woman, making them feel special and promising them everything they aren't getting here where youth is such a concern. Many of them barely make it to the US before take off.  The CO will tend to assume you are one of these men no matter how true your intentions.  Think long and hard on how you can convince someone that you aren't one of these men.  It is always harder to prove you are not something rather the other way around. 

Since your husband is now outside the US and cannot enter without an approved spousal visa, he cannot sponsor himself.  You as the petitioner are the primary sponsor and you are unemployed so your combined income is zero.  Your only option is to get another joint sponsor.  Your attorney should be fired, clearly from the letter he or she does not understand US immigration.  Not to mention the grammatical errors.  Get a new joint sponsor and send a new I-864 from the joint sponsor with supporting documents including IRS tax transcripts.  Good luck!

My husband had his interview on 6/27 and we passed! The CO only asked me, the petitioner, 6 questions in English.
How did we meet? 
When did it turn romantic?
How many times we met each other after our wedding? I only went back to Vietnam 1 time after our wedding which is this trip to attend the interview with my husband. A year after our wedding. I met my husband in January 2017 during my last week in Vietnam. I hired him as a driver to drive to a shrine. After that we talked on Facebook for 1.5 year and we got married on 6/10/18. I stayed 6 weeks in 2018. So basically we only met 3 times in real life. First marriage for both. Husband is 3 years older.
What was the purpose of my first trip where I met my husband the first time?
Did anyone introduce him to me? No
How long am I staying in Vietnam this time, until when and where am I staying? Then she told me to sit down and wait while she interviewed my husband with a translator.
How did we meet? 
Did it turn romantic when we first met or later/when?
Did we communicate in Vietnamese?
What is my job in the US?
How many siblings do I have and what states are they in?
Then she asked if we have any trip pictures and our Facebook messages. He gave her the evidences. She then said "congratulations! Your visa is approved" and she signed a pink slip. They kept his passport and return all the original documents to us.
 
Our interview was the quickest on that day. Maybe 5 mins. Other people's interviews were like 10-15 mins. We sat there seeing people with blue slip which means requiring more evidences and not approved. It was so nerve-wracking.  My husband and I already knew we passed because at the beginning where we had to give our original documents to the staff, we saw a pink slip in our folder. It means our case is approved. The process might be different for other countries. We bought original documents that we submitted to NVC, but the staff only took my husband's birth certificate, identification card, family registry book, marriage certificate, and medical exam certificate. They didn't take my financial documents. Our CEAC status is shown issued the next day 6/28.
 

My husband had his interview on 6/27 and we passed! The CO only asked me, the petitioner, 6 questions in English.
How did we meet? 
When did it turn romantic?
How many times we met each other after our wedding? I only went back to Vietnam 1 time after our wedding which is this trip to attend the interview with my husband. A year after our wedding. I met my husband in January 2017 during my last week in Vietnam. I hired him as a driver to drive to a shrine. After that we talked on Facebook for 1.5 year and we got married on 6/10/18. I stayed 6 weeks in 2018. So basically we only met 3 times in real life. First marriage for both. Husband is 3 years older.
What was the purpose of my first trip where I met my husband the first time?
Did anyone introduce him to me? No
How long am I staying in Vietnam this time, until when and where am I staying? Then she told me to sit down and wait while she interviewed my husband with a translator.
How did we meet? 
Did it turn romantic when we first met or later/when?
Did we communicate in Vietnamese?
What is my job in the US?
How many siblings do I have and what states are they in?
Then she asked if we have any trip pictures and our Facebook messages. He gave her the evidences. She then said "congratulations! Your visa is approved" and she signed a pink slip. They kept his passport and return all the original documents to us.
 
Our interview was the quickest on that day. Maybe 5 mins. Other people's interviews were like 10-15 mins. We sat there seeing people with blue slip which means requiring more evidences and not approved. It was so nerve-wracking.  My husband and I already knew we passed because at the beginning where we had to give our original documents to the staff, we saw a pink slip in our folder. It means our case is approved. The process might be different for other countries. We bought original documents that we submitted to NVC, but the staff only took my husband's birth certificate, identification card, family registry book, marriage certificate, and medical exam certificate. They didn't take my financial documents. Our CEAC status is shown issued the next day 6/28.
 

They will definitely need to get "married again."  A spousal visa will absolutely not be issued if the marriage date is before the date of the previous marriage's final divorce date.
 
You really think so?????  How?  They will need to file another petition completely, as he was not eligible to file the first one.  Plus, it is Islamabad.
 
There is no way this will take 90 days.  My best guess would be that they are looking at a year or two at least.

Then he, and you by collateral damage, got what he deserved.  The CO doesn't believe he is divorced.  Your "Husband" needs to prove otherwise.
 
He should have an account here to learn how to do immigration on his own.

In the eyes of US immigration is is possible that because of what your husband has done (got a quickie divorce in Pakistan instead of filing and finishing the divorce in his home state) the US still considers him legally married to his previous spouse.
 
Which means, under US law, your marriage is possibly invalid.
 
So if you, and he, do not want to continue to enjoy married life in the paradise that is Pakistan he needs to get back to Texas, get his divorce done correctly, and next time remember that if he wants to enjoy the benefits of US citizenship he can’t file divorce by three text messages or whatever he did to get a quick one over there.
 
 

As i already said, just wait till he gets the divorce decree from TX which could take several months. 
 
You two are suffering because of your husband’s mistake in trying to get divorced in a short time from Pakistan and not in TX, so can’t blame the immigration for this. As a US citizen, he was supposed to follow US policies in divorce and he didn’t.
 
So don’t do anything hastily this time. First thing first, divorce decree.

1) Please don't type in all caps LIKE THIS. It means you are yelling.
 
2) Does your husband live in Pakistan? If not then he probably needed to get divorced where he lives which was Texas.  If he wasn't properly divorced before you were married, you may have more issues.  Your petition will not expire.  But if you do not provide the information that has been asked for within the time frame it is required, then it will be eventually returned to the USCIS.   Currently your petition and visa package are sitting at the embassy. 

I filed an I-130 petition for my husband in July of 2018.  Today his CR-1 visa was approved so we're near the end of the long wait to finally live together.  My husband and I arrived at the consulate in Rio de Janeiro this morning, just before 7 am, for his 7:40 am appointment.  At about 7:50 am my husband's name was called, to go to window 14 which is the one with a door that you close behind you when entering. I was more nervous than my husband was--we have a big age gap and my Portuguese is not great but he was very calm and confident.  We had front-loaded and side-loaded with lots of relationship evidence.  My husband was only asked a few questions in Portuguese by a very nice younger female American consulate officer. She asked him how we met, when we met, and how many times in person I had visited him in Brazil (8 times). I added, in Portuguese, that we had recently spent 11 days in Europe together, so a total of 9 trips together, plus the current one in Rio (7 days), so a total of ten face to face visits. The CO only asked me two questions, in English, my current profession, and how long I had been working in that field. After that she said everything was good, the visa was approved, and that it would arrive in about two weeks by courier service. The whole interview was maybe 5 minutes and we were done and approved. I couldn't believe how smoothly it went. We left the room and passed all the people waiting for their interviews after us and stepped out into the stairwell where we had one of the biggest hugs ever. I started to cry, and we walked out into the glorious warm sunshine of Rio in the morning of Brazilian Valentine's Day. Life is good!  And good luck to all of you still waiting.  Your day will come.

GOD ALMIGHTY WE PRAISE U ON HIGH!!!!APPROVED!!!!!!!....thank you everyone!!!!!!!

This.
 
Has to be pointed out over and over. It is YOU who bring this foreigner to this country, it is YOU who convince the US govt that the relationship is real. And then when it turns out it wasn't because you didn't do enough research on the foreigner, you want to blame the govt or even ask the govt for help? I think not. This is on YOU.