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1 hour ago, kkalan2 said:

If GC obtained through marriage then marriage questions always going to scrutinized. I was married for 14 years 2 kids from the marriage but i was asked many questions regards to marriage. However my situation was little different I got married during removal procedure.

 

anyway even your marriage may not be consider as a fraud but the current situation is hinting automatically red flags. 

other day I saw post on Avvo that this dude applied for N400 after 10 years But uscis placed him removal proceeding after interview and later got deported for fraud marriage. 

 

Anyway in the end it always burden on proof on the government but same time you need to prepare as well just in case if it comes to that point hopefully not.

I actually saw a post on Avvo that I think is the same one you saw and there were a bunch of other issues there 

7 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

When applying under the 5 yr rule sometimes they ask for more information about your marriage. Yes they can ask even under the 5 yr rule as you did get your GC through marriage.

Just explain  the situation if asked. 

Gather everything and anything you can think of that you did live together even though brief. All it can do is help. 

I don't have anything since we didn't move to a new place or had a joined account, all bills were on his name we didn't change anything 

I am worried that they might ask me why I changed the address one month after arrival and he didn't and it might look suspicious to them, I don''t have any documents that prove we ever lived together since he owns his house and we never had a joined bank account.

I received my 10 year green card 6 months ago (that's when I entered the country)

We never lived together before and after moving in together my husband became very abusive mostly verbally, every little argument triggered him calling me names.

about a month after I arrived he slammed my head against the wall, I took my stuff that night and went to stay with my friend. I didn't call the police, I just left.

This made him very angry and he said he will do everything to deport me, That same moment I changed the address on the USCIS website and I received my 10 year GC at my friends address.

A month later he begged me to come back and stupidly I went back and believed him when he said he won't do that again, but a few days later the verbal abuse started again and I realized that when he gets mad he has no boundaries and he is acting like a wild animal.

I left again. now I want to file for a divorce.

he is saying he will report me for fraud and that the USCIS will investigate me and deport me, he said that the fact that I left so fast will help his claim that this was fraud.

I am wondering what will happen 5 years from now when I apply for naturalization? will they investigate me because I changed the address one month after I arrived? will they deny me? if he report me, will I get into trouble?   

Anyone here applied for a reentry permit? how long does it take to get the biometrics appointment? do they send the appointment notice via mail or email? 

5 hours ago, May531 said:

The one they took during biometrics 

What's biometrics? I came on a cr1 visa

I was wondering what photo do they use for the green card? is it the one that is on the visa?

Please don't tell me it's the one they took at POE!

2 hours ago, Nitas_man said:

It’s done and can’t be undone, don’t worry about it.

 

Sending in your personal conversations is not advised.  Are they really evidence of a valid relationship?  They are not.  You can create reams of “evidence” on chat and never have a valid marriage.

 

Proof of valid marriage (AOS)  is this:  Do you share a home, a bank account, credit cards, insurance (car and health), are you beneficiaries of each others assets,  do you travel together.  At our interview, the CO had all of that, compared our house keys (that was unexpected) copied credit cards with the same number/different names (she was joint but her name wasn’t on the statements).  It is all about demonstrating a blended and functioning household and life together.

Not chats and phone calls.

 

Proof of valid marriage (CR1) is this:  Plane tickets, hotel receipts, photos together, wedding pics, legal documents, and not much else.  It is about physical time and the quality of that time together.  Still not chats and phone calls.  The bar is much lower for couples who reside in different countries because it is difficult to impossible to build or start a blended household while you are waiting for some drone at USCIS to process your file.

 

So don’t sweat it.  I dropped an I-130 on a consulate counter one time and I saw how they “process” it.  They went through the package page by page, handed me the stuff they do not need, and kept only the basic package for themselves.  Said thanks this looks good and they’ll email us our next instructions.  My guess is that the exact same thing happens to the reams of extraneous junk that get sent in to the service centers.

 

Best of luck to you.

 

We sent photos, gift receipts and those stupid texts, I also submitted some new honeymoon photos to NVC, I will probably bring some more photos, hotel receipts, plane tickets to the interview.

I hope this will be enough  

10 minutes ago, carmel34 said:

I suggest that you go with your spouse to the interview if allowed in the embassy/consulate where the interview will be done.  Then if the officer asks about this (highly unlikely IMO), then you will be there to help explain it.  You have one final hurdle, the interview.  Be there for it if you can.  And don't overthink this.  More than likely you will be fine if your relationship is solid and if the I-864 shows strong financial support.  Good luck with the interview!

My husband can't come to the interview, he is in the US and it's also not allowed here

1 hour ago, USS_Voyager said:

Then you bring everything you can to the interview to rebut that argument if that ever comes up.

That is not a problem, but I am worried that they won't ask me anything about it and just say no

2 minutes ago, USS_Voyager said:

If you sent in all chat logs including the “before” and “after” of that incident, it’s easily explained. However I don’t know who advised you to send in all chat logs. That was not necessary. Just select a few representation spread throughout the relationship. That’s all, because:

 

1. No one wants to read 3000 pages of love notes between two people they never met. Do you? And frankly, no one cares.

 

2. Stuff like this is exactly what would happen. You can proof read everything when you send in 3000 pages. And you MUST proof read everything, every word, you send into immigration. Everything you send in will be on your record forever. 

No we didn't send everything, we did read everything we sent and it just didn't seem like an issue back then because I thought they will read everything and understand the story and this actually seems like an argument that a real couple might have, not only love stuff, but now I'm second guessing everything, I read that they don't really read everything and only skim through and if they see only this then they might think the wrong thing. the interview is soon and I am getting very nervous. 

Yes of course, but I am worried that I called her girlfriend instead of ex girlfriend, I know this sounds stupid, but I really don't know how the CO will look at this.

So we have case completed and now waiting for the interview 

I wanted to go through everything we sent to the USCIS and started reading all the chat logs we sent.

I came across something that I think will make the CO think that our marriage is fake.

I didn't think of this before because it didn't seem important at the time we sent our package to the USCIS, however now I think that they might misunderstand and not let me explain.

Here is the story -

One day my husband updated his pic on whatsapp and he used a picture of us together, somehow his ex girlfriend that he hasn't spoken to in 3 years decided to show up at his doorstep after she saw our picture,

of course noting happened between them, he told her that he is happy and that he is getting married, but we did have a fight about that and it's all there in the chat logs because I didn't want to answer to his calls, so we had a fight on whatsapp.

this is not the problem.

The problem is that about a week later, my husband was sick, he fell a sleep and he didn't answer his phone for hours, I called and tried texting him, when he finally answered, I said that I was worried, that I thought something happened to him or the his GIRLFRIEND blocked my number. obviously I wrote that because of the incident that happened a week earlier and obviously meant ex girlfriend, but I'm afraid that the CO might not read the whole thing and think that he has a girlfriend.   

Am I worried for nothing? will they even read those chat logs? (it's a lot of pages I wish I had never sent them)

Right now I can't sleep because of this stupid thing and I am afraid of the interview.I keep reading those chats over and over again.

I'm sure that they will just tell me denied and send me home and I will never get my visa because of this one stupid word.

I have Facebook, instagram, twitter and more, but all are for my business under my business name.

none are personal, other than a facebook that I only use to update my business page.

DS260 is asking about social media accounts, should I list them? or do they need only personal accounts?

there is nothing related to my husband there, only my business, I am an artist and there are only photos of my work there.

will they think it's strange that there are no personal photos there? I'm not sure how they think.

1 hour ago, carmel34 said:

One thing that has become clear these last few months, is that COs are cracking down on the public charge concern at the interview when looking at the I-1864 and the petitioner's US-based income.  They look at the totality of the situation, the minimums are sometimes not enough.  We have seen many recent examples here on VJ of COs asking for a co-sponsor, and sometimes even after providing one, they are still refused on the public charge issue.  As for time to get a co-sponsor if they ask for one at the interview, you can stretch it out for a year if needed.  There was a thread yesterday here on VJ where a couple did not provide a co-sponsor within a year of being denied a visa at the interview, and three years after the interview they finally found one.  When they submitted it to the consulate they discovered that their file had been destroyed so they have to start all over again with a new I-130.  So if you need a co-sponsor, you will have about a year.  I would suggest that you add all the assets you can to the I-864 as it will help your case.  Good luck with your interview!

 

 

If they ask for a co sponsor, will there be another interview? or just to send them the updated forms?

1 minute ago, Canadian87 said:

if his income is 26k then you are above the poverty line and won't need a co-sponsor or use your own assets. 

as to why they require 3-5 times the value; I have no idea. 

 

https://www.***removed***/affidavit-of-support/using-assets-meet-income-requirements.html

He didn't work in 2017 so this is why we are worried.

1 minute ago, little immigrant said:

That's for the assets

 

They told me the same thing at my interview (CR1) and we ended up putting down my co-sponsor house as an asset. They finally accepted it and I was approved. I didn't get a time frame either, at least I don't recall one. 

What was the co sponsors income before adding the asset? did your spouse have no income at all?

1 minute ago, Canadian87 said:

Any assets from the beneficiary must be able to be made liquid within 1 year.

However there are stipulations as to the value needed. It ranges between 3-5 times the difference between your petitioner's income and the poverty line requirements.  

but my husbands income is 26k, why do I still need it to be 3 times more? 

Can I add my stocks and bonds portfolio? will that help? anyone knows?

2 minutes ago, USS_Voyager said:

This is the visa interview you're talking about, right? Not the USCIS I-485 interview. If visa interview, usually up to 1 year. 

yes visa

34 minutes ago, gregcrs2 said:

It's the petitioner that needs to get a co-sponsor if necessary, not the beneficiary.

Well we are husband and wife, it kinda works together 

I'll never get a sponsor in 30 days...

If I go to the interview and they'll say that we need another sponsor, how long will we have to provide one?

I'm worried because my husband is earning just a little above poverty line and I think they might say it's not good enough.

For now we can't find one, so I think we will send the I864 as is and hope to be approved.

How long do we have to get a co sponsor if at the interview they'll say we need one?

Will I need to do the interview again?