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My wife is currently in her home country, and our son (a U.S. citizen) is with her. My wife is a permanent resident with a U.S. SSN, but she will not be filing U.S. taxes. She has spent more time with our son in 2024. Long story short, I will be filing as Married Filing Separately (MFS), and since I spent less than six months with my son, I cannot claim him as a dependent on my taxes. However, after doing some research, it seems that I may be able to use Form 8332 to claim him. Has anyone had a similar experience? Also, is there a way to submit Form 8332 via e-file?

Does my spouse need my written permission to leave the country to go to South Korea? Will the airline/us immigration ask for a written permission? The will fly from California to Korea. FYI, both my spouse and child are Korean citizens. Also, my child is both a US and Korean citizen.

@Daphne . @Boiler It seems like I need to login to my USCIS account. Silly question, but do I need to login with the account I made when I applied for Form I-130 on the USCIS website? Or do I need to create a new account? Thank you.

Hello, A month after my wife arrived in the US, she got a letter saying that USCIS has received her immigrant visa packet. However, they cannot process her packet or produce her permanent resident card until she pays the USCIS Immigrant fee. The total cost is $220. I've never heard/read about this. I thought we already paid all the fees before she was approved for the visa. Did anyone also had to pay the $220 to get the green card?

I'm unsure whether my wife needs a consent letter to take our son to South Korea. Does she require written consent from me to travel out of the US with our child? Also, my wife and son have both Korean citizens and will use their Korean passports.

@milimelo While I was double checking, I read this in page 2 in the ds3053 "Please Print Legibly Using Black Ink Only. If you make an error, complete a new form. Do not correct." This is a silly question, but does that mean that I have to write everything down by hand written with Black Ink?

@milimelo I'm about to get my DS-3053 notarized. Since I don't have a physical bank in the US, is it possible to get it notarized in UPS? https://www.theupsstore.com/store-services/notary-services

From my research, my wife brings the DS-3053 (also the normal applications to get the passport) to the US embassy in Seoul? Since my wife and son is in South Korea and I'm the US, how do I get the DS-3053 notarized?

My 6 year old son is in South Korea. His US passport is about to expire. My wife is a Korean national. Is it possible for my son to renew his US passport with me being present in South Korea? Do I need to show up in the US embassy?

My son will enter the US with his US passport. He is a dual national for both Korea and the US. When he enters the US, he will have less than 6 months in his US passport. I know for a fact that he can't be refused entry in the US because he is a US citizen. But my concern is him leaving the US. Can he leave the US with less than 6 months in his passport? Also, he is going back to Korea and he will use his Korean passport to reenter Korea.

Do you know how long it normally takes for a re-entry permit? Does she need to apply for it in the united states? @pushbrk @Dashinka

My wife's visa has been approved for her CR1 visa. However, she needs to return back to her country after a month in the US. She will come back to the US after a couple of months later, but I'm worried that US immigration or the airline will give her issues because of a return ticket back to her country. If I understood, once she enters the US, she needs to stay in the US and needs permission from US immigration to leave the country because here visa can be revoked. Is this a concern that my wife and I should be careful about?

Is there anyone else who can answer this because it seems like there is no correct answer? It seems like getting the correct Australian police certificate is all over the place. Did anyone here got approved just with the digital certificate?

The issue we have is that we don't have anyone in Australia that can send it to us. So it seems like we have have to get the digital one accepted. How did your's got rejected for a second time?

1) Is there a reason why they didn't accept the digital copy? 2) how long did it take to get the digital and hard copy? 3) Is there a difference between the digital and hard copy? @GusGusGusGusGus Did you submit a digital copy or hard copy? Thank you.