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On 6/11/2023 at 10:01 PM, az_jared said:

My fiance and I are both almost 43 and want a child very much. By the time a visa is given, it may be too late to start a family. How does getting pregnant/having a child during the application process affect the process? Does anyone have experience with this? Would it be better to apply for a fiance or a marriage visa if we may get pregnant/have a child during the process?

We both got residency in Spain, and waited there during our years-long spousal visa application.  (My spouse cannot enter the US without a visa, and so we could not do AOS as suggested by some of our confused European friends.) 

Spain has great IVF clinics.  

On 8/29/2022 at 10:51 AM, veronicabiondi said:

Thank you Rocio0010. If that's indeed the case and he needs to meet the financial requirements(I was literally told the opposite from attorneys that I paid for consultation), then we are in the process to add him as the main owner of the property that I purchased in Ohio. We have initiated that process so basically he will have assets. Would that count?

 

Thanks

It's possible that your husband will be charged for his time in prison.  If he has assets, the state may try to collect from him.  I have no personal experience, just read this NPR article.  FYI.

 https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-of-states-allow-people-to-be-charged-for-time-behind-bars

On 4/27/2022 at 6:37 AM, tofulollipop said:

Hi all, we're still waiting for our I-130, but I figured I might as well ask ahead to be prepared. I'm a US citizen, my wife is a Mexican citizen. We are currently living abroad in Spain. My work contract ends in December, at which point I will be returning to the US, and my wife to Mexico until the visa comes through. We've already been waiting on the I-130 for 7 months now, so I assume it will come through soon. We were hoping we could schedule an interview at the consulate in Madrid with the hope that it would be shorter than in Mexico, although with how long the I-130 is taking, it seems that we would likely not be in Spain anymore by that point. What are the appropriate steps here? Do we still schedule the interview in Spain? Or do we schedule it in Mexico? Is it possible to schedule her visa interview in Mexico while we're still living in Spain?

Some aspects of our situation are similar to yours, except we are many months ahead of your timeline.  We stayed in Barcelona for two years.  Sadly, the pandemic stopped our plans to travel all of Europe, but we saw a lot of Barcelona and the surrounding regions.  Then, the US citizen spouse took employment back in the US.  Subsequently, our case was expedited to the US Embassy in Spain.  The expedite was approved within 30 days of the request, and the interview was scheduled within 3 weeks of the approval.

Anyway, I expect to write more about our experience in late May, after our interview at the embassy.  You can see more of our case details if you go to my timeline.  Feel free to PM me.

Hello All,

Our request to expedite our spousal visa process was approved, and the US Embassy in Spain has given us an interview appointment date in the next two weeks.

However, there is also a requirement for a medical exam prior to the interview.  The US Embassy gives a single medical provider, in Madrid, who is authorized to do the exams.  We called them all day on Thursday (yesterday), and when we finally reached someone, they said the person who schedules medical exams for visas was unavailable.

I have a couple of questions that I'll throw out in to the ether.

1. Is there really only one medical office in all of Spain for these exams?  For people living outside of Madrid, this requires two trips to Madrid.  (Or one very long stay, which is what we're considering for our situation.)

2. Can anyone share their recent experience with the medical exam process in Spain?  Is it absolutely required to attend the medical exam 10 days prior to the interview?  Will we really have to go in-person to the medical office to pick up the results?  

The second set of questions have been emailed to the folks at the Embassy who took over our case when the request to expedite was approved.  Hopefully, I'll have an answer from them on Friday. 

On 3/21/2022 at 5:07 AM, Kuchiki said:

If one has submitted IRS transcripts to NVC, is it pertinent to also submit W-2/1099? In other words, will NVC send an RFE if only IRS transcripts have been submitted and not W-2/1099?

Per the NVC website:

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If you filed jointly: If you filed taxes under the “married filing jointly” category, you must also submit your Form(s) W-2 or schedules(s) from the most recent tax year.

We relied on the opinions of our attorney and VJ randos, ... and after much waiting got an information request for the W-2s and 1099s from the NVC.  We now submitted all of the documentation to show the separate income for each spouse. 

Avoid our mistake. Just submit the W2s, 1099s, and any other income documentation to separate the income for each spouse with your original submission.

On 3/24/2022 at 5:43 PM, RebeccaR said:

So I had all my documents accepted today, including 2021 taxes and the gave us an FE for W2s for 2021. Aren’t  transcripts better? Now are we stuck waiting another 3 months? 

We had the same request for evidence in our IR1 proceeding at the NVC.  We originally submitted tax transcripts (in September 2021), and just received a request for evidence for  the W2s and 1099s.  The instructions indicate that  W2s and 1099s are not required if tax transcript was submitted.  I did submit the W2s and 1099s, and I am following up through other channels to see whether we can get our case processed in a timely manner. 

(We both have portable/international incomes that exceed the median income in our intended home city, Seattle; a reasonable person would find that we far exceed the support requirements.  This should be evident from the tax transcripts.)

Is anyone else from the September 2020 filing group still ... waiting?  We progressed to the NVC stage.  Our first filing was in September 2021.  They sent the papers back in December 2021, saying that I needed to write the date in ink next to my signature.  Did that reset the clock for me (another 3 months of ... waiting)?  I'm getting impatient!

On 6/27/2021 at 8:16 AM, Jemry said:

Congratulations, I hope my case also will get an approval soon..

We're still waiting also.    Our case was filed at the Texas Service Center, but supposedly moved to the Nebraska Service Center.   Our attorney has been making gentle inquiries about our case, but still nothing has happened.

9 minutes ago, HKS said:

What wont help in Turkey?

An observation about the ease of getting residency status in Spain.

This won't help you in Turkey, but if you are open to living in other countries, might I suggest Spain?  As a US citizen, I found it straightforward to apply for a non-lucrative visa in Spain, which lead to a residency permit here.  In theory, it is possible to bring one's spouse here on the basis of one's own residency permit.  The taxes are higher than the US, but it is workable for us right now.  Spain has been encouraging immigration for about the past decade.  

This President sometimes Tweets things he cannot deliver.  And, trying to make sense or meaning of what he says is maddening.  I'm curious how this will be implemented in the wide world outside of his control.

Showed this to my non US citizen spouse here in Spain.  We've been contemplating whether to settle here or leave our lives unsettled for another year or two while working through the spouse visa.  My inclination is to wait until things settle down politically in the US.  We are safe here in Spain, it is a beautiful country.