hlynnf23

2 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

This might be too far off, but I would contact a CPA (not H&R, Liberty, etc) and see if they can help you draft an explanation for USCIS together with some documentation to back up your statement.

It’s such a messy situation and unfortunately I can’t make my ex-husband try to help. He also owes me $13k in child support!

I have the documents from the IRS saying that the more recent taxes are part of the payment plan and that the monthly amount isn’t changing with adding them to it. And on the transcripts it says the 2021 and 2022 taxes were accepted into a payment plan. 
 

If I go to my IRS account it shows all the payments that have been coming out and it says they’ve been applied to the 2017 taxes. I was also thinking of going to an IRS field office seeing what they can provide to show that the payments plans are in compliance. 
 

Seems like the best choice is to just bite the bullet and pay it off ASAP. 

2017, 2021 and 2022 tax debts are all part of one payment plan. The payments are taken from checking account automatically every month. 
 

The payments are going to the 2017 taxes because they are the oldest debt, so I can’t show that payments are made to the 2021 and 2022 even though they are a part of the same plan because 2017 isn’t paid off yet. 
 

4 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

if all payments are going to 2017 taxes and not current 2021 and 2022,   u r not as u say "compliant to the terms to pay the more current taxes"

 

i would contact IRS local office to see if possible to combine into 1 payment plan for all taxes 

 

as it stands now he (and u) have a tax liability with payment plan that is not current

The 2021 and 2021 are a part of the payment plan with the 2017 taxes, so yes we are compliant with the arrangement.  The transcripts for 2021 and 2022 say that we are on a payment plan and that it’s been accepted. Payments will also go to the older tax debt that is owed. 

I am also a federal employee so if I wasn’t compliant with the plan, I would lose my job. 

It will take YEARS to get the back taxes from my ex-husband paid off with the payment plan (5+ more years) before even starting to pay ours, so we are not willing to wait that long.

We can look at options to pay the more recent taxes with a HELOC or loans if that is what we need to do. 
 

This would be the only thing that could hold him up from citizenship. 

My husband is applying for citizenship this week. We owe federal taxes and are on payments plans to pay them (2021, 2022 I was self employed and we had our W4’s wrong).  I (US Citizen) already owed significant federal taxes with my ex-husband (he was self-employed) which are also on payment plans, so when I go to show evidence that we are in compliance with the plans, it shows that the payments we have been making are going to the older taxes (ex: 2017 taxes) and nothing has gone to the more recent ones yet, but we are still in-compliance with the payment plan arrangements. Is this going to cause problems?  Should we figure out a way to pay the taxes that myself and my current husband owe before his interview?  

Just a quick update, we sailed this week on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas and had no problems at all checking in with my husbands extension letter to the cruise or when we came back and had to go through customs and border patrol. In fact, the officer barely even gave his extension letter a glance. 

We are traveling to the Bahamas on a Disney Cruise in November and my husband’s conditional card expires on August 5th. We already have his 48 month extension letter, but the wording on the Disney Cruise website makes me nervous they won’t accept it. Anyone have experience traveling on a Disney Cruise with their extension letter? 

On 6/6/2023 at 6:37 PM, Blah blah said:

For G-1145  can I file two. One for my husband and one for me or is just one?

I filed two and didn’t receive texts or emails for either of us lol

5 hours ago, Geekosnap said:

 

Interesting. Have you received extension letter in the mail already?

Yes it came on Saturday 

12 hours ago, Geekosnap said:

Does anyone know if this Documents section on the USCIS online account supposed to be empty? I thought we would be able to see the notices/letters sent so far. This is the first time i have been assigned with an online case number.

I received the online access code in the mail yesterday.


 

Ours has nothing in it so far. It’s also our first time with the online account. 

On 5/19/2023 at 12:05 PM, hlynnf23 said:

Case Timeline:

Sent package via UPS to IL Lockbox: 5/8/23

Package received at IL lockbox: 5/9/23

Debit card charged $680: 5/11/23

Received NOA and Biometrics reuse letter received in the mail: 5/19/23

 

Case assigned to California Service Center. 

 

No updates via text or email received even though we sent the G-1145 forms with the package lol

 

 

Received the 48 month extension letter in the mail today, 5/20/23, from the California Service Center. 
 

What I previously listed as the NOA was actually the online code and I couldn’t edit it. 

17 minutes ago, conan789 said:

Thank you very much for share your timeline, and I am very happy for your progress, and good luck with everything in process!

I also mailed my application to IL on 5/8/2023, but since then to now, I still haven't get anything back from them😭  Did your UPS Proof of Delivery show that it was left at front desk and received by a person's name starting with "M"? 

I don’t remember the name, but I do know it said it was left at the front desk. 
 

Also, I think checks take a little longer to cash and then update,  so you are probably within normal times. If we didn’t have USPS informed delivery I would’ve never known the mail was coming today since they didn’t text or email. 

Case Timeline:

Sent package via UPS to IL Lockbox: 5/8/23

Package received at IL lockbox: 5/9/23

Debit card charged $680: 5/11/23

Received NOA and Biometrics reuse letter received in the mail: 5/19/23

Case assigned to California Service Center. 

No updates via text or email received even though we sent the G-1145 forms with the package lol

Aside from them charging my debit card on the 11th, we haven’t heard anything regarding my husbands application 😴

We filed at the Illinois lockbox

Trying to be patient, but like I said before, he needs that extension letter to get a new drivers license!  

34 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Some people don't get notifications yet get receipt letter later. I wouldn't rely too much on it.

I panicked for no reason…the payment is getting taken out tonight 🤪 Thanks for all of your feedback and help!

1 minute ago, oneoftheunderdogs said:

I just meant you could go through your copies and check whether you signed or not.

Oh no, I didn’t make copies of the G forms for payment or text/email notifications, etc unfortunately. Oh well. If we don’t get notification next week then we will know lol

2 minutes ago, oneoftheunderdogs said:

Did you make copies of everything? I didn't for my AOS and had the same panic attacks.. this time I took photos of everything to put my mind at ease...

We can reprint/scan everything, all 500 freaking pages 😵‍💫. But I believe if I did forget to sign it, we will just be able to resend it with the correct fee?  This time I think we will use a check 😂

1 minute ago, OldUser said:

Hopefully it was signed. The worst case you're going to receive the packet back and can resubmit again. Out of curiosity, what made you pay with a debit card instead of personal check? You're paying cash either way and the latter is a better, time tried method.

We had no problems paying by card with his K1 (which was withdrawn later) or his I-130/I-485 when he adjusted status so we just went with what has worked before. 
 

It just sucks because we really need the extension letter ASAP so he can renew his drivers license (which goes by the date of his EAD, not his green card unfortunately). 

I’m over here absolutely panicking because I cannot remember signing the form to bill the debit card 😭

18 hours ago, hlynnf23 said:

We filed today!  In all it was between 450-500 pages due to the joint checking/savings account statements 🥴

 

UPS says it will be delivered tomorrow! 
 

Now the long wait begins! ⏳

I was just told we shouldn’t have put the tabs on there 🤦🏻‍♀️

When we filed his AOS in 2020 it was before the time where they scanned everything and had it start with IOE and we also didn’t have an online account with a code, etc so this is all new. Sigh

We filed today!  In all it was between 450-500 pages due to the joint checking/savings account statements 🥴

UPS says it will be delivered tomorrow! 
 

Now the long wait begins! ⏳

5 hours ago, Sarge2155 said:

Don't swaet the small stuff USCIS is not gonna deny you over no utility bills (joint), your other stated items are more than suffcient. You did not mention taxes.

Definitely have joint taxes from 2020, 2021 and 2022. We will send tax transcripts for the first two years and the return for this past year since it hasn’t been processed yet. 

5 hours ago, OldUser said:

@hlynnf23 I wouldn't wait for joint bills to file I-751.

File it as soon as you're ready and 90 day window opens.

Oh no, definitely not waiting. We have tons of other evidence so I’m sure we will be fine but I had a quick panic moment 😂

2 minutes ago, OldUser said:

That's OK. Can you add each other on utility bills meanwhile? 

It may become relevant if you receive RFE or file N-400 under 3 year rule. Your evidence looks good and absense of utility bills should't hurt too much.

We definitely can. We won’t have proof in time to send his packet but it will be there in case we have to interview for I-751 and will definitely be there for N-400. He works a lot so I just took care of it all when we moved and didn’t think much about it until now!

We are sending my husbands packet on 5/8/23. I’m super nervous about it too!  We have a previous rental agreement, we have bought a house and vehicles, joint bank statements, joint insurances, have each other as beneficiaries on things, plenty of traveling and pictures, but I just realized we don’t have joint utility bills.