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Do you get any type of 1099s or anything? If so, I recommend submitting those as well as some of the bank statements if you think the account balances will help in your favor.

Well, in our case, if my spouse is in Peru and I am in the US I have to go to the Peru consulate here in FL and do a document, notarized by the consulate, that I am allowing my spouse to leave the country with our child. Fortunately, we haven't had to do that but in Peru they always check at the airport during check-in.

This stage is more about the petitioner. Just looking at my submissions at this stage were: 1) Online petition i-130 2) US spouse b/c 3) Child CRBA 4) Proof of US spouse divorce from prior marriage 5) Photos 1 each of me and my wife according to requirements 6) Marriage Certificate 7) i-130A 8- photo collection 9) joint bank account 10) joint health insurance 11) US spouse US passport

This may be an issue as I believe to claim a child as a dependent for the child tax credit, that child must have lived with you for more than half the year....I may be wrong but definitely double check.

This depends on the country. Peru, for example, requires it and it has to be notarized.

Is it just me, or is everyone not having any luck getting the page to load when you click on the Unread Content link? All else seems to be working ok.

Just suggesting you have a plan B, that's all. You can try as we did: we were way over the required amount for assets, all liquid as water, US based, and all documented very nicely. In the end, the CO wouldn't consider them and insisted on a joint sponsor anyway; not a huge deal since I had prepped my sister well in advance for that possibility. When all was said and done it added about 2 or 3 months to the process. Important to point out too, embassies seem to vary widely in their behind-the-scenes policies so what's true for one applicant in one city can be completely different for another applicant in another city.

Once NVC receives your case and creates an account (in our case our NOA2 was received by us on 10/07 and the NVC case creation email was received on 10/10). Once your case is created at NVC you can start uploading documents. Now, if you want to delay everything just don't hit the submit button and you can delay. From the email - IMPORTANT: If you do not log into CEAC or communicate with NVC regarding this immigrant visa case for a period of one year, by law the Department of State must terminate your visa application. In your case, and if I'm understanding your question correctly, you can go to the US now and secure the job and domicile (keep in mind that there is no absolute guarantee of a visa being issued) and wait to upload the i-864. Alternatively, you could submit everything to NVC if you have a good idea on visa processing times for spouses in Germany and that would give you a rough estimate of how much time you would have between submission and interview; you would have to get the job and establish domicile within that time and bring an updated i-864 to the interview.... which may be a little risky.

Also, don't forget about tax returns for at least the last 3 years filed by the US citizen....

You can certainly try to use assets but based on my own personal experience, definitely have a joint sponsor lined up. We were hoping to use just assets and, despite having plenty, they gave us the 221g at the interview for a joint sponsor; fortunately we had one lined up, however reluctant, and it did add an additional couple of months to the processing.

Just be cautious with this as the plan...the view on liquid assets seems to be hit or miss (some consider them, some don't and may require a joint sponsor regardless).

Yes. Make sure you continue to maintain or establish proof of domicile (pay US taxes, maintain US driver's license, US bank accounts, etc) before she files; also have a joint sponsor lined up.

Proving domicile, or intent thereof, is possible from out of the country. I lived in Peru for years and years and was able to remain with my spouse for the entire time throughout the entire process. It is possible.

Yeah, ok... lets talk about that. My wife just got her visa several months ago (we applied when Trump was still President, during the pandemic, when the economy was still very good despite the pandemic) and now we're faced with this ####### - higher prices for everything, higher cost to buy a home, higher cost of living...this is awful. But my biggest concern - my beautiful 10 year old daughter - in just a few short years, maybe even less, she'll be at an age where she'll be susceptible to peer pressure and for sure will have girlfriends or boyfriends that will try to pressure her into using drugs....and these are definitely not the drugs of my time...those pale in comparison.....but fentanyl, etc ....all the ones that are being brought across the border everyday, all day ... this is a problem your President doesn't even seem to address, and with the help of the media, it goes completely unnoticed. So please, don't give me that "it's bad in red counties too" #######, it's bad because there is no border control and it's allowing all these drugs to flow freely in through the southern border and spread all across the nation.

They are (and by "they" I mean mostly the mainstream media and dems - one in the same) doing this with Fetterman now in PA; now he has his wife out there protecting/stumping for him....(just like Jill).

She was on for a bit this morning on Inside the Numbers with Rich Baris, though it's worth watching the entire video if you're into polling stats, Kari Lake starts at about 35:00.

Just FYI, the first one is the actual divorce decree from the clerk of court, the second is the divorce certificate from Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics. In my case, we uploaded both.

Isn't this telling them to lie...or at least misrepresent the truth?

You are my hero today!

This is absolutely ridiculous....no wonder the immigration process is so hard for the rest of us....

those are seriously difficult to find...

The tourist visa shouldn't be affected until the interview.

Yeah, we are dealing with weird name situation. My wife is Peruvian; they have endless names here but, for example SSA only allow so many letters. So my wife's (this is not her real name) is Milagros Sanchez Dominguez de C. (or about that). So that's how it will be printed on her SS card....

OK, so (oddly) prior to my marriage I used to get secondary ALL THE TIME.... I once flew from US-Guayaquil-Lima and nothing out of the ordinary, but on the way back, I got the internal scan in Lima, I got questioned and searched by the drug enforcement police in Ecuador, and got secondary when I arrived in Fort Lauderdale....hell of a trip!

Jiminy, I wish he'd give me, my new LPR spouse and daughter a free trip to Martha's Vineyard.....my wife's still hoping for an ObamaPhone....I told her not to hold her breath, she did it legally.