Lexir1190

Hi, I was wondering how you organized your documents. My husband and I are filing for his AOS from TN visa. I'm the USC and he is from Mexico. Any advice you can give about the organizing of your packet would be appreciated! 

Thanks in advance! 

Did anyone submit the medical exam? What did you have to submit? We are AOS from TN. I know it says somewhere we don't have to submit that until the interview process (correct me if I'm wrong)

16 minutes ago, pigrew said:

My wife ended up only using bank accounts as assets, so we didn't. They officially want an "assessment" to be done on the value of the house. The deed normally won't state current the property value (though it may mention the selling price). 

 

The way that the I-944 is described, there are not hard-limits on anything... they look at the "totality" of the situation and make a determination, so there could be some leeway. If you believe you have a strong application, you probably can "get away" with submitting a recent property tax notice, documentation of purchase price, and a Zillow estimate. It isn't as strong as they want, but is much easier to collect than having an assessment done. We are hoping they will overlook some of their requests (like us not getting an accredited analysis of foreign undergrad college records since we have a bunch of graduate classes completed in the USA). The filed income is about double their "minimum" and we also submitted significant savings.

 

 

Our SMS messages were sent on a Sunday night, four days after credit card charges appeared. See here for our detailed timeline. I'm wondering if our's took a very long time since we had filed the I-130 online? Or maybe since we screwed up the first submission and it was rejected, and they de-prioritize submissions with green pages?

Thank you so much for answering! I will definitely look that up. We have the deed, property tax receipt, and a zestimate from Zillow. The market hasn't fluctuated here much, so hoping it's fine. Our income is way above the minimum so we are hoping a lot of this is just minutiae for the purpose if you don't meet the income requirements 

Hi for anyone who filled out the I-944...when claiming a property as an asset, what did you submit? We own a property outright. Is the deed enough? 

Hi, I just found this forum and am very grateful! I have many questions. Every time we finish a packet, I find something else we need to do. Just to give some background I am a US citizen by birth and my husband is on the TN visa and we got married in March. So I have a bunch of questions regarding filing the I-130 online. 

In the online I-130 form it asks for just one photograph. We got the 2x2 passport photos per the I-130 instructions.

1. We are having a problem though, every time we scan them in they look like the background isn't white, which it strictly says on the submission form. Almost ready to throw in the towel and mail it in with all of the other paperwork. Should we just mail in the I-130 with the I-485? 

2. For the I-944, it asks for appraisals of owned property. We own a property outright and want to make sure that we are doing this correctly. We have the deed. Is that enough to submit with assets? Or do we need to have the house appraised? 

3. For the I-944, do we need to include translation for high school diploma/transcripts? We provided it for the college diploma and transcripts. 

4. If I submit the I-130 online, then I would send all of the paperwork via the Chicago lockbox together. My husband's I-485 and I-944 are submitted together? Do I submit everything together separately once we receive notice from USCIS about the I-130 being accepted online? 

Thank you in advance!!