chiquitabanana

Nothing in the marriage certificate says it was a virtual wedding.  Although our case is very strong after living together for 5 years and having joint lease, bank account, etc.

We had a virtual wedding back in June and marriage certificate issued by Sonoma County, even though we live in another county that was taking long time to set a date. Sonoma County accommodated us very quickly.

So based on this article I found that USCIS was rejecting cases postmarked before Feb 24, 2020, for not having i-944, even though their guidelines said it didn't apply to cases before that date, we will better keep the i-944 form and support documents the lawyer has ready to submit in our case.

https://www.boundless.com/blog/uscis-rejects-green-cards-public-charge-rule/

The lawyer is ready to submit our file tomorrow for my husban's AOS, and she called us an hour ago to let us know about the i-944 injunction.  The lawyer says that if we don't want to submit the i-944 and supporting documents, it will take more days to arrange again the file.

In our case, my husband was employed in H1B1 but was laid off, and has never applied or received public benefits.  I have a good income (hopefully will not get lay off in the next months, because the institution I work for has a budget issue  ).

I don't see that including the i-944 form or his financial info will hurt his case.  Do you think we can just leave it there and it will be ignored anyway?

I have the impression that the injunction was placed for petitioners that needed to use medicaid or go into stamps because the covid emergency,  and that it will negatively affect their case.

I can only answer for #3, the lawyer wrote N/A in termination date, then added a note that the health insurance will continue as long as I am employed with my current employer.

We don't own assets (besides my car) and I have a good salary (my husband was laid off 2 months ago but still has savings). Today we talked to the lawyer and she told us that she was going to add my credit card info in the i-944  ,but we told her it seems to meant only his (as applicant) and not the household, although it shouldn't hurt in our case because I pay my credit card in full every month and I don't have a debt on it, and he doesn't use his credit card that much either.

We don't have a joint credit card, only a joint bank account.    He, as the applicant alien,  added his debt and liabilities (notas household, as a guide said) in i-964, but I didn't see an equivalent question for me as US citizen sponsoring and signin i-864.

Thank you very much for your explanation.

Thank you for your answer.  I still have the question:  if he was married before the the i-94 expired, does he need to answer yes to " 17. have you EVER violated the terms or conditions of your nonimmigrant status?"  He never violated his H1B visa before we got married, and I don't know if the intention for that question is the i-94 expiring.

I guess is to check the balances and see if I make the payments (so I don't have a debt), but I also uploaded my credit report, and I don't know if they will want to check all the details of what I am spending with my credit card.

We are working in AOS for my husbands, and the attorney requested 12 months of statements of bank accounts, 401k, etc.  Now they are also asking for credit card statements.  Are any of these statements sent to the USCIS?  I am curious for the credit card one.

My now husband was in H1B.  We were already in a relationship for the last 5 years and got engaged in January 2020. Then in May he was laid off because the covid situation, and we decided to get married in June, and he has been looking for a job in the 60 day grace period that ends in some days.

His H1B was originally to expire in June 2020, but the employer had reapplied a little bit before the lay off and he has received his new extension good until 2023 some days after the lay off.(I believe it is called i 797) He hired some lawyers that prepared the forms for his change of status as a spouse of a US Citizen, but now that we are reviewing the documents we have found a bunch of different errors.

They wrote in the i 485 that he is a H1B overstayer, and  then they answer to 17. "have you EVER violated the terms or conditions of your nonimmigrant status?"  as a YES.

We still need to ask the lawyers why they set that answer as a YES, but it confuses me because we got married when his previous extension H1B expiring in June 2020 was still valid  (actually with the latest extension it was technical valid until 2023).  I am afraid that it will be an immediate rejection.

Because it is the new i-944, it is my husband who was in H1B is filling it, and he filed his taxes always as single (we just got married).  My father never has been in my husband's tax returns.  So I need to fill I-864 setting a dependent, but I understand i-944 is only my husband or the period that we have been married.

Hello.

We got married to my fiance of almost 6 years a month ago (June 2020).  I am a US citizen and he was in H1B but because the current situation he was laid off, so we moved the wedding  we were planning to earlier.

I had my father as dependent in my 2019 tax return, but my father's immigration status is a bit complicated, is not living with us and I will not listed him again as dependent.

The lawyer told my now spouse that he may need to list my father as part of our household in i-944, but I disagree because we were not married in 2019 and our taxes we will not be joint until next year.

Please advise, I am thinking if I can amend my 2019 tax, but that will take some weeks.