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Just to confirm - When i filed the I-130, I created a USCIS account. Do you mean I cannot use that same account? My wife needs to go and create her own account?

I checked with AI and it says that I can go ahead and file now even though the spouse doesn't meet the 3 years living together until June. It said that USCIS will continue to process the application in the meantime. Is this correct?

Some of this is based off the G-1151 and other information that I've read. I will be filing the N-400 online. I looked at the paper form but have not looked at the online form yet. My wife got the IR1 visa and emigrated to US on June 10th, 2023. Am I correct that I can file the N-400 online now? On the day of the interview, you have to bring certified tax returns. It says certified tax returns may be ordered by using the IRS Form 4506-T. Can I use the "Return Transcripts" available from my online IRS account for the N-400 online? It seems you can use it for the online N-400 application but for the actual interview, you need certified copies? It seems they need past 3 years if filing based on marriage? We got married in 2021. I filed MFS for 2021 and 2022. When my spouse arrived in June 2023, I went back and amended my 2021 and 2022 returns as MFJ. Therefore, I only need 2025, 2024, and 2023 calendar year tax returns right? I paid tax owed for 2025 just now. Do you know when it will be "effective" so I can include the tax return for 2025? The N-400 asks for USCIS Online Account Number (if any). Should I provide the one that I got when I filed the I-130? Although I didn't see it, I'm sure it will ask for last 5 years of addresses of places where she lived. We both traveled to Bahamas in March 2021 to get married and we stayed there for 3 months for the honeymoon/vacation in 2021 (March to June). Do we need to include those addresses? For marriage evidence, we are going to show the following: 1 joint checking account 2 joint investment accounts 2 retirement accounts with my spouse as the beneficiary Joint cell phone plan (also shows my parents) We don't have any rentals or anything like that (live with my parents)

We got married in Bahamas. She came the long route from Colombo to Grand Bahama transiting through Dubai, Brazil, Panama, and finally Nassau. There is a flight route from IST (Turkey) to PTY (Panama) to NAS (Bahamas). It is important to check flight routes and transit without visa requirements. For an example, PTY has transit without visa for my spouse but she must depart PTY within 12 hours and must show the onward ticket. When she arrived in PTY, while rushing to the next gate (1 hour layover), she asked a airport official for directions. They signaled to Panama Immigration Officials and they came and questioned her on the spot. She quickly showed that she is leaving and showed the onward ticket from PTY to Nassau. Check the passport and visa requirements from https://www.emirates.com/us/english/before-you-fly/visa-passport-information/ Make sure to enter all the countries she would be transiting through and carefully read through the exemptions. You can also use https://www.flightconnections.com to see other routes that might be available from IST to NAS.

Hi. My wife is from Sri Lanka and we met in Bahamas. She went from CMB (Colombo, Sri Lanka) to DXB (Dubai) to GRU (Brazil) to PTY (Panama) to NAS (Nassau) to FPO (Grand Bahama, Bahamas). On the return trip back, she went from FPO (Grand Bahama, Bahamas) to NAS (Nassau) to PTY (Panama) to IST (Turkey) to MLE (Maldives) to CMB (Colombo, Sri Lanka). The reason for the very long trip across many countries was that she probably wouldn't be able to get a VISA or Transit Visa and I wasn't able to fly to Sri Lanka. So we choose route that allowed Transit without Visa (had many limitations) to get married in a another country. I used https://www.flightconnections.com to find flight routes. I used https://www.emirates.com/us/english/before-you-fly/visa-passport-information/ to find the passport/visa information/transit without visa information. I used https://www.passportindex.org/ to check the visa free destinations for Kenya citizens. I did a quick check of the potential routes from flightconnections for Kenya to the Caribbean and I didn't see a possible route with "Transit without Visa". There are 2 potential ones to BGI and PAP but it requires more than the transit without visa time limit (PTY has a limit of 12 hours where you must leave the country if you're using transit without visa). PTY is a main flight hub for South America and Carribean.

Asking for a friend here. They recently had their VISA interview and the CO gave a verbal approval. The CO also said no sealed envelope will be given anymore because everything is digitized and CPB will look up the application. I have not read about this anywhere. Is it accurate?

We received our marriage certificate from the Registrar General of Bahamas (Grand Bahamas). I made sure to get 4 copies - 2 for me, 2 for her. Since Bahamas and USA are both part of the Hague Convention, do the marriage certificates need to be apostilled?