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hctiwsblade13

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  1. There have been some developments. Looks like they’ll be transferring services to Melbourne while construction is finishing at the Sydney Consulate. See Consulate’s most recent post yesterday afternoon. Would encourage anyone following this thread to follow the Sydney Consulate’s social media pages.
  2. I (30M) am the USC and spouse(27M) and I live in Australia together (I'm a dual citizen). We're shortly to have our CR1 interview, and our joint sponsor fell through. We don't have an option for another one because I actually don't have family in the US because my mom moved back here after she and USC stepdad split up. I'm an actor (so is spouse), and I work consistently, and I work internationally, including several tours in the US over the past few years. I have an American CPA going through my tax returns, US and foreign, from the past ten years–which includes time before I moved to Australia–to write an attestation letter to establish that my current international self-employed income as a performer is USD$XX,XXX and that it should reasonably be expected to continue when we relocate to the US. We also have modest cash savings to include as well. This is all to satisfy the income requirement. Then, we're including evidence to build our case in the statutory factors for consideration (age, health, skills/education, financial resources, family status). We're including pay stubs from very lucrative projects when spouse worked in the US under the OPT and O1 visas, letters from both my talent manager and his commercial talent agent speaking to our employability, transcripts from spouse's and my degrees both earned in the US that correspond to our career paths, perhaps including an opinion letter from spouse's labor union in the United States. We're trying to put together an absolutely rock solid case that we're both employable. We know it's nontraditional. I don't expect anyone reading this to really understand an acting career. An immigration lawyer that we had a consultation with said we're on the right track, and that he'd be giving the same legal advice to someone else in our position, and that we also present very well. We know we're going to be playing hard to the consular officer's discretion. I'd love to hear if there were any other interesting, unique, nontraditional I-864 success stories out there?
  3. Tweet from @USConGenSydney today: Might be a bit more tedious, guys. Wish they would just give us a date.
  4. How did you go about your expedite request, if you don't mind my asking? We sent one through my Congressman at the beginning of last week, but have yet to hear.
  5. I am USC. My spouse and I live together in Australia. We've been DQ'd and interview to be scheduled soon. Spouse's father just won a significant, high-profile settlement, and has gifted us a sizeable sum for our relocation fund. That sum pushes our savings to over 3x the Federal Poverty Guidelines. We initially had a joint sponsor, but would like to relinquish the shared burden of joint sponsorship. However, I understand the suspicion that such a windfall might arouse in a Consular Officer adjudicating spouse's visa application. Is there any way to signify the legitimacy of our savings to use as assets? Or are we stuck with having to use a joint sponsor?
  6. Surely the Consulate is reopening in line with everything else, right? Hoping October 11? This has gone on forever!
  7. We just got our DQ for CR1 visa. Do we know if the Sydney Consulate is even accepting cases from the NVC right now given the lockdown? We're working on scheduling spouse's medical exam, and then as soon as that is done, emailing the consulate to say we could fly to Sydney at a moment's notice. And then planning on flying to LAX the moment we receive his passport back. Any clues on what the NVC to Consulate process is like right now?
  8. I am a US-Australian dual citizen. My spouse and I live together in Australia. Spouse is due to receive CR1 visa shortly. The plan was simply for us to move together after he acquired his visa. There is now a chance that I might get a really good job that keeps me in Australia for a little bit longer (it's a contract, so not an open engagement). I can't, in good conscience, ask my spouse to stay here in Australia and bumble around waiting for me to finish up, when our intention has been for him to start his career in the US. What I'd love to do is for us to go over to the US together, set up our apartment, and then come back for the job. But unfortunately, Australia's closed borders mean it isn't quite so easy. Can my spouse go over in advance of me to set up our domicile? If I get this job, I intend for the company to list the US city we're moving to as my home base. And the job will be partially produced by an American company. Any ideas on this?
  9. I am the USC petitioner for my spouse's CR1 visa. In mid-May, everything except my spouse's police certificate was accepted by the NVC, and within their document processing timeframe. We got the new police certificate, and submitted June 7. Now the NVC processing timeframe is saying that, as of this Monday, they're reviewing documents submitted on June 8, but this police certificate still hasn't been approved. This is literally the last thing to complete our case. But also, I'm suspecting it hasto do with something strange that happened on our CEAC (red box is redacted name). Before submitting the replacement police certificate, these strange entries appeared regarding "1st Marriage"--obviously a police certificate, passport bio page, or photographs don't change with a different marriage--so I spoke to an agent at the NVC. She said to add in the comments, "Approved below." I feel like now some other agent has seen this and is thoroughly confused. Is it worth calling the NVC about this? I want to get this police certificate approved so we can move forward before my work contract ends next month.
  10. So, given the lockdown in Sydney, do immigrant visa interviews just cease until it's lifted? We're about to get our Case Complete in the next couple days, and were planning to depart for LAX at the end of August. Travel exemptions from Australia already granted. I'm on a contract that ends 22 Aug. Are we kinda screwed at the moment?
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