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I agree it's clear. Just wanted to check that there wasn't a trick I had missed somewhere along the line there. Thanks for the affirmation!

Not sure it is a bug exactly...but maybe? Any way to reflect in your timeline that you never got EAD/AP? The only way I can close it off is to say that they were received on (date), but that isn't really true and it annoys me to see "your EAD was approved in xxx days", since it was literally never approved, and that fact made me pretty unhappy at times.

Yeah, you want to format it like a normal letter and I think we did wet signatures for both parties, but not 100% certain any more.

My letter said the following: I, BENEFICIARY, do hereby state that I am legally able and willing to marry PETITIONER and intend to do so within 90 days of my arrival into the US using the K-1 visa. Both the petitioner and beneficiary need to do the letter. Proof is also included in the petition, but not as part of the intent letter.

that is very illegal

Did your employer threaten to fire you purely for the expired GC? Or because of a lack of DL as a result of the GC situation?

Apologies I was thinking of DS3025. I am not with it today. I will leave it to people who actually know what they are talking about 😀

I got one at my visa medical. It was the only documentation that I left the medical with - everything else was sent directly to the consulate.

Completely understand your reluctance to get on a plane and increase your risk of getting sick. In light of your waiver application being unlikely to succeed, it is worth remembering that the vast majority of people who fly don't end up getting COVID - that is something I told myself when I flew transatlantic recently. Also, N95/99 masks are very cheap and easy to come by these days, so invest in one of those and go and see your love

Very wise 👍

Congrats on getting the combo card. That must’ve taken some serious patience.

Thanks all, good to hear of plenty of people paying below the "average". Glad I asked! I gotta get back to researching...

I just checked my last home insurance policy from back home. Approx $150/year for $1,000,000 rebuild (lol, the house probably wouldn’t have even cost 1/10 of that) and $100,000 contents. Deductible approx $500. Other stuff is cheaper here though so it probably evens out. It’s all good

Yeah, we pay around $100 for renters on our small apartment right now. Probably would be comparable back home. Very interesting though, healthcare aside, being its own thing, I don't think I've come across anything with such a wide price gap since I moved here.

I think I had settled on the flimsy construction element. Good to know I wasn't too far off base.

Was wondering if anybody could shed some light on just what makes homeowners insurance so expensive in the US? I am seeing that the average is somewhere $1,250 - $2,000 pa. depending on credit, location etc etc. In the UK, I was paying approx $150 pa. What gives? I know that some stuff is cheaper here and some is more expensive, but something being 10x pricier just seems plain weird. Anybody know why? Or what I am missing? Thanks! ps. really not trying to start a "thing" or particularly even complain, I am just curious

I mean I was more offering a suggestion as to why someone here under K-1 status, or possibly even out of status, may choose to send an original rather than a photocopy. Felony is a pretty scary word. It’s certainly possible I’m wrong, but I doubt there is only one state which prints it right on the certificate.

Interesting. We sent an original with ours (they are very cheap in WI, provided you order them as part of the first order after marriage), and we had no problems. In fact, when I went to the UPS store to make a copy of the entire package, they refused to copy the marriage certificate as it is a vital document and it says right on it that it is a felony to copy or reproduce.

I had a birth certificate issue doing AoS. When I ordered a new one from the UK GRO, what arrived was a long form version

Seconded - OP will likely find the theory and practical comically easy. I am also sure that as soon as I told my examiner I had a foreign DL of 14+ years or whatever that I saw him basically relax and be like "there is no way I'm failing you".

If it makes you feel any better, the system can be kind of random but ultimately have good results. My wife (USC) got her GE even before pandemic times screwed everything up but it still took approx 6 months to get from paying her $100 to conditional approval/ready for interview.

Only tangentially related to the question you were answering, but in WI a marriage certificate can be used at the DMV as proof of identity. I think you can (rightly) quibble about really how a marriage certificate can prove that, but it's right there in the rules, so 😅

Lol I don't know since I just got shown the door after secondary (was it even secondary? idk. they didn't ask me a single thing). They have an enrollment counter in international arrivals (not airside), but obviously that was closed. Perhaps after secondary they were expecting me to walk myself to wherever the interviews are done. Fine in theory except a) I didn't even know I was in secondary since it's not happened to me before and they didn't tell me that was the case (I probably realised that whole experience wasn't to do with GE on the bus, and confirmed by checking my TTP account and seeing nothing had changed), and b) it is 100% not obvious how one can even get from secondary to GE enrolment at O'Hare and you won't be surprised to hear that it's not as if anybody was at all forthcoming with that information. Current working theory is that the CBP officer at the booth knew he had to take me somewhere to do the GE interview, but just took me to the wrong place. We had had a very long day and since we were expecting to be taken elsewhere to be interviewed, we didn't question when he lead us off somewhere (albeit without a word...). Anyway. It is fine. There is a cool bot on Twitter which scrapes GE appointments at CBP field offices and I managed to snag one of those at the nearest office for me before I next plan on travelling internationally. Couple hours of driving but not that bad. Frustrating though when you do everything you are supposed to do and the system just doesn't work properly. Oh well.

I'm not here to give advice on whether to jump to CR-1 or not as others can do it better, but just to clarify, you don't need to Green Card to work and travel after arriving on the K-1. If you apply for EAD and AP, they *should* arrive sooner than your stated 15 months. Granted, the timelines of both of these documents can and do move constantly, however as things stand, your fiance would be unlucky to be waiting idle for 15 months. Many people on the AoS forums are getting EAD in a couple months, I got GC recently after 9 months, people on VJ will usually say 8-10 months for EAD/AP... The plural of anecdote is not data, but I just wanted to let you know that it is not quite as horrible a picture as sitting on your hands for a guaranteed 15 months. ps. for clarity, I am certaintly not saying that it isn't annoying to be sitting on your hands even for 9 months 😅

Yeah, but that is where the luck ends 😁 despite entering at an enrolment POE, I didn't get enrolled and instead got held in secondary. The lines at O'Hare were awful too (hours long). So much so that I am considering a silly-long drive to an available enrolment centre so that I can avoid them when I travel internationally at Christmas 😅 I hope you ultimately have better luck than me!