YellingSeal

Back in March I sent a straight to the point letter asking to switch my petition to a divorce waiver with my divorce decree to the address in the bottom left corner of my Notice of Action I-797. From looking at similar situation here, it seems most people that did the same thing receive a case status history update on the USCIS along the line of "Correspondence was received". I do have the tracking number of when I sent the correspondence. First question would be: Is this a big deal? Does this happen often and am I safe with my tracking number? If it's a big deal what can I do? Resend it? Send it to different offices? Call them to confirm they received it? I mean I would prefer to call them to just get my answer but I doubt it's possible, which seems insane to think I wouldn't be able to find that information out but nothing surprises me with this whole process anymore... Thank you!

What has changed is that we are in the process of divorcing. The divorce is filed and I'm waiting on the decree. The local court has not finished it yet. So technically, until it is finished I am still legally married but other threads on here seem to suggest that I still apply as divorced while waiting for my divorce to be final and get the decree. USCIS does not provide lots on information on this but I wanted to have opinion and maybe experience on it. In my opinion, I'd rather file jointly first since I'm still legally married, explained that the divorce is in process and that the decree will be amended to the petition once it's available (as per their instruction since there is no in-between checkbox and they don't explain what to do for this situation)

I was about to file jointly because from my understanding, the choice is binary. Either you are legally married (I still am since I do not have the divorce decree) or you are divorced. I filed for divorce in my state and am currently waiting on the result. Could be done tomorrow or in a couple of months (the joy of bureaucracy that this forum knows too well). Everything is done. My forms are filled, evidence is gathered. The only sticking point is filing jointly or not and what extra declaration/statement can be made to provide insight/detail into what happened. I am not a big fan of filing with missing required document (divorce decree) expecting an RFE and provide the decree at that time. I've also read that people seems really against filing jointly while in the process of divorcing as that could be seen as lying. Keep in mind that while filing jointly, I have a couple of lines in my cover letter explaining that we are living at different address since X and filed for divorce in X and I'm waiting for the decree which I will send with an amendment later on. So questions are: To file jointly or not? What should I say? Explain timeline of relationship. Explain in detail what happened. Have ex-wife explain her side and sign a statement? Thanks P.S: Best case scenario is to get the divorce decree before my deadline. But this is unlikely. I still think I will call the court until 2-3 days before my green card expire to hopefully get the decree and overnight my I-751 if I'm really close to the date.

My case is not good. Got separated 1 year after moving. Not divorced. Moved 2 months after getting to the US and did not know I needed to notify USCIS (just did). Only proof that exist is picture together, a joint lease, testimony of less than 10 people (if they want to do it), chat logs. Applying 1 month late. Basically I think we are very likely to get an interview. My question is "Where are the interviews?" It says local USCIS on most resources but its unclear if all of them conduct the interview. Based on my state, I have to send the form to Arizona which is quite far. My sponsor (ex-wife, not divorced) would be willing to travel for an interview to the local office our zip code gives us here (https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-a-uscis-office/field-offices) but not to Arizona. Another question I have is "Should I wait for my online AR-11 to go through before submitting my I-751?" I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. Also, should I get a lawyer? Don't really have the money for it right now (the 600$ fee is already a lot) but having a complicated case makes me anxious. Though the process of even getting here was much harder and more complicated and I never used a lawyer for that. Thanks