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Financial comingling is one sign of a bonafide marriage. To prove comingling you can provide joint tax return transcripts and bank statements from joint accounts. Failure to satisfy USCIS by providing evidence sometimes results in even more intrusion. You and your spouse can be called into interview and interviewed separatly. Questions asked may be about your finances and even intimate life, which is super intrusive. USCIS may visit your home and go through your rooms, ensuring you're living together. I feel like providing bank statements is the lesser evil. Anybody can open a joint bank account and never use it. Bank statements show you put your mouth where your money is. It demonstrates that you actually comingle finances.

I see low reward and high risk. Just print and sign. You don't your case to have delays because of this.

The thing is, in case if something happens and you need to reprove everything to USCIS, it's gonna be hard without copies of what you already filed. Great that you already have digital copies. I personally keep originals too just in case, but you may not need those if you have scans. Personally, important paperwork like this is the last thing I would be shredding. I'd get rid of many other things before it comes to these papers.

If you abandon LPR, you need new case and new processing times depending on how things are going in the future. If you'rw getting LPR based on marriage that's over 2 years at the time of GC approval, it would be 10 year GC.

As @EatBulaga pointed out, civil surgeon will give you vaccines that are age appropriate you're missing due to not available in your home country etc. You won't be receiving anything you already have or inappropriate.

Hi I'd highly advice keeping copies of these indefinitely. You can scan them and keep as files. I hope few megabytes of storage is not an issue in this day and age? You never know when you'll need them again. Likewise. Keep copies, at least digital. Remember, you're never fully "done" with USCIS. Filing another petition in the future or USCIS revisiting your immigration may require information at any point. For I-864, I hope the US citizen realizes they're the sponsor until immigrant becomes a citizen or earns 40 quarters of Social Security contributions?

Yes, please use certified mail so you have proof of sending them the letter.

Write a physical letter to service center processing your case. FOIA email address has nothing to do with your case.

I think biometrics appointment is an excellent opportunity to fix this problem and ask the personnel to correct it. You should also sent a mail to USCIS, explaining the mistake. Ensure to include case number.

I was answering the question about obtaining EAD based on AOS . I thought you said it takes roughly 8 months and @Nnnnnn said it was shorter based on research.

This is for work permit based on AOS

Did you check processing times during the research? https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ At the time of posting: California - 5.5 months NBC - 8.5 months Nebraska - 4 months Texas - 4 months Vermont - 10.5 months You don't get to pick the service center. Depending on your luck you can be done in 4 or 10.5 months.

You cannot force somebody to move to the US permanently against their will. It's very kind of you thinking about her safety, but I think this is all waste of time and money. Plus whenever she renews visa, she'd have to flag an immigrant petition was filed. This could lower chances of tourist visa approval. And if she somehow gets GC, she cannot have "maintenance visits". It's for living in the US. If she spent 9 months in the US and 3 in Ukraine in a typical year, that's one thing. If she spends 11 months in Ukraine and comes for a month to the US to leave again - that's inconsistent with LPR status. Again, think worldwide taxes.

@PeterMcS I think you're right to be concerned. To me this is this is a red flag: Cannot advice much but to ask a member of your family, who can be eligible, to be a joint sponsor. Let us know how it goes.

Carry the marriage certificate to explain the discrepancy between passport name and GC name.

Does the name in your passport match the name on GC? What was the basis for changing the name? Was it marriage? If so, you should carry marriage certificate if names don't match.

Nobody here knows 100% whether you're going to be interviewed, but the chances are very high. They're higher because of divorce. And also you didn't have AOS interview. It's rare (I haven't seen any) case when both interviews were waived. Unless you file N-400 when I-751 is pending and USCIS interviews for both. Though unlikely in your case, since you're gonna apply under 5 year rule.

There's a reason for 4 year extension letter I guess. 2 years for biometrics, 2 other years for adjudication. What a shame is these processing times...

He can try but not sure he's gonna have success. He's no longer on visa though. He's LPR. At least in California I got 5 year DL expiring on my birthday last time I renewed it on conditional GC.

Yes, 1099 and tax return transcripts are different things. Tax return transcripts can be downloaded from IRS website.

Sending the best wishes!

Why did you apply for N-400? You should have had clear 5 years since re-entry in 2019. E.g applied in 2024 after anniversary of coming back in 2019. That would have removed a lot of questions. I don't anticipate you losing LPR status easily. Other than filing taxes, did you maintain any other ties to the US? Did you have bank accounts / credit cards from the US that you had or used while being away? Did you have a car, active lease in the US while you were away? Those also may help. If you had your own house back then, it's a big US tie too and you shouldn't worry in my opinion.

Plot twist: it was the same officer? 😃 Jokes aside, @A - J thank you for your experience. A lot of the times, online community only reports negative experience at USCIS, giving readers skewed perception of how immigration is. Surely, there's many bad experiences, but there's also a lot of positive stories like yours which don't get reported. Congratulations!

Sorry @Michaella Jovan , I thought you had a British passport. With Philippinnes it may be more difficult to change name in passport, I guess you have to evaluate level of effort. Ideally, names should match everywhere for easy travel and immigration

Agreeing with @Chancy here. It's easier to change name in UK passport now and have consistent name across all documents when establishing life in the US. Otherwise, you'll have mismatch in multiple places. It'll take time and money to fix it. Not saying it's impossible, people do it all the time. I just find it a bit messy, and easily avoidable in your case. Alternatively, can live with maiden name until you naturalize in the US, change your name in N-400 and then, update UK passport. In my opinion only, it's easier to navigate through entire immigration process with one name.