Dear Mike E.
Your answers & guidance are by far the best I have ever received since this painful process has begun!
THANK YOU so very much for being kind enough to take the time to respond to each and every question I asked in my original post 🙏
You are a true optimistic person, I can tell, but it also looks like you really know what you are talking about.
During this process I have indeed learnt a lot. Here is my piece of advice for those of you who will be going through something similar:
DO NOT FILE FOR A RETURNING RESIDENT VISA (SB-1). Instead, show up at a POE. As someone mentioned it in an other thread, the SB-1 visa is for EXTREME CASES like the LPR was in a coma or in prison outside the U.S, and couldn't make it back on time due to extraordinary circumstances beyond their control. I'm very serious.
When I was at the Paris embassy, I appeared in front of the immigration officer last. Everyone before me got their Returning Resident visa denied.
I will definitely keep you guys posted on what I will be doing.
I have so much gratitude for having my post this popular, and I am very happy to have received quality advice from so many people.
If a reader of this thread has recently gone through a similar experience, please bring in your light on this matter, this will be very helpful for many.
"Knowledge is power" like we say, and I believe the people has the true power, or should have it.
"All for One and One for All". I so feel like a Musketeer, thanks to you guys 🤗 ✌️
This forum has been so much more helpful to me than anything else so far (and I have been researching on the subject literally for MONTHS).
I'll be back