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Sounds easy enough. Thanks for your reply!

Hi all. We needed a joint sponsor in order to file my husband's AOS so a friend said he'd help us out, filled out the paperwork and we sent everything off back in Feb. We got back letters saying they needed financial info from me so I called the service line to get some more info and turned out that he (the friend) filled out the wrong form to joint sponsor. We tried to contact him to get him to fill out the right ones but he seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet. After a couple weeks we decided it probably best to change sponsors since this "friend" had turned out to be so flaky. We got another friend to be our joint sponsor and he filled out the proper paperwork and got it all to us, we just need to send it in.

My question is, how do I address this with USCIS now? Do I just explain in a letter that we lost contact with the previous sponsor and we'd like to change sponsors or do I need to call them or what? Our time is running short on returning the paperwork so I want to make sure I get it right but somehow I need to get the previous joint sponsor off our file as he's not been in contact with us since February and has left his job that qualified him to be our joint sponsor.

Any helpful advice appreciated!

Thanks for the clarification. Looks like we have a lot of paperwork in front of us but at least I know how much it's going to cost, now.

And my apologies for posting this in the wrong area. Confusion leads to more confusion, ya know?

I'm a USC. My husband is a UKC. He came to the US on the visa waiver program to attend a gaming convention with me. At the time, he was still married to his first wife and we had no intention of marrying while he was here. We were actually in the process of getting things together for his fiance visa. During his visit, his divorce came through and I became pregnant. We decided to go ahead and marry while he was here so there would be no legality issues with our child (child support and all that jazz). It was a pretty impromptu marriage, officiated by a family friend at said friend's house with only friend's wife, my mother and another family friend in attendance as witnesses. I wasn't even in a wedding dress. We have paperwork showing that I was pregnant before we got married (certificate of confirmed pregnancy from a doctor). I just gave birth to our daughter last Wednesday. Now we're confused on how to proceed.

I know we have to file the I-485 and we'll also have to file the Affidavit of Support saying that a friend is sponsoring him as I'm unable to work (awaiting SS disability) and don't meet the $20,000/yr financial requirement. Our friend is retired Army and makes enough from her retirement benefits and current employment to meet the sponsorship requirements. Since I'm unable to work, I really need him here to help me with day-to-day responsibilities as well as caring for our daughter. He's been here long enough to be barred for 10 years if he leaves. I've heard that couples in similar situations have had success with filing the I-485 while the spouse is still in the US. My question is, what all do we have to file? The I-485 and I-134 I'm aware of. But do we also have to file an I-130 or can we get by with paying just the $1010 for the I-485? I'm just trying to figure out how much money we have to get together for the filing fees. Are there any other forms that we need to file that I'm unaware of? The intent at this point is to keep him in the States, make it possible for him to gain work and eventually get his green card. He hasn't broken any laws or taken any work since being here and has no criminal history in the UK.

Any advice will be most appreciated.

The answer, when in doubt, is always C. Unless it's an essay question, in which:

Is Hell endothermic or exothermic?

First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. There are two possible conditions. One, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate t which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase exponentially until all hell breaks loose. Conversely, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over, condition two.

We can solve this with the 1990 postulation of Theresa LeClair, the girl who lived across the hall from me in first year residence. Since I have still not been successful in obtaining sexual relations with her, condition two above has not been met, and thus it can be concluded that condition one is true, and hell is exothermic.

That's why I just downloaded the form to my flash drive. I'm the type of person that tends to make lots of mistakes and it's great that the forms are editable in Adobe. So I just open it up and type everything in. That way, if there's a mistake, I can just backspace. :-P

I know how particular they get with passport forms (no going over lines or out of boxes, no scribbles, etc.) So rather than take the risk of turning in something that's been scribbled and whited out and have it denied, I just do it on the computer. :-P

Here's what my fiance was told (I'm in the US, he's in the UK)...

For however long you spend in the US on the visa waiver, you have to spend AT LEAST that amount of time in your home country. For instance, he came and visited for 6 weeks, so he can't came back over on the visa waiver for at least another 6 weeks. I'm assuming that is to prevent people from, say, coming to the US on a waiver for 90 days then going home for a week or two then immediately coming back for another 90 days.