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Life insurance through your employer is perfect, presumably she's the beneficiary of that? So that's great evidence. And your 401k, it doesn't matter if you're not putting money in it now, she's still the beneficiary. I agree you can't use a time machine now to go back and get a SSN, but hopefully anybody reading in a similar situation but at the start of their process will now know that they can get one to make things easier. As said above, your wife could get an ITIN though, but with the 401k and life insurance you should hopefully have enough evidence. Good luck, hope the interview goes well.

It's too late now, but she could have gone to a SSA office and got a SSN when she first arrived. I understand not wanting to add her name to the car loan, but how about adding her name to the insurance? You say you've got numerous accounts, so add her to whatever you can out of those. I don't really think it's a song and dance personally, most people do those things anyway once married. It's trickier if you're living with your mother, but as said above life insurance, healthcare, wills, pensions, are all things that normally your spouse would be on and could be used. There are lots of good suggestions above, so hopefully you can pick a few of those. Best of luck.

It's just under a 2 year wait, so maybe towards the end of 2027 as a rough guess. You can keep an eye on it here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/iv-wait-times.html Good luck.

As the others have said, the moment he did that the petition was no longer valid. It doesn't matter that he subsequently divorced, she needs to file for him again. See the below from this webpage - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-6-part-b-chapter-5 "The following circumstances generally trigger automatic revocation of a family-based immigrant petition: Termination of an alien beneficiary’s registration for an available visa by DOS; Written notice of withdrawal by the petitioner (or self-petitioner); Death of the alien beneficiary or self-petitioner; Death of the petitioner; Legal termination of a marriage that is the basis of the petition; Marriage of the son or daughter of a lawful permanent resident (LPR); or Legal termination of a petitioner’s LPR status, other than through naturalization. Under each of these grounds, the revocation is automatically triggered by the circumstance’s occurrence regardless of whether USCIS is aware of the circumstance. For example, if a beneficiary of an approved petition as the unmarried son or daughter of an LPR marries before immigrating or adjusting status, the event of the marriage triggers the automatic revocation. Since the petition’s approval is automatically revoked as of the date of approval, it does not become valid again if the marriage of the beneficiary is terminated through divorce or death of the beneficiary’s spouse."

It depends on the consulate. Which one? I assume this is a spousal visa and your spouse is a US citizen?

I'm surprised that the country restrictions announced earlier this year haven't sped things up a bit, you'd think with so many now unable to get visas it would have made AP quicker for people from those countries who are still able to. But it doesn't seem to have done from what I've seen (albeit only from threads like this). And now they're doing more vetting, and checking back on previously issued visas too, my guess is that's only going to increase the backlog unfortunately.

She could have got an SSN though. Maybe some people don't do wills, but how about your life insurance, is she the beneficiary on that now? Is she on the car insurance? The Amazon account? Any Christmas/holiday cards addressed to both of you at the same address? Just trying to think of things that most people would have. But as said above, USCIS know you've only just started your lives together, so don't overthink it and just provide what you can. Good luck.

Follow the instructions on the usual website - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/ISL-Islamabad.html But I would strongly advise they don't reschedule. Get them to go to the original interview, and the case will then just be held until the sputum tests are received. But that would be better than trying to reschedule.

It is if you don't want to be at risk of deportation. I wouldn't leave it past 90 days with the current administration personally.

Just estimate, I didn't know either but knew the month so I just put the first of the month IRRC.

You too! Hope you can make it out here in time to enjoy at least some of the New England winter.

Nearly there indeed. Can't see why that would be an issue. If questioned you can just tell them you're waiting for your interview and then will be moving next year. They'll know that you wouldn't go down the AOS route as you're so close to getting your immigrant visa!

Congrats! It won’t be January, that’s too soon, they usually give you at least 6 weeks notice of the interview. It will largely depend on how quickly you’re DQ’ed, but if you complete the NVC side of things asap then you might be DQ’ed before Christmas (currently a ~2 week processing time for that - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html). So maybe an IL in January for an interview in March would be my best guess. Best of luck.

Did you read the advice given above? Your wife needs to amend her tax returns urgently. Leaving aside the issues with your visa, she’s committed an offence! https://www.irs.gov/publications/p501#en_US_2024_publink1000220721 Plus she’s likely to bet a tax refund when they’re adjusted too. She needs to amend them the same way she submitted them - either logging in and doing it herself, or asking her accountant to sort it.

Not a year, she could use a couple of payslips but I'd go with a couple of months worth personally. And make sure she keeps the job throughout the process, if she were to leave it before your interview that wouldn't be good! Not sure why you think you're not allowed to enter the US, that's not correct at all. I wouldn't go with her though as it may look as though you're trying to enter and stay, I'd let her get settled and then visit a few weeks later. Good luck.

You should just pause the case at the NVC stage, you can do that indefinitely. Just make sure you take action at least once a year i.e. contact them to say you wish to keep the case on hold.

Nothing's happening because you're just waiting your turn. The actual case processing doesn't take long at all once you get to the front of the line. You shouldn't expect anything until you get approval, the only thing you'd get is an RFE and you don't want that!

It won't be 14 months, that's for immediate relatives. USCIS doesn't give processing times for I-130's for non immediate relatives. As @OldUser said, they don't usually rush to approve an I-130 when there's no visa available anyway, and as @Boiler said, most people want it to take as long as possible. As a (VERY!) rough guess, maybe 4 or 5 years?

If that's what the OP means then yes, that's a huge mistake. But I think he's been told that before -

Waiting for what?

There's obviously a glitch in it at the moment, it normally works fine.

You're basically confirming it, and giving details on how you want your passport returned.

Sounds like your US immigration journey was fraudulent, if you weren't divorced from your first wife? So your status isn't legit, and you therefore should absolutely NOT file for your children unless you're happy to risk being deported yourself. If you file for anything at all, your whole immigration record will be looked at. This sounds very familiar, have you posted here under another username?

Everybody gets the extension. Yes, he could have applied for them back when he first got his GC, and it may have saved a bit of time but probably not very different to if you applied for them now. Good luck.

Ah, ok. This is the forum for other relatives i.e. parents etc. I'm going to move this thread to the CR-1 forum as it seems quite a few of you are spousal applicants, so the thread is in the wrong place. Best of luck.