Chootie

This is a good subject. One which I will soon need to address for myself.

I was married July 2007. My husband is in his home country now and will be until ????

I am not sure how to file. Either way why would my husband's non-US income need to be considered?

Married filing jointly seems to indicate that there is money to pay taxes on. Married filing seperately would imply that he will file his own tax return. How can we really file as either if our spouses don't have SS#? I guess I'll have to call the IRS as one member suggests.

I have the same question about the dates on the I-797C.

For the I-130 petition, the received date shows Aug. 2, 2007 with a Notice date of Aug. 23, 2007.

For the I-129F petition, the recieve date shows Sept. 11, 2007 with a notice date of Sept. 14, 2007.

From which date should I start the 6 months processing clock? I asked my attorney and she didn't answer me. BTW, she is a waste of my money.

She told me that the CSC is still within their processing time frame. How can that be true for the I-130?

Everytime I call the CSC, I get a different answer about the dates. They even have a different date (1 day different than on my receipts) in the system they access.

I'm trying to find out when I should ask for a service request.

I know the USCIC has no logical processing plan. I see posts here of people who have receipt dates after mine and now their spouses or fiances have interview dates and I don't have any approvals yet.

I'm getting worried, nervous, anxious and upset.

I live in Egypt with my husband. We don't know our neighbors and they don't know us. I'm sure some of them have seen me and of course see that I am foreign. But what could they say except, "yes, I have seen a foreign woman in that apartment. We live in my husband's new apartment which is not in the area of his mother and father. So again, this is not my husband's old neighborhood. A home study here wouldn't do a lot good in my opinion. The doorman and his wife and children could say "yes, I have seen her." Big deal.

When I return to the states (soon) to plan the deliver of our first child, my husband will return to stay with his mother and father. The people in that building probably have never seen me.

Of course, his family knows me very well. I see them all the time.

We didn't have a big, horn honking wedding in Egypt due to the US restrictions. We married outside of Egypt so we didn't have the big wedding parade which is famous in Egypt. I imagine the whole apartment building knows that there is a foreign woman living among them because Yes, the Egyptians like to gossip.

So, what exactly would a home study prove about our marriage? In my opinion, nothing. It would be a waste of their time, money and energy. That's my two cents on the subject. I'm glad to know that it is a possibility. I'll inform my husband and the family of this possibility just so they don't freak out and think they are in trouble or something. People here are definitely afraid of the police.