NickD

God, one biological parent is enough to deal with, think two would drive me nuts. First off is trying to comprehend why the law is so strong to protect the rights of that don't give a damn but his kid child. Even though my wife had full custoday of her daughter. One bargaining chip was in the agreement, and that is what it is, to free that no-good SOB of child support responsibilities. But is my understanding if the child and the the biological parent are in different countries, that child support is no longer enforceable.
Never heard of a time limit for that court statement permission for letting the child move to a different country, but that was only one piece of paper. The other one we needed was also that permission for the child to board the airplane. This one needed the child's name with the exact date and flight number.
Other problem we ran into was with the consulate in Chicago to renew my step daughter's passport, even after several years of her living her, with divorce paperts, full custody, and even with her green card. Refused to do so without that worthless biological fathers permission, but he refused to do so. So she was stuck her until she reached 18 years of age.
Had to go through all this nonsense with a notary, and with some, you can really get so bad information. Most these guys also want 500-1000 US bucks under the table. And if you don't do this would have to wait forever.
Just telling it like it is, judge may even ask for more or will keep you waiting for two years before he will hear your case. All these guys I met have Miami bank accounts, move very quicky with an expedient fee as I call it.

This have anything to do with the tubercuous crazy skin test? Both my wife and stepdaughter had that so called lifetime tubercuous immunization shot and claim if you received this would show a reaction, both were less than a size of a dime. Can also be an allegic reaction depending on whom is evaluating the test.
But because of this, insisted on chest xrays, but only one, both had clear chests. But at the same time, the British developed a far more accurate blood test, so at least in the USA, not using this skin test anymore.
But before this happened, wife applied for a job at our hospital and because of her records insisted on a 2nd chest x-ray, but this was a year after. Met several other doctors that never even heard of this tubercuous lifetime immunization shot. Not much different than taking your vehicle to a car mechanic, could be knowledgeable or a complete idiot.
Have to find a doctor with some brains. And what about the x-ray machine, is this something left over from the 1930's? Ha, I needed what is called a minor surgery that can be done outpatient, some doctors wanted to cut me up and put me in the hospital for a week. Found one that was up to date, and was in and out in three hours. But regardless if you get good or bad advice, still have to pay the basterds. What a racket.

Looking for other ways to help them, in particular a more inexpensive to ship goods to them like the basic necessities for life.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Our petitions are already seven years old and no luck with the recent lottery.

Poster did state losing your green card with a N-400 application for a stupid reason. Wonder what that stupid reason is? Any deportation has to be done in a court of law, do they permit stupid reasons for means of deportation? Or do they need a damn good reason?

Can't help but comment on this, my son's girl's dad, told her, you get married, you pay for your own college, her uncle also helping her, told her the same thing. So it was either this or waiting another two years, they elected to stick it out for these two years. Made them very responsible and self-sustaining.
And they did stick it out for those two years. Also get along very fine with my in-laws, we did help them with a down payment for a new home, but they paid that back. And gave us some very wonderful grandkids.

Can't help but comment on this, my son's girl's dad, told her, you get married, you pay for your own college, her uncle also helping her, told her the same thing. So it was either this or waiting another two years, they elected to stick it out for these two years. Made them very responsible and self-sustaining.
And they did stick it out for those two years. Also get along very fine with my in-laws, we did help them with a down payment for a new home, but they paid that back. And gave us some very wonderful grandkids.

All this started in 1986 with severe limits on immigration, either to win the lottery where you are the lucky one in fifty thousand, or to marry a US citizen. The latter caused a lot of fraud.
Really get a kick out of the requirements for a K1 visa.
"You met each other, in person, at least once within 2 years of filing your petition. There are two exceptions that require a waiver:
1. If the requirement to meet would violate strict and long-established customs of your or your fiancé(e)’s foreign culture or social practice.
2. If you prove that the requirement to meet would result in extreme hardship to you."
So can marry a person that you have never met before and within 90 days of meeting. To me, this is an invitation for fraud, but to overcome it, came out with a $250,000 fine, 5 years in prison, or both for the US citizen. Ha, just happens to be the same exact penalty for copying a DVD.
Then in 1988 came out with that I-751, removal of conditions. With all we went through during the adjustment stage, and all the proof of a long term relationship, wife was only given a two year conditional card. This was the worse phase of our journey, while we submitted an inch thick of evidence, long delays in processing and sent in this stack precisely 90 days before her conditional expired. Receive a one year extension notice that also expired. So had to drive another 450 miles to get an I-551 stamp in her current foreign passport to keep her legal.
Also prompted us to apply for US citizenship for her at the earliest date. She finally received her ten year card between the time of her interview and her oath ceremony, but only to give it back.
Another shock we had with a brand new US passport she received, would not admit her to Colombia so she visit her mom. We argued this with their POE for an hour, already dead tired from that long trip, the only way we could do this was to enter Colombia. Instead of enjoying a vacation, spend most of the time renewing her Colombian ID that they won't let us do by ourselves, had to hire a notary for $1,500.00. They sure love US dollars to do this for us. But wanted another thousand under the table as an expedient fee as they call it. But we refused this, but received all the applications so we could leave.
This seemed in complete contradiction to her oath at the USCIS, but not dealing with the USCIS anymore, but the state department.
Posting this so you can know in advance what you are in for. Now we have to maintain two passports for her so she can visit her mom. She can enter okay, but cannot leave, she has to also show her US passport because she can no longer have visa to enter the US. State department
demands she shows her place of birth in Colombia.
USCIS told us she is a US citizen just like she was born here, not exactly true. Gave me another thought, no one has a choice as to where you were born, but sure hold it against you. For me, she is one in a million and well worth the effort.

Managed to give my stepson a US credit card. So-called fair exchange rate is 1.00 VEF equals 15.75 cents, but if he can buy anything with it, most of their store shelves are empty. our credit card company charges 2 cent per VEF.
Wonder who came up with the law, a spouse cannot petition for an unmarried man slightly over 21 years of age. Was and still is a dependent, a non-tax deductible dependent, but nevertheless still a dependent. If i could have petitioned for him, would have been here with his mother and sister.
And wouldn't even think about Venezuela.

Certainly a problem, read this: http://cis.org/marriagefraud
One strong recommendation is to completely eliminate that K1 visa, my key objection to it, does not give a couple time to make wise decisions, but the bottom line is you have to watch out for yourself.
You weren't the only one that was dumb, both my wife and I married too young and too soon for a disaster. Often made the comment, if divorce laws were part of the marriage, no one would be dumb enough to get married. So we agreed to take our time, like 2 years and two months. During this period, we learned we were a team. Everyone has problems, we certainly had our share, but could sit down and speak to each other in a civil manner and solve them.
Then it got to the point where we didn't want to live with each other. But our experience with the USCIS was to be accused of fraud, and we were guilty until we proved ourselves innocent.
So is your husband going to sue you for that I-864 you were forced to sign? At least the USCIS especially when applying for US citizenship takes a close look at an immigrant that married a US citizen, but then wants to marry a person from their home country. Well some do. Have this bad feeling the USCIS really doesn't protect US citizens from being victims of fraud.
Find a good immigration attorney, this is also easier said than done.

Another case of poor planning, with excessive I-751 processing delays with the USCIS, my wife had to get an I-551 stamp in her current valid foreign passport. She was free to travel and return with this, also with her expired conditional green card.
If your child was born her, is a US citizen by birth and has every right to return, and of course, should return with his mother. Consulate may have mercy in this respect and give her that I-551 stamp in her foreign passport. All you can do is try. Course, would be told to file for that I-751 ASAP.
What's in her favor if your child is a US citizen. Assuming you are not having marriage problems.

Some confusion here about the alien being denied, can't be denied, but only the US citizen applicant can. An alien cannot apply for a K1 visa, only a US citizen can.
"Eligibility Requirements For K1 Visa
If you petition for a fiancé(e) visa, you must show that:
You (the petitioner) are a U.S. citizen. You intend to marry within 90 days of your fiancé(e) entering the United States. You and your fiancé(e) are both free to marry and any previous marriages must have been legally terminated by divorce, death, or annulment. You met each other, in person, at least once within 2 years of filing your petition. There are two exceptions that require a waiver:
1. If the requirement to meet would violate strict and long-established customs of your or your fiancé(e)’s foreign culture or social practice.
2. If you prove that the requirement to meet would result in extreme hardship to you.' And a K1 visa, is just that, a visa for a person that can't otherwise come here because they cannot get a visa from other means. The US citizen has a choice that must be made within 90 days, either to marry that person or send them back.
Only speculation, but could be the first person that applied became aware of the I-864 that obligates her to support this person whether they stayed married or not at 25% above the poverty level for the next ten years! Really puts the US citizen at a severe risk with only 90 days to decide. Or that person could not meet the financial requirements.
Can't believe that bit on the Statue of Liberty anymore about we welcome your poor. USCIS fees for the US citizen for the K1 and the AOS is already a small fortune, and this is only the beginning.

With even with "good" health insurance and this new super high deductible that started the first of this year. Cost my son $7,000.00 for my new grandson. $3,500 deductible for the new son, and another $3,500 for his wife. But at least now he is home free. On schedule A on the IRS forms, can only deduct what's over 10% of your medical cost on your gross income, before FICA and income taxes. So if you made $70,000, deduction is zero. So have to pay taxes on top of this!
As little as 30 years ago, only cost less than 500 bucks with a normal birth, included prenatal care, delivery, and three days in a hospital plus post natal care for the baby. Really do not feel Washington dealt with the real problems with health care cost. With inflation, should cost around $2,000 today. Oh, and another way the government is robbing us, printing more money that causes inflation.
With Medicaid, to get this, would have to be dead broke. Even making a buck more per year than poverty puts us in the super rich class.
Many families are put in the poverty range even with well above poverty gross incomes. Was put in this position with super high non-deductible immigration expenses. With super high FICA and income taxes, sales tax, high tuition and medical expenses, plus anything we buy, also paying all their taxes as well. But they just look at your gross wages, had this for tuition that skyrocketed as well as medical cost. Government is sure screwing the little guys on this issue. Then shipping our jobs to China.

For other governmental type forms like for college and the VA, we had to show the amount of FICA and and Medicare income we were earning on our W2's. Then how much we have in our 401K. For forms like this want your income and assets to be as low as possible, but won't let you get away with it.
Since I had my own business, and single, was using a good share of my gross assets to put back into my business. So had to submit a financial statement to the USCIS for that I-864. In this case, you want to show how rich you are.
Ha, at our AOS interview, was a situation where a lot less of my income would go back into my business, and a lot more for my new dependents. Wife also submitted the I-864A with her assets. USCIS wants to make sure you are not bringing any poor here. And that you have the cash to maintain them at 125% of the poverty level for the next ten years.
Putting money away for a 401K plan is part of your income.

Neither rain nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night shall keep us from keeping an appointment with the USCIS. They put a noose around our necks, and keeping those appointments was the only way to get rid of it.
It's the only agency I encountered where you cannot mutually agree on an appointment, even the IRS let's you agree on an appointment. USCIS must have used the German Gestapo book of holy hell to set up their procedures.

Can only wonder how you would expect to keep this a secret, asked this question many times in different applications with the USCIS. What about your G-325A, lying on any form would result in deportation. But not sure about the US citizen, could be criminal charges from that truthful statement where you sign.

Just slightly off topic a tad, American corporations can hire five Russian engineers for the same price as one American engineer. They get by by sharing a one room apartment and bring them over with work visa's. American engineers can't work this cheap with a family to support, making life a lot more difficult to find a decent job. They also can work them to death.
Just speaking from personal experience. But this is legal.

This photo in my avatar is an immigrant from Germany, and the poem on the Statue of Liberty sure applied to him. He was poor and very welcomed here, didn't even have to file an I-864. Didn't need a K-1 either. Did have his medical records, but no filing of that I-693, and never was required to have a green card.
No dealings with the NVC either with no limits on the amount of dogs you can bring here. Probably should be quiet on this issue, may have some new laws. So no dealings with the USCIS, NVC, nor the DOS.
Now bringing a member of the animal kingdom here that can walk upright, this is when you run into all kinds of problems and expenses.

Seems to happen more than once, in particular in states where the DMV also takes care of voters registration. And with this, not necessarily your fault. Also with employment applications and with banks or anything to do where your citizenship is in question. Can't think of any others where we ran into this.
Just made darn sure I was with my wife and stepdaughter with these applications so no mistakes were made. Would really be in deep trouble if you voted, even in a local election. This disturbed me somewhat if you live in a city where they want to spend a bunch of money for some stupid thing, increase your property taxes, and as a LPR paying taxes and all this, you don't even have a say in these matters. But is the law.
If you voted, already dead meat, if not, go back to that agency and get it corrected, ASAP.
Ha, in dealing with city and state clerks, ask them if they ever heard of the USCIS? Usual response is, don't you mean the NCIS, that TV propgram.

Already have a ton of immigration laws, but apparently not enforced. When dating my wife, was very cautious about getting her on the plane before her I-94 ran out. Only to read later on that there are over 10 million people here, have no idea who counted these are here with way overstayed visas, like 20-30 years.
Had some strange idea if we were one day late, guys in black suits would be knocking at my door.
Now in terms of law enforcement, no problems with the IRS, the city tax collector, or the cops when driving 26 mph in a 25 mph zone. Right there on the spot.
Also understand that very few come here by taking that 100 mile walk across the desert, but this is what they take about in building a huge fence. But with overstayed visas, the key reason, they have a record of this, but just don't do anything about it. States are taking a beating on this issue, but have no authority, its up to the feds.
If you really want to raise a flag about coming here illegally, try to do it legally by sending in applications. This is when we are put on that red carpet and treated like criminals until we prove ourselves innocent.

Just slightly off topic a tad, American corporations can hire five Russian engineers for the same price as one American engineer. They get by by sharing a one room apartment and bring them over with work visa's. American engineers can't work this cheap with a family to support, making life a lot more difficult to find a decent job. They also can work them to death.
Just speaking from personal experience. But this is legal.

Just slightly off topic a tad, American corporations can hire five Russian engineers for the same price as one American engineer. They get by by sharing a one room apartment and bring them over with work visa's. American engineers can't work this cheap with a family to support, making life a lot more difficult to find a decent job. They also can work them to death.
Just speaking from personal experience. But this is legal.

Still liable for that I-864, but he will have to take her to court for this. Maintaining his life style for the next ten years at 25% above the poverty level.
This can be overcome in a divorce court with a darn good attorney to demand alimony payments twice that of the 1.25 poverty rate.
So really cannot just forget and move on. Now if he were deported, would not be a problem.
He obtaining his US citizenship will be to her advantage, that is when that I-864 can be torn up, but will have to live with getting away with it.

Certainly a problem, read this: http://cis.org/marriagefraud
One strong recommendation is to completely eliminate that K1 visa, my key objection to it, does not give a couple time to make wise decisions, but the bottom line is you have to watch out for yourself.
You weren't the only one that was dumb, both my wife and I married too young and too soon for a disaster. Often made the comment, if divorce laws were part of the marriage, no one would be dumb enough to get married. So we agreed to take our time, like 2 years and two months. During this period, we learned we were a team. Everyone has problems, we certainly had our share, but could sit down and speak to each other in a civil manner and solve them.
Then it got to the point where we didn't want to live with each other. But our experience with the USCIS was to be accused of fraud, and we were guilty until we proved ourselves innocent.
So is your husband going to sue you for that I-864 you were forced to sign? At least the USCIS especially when applying for US citizenship takes a close look at an immigrant that married a US citizen, but then wants to marry a person from their home country. Well some do. Have this bad feeling the USCIS really doesn't protect US citizens from being victims of fraud.
Find a good immigration attorney, this is also easier said than done.

Back then, all of this USCIS stuff was totally new to me, but did know one thing. After our marriage, we spent our honeymoon filling out USCIS forms. We also had that I-94 expiration date to meet.
Also learned about that I-539 visa extension form, 300 bucks as I recall in case we didn't make it. The thing is, they don't give us big signs to read as to what you have to do, but you have to dig in and find it for yourself. Was also a panic to gather all the documents they wanted, but this was done before my wife and stepdaughter came here.
Was so naive on this subject, just thought we could get married and live happily ever after, ha, my wife to be knew more about immigration than I did. But with work on a complex project, just cheated and hired a top immigration attorney for guidance. He emailed a list of the forms and the evidence we needed to compile. During our dating stage, already knew about that I-94 and the consequences of overstaying it.
We did get our forms in on time, received an NOA that my wife and stepdaughter were clear to stay here just after two weeks we sent those in. That is when we could finally relax, but took almost a year before we were called in for our interview.
One may think for what the USCIS charges, you could walk into a field office and get help with what has to be done and even help in filling out those long crazy forms the way they want to. But they don't do this!
But no different with the IRS with over a thousand different forms and 13,000 pages of tax laws, this I did know something about. Why in the hell does our government have to make what should be simple so complicated? And why are we like dumb sheep following our shepherd only to be led to a slaughter house?
My immigration attorney made the comment several times, if it was easy, he wouldn't have a job. I have the immigration papers for my grandfather, was filled out by an agent at Ellis Island, and just one simple one page form even I could comprehend. Then six weeks of schooling on a Monday and Wednesday night to learn how to become a US citizen. Six weeks after he came here, was a US citizen.
Things sure changed since then. I have to laugh really hard when I read that bit about a paper reduction act at the end of each instruction sheet. Wife saw her file, was 4" inches thick!
So sorry you didn't take of all these things in advance and can only wonder how this was done even twenty years ago? Was no internet back then.
Could also ask why we have a country led by attorneys, but they are sure helping their brother attorneys with lots of extra work.