madara_khan

Agreed, @JD2. It'll get more common as living costs rise... Btw, do you also believe we should file a late AR-11? I spoke to some other people who said nah you don't need to because you still maintain a residence elsewhere, so I'm again on the fence. Going to get some real lawyer advice this week, but open to more opinions.

Yeah I wasn't trying to avoid it, I just wasn't sure if this extended stay constituted a 'move' but now it seems that it probably does... Reading about AR-11 now, I'm just worried about this: "Failure to report a change of address is punishable by fine or imprisonment and/or removal from the United States." Anyways, looks like I can't mention during the address change that it should've been for 6 months ago? Wish there was a way to do that. Also, for me I think it'd be I-865 instead of I-765.

@OldUser Yeah, wish we had finalized our permanent house much earlier... And no tax evasion here, just wanted to have the baby with parents and ended up staying longer than we expected. We have relatives at Address A who would've told us if anyone came knocking. But to be honest, baby's birth certificate is from Address B at parent's house (neighboring state), so USCIS could be skeptical about it. They'll think we can't have just stayed there at B for 2 weeks, it had to have been more, with the pregnancy recovery and whatnot. I understand your point though; wish I had thought this thru earlier. Seems like I should just go ahead and fill a late AR-11 for Address B? Not sure if it will look weird to do another AR-11 for Address C in a few weeks. I know @Boiler said not to worry about it, but I guess it depends on what exactly they check. I at least have learned my lesson to just stay where you're supposed to stay.

Hey @OldUser, sorry I'm going to start logging into VisaJourney a lot more often now. I created a new post for another issue I have now lol, but for now, to answer your question: I moved wife to live with my uncle house, and we did a joint filing of taxes, and yes we opened a joint bank account. However, wife has her own separate bank account as well.

Disclaimer: I come from a culture where living in a joint family system is common. You might guess, yes, it's an Asian culture. Nothing wrong with living this way AFAIK, other than seeming weird to some folks. In my opinion it's not too bad if the house is big enough for a multi-generational family. Anyways... I'm a USC and my wife has a CR1. We consider ourselves residents of place 'A'. We have a joint lease, joint taxes, joint bank account, joint health insurance at 'A'. I have a driver license for this state but she doesn't because she doesn't drive yet. I work remotely but my company has an office here and she's a stay at home wife. Wife got pregnant and we wanted to have the baby at my parents house in a neighboring state (let's call it place 'B'). Since I can work remotely from anywhere in US, and the state of place 'A' lets me remain a domicile resident as long as I intend to return there, we essentially went and started living with parents at 'B', gave birth and it's been 3 months since then. I didn't realize I should change wife's address, because it was a temporary stay and we still have a lease/joint bank/insurance in place 'A' and go back there from time to time. Question is, should I file a 6-month late AR-11 for wife? Or should I not file because we didn't 'officially' move to my parent's house in city B? We never intended to remain at B this long. AR-11 says you need to file even if its a temporary move, which I didn't realize initially... Should we not file it at all because we didn't intend to move to B? Or just be 'honest' and do a late filing? I'm now stressed about deportation, etc because they didn't use to pursue these issues, but now they might. Additional info: During all this time, my parents and I closed on a house that I helped them purchase; it'll be in my parents name but we will rent from them. So next month, me, my wife + child and my parents are moving to a large permanent home, in the same state as 'A', but in a different city (let's call it place 'C'). At C, my wife and I will have everything together: Joint lease, utility bills, bank, health and car insurance, matching driver's licenses, etc. And we will never come back to 'B'. We plan to file wife's I-751 at the end of Jan 2026.

Hey all, thanks for the reassurance. Sorry for my late response, I'd seen the messages but forgot to formally get back. I ended up moving her to my uncle's residence where we are currently residing in the basement. It's not ideal, but I'm thinking of buying a house with her and moving out next year, so it definitely won't be for too long. We updated her USCIS account to show she moved to my uncles address with me, around Sept/Oct 2024. I did have another question though. When we submit the I-751, will we need to formally show records of us having lived together on a month by month basis? Or as long as we are living together by the time we file the I-751 it should be fine? Looking at the I-751, it seems like it asks all addresses the CR lived in... I ask because I don't really have any of those conversations with my manager recorded, so I can't really show USCIS that oh I was trying to move to SC so how are they going to believe me. So that's why I was like ok whatever, let's get her moved to the same address as me in NC after a max of 6 months, so we did that. I can try to explain it a bit. But as long as they don't ask for literal monthly records of us living together, I'm hoping it'll be ok. Plus we are expecting a child next summer, so I'm hoping that would count for strong proof as well.

Hi there, hope you all are good! I had a pressing question. My wife arrived to the U.S. in April 2024 and got her CR1 Green card shortly after. We plan on applying for her Removal of Conditions (RoC) around January 2026, and we expect to have supporting documentation by then. The only issue is that I'm an NC resident, but she's an SC resident: I had her green card sent to my parents house in SC, because they're her joint sponsors and I was planning to move in to my parents house anyways once she got here. I visit her like every other week but it's getting tiring, and I just want to move in with her permanently. Initially I assumed my company would let me move to SC because I'm like 99% remote (and a previous manager told me I should be able to move states), but HR has been delaying the approval, and my current manager JUST told me they can't allow it at this time. So now my spouse and I are technically residents of two separate states (I'm living in NC, and she's living in SC with my parents, but I visit her very often) so I'm thinking I will just have her move to NC with me instead. But the problem is that we've been going back and forth at two separate addresses like this for 3-4 months now after her arrival.... Could this be a problem when we apply for RoC? Could USCIS ask why we were not residing together for the first few months after she arrived? I'm giving myself a deadline for end of August: We will decide on one permanent address to both live in, whether it's NC or SC (if SC, I may have to say goodbye to my job). But just wanted to see if the initial 4-5 months of us technically living separately (even though we met often) could cause any problems when applying for RoC.

Hi there, my wife arrived to the U.S. in April 2024 and got her CR1 Green card shortly after. We plan on applying for her Removal of Conditions (RoC) around January 2026, and we expect to have supporting documentation. The only issue is that we're living in separate states right now (she's living in SC with my parents, I'm in NC living with uncle). I planned to move in with her to my parent's house because I work remotely and thought my company would let me, but they've been delaying my permissions to do so.