RABBITDANCE

I can't seem to edit my post so I'll just restate my question. I already have been transferred to an embassy and paid the fees. Now I'm just working on the applicaiton. I want to know how long I have to complete my application if there is any deadline at all.

I'm not seeing the relationship of your answer to my question?

I'm wondering what the time frame is to complete and ubmit the green card application. I've started working on it and have already paid the fees and had the casae transferred to the embassy in Frankfurt, Germany, but the application forms are very difficult to undersatnd how to fill out even after reading all the instrutions and asking for help in this forum, I'm just not making very fast progress. As long as I log in once a month can I take few years to complete this, or is there some kind of deadline I need to be aware of?

I am filling in a fillable PDF and there is no room for this country code. Did you not use the fillable form?

Is it ok to put the "daytime phone number' of the petiioner and the beneficiary as the German cell phone numbers we use? The form doesn't any room to add country code or way to indicat which country the numbers are in. Vice versa, what if I prefer them to call my US phone even though I live in Germany? Whoever desinged this form maybe had a lapse and dint' think to add a box for country code, so how do they call anyone if they dont' know what country the phone number is in?

I'm looking at the affidavit of support. I put my mailing address as my Germany address as we're being processed in Germany consulate having been transfered there. I will supply evidence of doicle in the US using my US address because the form asks me to provide US domicile evidnece attachmetns. This domicle address directly conflicts with the US mailing address where I need to send the green card. I assume (but am not sure) that it's ok for my mailing address on this fomr to be a Germany address, for my US domicile address to be the one on my US driver's license and where I'm registered to vote, and finally a third mailing address for where my green card goes which I assume will be asked on a differetn form in the process. I'm just freaking out a bit because of all the different addresses I have and trying to anticipate problems. Sorry for any lack of clarity in my question.

Well I'm actually referring to the section of the USCIS affidavit of support where it asks for evidence of domicile in the US, despite my having filled out the German physical and Germain mailing addesses where I live which are the same. But my domicile address in the US cannot receive mail. I am using that address as my "legal address" for example what is reported to banks as my legal address. I'm using a different valid physical and mailing address in the US to have the green card sent to. So I am just thinking ahead as to what problems this might cause, when the check my credit report or my domicile evidence submission, and find the address is in one city and they see my green card going to a different mailing address.

Thanks. Actually the issue I'm really wondering about is the evidence of domicile status in the US question on the affidavit of support. The domicile I use has plenty of evidence, including my driver's license showing that address. However, since it's not an address that can accept mail, I need to use a different address as my phyical and mailing address for where the green card will be delivered. One address does not accept mail and is used for credit score, etc. The other would accept mail but is not my legal address.

On the form I-964 affidavit of support, Part 6, Sponsor's Employment and Income, it asks, in question 7 for "My current annual income". The instructions for this question state, "Type or print your current individual, earned, or retirement annual income that you are using to meet the requirements of this affidavit and indicate the total in the space provided. For this question I chose to enter only my ordinary pay. I also get some frindge benefit income such as income that is forumala based for various reasons in addition to my fixed ordinary salary, but decided to keep it simple as they make no mention of those things and refer to the term "earned" income in the question. So for exmple let's say I put here $100,000. Then on question 12 it asks for "My current Annual Household Income (Total from all lines from part 6) and it says the total will be compared with the poverty guideliness. Again I entered the same number, say $100,000 for example. I am not including rental property income as it has no option to provide that. It does have an option for self-employment income but that's not what rentals typically are considered, and the IRS forms they want for self-employment do not match. I figured it does not matter as I'm making enough earned income to pass the test. Finally, question 16a asks me to enter my most recent total income. I use form 1040, not 1040EZ. The PDF of instructions for this item say "Type or fill in the most recent tax year and your total income for that most recent tax year." The instructions also state, "for the purpose of this affidavit, the line for Total Income on IRS Forms 1040 and 1040A will be considered when determining income. The instructions also specify a different figure to use for 1040EZ, but that does not apply to me as I don't use that form. The potential problem I see here is my total income, which comes from line 9 on 2024 Form 1040, is extremely low due to FEIE (Foreigner Earned Income Exclusion) I assume, which lowers my "Total Tax". It comes to less than 25,000. Is this going to disqualify me, even though I have an annual income of at least 100,000? Or is this a common situation and nothing to worry about?

Thanks, but you aren't quite understanding my quesiton. My legal address cannot be changed and it cannot receive mail. That's the crux of the issue. The legal address is what is used in credit checks, which I assume they do. The form asks specifically for "legal address" not "address where green card will be mailed"

I know that green cards are not sent to PO boxes. I'm not clear how that relates to my question, but thank you.

What I should have said is my question hasn't been answered yet. I still do not know if my "legal address" which does not receive mail (it's a rural mountain address) can be used as my legal address. This is not the address I'm listing for where to mail the green card, but it is my current legal address in the USA.

I can see that nobody really read my question

That doesn't make any sense. The web portal is an online an account. Ih ave a user name and passsword. It's the USCIS webste. I don't understand what you mean by this not being the online account? That makes NO SENSE.

Yes, I do have an online USCIS account. When I said I searched my USCIS account, I was referring to the web portal. There is no number there that I could find.

I'm filling out USCIS Form I-846 (Affidavit of Support). Question 11 asks for my "USCIS online account number (if any)". I checked my USCIS account and searched everwhere, and I can't find it. I don't see it listed on the I-130 receipt notice or on the I-130 approval notice. Can anyone explain this to me why they are asking for a non-existing number or how I can find this number?

Can I use a different address for these two purposes: 1. The address where my green card will be mailed 2. The address I use as my US legal address for domicile purposes while living abroad (for my driver's license, voting purposes, and my legal address for bank accounts). The reason I need to use two different addresses is my legal address is not able to accept mail, except a PO boxes, due to postal service regulations specific to the mountainaous town where they refuse to deliver mail except to PO boxes, but USCIS does not allow using a PO box for receiving the green card in condtradiction to postal service realities. Therefore I used a different addreess (a parent's address) for the green card to go to since it can accept mail and it's not a PO Box. But I am concerned that maintaining my legal address at a separate residence might be a problem in some way.

Hi, I was previously advised to log into the USCIS website every month to ensure they keep my account active. Now that USCIS has transferred our case to NVC, do I still need to log in monthly for the duration of the Green Card process, or perhaps even for the rest of my life, to the USCIS website, to avoid potential account deactivation?

We received an initial email from NVC. It states, "Please log onto the Department of State's Consular Electronic Application Center (CEAC) at https://ceac.state.gov/IV to check your case status, pay any necessary fees, upload and submit documents, and read messages from NVC." We are unclear who is to log on and what logging on entails. The email was addressed to the beneficiary but emailed to both of us. Do we both log on, or only one of us, and which one? What is involved in logging on? Is this creating an account and only one of our emails will be used?

If I understand correctly then I will wait to receive a case number from NVC and expect that it will be a Jakarta case number as that is her home country. Then, BEORE completing the paperwork and BEFORE paying I should put in a request of change of location somehow through the NVC communication portal along with documentation, NOT through the USCIS portal at this time. Documentation might include evidence she lives in Germany now. I suppose her SOFA card would be evidence she is in Germany, but doesn't absolutely prove it so I'll have to think on what else can be used. Please let me know if I'm understanding.

We received an I-130 approval for my spouse after applying online. Since the time of the original application she moved in to live with me in Germany. I have not yet received an email from USCIS with instructions, but I am guessing soon they will send an interview appointment? We did request consular processing on the online application and we did request Frankfurt Embassy on the application as well, even though her address was in Indonesia at the time, as this move was expected. Should I still request a change of interview location immediately to the Frankfurt Embassy, or should I wait until we get the interview email or whatever comes next from USCIS? Also, how do I send the request to change location? Is that done through the online portal? Do I contact the Frankfurt Embassy? Or both? Thanks.

I'm trying to complete an I-130 expedite request and need advice. Our situation is our family will become separated in November if the I-130 is not received by that time. The reason for the separation is because of regulations related to my wife's permission to live with me in Germany, where I work under SOFA. Her SOFA status will expire in November, and an I-130 approval is required for renewal. I uploaded the US Army regulations explaining that I-130 is required, the SOFA checklist showing i-130 approval is required, and my military orders showing her name on there. I will also upload the SOFA card showing the expiration date. I reviewed the criteria and I think "urgent humanitarian" reasons would be the best choice, because of the emotional harm that would be caused by our family being separated. Another option is "severe financial loss" due to the cost of having to pay for her to have a second home in her home country and costs of travel but I think urgent humanitarian sounds like a stronger reason. The fields to message USCIS to expedite ask for a ZIP code. What ZIP code do I use? Since we live in Germany this is unclear. Do I use the postal code of my current address in Germany? Or do I use the US address where the green card will be mailed? Also, there was nothing on the form where I can provide an explanation tying all the documents together and explaining why we are making the request. I'm not sure if I click send will it go to a next step where I enter that info, OR do I have to upload a letter explaining this and explaining how the evidence I uploaded all fits together?

I cannot submit the forms to the German government. I have to go through a firewall of people who do not even now the rules or necessarily care. So I need to convince the firewall that this form will be accepted by the German government, which, I know for a fact it sometime is. So I need to build a case to prove that. The I-130 ONLINE application is very new so I did not know they used the same form as they did 10 years ago, but in any case, the Army's SOFA office checklist is probably twice as old as that, and what it says on the form does not necessarily correspond with the regulations of the Army or of the German government on restricted country passports. Someone may have just written the form not knowing the underlying rules (this happens often). I know someone else who got another part of the form changed by correcting the staff recently.

That's how it appears, but I'm not convinced because these forms have changed over time and the Army's checklist is likely base on the way things used to be done and might not match the actual German or US Army regulations. I also know it can be accepted by the German government and has been, so the issue is about proving it to the Army staff who are not necessarily knowledgeable.

When we applied online for the I-130 we immediately received a document called "receipt notice". In order to keep my wife living with me in Germany, due to her passport being from a country on a restrict country list, she is required by the German government to provide a document that will qualify her to stay in Germany under SOFA status as a dependent. I have not yet found the exact German regulation for this restriction, but the US Army Passport/SOFA card office has a form that says what is required is "COPY OF FORM I-171H (Notice of Approval, I-797C (Must be an Approval Action) OR I-130 (Approval of Action)". I have not found the regulations this form is based on and have not gotten good information from the staff who may not even know the origin of this phrase on their forms or know the facts that well about what counts as valid. But what I am trying to determine is if I can make a legal case that "receipt notice" meets "I-130 (Approval of Action)" requirement. Has anyone been in a similar situation or understand the USCIS forms well enough to help me make a case that we can stay together in Germany since we have the "receipt notice"? Or is there anyone with an understanding of the history of UCSIS forms to verify that what is described on the US Army SOFA checklist form is really legally the same as the receipt notice, which might be a newer USCIS document that replaced the document indicated on the SOFA checklist for restricted country passports? Thank you for your helping to keep us together while we wait endlessly for our I-130 approval.