Thanks, I will prepare for that, and I imagine I’d be starting the job before getting to the interview part so hopefully that plus our documentation will be enough.
I’m going to apply for DCF in Canada and have received a job offer listing the start date as “TBD” - is that acceptable or will I have to have an actual date?
Congrats on the finalization! We also adopted and been living abroad so I feel (some of) your pain with this process! Will you be requesting Direct Consular Filing for a quicker process?
Were you able to find out any helpful tips? We applied for N600K when the processing time at Pittsburgh said 2.5 months, now it's up to 7 months. Really discouraging, if there's a way to reach out and move it along I'd love to know how.
Hello, can you please advise -
If I get college transcripts, can they be unofficial/unsealed or do they need to be sealed?
I read there's something from Social Security - can it be printed from online?
What about property tax records - does that prove presence?
Thanks!
I believe USMCA is what the US calls the former-NAFTA agreement. Canada calls it CUSMA - that's what you should search for. See if your profession is one of those under CUSMA and you can get a work permit which was fairly easy but you do need a job offer and an employer willing to fill out something online and pay a small fee (I think it was around $100-200?).
More questions - does the US job offer have to be equal or better to current job to qualify? Could argue overall quality of life and income to expenses is better?
If the consulate accepts your I130 is it possible (or likely) to get denied further in the process? Could they initially accept my imminent need to leave the country and then after we pay fees and travel for interview, etc then deny us for not being a good enough reason?
I know I'm asking a lot of questions but if you knew how we had suffered over the last 5 years you would understand. I need to be vague for privacy reasons. We need to be home with family ASAP.
I have not applied yet. I think it’s a little confusing since some threads were merged but my question was if I have to have a job offer to qualify for DCF because where the policy lists the possible acceptable reasons it says adoptive family with imminent need to depart the country, that is a separate reason from having a job offer.
Well I emailed Montreal, and they didn't really answer my question if we will qualify based on our imminent need, just general response about if we are confident we will qualify, to send XYZ information.
No for our process we will use I130 as a family process because we have lived together overseas for 2 years.
I864/tax returns should not be needed because the kids will become citizens immediately after arrival.
You might be right, but on the other hand it says after living together 2 years, so I don’t know. I wish I felt more confident about it. Thanks for answering my question.