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    Darnell got a reaction from AKN2 in She wants to be back after divorce!!!! Now what?   
    i say file with the waiver,
    and live with her without marrying her again,
    and if she's still not changed, well, is easy to move out.
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    Darnell got a reaction from John416 in SSN Howto   
    I've written something up for a SSN Howto - please have a read, make comments. At some point, I'll refactor, ask for it to be pinned here.
    Thanks !
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    SSN Info for K-1 visa Holders and CR/IR Visa Holders
    K-1 Visa Holders
    Regardless of your Marital Status, you are allowed to apply for a SSN.
    You have a particular time window in which to apply -
    starts 2 weeks after POE date and ends 2 weeks before the I-94 expires.
    Why are these start/end dates important?
    2 weeks after POE date, the SAVE database MIGHT have you in the system.
    SAVE is used by SSA clerks to validate you are eligible.
    2 weeks prior to I-94 expiring, SSA won't accept the application, as the validity date to
    receive it will pass by the time it's mailed out to you.
    How to apply:
    Get into your local SSA office, bring your passport and I-94 and a birth certificate. The birth
    certificate is optional, but some SSA staffers want to see it. Fill out the SS-5 form there, use
    your visa name (regardless of marital status) then
    --ask the SSA clerk to look you up in the SAVE system via VISA NAME and/or A#.
    ---If the SSA clerk can't find you, withdraw the SS-5 firmly, and come back in a week.
    ---If the SSA clerk can find you by VISA Name but not A#, or vice versa, you need to get to a CBP secondary inspection office and FIX YOUR SAVE RECORD with a CBP staffer (see http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/contacts/deferred_inspection/overview_deferred_inspection.xml for the local office address). Don't bother with using a telephone, just go to the office. No queues, no lines, no waiting, just go. If the CBP staffer is confused, ask for the shift supervisor - tell them you have issues with your SAVE record..
    ---If the SSA clerk CAN FIND YOU, YAY! Go through with the SS-5 application. Come back the next day, and ask for the SSN. Note the physical card will be mailed out, but you can have the NUMBER the next working day.
    CR-1/IR-1/CR-2/IR-2/IR-5 Visa Holders
    'ticking the box' on the DS-230 is sorta teasing to any Visa Applicant.
    The SSN may get processed, it may not get processed - it just depends on the clerk doing the
    data entry work for the 'intake' on the casefile once yer wife handed it over to any POE
    staffer. I know, the tick box was ticked, there's a reasonable expectation that 'something will
    get done' based on that tick box...
    But -
    if it's been more than 2 weeks past the Port of Entry Date,
    then there's a good chance that the SAVE database system has synched up,
    and
    any SSA clerk, at the local SSA office, can find her in the SAVE database.
    Ya won't know till you try. Suggest you go in person, bring -
    --yer foreign spouse
    --yer foreign spouse's passport
    --filled out application (can get those at the office, too)
    and apply.
    Whilst at the SSA office -
    Ask any clerk to look her up in the SAVE database, in the VISA name and A#.
    If they can't find her by EITHER ONE (name or A#) - go away, do not allow the application to be
    accepted, come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet.
    IF any SSA clerk mumbles 'need DHS/USCIS electronic verification' - do not allow the application to be accepted - come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet.
    Although SAVE database is useful for 'status checking' at the SSA office (by the SSA clerks) -
    many of them are not trained on how to use it. If you get blank looks or mumbles, ask for a
    Supervisor, and ask the Supervisor to 'look her up' in SAVE.
    If she is found via A# but the VISA name is stored wrong, in SAVE, you'll need to do something else, with the SAVE unit, to get it changed.
    It's a hassle, sure, but suggest you do change it to proper spelling of 'VISA NAME' prior to SSN issuance.
    More SAVE INFO -
    http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextchannel=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextoid=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD
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    Darnell got a reaction from Kano1024 in sending money to his family (long)   
    Well, see- here's the thing.
    Your husband has all of these 'typical' Indian Male things going on, which you have NO PERSPECTIVE ON, as you weren't raised in a family with typical INDIAN MALES.
    OTOH, your father was. He knows all. He knows this behavior well - he grew out of it right after you were born. He's been growing out of it more, these 30 years.
    IMO, HIS PERSPECTIVE (with all of the inputs I mentioned, not just sit and talk, but print and deliver) will be useful, after he reads all. He can advise you better than anyone else, as he's lived through this once already, once in his lifetime.
    Then, there's that other bit, as well. Not only can your father advise you about your situation, but he can advise you on what to do for going forwards. In the end, usually it breaks down to the two fathers having a long conversation, and exposing all of the fallacies and problems that have arisen with the couple. This usually happens in a 'typical' Indian marriage, after the marriage, when things have gone awry...
    So, don't call your father on this stuff. Print it all out, these 3 months of threads here at VJ, mail it to him via postal mail, with a cover letter asking him to read it all and prepare for a telephone conversation in a few weeks.
    IMO, your father will need time to assimilate all, and put together his advice for you.
    In the end, you may find (also) that your father will not want this fella in HIS family, until he straightens out and loses most of his 'Typical Indian Male' qualities. Your father has lost these, over the years - he knows all about it.
    Good Luck !
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    Darnell got a reaction from Kano1024 in sending money to his family (long)   
    Well, I have one more comment to the OP.
    Take yer numerous posts of issues over these last 3 months,
    and show them all (including our responses)
    to your father.
    Ask him for his input.
    DO NOT have a convo with Dad, until he's read all.
    Then have a long, long convo with Dad, get his input.
    Then let us know what Dad says, aye?
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    Darnell got a reaction from Kano1024 in sending money to his family (long)   
    But - you could learn the whole story.
    It's easy to do - just study ALL of her prior posts, you'll find the whole story interspersed across her basic questions.
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    Darnell got a reaction from Far.han in My visa was denied and send back to NVC   
    i see 3 options:
    1. file a new I-130, on Tuesday, front load it with relationship evidence
    2. wait out the USCIS, see if they actually give you any chance for the petition to be re-affirmed or they ask you (USCIS) for more evidence
    3. move to Australia, the two of you (surely one of you qualifies for the work visa there? )
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    Darnell got a reaction from JL & ML in Can I Start a Business with an EAD?   
    yup
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    Darnell got a reaction from Nature Boy 2.0 in 90 Day Fiance -- season ??? [merged threads]   
    Ok. Gotta say. When this first came out, first season , we learned that the producers trolled this site [fishing troll, not the other troll] seeking possible participants.  That p!ssed me off so much I refused to watch it. 
     
    Now I will binge watch it when I have time, as the silliness is comparable to one of MTV's old series where they put people in a house and study the dynamics [Remember Puck?]. 
     
    I like silliness and train-wrecks.  Fook the k-1 side of the story, let's see some train weeks on each episode!
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    Darnell got a reaction from Nature Boy 2.0 in 90 Day Fiance -- season ??? [merged threads]   
    Ah awesome. Will dig around. This is the Columbian lass that wanted her k-1 based husband to buy her larger broobies, and his mother was a pita? 
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    Darnell got a reaction from Dashinka in AOC might quit politics after Democrats blame progressives for House loss   
    Maybe she'll get appointed Postmaster General?  It's a start.  
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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    No dude. Stay local, no immigration paperwork.
     
    Don't you dare, or I'll come find you and remove your paper roll dispenser in the garage. 
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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    You should build a warehouse barn at yer hunting lands, park em all there till covid is done.  
     
    So yeah, my son in NYC. All classes remote, he moved into an artist's colony building managed by an older madman.  Recent covid issues in the building, he jetted back home with his Mom.  Had a long visit last week.  Vetted some real estate rental that turned out to be a CL scam on Berkeley Place.  It was good to see him.  
     
     
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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    1. No
    2. Not near 200, at all. Stop it, these constant rounding exercises, near page 150.  You do it on each thread.  Math is important and infallible, you treat it otherwise, here.
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    Darnell got a reaction from NikLR in Rante Macabre   
    Food ingestion rules vary by household. Since now there are two households, there are two sets of rules. 
     
    However, Halloween Candy is sacrosanct, and now you have to pick up the pieces from that breakage. 
     
    I sense she won't listen to your advice and input, so stop wasting time with it.  Yank the tablet usage is awesome, as he is using it there, unsupervised [as she is quite lazy on parenting, based on what you've written these last 3 months].
     
    Be the Dad when he is there,  step up other times when there is some medical issue outside of your home
     
    That's it, yo.  Otherwise? To attempt to manage his time and him, when he's not with you? She could get litigious and do nasty things. 
     
    If you have time and money for a therapist, take him. 
     
    I should write tonnes here about co-parenting, but since it's her, it would be a waste as she's not able to understand, much less do, that. Part of that failing is culture,  part is her personality.
     
    Good Luck, and Godspeed!
    [No toilet seats were repainted during the writing of this missive]
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    Darnell got a reaction from Cyberfx1024 in 90 Day Fiance -- season ??? [merged threads]   
    Ok. Gotta say. When this first came out, first season , we learned that the producers trolled this site [fishing troll, not the other troll] seeking possible participants.  That p!ssed me off so much I refused to watch it. 
     
    Now I will binge watch it when I have time, as the silliness is comparable to one of MTV's old series where they put people in a house and study the dynamics [Remember Puck?]. 
     
    I like silliness and train-wrecks.  Fook the k-1 side of the story, let's see some train weeks on each episode!
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    Darnell reacted to Boiler in AOC might quit politics after Democrats blame progressives for House loss   
    They need to give her something to shut her up
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    Darnell reacted to Asia in Rante Macabre   
    Especially for you


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    Darnell reacted to Dashinka in Electoral College meetups   
    Well, there were more than normal occurring in 2016 mostly impacting Hillary, but who knows this year.
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    Darnell reacted to Steeleballz in Electoral College meetups   
    I would add here, the supreme court ruling in response to the legal outcomes of the 2016 faithless electors was that states are allowed to enforce the electoral vote to ensure that it represents the outcome. Colorado removed Michael Baca as an elector in 2016 after he attempted to vote for John Kasich and replaced him with an elector who voted for the candidate who won the popular vote. Twenty nine states have laws requiring the elector to remain faithful, but not all of them include replacing the elector. Some are fines and misdemeanor charges.
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    Darnell reacted to Steeleballz in Electoral College meetups   
    There have been 157 faithless electors in our entire history, but 71 were because one of the candidates died after the election but before the vote. That puts the real average at less than 2 per election. I would be worried about this potential in a 270-268 outcome, but not really where we are right now.
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    Darnell reacted to Steeleballz in Electoral College meetups   
    We had seven faithless electors in 2016. At this time, Biden is trending towards 306 electoral votes, so Trump needs a net gain of 38 electors. I'm not seeing where that would come from. The people in these delegations are hardcore supporters of their chosen party. The only reason we saw seven faithless electors in 2016 is because of the overwhelming unpopularity of the candidates, and none of them actually switched to the other candidate IIRC, just picked a different candidate. I think Bernie Sanders got one, Colin Powell got one, and some people I've never heard of.
     
       I would say snowballs chance in hell of pulling it off if the electoral votes stand. If Trump comes back in Arizona and wins recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin, then there is an outside shot. It it ever did happen, it would be a closer election than this one is right now. It would also probably be the beginning of the end for the electoral college.
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    Darnell reacted to Dashinka in Airline pilot reports seeing 'guy in jetpack' near aircraft while approaching LAX runway   
    Usually happens when Darnell decides to grace us with their presence.
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    Darnell reacted to Steeleballz in Airline pilot reports seeing 'guy in jetpack' near aircraft while approaching LAX runway   
    This is scary. Zombie threads everywhere!!! 
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    Darnell reacted to Nature Boy 2.0 in Airline pilot reports seeing 'guy in jetpack' near aircraft while approaching LAX runway   
    Acetaminophen is way better 😁
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    Darnell got a reaction from Asia in Rante Macabre   
    No dude. Stay local, no immigration paperwork.
     
    Don't you dare, or I'll come find you and remove your paper roll dispenser in the garage. 
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