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When you think about it.... a lot of people send money to their parents, brothers, etc, etc... BUT how many couples send exactly (or almost) their particular salary every month back home? That would be a HUGE red flag for me... even if the husband made $10,000 a month and that more than paid for the bills. If I make $8,000 a month and my wife makes $2,000 it is pretty stupid to send 2k back home every month since it just screams of having a bf or husband back in the home country. Everyone that isn't in the typical situation has to think, "How is this going to look to a stranger?" Because anything unusual can be interpreted as something that it isn't... such as fraud.

When you think about it.... a lot of people send money to their parents, brothers, etc, etc... BUT how many couples send exactly (or almost) their particular salary every month back home? That would be a HUGE red flag for me... even if the husband made $10,000 a month and that more than paid for the bills. If I make $8,000 a month and my wife makes $2,000 it is pretty stupid to send 2k back home every month since it just screams of having a bf or husband back in the home country. Everyone that isn't in the typical situation has to think, "How is this going to look to a stranger?" Because anything unusual can be interpreted as something that it isn't... such as fraud.

You should also bear in mind that uscis uses notions of marriage that are considered common among reasonable married couples in America. Most Americans are included on car titles, houses, bank accounts, power bills, water bills, etc etc and the system is setup so that two people can be included on all of those things.... Why do you think divorce is so complicated in this country? We intermingle EVERYTHING.
With that said, many people that marry foreigners do things the way their partner does... In China you can't have two ppl on a bank account, house, car, etc etc so only one person gets on the document. You also go out with friends and one person often pays for everything and you return the favor later on. The problem for a uscis officer is that he doesn't know what people in China do, what people in peru do, he only knows what normal Americans do... so anything that goes against that norm makes him pause and the result is an rfe... The best thing people can do is just follow the typical American idea of what married couples do and you won't really have many problems.

well, after happily cheering others approvals, i can report with equal happiness (+1) that my husband got an approval letter today.
he strolled in with a letter and handed it to me. i handed it back. for a moment i worried very slightly that it was a summons for an interview, but he scanned it and then yelled 'congratulations!'.
details for those interested:
decision date 4/5
letter rec'd 4/7
est 60 days to rec card
sent from local office
no text/email rec'd
woo!

The problem with ROC and proving you need to expedite is that YOU have almost nothing to do after you file and almost nothing to gain directly from being approved. What I mean is that you don't have an interview (most of the time) that would require you to physically be somewhere, nor do you HAVE to have the new ten year green card for anything when the extension letter does the same thing.
No matter what you try to come up with uscis will prove that the letter and type of case (roc) does not result in you needing to be expedited.
Are you in the military? You can serve overseas without having to go back for an interview so this won't work.
You need to travel because mom is about to die or will need 6 months of your helping hand to recover from cancer? The letter will work.
You need the real green card for some government related work? Highly unlikely since almost all government jobs require citz.
You need the green card to get instate tuition? The old one with the letter works just fine.
The list could go on and on, but this isn't n-400 or even aos where there is a list of required places to be and things to do that might get you expedited.... you have to wait like everyone else.

Sigh,
1. Standard service requests don't do anything on the i751... u will get told that they will check it but nothing happens (the exception is a very very late... like 15 month old 751). That is why your lawyer doesn't want to do it... because it just doesn't work.
2. Your file would never take longer than 12 months unless it REALLY got lost so what is with you even thinking for a split second that you would need to get a stamp every year?
Just sit back with the rest of us and live life..... one morning you will go out to check the mail or get a message and the approval or rfe will be there.... and yes you are paying your lawyer to do something, but most are worthless so what do you expect?

Dude, you should be happy and thanking God you have been approved. Many people who filed before you have still not heard anything. No offense, but You should be wishing others luck instead of whinning about not receiving your card just 2 weeks after it has been approved.

You file singularly with a waiver. Do it as late as possible while getting the divorce going as quickly as possible. You have enough time to pull this off. If you are not divorced by the time your Green Card is a about to expire, mail your I-751 in. Again this will buy you time until you'll receive an RFE for the missing divorce decree and again you'll have 88 days time. If you are still not divorced by May post again and we tell you the next steps in detail.

When you think about it.... a lot of people send money to their parents, brothers, etc, etc... BUT how many couples send exactly (or almost) their particular salary every month back home? That would be a HUGE red flag for me... even if the husband made $10,000 a month and that more than paid for the bills. If I make $8,000 a month and my wife makes $2,000 it is pretty stupid to send 2k back home every month since it just screams of having a bf or husband back in the home country. Everyone that isn't in the typical situation has to think, "How is this going to look to a stranger?" Because anything unusual can be interpreted as something that it isn't... such as fraud.

I personally believe they are right to open up your case again under such a situation. Immigration is a privilege not a right, and as such they should be able to examine your past down to the smallest detail. People marry someone and commit fraud all the time.. then bring in their old boy friend asap.... Is that fair to Americans to get two people who in all reality maybe shouldn't be here to begin with (yeah good faith, etc, I am not saying you shouldn't) but in a perfect world we wouldn't have divorce and if he (the usc) saw what was coming (as I am sure you would have too) neither of you would have gotten married and moved here. Anyway... my point is that they have the right to look into your past the moment that you want to bring someone from overseas... this isn't about love since u can always mover overseas... this is about a privilege to bring someone here. Good luck though!