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Ok, so for my daughter and me, doing the CR1/CR2 route will cost us just over $1600 USD, plus medicals, right?

$400 for you, $400 for your daughter ... plus $70 I-864 AOS fee ... plus medicals ($870 + medicals)

The only thing I'm NOT 100% on is if there is the $70 I-864 fee on each visa, or if it is just on yours. Even if there was a fee on BOTH visas, that would make it $940 + medicals, not $1600.

Someone else can chip in on the I-864 fee, but I think it's only for the CR1 ...

The $1010 fee is only if going the K3 route. That is the fee you pay within 2 years of getting your K3 to adjust your status while living in the US.

Oh, I thought for my daughter and myself, we had to pay?

I-130: $355 x 2

NVC I-864: $70 x2

NVC Visa fee: $400 ($355+$45) x2

$825 x 2 = $1,650 plus medical

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Ok, so for my daughter and me, doing the CR1/CR2 route will cost us just over $1600 USD, plus medicals, right?

congratulations!

This is fraud.

You can not come to the USA with the intent to stay, as a tourist.

If she were to attempt this, and adjust status, the fact she has no job back home to go to will not help her case at all to show ties back home. And the fact she would be barred from entering the USA again for a long time

Id call an immigration attorney asap

It dpeends at the POE IO I guess... the last time I went to see my SO in the US , the POE asked to see my return ticket back to Canada

Your right Narina ... you adjust here, you don't have to fly back to your country ...

Also, the total cost of the CR1 is cheaper ... but ... up front the K3 is cheaper. In my case, if I do a CR1 for my wife & stepdaughter, I need to come up with extra $1000 before the interview. With the K3 it's only $260 due at the interview. For people like me on a tight budget, and wanting your spouse home asap, the K3 is a viable option.

Gerlee ... The beneficiary can usually get a work card in 90 days on a K3.

I thought the CR1 was the cheapest way to go, even up front?

avast, and happy with it

((hugs)) I know this time has go to to be hurtful and confusing. I can see how you are so limited on how you are going to return to Canada.

Can you stay with your folks or other family till you get on your feet and move away?

Just dont quit ur job too soon!!!

How soon is too soon?

I hope to quit a week before interview, for interview prep... then to nova scotia to go pick up my stuff from my ex's

lol , regarding the male interviwers. I have noticed as well, each time I go to the US to visit my SO, whenever I get a male IO at the POE, they are a lot more easy going... "purpose of trip? vacation", "how long?" 2 weeks... "have a nice time!"

Whenever I get a lady IO at the POE... "purpose of trip?" "where do you live", where are you staying?, who lives there? how do you know them? how long have you known them? where do you work? do you have children?

And to the OP: Congratulations!

Ok, so I think I have convinced my BF that we really dont need a lawyer to file this stuff. So I hope you dont mind me bombarding you with all of my questions now Thanks SOOO much for any help!! Saving us a lot (as Im sure you know, lol)

Were not going to be doing this until next year anyhow, but just so I know.. and so we can be prepared for this all:

i-130 Questions For CR1 & CR2

Part B

Question 13... Is your spouse currently in the US?

Do we put yes, if Im visiting while applying and going back to complete the CR1?

Question 14

Canadians dont have I94's.. do we just put NA? There is no period authroized until.. we get a standard 6 months with no stamp, do we just put NA, or put 6 months from the date of entry?

Part C

17: Do we put the names of children not following here as well?

18: He will be living with his Dad until the visa is approved, and then moving to get a place of our own Do we still just list Father in Laws house here for now? Or put unknown?

21... put NA if we havent lived together yet?

D-1... Does he put my kids as child (hes not their bio father) or just put Step Child

Then for the G-325A...

When it asks for File A #, what do we put?

Then, do we fill out all 4 sides of the G-325 A as well, for each child??

When do we fill out and send the I-864? And do we fill that out for each person being petitioned? Or do we just provide it once, at the interview?

Another question, after having the CR1&CR2 approved, how long until it has to be 'activated' at the border?

Then for evidence of a bonafide marriage;

What kind of evidence can you send in if you havent been living together yet (ie lease agreement, comingled finances, etc?)

Also, for my children that will be moving as well, at what point do we provide the notarized letter from the father? Can we attach it with the I-130?

Ok, please forgive me since were not even starting this process until next year. But, with a CR1 why do you need to bring the xrays? I thought that you do the medical in Montreal and you get the PR? Where does the Xray go to at that point?

Were gettin married early 2010 and will apply for the cr1 shortly after while im there visiting my usc boyfriend. Is it possible to stay my full 6 months, then apply for an extension visiting if it hasnt been approved yet, until the cr1 is approved and I go for my interview at the consulate? & What happensif they deny the extention? Would my cr1 be in jepordy if I overstayed, due to waiting on a response on an extension?

Yes, there was the restraining order. I dont fear my children being with them, if I did, I would not leave them here alone with him. The reason there was a restraining order had nothing to do with the children. He's never hurt my children.

But grr, I wrote a bigger post and lost it all. Ill have to re-do it after I make the kids lunch

But Emancipation, you do bring some valid points I put in there, hopefully I can remember it all

Wellllllllll just spoke to my lawyer, shes drafting up the seperation agreement this week to attach to the divorce documents for next week. She said that if its in the seperation agreement that Im moving to the U.S, and that John will watch the kids while I get settled, then its a legal document and he has to follow. I wonder if its in the sepration agreement I can use that at the consulate

Ok, Im not sure if I have this right? At least for a CR1?

I-130 $355

DS-230 $355

I-864 - $70

Fingerprints - $85

+ Medical @ Montreal.

Is that right??

Then the exact same cost for each of my kids? (they are under 6)

K, im just tryign to figure out the cost for filing a cr1 and 2 cr2s

man, canada should just be another BIG state lol. Make this less complicated

Anyone have any idea what the cost difference is from applying for a K3 and a CR1? From beinning till AOS?

As far as my parents, they dont want me here in NS with the kids. They told me that they would rather have the kids with a great stepfather, then their bio Dad. My parents are worried about his controlling ways, really. He's very controlling with me, not the kids.

And as far as living here in Canada... my ex says if Im here in Canada he wants them in the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia, he doesnt want me moving back to Ontario where I may be closer to my family. He's worried that my family will try to deter the kids from him I think.

My kids are too young to also fully comprehend the whole 'being away thing'. Granted my ex is military, and would go away weeks at a time, longest being 3 months.. so they are used to the short deployments ane excercises, they just cant fully comprehend yet the whole "living far away" from "being far away"

To answer some questions, yeah there was a restraining order that was just lifted last monday. We dont have family around here, not for 21 hours away. My ex is military, and he doesnt like my parents or my family because they called the police on him back in November, and they called CAS on him as well back then. So because of that, he doesnt want the kids living in Ontario around them because he's pissed at them.

Yesterday our two lawyers were negotiating for the divorce paperwork, for the agreement. And I have a feeling that some things that surfaced on there (without getting into more detail on the www) is making him change his mind.

But first Im going to ask my lawyer that if theres anyway, with me requesting from the courts for the mobility rights to move to the states, and with John telling the judge he agree's, under the caviat of his 'stipulations'. Now I just need to try to work on him lowering this 'time frame' to have them come with me. Baby steps.

I think it is a good idea for him to wait anyway because then he'll really know if he can or can't handle the kids. But be prepared that he might decide that he can and his entire world might change. I also don't think you can guarantee that he allows the kids to move down.

Sorry to be a wet blanket but it seems that your ex- has a pretty solid view of life and that he loves his kids.

Uhh, ya he 'loves' them. He just doesnt get them dressed, or put them to bed, or help with homework, etc. He just plays his game, and if the kids interrupt with his game, he gets upset. He doesnt take them anywhere, nothing. Even a lot of his friends just say all 3 of us were just to boast with pride that he had kids and a wife. His own mother even told me he hasnt been ready for kids.

And even friends state that he's holding them back out of spite, and control. He's already got in trouble in the past with his controlling and manipulating ways, that landed him behind bars in December along with a lovely restraining order as well for a few weeks.

Ok, for those of you who read my rant in the off topic thing yesterday.... guess who is finally starting to agree to let both my kids move down?? I think he is starting to realise that for someone who is a hardcore gamer, plays about 4-5 hours a day after work, hes gonna have no time. And a military job. His schedule up till now was wake up at 7am, out the door by 7:40am, back home around 4:30pm, logs on his game till 6:30pm, eats dinner takes a bath, gets back on his game till midnight.

I think hes starting to realise that theres no way he can be upat 6:30am , get the kids dressed for school, breakfast, get them to the bus stop, then have permission to get to work a half hour late.. then have permission to leave 2 1/2 hours early to be here before the bus, help them with homework, bring them to activities, make dinner, make their lunches the next day, give them baths, get them ready to bed, only to see he has 2 hours left for his game, lol. So now hes saying that he is willing to be flexible. However he doesnt want them going down right when I do.

He wants to wait about a year, year and a half.... since he's nervous about Dave and I not working out and the kids being down there in a different lifestyle, only to move back up. He wants to make sure things are stable down there, that I have a job that I have been working at steadily, and we have a house of our own and he wants a rough estimate.

I just HOPE that if he follows through with this, he doesnt change his mind once Im down there, and go "Oh! Well I changed my mind".

So Im going to call my lawyer today, to see if therse somehow to gaurantee he will actually have the kids go down once its time.

So Im thinking we should just do the CR1 for me first, then once I get down there, apply right away for the kids (dh would as step kids), so hopefully a year later it will be approved and the kids have their interviews in Montreal

Can u at least claim your premiums on your taxes?