Brit Abroad

If it was that easy, wouldn't everyone here who has filed for a spousal visa be doing it?

Ticket in married name. Carry a copy of your marriage certificate along with your passport and green card and you should be fine.

You will want to take note of time expiration on things like the police certificate and making sure that you plan to AoS within a year of your medical. The latter because it exempts you from having to have another examination in the US to satisfy the requirement. You would simply need to make sure you have any missing "shots" and then send evidence to support it, along with the copy form from your medical.

If you read the forms AND their accompanying notes you will see exactly what is required. The VJ guides give some great additional ideas on evidence that you can send, but I wouldn't panic too much, as the UK is not regarded as a high fraud consulate and you won't be subject to the same level of scrutiny as a few of the other nationals.

Best of luck in your process.

Do you have any original documents proving that the cat originated in the US? Past vet records? Adoption from a shelter, animal control or breeder? Anything that links the cat to YOU, rather than your fiance.

Obviously, you can write a statement outlining the history of puss' ownership and why s/he is now able to return to you. Presumably you have all the records for your fiance to prove intent to return to the UK and wait it out, so it shouldn't be that much of an issue.

Good luck, and I hope kitty is a good traveller!

She is out of status until you receive the NOA for AoS. Is that acceptable? Sure, lots of people have done it. Is it risky? Yes. We have so many checkpoints by road, a heavy Border Patrol presence on I-54. A lot of CBP aren't jerks, they will accept that you simply haven't filed for AoS yet, but .... if you run into the one or two that are jobsworths and do it by the book ... well ... all bets are off.

What a lot of overreactions about women's rights and the law. What I read was that the OP's friend wants to stay. He believed that in order to do so he had to remain married and living with the sponsoring spouse and felt he was being blocked by the wife's desire not to have a real marriage from the arrangement.

Just give the facts without all the assumptions about religious marriage versus US law. Jeebuz, people. Talk about way to be unfriendly to new posters.

OP. Provided the marriage was entered into in good faith, and the wife is prepared to allow your friend to prove this then he can remove conditions on the conditional green card by himself after divorce. It would be better for both your friend AND his wife to be have an amicable divorce so it isn't ugly with either family.

In 10 months time when you're with your husband you'll be crying over missing the people back in your home country. Trust me, once you have left home you will suddenly realise just how much family and friends mean to you.

Instead of being miserable about being apart, go visit your friends and family. Take a camera, a notebook, something to record video snaps of your everyday lives together so that when you do arrive in America you have them to watch and enjoy, because it will probably be at least a year before you see them again. Start planning what items you can't take with you are going to which people. Think about what you want to do for employment, for hobbies and social life in America and start researching your new home town in the US. Don't just sit there and drown in self-pity, that won't help the time pass any faster.

We've all been through the separation issue and it sucks, but there's no reason to drown in sorrow at both ends of the immigration process.

The K1 VISA doesn't require you to be engaged or have a ring. It requires you to be free and willing to marry.

Britain is not a high fraud nation and there is a lot less scrutiny in most of the cases passing through the London embassy.

I'm assuming that you live on or near a navy base, as you are still married and living with your husband. This means you should have access to JAG for legal advice. Make an appointment, go and see them. If you believe that a divorce is imminent, it's even more important to go for advice so you know what you are/may be entitled to.

Alamro, just put Jordan. I mean, it's just a means to an end, right? It doesn't make you any less Palestinian at the end of the day. It's like the oath ceremony, when you have to disavow any association with any other land. I have a British friend that woun't become a U.S. citizen because he point blank refuses to speak the words necessitated in the swearing of the oath. Why?? Is it going to make him any less British?? Is it going to erase his birth and upbringing? Is it bollocks! He'll always be a Brit in his heart just like you'll always be a Palestinian - there's no "betrayal" issue here if that's what you're worried about. ;-)

That's the very reason I won't become a US citizen, although I was eligible 4 years ago. If it's how you reconcile self with identity that's the way it is. For others, the compromise doesn't bother them, for some of us it does.

Then it's a discrepancy between what the airline is required to provide by FAA regulation and what CBP correlates and enters onto their system. Not much anyone can do about that, other than make sure that they cancel unused portions of return flights and verify the I-94 is still open if they are on a non-immigrant visa.

In many respects it's like checking your passport at the gate and the green I-94 not being removed by airline staff at the end of a visit, or the old style departure booths where you were supposed to swipe the passport and fingerprints before leaving the US. Humans are remarkably fallible, especially when little, if any, instruction is given.

It's not really an overstay issue, it's more of an "entrance without inspection" issue. If the travel history shows someone left, it means they were on a flight manifest, so there's a record of them leaving the country, but not entering, and it could cause a problem because it could indicate entrance without inspection. My mother was sent to secondary inspection at POE for this very issue a while ago, and the burden of proof falls on you since they have "proof" you left.

Flight manifest records are taken from the plane AFTER the head count is done and before the doors are closed and set to lock, and then reconciled with the boarding passes taken at the gate. You would not appear on a flight manifest unless you were locked and loaded onto that flight.

It looks like CBP are working from your original stated date of departure. A quick visit to the local office will enable you to fix it.

I would look into breach of contract on their part for a couple of reasons:-

1. They are giving you misinformation. As legal professionals this isn't acceptable.

2. If they've emailed someone not associated with your case, or that you had not previously given permission to be in receipt, then they've breached confidentiality.

Either way, they need to be done with your case. Unprofessional and incompetent is a recipe for legal disaster at your expense, and that's the last stressor you need on top of the entire immigration process.

If your baby is 7 months old and you don't want to reside in the US until s/he is ready for school, then you don't want to spend money on a green card at this stage. The whole point of the green card (more appropriately named as a Lawful Permanent RESIDENT card). It's not something you get for future use somewhere many years ahead.

You've obviously passed the "screening" elements of the interview process, now it's about you as an employee.

What can you bring to the company? Where do you picture yourself in 5 years time? Do you have any unique skills that you bring, or are you interested in pursuing training (either corporately sponsored or self-financed) that would develop you further as an employee? Do you know exactly what the company's overall business is? Are you interested in how they see the company developing? What promotion prospects can they offer you in the short and long term? What is their stance on vacation and length-of-employment related vacation?

Think about the kind of questions and answers that YOU would be looking for if you were the interviewer. Other than that, be prepared. Good luck with your final interview.

I see where Harpa's coming from.

You laid out your timeline of events:-

Yes we work together, I create the websites and do the marketing for the garage door company he owns. As for lying, there was a great deal of that coming from the IO trying to catch us saying something wrong, which we didn't.

Timeline: Met in July 2009.

Married Jan 2010. Which to some people seems like a short time, but we've been together for almost 5 years so that shouldn't be a problem.

Filed for I-845 Novemember 2011

Initial interview Feb 2012

House inspection Aug 2012

Second interview May 2014

Third Interview July 25th, 2014

no approval or denial

However, you later said that he had his employment card since you met. A visitor's visa specifically excludes employment. A person holding an employment visa would have no need of a visitor visa. An employment authorization document based on marriage is not issued until the AoS is actually applied for. So, there is no clear picture of how/when your husband was authorized for employment.

So, it leaves a few questions for you to consider:-

1. Where did your husband get his employment card from?
2. Was it in any way related to the former friend who was deported?
3. Did he have it before or after he opened the business, which you claim he's had for 4 years.
4. Was this before or after your marriage?
5. Was the deported person involved in the business in any way?
6. Is the friend who lived with you temporarily in any way connected to the deported person or your husband's employment card?

Obviously USCIS are not happy with the answers they are getting and can't reconcile the inconsistencies they have before them. It sounds like there is some kind of scam going on that you may be unaware of and have unwittingly been caught up in. If your lawyer knows all the facts from your perspective then s/he should be giving you advice for handling the interviews and post-interview communication with USCIS.

It's an unhealthy relationship for both of you. Time to cut your losses and walk away knowing that you've tried to get her to get help and you've tried to get her to join you in saving the relationship with the help of experts.

She cannot get you deported at this stage. Divorce her, file RoC with divorce pending and move on with your life. If she requests a meeting with you, make sure you take a witness with you or have her meet you in a public place for YOUR safety.

When you love someone you don't play games with their emotions, you don't score points and take revenge, you don't threaten them and you don't abuse them. She's unwilling to take responsibility for herself and you cannot build a relationship with a person in this mental state.

There are great people and horrible people in every country. It's an individual issue, not a collective one. Once you get to the States try and get out and about, meet as many different people as you can. Try new things - join clubs, go to churches you wouldn't normally attend, shop in out of the way places instead of the large box stores (WalMart, Target etc) and meet the real people, not just the ones you are forced to endure by dint of working with them, or being related to them.

Seriously, you are starting over in America, and that means you get to choose the quality of people you surround yourself with.

Did you take the time to read the company's background and hiring policies before applying for the job? Did you ask during the interview?

If the company undertakes ANY government contracts they will not employ someone who is a US citizen, much less has a minimal period of residency. It's common sense and not something that they use to beat up new residents.

Stop looking for reasons to be outraged and start doing more homework on an organisation that is going to be receiving your time and effort and with whom you'll spend more of your day than at home.

Sounds like you have been issued a recycled SSN. Either it's incorrectly issued by SSA, or it hasn't been cleared off the Credit Reference Agencies list of defunct SSNs.

Start with the SSA office. Ask them to verify that the SSN you have been given is correct and that your personal details attached to it are correct. Assuming this is so, ask them to print multiple copies of them out on headed stationery. Google the numbers for each of the credit reference agencies and call them, requesting the mailing address for you to send an SSN correction record. They should be able to contact the SSA and ask them to confirm and correct the credit reference tables they use.

The co-sponsor is not expected to sponsor the USC half of this marriage, just the immigrant spouse so it's a household of two if the sponsor is single OR a household of however many reside there PLUS the immigrant spouse.

K1 visa. Don't forget that there is a dedicated line for military personnel ... see http://www.uscis.gov/military/military-help-line

Once he's enlisted he will have access to help from the legal team on his base, too.

Good luck with your process.

I find it disheartening how many people show no compassion to others who were born into less than desirable circumstances. Every normal parent wants the best opportunities for their child, this is natural. How far would YOU go to get your child a better life if you lived in a country where their very survival was at risk? How many of you move to get into good school catchment areas and away from bad neighborhoods the second you can afford to do so?

Considering an accident of birth made you a citizen of a first world country, don't be so arrogant.

If the I-130 has been actioned, return the green card to USCIS with a covering letter stating that the relationship is no longer viable, a divorce will shortly be in process and that you do not want/require residence as a result. If it hasn't, just send a letter to USCIS outlining the same information.

Having declined residency should prove that you have no immigrant intent for future visits to the US for medical conferences.