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So, here's my list! Obviously they'll also get the I-751 and a check, ugh.

•Attachment to I-751 , Part 3, Question 9 – All addresses resided at

•Copy of green card, front and back for Sara Johanna Greenhalgh.

•Copy of Military Dependent ID card for Johanna Sara Greenhalgh

•Copy of front of driver license of Sara Johanna Greenhalgh, showing address

•Copy of Lease agreement, Page 1 and 6, from previous residence, showing that I, Christopher John Greenhalgh, was renting said place.

•Copy of Letter from leasing agent from previous residence, showing my wife, Johanna Greenhalgh being added as a permitted occupant.

•Copy of Lease agreement, Page 1, from current residence showing me, Christopher John Greenhalgh as the renter and my wife, Johanna Sara Greenhalgh, as a permitted occupant.

•Tax Transcript from 2010 joint US tax return.

•Tax Transcript from 2011 joint US tax return

•Copies of Bank Statements showing joint ownership of checking and savings accounts throughout the past 2 years.

•Copies of front of both of our Navy Federal Credit Cards showing joint account

•Copies of front of both of our USAA Credit Cards showing joint account

•Copy of USAA car insurance showing both of us as operators.

•Copy of Power of Attorney over our car for my wife, Sara Johanna Greenhalgh to use during my deployment in 2011.

•Print out of my Basic Individual Record showing my deployment in 2011 and Johanna Sara Greenhalgh as my wife.

•Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance for Christopher John Greenhalgh showing Johanna Sara Greenhalgh as beneficiary

•Copies of Customs forms for a few of the care packages sent to me in Afghanistan.

•Evidence showing we spent my Rest and Recuperation (R&R) during deployment, together in Sweden. Copies of boarding passes, hotel confirmation and receipt, train tickets and my approved leave request

•Trip confirmation, boarding passes and hotel receipt from vacation taken together in Barbados.

•Pictures of us together during these past 2 years.

How does it look to ya'll?

My window opens tomorrow, but I don't have my ducks in a row yet, haha! Still waiting for our tax transcripts.. Should be here next week though.

I hope we can all breeze through this!

Let's chant " No interviews"!

After she enters on her immigrant-visa she could turn around and leave the same day with just that visa being stamped. It will serve as a temporary GC for up to 1 year.

I'mt hinking that if there is a visitation right from a Georgia divorce he would have visitation right when they get here. The Hauge Convention doesn't have anything to do with it since the child will be in the US.

But please let us know what you have found out and what is the outcome.

Darn, I thought 13 months was bad! I'm guessing he is Army?

I'v learnt a few things about myself durong this deployment though, so it's not all awful!

You will get through this, believe me. And if it ever gets unbearable, I'm here on VJ to keep you above the water!

I'm sorry if this come off the wrong way but, the K1 is not a "let's see what happens" visa. It is for 2 people that are without a doubt sure that they want to get married and spend the rest of their life together. The stipulation is that you get married within 90 days of entering the US. Those days isn't for figuring anything out relationship-wise , or making sure of anything, days, (you should already know that) it's wedding planning days.

If you don't get married within the 90 days, but eventually do, you'd do a concurrent I-130/I-485 filing, and if you don't get married, you should leave before those 90 days are up, or the option of ever visiting the US on the VWP are pretty much done.

If your main sponsor didn't make enough to be required to file taxes (check up on this) they can't make him bring tax returns.

Your co-sponsor needs to at least provide a current employment letter and recent paystubs.

It might be more difficult with your Embassy, can't tell you about that.

I'm sure I'm not the only one on this board that's in the same situation..

How are you all dealing with it?

(sorry if there is a previous topic about it, just couldn't find it)

Get married as soon as humanly possible so he can get the appropriate BAH, so you guys can get a place of your own.

Being a new immigrant with all the happy feelings of finally being with your loved one is not going to do you, your relationship or the grieving widow any good.

Just do a quick court marriage to get it "out of the way", so he can afford to get you guys a place of your own, and worry about ceremonial thing later.

You could have turned around and went back right after you'd entered if you would have wanted.

2 weeks out of the US is totally fine.

Is the petitioner a USC?

so what you are saying is she can not apply for I-130 here in the US?

Even if they declear that they are husband and wife?

Thanks for your help!

He could file the I-130 while she is in the US, BUT, she would have to leave when her 90 days is up, and wait out the visa-process in her own country. She will not be able to adjust her status in the US, but will have to get a immigrant visa from the Embassy in the UK.

It doesn't matter that they are married, what matters is that he is a LPR, not a USC, so no visa-number is immediatly avalible.

Her spouse would have to be a USC for her to be able to Adjust her status, but even if he was, she can't enter on the VWP with the intent to do so. So that option is not valid anyways.

He would have to file a I-130 petition for her, which takes quite a while for a spouse of an LPR. He will be able to upgrade it though when he gains US citizenship.

The VWP is for visiting, not for living with your spouse, so if the CO at POE see a pattern in her travel that doesn't make her a tourist anymore they can, and probably will, deny her entry. Sure, it's 90 days per visit, but also a maximum of 180 days per year. The rule of thumb is to stay out for as long as you were in.

It will NOT be an issue.

CBP at my POE even told me that if I wanted to I could hop on the next flight out of there after getting my stamp and be able to return without any problems.

Of course I didn't since I was quite excited to see my hubby,haha!

Does she have any ties to Thailand?

If you get divorced you can do it by yourself.

Askig the thread to be moved to a more appropriate forum.

Ok, this might be a dumb input, since I haven't actually read up on this new law and how it'll affect you but..

Will it actually affect your K-1? You won't be getting married in Thailand, but in the US and there is no such law here.

I don't know about cabins per se, but Emerald Isle,NC and Myrtle Beach,SC are both beautiful places!

One question that just springs to mind, were you a USC when he was born?

Both the I-130 and the I-485 applies in your case, as you will be adjusting her status, there is a guide about this up there in the tabs.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

One thing, walk (or run) away from this lawyer, she would incur a ban if she left, but it would be a 10year ban, not a lifetime. Unless she has done something else then what you are telling.

And, she would be a Resident after you petition is approved, citizenship comes a while after that.

Shouldn't be a problem since overstay is forgiven for an immediate relative to a USC.

So he has to come to Germany for that? I think they would make an exception, for example, when he is already deployed at the time they set the interview date, right? Or in case he doesn't get leave from the army, if we get an interview date before he deploys.

He will not have to come to the interview, even if he is not deployed yet. Only you are required to be there.

When you send off you I-130 package, make sure you put in an expedite request in there, along with his deployment orders, and a letter from (or atleast signed by) his CO.

Then when NOA-1 ( acceptance reciept) arrives in mailbox, call USCIS Military Hotline, inquire about that expedite.

When petition gets sent to NVC, follow up by asking for a expedite there aswell. If that is granted, you skip all NVC processing and you bring all the paperwork they'd have to go through there directly to the Embassy.

That should speed up the process imensly!

As for visiting while the petition is pending, I don't know how the procentages are but I did it, no problems.

Bring your NOA's (to prove you are doing it the legal way), and if you can have a copy of your husbands orders (to show why you are coming) you should be fine!

Good Luck!

She can and should surrender her GC, can be done at the US Embassy in her homecountry.

Doing this could actually "up" her chances as to obtaining a tourist visa in the future, since she willingly gave up her GC the presumtion of immigrant intent would/could be smaller.

I have friends who married their Mexican Boyfriends, in Mexico & it took a bit more than a year to get them here to the USA. I also have friends who went the fiancee visa route, supposedly it is faster, but costs more. As for a tourist visa, he would need $2,000-3,000 sitting in a bank for several months to show he has money, plus his name on a home, car etc. It is still not a done-deal, I believe application for tourist visas are about $100usd & they can still turn you down if the interviewer believes you will marry or overstay. You can try this, however it is very difficult these days & it also wastes time...

My opinion would be to begin the fiancee visa process, and then as it progresses go ahead & marry him in Mexico but that would make the K1 null & you would begin a new process.What ever you do take lots of photos & begin documenting every trip, keep all boarding passes etc so you can prove you were there to visit!

best of luck! Kim

Why on earth would they do that?

Sorry if that sounds harsh but that would just be throwing money down the drain.

Either start the K-1 and see it through, and marry when he gets to America, OR, get married in Mexico and file for the CR-1.

My 2 cents...

Since you have to call them and change your address too (since you have a pending case) you might as well just ask them this so you are sure you do it the right way.

Just my 2 cents

Edited to add:

My bad, apparently you don't have to call and update it even if you have a pending case. It might still be a good idea just to make sure there are no confusion.

Nope, you don't need an SSN, atleast I was able to get mine without it. The lady did say that I would need to "update" them with my SSN within 6 months. This was before we even started our visajourney so there was no way I was getting one in that time.

When I went in to update them after I actually had one (aprox 11 months later) no one said a thing.

So I would say you are good to go!