Lia792

Love it! The "pet visa" was my favourite! I'm pretty sure there is a pet visa...
It's called the K-9 visa

Some IR1/CR1 jokes
Q) I want to bring my spouse from foreign country to the U.S. Which is the best method?
A) By air is the fastest and the best. I don't recommend bringing by ship since it takes longer time.
Q) What's I-130? I have heard about highways I-95, I-84 etc.?
A) Your GK is great. I-130 is kind of a route like you depicted, but speed limit is 1 to 2 mph!
Q) Instead of sending petitioner's and beneficiary's individual photos, can we send just one group photo?
A) Thank God! You didn't mention your grandpa and grandma in this group photo.
Q) Some people say that photo must be placed in a small bag and label it. Why this small bag is needed?
A) USCIS is short of bags.
Q) I don't know my father's DOB to fill in G-325A. How can I get it?
A) Ask to your paternal grandparents.
Q) How long should I wait for approval after sending I-130?
A) You can do your normal job. It will come when it is ready.
Q) I see that I-130 must be filled in CAPITAL. Does this mean I should go to Washington D.C and fill it?
A) Please kill me!
Q) I sent our marriage certificate and still got RFE. What other document should I send to overcome this RFE?
A) Your bedroom pics and videos during the pleasure is another choice.
Q) I am the sponsor. Can I include my stepson's (my wife's son before her previous marriage) girl friend and this girl
friend' parents in my I-130 application?
A) You can include, but USCIS will not give them visa.
Q) My wife has nobody in her country other than a cat. U.S doesn't allow animals to be imported. Is there any pet visa?
A) I can't answer to this question. I am a newbie!
Q) Can my spouse wear the T-shirt that is made of U.S flag during the interview to impress the Consulate officer?
A) Carry a small Statue of Liberty too in the hand
Enjoy guys! This is just for fun!
Loto

Damn, she beat me. And I was up to 994.
Drat!

I, and others, tried our best to bring light into the darkness and give you valuable advice on how to proceed from here. Mistakes have been made on your part in assuming that the Green Card is a joker for life, then again when entering the US without an appropriate visa, and a third time when filing the I-90.
CBP and USCIS are not responsible for any of this. As an American you should remember that many of the employees on those agencies, as well as the SSA and about any DMV office in the country, are packed with incompetent drones who don't know squat about their very own job. If you didn't remember, then consider yourself reminded of the fact the hard way. Trust me, as #######-retentive German I have had my share with the overwhelming incompetence of people in the US and still have to calm myself down day after day.
Your case is clear as a a glass of water. You don't need a lawyer; you just need to figure out if you are still a German resident and if that's the case you need to file the DCF. If you are not a German resident anymore, you need to go the IR-1 route. It's so simple a caveman can do it and there's no other way, even if you and the President were old buddies from college.
You can rant all about how f*cked up the US's immigration system is and you'll hear all of us chime in and give you two thumbs up. We know that, trust me, every single one of us. But your ideas about entering the country illegally, even when just made out of frustration, would result in a lifetime ban of ever entering the US again, as would a material misrepresentation, "lying" to USCIS.
So take a deep breath and forget how to sue the US Government, but instead familiarize yourself of the process like many here have done already. You are about to walk a road that has been traveled countless times and the directions are posted clearly once you understand how to read them. And if you don't, just ask.
Then, once you run for public office and get elected, don't forget to post here again so that we can make suggestions on how to change the system for the better.
Have a good night.

Since Jim always provides such amazing responses, I'll drift in a completely different direction and call you out: at this point of time you do not have an immigration problem; you have a relationship problem. More to the point: you have a communication problem. Go out for dinner with your hubby, order a bottle of wine, tell him that you love him and want your marriage to work. Then communicate your thoughts and concerns to him.
Addendum: the moment we got married, my wife quit her job and followed her dream to open her own business in her field of expertise. To this day, close to 4 years later, she has not made a penny. On the contrary, her dream so far has cost us over $100,000. But we are a couple, so her dream is more important to me than her money, even though I have to work very hard to provide for all of us, including our daughter who's now in college. Marriage is not a business agreement; it's a life decision.

Even though she is here illegally, she did arrive legally, which is how she and he intend to find a way for her to stay by adjusting her status on the expired visa... the reason others have said that she should not leave the US now, is that as soon as she leaves, she will be banned from entering the US at that point and cant adjust at that point...
The fact that she did the right thing at one point (entered on a valid visa) is the flaw in the system that allows her to have an opportunity to possibly stay here permanently...marrying the USC is the key to the loophole
This is a difficult topic for many here to discuss or see discussed as they have gone through every stage of the process legally and are still apart mired in the system... and to see someone being able to be here in the US through an overstay such as this example can be very disheartening...

Of course its all relative. You can create a "negative 1" easily enough now. If there are 7 posts in a thread and 2 = bad advice, then simply hit +1 on the other 5 posts.
I've already done it to this thread. My post is the lowest rating, ie it would contain bad advice.

I am too but generally don't include an I-134 with a petition as it will just need to be provided again later with current date and documentation. The employment information on the G325a is generally sufficient to get the Conoff thinking appropriately about any financial issues.
A photocopy of your birth certificate won't hurt anything but you'll be expected to carry the original to the interview, so don't send originals of such documents. What should be original are the cover letter, check, petition, G325a and letters of intent.

Well I think both sides are in the wrong in a way...
The father should not let/force his daughter to wear the hijab that early.. It should only happen when SHE CHOOSES to and when she reaches the age of puberty! I know certain cases of girls who wore (were forced to wear) the hijab very early and ended up hating it and feeling forced to do it cause it never came by choice.
The teacher HAS TO get back to the parents before she lets the girl take her scarf off. It should not be her call to tell the child what to do. And her behavior of letting the girl hide behind her until she wears the scarf before the father sees her is totally wrong...simply because it teaches the little girl double-standards... However, I totally sympathize with her point of view..the girl should live as a CHILD not as a grown-up... Hijab is a religious duty and responsibility after all.
The father's logic of letting the girl wear the hijab that early purely comes out of culture and has nothing to do with Islam. The rules are clear about when and how a WOMAN should wear the hijab.
I've been wearing the hijab for 8 years myself and it was totally my choice to wear it, I was never forced to do it.
I remember begging my mom in my first grade to wear it to school even for once, she refused strongly and then one day she let me wear it just to try.. I took it off at the middle of the day cause I changed my mind and wanted to have a hair-do! When I came back home that day she laughed and said "I knew you would do that, that's why I say it's not the right time to wear it yet."... Now that we have a 6-year old girl that keeps asking to wear the headscarf 'like mommy', I say the same thing..."It's not the right time to wear it yet...when you are a grown-up, and if you CHOOSE to wear it, you will wear it."
Aya

Hola Azucena,
Siempre y cuando se haya casado dentro del plazo de los 90 días, todo está bien. Su visa venció el mismo día que la usó para entrar a éste país y lo que le da su estado legal es el que se haya casado mientras el I-94 estuviera válido.
No hay penalidad por haber aplicado por el ajuste meses después pero entre más pronto lo haga, mejor.
Diana

Mexico has a strict separation of Church and State. (For those who are curious in terms of history, some important figures might be Benito Juarez and Plutarco Calles, and the Cristero Revolution.) A religious wedding has no civil (legal) value, which is why everyone has 2 separate ceremonies, usually with the "boda civil" civil wedding before the boda religiosa. However, it would not be that intelligent to share those photos with the govt or address each other in letters or in the interview as "my husband" or "my wife," because they would be setting themselves up for a denial or RFE (when technically they are not legally married in any country.) They should never lie, especially if they are asked about it, but I definitely wouldn't go out of my way to confuse the situation more. As long as they have not done a ceremony with a judge, or any sort of paperwork at the Registro Civil to get married, I don't see why they would be considered married. Double check that they didn't do any sort of paperwork at the Registro. If they did have a legal wedding too, then they do have a problem and do need to cancel their visa and start a CR-1, but if it was just the boda religiosa, it should have no civil value.
In the US, however, religious ceremonies can have a legal value as long as they have a marriage license, or actually i don't know all the details since I didn't get married in the US, I do know that one can have just one ceremony in the US while Mexico always has 2 and 2 different sets of paperwork and certificates.

If you could just direct me to the aisle where they keep the trophy wives, I'd be ever so grateful.

Persist!
"Invictus" is a rather apt poem to have in your subject line. Read it again and stick it out.
This whole thing sucks...but if your love for your husband is true, it's worth more than the time you are being kept apart.
Hope it all works out for you soon.

The fee is $400 -- the extra $70 is paid only by CR1/IR1 applicants filing via the NVC for I-864 processing. Another little goodie for DCFers is that we don't pay it, making DCF the fastest and cheapest way to get a green card. (Go us!) I believe the $400 is broken down -- $355 for the visa, $45 for a security fee on top -- but you pay it as one fee.

Moving to a new country can be daunting. I moved to Canada from SA, and not having friends/fam closeby can be scary. Throw in the fact that I am bi-polar, and a person can do some WACKY things.
This might not be a "visa game" (although it has all the symptoms), it also has all the symptoms of some-one who is bi-polar... (wild spending sprees, rapid cycling highs and lows, violent explosions, crying...) Unfortunately you cannot force her to see a psychiatrist, but if she threatens to harm herself (as you alluded to when she asked about her not being there anymore..) you might have a foot to stand on in terms of "intervening".
Just my 2 cents. Just cus shes an immigrant doesnt mean shes playing the "visa game".
Good luck dude, hope it all works itself out

Hi Amny!
I'm sorry to hear about your problems.
Your account of the events is exceptionally well written, covering all pertinent aspects of your relationship.
I do not know N.Y. State divorce law, but it is fair to assume that at some point you will have to have your husband served with the divorce papers. From that perspective you may want to use the opportunity of your husband's absence from the US to confer with a divorce attorney or two, retain the one you are most comfortable with, and get things started.
Viewed from an immigration perspective, I assume your husband is a conditional Permanent Resident, holding a 2-year Green Card. As such, he would be required to file for Removal of Conditions (ROC) not earlier than 90 days before his card expires, unless you guys are divorced, in which case he is actually required to file immediately.
Depending on how long it will take to get the divorce finalized, other events may take place. For example, if you are not divorced by the time his Green Card expires, he has to file the I-751 petition anyway, and will receive a Request for Evidence (RFE), asking for the divorce decree within a certain time frame.
If he can't produce that in time, he'll be in front of an immigration judge whom he (or his attorney) can ask to put deportation proceedings on hold until the divorce is final and his ROC petition is decided upon. In most cases this will be granted.
The ROC process requires him to prove that he entered the marriage in good faith, nothing else. Whether or not he can prove that I don't venture to guess.
Since you mentioned that your husband was physically abusive toward you, you may indeed consider filing a constraining order against him, especially as it is difficult to predict how he might react once he realizes that he's in trouble, relationship wise and immigration wise.
Wish you the best!

I was one of those old-timers who left -- I spent six months away from VJ because I was so fed up with the level of invective, vitriol and condescension being thrown about in the upper forums. I don't really know why I came back, but back I am. In general, I try to be minimally polite when I say "read the guides, f*cktard." You'll find most of my posts are helpful and welcoming as much as possible.* I don't get my rocks off by assuming that by belittling people is going to make me VJ Royalty. (Hell, I'm hardly even near the gates of the palace. I'm too busy in the pub.) I too don't agree with spoonfeeding, but if one person says "start with the guides," why should I pile on and repeat it?
I don't know, it's SUCH an old refrain that VJ ain't what it used to be, that no one thinks for themselves anymore, etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseam. But really? The level of bare-faced aggression in response to ignorance is staggering.
(*I will except the vibrator sh*tstorm of 2009, but how could anyone resist that one?)
**Edited to insert a missing parenthesis.

If you are sending and receiving immigration advice via pm, you are not only doing it wrong but you're exposing yourself to a lot of risk. The great thing about these forums is that if somebody puts something out there that's incorrect, it's very likely to be corrected by somebody else, often within minutes. If you get that same info via pm, then you lose that.
I agree that there are some pretty rude people out there who are rude for no other reason than to just be condescending jerks. (*cough*pushbrk*cough*) I don't know why this is, possibly they're trying to compensate for their own shortcomings.
Then there are those of us (and I include myself) who are rude to specific individuals for a number of different reasons. People handing out immigration advice who have no business handing out advice is one of my pet peeves, for instance, and it's been my experience that if you try to correct them nicely, they just keep doing what they're doing, often telling you to stfu. So rudeness seems to be the only thing that gets through to these people.
The other kind of person I don't mind being rude to is the type of person who judges somebody else's situation or relationship, rather than provide help. The "your fiancee was stupid and selfish for overstaying her visa for 30 days so you'll just have to live with the consequences" type crowd. These people deserve ridicule and scorn.
You also deserve ridicule and scorn if you ever once post a variation of "that's easy for you to say, your spouse is already in the states with you." Seriously, people who post that need to die of cancer in a fire. Because all it does is drive away the experts who have gone through this process and have sometimes years of experience that could be beneficial. Just because somebody went through this a year ago, 5 years ago, or whatever, doesn't mean they don't know what you're going through. Listen to their advice or not, but don't dismiss their experiences as irrelevant just because they're on the other side of the line.
Last point: sometimes people come across as rude when they don't mean to be. It's either just the way they are, or that they're skipping the niceties to get to their point. Emotions and attitude are hard to convey in text, even with VJ's cornucopia of emoticons. Give people the benefit of the doubt first, unless it's completely obvious.

Pushbrk, you are being quite rude. Nobody said they were not going to Juarez. Our loved ones are all going to put their lives in danger and walk across a street where people get shot on a daily basis and where the US tells its own citizens it is not safe to be. We all know what it takes to put together an Immigrant Visa section, and the US should long ago have moved that part from Ciudad Juarez instead of just recently building a new "consulate." If you don't have anything helpful to say besides flippant comments about not having to come to the US, you should not post. Next time I'm going to report you.
I quote the TOS: you agree that when using the service you will not: Make comments in a Post either direct or implied toward another member that are purposely designed to upset, antagonize, make fun of, belittle, or otherwise instigate an argument that takes away from the personal enjoyment of the Service by other users.

To the OP: I wrote to my Senator this morning as Kathryn mentioned, and I suggest you do too. Hopefully it will have some effect.
The Ciudad Juarez embassy is the only immigrant visa post in Mexico. There are many other more desireable cities as I have mentioned before in various other posts. Mexico City would be ideal, as Mexico is a centralized country. Ciudad Juarez ranks among the most dangerous cities in the world and according to the news yesterday, is the largest US embassy in the world. Not only were 3 family members of consulate workers (including 1 consulate worker) killed close to the consulate, but there have been shootings mentioned at the Denny's and other restaurants on the same street in broad daylight. I live in Mexico, and the rest of the country has violence, but nothing compared to that. ANY other city would be preferrible to Juarez.

Pushbrk, you are being quite rude. Nobody said they were not going to Juarez. Our loved ones are all going to put their lives in danger and walk across a street where people get shot on a daily basis and where the US tells its own citizens it is not safe to be. We all know what it takes to put together an Immigrant Visa section, and the US should long ago have moved that part from Ciudad Juarez instead of just recently building a new "consulate." If you don't have anything helpful to say besides flippant comments about not having to come to the US, you should not post. Next time I'm going to report you.
I quote the TOS: you agree that when using the service you will not: Make comments in a Post either direct or implied toward another member that are purposely designed to upset, antagonize, make fun of, belittle, or otherwise instigate an argument that takes away from the personal enjoyment of the Service by other users.

Pushbrk, you are being quite rude. Nobody said they were not going to Juarez. Our loved ones are all going to put their lives in danger and walk across a street where people get shot on a daily basis and where the US tells its own citizens it is not safe to be. We all know what it takes to put together an Immigrant Visa section, and the US should long ago have moved that part from Ciudad Juarez instead of just recently building a new "consulate." If you don't have anything helpful to say besides flippant comments about not having to come to the US, you should not post. Next time I'm going to report you.
I quote the TOS: you agree that when using the service you will not: Make comments in a Post either direct or implied toward another member that are purposely designed to upset, antagonize, make fun of, belittle, or otherwise instigate an argument that takes away from the personal enjoyment of the Service by other users.