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if the asked you, it means you woere there more than 12 months in total... good luck looking for he records...in my case a friend sent me from Africa but it cost me 200 U$ DHL

So I waited from Dec 17th 2012 until Jan 8th 2013 for the social S. number to arrive, since I applied for it in the DS230...nothing! I went to the Social Security Office and asked them to check in the system if I was already there... nothing! So I applied and 4 days later it arrives by post! One day after appling they called me at home and told I could come pick up a temporally document with the SSN in case I wanted to take driving licence, apply for jobs that requires this info. etc... I SUGGEST NOBODY to check the option to get a S.S.N. from the NVC automatically in the DS230. It is really difficult to be 3 weeks (or more) in the USA without driving licences! Just go to the S.S. office and get it 1 day later!!!

I am asking the same question in order to have a statistic of the waiting time. The other posts in this mather date from 2010 and go from 1 week to 2 Months or even none arrivel of the SSN. I would apreciate if someone else could also give a feedback! Thanks for those who have already!

I need driving licences to travel in the middle of January. I wonder if there is any problem if I apply for a SSN now. Can they see in the system that I already applied so they send me ONLY one SSN?

Thanks, I want to avoid having 2 diferent SSN in my name, however I need it in order to get a driving licence, etc... If I go to the SS Office after one week, can they inform me whether they are issuing the SSN automatically or whether I should apply for it?

I just immigrate Dec 17th 2012 and I am wondering whether I should wait 3 weeks to receive my SSN by post or whether I should apply for it in the Social Security Office.

I checked the option of the DS-230 to receive it by mail automatically after entering the USA, however in my interview package there was a paper that says that I should apply personally in the Social Security Office. All the forums I found date from 2010 or later and I was wondering what are the experiences on waiting for the SSN by post in 2012...

So If I come back to Brazil in January my GC will come to the Adress I said I would be living in the USA (When I came for Christmas)... in my case my in-laws home?

The reason I want to move after May is bc I am an professor and do not want to leave before finishing the school year (which will finish on May due a strike). Also moving later would give me a chance to schedue job interviews and maybe even move with an Job already waiting in the USA...

Thank you, good to know.

And could I go to the USA just for Christmas 2012 with the CR1 visa, then return to Brazil and finally move definitively on May 2013?

I a applying for a CR1 visa which should come around November 2012. My wife (American citizenship) and I were planning to move to the USA only in May 2013, however we would like to visit her family in Ohio for Christmas (2012) before.

I would like to know whether (having both Visas in my passport – CR1 and Tourist) I can visit the USA with a tourist visa (on Christmas) before moving definitively with an CR1 visa.

I agree with you. I am asking my employer to help. However it is a ship and it never docked again in Liberia after 2008. So they do not have any one there.

Here is the link you sent me... not very nice?

Applicants not resident in Liberia can request that their biographic information and fingerprints be sent to the Liberia National Police via the police headquarters of their home country, however, in practice, these requests are rarely completed.

Just to make it clear...

after 12 years of war...Liberia has NO post service yet. How someone is supposed to trust that they will keep police records!!! I think it would be a "Mission Impossible" to get these papers!

So here is my question again...

however 12 Months consecutively? yes or no? anyone knows???

It sounds easy. However It requires me to buy a 4000 US ticket to Africa. Go personally to the Police and have the risk to have the certificate denied since I lived on board of a ship and enter with and invitation letter to missionaries and the police may not even have any records of me. (and do not answer the phone when I call).

And... the DS230 says 12 Months abrod NOT 6 Months.

thanks but it is CR1.

The NVC says:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_3195.html#police

if I lived in a different country for more than 12 months....

however 12 Months consecutively?

I am brazilian but lived in Liberia twice. In 2007 I stayed 6 Months (from 23-May-07 to 11/31/2007) and in 2008 10 Months (from 6-Feb-08 to 2-Nov-08).

Do I need to have a police certificate from this Country since I never lived more then 12 Months consecutively?

here was my email to the NVC concerning the topic in this forum:

Dear consular contact

My wife is American and has lived with me in Brazil for one year.

We were planning to start the immigration process for me (CR1 visa) with the American Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

Earlier the American petitioner should live 6 Months in Brazil in order to start this process. However, last year, the immigration procedures changed and all the processes must start in the NVC in the USA instead.

Therefore we sent the I-130 documents to the NVC office on December 2011, paid the fees and now we were requested to fill the I-864 Affidavit of Support form.

My wife (the American Petitioner) can not work with an American nurse degree abroad, therefore she only gives some English lectures which do not pay much. We thought that she could still be the principal sponsor in the form I-864 and I could add my Brazilian income (U$ 37,894 per year) to the Total Household Income filling the I-864a form. There is an issue with the determination of the petitioner's (my wife’s) residence though.

This webpage page says that the sponsor MUST have domicile (residence) in the USA:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_3183.html#12

Therefore my wife does not qualify to be the sponsor and we can only send this form if she returns to the USA and finds a job there? Is this correct or wrong? If she can not be the sponsor, can we ask my wife’s parents (who live in America) to be the sponsor?

Thank you very much.

HERE WAS THE REPPLY that says that I need a co sponsor!!!

Dear Sir/Madam:

The National Visa Center (NVC) received your inquiry regarding the immigrant visa petition: RDJ2012537012 filed by KERI RENEE DEWITT on behalf of CARLOS EDUARDO FERRANTE DO AMARAL.

The following immigrants are required by law to submit Form I-864 completed by the petitioner to obtain an immigrant visa overseas or to adjust status to that of a lawful permanent resident in the United States:

All immediate relatives of U.S. citizens (spouses, unmarried children under age 21, and parents of U.S. citizens age 21and older);

All family-based preference immigrants (unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, spouses and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens, married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens age 21 and older); and

Employment-based preference immigrants in cases only when a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident relative filed the immigrant visa petition or such relative has a significant ownership interest (five percent or more) in the entity that filed the petition.

If the petitioner's (sponsor) income alone is not sufficient to meet the requirement for the household size, the intending immigrant will be ineligible for an immigrant visa or adjustment of status, unless the requirement can be met using any combination of the following:

Income from any relatives or dependents living in the sponsor's household or dependents listed on the most recent Federal tax return who signed a Form I-864A;

Income from the intending immigrant, if that income will continue from the same source after immigration, and if the intending immigrant is currently living in the sponsor's residence. If the intending immigrant is the sponsor's spouse, his or her income can be counted regardless of current residence, but it must continue from the same source after he or she becomes a lawful permanent resident.

The value of the sponsor's assets, the assets of any household member who has signed a Form I-864A, or the assets of the intending immigrant;

A joint sponsor whose income and/or assets equal at least125 percent of the Poverty Guidelines.

If the sponsor/joint sponsor's mailing address and/or place of residence is NOT the United States, but his/her country of domicile is the United States, the sponsor/joint sponsor must attach a written explanation and provide documentary evidence of how the domicile requirement is met.

The domicile requirement for persons not living in the United States may be met by establishing any of the following conditions apply:

Employment by:

o The US government

o An American institution of research listed in 8 CFR 316.20

o A US firm or corporation engaged in whole or in part in the development of foreign trade and commerce with the United States, or a subsidiary of such a firm or corporation

o A public international organization in which the United States participates by treaty or statute

o A religious denomination having a bona fide organization in the United States, if the employment

o A religious denomination having a bona fide organization in the United States, if the employment abroad involves the person's performance of priestly or ministerial functions on behalf of the denomination

o A religious denomination or interdenominational missionary organization having a bona fide organization in the United States, if the person is engaged solely as a missionary.

" Temporary residence outside the United States displayed by providing: proof of a US voting record, proof of paying U.S. State or local taxes, proof of having property in the United States, proof of maintaining bank or investment accounts in the United States, or proof of having a permanent mailing address in the United States, evidence of studying abroad or that a foreign government has authorized temporary stay.

The sponsor/joint sponsor intends in good faith to reestablish domicile in the United States no later than the date of the intending immigrant's admission or adjustment of status. Proof that concrete steps to establish domicile in the United States at a time no later than the date of the intending immigrant's admission or adjustment of status must be provided. Concrete steps might include accepting a job in the United States, signing a lease or purchasing a residence in the United States, or registering children in U.S. schools.

IMPORTANT:

Do not let more than one year pass without contacting the NVC concerning this visa petition. If a period of one year passes from the last date of contact (by telephone, mail, or e-mail) with the NVC, all submitted fees and documents expire. If this occurs, the fees must be paid again and documents must be resubmitted in order to continue the immigration process.

Thanks for answering. My finaceé (petitioner) adress is the same as her parents...so it should be ok with letters. However, I just found out that the petioner needs to be working during the time of the embassy interview overseas (in order to have the income writen in the I134). I wish there were some way to have her living in the same place abroad with me during the 6 Months of process...

My fiancée (US petitioner) is a travel nurse and can easily change jobs. However, I (beneficiary) am a professor and I can not afford leaving my work to visit her in America. We are planning to send the i129f form to start the K1 visa process. After she sends it, can she travel here and stay with me all the time until I get the K1 visa?

PS: WE WOULD NOT GET MARRIAGED IN MY COUNTRY!!! She would stay overseas as a student probably. Thanks