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Green Card: U.S. Citizen (Puerto Rico) x Tourist (French - VWP/ESTA) - San Francisco
Hi there,
Some of you might already have read a couple of my previous posts regarding my pretty complicated experience so far with my Green Card application.
(https://www.immihelp.com/forum/showt...y-lawyer-wrong and https://www.immihelp.com/forum/showt...ss-in-5-months)
Let me just give you a quick summary of my situation:
My name is Clement, I'm french.
I met Maru (my wife) in October 2015 while I was under my second J-1 Visa.
A bit more than a year later, just after I met her parents back in the US (as a tourist during vacation) we finally decided to get married.
We applied for Adjustment of Status the first time early in January, but since then we kept having issues. Because of USCIS complicated system but also because of the lawyer we hired.
So I just took the last couple of days to review my application in order to submit it again ourselves as soon as we can.
Please find below a descriptive of my full application. Hopefully everything is looking pretty good, but I do have few questions for anybody who could help.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
PO Box 805887
Chicago, IL 60680-4120
1.) USCIS Submission Sheet
2.) Cover Letter (Basically this descriptive)
3.) Form I-130 - Petition for Alien Relative (Rev.02/27/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-130)
• Check of $535 payable to U.S Department of Homeland Security
• Copy of Petitioner's U.S. Passport
• Copy of Beneficiary's U.S. Passport
• 2x Passport style color photo of Petitioner (Maru)
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
• Evidences of Bona Fide Marriage:
Copy of Marriage Certificate
Wedding Photos
Photos of the couple with Family and Friends
Affidavits from Family and Friends (x10)
Copy of current shared lease
Bank Statement Joint Checking Account for the last 2 months
4.) Form I-485 - Application to Register Permanent Resident or Adjust Status (Rev.01/17/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-485)
• Check of $1,225 payable to U.S Department of Homeland Security
• Copy of Petitioner's Passport
• Copy of up-to-date Petitioner's Form I-94
• Copy of Petitioner's Foreign Birth Certificate
• Translation of Petitioner's Foreign Birth Certificate
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
5.) Form G-325A - Biographic Information (Rev.06/01/15 - www.uscis.gov/g-325a)
6.) Form I-765 - Application for Employment Authorization (Rev.01/17/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-765)
• Copy of Beneficiary's Passport
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
7.) Form I-864 - Affidavit of Support Under Section 213A of the INA (Rev.07/02/15 - www.uscis.gov/i-864)
• Copy of Sponsor's most recent Federal Income Tax Return
• Copy of Sponsor's most recent W-2s
• Copy of Sponsor's Letter of Employment
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And please find below few questions I have regarding some of those forms but also about some others:
• Form I-130A - Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary (Rev.02/27/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-130)
If you look at the "Special Instructions" on the USCIS website I believe you can read that we need to add that Form I-130A to the latest edition of the Form I-130.
But it is really not clear, can somebody help me with this?
Would it be an issue if we "make a mistake" by joining a non necessary form to the package, just in case?
• Form I-693 - Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record (Rev.02/07/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-693)
I have seen a lot of you joining that form to their application, but back then my lawyer advised me to submit that form during the interview only (which is definitely an option according to USCIS instructions) because that form is valid for only a year, which can be an issue when like me your process takes much longer than expected.
What do you guys think?
• Cover Letter
Could/Should I express to USCIS all my troubles so far?
• Form I-864
I have seen few of you joining a copy of the Sponsor's Passport to that form, but I haven't been able to find information about this in the instruction.
Which makes me ask anyway, will USCIS keep this whole application package together? Meaning, even if different forms required a copy of my passport (for example); will only one copy of my passport be enough to be used for each different forms? Or should I provide multiple copies?
That's it for now. Hopefully I won't need anything else but please let me know if you notice anything wrong or anything else I should give a closer look.
Thanks in advance for everybody's help!!!
Some of you might already have read a couple of my previous posts regarding my pretty complicated experience so far with my Green Card application.
(https://www.immihelp.com/forum/showt...y-lawyer-wrong and https://www.immihelp.com/forum/showt...ss-in-5-months)
Let me just give you a quick summary of my situation:
My name is Clement, I'm french.
I met Maru (my wife) in October 2015 while I was under my second J-1 Visa.
A bit more than a year later, just after I met her parents back in the US (as a tourist during vacation) we finally decided to get married.
We applied for Adjustment of Status the first time early in January, but since then we kept having issues. Because of USCIS complicated system but also because of the lawyer we hired.
So I just took the last couple of days to review my application in order to submit it again ourselves as soon as we can.
Please find below a descriptive of my full application. Hopefully everything is looking pretty good, but I do have few questions for anybody who could help.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
PO Box 805887
Chicago, IL 60680-4120
1.) USCIS Submission Sheet
2.) Cover Letter (Basically this descriptive)
3.) Form I-130 - Petition for Alien Relative (Rev.02/27/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-130)
• Check of $535 payable to U.S Department of Homeland Security
• Copy of Petitioner's U.S. Passport
• Copy of Beneficiary's U.S. Passport
• 2x Passport style color photo of Petitioner (Maru)
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
• Evidences of Bona Fide Marriage:
Copy of Marriage Certificate
Wedding Photos
Photos of the couple with Family and Friends
Affidavits from Family and Friends (x10)
Copy of current shared lease
Bank Statement Joint Checking Account for the last 2 months
4.) Form I-485 - Application to Register Permanent Resident or Adjust Status (Rev.01/17/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-485)
• Check of $1,225 payable to U.S Department of Homeland Security
• Copy of Petitioner's Passport
• Copy of up-to-date Petitioner's Form I-94
• Copy of Petitioner's Foreign Birth Certificate
• Translation of Petitioner's Foreign Birth Certificate
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
5.) Form G-325A - Biographic Information (Rev.06/01/15 - www.uscis.gov/g-325a)
6.) Form I-765 - Application for Employment Authorization (Rev.01/17/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-765)
• Copy of Beneficiary's Passport
• 2x Passport style color photo of Beneficiary (Clement)
7.) Form I-864 - Affidavit of Support Under Section 213A of the INA (Rev.07/02/15 - www.uscis.gov/i-864)
• Copy of Sponsor's most recent Federal Income Tax Return
• Copy of Sponsor's most recent W-2s
• Copy of Sponsor's Letter of Employment
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And please find below few questions I have regarding some of those forms but also about some others:
• Form I-130A - Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary (Rev.02/27/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-130)
If you look at the "Special Instructions" on the USCIS website I believe you can read that we need to add that Form I-130A to the latest edition of the Form I-130.
But it is really not clear, can somebody help me with this?
Would it be an issue if we "make a mistake" by joining a non necessary form to the package, just in case?
• Form I-693 - Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record (Rev.02/07/17 - www.uscis.gov/i-693)
I have seen a lot of you joining that form to their application, but back then my lawyer advised me to submit that form during the interview only (which is definitely an option according to USCIS instructions) because that form is valid for only a year, which can be an issue when like me your process takes much longer than expected.
What do you guys think?
• Cover Letter
Could/Should I express to USCIS all my troubles so far?
• Form I-864
I have seen few of you joining a copy of the Sponsor's Passport to that form, but I haven't been able to find information about this in the instruction.
Which makes me ask anyway, will USCIS keep this whole application package together? Meaning, even if different forms required a copy of my passport (for example); will only one copy of my passport be enough to be used for each different forms? Or should I provide multiple copies?
That's it for now. Hopefully I won't need anything else but please let me know if you notice anything wrong or anything else I should give a closer look.
Thanks in advance for everybody's help!!!
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