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My questions are immediately below. For those who need background, please see the section BACKGROUND below.
(1) I am worried whether as a sponsor for my wife's green card whether I can meet support levels alone due to recent severe unemployment (in this wonderful US economy). I have my own family in California willing to be sponsors for my wife as well, just so we can push her status well over the line. How do I go about adding family members as sponsors so that the government can be assured she won't go on the dole? Form I-864A?
(2) Moving during the application process: we are likely to leave Miami where we live presently and relocate to California where we are closer to family and probably have a FAR better chance at getting jobs. What should we do to give a heads-up to USCIS that Miami was not working out, so we moved and have a new address? We don't want USCIS getting its nose bent out of shape as we try to improve our lives that include relocations.
(3) What about Form I-765? I am guessing we should file that now, since my wife is anxious to get a job.
BACKGROUND
After 20 years of living abroad in my wife's country, we've thrown in the towel on the idea of living in her country and I have repatriated to the US along with her and our daughter (already US-citizen-by-parenthood). My wife finally cleaned up our affairs in her country and we started the permanent resident visa process.
At end of March we submitted the I-130 and I-485 with supporting documents and fees, showing a marriage of 24 years which I think included filing of Form 1040 for last few years as evidence of maintaining the marriage relationship.
She got an appointment for the biometrics (6 May). We knew she had to get the medical (I-693) but thought we had to wait for a go-ahead.
So we got a yellow-colored letter indicating three items missing:
i) Her national identity card, despite saying "birth place" in the native language, was not enough. My guess is that no one in Chicago understands that this national identity card actually serves as the "birth certificate." We talked with a fellow national who went through the green card process and she said we need to call the New York consulate to deal with that, so we will.
ii) Her missing I-693. We have to find a registered "civil surgeon" in the Miami-Dade area (where we live presently since repatriation) to deal with that. I suppose that will cost a pretty penny.
iii) Form I-864. My problem is that since returning to the USA and before leaving for the USA, my own income as her U.S.-citizen husband has been DREADFUL, bad economy and all. For all of 2013, my own income reported on Form 1040 was $1500, a job I took starting in December. That job just ended (it was temporary full-time), with $15,000 year-to-date (2014). My wife is expected to report $24,000 annually she gets in pension from 30 years of working for an ungrateful university in her country, in addition to trying to get a Social Security number so that she can start applying for jobs in the USA, which I myself am presently doing. Our household size is officially 3: me, my wife (both with graduate degrees), and our 18-year old daughter who just finished her freshman year at university at a full-time load. In addition we have cash from the sale of assets, which my wife says we can stock US bank accounts to $40,000. Right now, we have $25,000 in bank accounts.
This should be a routine thing, shouldn't it? My wife and I have been married for 24 years, so I can't imagine USCIS giving us a hard time about this, especially since I spent 20 years abroad being a foreign national in her country.
(1) I am worried whether as a sponsor for my wife's green card whether I can meet support levels alone due to recent severe unemployment (in this wonderful US economy). I have my own family in California willing to be sponsors for my wife as well, just so we can push her status well over the line. How do I go about adding family members as sponsors so that the government can be assured she won't go on the dole? Form I-864A?
(2) Moving during the application process: we are likely to leave Miami where we live presently and relocate to California where we are closer to family and probably have a FAR better chance at getting jobs. What should we do to give a heads-up to USCIS that Miami was not working out, so we moved and have a new address? We don't want USCIS getting its nose bent out of shape as we try to improve our lives that include relocations.
(3) What about Form I-765? I am guessing we should file that now, since my wife is anxious to get a job.
BACKGROUND
After 20 years of living abroad in my wife's country, we've thrown in the towel on the idea of living in her country and I have repatriated to the US along with her and our daughter (already US-citizen-by-parenthood). My wife finally cleaned up our affairs in her country and we started the permanent resident visa process.
At end of March we submitted the I-130 and I-485 with supporting documents and fees, showing a marriage of 24 years which I think included filing of Form 1040 for last few years as evidence of maintaining the marriage relationship.
She got an appointment for the biometrics (6 May). We knew she had to get the medical (I-693) but thought we had to wait for a go-ahead.
So we got a yellow-colored letter indicating three items missing:
i) Her national identity card, despite saying "birth place" in the native language, was not enough. My guess is that no one in Chicago understands that this national identity card actually serves as the "birth certificate." We talked with a fellow national who went through the green card process and she said we need to call the New York consulate to deal with that, so we will.
ii) Her missing I-693. We have to find a registered "civil surgeon" in the Miami-Dade area (where we live presently since repatriation) to deal with that. I suppose that will cost a pretty penny.
iii) Form I-864. My problem is that since returning to the USA and before leaving for the USA, my own income as her U.S.-citizen husband has been DREADFUL, bad economy and all. For all of 2013, my own income reported on Form 1040 was $1500, a job I took starting in December. That job just ended (it was temporary full-time), with $15,000 year-to-date (2014). My wife is expected to report $24,000 annually she gets in pension from 30 years of working for an ungrateful university in her country, in addition to trying to get a Social Security number so that she can start applying for jobs in the USA, which I myself am presently doing. Our household size is officially 3: me, my wife (both with graduate degrees), and our 18-year old daughter who just finished her freshman year at university at a full-time load. In addition we have cash from the sale of assets, which my wife says we can stock US bank accounts to $40,000. Right now, we have $25,000 in bank accounts.
This should be a routine thing, shouldn't it? My wife and I have been married for 24 years, so I can't imagine USCIS giving us a hard time about this, especially since I spent 20 years abroad being a foreign national in her country.
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