Recent content by FCBarca

Thanks for the tip...Might be the right time to tell you that in addition to bein a diehard Barca fan, I am also a diehard Cowboys fan :D

The site you pointed me to specifically states 'Tourist Visa', not F-1...They are two different things....None of those stipulations mentioned an F-1 visa. By the letter of what that pargaraph states, none of those apply to us, whether you type it in bold or not. That warning is for...

Thank you but I do not need that, it does not apply in any way shape or form. We're married so it's not something that 'may' happen in the future....Furthermore, she never came on a tourist visa, always F-1...Even on her F-1, she never entered with either the intent to immigrate or...

I'm venting, really...I understand that a great majority of applicants have much more difficult circumstances than we do...I think it's also a jab at the process, it is illogical in many ways....Nevertheless, it's a good to have a resource like this available to people.

The absurdity of the bureacracy of the process...Individuals can gain residency in a marriage to a citizen...That's a simple fact, if genuine...The process, however, makes for a lot of pointless parameters...If they allow you to file I-485 & I-130 then why make it so difficult to go anywhere...

I say it's an absurd set of circumstances of semantics in terms of immigration law for a simple reason...She's been here studying without intent to immigrate...Since she's now married to me after a chance meeting etc., she's entitled to immigrate but the process isn't set up to be logical (INS &...

I see the point (As aburd as I may find it). Yes, we have travelled back to the US together, from Switzerland, several times in the last 2 years...Although a few of those times, our returns were not together (Whereas the outbounds were together, I work so my vacations are limited whereas she...

I see the point (As aburd as I may find it). Yes, we have travelled back to the US together, from Switzerland, several times in the last 2 years...Although a few of those times, our returns were not together (Whereas the outbounds were together, I work so my vacations are limited whereas she...

Is there an exception to this rule (30-60-90)?...For instance, she's been coming back and forth on her F1 visa from Switzerland for over 2 years now...Would it still apply since it isn't as if this is her first entry into the country under the F1? As it is, we went to the InfoPass this...

And see, if I were a Chelski fan I'd have money coming out of my ears...Just KNEW the USCIS was going to squeeze that rate increase out of me in the end. :rolleyes:

And at the end of the day, that's the thing...At this point, the fee increase on July 30, 2007 will be less than the airline tickets...Went through a agency that doesn't have very reasonable change fees...Nevermind that rearranging vacation time from my work would make the immigration paperwork...

Just used InfoPass from USCIS site to schedule an appt to speak with an Immigration Officer to go over this. I spoke to a rep from the USCIS main contact number and confirmed what most of you have said regarding the F-1 and I-485 filing problems for my wife...She did mention that we could...

As it turns out, she really doesn't have any true desire to attain a US Citizenship...at least now in the near future. Between the two of us, I think the more likely scenario is for me to gain a Swiss citizenship...It's a good bet that in the not too distant future, we'll be retiring back in...

Plus, she's Swiss....So couldn't she simply come in on a tourist visa for up to 3 months anyway, without the I-131 while the AOS is pending?

And I take it that the I-131 is something that takes some time to get an approval on? We had been planning to go back overseas very soon (Before the July 30th rate increase) and had planned to file this week. Is it then unlikely to file now and simply wait until we get back to do so? My...