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My wife and I have been married for two years now, but we have not done any additions or change of name at any law court to either change or add my surname to my wife's name to show we are couples.
Am a Ghanaian.
My question is, is it necessary to go to the law court to change or add my surname to my wife's name to indicate that we are really married or coupes ?
 
Marfo said:
My wife and I have been married for two years now, but we have not done any additions or change of name at any law court to either change or add my surname to my wife's name to show we are couples.
Am a Ghanaian.
My question is, is it necessary to go to the law court to change or add my surname to my wife's name to indicate that we are really married or coupes ?
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no. are you married or not? Do you have a marriage certificate? who the f cares about your names.
 
Hey all!
Forgot to update you people promptly, apologies for that..
So I finally received all the corrected documents (it took 2 weeks to correct them), so now I'm ready to book my flight :)

I have a question, I will move to California but I want to make a 2 weeks stop in Washington state first to "activate my entry stamp" and then drive a few days to British Columbia Canada.

My question is: will there be a problem if I give my California residence address (for receiving the physical green card) while being in WA state?
I will show the border officer that I have a flight that will depart from there to California once I'm done with my 2 weeks vacation between WA state and Canada.
My plan is to land in Seattle, "activate my entry stamp" and then get a rental car on the same day to go to BC in Canada, I need to do this because I will need a car in Seattle afterwards and it's more convenient for me to get it and return it there.

Thank You!
 
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Leon_47 said:
Hey all!
Forgot to update you people promptly, apologies for that..
So I finally received all the corrected documents (it took 2 weeks to correct them), so now I'm ready to book my flight :)

I have a question, I will move to California but I want to make a 2 weeks stop in Washington state first to "activate my entry stamp" and then drive a few days to British Columbia Canada.

My question is: will there be a problem if I give my California residence address (for receiving the physical green card) while being in WA state?
I will show the border officer that I have a flight that will depart from there to California once I'm done with my 2 weeks vacation between WA state and Canada.
My plan is to land in Seattle, "activate my entry stamp" and then get a rental car on the same day to go to BC in Canada, I need to do this because I will need a car in Seattle afterwards and it's more convenient for me to get it and return it there.

Thank You!
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Not a problem.
 
Leon_47 said:
Hey all!
Forgot to update you people promptly, apologies for that..
So I finally received all the corrected documents (it took 2 weeks to correct them), so now I'm ready to book my flight :)

I have a question, I will move to California but I want to make a 2 weeks stop in Washington state first to "activate my entry stamp" and then drive a few days to British Columbia Canada.

My question is: will there be a problem if I give my California residence address (for receiving the physical green card) while being in WA state?
I will show the border officer that I have a flight that will depart from there to California once I'm done with my 2 weeks vacation between WA state and Canada.
My plan is to land in Seattle, "activate my entry stamp" and then get a rental car on the same day to go to BC in Canada, I need to do this because I will need a car in Seattle afterwards and it's more convenient for me to get it and return it there.

Thank You!
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Not a problem. You won’t need to show anyone your flights, either. Plenty people POE far from their final destination/green card address.
 
Has anyone seen derivatives information(just the name) preloaded on DS260 when you login first time using the case number and eDV confirmation number?
My wife used her information to log into DS260 for the first time, and we can see both, the principal and derivative names(which we entered in original eDV).Is this usual? I though we cannot see the derivative information at early stage.
 
rabey said:
Has anyone seen derivatives information(just the name) preloaded on DS260 when you login first time using the case number and eDV confirmation number?
My wife used her information to log into DS260 for the first time, and we can see both, the principal and derivative names(which we entered in original eDV).Is this usual? I though we cannot see the derivative information at early stage.
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That is normal.
 
Hello,

Can those selectees who get married after being selected add their spouse to form DS-260?

I doesn't make sense to me if this can happen. Assume all selectees from one country want to add one person to their petition. DOS will then need to allocate twice as many visas as before for this country. Am I right?
 
RahulSingh1 said:
Hello,

Can those selectees who get married after being selected add their spouse to form DS-260?

I doesn't make sense to me if this can happen. Assume all selectees from one country want to add one person to their petition. DOS will then need to allocate twice as many visas as before for this country. Am I right?
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Yes, they can add new spouses, as well as children who were born after entry. It’s detailed in the instructions for selectees. Variability in applicants - whether those not following selection, people getting divorced so not taking previously listed spouses, people getting new spouses etc - is one of the reasons that they do not preallocate exact numbers for the full year in advance.

Visas are allocated by region, not by country.
 
Ok. Despite my ridiculous spreadsheeting and planning, I have become “that guy” who lost the print out of the original “winner screen.” I just got my list of what to bring to the interview and it’s on there. I read somewhere on here that you can reprint it somehow, but I can’t find the original post. Can anyone help me out with this? Cheers!
 
Drehitchcock said:
Ok. Despite my ridiculous spreadsheeting and planning, I have become “that guy” who lost the print out of the original “winner screen.” I just got my list of what to bring to the interview and it’s on there. I read somewhere on here that you can reprint it somehow, but I can’t find the original post. Can anyone help me out with this? Cheers!
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You mean dslottery.state.gov page?
Just recheck on that website are you selected and print out the letter...
 
Yeah I don’t think there’s a place to recover it once the interview letter goes up. One should ideally save an electronic copy too. Anyway I can’t see it’s a dealbreaker, your interview letter has the case number etc on too.
 
SusieQQQ said:
Yeah I don’t think there’s a place to recover it once the interview letter goes up. One should ideally save an electronic copy too. Anyway I can’t see it’s a dealbreaker, your interview letter has the case number etc on too.
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All sorted. I emailed my consulate and they emailed back in like 10 minutes to say an email from KCC with my case number on it is fine. Phew!
 
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