I'm DACA approved/B2 expired and I've been dating a USC for a year and four months... he proposed a month and a half ago, and we want to have a state wedding soon (planned for the same date as my parents' anniversary, too!). We are absolutely in love, anyone who knows us can testify to this, we have tons of pictures together, we have evidence of plane tickets (we see each other every 1-2 months apart from the first 5 months of our relationship), evidence of him sending me money when I need it (paypal), he calls me on the phone every day after work for half an hour, and every day for the past year and four months we call each other on Skype after 8pm until we go to sleep. I have the engagement ring, receipts from gifts he's bought me, envelopes from cards and letters and silly things we send each other, lots of pictures from things like my baptism and other events we've been at together. Lots of social media with evidence that yes, we are together. I plan on changing my last name to his after the state wedding, too.
One issue is that we are not living together. I have to stay in North Carolina to complete classes that would cost thousands of dollars more in New York... and he has a stable state job with a pretty good salary, which should increase soon. The plan is for me to finish these classes, get certified in the specific field they are for, and move up to New York... but that's going to take time and money. It's impractical for him to quit his job or for me to spend thousands more on classes for the temporary satisfaction of living together, even though we do love each other. You have to be practical about your future even when you've in love. I work as a janitor right now... I really do need these classes so I can have a job that we can have a child and not just merely scrape by! I'm barely making enough money for these forms, lol.
We want to apply for a GC shortly after the wedding (maybe a month)... we're going to open a joint bank account that weekend (since we aren't together often enough to do it at another time, and he's been wanting to do that for a while anyway), my landlord even said that I should put him on my lease since he's spent so many nights here (over 12 nights means he has to be somewhere on my lease).
My friends are telling me that since we are a real couple, we should have nothing to worry about - are they right? Has a real couple ever failed a GC interview? Also, given our distance, where would the interview take place? We'll deal with what we get, but I'd like to know what to plan for.
One issue is that we are not living together. I have to stay in North Carolina to complete classes that would cost thousands of dollars more in New York... and he has a stable state job with a pretty good salary, which should increase soon. The plan is for me to finish these classes, get certified in the specific field they are for, and move up to New York... but that's going to take time and money. It's impractical for him to quit his job or for me to spend thousands more on classes for the temporary satisfaction of living together, even though we do love each other. You have to be practical about your future even when you've in love. I work as a janitor right now... I really do need these classes so I can have a job that we can have a child and not just merely scrape by! I'm barely making enough money for these forms, lol.
We want to apply for a GC shortly after the wedding (maybe a month)... we're going to open a joint bank account that weekend (since we aren't together often enough to do it at another time, and he's been wanting to do that for a while anyway), my landlord even said that I should put him on my lease since he's spent so many nights here (over 12 nights means he has to be somewhere on my lease).
My friends are telling me that since we are a real couple, we should have nothing to worry about - are they right? Has a real couple ever failed a GC interview? Also, given our distance, where would the interview take place? We'll deal with what we get, but I'd like to know what to plan for.