Unique Situation

[maverick198423]

I have a question. I am getting married to a us citizen whom I met in Houston 3 years ago. However for the past 2 years I have been working in Tennessee (job transfer). We tranferred her lease in Houston to both our names this January. I am still living in TN and hoping to get transferred sometime this year. I am mentioning my address in all forms as in Houston. However in biographic info I am mentioning both addresses in Houston and TN as present. We will be getting married in March. I am aslo mentioning in i130 the last address we stayed together as Houston as I visit once in a month. We are also planning to mention my situation in the cover letter which will clear the air. Please let me know of how to proceed.

Thanks

 

[Jackolantern]

It is understandable that you have to stay in Tennessee to keep your legal status (H1B?). But now that you're about to apply for a green card based on marriage, you need to show some progress of making attempts to get a job in Houston (or your spouse doing the same to try to find work in TN), unless you plan to stop working and move to Houston before the interview. Once you get the I-485 receipt (which arrives about 2-3 weeks after you file the application), you can quit your job and still maintain legal status.

We will be getting married in March. I am aslo mentioning in i130 the last address we stayed together as Houston as I visit once in a month.

Did you keep proof of that? (e.g. bus tickets, airline boarding passes)

 

[maverick198423]

My base office is still in Houston and I will eventually be going back to Houston once my project in TN is over and I am expecting it to be sometime this year. I have all the itineraries and credit bills that I can show as a proof that I will fly to Houston once in a month. And my questions reagrding filling the forms with Houston as my address and putting both addresses as present in biographic - will this be a problem?

Thanks

 

[Jackolantern]

My base office is still in Houston and I will eventually be going back to Houston once my project in TN is over and I am expecting it to be sometime this year.

Then get a letter from your employer to state that your project is a temporary assignment with an expected end date of xx/xx/2011 after which you will go back to Houston, and bring that letter to the interview.

And my questions reagrding filling the forms with Houston as my address and putting both addresses as present in biographic - will this be a problem?

It won't be a problem when you explain it in the interview.

 

[Manalive]

Question: When you got transferred to TN, why didn't your fiancee come with you?
My guess is she has a job in Huston. Has she tried to get a job in TN?
Has she made any efforts to come join you?
What's holding her down in Huston? Two years is a long time to live in separate states.
USCIS might ask...

 

[Jackolantern]

Question: When you got transferred to TN, why didn't your fiancee come with you?
My guess is she has a job in Huston. Has she tried to get a job in TN?
Has she made any efforts to come join you?
What's holding her down in Huston? Two years is a long time to live in separate states.
USCIS might ask...

They might ask, but it can easily be explained using the information described above. The OP's work in TN is for a specific project that is expected to end this year and they will transfer him back to Houston. So it would be problematic for the fiancee to quit her job and uproot herself from Houston, only to have to do it again when they transfer the OP back to Houston. Yes, two years is a long time to be apart, but they're not even married yet.