KevinNelson

What are/were your plans for insuring him before the proclamation? Demonstrating that " they will be covered by health insurance within thirty days of entering the country" would seem to be a bizarre hoop to have to jump through. We may not know anything more until the Nov. 3 date of activation. I'm not sure that there is any reason why he wouldn't be able to purchase ACA insurance upon arrival. The proclamation covers immigrant visa applicants only. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-will-financially-burden-united-states-healthcare-system/ Actually, the proclamation directly states that allowable health plans are "(ii) an unsubsidized health plan offered in the individual market within a State;" This excludes any Obama-plan health insurance, which is practically the only type offered to anybody earning less than $70,000 per year. Every commentator has called attention to this fact. Non-ACA insurance by law must be as comprehensive as any ACA insurance, which in California right now is well over $2,100 per month. Multiply that by 12, and you get an amount that is $7,200 more than the federal poverty level. That is also about 70% of our current pretax income. Another thing: My stepson will be 26 next year. He is university educated and has been working as an enslaved civil engineer more than 72 hours per week.

Okay... Typically I support our President, especially when it comes to illegal immigration. Presidential Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System BUT THIS... My step-son will probably get his green card under older rules within the next six months. However: There are virtually NO non-ACA health insurance plans available anymoreTo be on non-ACA insurance in California, a couple has to earn well over $68,000 per year, nearly four times the poverty line, above the median American household income of nearly $64,000His English fluency may not be good enough for a great job until after he has been here for over six monthsHe is a university graduate in civil engineering, which means he is currently enslaved to 72+ hour work weeks in ChinaWe do not know if he will need to have that insurance purchased before he comes to CaliforniaAll I know is this: If we have to buy him non-ACA insurance in California, with the horrible coverage like we have now, we will have to pay over 70% of our current gross income, which is well over 160% the poverty line for a couple, for his insurance alone. I approve of actions against illegal, law-breaking, immigrants, for they have been the bane of our country. But to attack legal immigrants and their families this way is over the top. What are our options?

Will we be notified when it is time to file documents? Or do we have to "guess" the correct time? My wife seems convinced that her son in China is under the table of 4A, not 4B as you have stated. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2019/visa-bulletin-for-may-2019.html Filing Dates – 4B Table May 2019 Bulletin Family- Sponsored CHINA-mainland born F2B 01AUG14 Since the January Bulletin, table 4B advanced five months, in five months’ time. Final Action Dates – 4A Table May 2019 Bulletin Family- Sponsored CHINA-mainland born F2B 01FEB13 Since the January Bulletin, table 4A advanced nine months, in five months’ time. In January's Bulletin, the difference between table 4A and 4B is about 24 months. In the May Bulletin, the difference is down to 18 months. This has me confused, since I am not understanding the language used in the visa bulletin. Could you venture an educated guess about when we may be able to apply, at the soonest? (I am assuming that we will be able to apply, using table A, at the latest in about twelve months' time.) If it is this year, our time here will have to lived significantly different than if it is after the next Chinese New Year in 2020.

We missed by only a few months getting married in time to apply for my wife's son before his 21st birthday (May of 1994). He is currently living and working in China. We did file an I-130 for him, and got a priority date of August 17, 2015. The Visa Bulletin For May 2019 now states that the dates for filing family-sponsored visa applications is now August 1, 2014. (Am I reading the correct date for him? There are two dates associated with the F2B application.) For the past four months, the progress has been advancing three months per month, which if the rate continues, means we could probably apply for him this coming September or October. I have been looking at the I-485 form. Because of the dearness of my step-son to my wife, I am beginning to think I should employ a lawyer to make sure things go right. I am assuming that I, the husband of my Chinese wife, am not a primary person in this application, of which the primary I-130 for my stepson was my wife. (She now has her 10-year greencard.) I am thinking my wife would be the principal applicant, where my stepson is the derivative applicant. We live in northern California, in a place where illegal immigrants outnumber legal immigrants fifty to one, with Chinese immigrants being outnumbers well over 1000 to one. We would probably have to go to the San Francisco area (or area around Napa County) to get a Chinese lawyer. Yet at the same time, I notice that much (or most) of the information may need to be filled out by my step-son in China. Is there a trustworthy lawyer in China that could be used? Or would we have to use one in the States? Thanks in advance! You guys rock!

If he is in a third country, do you know if he will need to return to China before coming to the States, or could he probably directly come here?

We applied for my stepson to come over back in 2015. At this point, the preferences are for May 1, 2012. The question is this: If my stepson was in a third country (neither USA nor China) at the time his preference comes up, how can we make sure he is not missed? How does the USCIS notify him? Does it notify us, then assumes we will notify him? Or does the USCIS try to directly contact him according to the information we put into that I-130 four years ago? We have no idea if those addresses in China will still be valid at that point. Thank you

My wife now has her permanent green card; we had been for a while under provisions of "ObamaCare." In California, anybody earning less than about $70,000 per year is subject to ObamaCare assistance, far in excess of the typical 1.25 times above the poverty line level (formerly?) required (assuming memory serves me correctly). The big question right now is how things will play out for future legal immigrants, given the way things are boiling nationally.

My wife told me that the Chinese media over WeChat is running wild about this issue. She is scared stiff about ObamaCare... fact is, here in California, if any couple earns less than roughly $60,000 a year, the state kicks in a part of the medical expenses, AS REQUIRED BY OBAMACARE. Since we are now earning well above the 1.5 times above the poverty level, it makes me wonder about those news articles; NBC, and The Washington Post are some of the companies putting out fake news. The problem is this: Are these articles those fake news articles? Can anybody find other information to back it up? I found the following phrase interesting in my research, which came from the "National Immigration Law Center". Please notice the extremely emotional, biased phraseology: "Trump’s reign of terror on immigrants and their families ..." The whole article is written in highly partisan terms, not with objectivity. https://www.nilc.org/issues/health-care/exec-orders-and-access-to-public-programs/ Another thing: The Trump administration cannot make laws. It can only enforce existing laws passed by Congress. A court appeal could halt any "policy" change *any* executive branch leader may make. I hate the fact that *illegal* "immigrants" are hogging up the system, delaying things for all of us! My wife hates that as well. We are already nearly 18 months past the time we should have gotten our temporary green card changed into a permanent one. We supposedly still have to wait another four months before our I-751 application is due to be processed... Arrg! (Note: I work teaching ESL to DACA kids. I really feel for them. But still... Uggh!)

Permanent green card still not obtained... still waiting for the processing of the I-751. We got an InfoPass appointment for the last day her I-797 extension notice was valid. They put into her new Chinese passport a ONE-year extension! Ironically, today, we got that 18-month I-797 extension letter, which of course only extended things for six months from the original I-797C Notice of Action. So we still have another 10 months or so. On another side of things, our I-751 file was transferred from the California processing center to the Vermont processing center. Interestingly enough, today is the case report date for our filing date at the Vermont center. We have no idea what to expect at this point.

We got an InfoPass appointment for the last day her I-797 C Notice of Action was valid. They put into her new Chinese passport a ONE-year extension! Ironically, today, we got that 18-month I-797 extension letter, which of course only extended things for six months from the original I-797C Notice of Action. So we still have another 10 months or so. On another side of things, our I-751 file was transferred from the California processing center to the Vermont processing center. Interestingly enough, today is the case report date for our filing date at the Vermont center. We have no idea what to expect at this point. One last thing... job was not terminated, but the HR department was serious about things! They will not tolerate expired documents, even when still considered legal.

We got an InfoPass appointment for the last day her I-797 C Notice of Action was valid. They put into her new Chinese passport a ONE-year extension! Ironically, today, we got that 18-month I-797 extension letter, which of course only extended things for six months from the original I-797C Notice of Action. So we still have another 10 months or so. On another side of things, our I-751 file was transferred from the California processing center to the Vermont processing center. Interestingly enough, today is the case report date for our filing date at the Vermont center. We have no idea what to expect at this point.

This part is maybe good news, but who knows when the letters will ship and ours will arrive? https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/update-form-i-797-receipt-notices-form-i-751-and-form-i-829 I managed to get an InfoPass appointment, about one week after the job termination. I don't know if they can hold the job for her until then, but... I could not use either the San Francisco nor Sacramento field offices, since both are now closed. I discovered the San Jose/Santa Clara office is still accepting web-based appointments and there were openings!

The problem is explaining that to the corporate HR department whose phone numbers are not accessible to me. There needs to be WRITTEN or web-posted information confirming the legality of working with an expired I-797 notice.

Yes, the letter serves as evidence of LPR status for a year, and if it goes longer, schedule an infopass appointment and get an I-551 stamp which further extends status evidence. If naturalization is desired can file the N-400 next January with or without the I-751 completed, doing so usually jump starts a stalled I-751. We are unable at the moment to file for the N-400. The Form I-797 which extended the date to 6/23/2018 has not been extended. The San Francisco office is no longer open for Infopass appointments. Sacramento is also closed. San Jose is still open, but it is nearly impossible to schedule an appointment. The I-551 stamp My wife has therefore been notified by her employer that she will no longer be considered as able to legally work in the United States.

Her job will end this Saturday. Henceforth that employer will consider her as an illegal worker. I need definite proof that shows she can still work in the United States.

My wife just called and told me that the national corporation she works with requires a valid green card. The 1-year extension notice has expired. It appears as if the company is now considering her as illegal, or not able to legally work! What to do? The website says they are just now working on November 1, 2016 applications, when ours was submitted 4/27/2017. Ironically, a month ago it was on 11/1/2016, then the time got extended a month, putting her back to October 15th or so. Getting an Infopass appointment seems to be nearly impossible! Should we simply just barg into the San Francisco office on the basis of an emergency? https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

We filed the I-751 back in 4/2017. But they seem to be stuck, and have been stuck at processing that form in 8/20/2016 for nearly three or more months, eight months before we filed. The temporary green card expired in 6/23/2017. The temporary letter expires on 06/23/2018. Will they send another letter? Or do we have to wait between 06/23/2018 until they finally send the results of the I-751 before we can travel abroad again?

When I first started this thread three months ago, it took 9 months for getting an I-751 processed to get the permanent residence green card. Today I read: "I-751 Petition to Remove the Conditions on Residence Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (spouses of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents June 15, 2016" It has not changed one month! Am I reading things right? Has everything ground to a halt? (I noticed the California Service Center has not updated its info since May 31, 2017.)

Does anybody know what the best, most secure, and most cost effective method is for sending this document to my wife? She had to go back to China before the document arrived, so now I need to send it to her. All I can find are USPS services that are at least $50. When I lived in China, my dad sent me something using those USPS services. It was supposed to be fast, but he spent over $80 US for an envelope that literally took three weeks to arrive. How does one ship with China's EMS here in the States? Also, does anybody know how soon after someone receives the I-751, the ASC appointment notice for fingerprinting arrives? Thank you, Kevin

Thank you all for your feedback. I decided on going directly towards buying an OSTER BRLY07-Z00 600 Watt FUSION Blender Food Processor 220V blender from eBay, so we would not have to worry about the problems of a power converter. The downside of that decision is that the instructions will be in Spanish... But hey, it is made in the USA!

They make great emergency fire lighters... for campfires

HI, My wife wants to take a blender to China when she goes there the next time. The ones she looks at are over $100. What I fear is that the solution for converting a 110V device to use China's 220V would be greater than the cost savings over simply buying the device in China. She claims that lots of people buy such appliances in the States and take them to China. So far as I can tell, most appliances do not get sold in the United States with the option to simply flick a switch to make them 220V compatible. So my question is this: Can America-marketed 110V appliances be easily used in China? Thank you, Kevin Nelson

Thank you for your response. We live in California, so that puts us in...? How long may it be before we get the letter confirming the receipt of I-751 materials and greencard status? Thank you

Hi, 1) I'm wondering what the current turn-around time is for when sending in the I-751. I hope to get it sent this coming Monday. Any ideas? 2) Are materials sent to the USCIS for this process, photos, etc., returned? 3) What is the best way to ship the materials to them? My guess is that I will have over a pound. 4) I'm confused over the passport pictures that must be sent. How many should I send of myself? How many should I send of my wife? Thank you

Thank you Randy. The lighters are all sealed by the manufacturer and are empty. Another related question: Are there any restrictions, by the Chinese government, on how many can be brought into China?