🔺 r/USCISuPleasant-Two1835·42 days ago
I-130 filed without Bona Fide Marriage Exemption request
I am so stressed and frustrated, and I'm not sure what to do at this point. My husband and I met after he had arrived in the US; he entered with CPB-One, was inspected and paroled into the country, but immediately given a notice to appear / placed in removal proceedings. So we married while he was in removal proceedings. His attorney - we've paid her $10,000 so far, not including $1500 to show up at his hearing (it'll be $1500 any time she shows up somewhere) - never mentioned that we should file the I-130 with a Bona Fide Marriage Exemption request. I only found it because I was researching how to file for his children that are still out of the country, because she wants another $14,000 to file for them. And so then looking through our AOS packet, I realize that they also neglected to include my prior marriage certificates that show my legal name changes. The lawyer's office had them....just didn't include them. I have sent an email to the lawyer asking about these issues. But I don't trust her advice tbh, so I'm asking Reddit. I'm particularly disturbed by this part: "USCIS may also issue an RFE or NOID to request evidence for the exemption if the petitioner does not submit a req…