Contact a family lawyer. If you know where he is it may be possible to serve him by mail. If however you don't know then you have to go through Brazillian procedures for service of process. Suggest you start by contacting a family law attorney.

As long as the marriage is legitimate where it takes place and the state in which you intend to settle in the US recognizes it, too.

You can either file a K-3 marriage visa which does use the form I 129 (and also the form I 130) or you can file a stand alone I 130. The first would take minimally 6 months to a year, and once approved would give your wife a marriage visa to come to the US. Once she is here, then you would file... View More

You can work with work authorization. You should contact an experienced immigration attorney to discuss the process and determine if you are eligible for that benefit.

In general, if the marriage is legal in the place where it is performed, USCIS will recognize it as a legal marriage.

Not prosecuted but if it turns up in the medical records they could drop you or re-rate you. Sorry, the person.

8CFR§214.1(l)(2) provides for a 60-day period or until the authorized stay expires, whichever is shorter.

Contact an immigration for a full analysis. There are different options and processing times.

I recommend hiring and immigration attorney who can fully analyze the issue and offer suggestions.

Depending on whether your father is a USC or LPR, whether you are under 21, and whether you are married or not, your father may be able to file an I-130 petition to "get you in line" for a visa number. Unless there is a visa number immediately available (which would only be the case if... View More

Your father may file a new petition. The first case was correctly denied because you were married while the petition was pending; permanent residents may only sponsor unmarried children.

You know what you need to do about those warrants, so it's best to do that or your husband's case can't fo forward. He needs you there.

An appeal asks a different authority to review the same facts in a case in hopes of coming to a more favorable decision. A motion to reopen is made when new facts have become available. It is made to the same authority that made the original decision.

Shoplifting is a deportable offense; if you travel outside the US, you might not be let back in. At the very least it will make reentry difficult.

you need to get your base hospital records. Your record may also have been registered with the service and /or the consulate under your dad's name. If the divorce happened when you had returned to the US, for that transit you would have had a passport, or at least a travel document. For that... View More

This depends on a whole cascade of issues. Short answer is "yes, but it depends" and "maybe yes, maybe no." If you are asking for yourself you need to contact an attorney who is a member of the AILA or is under Pennsylvania Court Rules a certified Immigration Specialist.

1) are you a US citizen? 2) if so, did you ask the Dutch Embassy? They would know best.

It is more than likely that you will not have issues coming back in, based on what you said. You may or may not have unlawful presence; based on what you said, it’s unclear. If you do, leaving will not trigger the 10-year bar under the circumstances. So if you are otherwise admissible—no fraud,... View More

Generally, no. The US recognizes marriage performed abroad as long as they are recognized as legitimate marriages in the jurisdiction in which they are performed.

This is a gray area. The immigration team is correct that if you never "activated" your H-1B by working for your H-1B employer for even one day, then it is questionable whether you ever technically held the H-1B status and were counted against the cap.