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Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative

What goes wrong on I-130?

The same few things, over and over — and every one of them is a completeness problem the software checks for before your packet is marked ready.

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Where cases go wrong

Swapping petitioner and beneficiary — the sponsor files, the immigrant benefits

Thin evidence that a marriage is real: no joint accounts, no photos together, no shared address

Forgetting Form I-130A in spouse cases

Dates and spellings that disagree between forms and documents

Form I-130

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