Provide the accurate personal, identity, immigration and other evidence requested by the actual process, while describing the intended circumstances truthfully. A residence plan does not replace the specific EB-1 or EB-2 basis. Avoid invented future commitments merely to make the application sound certain.
Keep intentions and completed events distinct
Identify current status, relevant history and what remains contingent. Obtain appropriate advice about the process and any temporary travel. Do not describe the family as already authorized to move simply because documents have been assembled or a processing fee paid.
Keep identity, civil-status, immigration-history, and underlying employment-based eligibility evidence in a dated file, alongside official programme instructions and payment records. A first review should distinguish what proves eligibility from what proves a payment or administrative step. Obtain official receipts, but do not manufacture certainty by attaching a news report or a corporate announcement in place of instructions. For family members, reconcile passports, birth or marriage records, and names used in prior filings. The recurring error is claiming a benefit before the governing immigrant processing has produced it.
Hypothetical example: a marine-biology professor pays a processing fee while her marriage certificate is being corrected. She should resolve the civil record before describing her spouse as ready for immigrant processing.