Yes, for example I married my partner who was on an F1 visa, which is a non-immigrant visa, and we were able to easily adjust his status to the GC (this is faster than the K1 process)
That’s useful to know. One difference for my situation is I’d like the H1B1 holder to be able to continue working during the application, but I have heard mixed information on how feasible that is. The H1B1 needs to be renewed quite frequently but may not be renewable while you have an adjustment pending.
There are potential issues with being in H-1B1 status and applying for a green card but they revolve more around timing - so, for example, if you entered the U.S. on an H-1B1 visa (as opposed to H-1B), which is not a dual-intent visa, then you would need to wait some unspecified period of time before applying for a green card to avoid being "charged" with immigration fraud at the time of your entry in H-1B1 status. Also, after filing your green card application, while you could continue working on your H-1B1 visa, you wouldn't be able to travel internationally on it and you wouldn't be able to travel in general for an extended period of time unless you had a family emergency abroad.
Only if you have more than 250k in the account - the first 250k is insured by the government and if the bank fails is typically paid back in less than a week.
We use YNAB, a program run by a small-ish team in (i think?) Utah. It's forward looking budgeting, but with the expectation that you may adjust mid-month. It imports transactions from my banks through a third party, and that "usually" works. It doesn't cover investment accounts, we just use it to manage cash flow and monthly planning.
There are essentially zero kids "available" to adopt outside of foster care. And foster care is (correctly imo) focused on reuniting children with their parents when possible, so the typical case of adoption being possible is when the parents are truly unsafe.
This. Foster agencies lead you to believe that fostering leads to adoption. It gets more people into the system (more $ for them!). But the state's goals are to reunite children with their parents or a relative. Even movies that feature fostering in a realistic way often end with adoption, which is completely unrealistic.
It almost never actually happens that children you foster will go to adoption, since it is literally a last resort. Even if a child ends up in adoption, it will be years later and probably with someone else since those children are the worst case scenarios and are routinely replaced with family before re-entering the system.
California, for kids under 3 is a bit of an exception. The laws have changed to favor permanency ASAP (which means about 2 years) and it's usually this order of priority:
1. Reunification
2. Adoption by Kin
3. Adoption by someone else
All 3 of the foster kids we adopted were under 3 when they entered the system. One reunified, and then was placed back with us a year later.
Exclusively breastfeeding is very challenging to do while working, for one. Even at my megacorp with a dedicated space, a hospital grade pump, and 2 hrs a day dedicated only to that, it was a substantial hit to supply. Considering that most women don't have those amenities and support I'm not surprised they don't breastfeed exclusively after their mat leave (for most women in the US, 6 weeks unpaid)
Not to mention - it can be painful (if I had no option of course I would endure pain for my child, but there is no shame in looking for something less painful) or the baby can not learn to latch (formerly known as "failure to thrive" and a driver of infant mortality)
I've recently become a father and I do wonder how much US maternity leave (or rather, lack thereof) accounts for your high formula usage.
While my wife is coping, it's still very draining to handle a newborn and pump at regular intervals, even at 10 weeks. If she was in the US and had been forced to go back to work already, she may well have given up on breast milk already.
