Hello there,

There seem to be no one who could give me an answer to where I could file the I-130. I have been to the US embassy (my husband and I are currently living in Singapore) and have spoken to the Bangkok USCIS office about this. However, they all said that I cannot file with them and must wait for the announcement of the new policy in the I-130 filing. Well, I have been patient and have been checking the USCIS website and US embassy website for updates for one month now but there hasn't been anything positive.

Anyone able to advice me on this?

If USCIS Bangkok won't accept your petition, then your only choices are either wait for instructions from your local embassy or file directly with USCIS, which is what my embassy's (Tokyo) instructions are, even though they apparently come under Bangkok's jurisdiction.

So instead of waiting to see how or if DCF ever comes back, I filed directly.

That sounds really odd. Because Rome will accept mine and I dont live in their direct jurisdiction but my USCIS suboffice wont accept mine.

Anyhow I would wait out a week or two then try to see if bangkok will finally accept your application.

Really? That's SOOOO interesting! Rome will accept if Vienna won't? Did Rome USCIS tell you that?

yes Rome told me that.

I always take things with a grain of salt though especially when talking to gvmnt employees.

It's by mail only (just keep that in mind). and I've read that Bangkok for some reason wont accept outside petitions. dont really know the reason its just what I read in another thread.

Mail only? And here I was, already planning our Italian honeymoon! Odd that they (say they) will and Bangkok won't, but hopefully everything will become clear and standard within a couple of weeks. Jewelworld, if you are clearly resident abroad and if you can stand to wait a bit, I would... there's a poster named Saywhat who has an application that has been getting shipped all over the world for the past month, since no one seems to know exactly where he's supposed to file his I-130 petition.

lol My wife thought the same thing too . . . she was like lets take a month long honeymoon there.

Actually I should eat my own words. I dont know if its mail only but thats how Im doing it. They might accept walkins dunno.

I got an email reply from the Bangkok USCIS today.

"The U.S. Embassy(s) and U.S. Consulates have not been given guidance on how to accept new I-130 filings by the Department of State. Until they receive that guidance, they cannot accept new I-130(s). The hope to receive that guidance soon. You will have to wait until the Department of State makes a decision on I-130 filings."

This seems to me that the embassy will soon accept the I-130 petitions. They are waiting for the go ahead on this and also the new procedures in the processing. This could be next week or in 6 months time.

Well, I'll have to decide if I should just go ahead and send my petition to the USCIS offices in the US(which could take many 7-12mths) or to wait for the consular processing(should be much faster) at the embassy. I read from other threads that some consulars have started with the processing. Maybe it'll start soon here too.