Hey everyone! My choice of agent form has been sent, and I'm thinking about emailing it in. It looks to me like most of the foreigners designate their spouse as the agent, but I'm wondering if it's alright to designate myself (I'm Canadian and living in Canada). I'd really like to do as much of the paperwork myself as I can, since my husband (the American living in the US) is very busy. Will this work okay do you think?
Thanks!

Hi toastb,

Sure, no problem having yourself as the agent. The only downside is the extra mailing time to Canada.

I did the same thing for the same reason. We actually found little difference in the mailing times. In fact we received the confirmation of the agent request via snail mail on the same day. And just an FYI - I used a Canada Post money order for the $380 fee with no problems.

Yes, I suppose it depends where you live in Canada, I never had anything take less than 10 days to arrive.

Hi,

yes you can do it.


Jigi

Sure can Depending on where you are in Canada, you can actually ask our VJers how long it took for them to receive the documents if you put yourself as the agent.

Good luck on your journey!

Our problem wasn't how long it took in the mail, it was how long NVC took to put things in the mail. We would look at the post marks and some were two weeks later than the generation date.

If you look at my story the whole time line is there. I think ours is pretty typical for Canada without using James' shortcuts. Oh, except we sent in the aff. of support last as we wanted a letter from my husband's employer to write a letter and that took forever to receive. That is the one thing we would have done differently - not waited for the letter and just sent it out right away.

Your timeline and mine are pretty similar - we submitted our I-130 about 2 weeks after you. I did use some of the shortcuts.

If I hadn't had 3 RFE's our file would have probably completed around mid September - which is about 5 weeks before yours. So I figured the shortcuts saved about 5-6 weeks in mailing time which seems to be pretty spot on.

Interesting!

Yeah, we have been watching your timeline - too bad about all those RFE's, you were cruising. As long as we get an interview in Jan or Feb we are still on our schedule, but March or later will be very upsetting. We'll see what happens this week.

As for the shortcuts, I would defintely agree that 5-6 weeks would be a reasonable estimate of time saved.
Toastburgler, you might want to look into that.

For Canada, yes, you being the agent is fine. The option of having an agent is for those people who have spouses living in countries where postal service is not reliable.