Spouse Of A GreenCard holder

[franki 0]

This is a question for experts: My sister is a green card holder and she just got married. Her husband lives outside U.S and she wants to bring him here.

She was telling me that the new status on bringing a GC holder’s spouse has changed dramatically from 3 years down to 5 months – she said she saw this on USCIS website and she was very confident that she got the same info from somewhere else ……..that there is no difference between a USC and GC holder when it comes to bringing their spouses or a child under the age of 21 to US.

So I went myself to investigate this and find out that she is right ………. Here is the link https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

Can someone tell me is this true? If so then her husband will be here in 5 months?

Thanks

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

It has gotten much faster for greencard holders, but it'll be more than 5 months until her husband is here.

5 months is the waiting time until the visa starts being processed (unless husband is in Mexico, in which case it is a bit longer), ie the visa priority date. Then there is all the paperwork and security checks at USCIS and the NVC and waiting for an interview at the embassy; the process takes about 6-8 months. So all going well, husband should be here in a year or so.

Edited October 31, 2010 by Penguin_ie

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Agreed with PP.

Basically your sister will send in the parcel and be sent and NOA1. Then there's 5 months where she'll be waiting until a visa number is available for him.

Then he'll have to do his side which is the interview, medical, police checks, other paperwork etc... so don't plan for 5 months, plan for more like a year, like the PP said.

[Neonred 3,446]

This is a question for experts: My sister is a green card holder and she just got married. Her husband lives outside U.S and she wants to bring him here.

She was telling me that the new status on bringing a GC holder’s spouse has changed dramatically from 3 years down to 5 months – she said she saw this on USCIS website and she was very confident that she got the same info from somewhere else ……..that there is no difference between a USC and GC holder when it comes to bringing their spouses or a child under the age of 21 to US.

So I went myself to investigate this and find out that she is right ………. Here is the link https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

Can someone tell me is this true? If so then her husband will be here in 5 months?

Thanks

Good news, but I can tell you it will be much more than 5 months. My GC holding wife petitioned for her under 21 daughter 2 years ago and the petition made it to NVC just a few months ago.

[pushbrk 12,109]

Good news, but I can tell you it will be much more than 5 months. My GC holding wife petitioned for her under 21 daughter 2 years ago and the petition made it to NVC just a few months ago.

It WAS taking that long and so it did in your case. It has sped up dramatically very recently. In effect, the timelines for petitions filed today are virtually the same for petitions from LPR's as from US Citizens.

However, please note this is a CR1 or IR1 case, not K3. K3 is dead anyway but was never available to the spouse of an LPR.

Edited October 31, 2010 by pushbrk

[franki 0]

It has gotten much faster for greencard holders, but it'll be more than 5 months until her husband is here.

5 months is the waiting time until the visa starts being processed (unless husband is in Mexico, in which case it is a bit longer), ie the visa priority date. Then there is all the paperwork and security checks at USCIS and the NVC and waiting for an interview at the embassy; the process takes about 6-8 months. So all going well, husband should be here in a year or so.

Thank you. But this change is a huge change, dropping from 3 years to 5 months? Do you think this might change? I mean will this stay like this after this, and they will not increase this time frame back to 3 or 4 years?

It was Totally ridiculous to wait for a visa number for THREE YEARS!!!! What is that mean wait almost 1300 days just for a number to be generated, I mean it was insane. on the other hand they used to issue visas for a USC in 5 or 6 months same human being – almost same rights but one has to wait 5 months and another has to wait 3-4 years.

Do you think they will keep this the way the announced it 5 moths for all?

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

No way to predict. I doubt it'll go back to 5+ years anytime soon, but it does depend on how many apply, and any policy changes.

[Darnell 8,478]

*** not a K-3 visa topic, moving to ' Bringing Family Members of Permanent Residents to America ' forum ***

Edited November 5, 2010 by Darnell