Interview Help???

[PA Girl 0]

My husband is and american citizen born and bred. I am a canadian citizen and he has applied for my visa. We are in the final stages of our visa and are just waiting for the NVC to schedule my interview in montreal. I am 5 1/2 months pregnant now and we feel that we are running out of time for the interview to be scheduled before I have the baby. We are wondering if there is anything we can do to have this process sped up a little to get my interview faster or at least allow me to be down there while they are processing my visa. I live in Ontario and he lives in Pennsylvania and it is becoming expensive and not to mention a hassle for him to come up here every weekend. Is there anything anyone can suggest to help us out??

[Alex B 9]

So why don't you visit him?

My wife's in Vancouver and I'm in Seattle. She comes down sometimes, less so because of her work schedule. She shows up at the border with a copy of everything that we've filed so far, mortgage statement, pay stubs etc. and has never had a problem being admitted for a visit. Just make sure you have lots-o-ties to Canada.

I'm also waiting on NVC right now, so maybe I'll see you in Montreal. They seemed to have stopped processing my case right now and don't even want to talk to me before 20 days have elapsed. Ugh!

If you were to come for a visit then as a Canadian you'd be admitted for 6 months. So long as you had no intention of staying _and_ left the country to get your visa I don't see anything illegal. You would not be able to enter, stay and then adjust status. Maybe some of our more knowledgeable folks can chime in.

As for speeding it up, I wish I knew.

Good luck

[ropicotrina 0]

Well I hear that you are not allow it to come to US when you have a pending inmigration process..Since you can enter to USA to visit. I recomend you to call the embassy but if you are at the stage of getting the final aplication for the interview, it jst take 1 month to get the interview scheadule ..good luck

[Alex B 9]

Well I hear that you are not allow it to come to US when you have a pending inmigration process..Since you can enter to USA to visit. I recomend you to call the embassy but if you are at the stage of getting the final aplication for the interview, it jst take 1 month to get the interview scheadule ..good luck

It's not that you're not allowed into the US, it's more that under US immigration law you are deemed to be an intending immigrant unless you can convince the CBP officer otherwise. So having a pending immigration petition is a big strike against you but being Canadian certainly helps (discriminatory, sure, but Canada has a much different relationship with the USA than say Nigeria, sorry to pick on Nigeria BTW). If you can show ties to your home country, and the officer hasn't just had an argument with their spouse, then they can admit you. As I said, my wife brings lots-o-documentation showing both ties and that we're following the process and that even gets comments about how detail oriented we are.

I'm up there so often (pretty much every weekend since last December) that now I'm being asked on re-entering the USA when I'm going to fix the situation and get her down here. The Canadians have asked occasionally but I just tell them that we're waiting on good 'ole Uncle Sam and they seem to get this knowing look on their faces.