I-797 received approval notice Oct 2007 for I-130 Petition for Relative

[Stevie 0]

I've searched the forums and I not finding better information about others with a similar wait time for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We also have a letter dated Oct 2009 giving the daughter of the Green Card holder (my wife) a F2A status. We filed and received these notices before her daughter was 21 and was wondering if we are looking at another 3-4 years or what if anything we've done wrong. I've looked up he case number and its valid, we are successively just waiting for visa number to be issued for the process to start up again. Daughter is now 26 years old.

Edited June 24, 2012 by Stevie

[Stevie 0]

I was told by my wife her status changed since she aged past 21.

[grrrrreat 109]

I've searched the forums and I not finding better information about others with a similar wait time for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We also have a letter dated Oct 2009 giving the daughter of the Green Card holder (my wife) a F2A status. We filed and received these notices before her daughter was 21 and was wondering if we are looking at another 3-4 years or what if anything we've done wrong. I've looked up he case number and its valid, we are successively just waiting for visa number to be issued for the process to start up again. Daughter is now 26 years old.

Are you a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (Green Card)? Is your wife still a permanent resident? Is she your stepdaughter? What age was she when you married her mom? Is the daughter unmarried? Is your wife eligible to become naturalized yet? What's your daughter's priority date? It should be shown on any notice she got from USCIS.

When you're daughter turned 21, she wasn't eligible for the F2A class anymore because it is only for minor children of permanent residents. She was reassigned to the F2B class. Visas are available for F2B aliens with priority dates of May 2004, which means a visa is available now only if her priority date is before that. Otherwise, she has to wait.

If her mom becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen, her daughter could get bumped up to the F1 class. This class is several months ahead of F2B, so it would be a little faster but not a lot.

This is the visa bulletin. It explains what priority dates are now being given visas: http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_5733.html

Edited June 26, 2012 by grrrrreat