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marriana   0

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Me and my fiance might just marry and get a spouse visa instead of fiance visa. Can my parents still co-sponsor him, as they could with the fiance visa?

Also, I was reading on the state gov's site about marriage visas but I was a little confused on this part:

If I live abroad in his country, I can still petition for a marriage visa, correct? I just send the papers to international office? This is the page: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/immigrants_5254.html

I just don't understand. It says that I can file forms at the international offices abroad, but then it says: Notice: Effective August 15, 2011, petitioners residing outside the United States will no longer be able to routinely file Forms I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, with U.S. embassies and consulates.

Can anybody clarify this for me?

At the time of filing the petition, I will either be living in Greece or Russia, if that helps

Kazulie Proficient

Kazulie   132

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Yes, your parents can still sponsor him.

Yes, you can petition him while you live with him overseas. This will also speed up this journey for you by RIDICULOUS amounts! (I'm jealous of you!)

HUSBAND'S CASE

9/17/2011 - sent I-13

09/19/2011 - noa1 received

3/16/2012 - case sent to my local USCIS office for additional processing

4/21/2012 - AP. If we haven't heard from them in SIX MONTHS (omg) we can feel free to call them!!! Thanks!

9/20/2012 - Interview scheduled - October 3!!!!

10/3/2012 - Interview went well but she must look at his A-file more before decision.

10/12/2012 - I-130 APPROVED! APPROVED! APPROVED!

KIDS' CASES

04/20/2012: NOA107/20/2012: instead of an approval, we got thrown into AP. sigh

11/01/2012: Boys' I-130 interview set for November 28, 2012.

11/28/2012: I-130s APPROVED! APPROVED! APPROVED!

NVC

12/14/2012: NVC Received

12/31/2012: Case number/IIN

12/31/2012: DS-3032 sent

01/08/2013: DS-3032 accepted

01/02/2013: AOS bill0

1/03/2013: AOS bill shows PAID

01/04/2013: AOS package sent

01/09/2013: IV bill

01/10/2013: IV bill shows PAID

01/11/2013: IV package sent

01/23/2013: Case complete

02/01/2013: Interview scheduled

US Embassy Lagos

02/22/2013: Embassy received

03/01/2013: Medical

03/20/2013: Interview - was told the boys would have been approved on the spot if they had pics! Errrr :-(

04/15/2013: DNA test

05/15/2013: Emailed embassy BEGGING them to let boys drop off passports for visa insertion. IT WORKED!!!

05/31/2013: Visa in hand

06/02/2013: POE JFK!!!!!!

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marriana Newbie

marriana   0

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Yes, your parents can still sponsor him.

Yes, you can petition him while you live with him overseas. This will also speed up this journey for you by RIDICULOUS amounts! (I'm jealous of you!)

why do you say it will speed up things?

thanks for the response !

Penguin_ie Grand Master

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It used to be possible to file directly with the US embassy abroad if the petitioner lived abroad for more than 6 months, and this would be veyr fast as less bureaucracy- took 6 weeks in my case form sending off initial docs to interview. As you read, this option went away for most countries last August. But, here on VJ we have found that if the petitioner lives abroad, even when the petition is sent to the lockbox in the USA, these petitions get fast tracked and processed much, much faster than those files in the USA,

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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