Foreign wife has custody of foster child

[casinnova 0]

Hopefully someone has had a similar experience. My wife recently obtained legal custody of a child she has been fostering for 10 years. There is no possibility for adoption, but my wife has 100% authority over the child's life. I was thinking about trying the K-3/K-4 option, but I was kinda confused about the whole process (until I found visajourney.com). Now, I have no idea what to do. Here is a run down of where I am with the process.

04/03/2012 - sent I-130 to Chicago lockbox on behalf of my wife.

04/11/2012 - NOA1 received

07/17/2012 - NOA2 received

I failed to realize that I should have filed an I-129f immediately after receiving NOA1. Now I feel like I should just wait and go with the IR-1 Visa. But, I haven't filed an I-130 for my wife's foster daughter. In fact, she is not a foster child any longer, I just don't know how to refer to her. So... what can I do now?

Questions:

Should I have sent two separate I-130's for my wife and her daughter?

Can I even petition for my wife's daughter because my wife is not her biological mother?

Would it be stupid to wait until my wife has her own GC and then have my wife petition for her daughter?

I am confused... ;(

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

[Penguin_ie 6,001]

Your wife may think of the child as her daughter, but unless the child is legally adopted, she is not legally her daughter and no visa can be got for her, either by you or by your wife.

[dwheels76 5,486]

Hopefully someone has had a similar experience. My wife recently obtained legal custody of a child she has been fostering for 10 years. There is no possibility for adoption, but my wife has 100% authority over the child's life. I was thinking about trying the K-3/K-4 option, but I was kinda confused about the whole process (until I found visajourney.com). Now, I have no idea what to do. Here is a run down of where I am with the process.

04/03/2012 - sent I-130 to Chicago lockbox on behalf of my wife.

04/11/2012 - NOA1 received

07/17/2012 - NOA2 received

I failed to realize that I should have filed an I-129f immediately after receiving NOA1. Now I feel like I should just wait and go with the IR-1 Visa. But, I haven't filed an I-130 for my wife's foster daughter. In fact, she is not a foster child any longer, I just don't know how to refer to her. So... what can I do now?

Questions:

Should I have sent two separate I-130's for my wife and her daughter?

Can I even petition for my wife's daughter because my wife is not her biological mother?

Would it be stupid to wait until my wife has her own GC and then have my wife petition for her daughter?

I am confused... ;(

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

Filing the 129F would have gain you nothing since it would have been closed soon as it got to NVC. It's a obsolete Visa. You say IR1 so you been married over 2 years.

But yes no petitioning for foster child.