us citizen wants to petition step son (wife is a cr1 visa)

[nate and riyn 11]

Hi. I am from Philippines and came here with a cr1 visa, and will process my permanent resident next year. my husband wants to petition my son to come and live with us. what is the form that needs to be fill up and the steps and the requirement? and what are the fees? btw, my sons last name in his birth certificate is my maiden name. I would also like to know how long does it take? thank you so much and I look forward for the reply

[Penguin_ie 5,985]

The process is very similar to yours, and will also take about a year (faster than when you as a LPR petition). He can follow our Guides for parents: http://www.visajourney.com/content/guides

[Ian H. 207]

Your husband can petition for him, if the child was under 18 when you married, IR2 visa. Also I'm not sure what you mean by process your permanent residence next year, if you entered with a CR1 visa you already are an LPR. Unless you are referring to doing ROC.

[nate and riyn 11]

i hope somebody could answer my question here. i don't know if this is the right forum.. but anyway, we started to process my step son's papers last oct.13 and our priority date is oct.15. is there a chance that we could expedite his paper, we believe that our papers is in nebraska service center.we are worried now that nobody is gonna take good care of him in my wife's country.. and we hopefully he could be here next year before the class starts.. or earliest month next year. my wife is really too worried about it. and my wife can't go back there right now since she's going to renew her conditional GC on january. looking forward for any reply . thank you!

[Ryan H 3,790]

i hope somebody could answer my question here. i don't know if this is the right forum.. but anyway, we started to process my step son's papers last oct.13 and our priority date is oct.15. is there a chance that we could expedite his paper, we believe that our papers is in nebraska service center.we are worried now that nobody is gonna take good care of him in my wife's country.. and we hopefully he could be here next year before the class starts.. or earliest month next year. my wife is really too worried about it. and my wife can't go back there right now since she's going to renew her conditional GC on january. looking forward for any reply . thank you!

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[Ryan H 3,790]

Moved from Bringing Family Members of Permanent Residents to America forum to Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America forum. OP's spouse is the petitioner and a USC.

[2014petition 2]

As you can see from the following link, USCIS has only been taking about a month to approve petitions for beneficiaries in the Philippines.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=0&op1=a&op2=d&op3=17&op4=1&op5=5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,108,110,111,208,210,211&op6=All&op66=All&op7=Philippines&dfile=No&adv=

You'd probably already have an approval by the time they'd even process an expedite request.

The slowest part will likely be the NVC phase, but even that is starting to move more quickly. You can also request an expedite once the case reaches NVC; just make sure to present compelling reason(s) for the request.