Next step for us question

[Twinkles 10]

Hello all,

Son will be emigrating as a step child of american citizen in January. (we married a few years ago on K1, before Son was 18)

He will arrive in the States, few days before his 21st Birthday.

I have been trying to search to educate myself on the steps to follow once he is here.

Due to his age and the visa he is coming in on, will he actually need to adjust status?

Only thing we are absolutely certain of, is we need to get him to register for military service, within so many days of his arrival.

As for the rest, i'm struggling to actually find information. If someone can provide a guide or let us know where we stand on this, its appreciated.

[Boiler 46,929]

Not a k2?

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Hello all,

Son will be emigrating as a step child of american citizen in January. (we married a few years ago on K1, before Son was 18)

He will arrive in the States, few days before his 21st Birthday.

I have been trying to search to educate myself on the steps to follow once he is here.

Due to his age and the visa he is coming in on, will he actually need to adjust status?

Only thing we are absolutely certain of, is we need to get him to register for military service, within so many days of his arrival.

As for the rest, i'm struggling to actually find information. If someone can provide a guide or let us know where we stand on this, its appreciated.

It's an immigrant visa so he is a permanent resident upon arrival. His passport is stamped with an I-551 indication that proves LPR status (for work, driver license, international travel) until the card arrives in the mail. Some get the SSN card automatically in the mail, but many end up visiting a SSA office to apply. The CR1 visa discussions should be a good place to look at what happens after arrival since it is a more discussed immigrant visa.

There is a fee to pay before the greencard will be issued. It can be done online before he moves.

Health insurance is something to look into, whether he qualifies on your family policy or he needs one on his own. Open enrollment is over but qualifying life events like birth of a child, marriage, immigration(?) allow enrollment if within 60 days of the event. The Moving Here and your New Life in America forum discusses that often. I really don't know much about it.

[Twinkles 10]

Not a k2?

No, in November of 2010 he was issued a K2 visa, but we decided after it was issued he would follow me on.

We sent his passport and issued K2 Visa back to the London Embassy and informed them of the change of plans.

Here we are nearly four years later and he is following me on, with a (i think) CR2 visa, since his K2 expired long ago.

In Oct/Nov of 2013 my Husband applied as the sponsor and step father, to bring him over here to finally join us. because we married on a K1 before my Son was 18 years old, this time around the application is step child of american citizen. Im pretty sure its a CR2 that he is getting. passport and visa are getting delivered to him tomorrow, so i will know for sure then.

I read on a different site, CR2 Children, like my Son, wont need to adjust status/ remove conditions, i dont know if thats true or not and trying to find assurance from a more trusted source.

It's an immigrant visa so he is a permanent resident upon arrival. His passport is stamped with an I-551 indication that proves LPR status (for work, driver license, international travel) until the card arrives in the mail. Some get the SSN card automatically in the mail, but many end up visiting a SSA office to apply. The CR1 visa discussions should be a good place to look at what happens after arrival since it is a more discussed immigrant visa.

There is a fee to pay before the greencard will be issued. It can be done online before he moves.

Health insurance is something to look into, whether he qualifies on your family policy or he needs one on his own. Open enrollment is over but qualifying life events like birth of a child, marriage, immigration(?) allow enrollment if within 60 days of the event. The Moving Here and your New Life in America forum discusses that often. I really don't know much about it.

Yea, i remember about the social security card for me, it was a bit of a nightmare and i had to make several trips to the social security office.

I arrived Feb 2011 and didn't get my card until October 2011. I remember the dates as my employer kindly held the job for me, until i had it all sorted out.

Green card fee $165( i think is the amount) Up to now there has been no request for it, although i'm guessing the details about paying that will come with the passport/visa delivery tomorrow.

He wont be arriving until the 17th, week before he turns 21. It's not quite sunk in yet and i'm just wanting to make sure i'm not missing anything critical. The registering for military service was a new one on me, as example.

London trip went great, he was out of date on one of his vacs, bit disappointed with that, since he did go to a Boots the chemist travel clinic right before...meh, in the full scheme of things it could have been a lot worse. Take our medicals in 2011 as example!

Nothing like that happened this time around for him and my Husband was even able to go into the Embassy with him.

I stayed outside and just loitered