Advice for help with my wife's I-130 application

[Mark Newcomb 0]

Howdy - I have been reading your responses and appreciate the knowledge you have on the VISA process.  I think that my wife and I were  thorough on the application that we submitted.  Our I-130 petition was received at the Nebraska service center on April 13, 2018.  I have lots of questions but the most important one concerns is there any way to speed up the process or is it pretty much a hurry up and wait?  I am returning to Bangkok so that I can be with my wife while the petition is in process and have the ability to stay for an extended period of time if I have to.  The problem that I have however is a medical one.  I am facing having to have a back fusion totally replaced due to failure and rod breakage and may have to return to the United States to have it done sooner than the projected processing time estimate.  I have testimonies from my doctors that it is necessary for me to have care and assistance when this procedure is done and that my wife is a critical piece of my recovery.  How do I go about amending the application to add these letters into evidence?  I do have the outside chance of assistance from a family friend who has deep political influence but it would require her to involve her son who has taken over their corporations.  Could that help or would I just be wasting everyone's time?  Many thanks for any advice in advance.  Mahalo, Nuke 

[geowrian 22,337]

You can request an expedite based if you meet one of the expedite criteria: https://www.uscis.gov/forms/expedite-criteria

You would call USCIS and request an expedite when you get to a real person. Explain why you are requesting it. They should hopefully request documentation supporting your request within a few days.

 

An approved expedite will still likely take a couple months. The expedite with USCIS does not carry over to NVC or the embassy, so you need to request one from them even if/after USCIS approves the I-130.

 

Politicians cannot get involved in the USCIS decision making process, and have no real sway. They can't even pull purse strings in any effective way as USCIS is nearly entirely self-funded. A senator or representative can request an expedite or case inquiry on your behalf, but they cannot influence the decision.

[ThyJourney 3]

17 hours ago, Mark Newcomb said:

Howdy - I have been reading your responses and appreciate the knowledge you have on the VISA process.  I think that my wife and I were  thorough on the application that we submitted.  Our I-130 petition was received at the Nebraska service center on April 13, 2018.  I have lots of questions but the most important one concerns is there any way to speed up the process or is it pretty much a hurry up and wait?  I am returning to Bangkok so that I can be with my wife while the petition is in process and have the ability to stay for an extended period of time if I have to.  The problem that I have however is a medical one.  I am facing having to have a back fusion totally replaced due to failure and rod breakage and may have to return to the United States to have it done sooner than the projected processing time estimate.  I have testimonies from my doctors that it is necessary for me to have care and assistance when this procedure is done and that my wife is a critical piece of my recovery.  How do I go about amending the application to add these letters into evidence?  I do have the outside chance of assistance from a family friend who has deep political influence but it would require her to involve her son who has taken over their corporations.  Could that help or would I just be wasting everyone's time?  Many thanks for any advice in advance.  Mahalo, Nuke 

Glancing at the timeline for I-130 filer will take about a year. In your situation it is not a medical emergency for an expedite at the moment, but will be if your spinal rods fail and rupture your spinal canal while in Thailand. Have you flown before with your bad back or are you on some serious meds? 

I agree with your doctor testimonies that you'll need the assistance and care during and after your hospital stay from surgery. Since you've been through it before with prior rod fixation you  know what it will take after surgery. 

Any submission of your current testimonies from your neural doctor before you leave will make it worse for your situation while in Thailand for your known spinal issues.  Only expedite you'll see is the emergency evac from Thailand to USA, which all can been avoided. Have you looked into having surgery done in Thailand? There are some really good neural doctors there just as qualified as in USA if not better. Be cheaper there then here for the surgery and hospital stay.