FB4 VISA

[DejiBankole 2]

Hello folks, may I please ask if anyone here has a reasonable due date for FB4 visa i130 petition that was approved by uscis December, 2011. It's been processing almost forever.

[arken 4,197]

Depends on the service center, which one is yours? Anyway, it is better if the i130 processing time is longer so that children of the beneficiary could still immigrate even though they are above 21 when visas are about to be processed.

 

You have to wait for around 15 years anyway even if i130 was approved 10 years ago.

[DejiBankole 2]

5 minutes ago, arken said:

Depends on the service center, which one is yours? Anyway, it is better if the i130 processing time is longer so that children of the beneficiary could still immigrate even though they are above 21 when visas are about to be processed.

 

You have to wait for around 15 years anyway even if i130 was approved 10 years ago.

Thanks. The receipt notice reads Boston Massachusetts.

 

Would you advise a K1 petition is filed concurrently, or beneficiary should just sit out the remaining few years before PD for i130 kicks in? 

[SusieQQQ 11,584]

F4 now is current for cases filed before 22 March 2007. When was your case filed? The approval date doesn’t matter for interview, the filing date (priority date) does.

If you have a fiancé it may be faster to have a K1 filed, depending on your actual F4 priority date. 

 

[DejiBankole 2]

14 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

F4 now is current for cases filed before 22 March 2007. When was your case filed? The approval date doesn’t matter for interview, the filing date (priority date) does.

If you have a fiancé it may be faster to have a K1 filed, depending on your actual F4 priority date. 

 

Thanks Susie, the additional document request notice from USCIS was dated March, 2011. Suggests case was filed a couple of months earlier, but I do not have exact date at the moment. I can make sense of the current F4 date you provided from the October visa bulletin going forward.

 

My concern is that at the current pace, starting a K1 application concurrently, divorce, bidding approvals and processing time may equate to average 24months, same as I've waited for over a decade already. I'm particular about steady assured process than to run off in another direction really. Please assure I can sit this in. Thank you !

[arken 4,197]

You can't start a K1 petition without first getting divorced whoever is getting divorced.

[SusieQQQ 11,584]

2 hours ago, DejiBankole said:

Thanks Susie, the additional document request notice from USCIS was dated March, 2011. Suggests case was filed a couple of months earlier, but I do not have exact date at the moment. I can make sense of the current F4 date you provided from the October visa bulletin going forward.

 

My concern is that at the current pace, starting a K1 application concurrently, divorce, bidding approvals and processing time may equate to average 24months, same as I've waited for over a decade already. I'm particular about steady assured process than to run off in another direction really. Please assure I can sit this in. Thank you !

There should be a priority date listed somewhere on those notices. Anyway, up to you if you and your fiancé want to pursue K1 or not. There’s nothing wrong with having two petitions running concurrently, whether or not you think it’s worth it depends on your own specific circumstances. 

[SalishSea 16,768]

9 hours ago, DejiBankole said:

Thanks Susie, the additional document request notice from USCIS was dated March, 2011. Suggests case was filed a couple of months earlier, but I do not have exact date at the moment. I can make sense of the current F4 date you provided from the October visa bulletin going forward.

 

My concern is that at the current pace, starting a K1 application concurrently, divorce, bidding approvals and processing time may equate to average 24months, same as I've waited for over a decade already. I'm particular about steady assured process than to run off in another direction really. Please assure I can sit this in. Thank you !

Both parties must be free to marry at the time the petition is filed, and K-1s can only be filed by USCs.

[Deedee048 0]

On 10/8/2021 at 5:59 AM, DejiBankole said:

Hello folks, may I please ask if anyone here has a reasonable due date for FB4 visa i130 petition that was approved by uscis December, 2011. It's been processing almost forever.

Did you email USCIS and NVC? they may have cancelled the case 

[DejiBankole 2]

11 hours ago, Deedee048 said:

Did you email USCIS and NVC? they may have cancelled the case 

No, they did not cancel the case. Thank you!