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A friend recently got her Green Card under VAWA. She petitioned to bring her daughter (under 21) here as a derivative beneficiary.  The daughter was put in a B2A category rather than F2A.  But a lawyer told her that the B2A is a subset of F2A even though I understood B2 to be an non-immigrant category. Does anyone know what the B2A category is or where it’s described?

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11 minutes ago, Grandpa Ed said:

A friend recently got her Green Card under VAWA. She petitioned to bring her daughter (under 21) here as a derivative beneficiary.  The daughter was put in a B2A category rather than F2A.  But a lawyer told her that the B2A is a subset of F2A even though I understood B2 to be an non-immigrant category. Does anyone know what the B2A category is or where it’s described?

Does she have any documents that shows this B2A?
 

I’ve searched about it on the USCIS and didn’t find something about it

 

Here is the list of all the immigrant visa symbols 

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/MonthlyIVIssuances/Immigrant Visa Symbols.pdf

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Thank you. She is relying on a communication from her legal aid attorney. We haven’t seen anything in writing. I had checked the list of visa types and couldn’t find it either. 
 

I didn’t know if the fact that the Green Card was based on VAWA had anything to do with it. 

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15 minutes ago, Grandpa Ed said:

Does anyone know what the B2A category is or where it’s described?

 

Probably B22 or BX2 for "Self-petition child of lawful permanent resident".  Similar to how F2A child cases are actually designated F22 or FX2.  The non-immigrant visa category you might be referring to is "B2", no third letter/digit.

 

Full list of immigrant visa classes here -- https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/MonthlyIVIssuances/Immigrant Visa Symbols.pdf

 

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5 minutes ago, Grandpa Ed said:

didn’t know if the fact that the Green Card was based on VAWA had anything to do with it. 

It has everything to do with her VAWA green card. Her daughter was under 21 and as you indicated is coming is as derivative of mom…so her legal aid attorney probably filed an I-824 for daughter. 
Is there anything specific you were asked to help with in the process, or just clarify something for your friend? 
 

You can suggest to your friend that she can sign in to this site and there is a VAWA forum dedicated to people going through the process .

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Just helping out because I’ve helped bring a number of grandkids here under F2A and she thought I might know.  The I-824 has already been approved and she was notified that her document review was complete and she was ready for scheduling a visa interview. But now her lawyer said she was classified as B2A rather than F2A and we didn’t know what that meant. 


I’ll look for the VAWA forum Thanks. 

 

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4 hours ago, Grandpa Ed said:

Just helping out because I’ve helped bring a number of grandkids here under F2A and she thought I might know.  The I-824 has already been approved and she was notified that her document review was complete and she was ready for scheduling a visa interview. But now her lawyer said she was classified as B2A rather than F2A and we didn’t know what that meant. 


I’ll look for the VAWA forum Thanks. 

 

Because they are self petitioned the category is B2A not F2A. 

I was just doing something for my own visa application and the B2A category appears to be the correct designation. 

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