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Married but getting a divorce

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Oluwakemi1989   0

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My dad filed for my siblings and I in 2017, I got married in 2018 and my status was updated to married. Now I'm getting a divorce and I'm confused on how to proceed. I have the following questions:

1. How does this affect my application?

2. Am I required to send in a divorce certificate?

3. If yes to question 2, does it mean there will be a change in expected timeline?

4. Can this process be expedited in any way?

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2 hours ago, Oluwakemi1989 said:

My dad filed for my siblings and I in 2017, I got married in 2018 and my status was updated to married. Now I'm getting a divorce and I'm confused on how to proceed. I have the following questions:

1. How does this affect my application?

2. Am I required to send in a divorce certificate?

3. If yes to question 2, does it mean there will be a change in expected timeline?

4. Can this process be expedited in any way?

 

Yes, it changes you from category F3 to F1 so will speed things up. You need to inform NVC and submit your divorce cert once you have it, so they can change your category.

 

No way of expediting it as you can't get a visa by law until your PD is current.  Be absolutely sure you definitely want to divorce before you do so - you won't be able to re-marry your spouse and petition him/her further down the line.

 

And keep an eye on the visa ban, at the moment Nigeria is on the banned country list, so you'll need to hope that ban is lifted. 

 

Good luck. 

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