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Hi all,

My spouse is here on a B2 Visa, it expires Early November. We are married, just got married if that changes anything. He didnt come here with the purpose of marrying but to travel and have fun with friends ( mutual friends of mine thats how we met). So his visa isnt expired, I am a us citizen. What form(s) should we file? What timeline should we look at? Does each form require its own filing fee?

When I mean to "vet" a lawyer, I mostly want to try to figure how experienced the lawyer is with INA Section 320 citizenship cases and also just the experience of filing N-600s and responding to RFEs pertaining to them.

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To add to the question in the title, I'm also wondering if it is even worthwhile to solict a lawyer for my N-600 filing?

I feel like since I'm a person who hasn't filled out a single immigration form in my entire life that it might make sense. I have done a ton of research on my own over several months, but then again, I feel like nothing beats the experience of a lawyer. Questions I've had previously including questions such as - "should letters have wet signatures and seals / stamps of certification" would be something that a lawyer would just know.

Not to mention, my N-600 application is for my derivation of U.S. Citizenship that happened decades ago, rather than recently. Evidence for things like physical custody is just much more difficult to obtain at this point, and even if someone filing an N-600 this far into the future does have evidence that fulfills the "preponderance of evidence" standard, it might often be from an assortment of evidence that might not be so easy to present in the best way.

But then again, I've heard horror stories of lawyers making mistakes and people having to correct their lawyer's mistakes on their own, and I worry that for N-600 filings, they might just not have as much experience since the number of derived citizens (and even so those who have acquired it at birth to U.S. Citizen parents) are tiny, let alone those who file USCIS Form N-600 and I feel like a lot of lawyers might not have as much experience with N-600 filings.

I have been married for some years to a Moroccan lady. We have a son. He recently moved with me to the US . He s in school here. He has his US passport .

I need to get my wife to the US asap. I m basically a single parent.

Do I apply for a Tourist Visa then adjust her status or wait years for an Immigration visa?

Hello,

We received the notification for the initial interview (AOS from K-1). It took a year to receive this appointment. After 6 months of getting married, we decided that my wife and stepdaughter would return to their original country. Not to go into too great of details, if we had known more of the limitations my wife would have, we never would have taken the K-1 visa route. Live and learn. What is the process to cancel this appointment? Should I have informed USCIS that they left the country and to cancel the AOS?

Thank you.

Hello all!

My long distance partner recently renewed their B2 visa, and it's been a few weeks since there has been any updates to her application (a little over 3 weeks so far).

For context - they live in Tijuana, Mexico, they had an appointment on July 7th, 2025 to take a new picture and drop off their application (I'm unsure if this was considered a dropbox appointment). According to the CEAC status page, the case was created on July 9th, 2025 and the case was last updated on July 24th, 2025 and has been in the "Application Received" status since.

They have had a B2 Visa since they were little, and their parents did the application process/renewal for them, however this time they renewed it on their own. They're worried that there could be an issue with the application since it's taking long.

Has anybody experienced a long wait time for these sort of renewals?