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I have not got selected, and this is mostly a thing I should worry about if I do of course, but I still would like to ask you folks.

I will need a lot of advise. I'm a green card holder. Been living in New York since April 2021, married to a US citizen and currently pregnant (due in October 2024).

My mother always wanting to visit me here and I think it's the right moment now. So not only she will be seeing the neighborhood I live in, but she will also see her very first grandAchild.

The thing is she can't speak english and will travel alone here. She is now 63 years old. She has a full-time job and a business since 1993, and she also own a property under her name.

Now, the questions:

1. I know the visa decision will be 100% will be in the interviewer's hand, but do you think her chance will be pretty high ?

2. On the DS-160 form, who should pay her trip ? Because me and my husband for all her trip expenses. But yes, she also has her own money with her now.

3. Also on the form and at the interview, should she mention that she'll be visiting me and her grandchild or just say vacation ?

Those are all the questions I could think about at this moment. I'm sure I will have a lot more along the way.

Is there even any point then in trying to get this visa? Is it hard to attain or are people not applying for it? I thought it sounded like a good option to have while waiting for the cr1 visa to allow me to visit my spouse? But why such low numbers?

Hello,

I have received my CR1 visa on 22 March 2024, I have arrived to USA on 23 April 2024 after my second anniversary on 15 April 2024. Upon arrival at the US airport I informed the officer that it's been 2 years for my marrigae and asked if I will be IR1 category, then he told me he can't do anything and stamped CRI on my passport, and told me I have to contact USCIS in my local area.

How will I know if the USCIS is issuing me a 10 year GC or a temporary one? I paid the immigration fee before arriving in the US. I tried to link my case to my USCIS online account but can't get the online access code anywhere, I tried to get a new code the system ask for a form number linked to the USCIS receipt that also I don't have.

How can I track my Green card? How can I know if they have started working on my Green card? Will I get a 10 years Green card?

Hi all,

I have read and read until I can not read anymore, so I need your advice please. Quick recap, married my American husband in September 2023, I have been back and forwards to the states over the past 2 years, staying 6 months at a time. My husband brought us a house in 2021, while I was there I started renovations, decorating, ripping old bathrooms outs, nothing major. After we got married, a few months later we returned to the UK for our honeymoon and it was at this point that we decided that we would apply for my green card and that I would remain in the UK while this process took place. He left and before we knew it it was February. We were extremely naive about this whole process and honestly hadn't really looked into all that in entailed, he filed the I-130 in February. While I was living there I was obviously helping pay bills, now I am back in the Uk, I have my own bills, but without me helping towards the mortgage he now risks losing the house. This was supposed to be our forever home and I am devastated. We thought the process of the green card would take like 3-4 months, I know, please do not come at me, neither of us have been in this situation before so yes were were very, very blind to it all! Would the risk of losing the house be enough to expedite the process. My husband has a great job and earns enough to support me, but not if he has to cover the mortgage and bills all alone. (Not that I would ever expect him to keep me) I send what I can but living separately, obviously means twice the bills now. I m so worried and just want to be back there to support my husband but is this reason enough to expedite the case?