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Hey all, One of my potential beneficiaries has a passport that is expired on the bio page, but was extended on the visa pages with a stamp from the Ukrainian embassy. The father of this beneficiary says that the embassy cannot do a full renewal, and were only doing these temporary renewals. Does anyone gave experience with this? Would this be acceptable for the CBP? The other issue is that the extension on the visa page contains written text that is all in Ukrainian. I'm guessing they would need a notarized translation of that page to get through immigration, if this extension is acceptable. Would they need anything else? Like an apostile?

They didn't specify any reason in the denial notice? Ths Russian passport in and of itself shouldn't be an issue, but yes, the unsolicited evidence always helps (granted that you don't submit a mountain of it).

They've been using any reason at all to close cases. I recently filed an extension request twice for a beneficiary, once 28 days before expiration and again 10 days after expiration, and both times, the reply was that I was making the request outside the 30 day before/after period. It was bad during the pandemic/Trump reign, but never did they completely go against policy; it just took forever to get anything processed.

Hey all, does anyone have estimates for how long the extension takes to process? I submitted the request on Feb 18 with the expiration being on March 18th. I logged in on March 18th to find that they rejected the request because it was more than 30 days before expiration (not correct). I refiled another request, but my beneficiary is traveling March 29th. I'm now a bit worried she won't get the extension in time.

Does anyone know what opportunities there are for adjustment of status for paroled individuals? Could they apply for asylum? Could they apply for a work visa? What exactly is the process there (since they probably wouldn’t be working through an embassy)?

But one follow up, very niche, question I had was: my wife and I are both Ukrainian citizens (I'm dual US/Ukraine). We technically have the option of doing a domestic adoption, but not sure what kind of headache would be involved with applying for immigration of a newly adopted child for a green card holder vs immigration of an international adoptee after approval from all requisite agencies.

I guess most of the information is here... Ukraine Intercountry Adoption Information (state.gov)

Rules were recently changed that foreign adoptions are now allowed in Ukraine once more. My wife and I were considering it, but frankly have no idea where to even start looking. Would we have to reach out directly to orphanages? Should we reach out to an adoption service that will reach out for us? Is there a Ukrainian government website that lists eligible children? I would also appreciate an overview of the process if anyone can link me. My search-fu on VJ has proven futile.

I had this problem and resolved it by re-filing my I-134 (specifying in the application that I had filed a I-134 in the past). The second time the email was received by the beneficiary.

So my beneficiary still hasn't gotten her email and I have half a mind to resubmit the I-134 again. Is there a downside to doing that?

My usual trick is: Tell the robot you need status on your green card application. It'll ask you some questions, along the lines of "did you do these steps you were supposed to do". You have to answer correctly. I forget what all of them were, but just think logically: answer that you don't have an online account, you didn't receive a receipt notice, it's been more than 90 days, etc. Any question it asks you, just the outcome that would logically mean that you need to talk to an actual person. After you get someone on the line, you get into hard mode. A lot of times this person will tell you that "this is the way it is" in terms of not having a response to your application yet. Sometimes it is indeed the situation that you have to wait, but sometimes these Level 1 call center folks don't know any better and you should try to prod them to see if you can get them to escalate the case to Level 2 where they are more clued into where the delays are and if they're legitimate or if your case is getting lost in the shuffle.

Got approval (5/2) on the initial application (filed on 4/26), but my beneficiary has yet to hear anything.

Since you won't be entering the country during the layover (make sure you're using the same airport for arrival and departure) it's not even a question really. You might want to double check the COVID restrictions for transiting passengers in the UK, but without looking myself I can't imagine someone from Ukraine will have any requirements.

Yep. 😕

Thank you. 😐 Not sure what's going on then. That's what I was thinking, too, that we got our CONFIRM notice around the same time or before some folks that already got their emails. And I wouldn't think one beneficiary would be different from another in UfU since I don't think they do any kind of background check prior to sending out the email.