US Immigration from Belarus

My husband is a citizen of Belarus and LPR. He has a son (age 7) from a previous marriage in Belarus and we wanted to bring him to visit us for the summer for a month or two- assuming the pandemic situation improves enough that the US Embassy in Minsk starts doing tourist visa interviews again. Since he is so young and has never been on a plane before, we don't want to make him fly as an unaccompanied minor, and thought it might be a good idea to have him come with my mother-in-law.

Would it be an issue getting a child who is the stepson of a US citizen and son of an LPR a tourist visa, given that he does have the right to get a green card? (We would like to do that in the future but have agreed with is mother to wait until he is a little bit older). I wouldn't want the authorities thinking we were trying to somehow bring him here permanently at this time.

My mother-in-law has had a job at the same place since she was about 20 years old, and she is now in her mid-50s. She owns her apartment and in a couple of years will be able to retire on a state pension. Her income is pretty average for Belarus, she has been divorced for a long time and lives alone, has no car and does not drive, has traveled to Ukraine and Turkey as a tourist in the last couple of years, but she has never tried to come to the USA or even "the West" before. I am not pregnant, and my husband and I do not have any children together (I have an elementary school-aged child who lives with us), nor are we planning on it. We would be paying for the trip for both of them. She has plenty of ties to Belarus, but I'm not sure if they would think we were trying to bring her here permanently, or if a grandmother and grandson traveling together to visit us would raise any red flags.

Figured it would not hurt to get someone to review what I'm putting in the package. Looking at the site step by step guide/USCIS website and reading the forums I think I've covered everything but I would like to get feedback incase there is something I'm missing. I feel the part I'm most concerned about is having good enough evidence of meeting since hotel receipts and boarding passes were mostly lost or not obtained as most of our time was spent at each other's home residence.

Both of us are never married, no name changes, similiar ages.

G-1450 Authorization for Credit Card Transactions

I-129F Cover Letter

G-1145 E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance

I-129F

Passport Style Photograph for beneficiary

Passport Style Photograph for petitioner

Petitioner US Birth Certificate Copy

Single Letter of Intent

-This letter has separate statements from each of us declaring intent to marry with signatures from each of us in blue ink, we had signed it together on the same date and time.

Proof of Meeting Package (20 pages total)

Setup in a word document with numbered pages. First page includes biometrics pages from included passports and contents showing page numbers for each included trip. Scans are loaded onto document pages.

-Trip 1

--Contents page w/ page numbers

--Petitioner's Entry/Exit passport stamps for petitioner

--Petitioner's Health Insurance certificate purchased in beneficiary's country for dates of visit

--Petitioner's VIsitor registration for dates of visit with address of lodging as beneficiary's home address

--Petitioner's Boarding pass showing exit from country

--Petitioner's Credit card statement showing purchases in beneficiary's city

--Petitioner's Military Commander authorization for travel to beneficiary's country for purpose of spending time with fiance and family

--Petitioners Military Orders for visiting beneficiary's country showing dates and beneficiary's home address as lodging location

--Petitioner's Clearance Authorization filed with Embassy for travel to beneficiary's country showing beneficary's name, address, and contact number as place of lodging

--Petitioner's travel office e-ticket receipt/itinerary

--4 Photographs in different locations, 1 of which is in front of a museum sign in beneficiary's country. All photos have date, location, and persons in them annotated

-Trip 2

--Contents page w/ page numbers

--Beneficiary's entrance stamp into country

--Petitioner's exit stamp from neighboring country by vehicle

--Beneficiary's boarding pass for entering country

--Petitioner's credit card statement showing purchases in country

--Beneficiary's flight itinerary

--AirBNB receipt showing petitioner & beneficiary's names for lodging

--3 Photographs in different locations. All photos have date, location and persons in them annotated

-Trip 3

(this was a day trip we had taken so less information provided... however I thought it may be worth adding since it contains primary evidence within 2 years of filing.)

--Scan of beneficiary and petitioner's passports showing vanity passport stamps obtained. (City-state in europe)

--Photograph of both passport pages together

--Photograph of beneficiary and petitioner at location with date, location and persons annotated.

Thanks for the help.

Does anyone know how to find out your case number in a queue at embassy? Do we need to call to the embassy or write?

I've tried the military help email through USCIS and their military number but so far havn't been able to get past automated systems on this. I figured it wouldn't hurt to see if I can get a quick answer here.

I've been in the military for 10+ years with the changes in locations that come with it. When listing my employment history would I be able to list just the military and the address provided on our W2's for the entire duration I've been employed by them or does the process require that I list each base individually as separate employers for the purpose of the petition?

Thanks for the help.

So I am currently with my fianc .

We filed K-1 in early April. We still did not receive NOA2 since things are going so slow. Additionally, embassies are not processing K-1 visas.

We are considering going the CR-1 route, since it's much more stable and there is too much uncertainty and backlog with K-1, which may take longer than the 1 year CR-1 wait time.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?