US Immigration from Brazil

I am a USC and my husband recently had the IR-1 visa approved. We are planning our move to the US and are wondering if we MUST travel together to enter at the POE together. We have a child and it would be much easier if I could go ahead of time to get the apartment and things ready. We can all go together but the arrival will be more chaotic.

Thanks!

Hello,

We received our NAO2 dated March 3, 2021, after filing in July 2020. We have a case number from the NVCV, and I think the application has been at the NVC since the first part of April, 2021. So about 90 days at the NVC still waiting for notice that the NVC has forwarded the packet to the consulate in Rio De Janeiro.. The expiration date on the NOA2 is June 30, 2021. So it has expired as of yesterday.

I have read that this date will automatically be extended, however, I am curious if anyone has recent experience? Is there anything I need to do to have the date extended as we wait for the NVC to process us?

Hi Friends,
I am trying to help a friend figure this out...

She lives in Brazil with husband and child. She wants to send her 12 year old son to stay with his aunt (Green card holder) in New York State for 6 months and go to public school there.

The child is a Brazilian and German citizen.

Can he go with a tourist visa and stay for 6 months? The parents will not stay in the US during this time - the son will stay with aunt.

Thanks so much!

Hi all,

I'm newer to the site, loving how much information is out there. We're K1 case and should be receiving our NOA2 this week. Is there any visilbility to how many cases are at the different consulates and how fast they will be processing?

I'm getting excited for wedding planning and all, but there is still a lot of uncertainty as to when we'll have the final greenlight, and it seems like there's an abundance of cases stuck at NVC

Hey guys.

I made a post before about our local SSA office rejecting my wife's app for a SSN because she "didn't file original documents." She DID send in originals and also photocopies, someone just scanned in the photocopies and the app was rejected due to "no originals."

We have since sent in her original documents again (WITHOUT photocopies) as well as the original rejection letter, and received all the original documents back 3 weeks ago. I've called back to check on the status of the application and have been told multiple times "they're not showing up in our system" (the original documents we sent in the 2nd time rather than the 1st time). One representative told me that they should have been scanned in the day the package was opened and visible in their system, another told me that they won't be visible until they are "separated," that is, sent to different employees to work on them.

The second rep's response was weird...why would you need multiple employees to evaluate 3 different documents for the same app? I think most likely what happened is whoever opened the 2nd package we sent saw that there were already scans of the same documents and didn't scan in the originals, not realizing that the ones that were scanned were NOT originals. 2 different really bad f u ckups costing us time and depriving my wife of working legally.

At this point I'm not sure it's worthwhile to wait on this incompetent office, I would prefer just to apply at another office. What do you think??