US Immigration from Brazil

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??

Is it OK to change addresses at POE? Do I just tell the officer or should I bring a filled out form?
Thanks!

Just an update for anyone going through removal of conditions, related to changing addresses after filing the I-751 but before receiving the I-797 (NOA1). My husband filed his I-751 package (528 pages total) on May 21, exactly 90 days before his conditional 2-year green card expires, and then we moved on June 1 and filed an online change of address with USCIS, hoping that the I-797 would be sent to our new address. I had heard that the US postal service does not forward I-797 notices from USCIS so we were worried that the move may cause delays in receiving the I-797. To our surprise, the I-797 arrived yesterday, two weeks after filing the I-751, extending his status for 18 months from the expiration on his green card, and the US postal service forwarded it to our new address! So to help others going through similar circumstances, the USPS will forward mail like this. Maybe not green cards, but in our case, they forwarded the I-751. Better yet, he did not have to wait 30 or 60 days for the I-797, but only two weeks! Good luck to everyone who is going through removal of conditions!