US Immigration from Germany

(N-600 for my children- waiting on their processing for more than two years by now - field office San Diego)

I am at loss. After more than two years of waiting and about 13 months exceeding regular processing times, my son just received a message from USCIS:

"We have received and approved your request for your interview to be rescheduled. Your application has been placed back in queue for interview rescheduling at a USCIS field office. Once an appointment is available, your interview will be rescheduled".

Fact is, we never asked for a rescheduling. Is this a template answer for something else? We do our regular "out of normal processing times" inquiry every three months but definitely never asked to reschedule anything. We have been waiting for an interview for so long, it is such a tease. My daughter received the notification that an interview notice had been mailed out in October but then never received an invitation. USCIS then claimed it was an error on their behalf. What do I do now? And even better, how would I be able to get in touch with USCIS about this as their service agents are not helping at all.

This is more of a rant than asking for advice or solace. I initially delayed starting the petition process to immigrate my spouse to the U.S. Once I was able to get the required documents in order to move to Germany 6 years ago, I had such a difficult adjustment with integrating myself to a new culture, language, job, etc. I delayed the process for a couple years with no real excuse.

It was the biggest move of my life, and there was so many difficult steps that maybe it was just me being afraid to start another long and tedious process again. My wife helped me get all structured and get the correct documents notarized from like 8,000 miles away. I didn't have the smoothest experience with the German Ausl nderbeh rde but with my wife's detailed preparation, it went pretty ok.

This petition process I told her that I would handle it. I would do the research and ensure I had everything correctly submitted. I wanted to pay her back for all the help she gave me, which I think now was honorable but stupid.

The VisaJourney here provided updates on when to approximately expect a response for my initial petition to the USCIS. I would say that it was totally accurate given the last suggested update I recieved from this site. So kudos to this site really... really nice and dependable.

But now I have to wait for the mail to recieve instructions on what I missed or didn't submit correctly. My account says now that the delay will take another 5 months!

I'm just so thoroughly disappointed in myself... Maybe I didn' submit enough pictures of our travels, or letters from family. I didn't include family providing a notarized letter providing their witness to the validitiy of our marriage. I thought all of the pictures, letters and cards we shared were enough.

So now I have to sit and wait and inform my wife that we have to wait. She is currently out of town taking care of her mom recovering from surgery... so I don't even want to text her about this. It will cause undo stress, so I will just wait until she gets home this weekend and inform her.

That is why I like being anonymous here and gives me a chance to rant about this situation. Thanks for reading and please make sure you have provided the initial evidence and documentation correctly. I'll provide an update here once I recieve the instructions as well as the progress of the petition.

We are considering to move out of state but I am concerned this may delay the interview scheduling way more than just waiting a little longer in California. Is there a rule of thumb how long it takes for the new case manager to request our file?

Hello everyone,

I'm currently living with my wife in Germany and am a USC and petitioner for my wife. We don't have dependents and are expecting to recieve a response from our petition approximately in the next 3-4 weeks. That is what the estimate suggests.

I am currently employed in Germany and will not be able to carry over my job to the U.S. and we only have maybe 1/3 of our required assets to provide sufficient means ot support. The assets are in my savings account, and I understand since I don't have domicile nor a job I can carry into the U.S. I must provide proof of 125% of the HHS poverty level.

I get all that and understand that I will fall short of that ability to provide this income.

As far as finding a co-sponsor, this is where I have also a blocker. My parents are very old and will not provide a co-sponser nor my sibling, which I cannot phathom why not. They love my wife and I have never historically been a burden to them... I believe itis just the unknown of how much liability and responsibility they would incur in case something really tragic happens. I don't know.

I do have extended family but have not asked them mostly because of pride but also because I do not want to bind them as well to something I am ultimately responsible for. I have friends in the U.S. but the same applies, and I don't have the type of friends that would openly volunteer being a co-sponsor.

This leaves me with only the choice of quitting my job once the petition is approved and moving to the U.S. to establish domicile and secure a new job. I can do that even though it will be tricky and costly as well.

The question I have is the timing of everything. Once the NVC takes over, then I haven't found any documentation on when the I-864 will be required to be submitted to the NVC, nor what is the timing in general to have the form filled out to allow me to move to the U.S. and secure a job and domicile.

I've read many blogs here and obviously I have missed it if documented in the travel.state.gov site: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas.html

I have read through the FAQ many times and cannot find this information.

Has someone else been through this same experience while living abroad and trying to plan ahead to immigrate their spouse to the U.S.? Is there a strict timeline once the petition is approved to have the next round of supporting documents submitted? Is this documented somewhere, or do I find out once the NVC sends the information to me?

Thank you!

Coffee2Go

E-2 Investors can not directly self-sponsor a green card for themselves but only obtain one via NIW and similar means.

What is the situation for E-2 Employees?

Can a company/employer from a treaty country sponsor an employment-based green card for their employee who holds an E-2 Employee Visa (that they obtained via that company)?