US Immigration from Germany

Hi all,

I have been in the US on an IR1 visa since July last year and have still not received my green card in the mail. Whenever I try calling USCIS all I get is the automated messaging saying that all agents are busy. I have opened various tickets on the USCIS my status page but keep receiving the same answer, that my visa was granted last year. Does or did anyone experience the same issue? I don't know who to contact to report this. There is a page on the USCIS site where you can report a card missing but the options are not for IR1. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Greetings,

I haven't started the immigration process yet, but trying to accumulate information from travel.state.org, US Consulate in Germany, and here at visajourney. My question is that the advice from the US Consulate in Germany is a bit different that on travel.state.org in terms of options to submit the I-130 petition. A brief background, is that I am currently married to a German citizen for over 2 years, so I will file the IR1 option.

The US Consulate states, that my only option is to submit the petition to the Dallas Lockbox via mail. https://de.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visas/family-based-immigration/immigrant-visa-petitions/

The advice from travel.state.org states I can either submit the petition by mail or online. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/filing-petitions-outside-the-us.html

The 3rd option described here at visajourney, is that I can file a DCF with the Consulate if I qualify. Now, I am not a U.S. Military service member or I don't believe I have an extreme case, so I don't want to begin the process incorrectly.

Is there anyone with recent experience that could share their insights? Maybe with experience as well with these options with the consulate in Frankfurt?

Thank you and best regards,

Coffee2Go

Hello Everyone i am so relieved that i have found visajourney and wish i knew about it years ago already.

My fiance and I are Going through the K1 visa process since around march 2019

and we are currently at the 8th step according to (https://rapidvisa.com/k1-visa-process/)

"Step 8. Medical Exam The fiance must have a medical exam. The package sent to the fiance by the U.S. Embassy will explain how to schedule the medical exam. You must pay a fee for the medical exam. The fee is usually paid in the local currency and varies depending on the location. You (the U.S. citizen) do nothing at this step. This fee can t be paid from the United States."

But I had not scheduled an appointment because of personal reasons and The global pandemic starting in 2020.

My question is if I have to start From step1 again (USC IS Filing) since it's been almost 2 years when I have received the Letter to go get a medical examination.

OR if I still have the chance/possibility to schedule an appointment for a medical exam and continue with an interview after receiving the exam Letter.

I have not found any information if there is some sort of expiration date for the k1 process if it takes me too long to get all my documents together which are required for the interview,

all i found was that the medical exam expires 6 months AFTER taking it but not BEFORE.

OR is there maybe a way to "extend" the K1 visa so i dont have to start from step1 again ?

PLEASE free to ask me any further questions if something is not clear i am really hoping that somebody has an ansquer to my questions.

Dear all,

my husband and I would like to move back to the US with my children from a previous marriage. I wrote to the US consulate about which forms we would need to show. They mentioned a notarised agreement by the biological father or alternatively sole custody. I do not necessarily want to ask for sole custody as I think that would be unfair. However, what kind of form would I need to provide their biological dad to sign? Does anyone have a sample version for me?

I am kind of lost on this one.

Thank you!

Hey guys!

My fianc and I are in the middle of the K1 visa. It got approved and has been sitting in the NVC since March 2020 or so. I've been waiting for so long already and my life has basically been on hold. I wanna do an au pair year again and I was wondering if I can just cancel my K1 and then apply for J1? Do my au pair year and then get married and an AOS at the end of my au pair year?

The J1 I'm getting is not subject to the "2year waiting" rule.

What do you guys think? Would that be possible?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this!