US Immigration from New Zealand

Hi all,

Starting a new thread for I-130 updates - If you've received NOA2 recently please drop a comment with your PD & Service Center.

It's been 337 days since we submitted our I-130 & I'm feeling defeated by this wait. About to book my flights back to the U.S. for May & feeling unsettled about leaving my husband with such little progress in this process.

Hoping this thread gives me (and everyone) a glimmer of hope or a reality check.

PD Feb 9th 2021

Texas Service Center

I'm a US citizen planning to return to the US after living and working overseas since 2009. I have an excellent credit score but will probably not be employed for the first few months after we move. My husband hopes to transfer to a US office with his current company once he has a green card so he will be employed and have income, but very little credit history in the US. We actually have no idea what his credit score is (we will request his reports soon) but he hasn't had a bank or credit account in the US for over 10 years.

Are we likely to struggle to get a mortgage until either I'm employed or he has worked for several months? We should have at least a 50% deposit from selling our current house if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance

Our window opened on 11/24/21, but with the Thanksgiving holiday in there, packet did not get sent until yesterday, December 1. So - I guess we are officially in the December group!

Fingers crossed for a smooth process for all.

Hi

My wife and I submitted documents for NVC in July 2021 and they have only just reviewed the documents last week. They are asking for police record and tax form. I didn t submit police record as the NZ Embassy sends it directly to NVC. But I have now submitted the one from ministry of justice and informed them they already have my other police vetting form. I have submitted tax document as well now. However I would like to know if I now go back to the end of the queue to be reviewed again or will it happen a lot sooner since I ve waited 5 months already.

thanks Steve

Hi all,

I've just been looking through the timelines for New Zealand (where I live) at the amount of time between the NOA2/NVC and the interview, and it varies quite a bit from 1 month to 4 months. Why is this? Does it just vary that much randomly, or is this more dependent on when people schedule their interviews? Once it gets to the embassy, could you kinda just do the interview as soon as possible? (Allowing for time for the police check and medical of course). Or can it sometimes sit at the embassy for a while before they contact you? I'm just not 100% sure how it works.

Let me know! I know it'll depend on what embassy we're talking about, I guess I'm mostly curious about embassies in NZ/Oceania.