US Immigration from Nicaragua

Thanks to this wonderful forum and its valuable members I found out that my US spouse can petition my son (13). I'm a fairly new Green Card holder and I have already sent the I-130 petition for alien relative under F2A and USCIS accepted it as they took their money already. As I understand, they will never issue me a refund and there is really no way for me to recover my funds when I send a new petition. I have used G-1450 for credit card authorization and I called my credit card but they said since I initially authorized them I cannot stop or dispute the payment. Maybe there is another way I haven't thought of? I won't get my hopes up if there isn't.

Before we send in the new petition under my USC spouse, I have to deal with withdrawing the first one. I have included G-1145 for E-Notification and I'm waiting (impatiently) for my case number. Once I receive it, I will print a letter of withdrawal. Can I put that letter together with my new petition? Which will have another cover letter as well. Or should I send it separate? Or maybe even on separate days? Would it even be beneficial if I just wait for my NOA of the first petition since I assume that my son gets assigned an Alien number? Or will they be able to figure this out anyways and merge his file? I want to send the new petition as soon as possible as the situation in Nicaragua is currently not good. I'm just trying to get this all done as smooth as possible. The hassle of withdrawing the first petition really throws me off.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to your comments, thoughts, advice and questions if there are any

I was curious if the government shutdown is affecting visa processing. Specifically, my case has been stuck in "administrate procedure" at the embassy in Nicaragua for 10 weeks now. I know the state department is one of the areas potentially affected. Are the embassies directly affected by the shutdown?

Regards,

Steve

Hi I found the guide here

https://www.visajourney.com/content/childpet

But I'm confused about the steps once the petition is at the embassy. I understand that some steps happen at the some time for the petitioner and the beneficiary. Can I follow https://www.visajourney.com/examples/NVC_Process_Flowchart_v1-2.pdf?

My son doesn't have a phone number or email address, how will the consulate contact him? Per letter?

Embassy will be Managua.

I am assuming once you receive this email you can pick up your passport/visa correct?

Dear
Your document(s) have been collected from the US Embassy/Consulate

The passport number being returned is

You have chosen to have your documents delivered to the following location:


If you have any issues or concerns, please contact us at www.ustraveldocs.com/ni.

Hello,

I came to the US on a K1 visa and our relationship was bona fide. I got my first green card without an interview. When I applied for ROC, I was still with my husband so we filed a joint petition. A few months later, he had an affair and physically abused me. I eas so devastated and depressed. I waited months to finally let go of him and I filed for divorce. I'm in school and working full time so I didnt have time to get to completel the new ROC package to let uscis know I got divorced recently and my I751 was approved before I could let them know. What do I do now? I still want to let them know but I'm approved now so should I just wait for naturalization to let them know? That would look bad though. Please help!