US Immigration from Peru

I am hoping to get some insight. I have a parent of a USC who is visiting on a tourist visa in the US currently. This was planned as a short visit only but we are now considering whether we may want to apply for a GC for the parent of the USC. I understand the 6 months allowed for a visit would likely run out before the I-130 is approved, even if we applied tomorrow, but is there any point in even entertaining the idea of: staying until end of allowable tourist visit, applying for extension, attempting to complete all steps toward IR-1 while in US? Family circumstances have changed such that it would be best for the parent to not return to home country for long or at all. Thank you for any help you can offer! I used to frequent this site a decade ago and now find I'm in need of help and lost all over again.

Last September I submitted all of the required documents in support of my wife's spousal visa application as well as the application for my stepdaughter. A few months later I received a notification that some of the documents were rejected because I left out a sentence in the translation certificates. So I fixed the problem and resubmitted all of the documents in January. Today I received two notifications. The first informed me that my stepdaughter's application has been DQd. But on my wife's application it showed that the resubmitted documents were accepted but that my wife's divorce decree from her first marriage was missing. But as can be seen in the attached jpeg, the marriage termination documentation (at the bottom) was accepted. But this is the same document as the divorce decree. So I am confused. I just resubmitted the same document in the field for the divorce decree that they said was missing. But again, it's the same document that was accepted as additional documentation.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Also, given that I had to re-upload this document should I expect another 3 month wait while they process it?

Hello!
We finally got our interview scheduled for the end of April, 2022. I started gather all the paperwork we need to bring according to the Interview Invitation we got on the mail.

So I did a checklist of the things we are bringing to the interview. Would you guys mind taking a look to it and tell me what do you think about it or if we are missing any important documentation. Thank you so much in advance for taking the time.

AOS from B-2 visa through Immediate Relative (US Citizen Spouse)

CHECKLIST AOS Interview Green Card

1. Interview Notice
2. Government Issued Photo Identification (My Peruvian Passport)
3. Medical Examination Sealed Envelope (I am re doing it since I messed it up the first time and even now they are waiving the period I don't want to risk it)
4. Affidavit s Evidence:
   • Federal Income Tax Return (2021) Filed Joint, both our names appear
   • W2
   • Letters current Employer
   • Latest 4 pay stubs
5. My EAD Card (still unemployed :()
6. Most recent I-94
7. My Birth Certificate
8. My SSN
9. Marriage certificate (certified copy)
10. Spouse Birth Certificate
11. Spouse Passport
12. Spouse SSN
13. All other NOAs received
14. Evidence of relationship
    • Letter from bank stating we have joint account, and monthly statements
    • Apartment Lease copy
    • Renters insurance copy
    • Copy of benefits coverage and life insurance from work (you + spouse)
    • Covid-19 Vaccination Record cards stating we went together
    • Letters my parents-in-law and friends sent us for our Marriage and holidays
    • Photographs of us together (Everything from the last photo album I sent in the original package: trips, holidays with my in-laws, pictures with friends)

• a copy of everything above

We already filed the I-864 (affidavit), we didn't get any REF so we are just bringing the current paperwork since we just filed our tax as married.

Just to confirm, every paperwork that we bring is basically the originals and about our pictures for evidence, basically the Part 2 of the pictures we had at the time of filing one year ago, or do I need to print again whatever we sent in the original file?

Should we bring more random stuff like our Costco membership, Nintendo membership or things like that we have together?

Thanks again!

Hello! Today my wife and I had our interview. We are in a peculiar situation with this, I wonder if anybody has seen or heard of this before? (We are adjusting status from within the US)

The interviewer told us that he couldn't pull up the i130 that we filed (online), but he could see that it was approved based on our IOE number. He said that he can't make a decision without seeing the i130 but that he requested it from the State Department. He said he will approve us once the i130 gets to his desk but because he doesn't have access to it right now, he cannot approve us or tell us that we are approved. He gave us a letter basically stating that a decision has not been made at this time and there is nothing we have to do, just wait and they will get back to us.

Has this happened to anyone else? We're happy because he said he will approve it once it gets to his desk but also we are a little anxious because technically we are not yet approved. The letter that he gave us says to give them at least 120 days before making any inquiries. Just seems like a real strange spot to be in!

My wife's interview is at the end of the month, her medical is next week. Her current, valid passport expires December 18, 2022. Here in Peru, since we had a new idiot president takeover, the department of migrations who handles passports has been nothing but incompetent. We have been trying to renew both our Peru passports since the end of last year but there were no appointments anywhere in the country. Just prior to receiving notification of her appointment for the visa interview we finally were able to make an appointment, but the earliest date was the first week of July, long after the interview. My question is, if my wife attends her interview with the current passport which expires this December, could that be a problem?