US Immigration from Philippines

Need some thoughts on how we can better plan our approach for my daughter plan to study on School year 2023-2024 while we await immigrant interview (location/MNL).

My daughter currently on Senior year already applied to US College schools and waiting result in March 2023. I would like to anticipate possible dilemma since we just received notice for our immigrant case now n-transit" but no idea when we can get schedule for interview in Manila. My daughter is derivative dependent for F3 visa.

1. In case she gets accepted and successfully applied for F1 visa how would we approach if we suddenly have the scheduled interview this year, she may need to be in the US in Jul/Aug (not yet sure) to be ready for start of school year in Sep. Do you think it will have conflict once we received notice for interview this year as well? I have no idea on the waiting time for F1 visa processing and also not sure how long the waiting time for getting notice for immigrant visa interview. Assume she is already in US, she needs to come back again to join us on the interview? By the way, the F1 visa and Immigrant interview location will be in different US embassy. Will this be messy?

2. Would it be better to wait for the immigrant visa interview first? But what happens if we don't receive notice this year? My daughter would really want to start college in US especially if she will be accepted in the preferred school of choice.

Appreciate recommendation on which is best approach on this situation. Thanks in advance.

Hello,

PD May 2019

DQ Dec 2020

Visa Category F2A

Emailed NVC expedite case JAN 23, 2023

Approved next day Jan 24, 2023

Case says IN TRANSIT as of Jan 25, 2023

And it is currently in MANILA

Any idea when they will schedule an interview

Thank you

We are on F3 visa and my family has been documentarily complete since Jan-2021. And its a long wait but this month we have been approved for expedited interview in Manila.

How long would we need to wait for us to be interviewed or schedule an interview?

I am also worried that my son already aged out, what documents do we need to prepare to bring to embassy to show his CSPA age? Our PD is Sep-1999 and my son was documentarily same as mine last Jan2021 but he turns 21yrs old last May2021. Will we still be able to bring him with us?

I petitioned my father in Sept 2019 (pre-covid). Went through all the hoops and finally was documentarily qualified on 1/20/2022. His case is still at NVC. I have sent a few emails to NVC and was told that they are waiting for an interview date and nothing is available. Also sent a few emails to the US Consulate in Manila and was told NVC has the documents and they cannot do anything. Is this a normal timeline? I have read the Visa Updates on their website in June 2022 that they have processed most IR cases that were documentarily qualified in March 2021. I don t think we qualify to expedite the case unless they can accept old age and depression because of how long this is taking.

Hi. I am a US Citizen and i m trying to petition my parents.
they currently have a tourist visa.

if they have a pending i-130, are they still be able to travel here using their tourist visa?

thank you