US Immigration from Russia

Please share your experience in getting Schengen visa to get to the interview in Warsaw. I've heard that Poland doesn't issue any visas to Russians at all and best chance (50/50) would be Italy. I wonder if the following would help when applying for a Schengen visa from Italy:

• Attaching interview invitation letter from NVC.
• Attaching copy of US passport of a spouse traveling with an applicant.

Related question: when the packet of documents arrives to the applicant before the interview, what it contains? I've specified my US address as a mailing address for that packet because Russian Post Office is notoriously unreliable. Re-sending those packets by DHL to Russia is currently impossible, but they can make the scanned copies for me over there. Will the copies be accepted to get to the interview? Or maybe NVC also emails those documents to the applicant?

Neither my wife nor son were required to sign their naturalization certificates when they took their oaths. Now we want to apply for US passports for them and there is some question about how to sign the name. The general advice is to sign with the full name as printed on the certificate but its also advised that it has to match the signature on the photograph which in this case not the full name for either of them. We are planning on using the same signature as on the photo unless someone talks us out of it. What have others done?

Hello all!

I have filed 3 separate I-130s for my wife and her 2 children. If accepted, can the children come to the US later after my wife arrives in the US? We will be settling up housing and schooling and it is not necessary for the children to be in the US right immediately.

My son arrived with an F11 visa a little over a month ago and is waiting for his green card. Once he gets that his plan is to marry his girlfriend back in Russia. With Russia in the picture that's a whole challenge in itself. I'm just wondering what would be the best way for them to get married and get her over to the US. Does anyone have any suggestions, they would be appreciated.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said last month that the United States would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion, but lawmakers and advocates have urged the Democratic president to speed up refugee and visa processing.

While several thousand Ukrainians have entered the United States via the border with Mexico and some on legal visas, only 12 Ukrainians came through the U.S. refugee program in March.

WHY HASN'T THE U.S. TAKEN IN MORE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES?

More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries since Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24, according to United Nations data https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine, touching off Europe's fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.

Read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/explainer-why-isnt-u-accepting-040543228.html