US Immigration from Thailand

Hello VJ friends! I started my journey on here as a K-1 visa applicant in 2017. Fast forward 2024, I am now a US citizen! Thank y'all for your help. I am writing to ask about the IR2 visa category (child/children of US citizen). My son's IR2 was approved recently and I couldn't be happier. My only concern is how long does it take for the green card to be sent to our US address once he enters the US. Thanks in advance for your help!

Jonan

Hello,

Since my wife is US citizen now the last step is to take her to SSA and update her status. I remember there was a talk somewhere here about doing some form to reflect her status at SS. Which form is that?

Second thing, her SS card still says Not permitted to work without DHS authorization. How do we change her physical card? Is there another form for it?

Thanks!

Is there a specific time that the embassies release dates to the NVC for interviews? I got an email form NVC saying they do these a month at a time on a first in first out basis. What exactly does the month at a time mean?

Filed the I-129F back in August of 2022. Finally received notice that it was approved in March of 2024. I thought they were sending instructions to my fianc on next step, but he never received anything.

I have a trip planned for July to assist with gathering all the paperwork and getting to Bangkok for the interview. But just noticed on the petition it says "valid for 4 months and expires 6-8-2024".

There is a brief note on the website that the expiration can be extended by consular officer, but no information on how to request. Anyone have insights on how to get this extended?

Frustrating to wait sooo long for first approval, and then be expected to get everything done in 4 months. My schedule doesn't always allow for travel like that. Ugh.

Thanks.

We submitted an I-130 in Aug 2022 but there were errors so we cancelled and refiled in Sep 2023 (both electronically).

This second one was received and marked as "Being Actively Reviewed" almost immediately.

The "Estimated time until case decision" initially said 6 weeks (!).

This made us very happy as we thought maybe someone was being merciful given the year we'd just lost due to the previous filing error.

But that counted down and nothing happened except the status changed to "Taking longer than expected".

It remained that way for a few weeks and then the Estimated Time reset to 2 months (but still Being Acively Reviewed).

That counted down and (now Jan 2024) the status again changed to "Taking longer than expected."

It remained that way until just last week (April 2024) and now has reset to 7 months.

We are no longer so happy.

Has anyone seen this sort of behavior before, know what it could mean, or if we should try to do anything about it?

On the one hand, even 7 months from now is still very shy of the "15 month" general estimate for I-130's at Texas, so by that count we should not contact USCIS until well into 2025.

On the other hand, it really looks like something is wrong here and we don't want to wait until mid-2025 to find out what it is. Losing that first year was quite a blow and is not an experience we want to repeat.

Any advice?