US Immigration from Ukraine

Hello all,

My wife is a tax preparer. She is not a CPA and is not a Tax attorney. This is her 3rd season as a tax preparer and she's pretty knowledgeable about most tax subjects except for S and C-corp subjects.

She's offering free tax consultation to new immigrants and U4U program participants. If you are interested please message me.

My buddy's I-130 is at NFC for his wife but not her 8 year old child. Got the message 'The petition you have filed does not allow derivative status for family members. This means that any spouse, unmarried child under age 21, or parent will require their own petition to immigrate."

So I assume this would requires a new I-130 for the child with the same processing timeline as for the wife. (Roughly six months).

The child's US tourist visa expires in 2026. Should she just enter on the tourist visa and then do an adjustment of status?

Starting last evening, and all day today so far, if I try to access our online account via the old website the verification codes don't seem to be coming back to our email address. This problem only started happening yesterday evening. No issues previously.

Are any others having the same problem?

Hi:

My MIL had her interview last Friday. As I wasn't present, I can only go by what I was told.... So the interviewer called her in because the paperwork seemed to have a mistake. A checkbox that was marked yes instead of no in section where was asked if you where ever part of the Communist Party. MIL was born in Russian Federation and is a Ukraine national. Long story short, my question is about the length of time till GC is issued. The interview went well and approved. I checked online and USCIS website has not changed to approved still. Should we be concerned or just wait patiently.

Thanks for any answers.

Question for the board. Our local USCIS office just revised its processing time for N400s and now we are officially outside normal processing time (dubious honor). In submitting an online service request, we now have an SR#.

For those who did this themselves, how quickly did you hear back from the USCIS? Just trying to ballpark when we might get some news.