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If mom petitions, you're looking at F2B (unmarried son/daughter of LPR) and 10 years of wait for Philippines: they're currently interviewing people who were petitioned on 15AUG01or earlier.
One thing to bear in mind - while you can be a co-sponsor for I-864, if your mother dies in the next 10 years, the petition will be cancelled. Another thing, your mom and you as the co-sponsor may have to prove in 10 yrs the medical insurance for your disabled sister. Embassy could even deny the visa on the presumption of possibility of becoming public charge depending on her health status.
Also moving this topic to bringing family members of LPRs as mom is LPR.

The Green Card does not belong in the wallet. Driver's license, credit card, photo of wife and dog, condom, all okay, but not the Green Card.

This combination seems to work:
1. Call 1 800 375 5283 Listen for the instructions and at the appropriate times,
2. Punch "1" for English,
3. Punch "2" for I Have a Question for an Application I Have Filed",
4. Punch "3" for "I Don't Know the Receipt Number"
That should put you in touch with a call center employee. Please remember these are not immigration officers. They have no more information available to them than you have yourself on the USCIS Status Update site. They work from prepared general scripts and are not set up to address issues/situations outside of those scripts. They cannot access your file. They do not know anything more than you do in your file. They can, under the right circumstances, forward your call to an Immigration Officer but it has to be for something that they specifically cannot answer and for which there does not seem to be a scripted response. They can also submit a 'service request' to an immigration officer on your behalf , especially if your wait time is outside of normal processing time. They cannot provide you with any information about what is happening at a Consulate as Consulates are under the Department of State, not USCIS.
Please also remember not to follow or trust any 'advice' given to you by the Immigration Help Line about what you should do until you check it out and obtain confirmed written verification from the USCIS website that it is the correct information, or have run it by members of Visa Journey to verify. The information line is also known as the Mis-Information Line and has been responsible for several tragic situations when they have given out wrong and/or illegal advice and people have acted upon it.
I am now closing this thread to further discussion as Lesigh has moved on and is no longer in a position to assist with information.

My wife has told me on numerous occasions that if it weren't for me, she'd be on the first flight back to Tokyo.
This topic reminds me of another thread from a few months ago. The question there was how did you decide whether to move to the US or the country of the beneficiary. And to be blunt, the discussion was mostly centered around UK,Canada, etc. I can imagine for some countries this question would be akin to asking would you keep a winning lottery ticket or throw it away.
For many here, the decision to move to the US was a difficult one and it has nothing to do with the fact that it's "so bad here." Naturalizing doesn't really add much benefit (I'll vote twice ) and closes a lot of doors in the future. For example, we may retire and move to Japan in the future.

Keep calling, it usually gets here within a week 1/2 after it has been send. So call On monday. Good luck and have a nice trip

I totally agreed with it. My fiance is never married but I don't like to hear about his exes, past romances, old stories, etc..etc. So why this would be up as a question? I feel for your wife and your sadness over this. Hope you find a way to resolve these clutters on your own. Good luck

I'm sorry to hear Wishing you best of luck!!
It is totally not right in my opinion questions about the ex-wife of you or anyone. I am not interested when it comes to the ex wife of my husband, ex is ex and I am his present & future wife.

They Can Come ... They DONT have to get US Citizenship... it's not a requirement to gain permanent residence... IF you had taken the time to read most said they did not want to come but came due their spouses/fiances ..

my advice for what its worth... as of now you have 761 signatures which shows there is little support for this petition and it is quite obvious that you are not going to convince the people on here to change there minds and sign it. so, would it not be better for you to spend your time discussing a petition that would be acceptable to a lot more people... i.e. like maybe a new class of visa like what i think jim suggested??

Yes I came as immigrant, I waitd my time thru various visa.
Thats exactly other ppl are telling you, no one is against immigration wait out your time.
Seems you dont want to wait out your time and are asking for the rules to be changed as they are causing you inconvenience. If I go by your premise all the students should had filed a petition saying ohhh not allowed to work of campus is causing us lot of inconvenience change the rule.
Then there would no rule at all required.... why do we need rules and regulation then?

If no one is the owner of the land…… why don’t you stay on the land you are on and we will stay on the land we are on.
Why are you so desperate to come to the land we are on?
This is the exact reason I am opposed to such petition and demands….if you want to move to this country you go by rules of this country, this country’s rule do not have to flex and bend to accommodate you.

Totally irrelevant, and not the reason for the numerical limits.
As an aside, the Social Security program has taken in more than it's paid out in every year of it's existence except for 2010. If the economy weren't tanked then it would have been flush in 2010, as well. There should be a large reserve in the Social Security trust fund as the result of decades of overfunding through payroll taxes, but that's not the case. Congress started borrowing money from the trust fund with a promise to repay. To date, they've not paid any of that borrowed money back. When you hear politicians citing looming deadlines when the Social Security Trust Fund will be bankrupt they are presuming that the IOU's left in the fund by Congress would actually be repaid.
They already do limit access, and it doesn't apply only to immigrants. Anyone who wants to collect Social Security retirement benefits needs at least 40 quarters of work credit through the SSA. If you don't pay in then you won't be getting paid back. The exceptions are Social Security disability benefits and SSI. Disability benefits are also funded by payroll taxes. SSI is federal welfare.
This is something everyone sponsoring an immigrant should consider. A US citizen sponsoring an elderly parent should know that their parent isn't going to get Social Security retirement benefits or Medicare after they come here.
Public schools are in serious trouble right now, but immigrants aren't primarily to blame for this. Tax revenues are down sharply. Income tax revenues have dropped because of the high unemployment, and property taxes have dropped because of the housing market crash. With or without immigrants, public schools are severely underfunded.
There are ways that Congress could have accommodated this, but they didn't. For example, a temporary visa for intending immigrants that allows them to remain in the US with their sponsoring family member until their priority dates become current. The caveat would have to be that they can't get a work permit or green card until their priority dates are current, and they'd have to pay for any tax supported services they use, including public schools. Remember that one of the intentions of numerical limits is to manage the impact that immigrants have on the people who are already here. If I was writing the legislation for this visa then I'd also require the sponsor to provide medical insurance for the alien.
I think you have a better chance of getting Congress to create a visa class for intending immigrants who are waiting for their priority dates to become current then you do of getting Congress to eliminate the numerical limits. Those limits exist for a number of reasons. The first quotas were established by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, and the primary intention was to control the disproportionate number of immigrants coming from Europe. The quotas were reduced and made permanent by the Immigration Act of 1924. Interestingly, neither of those acts imposed quotas on immigrants from Latin America. There simply weren't very many Latin American immigrants in the US at the time. The law has been rewritten and revised several times since then, but a system of numerical limits has always been part of it. Curiously, in the original Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 it was the one of the primary goals of Congress to restrict the influx of "undesirables" and people with political goals contrary to the interests of the United States - in other words, communists and communist sympathizers. The numerical limits have been revised numerous times since then, for a variety of reasons, but being a member of the communist party is still an inadmissibility.
The law strongly favors immigrants with marketable job skills, and it's been this way for many decades. Family based visas are a significant exception to this.
The per-country limits are not discriminatory because they treat everyone equally. The 7% cap applies to every country. The reason that India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines have longer waiting times is because those countries are oversubscribed. Would it be fair to someone from Pakistan (for example) to have to wait years longer because they had to wait in the same line as the huge number of people from those four countries? Or, is it more fair to move the excess number of people from those four countries into a separate line and make them wait a little longer in order to give everyone else a more reasonable wait?
I have no argument against allowing spouses and minor children of permanent residents to be united more quickly, but I'm firmly opposed to any effort to eliminate the numerical limits. I'd be much more amenable to a special visa class for family preference immigrants waiting for their priority dates to become current, as long as it didn't allow for a work permit, and that any tax supported benefits they receive be paid in full by the sponsor. In other words, they would be treated like visitors until the United States is ready to assimilate them.

I won't sign it because I don't agree with it. I think numerical limits are a fair and reasonable way to control the rate of immigration into the US.
If you want to come up with an immigration related petition I would sign then draw up a petition that would prohibit adjustment of status from any non-immigrant visa that didn't allow for dual intent, and add a new division of ICE with thousands of officers whose sole job was tracking down and apprehending overstays for deportation. If you can eliminate preconceived intent, as well as the ability for someone to enter with a tourist visa and never leave, then it would be substantially easier for everyone to get a B2 visa to visit the US. Most of you wouldn't be complaining because your spouses and kids would be able to get visitors visas and stay for up to six months at a time.
I'd also sign a petition that would ask Congress to create a special visitor's visa for beneficiary's of a family preference visa petition that would allow them to stay in the US as a GUEST until their priority dates were current. The visa should prohibit adjustment of status (they have to return to their home country to interview for the immigrant visa), employment, and use of any taxpayer funded service (including public schools) unless the petitioner/sponsor paid the full costs of the service. Aside from occupying space, someone in the US with one of these visas would have zero impact on anyone else in the US, including the job market or the taxpayers. That would satisfy the intended reasons for having numerical limits.

Read the instructions for a CRBA. A CRBA requires a US citizen parent at the time of birth. He was not a citizen at the time of his dauther's birth. She was born 4 years ago and he became a US citizen in 2010.
There is no "given that when he files I-130, the child becomes a citizen." Read the CCA. There are four conditions that must be met; one is that the child must be an LPR. The child does not become an LPR until the child is admitted (enters) to the US on an immigration visa. Filing the I-130 alone does not meet the requirements of the CCA and the child is not a citizen.
Read rncarterjm's signature to understand his circumstances.

Immigration law makes a distinction between children and sons or daughters. Children are under 21, and are not eligible to petition for anyone. Sons or daughters are 21 years old or older, and if they are USC's then they can petition for their parents. An EWI parent cannot adjust status in the US, and if they have accrued enough unlawful presence then they'll receive a ban when they leave. The law is quite specific that a qualifying relative for an I-601 waiver request is a spouse or parent - not a son or daughter or any other relative. The hardship must be on the qualifying USC or LPR relative. The waiver is a concession the law provides to the qualifying relative. The law doesn't care if there's a hardship on the beneficiary.
If the parents want to obtain legal status then they're going to have to wait out the ban. The sooner they leave the US, the sooner they'll be eligible for a visa.

IR visas don't allow derivatives, you will have to wait until you get to the us to start the process.
As soon as you get here you should file the form i130, it will be a F2A case and current waiting time is about 2.5-3 years.

Hi Courtney
Morocco is tough--it takes extra time and TONS of documentation to prove your relationship, and even with everything you can think of, you may be sent back for more. Search on Morocco on this site and read everything you can find, plus everything in the embassy tab at the top of this page.
There are lots of folks here who have gone thru Morocco, and many who are still in the process...they will start showing up here, and listen to everything they say. It ain't easy.

The airport officials or the customs officials have no requirement to tell them what doctor to see. Not only that but they are only a middle man and do not know the process.
Go to the USCIS website and look up civil surgeon locator. Use it and find the proper Civil Surgeon.
Though the medical is generally done before the immigrant enters, before the immigrant visa is issued.

The consulate won't be concerned about whether he's got a valid reason for visiting the US. They'll be concerned about whether he's got very strong reasons for returning to his home country after his visit has ended. In general, the lower a country's standard of living is compared to the US, the more difficult it will be to get a B2 visitors visa there. The consulate will want to see evidence of strong ties to his home country, such as a good job, ownership of property, family members who are dependent on his physical presence, etc.
In many ways, his having a child in the US is a disadvantage in getting a B2 visa. He could come to the US and live as an illegal alien until his daughter becomes a US citizen and is 21 years old. At that point, she could file a petition and get him a green card, in spite of his years of unlawful status. This is possible if he enters the US with a visa. In the consulate's eyes, it actually increases the risk that he won't come back.

I assume to move to the US the father had to give his permission right? That sort of takes away any special consideration as the father had to give up certain rights to allow the child to move in the first place
Good luck

The CCA won't help her. Even if her mother became a US citizen before she was 18, she must have been admitted for immigrant status before she was 18 in order to automatically acquire citizenship. She hasn't been admitted for immigrant status yet - neither an immigrant visa nor adjustment of status - so there's no way for her to acquire citizenship through her mother.
She can't adjust status through her mother, even if her mother had filed a petition years ago and her priority date was current. She's out of status and she no longer qualifies under any immediate relative category. Adjusting status under a family preference category requires that she have current legal status in the US.
Either the lawyer knows something the OP doesn't know or hasn't shared, or the lawyer is trying to milk her mother for some money, knowing that anything he does at this point will fail.

Electronic processing is only available for a limited number of countries at the moment, you can't just opt-in. If your country is not in that group, you will have to go through the regular process.

The stepson does not need to enter the US before his 21st birthday. For an Immediate Relative case, USCIS must receive the I-130 before the stepson's 21st birthday. His age freezes on the date the I-130 is filed if he is still under 21. He can enter the US after he turns 21 because for immigration purposes his CSPA age is under 21.
Entering the US before turning 21 is relevant on a K-2 visa. A child must be under 21 years old when he/she enters on a K-2 visa in order to adjust his/her status.

several off topic posts have been removed. one quoting returned below:
keep in mind that when posting, paragraphs and punctuation can help get your information across. not using them causes a reader to fixate on the lack thereof rather than the question(s). reading that wall of post above made my eyes

It doesn't come within a country mile of being blackmail. Read what he's saying: don't call him again at his work. He said that TWICE. Maybe he can't be interrupted like that, or his boss will barbecue him for taking personal calls.
He has no obligation to help, and he appears to have stated what he remembers and can legitimately claim is true.
It's not unreasonable that he would be off-pissed at being contacted in this way or for this reason. He has "bad memories" and wants to forget them. Risk contacting him again at your peril. Quit poking wounded animals with a stick.