WaitingHayete

Thank you everyone for your kind and prompt replies. I feel much better now!

Are you sure about this? I thought if you needed to travel before receiving your green card in the mail you needed to file for advanced parole in order to be readmitted. Or am I again confusing this with waiting for the I-485 to process (when applicable).

Okay, heart attack averted. Thank you for the clarification. I was distraught over how I could have missed something so important. I was just seeing all these articles mentioning filing the I-130 and I-485 concurrently and many didn’t mention *when filing from within the USA”. Any way to know how long it takes from the time we pay the fee until her green card will arrive?

I’m sorry but how is your reply helpful? “Submitting Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative is the first step in helping an eligible relative apply to immigrate to the United States and get a Green Card. The filing or approval of this petition does not give your relative any immigration status or benefit. We will generally approve your Form I-130 if you can establish a relationship between you and your relative that qualifies them to immigrate to the United States. Generally, once we approved the petition, your relative may apply to become an LPR (get a Green Card). If your relative is already in the United States and a visa is available, they may be eligible to get their Green Card by filing Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.“ -USCIS The I-130 qualifies for them to immigrate to the United States, the I-485 is what makes them an LPR and gets them a green card.

Hello, my mother-in-law has her IR5 interview in November and is hoping to travel here in December. I just realized that I think I didn’t file her I-485 with her I-130 and she will only be able to stay about a month on her first trip here due to a family situation. If I file her I-485 right now I think it will take a year or more for her green card to arrive and the last time I filed for advanced parole for a family member it took longer than waiting for the green card… am I missing something or am I incorrect in these assumptions?

Your answer is condescending and ignorant of the real world and the severe hardships others go though. Living in the USA is not a privilege, it is the luck of where you were born. A person born into severe poverty and governmental corruption deserves their basic human rights and comforts as much as someone born into privilege in the USA. God created the earth, people drew the lines. Thanks, however, for the reminder.

Probably because the solution doesn’t make sense (my opinion). Whether you wait 15 years for a visa or 10 months it is unthinkable for some people to come to the US without their spouse or minor child. We’ll take what we can get though because we have no choice. I sincerely thank all of you for your time and expertise. This community has been a vital resource for me these past 10 years.

No, my husband was older when they got married. So again to clarify, if my MIL had a minor child , she could not bring them with her as a derivative family member because she is an immediate relative of my husband but if she was a sister of my spouse then she could?

So we could’ve petitioned for her spouse at the same time as his mother even though my husband is of no relation to her spouse? Who is the petitioner in that case? His mother is not yet a permanent resident and my husband has no grounds to petition for her spouse.

True, but it is still a matter of a person traveling without their spouse or child.. 😕

Thank you for the replies. This seems backwards to me.. So the closest family member (spouse or minor child) to a US citizen cannot more conveniently bring a spouse or child to the US but a non-immediate relative can? If she had a minor child she couldn’t bring them with her and would have to petition and wait a year to do so? So if my husband petitioned to bring his sister then she could add her husband this way but his mother cannot? What is the difference from the government’s point of view?

Hello, our approved petition is at the NVC awaiting us to complete the affidavit of support and IV application. This is an IR5 visa to bring my citizen husband’s mother to the USA. We have paid the fees and would like to add a derivative family member, her spouse (not my husband’s father). Under the FAQ it says to select ‘add a derivative family member’ on the summary page next to the applicant’s name but this button does not exist. I’ve searched the entire site, read all the FAQ’s and can’t find it anywhere. I called the NVC but they are not accepting any calls and they direct you to use their online contact form. I did this but it says they are currently answering inquiries from September 2021… Does anyone have any experience with this situation? Thank you in advance.