davidisurf

Your Visa category is F. Looking at the Visa Bulletin, you can see that there are limits for each category and there are PDs established.

Visa Category IR do not have limits. For example spouse of a citizen can start the process of AOS and IV packages as soon as NVC receives the case. This is not true for an LPR. NVC will only send in the AOS and IV fees only if they feel the category of the applicant is getting current. Hence if an LPR PD is 3 years behind, they wont start working on his/her case unless they know it will be current in less than 6 months.

Your category has annual limit. Based on your comment, your case has started in NVC. The PD comes into play in this scenario:

1) NVC notifies you of the interview date. If PD is current you get your Visa (assuming you are approved at the interview)

2) If PD is not current, you wont receive a Visa until your PD is current.

This does not apply to IR category. Their PD is always current and there are no annual limits for them.

Thanks

Once you become a citizen, your category changes. You basically skip the wait list. As of now, NVC will only starts the process of documentation gathering if they feel your PD is close to be current. With citizens they start the process right away as there is no PD for citizens. Good luck. I suggest calling NVC and letting them know as soon as you turn a citizen

What exactly do you mean KiwiPouPou?

I'm F3 and my PD is 07/30/2003 (current 01/22/2003) I'll submit my DS-260 tonight and if everything is right my case will close in a few days(I hope), may I receive I/L before my PD become current?

hi,

did you marry after your mother in law became a USC? if so, then she is in the F3 category, married child of a USC, you are her derivative but you need your own DS230.

the rest of the questions have already been answered.

1. Your wife was 19 when her parent filed in May 2003. This puts her in the F2a category originally.

2. The May 2003 Priorty Date in the F2a caregory became current in March 2008. By that time, you wife was 24. She had aged out when she turns 21 into the F2b caregory and CSPA did not help her. So, it was correct that she did not receive an immigrant visa when her brother who remained in the F2a category.

2. She would properly be in the F3 category if she married after her mother became a US citizen. You would be an eligible derivative beneficiary.

3. You need your own DS-230. Each intending immigrant needs his or her own DS-230. You are not included in your wife's DS-230.

By the way, who filled out the DS-230 with your and your wife's info? The US government does not send it out with your information.

When did your mother-in-law become a US citizen? Was she an LPR when you married her daughter?

In the family preference categories, age is determined on the day the Priority Date becomes current and not when the petition was filed. Even though your wife was 19 when her parent filed, she aged out into the F2b category. This is the reason why it was proper that she did not get a green card at the same time as her 14 years old brother who remained in the F2a caregory.

Yes, we got married in may 2010 and my mather-in-law came to our wedding using her US passport.

She became a LPR in 2003 and USC was around 2007/2008

A few months after our marriage, my wife received an envolepe with the DS-230 and as it says "Complete one copy of this form for yourself and each member of your family, regardless of age, who will immigrate with you" so my mother-in-law filled out the DS-230(online pdf) one copy for each of us and sent to NVC

Hello there
I'm a little bit confused, so much information and I don't know if I'm getting everything straight
a) In may 2003 my mother in law became a permanent resident at the same time she submitted the I-130 for my wife(we were not married yet), she was 19 at that time so what category she was? F2a?
b) We got married 3 years ago and about 2 years ago a DS-230 arrived and it was filled with her details and also mine was included.

1- What exactly category she was submitted at that time(in 2003)?
2- If it was F2a the cut off was April 2008, so she was supposed to have her Permanent a long time correctly?
2- Because including me on the DS-230 could it change the category to F3, that's why it's taking longer, as the F3 cut-off still on sep 2002?
3- As the DS-230 was submitted, both of us can apply for a social security, or just her?

P.S.: As she was only 19, she should have just gotten the permanet residence as her brother did, who was 14, and got his permanent resident in a few months