Niraj

Thanks for the info regarding NVC and DOS

First, as a LPR she must due what is required to maintain her LPR status which in short means she is to live in the US and not use the GC like a tourist visa and visit a few weeks at a time and live in another country. As long as she is not outside the US for more than 6 months at a time and does not have several short trips that add up to more than 6 months outside the US in a 365 day period, the CBP will probably not give her a second look.

As your only sponsor, she must show sufficient income to meet the poverty guidelines and they will want a history of earning this income. If she can leave a job and get another and meet the guideline a few months before she SHOULD be okay. Of course it really depends on the person looking at your case especially if she is very near the amount needed. The higher you clear the bar the better.

Good luck,

Dave

Hi Dave

Thank you for the information, was indeed helpful.

One more related question. According to poverty guidelines if we are just 2 then minimum income requirement is $19,662. Does she have to show that amount in bank ? Because its not possible to have so much savings at a time. Yes, she has a full time job with a hourly pay such that it makes $25000/year.

Currently she lives with her dad and brother. Both of them earn too. We are planning to take a new house when my visa is almost final. Should my father-in-law and brother-in-law too become my sponsors ?

Thanks.

I contacted VSC in regards to the wrong information provided on their system however, they do not have any answer rather than keep saying we are currently working on petitions for Sep 25 2013. What a nonsense reason is that, I just don't understand the whole ####### they are giving us. They do not realise that they are playing in people's live. Well, if anyone think there is a way to pressure them please put it forward so we can do something as a group rather than as individual.It is really out of order!

Thank god ! My PD is 24 SEPT 2013 and was approved in Feb by VSC.

Hello,

My wife is LPR and she has applied for my F2A. My PD is Sept 2013. Seeing VB's since Oct2013, it may take another 1 and half years for out PD being current.

She was in India after the application from AUG2013 to NOV2013, since then she is in the US. Can she visit me again in around Oct2014 for a month or two?

My lawyer says it may affect the visa procedure, if she stays out of the country so much and hence he doesn't recommend it. According to him, it may hurt her financial status because she leaves job for longer duration; as she is my sole sponsor.

Is there a rule like that ?

Perhaps an online petition on change.com would help

Change.org.

I bet 20 bucks that date will move on august or september

Lol... whats this..

i have discussed with my attorney. he said for PD sept 2013. you have to wait around 2 years from now. there are too many people has applied during last year.

just wanted to share with all fellow members.

Kalloo

FYI http://blog.mygcvisa.com/2014/06/august-2014-visa-bulletin-predictions_15.html

I have read the article, but if you follow mygcvisa regularly, it is no surprise that their predictions fail most of the time. They keep changing their algorithm (if they really do have one). So it is one of the most untrustworthy sites for predictions.

On the other hand, no one actually knows how it will move forward. You can only believe in official statements by Mr. Charles Oppenhiem. According to him he said about retrogression in last quarter of FY2014, but his views are still unknown about next fiscal year.

Wait and watch.

i have discussed with my attorney. he said for PD sept 2013. you have to wait around 2 years from now. there are too many people has applied during last year.

just wanted to share with all fellow members.

Kalloo

Its just that you don't bug him again and again and sit calm for 2 years.

July Visa Bulletin . ... waiting waiting :clock:

My spouse living in richmond filed I-130 for me on 22 Oct 2013. We received a RFE in our case on 5 May 2014 from Vermont service centre of USCIS.

RFE states following short fall

"you did not submit sufficient evidence that a legitimate marriage exists between my spouse and me. Therefore additional evidence is required"

I would just brief the evidence which are already submitted to USCIS to prove our marriage to be legitimate

1) marriage certificate

2) Affidavit from my relative

I do not have any other proof like joint bank account,insurance,property,etc as we only stayed for 3 months in India and then she went back to USA. Now I am perplexed how to proceed further in the case.

Any suggestion/help???? thanks in advance...

If its typical case of arranged marriage in India, then you need to submit ample of photographs of your wedding ceremony and a letter stating that marriage was 'arranged' by family and hence only two strong proofs can be submitted viz. Marriage Certificate and Ceremony photographs.

Its good if you send following photographs which include:

1. You, your wife priest (Kanyadan pic is best)

2. Your parents and your spouse parents.

3. Crowd present at your marriage.

4. Photographs of different pre-wedding ceremonies and dates when they took place. (Sangeet Sandhya, Mehendi etc)

Print the photographs in such a way that description is stated below; for e.g. "From Left: Her Father, Me, My Wife, My Father". (Something similar to newspaper article pics)

Do not blame to 2011 or 2012 fillers....

My short path....

PD NOV112011

NOA2 AGO 16 2013

I had to send 3 times letters to ask them why the delays. In that period the sent my file to a local office. I guess was somewhere on Nebraska, after that my file was returned to the main center. the that center was closed some weeks by a broken pipe that damaged hundreds of files by the water. All those excuses was give to me at the call center.

Then 5 month my papers were lost between USCIS and NVC until my wife's file was found on Dec 2013 but not her son's file until FEB2013.

Then I try to expedite all and be proactive but they delays everything. Up to now my case has an interview on JUN11 2013 and the status at ceac still says AT NVC

Histories like mine are a lot, please do not blame us so easily. I really hope this path won't apply to you.

The worst part here was the expectation that USCIS gave to you to approve so fast your I-130.

At last my inicial calculations become real, when I filed I expected to have my family reunite by now.

God bless you all, keep fighting and do not lose hope.

Congratulations to all of you. I hope god will bless your family in some other good form and reward your wait.

Thanks for your reply my friend,

There are some reasons for delay. I gonna share with you, but I saw some 2011 applicant of f2a are same stage.

1. My case was transferred from Vermont SC to TSC

2. I got RFE USCIS stage

3. After approval, my case took 87 days to be shipped. and 15 days to be received by NVC.

4. I got checklist for some typing error of Affidavit of support.

5 And in every step My petition took maximum time to review/complete.....

may be in final step it will take the maximum time as well......

so what can I do? only waiting.............

Its important that you don't get RFE's and Checklists, this makes the petitions work way longer than we expect. Also many times its not advised to postpone the interview date for whatsoever reasons, because it takes forever to get it again.

if last year, in august, i were told that i had to wait 2 yrs to get a visa, i would just wait for it. But now, when my case complete, and i am waiting for the interview, they come up with this retro, now i am not ready to wait 1 more year

I am sorry that you need to wait at this stage.

I think that they must change the procedure a bit. All the documents must be collected at the time of petition only. So that there is clear cut decision of approval and denial. It will make process smoother and easier for both govt. and us. By parting the process they complicate the process.\

And above all the F1 and F2A must be given priority like that of citizens.

that doesnt make any sense and here is my reason why......this category (F2A) was made current back in the summer of 2013 and therefore the NVC has been catching to meet all the filers up to that date. The visa bulletin has been showing sep 2013 as the priority date because thats when they were all out of visa numbers and the backlog started again,,,,,so if all priority dates are current before sep 2013 how can they retrogress to 2012 ?

Hey,guys,let's be optimistic here,even if the bulletin is retrogressed to 2012,how many of 2012 filers have left?I don' t think that a lot,most of them got their visas hopefully)))so the bulletin will start to move farward with a new fiscal year,hope and pray.I wish good luck to all of you!!!

yah... but why need to retrogress for more than a year, thats too much.. if thats the case,really .need to wait for oct ...

I dont believe it will retrogress as far as 2012 cause if yes why they have to wait july and not retrogress together with mexico?

I'm with bobototokoko,.......I still don't understand how F2A can retrogress all the way back to 2012.

My understanding was that part of the reason the category became current in August 2013 was because there was a low demand. That means all the "low demand" numbers from 2012 should have been processed before august 2013 when the category became "current". Its the new applications with PD from 2013 that I would think would run out of visas number due to high demand????

the only way that we have to go back to 2012 is if there are applicants from 2012 who have sat on their applications and have not completed the nvc stage? Is that possible? is there not a time period within which you must address your noa2???

Am I missing the obvious?

According to me root cause for retrogression is USCIS working slower (approving less petitions), than it should. So NVC always have lots of visa numbers available. And also meanwhile many petitioners leave the hope for visa or get divorced or due to death or beneficiaries living abroad don't appear for the interviews. So more visa numbers are wasted combined (NVC+Consulate).

To avoid the above situation,

1. From data from NVC, they made the family based category to current in AUG2013, hence more people can fill in the wasted visa numbers.

2. Pressured USCIS to work faster, to approve more petitions.

As a result, USCIS started working faster and their approval ratio was higher to processing ratio of NVC. Within these last 6 months the family-sponsored preference limit of 226,000 started getting exhausted. We may assume that around 200,000 visas may be already approved. So now they have to decide till which date we have approved petitions from USCIS which can fill rest 26,000 visa. Lets assume that statistically they find that if NVC takes up 35000 cases in hand, they can fill rest 26000 visa number. So now Visa-Bulletin officer has to see till which date we have 35000 petitioners, and that may end up to some date of 2012.

Having said this, I firmly believe that many cases from 2012 may have become inactive due to various reasons such as divorce, change of decisions etc. So I presume that retrogression is not going to for long (1 or 2 months) and then move forward very quickly.

And if we see on the other side of coin, retrogression strategy is also applied to fear future applicants and restrict them for marrying for GC reasons; as a result demand is lowered for the future too.

My PD is 04/16/2012, I don't understand what about me?

You are safe don't worry. It will retrogress to around June/July 2012 not beyond that. But I wonder, why didn't you get your visa still ?

The family-based, second preference "A" (FB2A) category is for a foreign national being sponsored as the spouse or (unmarried, minor) child of a lawful permanent resident (LPR or "green card" holder). The DOS predicts that, at some point during the 2014 summer, FB2A for worldwide, or rest of the world (ROW), is likely to retrogress by more than a year, to 2012 priority dates. FB2A Mexico, which already has rolled back to April 2012, is expected to experience further retrogression in the very near future.

Link here

July will make it 5 years we are now apart it sucks really bad.

Hi,

How come 5 years ? I think it should be 5 months from your timeline. Anyways a single day is miserable for us newly weds.

I pray for all of us. Take care. God Bless.

May 2014 Bulletin is out.

For F2A it is unmoved. It has been 6 months that single date has been moved. I hope retrogression is not seen in coming months.

Congratulations..

I got the noa2 on feb 18th and nvc received it on march 4th 2014..

Tired of waiting..

Anyone who got the their case number on the case that was rcvd by the nvc around this date?

yah my case was recvd on 4th March by nvc and still waiting for the case# !!!

My case was received on 12-FEB-2014 and got case number on 20-MAR-2014.

looks like it will remain Sept 2013. in fact, they predict that it will retrogress further last quarter of this year.

I hope not

No case update yet...they told that address was change due to some software mistake and there is no change in case status.

I dont know how they are working...

My case has crossed a normal processing time of 5 months and they do not accept e-request in USCIS site. They say ur case is still under normal processing time.

Unbelievable!! They very proudly publish that we clear all cases in 5 months but I am sure there are many like me who are still waiting for their approvals even after 5 months..

Hoping to get it soon...

Hi Hardik,

I cannot see your timeline, so would like to know is the petitioner US Citizen as of now ? If you have upgraded the status of petitioner than u need to refer processing times of your service center. Because for spouse of Permanent Residents they are maintaining 5 month time, but for IR of US Citizen they have cutoff date.

If petitioner is US citizen then you may try calling to senator in his/her constituency. Senators office have staff who follow up regarding immigration queries. They will help you expedite the case if USCIS has gone much above their processing time frame.

thank u niraj...that was helpful

its been a day now and no status is updated in USCIS site...so we r going to call them today and ask about it...

Whats the status of your case now ? All ok ?

Well, it seems a retrogression has hit.

Are you studying the retrogression, or no?

Hi Darnell,

I know what retrogression is, but what do you mean by "studying" ? I can't find any demand data or such kind of things to know the progress on Visa numbers. (I guess nobody has )

Though I am very hopeful for May bulletin that it will get my PD current.

My wife called USCIS and asked them to upgrade the case from PR to US Citizen on 20th march.

On 24th march, I receive a message like this

"On March 24, 2014, your address was changed relating to the I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN that you filed"

I do not understand why they changed the address when they were asked to upgrade my case??

Anyone having any idea about such case?

Hi

I faced the same thing with USCIS, the status on the USCIS website showed that your address has been changed which we dint applied for. But few hours later the status was you petition has been approved.

I think while selecting the option in software, operator has falsely selected Address Changed instead of Approval (as both starts with letter A).

So don't get surprised if you get approved in next few hours. If it doesn't change to correct form, please call them and let them know that you haven't applied for any address change.

Hope that helps.