Phillip Kazuto

Congrats Phillip,
Please drop by to answer some of our questions. Good luck on the rest of your journey.

Do not cancel your petition.
A beneficiary can have two concurrent petitions. It's good to have a backup petition.
Just keep everything separate. Your case for your brother has nothing to do with the case from his wife.

Hey Philip,
So happy for u man....!!!!
a huge huge ...CONGRATS...!!!!!!!
hope you will still hang around here in VJ and keep providing your inputs..... :)
ALL THE BEST..!!!!

Thank u so much hopefully.wish u and all who got IL best luck for the rest to get the visas

An LPR can neither file for a K3 or an IR.
An LPR files for a spouse in the F2a category.
You file an I-130 for your spouse in the F2a category.
When you become a US citizen, then you can upgrade from the F2a to the IR category.

Faster for you to petition her. About 1 year.
Doesn't matter if his green card is conditional or not. This takes 2-3 years.

Due to next week holiday i strongly believe that they will delay the schedule thing again so i'd say we will see after the new year.
I've june PD as well my PD is June 10

In the old days - think around 2001, it regularly took over several YEARS to get a spousal visa and K3 was introduced as a way to cut down on the separation time.
Since nowadays the IR/CR visa is at a steady pace of around a year start to finish (in most, not all cases), they're no longer issuing K3 as frequently as before. NVC even has a rule that if both approved petitions (I-130 and I-129f) make it there at the same time they will administratively close I-129f (leading to K3) and proceed with IR/CR one - immigrant visa. I think I saw maybe 5 cases on VJ in the past several years that were K3.

The child can only immigrate under the same petition as your spouse if you remain an LPR. If you become a USC, the child will need a separate petition and you would have to wait for that petition to be approved so that they can apply for their visas together. So if you know that you will apply for citizenship, I would submit your child's I-130 now so that it can be in process while you do your citizenship. If you will pursue the F2A route, then you can just add the child when the case is at the NVC.

File for one parent - father (IR5) then when he comes here he files for his wife and child (F2A) and in the meantime establishes himself with job, housing, transportation. Will take two years to reunite the family but at least the child is not left alone.

Immediate relative petitions (such as for a parent) do not allow for derivative beneficiaries (such as other minor children). Your parents would need to receive their own immigrant visas, enter the US (to activate them and become LPRs), then petition the remaining minor child under the F2A family preference. This would entail a wait of around two years from when they petition to when the child would be eligible for an immigrant visa of their own.
There are no exceptions.

Petitions submitted by US Citizens doesn't have ¨Numerical Limits¨ when it comes to receive a Visa for immigrate, only waiting time is the associated with the administrative and reviewing documents and relationship of the process. On the other hand, Petitions submitted by US Permanent Residents for spouses/children are subjected to a Limited number of visas each year, so there´s a ¨waiting line¨to get a visa depending on the priority date (the date you first submitted the application) which you can follow by checking the monthly Visa Bulletin from the DOS.
As a US citizen you dont have to worry about PDs, or VBs.. and you can join others threads or forums of US citizens to get a more accurate information and updates

Around a year for the complete process.

First step would be realising it is effectively dead and going the CR1/IR1 route.

No it is not, sorry.
Financial expedites are notoriously difficult to get approved, I know of 2 in all my years on VJ, and both were extreme cases. Also keep in mind that the hardship must be on the US citizen, not the potential beneficiary.

I don't think they will overhaul things , all i know base on reading is that to help illegal immigrants and speed things up a bit n other categories ( which is unlikely because the backlogs , the glitch in their system happened few months ago ) as you can see NVC has introduced new review time and delay tons of cases.
Everything is fine as is and they do not want to change it and it's more involve with political.
Let's just hope for the best for the next Visa Bulletins , every little movements will help as long as it moves.

hi
no, she can't file for in laws
you will have to wait until you become a USC and file for her, it will take over 12 years one you file, so probably her children will age out if they are under 21

Phillip, I believe this delay is both wanted and unwanted. Wanted, because NVC increased fees for certain visa categories and therefore would rather get every visa applicants on the newer fee schedule. Unwanted, because the system glitch that occurred on NVC systems when they upgraded Oracle database has caused huge delays in processing all visas applications (IV and NIV) worldwide. It is pretty much impossible for them to catch up with pending applications in a short period of time.In addition to that, not all 2013 filers have obtained their visas because of those caught by June 2013 retrogression mainly caused by long AP. I have even seen filers from 2012 who have yet to obtain the holy grail.Totally agree with you that 22 days movement sucks big time but who knows may be it'll move faster around December or Jan 2015.

The above is correct. Once you have been an LPR for 3 years you can apply for USC and then once you have the naturalization certificate, you can petition your parents, not a moment before.

No you must wait till you become a US Citizen.
Only Spouse and Children can be petition if you're LPR

Unless something is done about immigration, keep in mind that you're looking close to a 20 year wait. You can try applying for the DV every year in the meantime if you are a national from an eligible country. You can also look at employment visas and see if you may qualify in one of those routes.

Yes, your uncle can sponsor his sister (your mother).
The time of waiting in this category (F4) is around 12 years.
When your mom becomes LPR, she can sponsor you.
But only if you're unmarried.
If you're married, your mom can sponsor you after becoming USC herself.
You can't be added to the original petition (F4), since you're over 21 years old.

1) On the I-130 there is a space where you can list your son's spouse and children.
2) She will very likely age-out; there isn't anything you can do to prevent this. The only thing that could be done would be after your son has immigrated, he then files an I-130 of his own for his daughter; she then would have to wait for her priority date to become current before she could pursue an immigrant visa.
If the I-130 you file is pending for a long time then this may help, as CSPA allows for the time the petition was pending to be removed from the child's biological age, in non-immediate-relative petitions. Perhaps in this circumstance your granddaughter would be able to skate by on your son's petition under CSPA, but we're too far out right now to be able to say definitively one way or another.

Yes for now they are putting your case to Administrative Processing , don't worry once they got the requested thing they will review it then they will issue your visa.
Hopefully it wont' be long.
Good luck and congratulation.

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