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Yes. 
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/India.html
 
Affidavits of birth from her parents is a good document as well.
 
You will file separate i130s for your wife and her kid assuming you'll marry her before the kid turns 18. At some point later during visa application, she will need a written authorization from the kid's father or the legal sole authority document to be able to bring the kid to the US.

If you apply for tourist/visitor visa, you will most likely get both documents together. However if you apply for emergency visa aka x-visa then just apply together and attach the payment receipt of Renunciation with visa application. That's what I did with my uncle's application. VFS hasn't even sent the acknowledgement email yet but he got his passport yday and went to India today. I'll let you once he reach India. You are not reqd to carry renunciation certificate while traveling.

You can renounce your Indian citizenship after receiving your US PP. If you have some kind of emergency then you can request emergency visa. OCI takes couple of months. I applied for my uncle's Renunciation and emergency visa at the same time. We sent application last mon and rec'd visa today. However no word on renunciation yet.

What’s wrong with Tourist? 
 
You can get a 5 year multi entry visa with that.  

IME: Quickest and simplest is an e-visa https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/

E-visas pre Covid took less than a week to be approved.  You do not go through the consulate.  

Most cost effective will be an OCI if you intend to travel often to India (multiple times per year).  
 
The trade off between e-visa and OCI is a ten year multi entry visa.  An excellent solution but you barely have the time to get it. 

Getting back the certificate? We did not get it back yet.
Most people only wait a couple of days, but it can vary.
Will let you know when I get mine back.
 
(It took four months to get the passport, but that was severely covid-delayed. Again, they send the certificate separately, later.)
 
PASSPORT OFFICE PHOTO EXPERIENCE WARNING
Regarding photos, we took our own, at home. We took a lot - Some in the garage, some outside, some in the living room, some with a white board behind, etc.
When we got to the court house to submit the application, the clerk said she thought the background was too dark.
We did not think so, but we went back home, and took some more.
We even went to a CVS where they do passport photos. But when we compared their samples with ours, ours looked better.
 
When we went back to the court house with the newer, even better one we took, she still said, "It was not like the ones she is 'used to seeing'".
She went in the back of the office to speak with her supervisor, we saw the supervisor nod (agreement-type nod), and when came back out she said it "might" be okay, and then repeated her line about "Well...it is just not like what she is used to seeing'.
We told her we think it is fine. We have both had many passports and we know what a passport photo is supposed to look like.
So, we told her we are going with the one we had. She shrugged her shoulders and accepted the package.
 
The whole time she was pushing hard for us to pay for their photo-taking service. The photographer was right there, and the photo-taking room was right in front of her station.
We felt like she was trying to push her photo services and was biased.
 
Between the two visits, we ran into the photographer in the hallway, and showed him our photos, and he said they looked fine to him, too.
We made the call and went with the one we took.
And we got the passport with no problems whatsoever.
 
So, you can just go with their photographer, or not. Don't get railroaded by anybody.
 
(Not that it is very expensive, but, don't fall for any nonsense. We are DIY kind of people.)

No issues, its allowed.

Try Rome2Rio.com, they have all the transit options listed.

Thanks....

One suggestion I got was to travel to the Border, may be Montana and then drive to Calgary on a rental car round trip. Would be much cheaper.

Today I tried to get my Biometrics. I entered the ASC at about 11 AM with my previous apt letter and new apt letter, GC and DL. There was no way to know the foot traffic as you know these Fed buildings have security and people are not supposed to come 15 mins prior to their Apt. So I just went in as soon as I reached that place. 
 
There was not a single applicant in the waiting area when I went in. The officer was hesitant to do my Biometrics, because the gap between my actual Biometric apt was more than 2 weeks. He asked me the reason for advancing the Apt and finally he agreed once I told him the reason. Even though any one else in his place would not do the Apt so early, his co-worker told him. His co-worker kind of tried to dissuade me, to send me back. But he was like I might get some flak for this, but he went ahead and did my Biometrics finally after 5 mins of back and forth. I am really thankful for the officer, he was really helpful and understanding. This would really help me save some lost time because of the missed apt.
 
Thanks guys for your suggestions 🙂 

True. I totally agree with you.
Just to add  - And that is why I suggested to OP to go and burn time, basically if OP has time, OP can go and just idle in the parking lot and if foot traffic goes down or ceases, grab the opportunity. 

Yes. Or go and burn time there. 
I think midday is offpeak. 

Also when you go try to make sure there is no line or a there is a short line outside the office. If the line is long then your chance is low and better to go in a different time.
 

Go during off -peak hours

It depends on the ASC but defiantly you can try. If said yes then good and if they said no then no problem wait for your appointment.

1. use global entry to avoid such interview, so no consequences, cos less contact. u just tap global entry, show the receipt to cbp and go,,done, 
2. no, and have you had the schedule for interview. 
3. well, this one i'm not sure, coz u will stay outside for 8 mount continuously. in my case, in total 5 years, i was out for almost 11 mount, but never travel more than 6 mount in a year that is longest that i had. 
 
some people say if u have ties with united, so it doesn't matter, such as house, job,
anyway, CMIWW, 
 
 
 

1. Yes you could face issues at the POE regarding the extended stay, however, if you have some valid reasons they will let you in since if it's less than one year.
 
2 and 3. Your N400 won't be void but you will be presumed to break the continuous residency during the interview. If you bring sufficient evidences of maintaining residency in the US during those months, your citizenship could be approved. Evidences could be utility bills, bank statements, tax return, immediate relative in the US and such.

Is there anyone here who knows or has done this: opt out of FB1 category and move back to F2B category ?
Phillipines applicants should be familiar with this, since their F2B PD was ahead of FB1 Priority date. Can someone give some info on how to go about it please respond soon ?

Thanks Thegirl !
 
Also would there be any problems when I am travelling to my home country with the hyphenated would that cause any issues for them to recognize me from my US passport or documents ?
And would there be any problems from the hyphenated first name with computers, or on legal documents ?
 

Look for "Category" on Green Card:

You can put an estimated date and length.
Yes, that is fine.
It's fine to just put your home country.

I ask what info I am given and when they are given, I am not familiar with her situation so i have to go back and forth for info. She is not interested in creating a VJ account. And that is the reason I will be asking questions on her behalf, If you have a problem you can pass this post ? 
 

Hello Zayed Khan,
My PD is June 2007.
Is ther any F2B applicants on VisaJourney site. How is it going for other F2B's, whats the status of ILs and Interviews, and approvals. Do update.

Thanks for the info, GC is in the city on its way as per the tracking results.
The status in ELIS will not change even after the Card being mailed till the time it is reached. Mine still shows card produced / Case status = Closed.

@Loba: Dont be dependent on the Lawyer, there is so much of info available on VisaJourney dot com, and other sites on the Internet. You need to call the NVC, and ask about the status of your case and what it is waiting for ? Because if the case is complete then you should be getting the Interview Letter in Sept 1st week or Oct 1st week. Make sure that your Interview is done ASAP, because as far as I know if the Interview is done before u become 21, you are safe. Clarify these things as well from lawyer and Internet sources.

Any one with PD between those dates ?
Also can the remaining people with PD in March '07 call up NVC and check out guys. We have nothing to lose in asking for the status.
This 2 weeks movement is really painful, USCIS / NVC needs to be reasonable to us who have already waited for 7 yrs+.