Sarah Rose Allen

I am a USC. My husband is a LPR who has a son in Nicaragua who is 20 who he adopted when the child was 13. He adopted the child in 2004. We moved to the US in 2007 (he came on a fiance visa) and were married.

So, he had legal custody and lived with the child in Nicaragua for more than 2 years before he moved to the US. We were married after the adoption and before the child turned 18.

It is my understanding that I can file a I-130 to bring the child to the US since he would be considered my step-son. Is this correct?

Any insight would be helpful!

I just checked my email and got the message that my husbands card has been ordered!!! Crazy! I have seen no movement since June and all of a sudden this!! Maybe USCIS is getting back from vacation...

Here is the email... Hopefully this means more cards will come for everyone who is waiting!

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR

TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Card production ordered.

On August 17, 2007, we ordered production of your new card. Please

allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from

you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call

customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we

process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case

status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from

USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS

Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

Hi March Filers.

I havent posted but we are here in the same boat of waiting on name checks.

I found out we are in name checks by asking my congressmans office to follow up on my case and they told me the FBI is doing the name check. So no movement or touches for over 2 months now... My husband really wants to go to Nicaragua for Christmas and we are starting to worry about not getting the green card in time. Does any one think that it would be worth it to not take the risk and pay the $300 for the travel document?

Then why does it say this:

1. Aliens Work Authorized Without Specific INS Authorization

The following lists nonimmigrants, by alien classification, who are authorized to work in the U.S. without specific authorization from INS. The alien’s I-94 will not have the INS employment authorization stamp and the alien will not have an EAD.

And below is listed K1 visa. Am I interpreting this wrong?

Here is the link for the whole document

https://s044a90.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/36f...b4?OpenDocument

Thanks for all of the light hearted replies... Im interpreting that to mean that you all dont think that this is a red flag issue.

If anyone has any real or serious comments or experience it will be welcomed.

A friend of mine just got married to her foreign husband. He, however, has a newborn baby by another woman, a relationship that was ending when she got pregnant. We actually think that it was a last ditch effort to get him to stay with her... It didnt really work.

So now my friend and her new husband want to start the k3 process. How will the newborn baby be looked at in the visa process? Does it make them look suspicious?

We are finally getting closer to getting all of the visa stuff done and are now starting to think wedding!

I really want to try and bring my fiancees older sister (age 33) to the wedding since he has absolutely no family members in the US and only speaks spanish and my whole family basically only English.

Does anyone have any tips on ways to facilitate a tourist visa to bring family members to the wedding?

We are planning on showing her house deeds, she has a small business, is married and has kids. I know that the main burden of proof is to show ties to her home country. Would it help to put money in a bank account?

Thanks mike. That makes me feel better. I am going to call NVC right now and try and talk to someone. I also hope the Embassy in Mga doesnt take too long to get the interview going.

I am right there with you. Approved on October 12 and received the snail mail notice on the 19th but just got the mail dated Nov 2. And of coures they havent gotten it at NVC yet. Im hoping that they will send them out now.

So I finally got the approval email, even though I already received the approval notice weeks ago in the mail saying that I was approved on Oct 12. The email says I was approved on November 2. Great. I have already been waiting for over three weeks for them to pass on my info to NVC. I hope that this means that they will finally do it.

It is really frusterating to feel like you get the slow end of every step in the visa process...

Here is what the email said:

This case has been approved. On November 2, 2006, an approval notice

was mailed. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this

notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your

address, please speak to an Immigration Information Officer during business

hours.

Wow! Congrats on the speedy approval!

WoW! Congrats on the speedy movement! I was also approved on Oct 12 and it hasnt been receivd by NVC yet.

Congratulations! They have been really bad about their electronic notifications.... But who cares because you are approved!

Best of luck with the rest of the process!

Congrats!! Great to hear the the phone call paid off!!! Who knows what is going on with USCIS communication but we are leaving them behind and are off to NVC and the Dept of State! What a sense of relief!

Good luck with the rest of your journey.

Congratulations! Thanks for the great update on the interview. I hope that we will be there within a few months!!! Another Nicaraguan visa approved!! Whooohoo!! Congrats y felicidades!!!

Praise the Lord, we´ve finally recieved the long awaited new. We are approved! I never got the email and it was never updated online but we received the hard copy in the mail yesterday. Woohoo!

Now its on to NVC and then Nicaragua!

Congratulations!!!! That is so great and gives me hope!! I havent heard anything about my RFE either and am getting really anxious! I am going to call them today and see what they say!

Congrats again!

Congrats! What a frusteraing wait for you! I think that those of us who have been waiting soo long are somehow going to be reembursed with extra happiness during our married lives!

Good luck with the rest of your journey!

Great news! I am in the same boat with you all. I am hoping to recieve my IMBRA in the mail today or Monday. Im hoping that after that they wont take too long with the approval!!!

I am currently living in Nicaragua with my fiance.

People have complications with this when it comes to being able to show that you earn enough money to bring your fiance to the states. If you go to live with her would you be able to continue working? Or you will need someone to sponsor you if you can prove that you meet the financial reqs.

As far as getting a visa, this varies country to country. From Nicaragua, it would be impossible for him to get a tourist visa to come visit. But it is different for every country.

Im pretty sure that that doesnt show up as a touch.

Wow. What great stats. THanks. Its so crazy to think that 40% of ppl from July are already approved but there are still about 17% of people from march who are waiting for their approval! CSC has such random approvals...

I was also touched recently but it was for my IMBRE RFE. It looks like things are finally getting moving over there in CSC land!

Congrats! Dont feel guilty about anything. I just think that God has his own time that each of our fiancees are supposed to be in the states....some just before others! Good luck with the rest of your journey!

Congrats but what is exactly changing when you check on the site?? that shows they have touched your case??

Is it this?

Current Status:

On July 29, 2006, we received your response to our request for evidence or information.

Becoz they haven't updated mine since that!!!!!

192 days!!!

You can see when you get ¨touched¨ on the page right after you log in. It lists the case that you have pending and it has a date next to it. When that date changes, it means you have been touched. When yo

u click on the link with you reciept number on it it takes you to the page that says ¨current status...¨But the touches can been seen on the previous page.