14 minutes ago, Ssantiago said:

Hi, my pd is april 2017. Once my nvc is completed? Should i wait for more long months??? In the Visa bulletin they are processing march 2017 now

No, you shouldn't have to wait long, unlike me.

If it's F2A, you are current and it shouldn't take too long. Congrats.

What's your priority date? If it's not current, your interview may be delayed.

Actually, once the date on chart B reaches your priority date, you should periodically email the NVC at NVCInquiry@state.gov. They will email you back whether or not you can start submitting documents. If you can, they will issue you a case number and an invoice ID number.

On 2/10/2019 at 2:19 PM, Farrukh Majid said:

My mom filed case I130 in March 2014

petiotion approved September 2014

Nvc sent letter that PD is not current

recieved email from NVC In December 2018, submitted Aos fees, IV Visa fees and all civil documents and AOSalready submitted . Now what’s next when will be my interview be scheduled. Pls guide 

 

Have they responded that your case is complete yet?

We have also submitted all our documents as well. It shouldn't take too long for the NVC to respond that our cases are complete.

The question is if the petition goes directly to the embassy or does it sit at NVC until the PD is current? I'm in the same boat you are. My case will be complete but the priority date (8/13) will not be current.

Your explanation is a little confusing, but.....

If "Dad" is the petitioner, Dad files form I-864.

If "Dad" is married to "Sally", and Sally's income is needed to qualify

Sally files form I-864A only if she lives with "Dad"

The son files form I-864A as a household member ONLY if the son lived with "Dad", otherwise son files I-864 as a joint sponsor.

That's weird it's taking so long. Our PD is 8/13 and we received our NOA-2 in 12/13 even after an RFE. All you can do is call them, but that's unlikely to resolve anything. But your priority dates are still good though.

18 hours ago, annabella13 said:

Am I supposed to receive approval notice after 2 years of PD (June 2016)?

18 hours ago, annabella13 said:

Am I supposed to receive approval notice after 2 years of PD (June 2016)?

You should have received your NOA2 by now. If you haven't it won't affect your priority date which will likely mean your interview will be sometime in 2023.

On 10/24/2018 at 12:01 PM, annabella13 said:

Hello,

New to here, hope I can learn a lot from you guys.

My PD is June 2016 (other countries), and have not heard anything yet. I changed address once, updated online with USCIS.

Are there any F2B 06.2016 filers here?

You won't hear anything for a while. The process takes 7 years. Our priority date is 8/13. We haven't heard anything yet either. We will likely get an interview in 2020.

Not good news:

Goodlatte bill:

• The bill almost immediately eliminates family-based chain migration for all categories of immigration beginning at the end of the fiscal year, including those already on the visa waiting list. By my count, only 1 percent of the 4 million on the visa list will be grandfathered in. This is the most immediate and categorical immigration reform in over a half-century.

SAF act:

6 hours ago, Going through said:

I'm Canadian as well....GC holder for 12 years.

 

It did affect me, in the sense that it made me finally get off my butt and apply for naturalization last month.   With the changing immigration/travel policies coming into play I figured I didn't want to take the chance of ever being affected in the future travelling or residing in the US as a GC holder, and wanted to make sure that my legal status would be more "secured" (in my mind).

 

Until that all happened, I was initially planning on just renewing my GC for another 10 years as well.

It's good that Trump's election stimulated patriotism among those that live here. That IS an accomplishment!

10 hours ago, mallafri76 said:

Many USC petitioners and immigrants support immigration reform. Just because a USC petitioned their spouse, it doesn't mean they think that the rest of the 30+ family household should be allowed to follow too.

 

I'm an immigrant and I think the US immigration policy is ridiculously lenient. When I moved to the US, it was my choice to do so because I happened to fall in love with a man from another country. Why would that give me the right to then move my entire family over, including siblings with their spouses and kids??? 

 

And don't get me started on the law that says anyone born in America is a USC. That stems from some 250 years ago, when America was founded and to ensure that the British couldn't come back and force people from their land. It's completely outdated and America, along with I think Nigeria, are the only two countries with that law. For every other country on the planet, you need to have a tie to the country to become a citizen, i.e a mum or dad who is a citizen of the country. But I doubt they'll ever change that.

So true. My wife immigrated under a K1 visa which is not affected by this bill.

The problems started when she tried to get her parents and sister a visitors visa. They were all denied twice.

Sister finally gets to come in on a student visa for grad school.

OK fine. So when my wife becomes a USC, she petitions both parents for an IR-5 visa so her parents finally can come visit.

The problem is they don't speak any English and are bored here. They'd rather live in China but just come here to visit.

The second problem is that her sister speaks very good English, is college educated and would love to immigrate here.

So in 2013, Mom petitions sister to immigrate under the F2B visa. A 7 year process. (But it's much quicker than F4)

So now, Mama has a green card when she would rather have a visitor's visa. Sister now has a visitor's visa when she would rather have a green card. And if sister gets married, her petition is invalidated.

I'd give $10K if they could swap. Yeah, I know. It doesn't work that way. So Mama needs to spend more time here than she wants in order to maintain her green card. She's now applying for her 2nd re-entry permit.

But the IR-5 has to be one of the most worthless visas we have next to visa lottery and refugees. Most don't work or assimilate (except for housework and babysitting)

I may sound like a hypocrite criticizing a visa that we used, but a points system would make better sense. Sister would have a better shot at her green card.

3 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

I am glad you got my point for a pointless immigration system and I agree our discussion is pointless because we have opposing points

Too many points.......Thanks for pointing that out .
 

I am just pointing out that the pointed  bill will fail. End of points. Point made.

I actually hope the bill does fail in it's current format. That we can agree on.

Have a nice day.

5 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

The bill is driven by agenda so of course it is one and the same.
It was not a mistake to assume I made a logical connection between the bill and my determination of xenophobia, you made a mistake in thinking
the two factors can not co exist with xenophobia. The agenda is xenophobic AND the language of the bill is xenophobic.
You still seem confused. Let it go.

I will let it go, because you have made it clear the pointlessness of trying to have a logical discussion with you. There is no point in continuing.

6 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

 

 

I see many successful people that have their own businesses and who can't speak English. Having said that, on a personal level I wish they
would be motivated to learn just as I would and did moving to a different country for ease of communication.
I never said I have a problem with a requirement being to speak English, perhaps not at entry but at a later time and as it stands now
it is already a requirement for naturalization and I agree with that. I have no idea why you countered with that comment.

Yes, this bill it is xenophobic. To understand that you would have to understand where the administration is headed and with whom.
Check out the newly appointed  USCIS Ombudsman Julie Kirchner who for decades was executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 
As anti immigrant as it gets but supposedly assisting immigrants as Ombudsman ! Just another fox guarding the hen house.
Cotton, Perdue and Miller are all anti immigration and come up with the unattainable point system for a good reason>>>>>less
immigrants, not just less but much less than half.
Now as to your comment about it being "stereotypical to assume only Caucasians know how to speak English" I have to totally agree
and am baffled why you added that to your comment to me.
Evidently you did not read my comments carefully before adding your assumptions that are untrue in regards to my statements.
Please do not put words in my mouth or in this case in my postings.
There are a hundred other ways to reform and really improve the immigration system and this isn't one of them.
This serves an anti immigrant agenda and yes, an even more sinister movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/americas/white-nationalism-explained.html

LOL, OK, I thought you determined the bill to be xenophobic based upon the language of the bill itself. But it turns out you think it's xenophobic because of a factor completely unrelated to the bill. It was my mistake to assume you made a logical connection between the bill itself and your determination of xenophobia.

43 minutes ago, Going through said:

Forget living permanently....the parent wouldn't even be allowed to BE sponsored unless in need of care-taking.

 

The new rules about parents not being able to work is stupid too...people tend to think "elderly" when it comes to parents...but you can have instances where a 21 year old child has a 42 year old parent.  Why not be allowed to work, and pay taxes (contributing to the economy since money is so important in the eyes of this new bill) if you are young enough to land a job?

Should an age limit be applied to parents then? Both my in-laws received their IR-5 visas and subsequent green cards. As with my in-laws, it's much more unlikely that they will assimilate, speak English and be employable. It's much more likely that they will encounter high healthcare costs.

From a personal perspective, it seems a little crazy that my parents-in-law can easily immigrate here without being employable or understanding English, whereas my sister-in-law speaks great English, is college educated and would assimilate well here. Yet she can't easily immigrate. She needs to have my mother-in-law petition her as an F2B and then wait 7 years. In the mean time, she can't get married or it will invalidate the petition. It would seem that a combination of family-based and some kind of points system would make better sense than the crazy system we have now.

8 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

They don't want it to be realistically obtainable because the bill is xenophobic and anti immigrant. That's their whole point. 

I may agree with you that it's "anti-immigrant" only because this bill in it's current form would cut the number of legal immigrants in half. I agree that the numbers should be expanded. The points system although in need of revision, is necessary.

And in no way is it xenophobic. People can't succeed here without understanding the English language. It's actually pretty stereotypical to assume that only Caucasians know how to speak English.

2 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Who do you think made this country what it is ?
The few rich and famous who came over or these :
 

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

If you think we have no obligation to take in people as described above then you are many decades too late.

Elitists with a masters degree or an Olympic medal or rich investors did not make this country. The sweat of the poor, the hardworking immigrants did.
Understand that. They brought the next generation and the one after that to the successes they are enjoying today.
 

That is from decades ago. You're the on that's decades late and the world has changed. Taking immigrants escaping injustice and poverty in other countries was great when we had a frontier to settle and factories to man. Let's not forget that many of these immigrants were exploited as well. If they didn't work , they starved. Now political refugees get free housing, free education, free food, a government stipend and free healthcare. We all need to prove that our loved ones won't be a burden on the government as a condition to immigrate here, that should be the case for all immigrants. The points system makes sense for the benefit of our country.

15 minutes ago, Going through said:

I can't speak for Transborderwife...but the term "the right kind of immigrant" can be offensive to some people because it can have a certain connotation to it.  It's possible she was just trying to nip it in the bud before anyone else jumped down your throat and started to give you grief over it.  

 

 

 

Yeah, I get that. But it should be the choice of the USA which people come here as immigrants, not the choice of the immigrants. We all know that as we have been through the process. No one has the "right" to immigrate here.

I also understand that it's the prerogative of this country to accept immigrants or not based on their potential contributions to the country. I don't believe we have any obligation to take people that the rest of the world doesn't want. But immigration is essential to the growth of this country. Without it, we are condemned to suffer the demographic nightmare Japan is currently suffering.

3 hours ago, Transborderwife said:

Let's keep on topic and not turn things into a soap box.  Plenty of other places for that.

I'm not the only one that responded to a political post, but maybe my particular opinion was not in line with the consensus opinion. But with that said, I'll let it go.

4 hours ago, Mike and Lily said:

We have both F2B and F4 petitions in the works. Neither of which will be offered if this new bill becomes law. Will these applications still be processed if this new law goes into effect?

I actually found the answer to my own question.

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/files/documents/170802_New_RAISE_Act_Section_by_Section.pdf

"Section 4(e) grandfathers in potential immigrants awaiting entry under immigration categories

eliminated by the RAISE Act if their entry into the United States is scheduled to occur within one

year of the RAISE Act’s enactment."

We would be out of luck then if this bill passes anytime soon in it's current form. Our F2B applications have a priority date of 8/13. My wife's brother and sister wouldn't likely enter the USA until 2020.

Political refugees DO go on welfare as soon as they are admitted, that's a fact. And the points system is actually a good thing, but we need more immigrants to grow this country, not cut the amount in half. But we need the right kind of immigrants, not illegals or refugees.

We have both F2B and F4 petitions in the works. Neither of which will be offered if this new bill becomes law. Will these applications still be processed if this new law goes into effect?

Does anyone know about this bill in congress? Most family visa petitions would be eliminated.

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/sen-tom-cotton-unveils-bill-end-chain-migration-visa-lottery

Prioritize Immediate Family Households. The RAISE Act would retain immigration preferences for the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

Eliminated would be green card categories for foreign citizens who are:

• Adult parents of U.S. citizens
• Adult brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens
• Unmarried adult sons & daughters of U.S. citizens 
• Married adult sons & daughters of U.S. citizens 
• Unmarried adult sons & daughters of legal permanent residents 

Would this apply to just new applications or would it apply to all pending applications?

It still needs to get through congress.

Also, be prepared for a wait after you get your NOA2. The NVC is pretty slow these days. It took us 7 weeks from our NOA2 to get the AOS fee bill.