Barefootek

I received notice last week that my wife's birth certificate had been rejected. When I go to the acceptable documents it says that they accept the "inscripcion de nacimiento" from the "Registro Civil" from Ecuador and that the "certificado de nacimiento" that we submitted was unsatisfactory. When my wife went to the Registro Civil, she was told by them that the inscripcion de nacimiento and the certificado de nacimiento were the same thing.

When I looked on the Registro Civil's website it looks like an inscripcion de nacimiento is something we file with them. Do we have to file the inscripcion de nacimiento with Ecuador and then get a copy of it for the NVC? From what my wife understands from talking to the Registro Civil there is no inscripcion de nacimiento that she can get. 

2 hours ago, Anmol Yash said:

I received an incorrect estimate today in the weekly email today. Mine went from April to May previously, and the email today said September 15. I clicked on the link and it took me to somebody else's timeline. When I clicked on my own timeline, it still said May.. 

 

Just checked your profile. The estimate for you is still the same as earlier 😊

Thanks so much for replying and then taking the time to check on that for me. I linked to Visa Journey from an email with someone that has the same filing date asking if I heard anything and not from the link about the timeline.  Saturday was rough since Ecuador closed its borders. My wife and 9 month old daughter are there and now I don't know when I will be able to see them again. I've been shell shocked since then and didn't even think to check my timeline.

The estimate for my I-130 approval from Visa Journey has fluctuated from February 15th to March 30th with last weeks estimate being March 27th. Then today I received an estimate of August 3rd. Has the USCIS quit processing applications because of the coronavirus? How does an estimate go from less than 2 weeks to 5 months down the road?

On 12/12/2019 at 4:49 PM, Curt R said:

Please keep me up to date , my daughter will be  born soon and i  want to file for this as well .

doing this is faster and cheaper than a I130  correct 2

As a couple of people said, just use the form and don't worry that the date is expired. The Consular Report of Birth Abroad is better in numerous ways compared to the I130 form. With a CRBA your daughter will be a citizen from birth. Your total cost will be less than the initial filing fee for the I130. I believe that time frame varies some from country to country, but it took less than a month, start to finish in Ecuador. Most of that was waiting. We filed the form and scheduled an appointment with the consulate a couple of weeks later. The meeting took a couple of hours with half of that wait time, and they mailed the birth certificate (CRBA) and passport out a couple of weeks after that. 

Thanks. Considering some things seem to be rigid rules and others seem to be suggestions it is hard to know which are which. I appreciate the help in distinguishing between the 2. 

The form DS-2029 for a child born to a US citizen born abroad that is found on travel.state.gov website has an expiration date of July 31, 2019. In a short search on the website, I did not see where to go to address the issue. Will this likely be corrected in the near future with an updated form? Does anyone know who to contact about the issue? At what point in time should I just submit the expired form? 

38 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

OP,  in all seriousness, have you considered moving to your wife’s country instead?  That may be a better solution for you, because for US immigration, time spent apart is inevitable.

I would love to but financially it doesn't work. I am self employed and so I can travel back and forth on a regular basis, but have no real prospects for making what I consider reasonable money in Ecuador. That is why spending extra money would be a mute point, if it meant spending more time in the States where I have an income. I look forward to having enough money to move, but I am not there yet.

13 minutes ago, Gomast said:

Let’s see: you get divorced, apply for k-1, and in the interview they’ll find it very shady and throw you into the black hole called “administrative processing” which would take months to clear and it’s doubtful whether the’ll approve you. Then you’ll have to get married again to show that despite your divorce you actually had intentions to get married. 

Thanks very much for a non-critical reply. That would be my concern. Added expense would honestly be negligible considering just spending 1 month more in the US instead of with them in Ecuador would probably pay for the difference in price and my wife will not work in Ecuador or the US until our daughter is older so her not being able to work is irrelevant. I get the picture that it is probably a bad idea, but I thought there might of been someone else who had the same idea and maybe even tried.

I understand that the idea is extreme, but I, being the one considering it, don't understand the idea being absurd. Going through the BS of adjustment of status does not sound like a bad trade off for getting my wife and newborn daughter to the US 4 months faster. Four months is a long time to miss out of my daughter's life, not to mention that of my wife. I don't know if I would make the choice, but I am curious if it is an option. My concern would be that the K1 visa would be declined because of trying to work the system.