JeanneAdil

yes, 6 years for immigration as our age difference was a big one k1 2009 denied CR1 approved in 2015 the time away is hard , really hard but once your spouse is here, the time will go fast married now 15 years / he is a citizen i think the hard part of all this is that you bypass the normal dating and romance of being in same country /the fun part before settling down to married life and the commitment of the partnership along with the workload involved., So i say in your long chats, forget immigration issues and keep it romantic and understanding of the long distance you deal with / don't dwell on immigration as it will bring you down and u need to keep the hopes and dreams alive. I never let Adil know how upset i was with the RFE we did and how mad the process made me. i cried and he didn't see it. My dream was alive even when spirits were low

Just to clarify your child is South Korean and USC / he needs to travel in and out of the USA on his US passport and if u r so worried , travel thru Canada like Vancover as they do US customs / make it easy

parents address is where mail and you actually lived and is actual residence /college is temporary living by semesters (4 months then home) i didn't put a Morocco address on my form even though i was there 3 months (twice) at a time for visits / it was not my home address

never compare to another's post or timeline the person interviewing in one country might have been born in a high fraud country \ OR petition was not complete and they had to respond to RFE We do not see the numbers here for South Africa as high as other consulates and that also makes a BIG DIFFERENCE QUIT stressing and just spend the time talking online and keep the romance going this is a pain in the butt i know , ours was 6 years as we had a big age difference but we made it

also says 2) Unconsummated: A proxy marriage that has not been subsequently consummated does not create or confer the status of “spouse” pursuant to INA 101(a)(35). For IV cases, a party to an unconsummated proxy marriage may be processed as a nonimmigrant fiancé(e). A proxy marriage celebrated in a jurisdiction recognizing such marriages is generally valid another marriage in the United States is not necessary if the applicant is admitted to the United States under INA provisions other than as a spouse. See 9 FAM 502.7-3(B) for additional information on fiancé classifications. under https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM010208.html 9 FAM 102.8-1(D) Proxy Marriages

it actually says (35) The term "spouse", "wife", or "husband" do not include a spouse, wife, or husband by reason of any marriage ceremony where the contracting parties thereto are not physically present in the presence of each other, unless the marriage shall have been consummated. and definition of consummation is The consummation of a marriage, or simply consummation, is the first officially credited act of sexual intercourse following marriage https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101&num=0&edition=prelim

News media feds on what i call gossip CBP look for things like drug carriers, unreported money, unreported large purchases in the foreign country and when they stopped the one green card holder in the news, she had a criminal charge of embezzlement. so, none of the above, the green card should carry her though with just the same questions we all (even USC's) have to answer

The main instruction on the form asks for last 5 years so if you lived in home country in the course of this time , include it

The misleading part of this is that USCIS offices are only step 1 and the other 2 steps are NVC and embassy interview and with all the different wait times depending on the embassy, there is no way for them to calculate the timeline average for any petition And don't forget this # as 80% includes naturalization which is the fastest to complete and done by USCIS

How was ticket purchased? if you bought online and there are any airport changes OR u have a ticket to Paris and need to pick up one there to the US, then yes there are issues happened to a friends parents coming on tourist visa as He bought online and the purchase was actually 2 different tickets Marachek airport did not let them board till he corrected the ticket to be only a transit stop

but embassies and immigration officals are already reacting to it and it was announced 6 days ago that he was finalizing the order this ban does affect EB visa Impact on Employers and Employees The ban is expected to affect many employers and their employees’ global mobility. Nationals of the restricted or banned countries who are outside the United States when the ban is announced may be unable to return, even with a valid visa stamp. Employees or business visitors from highly restricted countries will face rigorous visa application processes. Additionally, U.S. companies may need to restructure their global workforce, potentially losing international talent and facing higher business costs.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons does not permit conjugal visits so, getting married at this point is mute according to immigration benefits as you need to consumate the marriage for him to file a spouse visa Gilligan (1974), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio held that prisoners have no federal constitutional right to conjugal visits .. You can visit according to the Federal Prison guides but i would not marry and start the immigration till he is out and has a job to support the process there are 2 cases on VJ that have married prisoners so you can search in the search bar on top right in blue bar to find them and see how have done all this

Embassy in Cameroon may have hold on this type of visa till they know if Trump's proposed ban will affect it Countries listed in the “YELLOW” category would be given 60 days to address concerns from the administration or risk being moved to the other categories: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Turkmenistan, and Vanuatu. This statement means if Cameroon does not address concerns from the Trump administration, the country could be moved to orange or red (higher risks list) So, what is your news media reporting about this issue?

You say "i am in Canada" but are you a Canadian by birth ? and if not , what is your country of birth? this makes a big difference

your mom can apply as a green card holder but you must be in your home country while the petition is processing for F2b Yes, a green card holder can sponsor their unmarried son or daughter who is 21 or older for a green card (adjustment of status or AOS) through the F2B visa category, but the son or daughter must be outside the US on a B2 visa and not have entered the US with the intention of seeking AOS And you will need to leave (if granted 6 months on B2 ) by May and the extension would not be processed by then/ it takes time and some stayed here waiting for the extension and found themselves in an overstay when extension was not approved

they did not as they did not read thru the documents / they just passed the packet onto NVC

to add my MIL came on tourist visa 3 years ago to test is we wanted to apply for the I 130 she was ill the whole time and homesick she returned to Moroc and 2 weeks later had appendicitis and Adil paid $1000 for surgery in moroc Here AI says Without insurance, an appendectomy (appendix removal surgery) in Georgia can cost anywhere from $7,377 to $10,338 for a laparoscopic procedure, but costs can vary significantly based on the hospital and other factors. So, we had to think long and hard about filing a petition out she , also spends her time talking on whatsapp to people back home and is real homesick

I should add i thought it would take months for USCIS to read thru and verify the documents i sent (25 pounds of material) they received it and sent my petition to NVC 2 days later / no one read it

you can list all this on your timeline in profile / that is easy for all to check any time for a post as trying to find this post months from now may be a challenge for some

there are 3 stages (red, orange and yellow) one news put Pakistan in orange while another put that country in yellow Ask if the following happened during the 1st ban as i believe people still came on the visa waiver program Sec. 8 . Visa Interview Security. (a) The Secretary of State shall immediately suspend the Visa Interview Waiver Program and ensure compliance with section 222 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1202, which requires that all individuals seeking a nonimmigrant visa undergo an in-person interview, subject to specific statutory exceptions. If u read thru Executive order 13769 the administration gave Homeland security 60 days to come up with info like what immigrants or illegals had committed crimes in US and Homeland security was unable to comply so a new order replaced it with 13780 both orders bought legal challenges in federal courts and as you can see in the stats for issued visas during 2017 to 2021 (his first term) visas were still issued and according to wording , itself , of the order anyone with valid visa could still travel. when it was impossible to enforce those orders , ds 5535 came about May 4, 2017 (BTW another news post says 2020) you can find stats for approved visas on the following site https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics.html you have heard of kick backs and under the table money , right that is the way some of the rich get rich and money to allow visas could happen

I had one like that demanding things like full list of all relatives, < addresses, phone numbers death notices for both fathers copy of son's birth certificate (grown men in my case) the list went on and on schools he attended and where he learn English affidavits from people attending the marriage and from those that couldn't the list goes on and on i consulted an immigration lawyer who said "never seen a RFE like this" i got all the documents together and mailed them in getting together the documents is what u would do if you hired a lawyer .. he would make copies and mail them in (and that's all he would do) you still would do all the work

just MIL or both? Income must be 125 % of poverty for # of residents that will be living with u under Obama care: Health care has either low premiums with year high deductibles ($3000 to $5000) bigger premiums the deductible decreases but only slightly we are paying about $550 for CIGNA (secondary insurance) while for my MIL as we need good insurance with her diabetes and high blood pressure as Adil added her to family plan at work for $495 / so yeah $1000 a month is what it costs us Adil flys to Moroc once a year and gets her medicine as its cheaper than buying it here (one medicine is $600 a month) $40 in Moroc and round trip is $1100 (that 2 months of the medication) Every state is different so u really need to check out yours Providers here have no way to bill companies back home but u may be able to pay upfront and try for the reimbersement from home (look into it)

they are listed under NIV in the stats https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics.html

Everyone that matters your F2a is in the system and is seen by embassy and CBP embassy should deny anything else you petition for if they gave her B2 to come as tourist , CBP can turn her away when they check in their computers she could have petition for dv lottery (if country is available ) but it is closed now till October and the odds of getting chosen are not in her favor

I suspect she is single, Owns no property and as u said is a student living with parents being a student is not a good tie to home country and then there is the new ban to perhaps affect her as Liberia is in the 3rd "yellow" category so if she was lucky enough to get the visa , she may not be able to board the plane or could be returned home by CBP at the POE Countries listed in the “YELLOW” category would be given 60 days to address concerns from the administration or risk being moved to the other categories: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Turkmenistan, and Vanuatu.