Colorado bound

Thank you Mam521!

If anyone has insight into "activating" my wife's IR1 visa at the POE of Peace Bridge or Rainbow Bridge, please let me know what we are supposed to do.

The expiration date is April 22nd. We are going to be moving in May, but live in the GTA so we need to drive to the border with her passport and do what exactly? I'll bring the immigration file, but really is anything required other than the passport?

Do we go to the regular border guard and explain the situation or is there another dedicated area before then?

Is there a difference between Peace Bridge and Rainbow Bridge for these services?

I see it needs to be done M-F before 3pm. We are just planning on going there and driving back afterward. 

I tried to search this topic and went through the FAQ's but didn't see an answer, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

37 minutes ago, canuckchic said:

Hi everyone – I’m sure most of you have seen my posts about being skipped over for the Nov and now Dec interviews as we were DQ’d Feb 19, 2021.

I have been in touch with our local Congress rep and they spoke to the NVC. They confirmed that yes, they scheduled by DQ'd dates. Admitting no error on their part because they have no way to compare cases to say that we are the same as people who have been scheduled for interviews who were DQ’d after us. Ridiculous of course. The Congress rep said the only option at this point is to "prove that the NVC has scheduled people for interviews after our DQ date". To do this we must find at least one person who is willing to submit to the NVC all of their case information along with interview info, etc along with our case info to "compare" to prove our issue.

My ask is of anyone who would be willing to help us with this. I believe what we could do to protect your privacy (from myself) would be for whoever would be willing; to send me your info in a private message – like your contact info and DQ date and interview date, along with your phone number and email for the NVC to contact you to verify your case info and details that I’m sure you’d like to keep private from myself. Then I could use all of that in my correspondence to them.

I see the following people who were DQ'd after us that have had or will have November interviews;

 

@Quangerfeb 21 interview nov 18

@Torrjr feb 22 interview nov 18

@Canada5 feb 25 interview nov 22

@NadiaL mar 5 interview nov 29

@SS_V mar 10 interview nov 29

@Colorado bound mar 15 interview nov 1

 

please reach out if you’d be willing to help us. We are desperate to have our family back together, my two babies miss their Daddy so much. Also if anyone that hasn’t had their interview yet and is scheduled for December would like to help, please do let me know.

Thank you very much!

 

 

For sure, I will help in whatever way I can.

38 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

If a US citizen does not qualify to transmit US citizenship to his/her biological kids born abroad, then yes, the kids do need to go through the CR2/IR2 process to move to the US.  It seems the consul officer believes that you do actually qualify to transmit US citizenship to your kids and that they are in fact USCs since birth.  USCs are not eligible for any US visa, hence your kids were refused at the interview.

 

Thank you all very much. 

My wife and kids had their interview today. Wife was approved, but the kids were refused pending Consular Report of Birth Abroad. I am a US citizen married to a Canadian. We have two kids that were born in Canada while I was a permanent resident of Canada.

The guy that interviewed them took my wife's passport and said for the kids, they are already American and I just need to file the CRBA in Toronto (luckily as we live in the GTA). 

Maybe I was misinformed, but it was my understanding that in order for the kids to move to the states, we had to go through the IR-1 process.

Am I completely wrong here? The entire DS-260, CEAC, process wasn't necessary for my kids and now I have to have another interview in Toronto so they can get US passports before we move?

Does anyone have any insight on this? 

Thanks, 

13 minutes ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

The date of DQ would be on your CEAC portal; It’s the date you receive the DQ message there.

 

Appreciate it if you could check it and report, so we can know the actual cut off.

march 15th. I just double checked. 

2 minutes ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

Don’t think they were expedited.

 

This happened last month as well. They squeezed in Dec 3 DQs for interviews in the beginning of October, while late Nov DQs got dates in late October.

 

I think they fill up the slots chronologically, and then realising they have some empty slots on the first slot of the month (which may usually be reserved for expedites/ cancelled interviews), squeeze in some more.

It's March 15th.

As I said, this is for three people including two minor children if that helps. 

No it wasn't expedited. 

2 hours ago, ifh said:

Congratulations to all the people that received the ILs!
I was DQed on March 12 but I have not received it. I see that some people DQed on March 15 received it.  

Should I be worried ?  

I'm the guy with March 15th and interview on Nov 1st. My date might actually be March 12th as well. I'm not 100% sure I put the dates in correctly. That said, it's for my wife and two children, so maybe it's a little different if they are conducting one interview for three people.

Thank you for the reply! 

I don't want to delay any further so while technically I have enough assets by their guidelines, I prefer to have a backup plan. I just don't want the backup plan to create additional delays in processing. 

I'll have one fill out the I864 and the other fill out the I864a. 

Thanks again Neca and anyone else that can add any additional info. 

Hello all, 

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with what I think is an easy answer, but for some reason I can't get clarification on...

I am a US citizen, married to a Canadian citizen for 13 years. We live in Canada and have been for 12 years. We are moving to Colorado. We have two children under 13 born in Canada. 

My job will not remain after we move so my income and my wife's income is n/a. Our only real asset if our home, which is somewhere around $300,000 CAD in equity. In order to make sure we qualify we are having my retired parents fill out an I864 as well (their net worth is substantial and enough to qualify). Their address is my domicile address and very likely where we will be living for a while. 

We have everything done with filing except the I864 portion. I thought I would supply their 864 if needed but read that they might have to fill out an I864A (because technically we are going to be in the same house when we arrive.)

Again, thanks so much if anyone can assist on this.