Renee17

Hi! I'm a new member here. I wanna gather some insights from my fellow Bangladeshi beneficiaries. Have any of you succeeded in expediting your cases due to aging out or heard of any such successful cases? If any of you have been successful in doing so did you do it when your pd became current or before that? Can it be done before getting dq and in the nvc stage? Did you hire a lawyer? Did you give aging out as the only reason to expedite or added other reasons with it? Please a detailed information will be of great help to me.

8 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

DQ is documentarily qualified, it is the stage you are at once you have submitted all required documents to NVC and they have been accepted - basically, it is the last step that needs to be fulfilled before you are scheduled for an interview. 
Once a case is approved by uscis it goes to NVC, that’s usually fairly quick,  no reason for it to take years? What can take years is the time between when NVC gets the case, and when it takes any action on the case because as described earlier, visas cannot be issued before the priority date on the case is current. So say you have a F4 case that takes 6 or 8 years to approval, it goes to NVC after approval, but then it just sits there for another 6-8 years until around 6-12 months before your priority date in chart A is expected to be current. Around this time frame, your priority date will be published in chart B, dates for filing. This is the point that NVC contacts you /petitioner for documents to be submitted, so that everything will be ready to schedule for you for an interview when your date gets current in chart A. So the speed of moving from USCIS to NVC is not really important, all that matters is that it happens before your priority date gets current. 

Got it.Thanks a lot for the necessary informations!

2 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

For the CSPA calculation you use the first day of the month of the relevant visa bulletin, yes.
So example if your priority date is current in the visa bulletin for September 2021 (this will be published in August but it’s effective in September) the “visa available date” would be 09/01/2021. 

Thanks a lot again for this information. Another question. What is a dq? Is it an approval letter or is it something else. And after how long the case being approved, is shipped to nvc? I've seen on the internet that it takes about 6 months but does it really take that short time or does it take like years? 

3 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

You need to read the descriptions in the visa bulletin. C in a category means all priority dates are current, it is unusual. A particular category is current when the priority date on the petition is earlier than the date in chart A. So F4, for most countries, is presently current for all petitions filed before 15 October 2006.  https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2021/visa-bulletin-for-february-2021.html
 

 

Thank you so much for the link and for providing me with information. Also I've heard somewhere that Visa for all categories becomes current in the first day of the month. Is it true? 

8 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

Would like to see a link, this sounds like it might have been a case where the PD was current before the case was approved, in which case the expediting makes sense. Normally if CSPA is involved you want them to take maximum time to approve, not to rush it.

But the PD never becomes current  for f4. I never saw the letter "c" ever in this category. When does it become current? I don't  know  how to post a link here, but the title is "children aging out" under the tag bringing family of permanent residents. I can understand that man's case, I think his sisters were under f2A and that becomes current every month. But how and when does a f4 Visa ever become current?

8 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

It doesn’t even matter if the petition is somehow expedited before it’s current, because an actual visa is not available until the priority date is current, and the CSPA age cannot be calculated before the PD is current either.  Nothing of consequence can happen before the priority date is current.

But when does the f4 Visa category ever become  current? I've seen mostly the f2A category becoming current once in like every month but the f4 category never becomes current. Whenever I check there are dates in the f4 category but when does the letter c, which means current usually appears in this category 

3 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

There is no expediting for a beneficiary aging out.

Before CSPA, expediting was possible when a USC would petition an unmarried child under age 21 who would age out at 21.  With CSPA, that problem was eliminated.  

With the family preference categories, there is no expediting for aging out.  CSPA locks a child's age in when the PD becomes current.  A case can not be expedited when the PD is not current.  No way around a PD that is not current.  CSPA locks the age in with a current PD so there is no reason for an expedite since the beneficiary child would not age out.  
 

Where did you see these cases where people got expedites before their PD become current?  Please link.  

 

Here in this forum. The expedition due to aging out cases that I've seen almost all got approvals to expedite, yes there were cases where their priority dates were current but there were also cases where the priority dates weren't current but they still got approved. They were all under family-based immigration categories but I've also seen k-2 expedite due to aging out cases getting approved here which I can totally get as those children do not fall under the cspa category. There was one Pakistani man under family-based immigration whose mother applied for his sisters but one of them was aging out and their case wasn't even approved so they petitioned the uscis for an expedition and they got one. Their case was approved  and immediately shipped to nvc from where the rest of the proceedings were conducted. There was also the case of one of my distant relatives in my country whose priority date was 2007 but her dad got their f4 Visa expedited in 2018 because she would turn 21 in the next 12 months and they got an expedition that was in 2018 and back then their priority date was far from being current. I also was and still am surprised with these cases

3 hours ago, JFH said:

Have you taken CSPA into account? 

Yeah I did but I'm a little confused about it. I'm a beneficiary under f4 Visa, I'm a derivative beneficiary, in some articles I've seen that it's not applicable to derivative beneficiaries and in other articles I've seen that it is applicable to them, so I'm really confused here. Also I've seen cases here in this forum being expedited and those cases such as: petition for children of us permanent residents and citizens both fall under this cspa criteria but they still got approved. I've also seen some cases like this getting expedited even before their priority date became current, some even before being approved, which really surprised me. How did they do this? Did they hire an attorney? Or are there some other facts behind this? I'm really confused about  this whole aging out thing

Hello everyone! I wanna know does a beneficiary being close to aging out really fall under the expedition criteria? I've seen it under this criteria but does it really work out? Anyone who had an experience with this type of expedition or are trying to expedite their cases this way please tell me about your experience and if it really works or not. Those who had been successful expediting their cases this way, did you hire a lawyer? Or did you do everything on your own?