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If your case is at NVC, you need to request at NVC . But if your case is still at USCIS, you need to email them. My mom did this for my sister who she petitioned. It took her 2 days to get a response and approval.

Hi. Your sibling can opt-out F1 and change his/her category back to F2B. There is conflicting advice on the USCIS and State Department websites.  l am not sure what is the right one:
 
Uscis says:
"lf you want to opt out of the automatic conversion, you must submit a written request to the USCIS office that approved your Form I-130."
 
State Department says:
"Applicants whose case is at NVC should submit requests using NVC's online inquiry form. NVC will forward the request to USCIS and change the visa category back to F2B upon receipt of USCIS's approval."
 
Hopefully, somebody here who has had recently experience let you know.  
 
How long does this process take? 

Spouse of LPR is F2A. 
 
A. (F2A) Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents:  77% of the overall second preference limitation, of which 75% are exempt from the per-country limit;
B. (F2B) Unmarried Sons and Daughters (21 years of age or older) of Permanent Residents:  23% of the overall second preference limitation.
 
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2019/visa-bulletin-for-may-2019.html

He puts F2B on the topic so he must be unmarried adult children  of LPR.
 
@Dannyrock: You can monitor the visa bulletin monthly to see if your PD become current and contact NVC again to find out if yours is current. 
 

Some States have there own.
 
Not a public charge, just a purchase option.

It is hard to tell without the knowing what exactly he was found guilty of and what that charge translates into US system (was it assault, public disturbance, ....) and was it considered a misdemeanor or felony?
 
Now the real question, what is an open jail? It’s prison with the door open? OMG, that is such a European thing.

I suspect OP saying he had difficulty finding the same case is because he was looking for a case where someone brought the whole family at once - his difficulty finding such a case obviously being because it can’t be done that way (as has by now been adequately explained).

He only wants to get rid of chain migration (now that his in-laws are here lol)
as always it’s only a proposal that has a long way to go before becoming law, it’s just a continuation of years of talk and no real action on immigration reform.. since before him and probably will still be going on after him 

It’s off topic here but you can search the various college forums to read about how the weed out courses negatively affect GPA (critical for med school admission), how less than half of those who go in as premed end up taking MCAT, depending who you believe somewhere between 25% and 50% of those who take MCAT don’t even apply to med school because their scores are too low, and then just under half of medical school applicants get an offer - and many of those who do will only get one offer. If she’s one of those who does well enough through all that to get to med school, great! 
 
 
Nothing stopping you applying - but be realistic about it, especially when it’s a course that you don’t need to be physically present in the US for. I know a number of people who took various US qualifying exams from overseas and mostly they studied at home and then flew to the US to take the exams. My other concern is that if you are denied a F1 visa, then they might (might, not certain) cancel your B visa too and you wouldn’t even be able to visit.

The best solution is to move out as soon as possible. It's not your mother or your wife's fault. It is just not easy to live with others. If you and your wife live with your parents for free, you should help with housework such as cleaning and dishes. You are the middle man, you probably have to learn to be very thoughtful and "act fair" to two most important women in your life. Please do not let your mother feels like you are taking side with your wife and vice versa.  When your mother criticizes your wife with you, you can just tell her "Ok, I will let my wife know" and move on to a different topic, do not try to explain or argue with your mother. You cannot change your mother but you can change the way you react to the situation. 
 
My mother in law is my best friend. I could spend many hours on the phone with her until my husband took the phone away to ask both of us to go to sleep  or the phone ran out of battery.  I just know parents are not going to live forever, one day they will not be here to love you, to criticize you or to get mad at you. Everything will pass, just take everything easy and enjoy it while they are alive. Good luck!

The best solution is to move out as soon as possible. It's not your mother or your wife's fault. It is just not easy to live with others. If you and your wife live with your parents for free, you should help with housework such as cleaning and dishes. You are the middle man, you probably have to learn to be very thoughtful and "act fair" to two most important women in your life. Please do not let your mother feels like you are taking side with your wife and vice versa.  When your mother criticizes your wife with you, you can just tell her "Ok, I will let my wife know" and move on to a different topic, do not try to explain or argue with your mother. You cannot change your mother but you can change the way you react to the situation. 
 
My mother in law is my best friend. I could spend many hours on the phone with her until my husband took the phone away to ask both of us to go to sleep  or the phone ran out of battery.  I just know parents are not going to live forever, one day they will not be here to love you, to criticize you or to get mad at you. Everything will pass, just take everything easy and enjoy it while they are alive. Good luck!

The best solution is to move out as soon as possible. It's not your mother or your wife's fault. It is just not easy to live with others. If you and your wife live with your parents for free, you should help with housework such as cleaning and dishes. You are the middle man, you probably have to learn to be very thoughtful and "act fair" to two most important women in your life. Please do not let your mother feels like you are taking side with your wife and vice versa.  When your mother criticizes your wife with you, you can just tell her "Ok, I will let my wife know" and move on to a different topic, do not try to explain or argue with your mother. You cannot change your mother but you can change the way you react to the situation. 
 
My mother in law is my best friend. I could spend many hours on the phone with her until my husband took the phone away to ask both of us to go to sleep  or the phone ran out of battery.  I just know parents are not going to live forever, one day they will not be here to love you, to criticize you or to get mad at you. Everything will pass, just take everything easy and enjoy it while they are alive. Good luck!

The best solution is to move out as soon as possible. It's not your mother or your wife's fault. It is just not easy to live with others. If you and your wife live with your parents for free, you should help with housework such as cleaning and dishes. You are the middle man, you probably have to learn to be very thoughtful and "act fair" to two most important women in your life. Please do not let your mother feels like you are taking side with your wife and vice versa.  When your mother criticizes your wife with you, you can just tell her "Ok, I will let my wife know" and move on to a different topic, do not try to explain or argue with your mother. You cannot change your mother but you can change the way you react to the situation. 
 
My mother in law is my best friend. I could spend many hours on the phone with her until my husband took the phone away to ask both of us to go to sleep  or the phone ran out of battery.  I just know parents are not going to live forever, one day they will not be here to love you, to criticize you or to get mad at you. Everything will pass, just take everything easy and enjoy it while they are alive. Good luck!

I have been lucky nothing of consequence for decades my Brother less so but he is in the UK so not an issue, well a financial issue, I know he still can not get his head around the US way. However many times I try to explain.
 
Supportive family is of course good, but the medical costs...

You can decide either:
-Leave the baby behind and immigrate with your family:  Immigrant visas are normally valid for 6 months after the interview, so you can try to stay behind as long as possible with your baby. Hopefully your baby will be older than 6 months by this time. You can travel to the US and they will give you a temporary green card stamp on your passport, it takes several months before you will actually receive the green card. You may want to check with USCIS to see if you can leave the US with just this stamp and come back to see your baby as soon as possible. You cannot stay outside of the US for more than 6 months with just a green card unless you apply for Re-entry permit. If you apply for re-entry permit and do expedite request,  no one knows how long it will take, but you can stay outside of the US up to 2 years with it. If you have a green card, you can file for your child and the process take about 1.5 to 2 years depending on the visa bulletin. 
This option costs A LOT of money travel back and forth. It will be a huge financial burden on your sponsor/family. It also takes you away from your baby's MOST CRITICAL PERIOD of life. Baby grows up fast and no amount of money or luxury in this world can buy the time you have with your baby. 
- OR You can stay behind and let your family immigrate first. Your parents can file for you under F2b category. It takes about 11 years for the Philippines or maybe longer in the future, but you can stay with your child until then and both of you can immigrate to the US. He will still be under 21 years old and can adapt to the US just fine. You will be in your 30s, which is still young.  Your family can send money back home to help you raise your child.
 Once your child is born, you will feel different. It will be extremely hard to be away from your child even for one day. 
Best of luck to you. 

Yes file them all. As mentioned, for the most part when the petitioner dies, the petition dies with them. There are only very limited circumstances that a petition for spouses can continue that I’m aware of, but for all other types, no.
 

For completeness, there is humanitarian reinstatement if the I-130 gets approved and the petitioner passes away.
https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/humanitarian-reinstatement
 
But there are a number of requirements (i.e. having residence within the US) , it's not simple, and it is discretionary - they are not compelled to do so.
 
In practical terms, I also support making the second petition.

You should all start the petitions as  soon as possible. If your mom,or any petitioner for a matter, does die that petition dies with them. I know a guy who got all the way through the interview process and was just left to make the trip and his mom, the petitioner, died and then he was informed that his visa was cancelled. 
 
If its a family goal to have your sister in the USA then having more than one application in isnt a bad idea. 

I am sorry but I think a lot of this is wrong. First of all, as far as immgration is concerned, there is no requirement that international students must pay in-state tuition. How much and what rate the student pays is up to the school. In-state tuition qualification is granted to any student when the person that pays the tuition (yourself or your parents) pays taxes to the state where the university is located. Also, in private universities, there is no in-state or out-state, everybody pays the same including international students. In this case, the student’s parents are USC and pays taxes (presumedly) so there is no reason she can’t qualify for in-state tuition.
 
Second of all, it is possible to maintain a different non-immigrant status while waiting for AOS to approved. People do that all the time on H1B, more rare on F1, but it’s possible. Being granted an EAD via a pending I-485 does not change the person’s status. So as long as that person complies with all the requirements of an F1 student, she remain on that status. Now one thing that for sure breaks the F-1 status is using that EAD to work on a job that otherwise an F-1 is not eligible for. Otherwise It’s good.
 

Once she takes advantage of the EAD and gets in-state tuition, then there is no going back to the F1.  She will either successfully get her green card or be denied.  There is no going back to an F1 student once she accepts an AOS benefit.  
 
If she wants to remain an F1 student, then she has to pay international student tuition.  Once she pays in-state tuition, she is no longer an eligible F1 international student.  In-state tuition requires another status than an F1 international student.  That status is based on the pending AOS.  The benefit for in-state tuition is tied to the AOS.  

It'd be faster to hook her up with one of your USC friends  LOL

You can try. My sister has 2 pending I-130 petitions and she was supposed to wait at least 7-14 years to come to the US.  She applied for a student visa and got approved the second time, so good luck! 

My situation is very different. My parents were late 50s and early 60s when I decided to bring them to the U.S.  From a financial standpoint, my husband and I would be able to support my parents. I have a very supportive spouse . I always told my parents “it is hard to come to America,  but it is easy to leave America if things do not work out”. My husband and I did not have any children at that time. Our house has enough room for my parents. 
My mom was having a lot of health issues and
passed out a few times, so my brother had to take her to the ER every time. My dad was also not doing well and had a lot of side effects from the medications he was taking. He ended up having a couple surgeries (for acute health problems) . I wanted to be able to take care my parents badly. One of my dad’s biggest dreams is to come to America, but he declined to move due to his health when I said I would make his dream come true. Fortunately, my dad met a very good old man who was practicing herbal medicine. I don’t know what he gave my dad, but my dad was able to get off all of his medications and has been doing so much better ever since. My parents wanted to see where I lived but they did not pass the interview for tourist visa, so I went ahead and applied for immigrant visa and they passed. 
 
My parents were born shortly after the Vietnam war so they had a very unusual childhood due to the war. The war was lasting for many years, so my parents witnessed and experienced things that I could never imagine or understand. They have wonderful work ethic and positive attitude of life. My parents told me they could survive anywhere they go. They are hardworking people. 
 
When they came to the U.S., they took ESL class offered by a local church. I bought them basic English books to learn. My dad used google translate to translate the entire driver’s manual! My dad had police training when he was younger. He has so much common sense when it comes to directions and being aware of his surroundings. He passed his driving test (took him a couple times due to language barrier) . He began to teach my mom how to drive. She finally got her driver license too (not easy for her but she did it !). They started to work odd jobs like painting and cleaning. They have always paid taxes no matter how much they make. They finally found a full time jobs that offered health insurance. 
 
We have  a Vietnamese doctor in the city where we live, so my parents went to her and she sent my mom to a cardiologist who took her off all of her medications and monitor her yearly. I got my parents into different specialists and got their health problems under control. 
 They lived with my husband and I for the first few years to save as much money as they can. My husband taught them about banking and credit card. He took them to the bank to open a checking account and they got their own credit card. They became more and more independent. My youngest sister got a student visa so she came to stay with us too. It worked out well because my parents were worrying about her since she is the only unmarried child left. My sister was already bilingual so learning a third language like English was not too hard for her. She is young and could learn things 10 times faster than my parents. She does well in school, volunteer at a local hospital, work in campus and do a lot of extra activities at school. She makes my parents proud and want to be in America more.
 
After a few years, my husband and I have a baby so my parents and sister moved out to a house that is a few miles away from my house. They are not my full time babysitter, but they helped me so much. They enjoy my baby and want to see my baby as much as they can. Since they live so close, I stop by their house every single day after work to visit. 
My parents both passed their naturalization interview recently so they are very happy. 
Eveeything seems to be Ok since my parents moved here. They are still working full time and want to work until they are no longer able to work. I feel blessed to have both parents here. 
 

My parent filed a petition for my sister, but the waiting time is about 7 years. She applied for a student visa to come to the U.S. and got denied the first time. She applied again and came to the US to study. She filed for AOS recently and was recommended for approval on the spot at the interview, but she has to wait for her PD to become current to get the green card. In order to file for AOS, the person has be legal in the US and the PD is current on the Dates for Filing or Final Action Date chart on the visa bulletin or they have an employer to sponsor them or marry to a USC, etc.  I am happy she is here with us even though the tuition is very expensive for international student. 

I agree with @aaron2020 
 
Green Card holders (Permanent Resident) are eligible to receive Financial Aid.
 
Financial Aid is any grant or scholarship, loan, or paid employment offered to help a student meet his/her college expenses. Such aid is usually provided by various sources such as federal and state agencies, colleges, high schools, foundations, and corporations. The amount of financial aid that a student receives is determined through federal, state and institutional guidelines. Grants include aid the student receives that need not be repaid; loans must be repaid. Interest rates and repayment terms vary by program. Employment is aid based on an hourly rate for work performed.
 
If the type of financial aid you receive is a loan, you have to repay it back. If the type of financial aid you receive is a grant and/or scholarship, you don't have to repay if back.