TempunAlex

Hi, I am going to compile a very very large list of links and or screenshots of hundreds of posts by multiple members that this does not and cannot apply to. They are plain just rude and condenscending in every aspect. Some even love to bold certain sections of their replies to make it clear they are being stern and bullying. That's the whole reason why I steered away from here after joining a few months back. I now see the owner has made himself present so maybe it would be nice to get input straight from him on how to address this and make the forum community friendly. If veteran members are stressed from answering a great many threads across the entire forum, they should simply take a break. There are absolutely no excuses as to why anyone should think they can reply to anyone else with a tone that undermines them and sometimes plain old ridicules them for everyone to jump in on and piggy back off of that behavior. I look forward to improvement and enjoying many topics across the board with fellow members moving forward and hope this greatly changes in the near future.

You're right, a lot of things can happen but as I stated before it's on a person to person criteria. My entire family lives in the US so I wouldn't have any need whatsoever to come back here after my arrival in the US. The USCIS estimate is based on a 80% over a span of 6 months. USCIS hired over 3000 employees in January and has since started processing cases not on a month to month basis but on a 40-50% done move to next month basis. This means that the spread among 4-5 months of processing has rendered their estimate system in place on their website useless. I am unsure if It's allowed to post external links here but here is a link to an excel spreadsheet we keep on "view only" mode for the mass public by data scraping case tracker every single day for changes in cases. We have exact dates on when cases were submitted, received, RFEd, and even Approved so we can accurately tell what the processing times are right now. Which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 months/14 months and dropping. The months of January and February specifically have way less cases than the rest of the year so in a matter of about 1-2 weeks USCIS will begin working on March/April 2022. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sN2bo1xZhs8oVU6-QDUdBXBX2_ci8_QJ0wiz59Gp6H4/edit?fbclid=IwAR0_dTQNIXl44Yc08XXDS-bLN6dXYcDAqEsHm2XpU1n9XngKSAnRaRSSDmU#gid=1603169151 Anyone interested just take a look at said link and save it for yourself to keep yourself posted. USCIS at current speed is completing nearly 5000 cases per month right now, with last week being somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200+ and this week possibly reaching that or exceeding it as well. I'm a data guy so I love keeping track of this kind of stuck and helping to provide accurate numbers.

You've been excellent, I've actually had you answer me in other threads before. The problem is when other people don't read the entirety of the thread and then post things undermining people's choices in the route they took for immigration without knowing why they did it. I wish there were more rules in place to prevent those type of discussions. I don't think I've been here long, probably only since October last year. I mostly lurk and read here and there. Thanks btw!

I think "Issues" depend on each individual. None of those listed would be an issue for us. Including filing more paperwork for AOS. I've always wondered why people find it an issue to not be able to travel for 8 months. What's the purpose of applying to go live in the US if you just want to travel outside the country immediately after getting into it to live with your partner. They're not really issues, they're more like small hiccups depending on the person. Also I have a BoFA account in the US and it was very easy to open with foreign documentation through my fiance but I don't even use the account. Anyway, moderator may close the thread, I came here asking for 1 thing and it turned into something different completely. The forum is not very welcoming because of all the people trying to 1 up each other constantly in posts. Hope the best to you all.

It's not optimistic, I'm in dosens of K1 visa groups on facebook and other places where we have data miners. USCIS is processing over 1000 cases a week for the past 4 weeks. They're already going through Feb 2022 cases. We even have excel sheets with updates on % of cases approved per month and what is left. August 2022 is going to be processed sometime in July/August at this pace and NVC is taking no more than 45 days to process and send over to embassy (depending on embassy). There's not that many "Issues" with a K1 other than not being able to work until your Greencard is approved and mailed to you which is also dropping in wait time lately. Seeing most K1 filers get it in about 4-6 months. How come every time I ask a question in this forum, people start going off the rails trying to beat on others saying "Oh that's bad, you shouldn't have applied to that" instead of actually just giving concrete answers to the questions asked. so Unmarried over 21 for Citizens falls under the F1 category? I didn't know that, I thought F1 was for students for some reason.

Right, but the priority date for NVC has been stuck in 2015 for a year now. That means that I would have probably a 2-3 year more wait before I can even travel to the US. With my K1 I'd be there end of this year and just waiting for my green card (Before anyone starts saying I can't work etc, We already know this and I have plenty of money saved to accommodate my lack of financial support to the household) If my Father were to become a Citizen would I get faster processing at NVC?

Hello everyone I have a bit of a pickle here and need help figuring it out. In October 2017 my father applied for me through an I-130 for Unmarried son over 21. We made a case inquiry about it in 2021 and my father just received a letter stating our case would be expedited since it is now outside of normal processing time (been abou 66 months). I called USCIS and they indeed confirmed this and that we would have news within a week. Fast foward to 2022 and my fiance and I decied to apply for a I-129F (K1) in August. If my case were to get approved for the I-130 would I still have to wait a very very, very long time at NVC to get processed? or does getting expedited at USCIS for an I-130 also expedite you at NVC? I want to know because if that's the case it would be best to stick with the K1 for speed in processing rather than have to wait another 1-2 years more for NVC for my I-130. My second question is, if my father were to change his status from PR to Citizen would that speed up the process at NVC in any way? He's been studying for it and might take the exam soon. Any input is greatly appreciated!

If you want to be hypercritical of wording and condencending about terminology, sure that's what I meant. At the end of the day OP understood my post. I specify K3 as submission and not I-129F because I-129F is a general application for all the K categories 1 through 4.

In the past 2 weeks I've seen roughly 20 people get approved (that posted about it) on FB groups from mid 2022 to late 2022 that submitted a K3 and somehow got approved. I don't know what the logic behind it is or how it's working but you have nothing to lose to submit a K3 after filing your I-130 and getting a case number. There's even a FB group that is for people that submit K3 forms every couple of weeks until I guess USCIS gets tired of it and approves them. They're free afterall.

Thank you for making this clear. Some of the rules written for quite a few laws regarding immigration can be a little complex and allow a margin for error in interpretation. I guess going down the E2 route is a no go. I'll just patiently wait for our turn to come up with the K1 and hope for the best.

I never said I was married, I could marry and go down a different route, I applied for a K1 since she's my fiance, I even just said in my last post she's my fiance.

The why is because I am waiting on a K1 visa we filed a few months ago but I do have the capital to go through an E2 if I were legible but unfortuantely my country is not on the treaty list. I was not aware that the E2 would not allow me to change status and have immigrant intent down the road so this is definitely off the table. My fiance and I are planning on opening several businesses and It was just a thought. Thank you guys for your insight! Waiting patiently it is then for another 10 months or so haha.

Do you have any idea what that waiver is? Would love to do more research on this and that seems like great help. Thank you!

There are 2 ways to qualify for the visa according to various sources including gov website. I will paste here what it says : ":Citizens of non-treaty countries can qualify to apply for an E-2 visa through one of two ways. Either by taking up the passport/citizenship of a treaty country or derivatively i.e. if the applicant investor is married to a citizen of a treaty country, they may be eligible to apply for an E-2 visa." This means that if you are from a country that is not within the treaty but you are married to a person that is from a country of the treaty ou can still apply. What if your spouse is from the United States? Would that qualify since they are from the country of origin of the treaty? That is what I am trying to figure out. Thank you!

Hey guys, I've been researching online about the requirements for an E-2 Visa for investment. For some strange reason there's absolutely nothing regarding having an American Spouse. The law for said visa states that the applicant must either be from a treaty country or have a spouse that's a citizen from any of the countries on the treaty list. However there is 0 information as to if having a United States Citizen as a spouse counts. Can someone share some insight on this? Thank you!