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No. AP cannot be expedited, no matter who asks.

There is nothing he can do but wait it out I'm afraid.

You have to be honest, so include whatever information you have, and then you can put 'unknown' in other sections, and perhaps explain that there has been no contact for years. Good luck.

It might well do. But what does 'in the process of applying' mean? What stage are you at? And who exactly is on the application and how old are they? Your mother is happy to live apart from the rest of you? And potentially not be able to visit? If she isn't bothered about being in the US then she needs to leave asap, before she gets a ban.

More info is needed to help you. Is this a DV lottery case? Who was the principal applicant? Which country? When was your interview and when did the rest of your family get their visas issued?

Are you also interviewing in Yerevan? You haven’t completed your timeline - please do so so that we can help you, and so you can help others going forward. Thx.

Unlikely that was it, only certain occupations will have an agent, anybody applying in a STEM field (as I did) won’t have one. It was the most ‘senior’ reference I provided so that could have been the reason why he was chosen for a check.

I didn’t have an agent or future employer. It was a referee.

They usually just do background checks on them but they certainly can do - one of mine was contacted for both my O and EB1 visa apps (strangely the same person each time). He was phoned I think.

Ditto. Even my own family are a stretch after a couple of weeks. The thought of my mother-in-law staying for longer than that would fill me with dread. 😂

Most people can only take a week or two a year to be with family. Jobs and other commitments don’t allow months in another country for most. If your sibling wants to live in the US with their family then they need to acquire the proper visa.

No, forget the extension. They’re only granted for a very good reason i.e. if the applicant is in hospital and can’t be moved. Far too risky as the chances of a refusal are high. If you want your sibling to travel with your parents to help them, it would be better for your parents to move their travel date.

Perfectly normal. AP can take a week, a month, or a year, all you can do is wait unfortunately. Good luck.

Looking at your previous posts, I'm guessing it's because you met in January and married only 2 months later just before his work visa expired? So they may have a suspicion it's a green card marriage.

Here you go, this sets it out in fairly clear 'layman's' speak - https://bizlegalservices.com/2023/02/17/recently-revised-cspa-policy-impact-on-consular-processing-cases/ HTH.

The DOS website isn't relevant, as it was a policy change, not a law change.

A student visa is highly unlikely to be granted if all their family is in the US. Frankly I think they're going to struggle to get another B visa. They should leave by 3rd December (aim for the week before just in case of flight delays) and they can try and return again but wouldn't risk trying to come back too soon personally. It sort of sounds like they're trying to live in the US on a tourist visa, which obviously isn't allowed. Have you or your parents petitioned for her to get a green card?

It's just the backlog of people waiting for an interview, you're in a long line unfortunately. Hopefully you'll hear early next year, good luck.

Personally I wouldn't make any plans based on current processing times for the K1. By the time you're a citizen and then can apply for that, they'll have changed anyway and could be much longer than the CR1. Why are you waiting until Feb 2027 to apply for citizenship if you got your GC in December 2021? You can apply 90 days before the 5 year anniversary, so September 2026. You can visit your fiancee in the interim either way. Just make sure you keep up your time in the US for your citizenship application. Good luck.

You're right, there isn't really a 'try before you buy' option, unless you qualify for an employment based visa maybe? I wouldn't plan to stay for 6 months, that might raise red flags but also if you get stuck for some reason (i.e. you're ill or can't get a flight - remember that Iceland volcano that erupted a few years ago and grounded all flights for quite some time?), then you don't want to risk overstaying. So plan a bit less, take lots of proof of ties to your home country (ideally leave of absence from a job if you have one, property, etc), proof of funds, and a return ticket. Ideally stay out of the US for as long as you were in before trying to return i.e. if you stayed for 5 months, then be outside of the US for 5 months before you go back. You could try entering again sooner, but it would be risky. Good luck.

Congrats! But it’s not that consulates work differently. They all follow the law, they don’t have any discrepancy over it. You simply calculated your adjusted age incorrectly. It’s no longer different for those applying via consular processing rather than AOS, they both use the same date now (a change brought in last year). The date a visa became available to you was way before 03/01/24. https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-a-chapter-7#S-F-4 Prior to the policy change you wouldn’t have been eligible for a visa, but thanks to that, you were. Glad it all worked out for you, good luck with the move.

It’s not clear from your post. Have you all been granted visas, or are you still in the process of applying?

Once the visa is in hand, I wouldn't do it before personally.

Perhaps it was different 10 years ago, but it's certainly not the case now, as has been explained to you previously. Now the consulate stage is the only variable, the I-129f processing time isn't anything to do with the country of the applicant and all are processed alongside each other. There are numerous threads grouped by month (not country) in the K-1 forum if you wanted to have a read and see how things are done now. In any event, the OP has decided on the CR1 visa, which everybody seems to agree is the most sensible choice for his/her situation.

The quickest it would be is around 2-3 months, even at the quickest consulates. But it can be up to 2 years if it's a consulate with a big backlog. So where will your wife be interviewing?