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Yes, it applies to everybody. My I-140 was approved in 8 days, not sure about the 3 months, where did that come from? If you applied using premium processing then it's a decision within 45 days. And if you didn't, then it's about a year. I didn't submit any evaluation for my masters, but you should go with whatever your lawyers suggest. Good luck. Congrats! Hope it's not too long until you get your IL.

The Philippines has just chosen to prioritise other categories within their limit instead - for example, EB3, they've issued an average of 1105 each month just for that category alone. Whereas the DR has only issued 8 EB3's in total across the same 3 months as they have chosen to prioritise F2B's.

If you have grounds for it you can request an expedite with proof of the reason (i.e. medical records). Your PD wasn't current until February so you didn't join the queue until then.

There's no info in that article about Wole Soyinka not living in the US, but even if he didn't he may had other ties i.e. had a home in the US, bank accounts there, a US driving licence, a business there, filed tax returns there, etc. Presumably none of which your children will have. It's not just about physical time in the country. I'm also not sure what the point of getting them citizenship is if they don't even want to live in the US with their GC's? There are a lot of obligations on citizens in terms of taxes, selective service if any of your children are boys, etc, so it may be better to let them make their own minds up on that if they do decide they want to live there in the future. In any event, your children cannot get citizenship at the moment from what you've said. https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-h-chapter-5

No, they can't get citizenship from the UK. They are also risking their LPR status by only visiting once a year and having their home in the UK, I'm surprised they haven't already had issues at POE with that travel history.

Might be worth having another read of your previous thread.

This was answered in your previous thread - https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/816218-i-130-approved-but-i-turned-out-22/#comment-10934082 I'm not very good at calculating CPSA, I have it as a little bit later. Age on 1st July - 23 years and approx 4 months. Take off time the I-130 was pending (30 months) and that means your CPSA age for next month's VB is approx 20 years and 10 months, so you've almost aged out in to F2B but not quite. @Boiler is a pro at calculating CPSA ages, maybe he can help.

None of us can help unless you give more info. Which visa category, what is your priority date and which consulate? Please fill in your timeline.

What visa type?

You need to give more info - which visa category? Please fill in your timeline, thx.

Where is your son now? Not sure what the relevance of the Covid shots is, as he’ll need to meet the requirements however he applies. Or apply for a waiver.

It doesn’t sound as though either of your jobs would lead to a work visa to be honest. But depends what you mean by ‘heavy plant and construction’, can you elaborate? If not, then Diversity Visa if eligible, or investment visa if you have the funds?

Yes, yes. And again yes.

There's never a guarantee, it's hard to help though without knowing a lot more info - what documents you were asked for, which consulate, what your PD is etc. Not sure what you mean about submitted to DHL, do you mean you sent the documents via DHL?

They may have done 3 years ago - I'm only going on the past 18 months or so when I've been tracking it. Lowest I've seen is 5 days (so would be over a week from I-130/I-140 approval, to allow for the transfer), highest was 72 days IIRC. But previous timescales aren't really relevant tbh as they do fluctuate so much. Just keep an eye on that processing page and that'll give you an idea. Good luck.

I'd wonder if that was a typo or somebody winding you up to be honest - that wouldn't even give enough time for it to be transferred to NVC! Go with the official info in the link above and then be pleasantly surprised if it's sooner, but ours was accurate to the day from that. P.S. Your time starts when your status shows 'case was sent to the department of state'. If your status still says 'case was approved' then it hasn't been transferred yet.

No, that won't have any impact. There is usually a slowdown in the summer anyway, as the consulate deals with more student/visitor visa apps. But it doesn't look like things have slowed down yet? IL's were sent out in May. They're usually only sent once a month, you missed the cut off for May but I'm sure will have one in June. London is one of the quickest consulates around. Good luck.

No problem. It does fluctuate, I've never seen it as short as 1-3 days though. The longest I've seen was about 70 days I think. But just check it each Monday and you'll be able to see what cases they're working on to give you an idea. Good luck.

Any immigrant visa - it's the same process for all of them. See the webpage above which gives you the current dates NVC are working on, it's updated every Monday.

As above, 6 weeks or so for the Welcome Letter, then the timescale will large depend on you and how quickly you submit your civic docs etc. Once you've done that, and been Documentary Qualified, you'll be added to the queue for an interview, and luckily London is one of the quickest consulates. 6-8 weeks from DQ to interview as a rough guide, could be quicker depending on when in the month you're DQ'ed (there's a cut off point, as interview letters are only sent out once a month usually). All of the info about what happens next is on the website - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-2-begin-nvc-processing.html Good luck.

It's about 6 weeks for the Welcome Letter at the moment. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html

Again, when is your interview? Forget your UK application, it isn't relevant. No idea what a noc is but not sure why you'd need anybody's signature. Just take your most recent payslips, so you have them if asked - but you're not likely to need them anyway.

Your UK visa application has no relevance to your US one.

If you click on the 'timeline' section of somebody's profile, then if they have filled it in, it gives you their info. Seems they had the interview in April. Please fill yours in too to 'pay it forward' and help others. Thx.

I understand stressed, but unless there is something you haven't told us about (which would rather defeat the point of you posting on this forum), nothing you've mentioned is even relevant to your application. You may not even get a chance to present any documentation anyway, the decision may have been made from your DS-160, and even if you do then you just need to show proof of ties. It seems you've had a B visa before, so you know the process anyway. And having had a B visa granted in the past means this new application is more likely to be successful too. You were asked above about when your interview is? Is it soon?