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I answered this above? I-140 approval time will depend on if you/your employer pays for premium processing or not. If so then you get a response within 45 days, if not, then about a year. Probably no point in paying for PP though as your Priority Date won't be current for a while so you may pay $3k for nothing. You need to look at the Visa Bulletin each month to see what the current date is, as you can see from below it's currently 15th Jan 2023, meaning only those who applied before that date can get a visa. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-june-2024.html Your lawyer will be able to advise you on it all as well. Were you born in the UK? Note that it's country of birth that matters for the Visa Bulletin, not the country you're applying in. Good luck.

Sorry, meant F3 category - too late to edit my post!

At some point it will be cancelled, you're no longer eligible for a visa. When your parent naturalises, they can petition for you again. It's a shame they didn't naturalise before you got married and then you could have just moved to F1 category and waited a bit longer rather than starting all over again.

A visit visa wouldn't usually be enough - most consulates want proof of residency to avoid 'consulate shopping'. So if she moves to be with you and is resident in SA, then you can ask to transfer your case there, but I wouldn't expect the request to be granted if she's only visiting you for a short period of time. Good luck.

Personally I'd make sure I had proof that the job met the requirements of the visa at the time of interview. A title may not do that. So I'd get HR to tweak the letter and add that in but your call. Good luck.

Yes, exactly - each consulate can tackle their backlog (if they have one) as they see fit, it's up to them which categories to prioritise for interview. Plus each consulate has different capacity for interviews, some can do thousands more a month than others due to space and staffing.

Does it have a job description/list of duties? Or are you providing other evidence for that? Is it an EB-2A or EB-2B app?

It's perfectly normal, USCIS is just migrating all cases online. It has no effect on your PD, you've still got many years to go. WAC is Californian Service Centre, IOE is online apps.

Then it's nowhere near current yet, and won't be for years. Which country is your brother from? Please don't type in all caps, it's considered 'shouting'. Thanks.

He's right, just proof of vacationing together isn't proof of a romantic relationship - I've vacationed with friends lots of times! What other proof did you provide?

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.