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  1. appleblossom
    Yes, everybody does. The immigrant visa is different from the green card. No fee, no GC I’m afraid!
  2. appleblossom
    Tourist visa is for visiting only. If she enters on that and attempts to stay (‘normalize her status’), that’s immigration fraud. Potential lifetime ban from the US and surely not worth the risk? But you’ve been told this repeatedly throughout the thread and are still not listening, so I’m out. I wish them the best of luck, but would strongly suggest you let them know the potential risk they’re taking if they decide not to simply delay Mom’s interview and go through the proper legal route.
  3. appleblossom
    I’m sure they do. But they cannot move until they have visas in hand. Anything else is immigration fraud, and risking a ban from the US. I’m sure they’d rather wait a while longer and do it properly than rush and risk being unable to enter the place they call home, right? So Mom needs to do as everybody has suggested above, and slow her process down until her daughter can catch up. Then they can move together.
  4. appleblossom
    Why can’t the Mom delay her interview and visa until the daughter catches up, as suggested above? She needs to wait to move with her daughter. And it’s the same process for the child as it was for Mom - submit docs, pay fees, wait for interview at the consulate etc.
  5. appleblossom
    As it says, 80% of cases are processed in that time so yes, a lot will be less than the 16 months - but of course the remaining 20% will be more. Good luck.
  6. appleblossom
    You can check processing times here, says 16 months for Vermont - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/
  7. appleblossom
    It's not necessarily 20 months, depends on which service centre it's sent to, it could be much less - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ He can do another I-130 but it'll likely take just as long so not sure I see the point tbh. They can't bring the daughter to the US with the intent to AOS, that's immigration fraud.
  8. appleblossom
    Follow the links already given to you in this thread - the guide on this website, and the website I linked to. Both of those give you step by step instructions and info on the whole process. As well as the guide to sibling sponsorship that @Dashinka gave you above, there is one for parent sponsorship too (link at top of page that says 'guides'). Good luck.
  9. appleblossom
    Depends on the consulate they'll be applying through as the wait time for an interview can vary between 2-3 months and 2 yrs or more. But figure approx 18 months in total for most consulates.
  10. appleblossom
    They start by filing I-130 for him. As it's going to be many years (15-20 ish as a very rough guess??) until he gets a visa, it may be worth your mother petitioning for him as well as back up, just in case. This guide may be useful -
  11. appleblossom
    No, she can always try and visit - just remember that she's not guaranteed entry at any point. She can maximise her chances by bringing plenty of proof of ties to South Korea with her, and making short occasional visits only.
  12. appleblossom
    I guess so, but not sure why you'd need to tbh. I suspect the phone line will just direct you to fill in the form anyway.
  13. appleblossom
    That was exactly what I thought, and I'd never heard of the 'child being born in wedlock' thing either (what century are we in?!?), but seems it may be correct - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/Acquisition-US-Citizenship-Child-Born-Abroad.html
  14. appleblossom
    From what you've said, your son became a US citizen the moment he entered the US with you, assuming he was on a IR2 visa and under 18?
  15. appleblossom
    It was the e-request form - https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDCForm.do?entryPoint=init&sroPageType=ndc Good luck.
  16. appleblossom
    You say 'my son and I entered with an immigrant visa' - were you both entering on IV's, or just him, and when was that? Were you a citizen at the time? You say you left the US in 2017 but what about your son, did he leave then too?
  17. appleblossom
    Clearly not! Different addresses etc didn't register either. 😂 Good luck with yours, I would think now it won't turn up before the 90 days but maybe they'll surprise us. And if you do have to wait, I hope they get it sorted quickly for you.
  18. appleblossom
    It is very odd. What's even stranger is that the reason they gave us for my daughter's SSN not arriving was that apparently there is somebody else in the US with exactly the same name and same DOB as her, so they just decided it must be a mistake as this other person couldn't need another SSN. The idea of two people having the same details and each needing their own SSN clearly hadn't occurred to them. 🙄😂
  19. appleblossom
    Oooh good tip thanks, I have super frizzy hair and usually use Olaplex, I'll give that a try.
  20. appleblossom
    We had the same thing with my daughter's GC. The rest of us got our GC's within 6 weeks of entry, hers just never arrived. And interestingly, she also was the only one that didn't get her SSN either. I had to report the GC as missing and then it turned out that she needed to go and re-do the photo as they didn't think it was acceptable (despite the same photo being fine for the visa, and her previous O visa too!). I've no idea why they didn't contact us to tell us that before though. Once you hit 90 days you can fill in the form to report its non-arrival and then hopefully that will get things moving.
  21. appleblossom
    His age makes no difference. How long ago did you file? If recently, then as said above it’ll be decades before a visa is available to him. Is there any parent that could file for him?
  22. appleblossom
    If you were in the US and applied for your green card via AOS, then forget everything you did! It’s a completely different process for consular processing. There is no adjustment of status for them as they’re applying from outside the US. This step by step guide I found really useful - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition.html The only difference for your parents versus your sister will be the wait. As you say, your parents are immediate relatives, so no wait for them, versus many years for your sister. Good luck.
  23. appleblossom
    It's more complex than that - child must be under 21 by the time the visa is available, but there is the CPSA which can sometimes help. But it won't in this case, as it will just take too long. So both of the children will definitely have aged out by the time a visa is available. Just I-130. I-485 isn't relevant for your sister. Good luck.
  24. appleblossom
    There was no need to delay the approval, as it's the length of the marriage on arrival in the US that determines whether it's a CR1 or IR1, not at the time of approval. As long as you enter after the 2nd anniversary of your marriage, your actual GC should be IR1.
  25. appleblossom
    Top of this sub forum there is a sticky thread called 'DQ to IL threads by consulate' (or something similar). Click on that and in the first post you'll find the CR1 Montreal tracking thread - there's also a spreadsheet in it, look in people's signatures. HTH, best of luck, hope you hear soon.
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