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I took my Welcome Letter I think.

Your first post in this thread says the petition was approved in June 2023? Her DOB has also changed! If the petition was approved earlier then that doesn't help but I'd double check your dates really carefully and do a CPSA calculation yourself (there are online calculators you can use if you're not sure how to do it) just to be sure.

My own daughter is going to uni in September in the UK, but she'll have spent well over a year living here before leaving. She's got a job (taking a leave of absence from it and back working there in the holidays), she will have filed taxes, she has a driving licence, bills, parents and sibling that still live here, her name is on the lease, etc. Even with all that she'll be making sure she comes back for every vacation and for occasional weekends so she's in the US for at least half of every year, and that's still a risk. Just coming back for the summer without having those ties first and without any other visits would be an even bigger risk I wouldn't be prepared to take personally. If she only plans to come back for summers, then I'd either delay things (unless of course her aging out takes care of that for you), or I'd get her a re-entry permit. But of course she'd need to be in the US long enough to get that first. As above, to work out if she's aged out in to F2B or not, you'll need to do some careful sums. When exactly was her petition approved?

The days are right, but that's 2.5 years. 😊

You can check current processing times for that here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html It's usually super quick, then it's just the wait for an interview, and that varies hugely depending on the consulate.

It's usually released sometime between Feb and April.

No, if you'd applied for her then she'd have been an immediate relative with no wait for a visa to become available. She'd have had it a few years ago. Your husband's case will have been very different if he came on a K1 visa. Your stepdaughter is getting an immigrant visa and will therefore do the interview, biometrics etc, in Spain before that is granted. Then when she enters the US she'll be a 'green card' holder/permanent resident immediately. Just visiting once a year may well put that status at risk, she'd need to live in the US in all of her school vacations at the very least. If she does get a visa at some point this year (could well still take longer - F2A could retrogress and she could end up aging out in to F2B, no way of knowing), could she transfer and finish her studies in the US maybe?

Sorry saw this too late! I would have said to register them all together, as you're all applicants - that's what we did. But hopefully it will be fine even if the others were added later though?

Nothing to do at the moment, you're still a long way off a visa being available as advised in your last thread -

We weren't allowed to at Boston, had to go in the visa line. Fair enough as we weren't actually LPR's at that point. And within 90 days, ours took about 6 weeks. You can track it using the receipt number from when you paid the fee.

Not sure what you mean by "until the process is done", it sounds like you want her to stay in the US for the next few years whilst you wait for her immigrant visa? Even if she can get a visitor visa (unlikely), she can’t stay longer than 6 months on it. Current wait for an appointment at Lagos is 402 days. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html As above, it would make much more sense for you to visit her, that’s likely to be your only option anyway (or meet in a third country).

Yes. Processing times are here - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Your profile/timeline is quite confusing, it seems to be for spouse sponsorship but you’ve posted in a thread about parent sponsorship. And you have both India and Armenia on your profile? Your overall processing time (I-130 is only the first step) will vary depending on those factors.

Our was about the same time, really odd. We had two different doctors see the 4 of us, neither did any checking at all.

How strange, I wonder if it depends on the doctor. Ours were only 6 months ago ish, and none of us were even asked about it, both doctors just ticked the box to say we had a 'varicella history' even though it wasn't on our medical summaries. I had a photo of my son with spots on his face all ready to go and everything. 😂

Just need to wait for (hopefully) approval in a year or so. Good luck.

NVC are usually very quick with enquiries. As per the link I gave, USCIS have nothing to do with this, they are just approving the I-130 and that's the same no matter which category you come under. So all you can do is wait until that is approved and your case is with NVC, then contact them as above.

What's happened in the past isn't really relevant, and you can't assume the same will happen again. There may be no more mass expedites at all (certainly, that seems to be the case judging from emails people are being sent, as above), or even if there are they are unlikely to be in the exact same months as the previous year.

Not sure why the 'sighs' was needed to somebody that was just trying to help and give you a heads up on what will be required. That is directly related to the immigration process, what happens in the country you're applying is isn't relevant to US immigration law. If USCIS requires a custody order and/or permission from the father to remove the child from the country, then that will be required no matter what the customs of the home country are.

Have you been DQ’ed yet? It’s about a year from then according to recent posts -

Their A number is on the visa. https://www.uscis.gov/forms/filing-fees/uscis-immigrant-fee/immigrant-fee-payment-tips-on-finding-your-a-number-and-dos-case-id They can pay it after entering the US by the way, it just won’t be produced and sent until they’ve done so.

Says to allow up to a week. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-3-pay-fees.html

You said above that tracking says it took a week, so doesn't that mean you know it got there? Definitely don't send another if you know it has been delivered.

That's not relevant to your sister-in-law, as she cannot adjust status. It's Table A on the Visa Bulletin that you need to look at, it's released monthly so you can keep an eye on it and see if the date moves, but as said above, it's going to be decades before she's eligible for a visa anyway. So best to just file asap and then forget about it for a while. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-february-2024.html

It's nothing to do with the consulate, it's your sister-in-law's country of birth that is relevant to the Visa Bulletin/PD. AFAIK (I'm sure somebody else will correct me if I'm wrong), cross-chargeability would only apply to her spouse's country of birth, she can't use her parents. Only derivatives can use their parents country, so she'll come under the Mexico column unless she has a spouse born elsewhere.

Ignore the above, I edited it, thought it was a spouse visa case.