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OK. I'm still confused, if you can answer the questions asked by others above that will help.

Are you asking this on behalf of somebody else? As Boiler said, your post history/timeline is very confusing.

That sounds odd, surely the only way to pay another visa fee is to reapply for another visa? I can't see how the system would let you pay twice for the same visa application. Could you keep the 8th appointment instead and not reschedule that one, even if you have to move things around to make it? That would be far less hassle in the long run unless you can't attend for a completely immovable reason.

So you can leave your job, no problem. You can't travel until you have AP, but once you have that you're good to go. Good luck with it.

How are you applying for a green card? Just checking as you've posted this in the spouse visa section, so your spouse is sponsoring you, it's not an employment based sponsorship?

Yes, you could have a US credit card or bank account whilst outside the country, but in that case they wouldn’t have local US transactions on the statements. Providing statements that show regular transactions at stores in the US for things like gas, bills, groceries etc are what will show you’re living in the US.

12 years is ridiculously optimistic. Here’s this months VB, you can see the current date on it for that category is April 2007, so 16.5 years ago. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-october-2023.html But it’s not linear, that category doesn’t move much so don’t expect it to advance quickly - @Boiler said the other day that it’s only moved forward 1 month in the past 3 years. You can see all previous VB’s on the website to give you an idea. So at that rate you’re looking at a heck of a lot longer than 16.5 years, which is why you shouldn’t expect anything before 20 years or even far, far longer. Then add on the time it will take for your brother to sponsor his children and that’s potentially another decade or two - more if any of them are married by then and he he has to become a citizen first.

It does mention it on the website, yours did go quite a bit over the week it says to allow before continuing on to the next step though.

There's no money to pay for them now, there would only be a fee if a visa is available for them in many years. No chance for the children aged 10+ IMO, possibly a chance for the younger - but which country are they from? I assume your brother knows sponsoring his then adult children would also take a long time and there won't be any way of them all moving together?

Perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. Usual time from DQ date to interview date for Ankara seems to be about 5 months, but I believe Turkish citizens are given priority from what I've read on VJ, so your wife may have a longer wait. This thread may be useful -

No, they’ll all be uploaded at the NVC stage, much later. How old are the children? Unless they’re infants and the I-130’s take a really long time to be approved they’re likely to age out, so it would just be his wife anyway.