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Did you check the documents tab? Are you sure there isn't a RFE or approval notice there? If not it shouldn’t be too much longer - approx 16-17 months is the average so hopefully you’ll hear in the summer. Then the NVC stage is super quick, and the wait for interview stage can also be super quick or can be really long depending on the consulate. If you fill your timeline in then you’ll be able to get more info.

No, you’ve already paid it.

Not if you've visited since you left the country. "Important: Police certificates expire after two years, unless the certificate was issued from your country of previous residence and you have not returned there since the police certificate was issued."

Are you actually resident in Hong Kong? Being a citizen of a country doesn't usually mean you can interview there. But I don't think it's worth it anyway as you should get an interview fairly soon - switching consulates will add a delay now.

Which consulate? Please fill in your timeline. You can search for interview reviews for your particular consulate which may help. Not sure what you mean by your lawyer says she should 'apply for the forgiveness', do they mean a waiver? There's no point in doing that if her 3 year ban will end in September, as the waiver takes years anyway so she's better off just waiting the ban out. When is her interview?

Are you following the official guidelines? This step explains the differences - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/affidavit-of-support.html

Under CPSA, the processing time for the I-130 is subtracted from the actual age of the applicant to give an 'adjusted' age. So yes, if the I-130 did take 3 years then he'd have until his 24th birthday before aging out. But it's also not 'frozen' when the I-130 is submitted. But I don't think it's relevant as he can apply for AOS now from what you've said. Good luck.

You submitted the form too early, it's more than 90 days from either entry or fee payment, whichever is later. So try again tomorrow - https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/ndc It'll be something simple I'm sure, for my daughter she just had to go and have her photo retaken. Good luck.

So if interview and waiver application were both in 2022 then you didn't leave it more than a year between the two anyway?

It’s possible the original application is dead and a whole new one needs to be filed if it’s been a long time. But we have no idea of your timelines, visa category or what kind of case you’re asking about. Please fill in your timeline and profile so that we have basic info and can try and help when you have a question.

There’s no point contacting the consulate, they have nothing to do with it until right at the end of your process when your case gets passed to them for interview. NVC is who you apply to for your visa once your case is passed to them after I-130 approval, but you’re not at that stage yet either. If the I-130 was pending then it’s definitely USCIS you need. Was it an online application or paper? If online then upload the death certificate there. If paper then send it via mail with a covering letter to the USCIS office processing your I-130, and I’d also try the ‘Ask Emma’ online chat. Good luck.

I think Boiler was wondering why not just wait the ban out if it’s only 3 years - rather than filing the I-601 which has a similar processing time.

Past February as in February 2025? Or 2024? As @OldUser said, it's about 16 months on average so if it was 2025 you won't hear anything until next year, if it was 2024 then hopefully very soon. Good luck.

No, just submitting a petition for her doesn't mean she can stay. She can only stay once she has applied for adjustment of status, but that would be 15-20 years away (if she's still in the US by then). Her daughter may be able to be included, it will depend on if she ages out or not by the time a visa is available to them. Her asylum will be decided long before she'd get a visa through you, but definitely submit the I-130 asap to have it running in the background just in case. Best of luck.

If you could also fill in the rest of your timeline it would be appreciated. Good luck.

Oh, totally different then!! So in answer to your first post, visa quotas/limits aren't relevant to you at all. They are only relevant to immigrant visas for other non-immediate family relatives (like F1!). Best of luck.

Ah, maybe! I just saw the original F1 mention and the question about visa quotas, if it’s K-1 then that’s very different.

It is a shame, could you have petitioned your son/daughter before or have you only recently moved to the US? How old is s/he? Any other quicker route to a visa for him/her? Employment based maybe?

Those people will be immediate relatives - spouses, minor children, or parents. There is no wait for immediate relatives. Every other category is subject to visa availability and because of the quota you asked about above, and far more applications being received each year for those categories, there is a big backlog. The Visa Bulletin is what you need to look at. It's released monthly, and tells you which Priority Date is now eligible to receive visas. Once yours is 'current' (i.e. earlier than the date on the Visa Bulletin) you'll be eligible for a visa, but not before that point. Here is this months, and as you can see the date for your category is 15 March 2016, so those who submitted I-130's prior to that are now getting interviews scheduled and receiving visas. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-may-2025.html So yes, ~10 years but realistically probably more, as the backlog tends to grow each year and it's not linear. If you go back and look at previous Visa Bulletins you'll see what I mean. For example if you look at the bulletin from May 2020 you'll see that the date back then was March 2014. So in 5 years, it's actually only moved forward 2 years. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2020/visa-bulletin-for-may-2020.html Are you the petitioner or applicant?

Current date on the Visa Bulletin for F1 is March 2016, so those who applied before that date are now eligible for visas. So maybe 10 years or so as a rough guess? Just bear in mind that if you or whoever you petitioned for marries then they move in to the F3 category which is an even longer wait.

Depends on their DQ date. It's done by that, so if they were DQ'ed first then yes.

What's more important is the category and Priority Date, that will give you a (very) rough idea of how long you may have to wait when you look at the Visa Bulletin, although wait times tend to grow with every year that passes. So assuming F1, what is the Priority Date and which country were you born in?

Forget ChatGPT, that's not a place to go to for immigration advice. Although they are actually right on the visa category, children of LPR's are never immediate relatives. He is F2A. Your brother's PD wasn't current in December 2023 (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-december-2023.html) so he couldn't have filed for AOS then, that lawyer isn't correct. And the other lawyer doesn't seem to have taken in to account that the time the I-130 takes to be processed gets added on to his age anyway. So even if the I-130 does take 3 years, that would mean he would still be eligible for a visa under F2A until he turns 24. But if your brother's PD is December 2023, then he can file for AOS right now, his PD date for filing is current and has been for a long time. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-may-2025.html https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/visa-availability-priority-dates/when-to-file-your-adjustment-of-status-application-for-family-sponsored-or-employment-based-112 https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/concurrent-filing-of-form-i-485 There still won't be a visa available to him until his PD is current on Table A of the Visa Bulletin though, but he can at least file for his AOS. Good luck.

Maybe they meant the green card fee? You don't pay it at the consulate, but they do give you a piece of paper with info about it, and you then pay it online once you have the visa. That may have been what they were thinking of.

You’ve already been told that consular processing is your best option in your other thread. But you’ve also not answered the question posed in that thread - are you the sibling of the USC, or a derivative applicant?