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Ok. Then I suspect that’s why you’ve not heard anything, her AOS will be rejected as there won’t be a visa available to her for many years. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-january-2025.html I’m not sure if they will accept the I-130 if you’ve filed concurrently, or if you’ll need to refile that.

How old is your daughter and is she married?

See the above post, @RBS is in ‘proper’ Admin Processing, unfortunately it’s likely to take a lot longer than 2 weeks.

Congrats!

Ah, ok. Not a lot to do but wait it out unfortunately. Good luck.

And were you born in the UK? If so, have you ever lived in another country - particularly a high risk one like Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria etc?

Only for AOS applicants - still required for immigrant visa applicants. https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-waives-covid-19-vaccination-requirement-for-adjustment-of-status-applicants

If your OH is a student, surely she has some kind of school break/vacation coming up? It looks as though she’s in the UK so she should have about a month off for Easter, maybe a reading week too? Can she not come to visit you then?

It sounds like you’ve already had your case transferred if the old number isn’t working. Which consulate to and from?

You need to fill this form in - https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDCForm.do?sroPageType=ndc&entryPoint=init

As long as you’ve declared it to the doctor/ticked that box on the form you were given, then all you can do now is wait and see if it comes up at interview. Good luck.

Has it been empty for the whole of 2024? If not, then you may still need to file FBAR - do double check.

Which lawyers? Ours certainly didn’t say we couldn’t travel on ESTA with a pending petition, and we did so with no issues.

That’s my point, each doctor is different - we had no document but booked our medicals with no issues.

Not necessarily, some doctors are happy to schedule medicals without the interview letter (ours was). But booking it too early definitely wouldn’t be a good idea as then the visa validity period would be reduced.

As Crazy Cat said, it will depend on the visa category. If it’s an immediate relative (spouse, dependent child or parent) then about 16 months is the current processing time, you can check it here - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Then the timescale for the second stage of the process will depend on which consulate, it can vary a lot depending on that.

Are his other kids US citizens already too? Just that you only mention him and his wife being USC’s, but as she’d need to be away from Pakistan for at least a couple of months probably, I’m assuming she won’t want to leave the kids behind so just wanted to check they’ll be ok to enter the US. And how’s her health insurance? If it’s good then I concur with the above, if possible I’d go with her giving birth in the US. Good luck to them.

Could you not finish your degree where you are now? Even if you had to repeat a year but get credit for the other years? As Boiler said, finding an employer to petition you with only 3 years experience and no degree is going to be very difficult. You’d usually need more specialist experience to justify the cost/time/hassle for them, and the job must still require a degree. Where are you now if not in your home country, are you in the US on another visa status?

Follow the instructions on the usual website - the consulate specific instructions can be found there. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview.html Because Islamabad has such a big backlog and the visa will only be valid for 6 months from the date of the medical, I agree with the above - don’t schedule it until just before a confirmed interview date.

Ah, really sorry to hear that, I was hoping that wasn’t going to be the case.

If you want him to be able to move and work straight away, then it may be that your best option is to get married and then apply for his spousal visa. There is also the fiance visa (K1), but he wouldn’t be able to work straight away with that and it costs quite a bit more overall so probably not ideal if you’re aiming to save to pay off debts. Start with the Visa Guides at the top of the page, which set all of the options out in laymans speak so you can compare them. https://www.visajourney.com/guides/ @Crazy Cat also has a fabulous comparison chart of the two visa routes which would be brilliant if he doesn’t mind posting that again. But the whole process for a spouse visa is going to be at least 18 months - so you might be better off doing it the other way around and living in Ireland first as I think it’s much quicker. Best of luck.

June might just be ok, luckily London is one of the the quickest consulates. So once the I-130 is approved, the case will be sent to NVC, and you’ll wait for the Welcome Letter to start that stage. That’s pretty quick (only 10 days at the moment), timelines are updated here weekly - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html Once you’ve paid the fees, completed the DS-260 and submitted the docs (that timescale is really down to you, it could be as quick as a few days, or much longer if you take longer to do it all), then it’s only currently a couple of weeks to get (hopefully) Documentarily Qualified. The timeline for that is also updated weekly on the link above. You can start by gathering your documents now so that you’re ready to sort all of that asap. Once you’re DQ’ed, you should get an interview letter in the next month or two for a date about 4-6 weeks in advance, so maybe 2-3 months from when you were DQ’ed overall. What I would say though, is don’t count on the above! Hopefully it will all go smoothly but don’t book any non-refundable travel just in case. You never know what may happen, particularly if your husband is from Azerbaijan so has a higher chance of being put in to extended AP. Best of luck.

Ah, yes you will need that. Do you have a photo of it anywhere maybe if you don’t still have the original passport? In the UK our old passports are returned to us when we renew them, so we can keep them but I’m not sure what other countries do.

No, most recent I-94 is just the most recent entry. It’s ‘View Travel History’ that you want if you’re looking at details for 20 years ago.

Mine went from AP to issued, AP is standard for after approval, basically last minute checks before the visa is printed. Mine was only in AP for about 2 hours before it changed to issued, it is usually pretty quick. Good luck.