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You can pay afterwards, that’s fine. Odd that they can’t find it though, when was the visa issued?

Ooooof. So you cancelled your job and apartment before entering the US, and expect USCIS to believe that you didn’t intend to stay when you entered?! 😲 I agreed with all of the people who’ve suggested to just stick with consular processing as your I-130 is likely to be approved any day now if you applied over a year ago, and I was going to say the same thing anyway. But now you’ve said the above, I absolutely wouldn’t try to do AOS. Far too risky IMO.

From December 2024? Or did you mean 2023? If 2023 then hopefully you’ll hear something in the spring.

Are you sure you can renew it? https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-ethiopia

How old is your nephew?

It will be a lot longer than that. Currently those that applied 18ish years ago are eligible for visas, but that category has only moved forward 3 years in the last 10. Unless things speed up considerably (unlikely, given more and more people are joining the line) then it’ll be a lot longer than 18 years for those that apply now. So it doesn’t help your nephew at all, as he will have aged out by the time your sibling is eligible for a visa anyway. But if your sibling is interested in moving to the US, then you may as well file for them now. Good luck.

And the rest! I’d double that as a rough estimate.

I’d ask that attorney to put his suggestion in writing. Bet they won’t. 😂

Note that Tesco had to reschedule his/her own interview after cancelling the original one, which I don’t think is your situation? So you can’t book it yourself, you need to wait for it to be scheduled by NVC.

Case transfer cases are longer and more delayed, it takes time to get the file back from the original consulate.

As was explained to you previously, you weren’t added to the line for an interview until your PD was current, so it’s not actually been 2 years that you’ve been waiting (as there was no visa available to you for the first part of that). Current date is 1st Jan 2022, OP’s PD is November 2021 it seems.

I mentioned the thread for people in Canada who’ve been given DS-5535, did you look at that? As you’ll see from it, there’s just no way of predicting as it depends on the checks each case needs. My guess would be similar to Boiler, about a year, but that really is just a guess.

No, you have to pay it online, once you have the visa.

As @mam521 said, it depends on your visa category. Filling out your timeline will help when you ask questions.

Quite possibly. Ours didn’t, but I asked them to change it so it was all good.

You can just do an online Utah marriage.

If money is a real issue then you might want to look at the spousal visa instead? It would be cheaper (potentially considerably cheaper, depending on how long you’d have been married for by the time you enter the US). Good luck.

Update it at the interview, or if you’ve already had that, update it with the officer upon entry. I took ours typed up on a piece of paper and gave it to the officer just to make sure it was correct.

Far too early if it was DS-5535, that can take months or even years. There’s a long running thread about it in the Canadian sub forum. When does the course start? You may have to defer entry. Where are you from?

She needs to enter the US on her visa before it expires, then once she’s a green card holder she can get married and petition for her new husband/wife if she wishes. It’ll take another few years.

You don’t need to pay a biometrics fee. The only fee left to pay after this stage is the green card fee.

You are obligated to inform them of any changes that would change your category and supply evidence (marriage/divorce cert). You’d then be moved in to the appropriate category. You can Google for the INA but it’s simply a matter of eligibility - if you get married then obviously you’re no longer eligible for a visa category for those who are unmarried. Can you be more specific about your situation so we can help? Are you getting married and if so what stage are you at?

Assume you mean your ‘reasons not to vaccinate are NOT moral and religious’? Really we need to know your consulate to help properly (pls fill in your timeline), for instance at my consulate the flu vaccine requirement was waived for all of us as it’s only required in winter months. As for your vaccine history, as part of the medical you have to provide your medical records, so it should be on there. If not you can get titre tests done to check for immunity.

But it was current when you applied? Which visa category?

Where are you seeing 32 months? If you look at the official timelines page you’ll see USCIS don’t even give timelines for that category, and the explanation is on that page - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Basically, there’s no visa available to your friend for many years anyway (maybe another decade or so as a very rough guess) - hence USCIS don’t rush to approve I-130’s for that category. I don’t think there’s anything to worry about, it’s just taking a long time because of the reasons given above. It just sounds like your friend’s mother’s application for citizenship was rejected because she was outside of the US for too long and reset her continuous residence clock so she was no longer eligible to apply when she did.