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Certain work related activities are permitted on a B visa - things like attending meetings, or a conference etc are fine. What you can't do is just do your normal daily job from the US without work authorisation, and it sounds as though that's what you've been doing. Perhaps you've been lucky so far and the officers have just assumed you meant you were doing something that is permitted and haven't delved too deeply. But I wouldn't risk it again if you've got an immigrant visa application underway. What's your Priority Date?

Are you sure you’ll need a interview? Obviously you won’t know until you apply but I’d have thought you’d qualify for the interview waiver. My O-1 interview was waived earlier this year (London).

2015 is correct, but 2017 is the filing date - so people with a PD before this date will be asked to submit documents to NVC etc. They just can’t get a visa until their PD is after the date in Table A, so no interview will happen until then. So for your brother he’s got at least another 5 years of waiting, but he’ll be asked to submit documents before that. Note that, as it says in the VB, that date may go backwards (retrogress) for your brothers category soon too so don’t be surprised if it does.

As above, a lawyer can’t do anything. No way to expedite when a visa number isn’t available anyway. As for not knowing how much longer he has to wait, it will be many years, but all you can do is keep an eye on the Visa Bulletin and hope it moves forward. Nobody can even really guess, you could look at the VB and say it’s currently Sept 2015 so he has another 4.5 years to go…….but it’s been stuck on Sept 2015 for a couple of years now without any movement. So it’s not linear and who knows when it will move again, or by how much. All you can do is wait, keep checking, and hope really. When his date becomes current then he can try to expedite, but he’d need valid grounds to do so - just having the rest of his family in the US isn’t a valid reason.

But as above, that’s for those that submit electronically. You need to add on a bit as your docs will have taken a few days to be opened and logged. Should be any day now though.

Perfectly normal, don't forget you have to add on a few days as EB applicants have to submit via post/courier. Hopefully you'll hear any day now.

I'd ask wherever he'll have his medical. I'm from the UK and we don't have the Varicella vaccine here, it wasn't a problem, the doctor just ticked a 'not available' box for that one.

Just thought I'd update this, we got our second Hep A/B vaccines yesterday at a local pharmacy. Not needed for immigration, but we thought we might as well have them done so we've got the full course and are covered for school/travel if needed.

Not a clue I'm afraid, just thought I'd give the link as it appears Tidusel94 hasn't been on the forum for quite some time. Not sure when you were DQ'ed? But contacting the embassy is unlikely to help if they do have a backlog tbh. Some embassies are super quick (3 months or so from DQ to interview), others are 2 years or more. Might be worth searching timelines to see how Stockholm is at the moment, although bear in mind most cases on VJ are spousal, which will be given priority over EB2. Good luck.

You can click on a username and see somebody's other posts, seems Tidusel94 got transferred to the Frankfurt embassy due to the wait at Stockholm -

This thread is 3 years old, things may have changed since then.

For London, yes. Approx 3 months from DQ date to interview date there (at least for spousal applicants and EB1 - I'd assume EB3 too as well, but not 100% sure as I don't think I've seen any others). I'd reckon IL later this month, interview in Sept going on current timelines if EB3 is treated the same as other visa categories.

It doesn't count for Canadian citizenship requirements, only for PR residency obligations. Citizenship requires physical presence in Canada of at least 1095 days in 5 years. BC also doesn't require payment (MSP fees were scrapped several years ago) and most provinces just have a minimum amount of days you need to be resident. But the OP hasn't asked about healthcare and I'm assuming is just focusing on the visa/residency side of things for now.

I think the OP wants Spain though as it'll be much quicker, so him proving residency in Australia won't help. Maybe if he moves back to Spain at the end of the year he could transfer then, if he's not already had his interview in Oz by then.

Are you absolutely sure about that? There are lots of cases from people resident in one country but with citizenship of another who have tried to switch consulates to speed things up and and been refused. Here's an example -

No, from when you're DQ'ed ('documentarily qualified'). So you pay the fees, wait for that to go through (about a week), then you submit the DS-160 and documents (note you have to courier/post your docs as an EB1 applicant, so add on a week or so for that too). Then you wait for NVC to DQ you, and then you are placed in the queue for an interview and your case is handed over to the consulate. Hope that helps, good luck.

Provincial healthcare would be lost after x amount of time, yes (depends on the province, most are 6 months residency per year to maintain it). But any Canadian PR living in the US with a Canadian citizen spouse would absolutely keep their Canadian PR status, even if they don't set foot in Canada for many years. Here's the relevant Op Manual for a bit of light reading - https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/resources/manuals/enf/enf23-eng.pdf

You didn’t send them your actual passport I assume, or originals of any docs?! Just copies? Nothing else to do now but wait, you won’t hear anything from them until you either get a RFI or are DQ’ed. Good luck.

What’s her Priority Date?

No, it won’t be sent to the NVC until your petition is approved - you’re at step 1 in the link above.

Your reference/receipt number should start with three letters, and that’s what tells you where it’s being processed i.e. TSC is Texas Service Centre. Also, seems like maybe you haven’t found this page? It’s really useful and sets the process out well - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-2-begin-nvc-processing.html Good luck.

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1466&top=10 HTH.

More info is needed really. Is one person a Canadian citizen and one a USC? And you’re hoping the Canadian citizen can get a green card and the US citizen can maintain their Canadian PR status? If the US citizen resides with the Canadian citizen then they will maintain their PR status even if living outside of Canada. Time spent with a Canadian citizen spouse in any country counts as time spent inside Canada for residency obligation purposes. However, the US has no such leniency and is much more strict. So the US citizen/Canadian PR may be able to ‘have their cake and eat it’ and live in either place after any amount of time out of the country, the other person can’t until they have dual citizenship.

The student just pays it back from the US.

Ah, ok, so you're from India or China? I understand the delay now.