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Global Entry Question
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AOS From Tourist VISA After Marrying An American.
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With no stamps, how do you track your trips?
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The only airports that’s potentially correct at are LAX and JFK just because of the populations that enter through them. Richer major metro areas plus large hubs = more people with GE. Even then most people say they breeze through, but I have seen reports of lines at those two. MIA, DFW, IAD, IAH, ORD, and PHL all have GE wait times of less than 5 seconds or less without the need for an app. That’s not every airport in the country, but those are most of the major ports of entry I’ve experienced or know people who have, and I can’t imagine the smaller POEs if taking longer. Also I’m not exaggerating when I say five seconds or less. That’s how long it takes the kiosk to take your picture and the officer to wave you through. @Claire1994: if you apply for GE (you should imo), and get your conditional approval, do enrollment on arrival when you land. It will drastically cut down on any hassle because of the pre-vetting. My husband uses MPC when he enters the U.S. because it also speeds things up, so it’s a good fallback, but like @OldUser mentioned, there’s less pre-vetting so higher chance of asking questions or secondary than GE. -
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How long from DQ are interviews scheduled in Indonesia these days?
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My I -130 appllication taking way to long (what can I do) - Merged Threads
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AOS From Tourist VISA After Marrying An American.
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I can’t find the thread right now because r/USCIS is basically 90% AOS from overstay so search is tough since all the threads have the same keywords, but a few lawyers there were mentioning they’re starting to see it with their clients. They didn’t think it would change the outcome, but just a way to make the process more cumbersome. That sub tends to give fairly accurate anecdotes of what’s trickling through USCIS before you start seeing it in the data dumps. I’m sure if it becomes a bigger issue we’ll see more of it here, but also figured it was worth mentioning as a possibility to someone who hasn’t filed yet, while acknowledging it’s a new trend and no one really knows what the new administrations plans are long-term.
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I‑130 filed but i have found clerical mistakes what are my options?
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I‑130 filed but i have found clerical mistakes what are my options?
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Something to be aware of that has popped up elsewhere is that there are reports on other immigration forums from immigration lawyers that some field offices are referring adjustment of status cases from B-1/B-2 to immigration judges for adjudication rather than adjudicating the I-485 themselves. Recent trend so not much data, but something to be aware of. It wouldn’t impact the end result, but would make things more expensive.
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I‑130 filed but i have found clerical mistakes what are my options?
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I don’t really think it matters that much. You can upload the pages you made a mistake on with an explanatory letter. Worst case they give you an RFE that you copy and re-explain it to them then. This isn’t the type of thing that leads to a denial.
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My I -130 appllication taking way to long (what can I do) - Merged Threads
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Please help, major issue with previous marriage.
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Adding to what @TBoneTX said about thriving on truth: the advice given to people going through the security clearance process is that the people who investigate and adjudicate are able to tell the difference between not understanding a question on a massive form and an intentional lie or omission because they’ve reviewed thousands of these and can tell the difference. Said more bluntly: no one’s as special as they think, including with stuff like that. Same is true of consular officers reviewing your case. They’ve done plenty of these. They know the difference between an honest mistake and a lie because you’re likely not the first person to have made the mistake who they’ve processed.
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If you’re paying a lawyer listen to her. You’d do it as unsolicited evidence. We did something similar when I noticed an issue with my husband's address history on the I-130A (we’re still pending, but figured it doesn’t hurt being proactive.)
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All of this speculation across multiple threads (I count three — this merged one and another one last Fall) isn’t that useful because OP hasn’t answered basic questions: where is his spouse from and is there anything out of the ordinary that would cause a delay in processing at USCIS. As an example if OP is younger man marrying a significantly older woman from a West African country after having recently divorced, all a WoM would likely do is speed up an NOID. If he’s the same age as his spouse from the UK both on first marriages and of equal socioeconomic status, then this would be very weird and a suggesting a WoM if it hits two years would be the way to go. I’m also going to hazard a guess that if this was self-filed any support uploaded might have had clarity issues (people are rarely more clear explaining themselves on government forms than Internet forums.) OP — sorry if this comes off harsh we’re trying to help but we need to know more about your circumstances. A lot of people have commented on these threads and part of the reason they’re becoming hard to follow is we don’t know enough about your situation for people to come to a consensus, which is what usually happens.
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My I -130 appllication taking way to long (what can I do) - Merged Threads
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My I -130 appllication taking way to long (what can I do) - Merged Threads
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Unsolicited Evidence I-130
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Which country? It matters as some countries naturally take longer to process so we can’t tell you how normal this is without knowing. By clear and clean you mean no criminal history, no previous foreign marriages, no nothing that’s not boring?
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OP, unless I missed it you never said what country your spouse lives in or if either of you have any criminal or immigration issues. Those are the two most useful responses you could provide us before trying the I-129F.
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B-1/B-2 would likely be denied again after a marriage to a USC spouse, especially if there was a pending I-130. ESTA renewals usually go through but they’re less generous on B-1/B-2. Can always try, but marriage usually doesn’t strengthen B-1/B-2 applications.
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Waiting for IR1 Greencard with a CR1 Visa Stamp
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2nd this. The number of times I have had to bat down rumors in this process that have no basis in reality is legion. There’s a Chilean travel influencer living in Los Angeles, California that appears to be the source of all my woes. Not because my husband follows her, but she appears to be the source the newspapers and TV news down their rely on for US immigration and tourism law.
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Advice on k1 vs spouse visa for my situation
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It is also worth noting that the CR-1/IR-1 process is trending towards taking roughly the same time as K-1 does, while K-1 is expected to slow down compared to current speeds. A few years ago this was also the case, but in the last two years of Biden there were significant delays at the USCIS stage for I-130s. They’re still processing through those, so average approval time for I-130 stands around 14.5 months now, but based on the current rate of processing people who submit today would see the first approvals from USCIS in about 11-12 months if they keep up current processing speeds.
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Waiting for IR1 Greencard with a CR1 Visa Stamp
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Curious. Have any of you been Documentarily Qualified even when...
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The only, and I do mean only, anecdotal evidence we have of K-3s skipping the line are for people who are already assigned to the Texas Service Center before they file the I-129F for K-3. I’ve seen a few approvals come through from there after K-3 that make me scratch my head. As TX is where you mail the K-3 application to, I can buy that they might have a practice of reviewing I-130s already assigned to them when they get a K-3 in the mail in order to make their numbers look better (they get to kill two forms with one stone, etc.) If it’s any of the other service centers I’m with @OldUser; it’s at best a waste of time and at worst it takes time away from someone in TSC reviewing other I-130s.
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She’s going to Ciudad Juarez for her IR-1 interview because people who did not present themselves for inspection can’t adjust status. They have to return to the consulate in their home country and get an immigrant visa and then present themselves for inspection to a CBP officer in order to become LPRs. This is the standard operating procedure, so OP doesn’t need to worry about any of that. Agreed with this. TSA doesn’t care about enforcing immigration laws, even in the current environment.
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She needs a valid reason: either being a Thai citizen or resident. My gut is she’s neither since you said another third country. If she isn’t, she can’t interview there.