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The embassy will extend the validity automatically while in AP.
The petitioner can email every few months to inquire of the status.
She can call DOS more often for status inquiry.
The senator can do nothing about it.
It will only expire if it gets returned to USCIS, CSC does not reaffirm returned K1 's, VSC sometimes does.
It is not really that unusual to be in longer AP given the country.

Honestly, this is the wrong place to try to find people for this. Contact your local ACLU rep and see what they say.
The problem isn't the Adam Walsh act, it's the definition of "sex offender." WILDLY varying things can land you on that list, and unfortunately once you're on it you're subject to a whole host of laws designed to deal with the worst of the batch. Your only hope is not to attack Adam Walsh but to get the government to more carefully classify sexual offenders. An 18 year-old kid who has sex with their 17 year-old significant other can be put on the same list as a convicted rapist. That's the real issue. I don't think anyone, anywhere, is going to be comfortable with allowing honest-to-goodness sexual predators to request visas for their spouses/significant others under ANY circumstances.

No, he cannot, as roughly a dozen people have stated. The AOS is a binding contract; the only way it can ever be cancelled is if the green card holder loses their greencard or becomes a US citizen.

That being said, Volkan, your father-in-law needs to understand that this form obligates him in exactly the same way that Form I-864 does. He is signing a legally binding contract saying that for as long as you are an LPR, he will financially support you. There is no material difference between a co-sponsor and a joint sponsor when it comes to legal liability; the I-864A is just a simpler form to fill out. If he believes that the I-864A somehow exonerates him from this responsibility he is mistaken and should have this perception corrected immediately.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Then you don't really want to bring her to the US.
Look, you may not be trolling, but let's be honest here. Your application to bring your fiance over takes up valuable resources from USCIS. If you don't even want to *meet* her, why do you want her to come to the US? What's the point? The process is expensive, time-consuming, and people who *genuinely love each other* have trouble enduring it. And you're not sure you want to meet her? Financial difficulties notwithstanding, this is absurd. She lives in a visa waiver country; you are blessed by the fact that she can actually travel here freely. Do not waste your money or our government's time with a visa petition unless you're actually invested in the relationship.

Persepolis:
Welcome to the forum. Let me shed some light on your situation, since I basically walked in your shoes. (Natural-born USC, Iranian heritage, married a wonderful girl from Iran and went through hell and back to get her stateside.)
5 months is highly unlikely. But so is 2-3 years. The first thing you should know (and as an Iranian you may already know this) is that our people are totally full of sh*t. We're habitual liars, and we're pretty godawful at paperwork. (Sad considering our tremendous heritage, right?) I let a lot of people freak me and my parents out with the 2-3 year timeline thing, and I could have saved a hell of a lot of heartache if I'd just ignored them. The people here know much, much more than the people your parents have likely spoken with. (And I mean no offense by this; misinformation is everywhere.)
I brought my wife here in exactly 8 months. I filed my petition in June 2009; she was in America in February 2010. When I filed, this was a fairly typical timeline, and I even had an RFE because I forgot to send some paperwork during one step. If you follow the instructions on the forum, have your papers filled out and ready to go, you're likely to have your spouse here within a year of filing. There are going to be some hitches along the way. Just prepare for them: it sucks, I'm sorry, but the political climate means that every visa being issued to Iranians is more heavily scrutinized than other countries. This will be most evident at the consulate: whether you interview in Ankara or Abu Dhabi, go in expecting to be put on AP. This is the norm. Don't panic, just give them all of the necessary paperwork, be friendly, and check the website. Most APs take a month; we were approved exactly one month after our consulate interview; I was on a plane back to Dubai within days of our approval.
Ok, now that I've set your expectations, here's some advice on visa choice:
Avoid the K-3 visa. It was originally established to bring spouses over more quickly than CR-1/IR-1 because the backlog used to be massive. This is no longer the case. The K-3 is not any faster than the CR-1 visa anymore, and is a much worse visa, all things considered. There are really only two options to take, and then, only one if you're sure you want to get married.
If you want some time to evaluate life with your future spouse, get a K-1. It acts as a trial period, and it's very valuable if you're unsure.
If you're certain you want to marry her, get the CR-1 visa. This will give her a greencard within two weeks of her entering the country, which lets her travel back to Iran easily and allows her to work and/or study--it's basically the quickest way to let her start her life in the US.
In either case (but especially the CR-1 because you'll have more paperwork to file) you need to go to Iran, become formally engaged or married (throw a nom-zad or aghd and *take tons of pictures), get all of the official documentation (and I mean all of it: shenas-name, the marraige certificate, both of your Iranian passports, etc) translated and notarized by someone authorized by the Islamic Republic, fill out ALL of the paperwork together (get her signature, get untranslated copies of her parents' passports and shenas-name), get plenty of passport photos of both of you, then come back to America, make three copies of everything, and send your I-129F or I-130 in ASAP. The USCIS branch of the process takes the longest, and it's the most black-box-esque. You send that petition, and then you wait for 3-5 months. I waited three, and I was damn lucky. Go in expecting five; that's the average.
I can't stress enough that the most important thing to remember in this situation is that it takes time. Not as much as a lot of people will insist it does, but it does take time, and hoping that your case will be special, or that you'll beat the odds, is a surefire way to make your life miserable. Plan for the averages. Your application is no less likely to be approved than a doctor's or a lawyer's: if anything, your youth and your sex is a blessing: your marriage will appear more authentic to the examiners than a 40 year old Iranian doctor bringing over a 20 year old bride. (Whether or not that's justified is another thing entirely, but hey, take what you can get. )
I hope this post helped. I wish you the best!

This is the one thing I don't like about VJ. We're all so sure we know about everything. And we're all so sure that all the lawyers are wrong.
Guess what, the lawyer is correct. Here's the relevant law:
Sec. 319. [8 U.S.C. 1430]


(a) Any person whose spouse is a citizen of the United States, 1/ or any person who obtained status as a lawful permanent resident by reason of his or her status as a spouse or child of a United States citizen who battered him or her or subjected him or her to extreme cruelty, may be naturalized upon compliance with all the requirements of this title except the provisions of paragraph (1) of section 316(a) if such person immediately preceding the date of filing his application for naturalization has resided continuously, after being lawfully admitted for permanent residence, within the United States for at least three years, and during the three years immediately preceding the date of filing his application has been living in marital union with the citizen spouse 1/ (except in the case of a person who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a United States citizen spouse or parent), who has been a United States citizen during all of such period, and has been physically present in the United States for periods totaling at least half of that time and has resided within the State or the district of the Service in the United States in which the applicant filed his application for at least three months.
LPRs who obtain their green card "by reason of his or her status as a spouse or child of a United States citizen who battered him or her or subjected him or her to extreme cruelty" are eligible to apply after three years, exempted from the requirement that they have been living with their spouse.
It took me about five minutes to find the relevant policy USCIS memo with a web search.
We all need to be a little more careful about areas of immigration with which we have little experience, like VAWA cases.

I concur with "memeber's" reputation being removed from profiles. It seemed pointless.
Post reputation might provide useful, if someone posts good info and it is highlighted and maybe get pinned even as a result