OKflyboy

As the previous two times, I don't seem to be able to track the GC issuance. The USCIS website keeps giving me a user-defined error. No clue what they mean...

Still no GC and the same error on USCIS case status page.

As the previous two times, I don't seem to be able to track the GC issuance. The USCIS website keeps giving me a user-defined error. No clue what they mean...

We're done for now.

POE LAX 4/22/2016!

Now waiting for the green card to arrive.

Visa issued today.

My 9-year-old brother passed his interview and got his visa today! This is huge for many reasons.

My mom says the interview (in Moscow) took about 10 minutes. I will post the questions that they were asked when I know them.

For some reason the CEAC status is Administrative processing, but my mom says the IO told her my brother got the visa straight out, nothing else required. Hopefully it will update to issued soon.

Questions to my mom:

1. How long has the child lived with you? (he is adopted, 4 years)

2. When did you get your immigrant visa? (July 2014)

3. How much time have you spent in the US since you got your visa? (5 months)

4. Why so little time? (because the child has no other relatives in Russia)

The IO just smiled and nodded.

Questions to my brother:

1. How old are you and what's your date of birth?

The IO wished him a happy belated birthday.

Much easier than we expected, actually. They did not ask for any papers at all.

My 9-year-old brother passed his interview and got his visa today! This is huge for many reasons.

My mom says the interview (in Moscow) took about 10 minutes. I will post the questions that they were asked when I know them.

For some reason the CEAC status is Administrative processing, but my mom says the IO told her my brother got the visa straight out, nothing else required. Hopefully it will update to issued soon.

Interview today = APPROVED!

Congrats!

PD september 03, visa issued Good luck to you all.

Woohoo! Congratulations!

You need to call NVC. They respond to emails two months after you write them. Don't wait.

Received IL e-mail yesterday.

Name------------------Country--------------Mail to USCIS--------------NOA1(PD)----------------NOA2-----------Case Complete-----------IL

blessed23 Philippines Sept 30, 2014 Oct 7, 2014 Feb 25, 2015 Oct 09, 2015

Okflyboy Russia Sept 12, 2014 Sept 15, 2014 July 17, 2015 Jan 27,2016 Feb 2, 2016
Maureen Philippines Sept. 02, 2014 Sept. 11, 2014

Twinkz Philippines Sept.5, 2014 Sept.9, 2014 Feb.4,2015 August 17, 2015

chillin4me Philippines Sept. 15, 2014 Sept. 19, 2014

distressedwife Zimbabwe Sept. 2, 2014 Sept. 3, 2014

OKflyboy: I fully understand the desire to be with family. But when you decide to move to a another country you really should read up on how things work. I am not talking about you now, OP stated that they had no one that could really care for the kid. I say they up and left and the kid.

I agree that you should read up. When I was discussing my family's situation, a lot of people told me that I was wrong and my brother could come with my mom immediately. People do not read and come straight to the forum to ask and then are suprised by the answers. So yeah, you gotta read.

But we also had nobody to take care of the kid and had to beg people to take care of him and pay a lot of money to nannies. We did not know whether we'd be able to find anyone when we started. But we were ready to search, beg, and fundraise. Maybe the OP will do the same. I would not accuse their mom of abandoning the child.

Did your mother not plan this out when she left her minor kid to move to the US? Did she not read up on how this work? If you do a search here on vj you will find a bunch of similar threads. People want to move so badly they just up the leave their kids without thinking...

Nobody "up and leaves" their children. The law does not allow even a small child derivative, which is ridiculous. Minors should be allowed to come with the parent(s). I'm pretty sure my mother would chose to bring her son right away with her rather than leave him with friends over the course of two years and risk losing her LPR status, if she had a choice. Yes, people want to move so badly to be with the rest of their family. They also have other children that also want to be with the rest of the family. Too much to want?

Interview has been scheduled, but no physical IL yet. Anyone got one in the e-mail?

Filed Sept 2014, interview March 11, 2016. Took longer at USCIS, because my brother is adopted and we had to gather a lot of additional paperwork.

He is a couple of years younger than your sister and has a number of physical disabilities and no relatives in his country other than my mom (who is supposed to live in the US). No expediting, no hurrying it up, no reason for special treatment.

Alas.

I havent receive interview schedule yet.. guys how did you the interview sched? By email or by calling nvc? My PD is sept 22, 2014. Thanks

I called a few hours ago after seeing people here having called and received the dates. I was told it had been actually scheduled yesterday. The agent sounded kind of surprised that I had not been informed immediately. No e-mail yet.

PD Sept 15.

Interview was scheduled yesterday for March 11.

They should be scheduling June 8 through August 31 now. So the agent is right. Nothing to worry about. They are working on before August 1, some, anyway.

F2A numbers SUBJECT to per-country limit are authorized for issuance to applicants chargeable to all countries EXCEPT MEXICO with priority dates beginning 08JUN14 and earlier than 01SEP14.

Hey Dwonderboy you have 3 options: call NVC and ask for that, you will see 3 N/A in ceac web site, and they send message through the e-mail. But i will advice you to call.

That's what three N/As mean. Ok. I have been wondering.

Name------------------Country--------------Mail to USCIS--------------NOA1(PD)----------------NOA2-----------Case Complete-----------IL

blessed23 Philippines Sept 30, 2014 Oct 7, 2014 Feb 25, 2015

Okflyboy Russia Sept 12, 2014 Sept 15, 2014 July 17, 2015 Jan 27,2016
Maureen Philippines Sept. 02, 2014 Sept. 11, 2014

Twinkz Philippines Sept.5, 2014 Sept.9, 2014 Feb.4,2015 August 17, 2015

chillin4me Philippines Sept. 15, 2014 Sept. 19, 2014

distressedwife Zimbabwe Sept. 2, 2014 Sept. 3, 2014

Just received the CC email. No IL yet.

It is possible. F2A is a family reunification category, so strictly speaking, if you and your husband live together somewhere else, there's no reunification necessary. However, if you can prove that your residence is in the US (taxes, bank accounts, utility bills and such), it might work. When you apply for the re-entry permit, you will be asked the reason. Make it a good one. I'm not sure if just wanting to be with your husband will suffice, but who knows. My mother got a permit and had to go back to her country while my brothers F2A is pending, because she is his only caregiver.

They will probably issue you the permit anyway, but you might be asked questions when you return. My mom has had to come and go three times now, and the last time they did ask why she stays out more than in. She explained about my brother and offered to show the permit, but they said it was okay. She does return every 4-5 months, though.

hi

not too much, but they are about family and school, what grade is he in, grandparents names, simple things

That is what I'm worried about, him mixing up the relationships in the family.

Unfortunately, no. My brother was repeatedly denied a B visa to come with our mother, and our reasons to apply were more than serious, even grave. My mother was still accused of immigration fraud.

If the mother is alive and well and her parental rights has not been terminated, it will be assumed that the girl should go to France, if she has to leave her native country at all. Aside from immigration fraud, think illegal adoption. You don't need that.

Anyone has any experience? My brother will be 9 years old at the time of the interview. What kind of questions can they ask?

The problem is, he has certain emotional and behavioral issues and can come up with some crazy, unrealistic stuff. He is adopted from an orphanage and after several years still doesn't have a very clear idea of how a family works due to his RAD. For example, he has been known to tell people that my mom is old, so she is not his mother, but his grandma. At some point he came up with the idea that I am his biological mother who abandoned him as a baby, and now he is coming back to live with me. My mother will be there, but she will be very tired and stressed after an overnight train trip with him, so she might not be able to control everything.

His fantasies has never bothered me much before, but now I am really concerned that this might negatively affect the interview outcome.

Any advice?