Deb+Steve

as far as i know if the father refuses to give permission for the child to leave the country then the child can not leave the country
sara

Yes ...tell her you need a blood test to test for:

Measles, mumps and rebella (MMR)
Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Whooping cough)(DTaP or Tdap)
and chicken pox

she has to write it all up separately so it will be easier to say them as such.
If you like you can just say you have had chicken pox to the panel doctor when you see him but you might as well get them to test the blood for it while they are there. (Free in NSW)
I had my blood tested for MMR and chicken pox but had a booster shot for TDap and got my doctor to print saying so.
There is a slight variation on what is required by children and older people. I hope this helps.
If I missed something hopefully someone will pick up on it

YOOOO BITCHESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR IMMIGRANT VISA IS APPROVED .... Vegas here we come!!! Am at the airport so will post later but thank you to every single one of you beautiful people.

You do realize that when asylum is denied people are granted voluntary departure, right? If appealed and then denied, the BIA denial is a final order of removal. Even then, you have approx 90 days to appeal to the federal circuit courts. I'm more concerned about how she got around the one year filing deadline after her 2000 entry. The clock stops tolling for unlawful presence while in asylum proceedings anyway.
It's good to note that most people wait up to 5 years to even get their green card after asylum approval. They live in asylee status while they wait their turn for a green card to become available because there is a numerical limit on how many green cards can be issued to asylees each year. Even obtaining the green card requires the approval of a 602 waiver if there are inadmissibility issues present. They then wait their turn for citizenship as well.
If this wasn't Obama's aunt would we even be talking about it? Someone else asked about her chances had she not been Obama's aunt. Well, I'll just say that less than 25% of all asylum claims are approved.
I wanted to say that overstaying a visa has no bearing on whether or not asylum should be approved. It takes time to obtain legal counsel and all the preparations needed to file. Almost every asylum seeker has a visa overstay or fraudulent entry, and this is where the 602 waiver comes into play later.
I know I'm opening myself up to a firestorm, but I spent 8 years of my life dealing with my husband's asylum application and all of the consequences that came along with it. He came here fraudulently in 1999 after being tortured in his home country. His asylum proceedings went from the first application in 2000 until the 8th circuit appeal in 2008. In that time he worked legally with authorization, paid taxes, never took money/help from the government, had a clean criminal record...not even a traffic violation. In the end, he was taken into custody after being served a notice to appear during his federal appeals. One week later he was detained and 4 months later he was deported. I fought to have him released on house arrest and to allow me to pay for his ticket out of the country. It was futile because in the end our tax money was wasted on sending him back only to return legally Immigrant visa in hand 2 years later. It pains me to see that some people with legitimate claims get turned away while others have it relatively easy with BS claims. I'm reminded of a German family who was granted asylum earlier this year because they wanted to homeschool their children. That's a bigger travesty to me than Obama's aunt winning her asylum, but that's just me.

This is such an important and overlooked area you have brought up, Happy.. My own sense of it is maybe because, not only are so many blinded by love at the outset, that also many have not been through a divorce that resulted in an alimony judgment, so even if they do read the fine print, they have no clue what to expect.
I personally think the single most important piece of advice that can be offered to someone (particularly the sponsor) going through a process like this, is an education on what signing that I-864 really binds you to. I know about too many cases where, if the relationship between the immigrant and sponsor was going south, while the approval/AOS process was still ongoing, the soon-to-be immigrant picks a fight with the sponsor spouse and gets the police to come to the house on a domestic issue. Then, that person goes and files a VAWA petition, uses the manufactured police report as evidence, gets approved for VAWA, leaves the spouse, and then uses that signed I-864 to hit up the sponsor spouse for federally-approved alimony, for what could, in theory, be a functional lifetime. People really need to understand what that I-864 means. That document allows a spouse to seek spousal support (alimony) in the event of a marriage failure, for a period of time far longer than what most state courts would ever award in a traditional (U.S. Citizen/U.S. Citizen) divorce.
For all of you here who have faced genuinely violent issues with your spouses, and had/have a well-founded basis to pursue VAWA, my case examples are not directed at you, and I am very sorry for the pain you have endured, during what should have been a wonderful journey for you. It is a sad reality, however, that Federal regulations put in place to protect abused immigrants, have also been liberally used as an avenue to break the backs of loving and well-meaning U.S. Citizen spouses, by nefarious individuals, who used these trusting individuals solely as a vehicle to get into this country, and get their life started, at the sponsor's expense.
-CJ

Vanessa - I don't know if you could say you 'missed' it.
There is no one on Vj who is designated as a person to forage for and post REAL immigration news. So members here will not necessarily get the real important stuff just by going to the News forum. We have to rely on someone just finding it and posting it.
Secondly, this is a really good example of why it's important to read other forums besides VisaJourney. And that's not a slam towards this website. I read at least four different immigration sites almost daily. It's just the smart thing to do if you are a 'student' of this process.
Lastly, this isn't a new rule so to speak. It's another court ruling in a different circuit which is against the plaintiff. What these rulings are doing is setting precedent in case law AGAINST persons adjusting from the visa waiver BECAUSE the courts are finding on the technicality that a visa waiver entrant waives their right to an appeal. It's a trend in case law, not a change in the INA. This single decision alone doesn't present a real danger to VWP adjustees as much as a recent waive of decisions. It's like "bad news" building up towards future adjustees.

Qld Police sent mine directly to me so I could submit it with my DS-230 package as per their instructions.
Only member I know of who had issues with Qld Police was Sassy - they told her they had to send it to the Consulate ... not true, all the other Qlders I know of on here all had them directly sent as she will put the address for mailing on the application.
Hope this helps ...

Requirements only state - married to an USC - and living in the US (basically).
So I think she's good to go.

Hey Mike - we haven't been RFE'd yet but we will be. Incorrect I-864 and he left off our bank statement. Loser.
Anyway, I don't understand why NSW Police want to send it directly to NVC. I know of others who have had their checks sent directly to them in NSW for K1's. Very odd. But you can send them separately. Good luck ...