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Thank you very much for the info.....you are right she was granted an immigrant visa, she is not in the US yet. I will double check on the expiration date.

My mom got granted a green card on dec 7/2010, but due to a high blood pressure complication she is in the hospital and i will take her couple of weeks before she will recover. Can somebody tell me how long she can stay in her country without entering the US and not losing her green card. How many days does she have to enter the US? spmebody told me 45 days from the day the green card was granted. is this accurate?

I guess i shouldn't worry yet! lets wait and see what is going to happen. Thanks Guys! at least i know i am not the only one that received the same info.

So i called the NVC, and the system told me that one of the forms i sent where incomplete or had mistakes. Then it said that i letter was sent to me, telling me what was wrong. So i called back NVC and i talked to one of the operators. The lady tells me that they haven't received my ds-230 package(whic was delivered last weed, based on tracking system) but the AOS was done right, so i should just wait for them to review the IV package that i sent previously. Now my question is if they haven't reviewed my IV package already how the system is telling me that they are some inconsistencies on the paperwork that i sent before.

Should i just wait and see if everything is right or ask to be transferred to talk to a supervisor and ask him what is going on.

I am wondering if somebody can direct me to obtain the info necessary, i mean documents to be added to assemble the IV package to bring my mother to USA. Thanks for responding!

Hi, guys! I am working on my wife's DS 3032 and I want to find out if i can fill them up using handwriting. Or it would be better to use a typer machine. My wife just sent me the forms unfilled so I have to do it myself and I just want to know if NVC would allow that.

Thanks!

Forget the baptism certificate. The document you need is the marriage cert. So far you are good to go. did you already send the I-130 ?

Thank you and the other guys for replying!

I have been researching and neither NVC or USCIS ask for a baptism certificate, you are right about that! They are used to support your case either because you got married thru a catholic ritual or to see if you were married before and you have to provide proof of divorce. I guess if i don't provide one is not going to affect anything, since my wife wasn't married before. Now I can explain the whole situation to my wife, so she can sleep tonight

Thank you guys again!

A birth certificate is one of the documents asked by NVC as part of the DS 2032 and it is also asked by the embassy in Colombia.

Sorry a baptism certificate is one of the documents asked by the US embassy in Bogota.

Why do you need a baptism certificate?

Did NVC or USCIS resquest one?

Are you not able to obtain a Birth certificate?

A birth certificate is one of the documents asked by NVC as part of the DS 2032 and it is also asked by the embassy in Colombia.

Forgive my ingorance, but the Catholic ceremony was just a cultural one and not the legal marriage, the Civil ceremony which took place AFTER the divorce is the one you are using to petition your spouse with... Correct?

Correct! My Catholic ceremony was just a cultural one, it was never registered with the Colombian government. That's why I had to go back and marry my wife in a Civil court in January 2010 and that is the one i used to petition my wife. But what i don't know is if the cultural one would have any impact on the USCIS decision

Well, I guess the first thing to say is that you learn from your mistakes. My wife is freaking out because we probably screwed up everything with our immigration journey. We met last year and we fell in love....now we are married! but here is the story. I was waiting for my ex-wife to sign the final divorce papers on July 2009, (we were separated from more than a year), after more than 9 months of dealing with it. My fiance and I had everything planned to get married on September 2009 and I had asked my ex-wife to sign the divorce on July and she agreed to do so. But to my surprise she didn't show up to sign the papers on the date the court told us to appear. My fiance and I had everything ready to get married two months after my divorce was final. Part of her family had already plane tickets to go her country, I had paid for a nice place for our wedding ceremony and for our wedding party....every single detail was planned and paid for. But the new appointment date to appear in the divorce court was delayed to Dec 2009 (mostly becuase of ex-wife). I didn't care that technically I was still married and we celebrated our catholic wedding ceremony on Sept 2009......I was fed up with everything that I had to do to get divorced from this person plus that I was going to screwed big time financially canceling our wedding. So my fiance and I decided to get married.

So my fiance and I got married thru a catholic ritual on Sept 2009, my final divorce paper got done on Dec 2009....WE NEVER registered our catholic marriage to the Colombian government because to us it was just a ritual for us to share our love. On January 2010, My wife and I got married again in a Civil court in Colombia and our marriage was registered. But now we have to provide a bautism certificate with marginal notes that shows that I am married to my wife but it is going to show that we got married on Sept 2009, even though our marriage wasn't registered to the Colombian Government and that was prior to my divorce date(Dec 2010). So my question is how this can impact our immigration journey? Can this screwed everything up even though I have my divorce degree from my previous marriage and now I am married to the love of my life.

Any help or guidance on what to do would be very appreciated!

Thanks!

My wife and I are going the CR1 path. So we have couple of questions. First we are following the Ling's list and we are gathering all the documents to have them ready to go as soon our i-130 is approved. Do Such documents have an expiration date? i mean are they good for a month, two or six months? What forms do we need to have ready before NOA2. than you!

Totally Totally incorrect. NVC is still processing K3's. K3 is abandoned by NVC only if the I-130 approval occurs and they receive the approval at the same time. So it looks like they are phasing out K3 but at this point they are still being processed and it is totally incorrect to say that you cannot apply for K3.

It is truly sad that they are abandoning K3's because in our case K3 definitely saved us 2-3months of time. I say this because we got approved for I-130 and I-129F at the same time other September filers got theirs approved. I saw a lot of people drop K3 because of the advice they got on this site. K3 has its own set of advantages and I-130 has its own set of advantages. And in our case time of unity was our number one priority. We called NVC and they clearly said that K3 is faster than I-130. WE listened to them and we are glad we did. Our interview for K3 is approved as of today. So I am saying this with FIRST HAND experience and not just some hearsay that K3 does still work.

Our advice is apply for K3 immediately(as soon as possible) after you get your I-130 receipt. Then learn the pros and cons of both and then decide . Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Further if they get approved at the same time then you will have to go with I-130 anyways. Otherwise for some reason if your I-130 gets slowed down by an RFE or something you always have something to fall back on. You will not regret it. Applying for K3 will not SLOW you down. Our I-130 approval came on the date of our NOA1 for 130 and adding our 129F app did not push us back into the line of anything like many on this site claim.

your explanation makes sense but what about if i apply for the k3 and then they close it because as FEB 1/10 if both get approved, only the I-130 stands! that is my concern. So i am going to expend another 500 dollars for something that is not going to help me to get my wife ASAP. Money is not the issue! what bothers me is the fact that like it or not i may have to wait a longer period of time to see my wife living with me.

I don't understand why immigration is doing this!

I just came back home from an interview with an immigration lawyer. He told me that since my I-130 isn't approved yet, I can apply for a K3 visa for my wife. Which is great but here are the bad news. Since I applied for my wife's I-130 already chances are that if I apply for a K3 visa and my I-130 is approved before the approval of the K3 visa; this option(K3) will be closed and only the process for the CR1 continues. This tells me that any money expended and time put into the K3 will be lost. Also we will have to wait the same time as just leaving things how they are right now.

So what would be your best advise guys!

any replies would be great also if the lawyer's logic is right or not. What can i do on this matter?

You will wait till your I-130 is approved. You will receive a NOA2 which will inform you that your petition has been approved. It could take anything between 3-5 months from your NOA1.

Basically what you are saying is to wait for the USCIS to send me the paperwork to continue with this process? so there is nothing i can do to expedite this whole process?

Hi guys! thanks for replying.

Well my question now is what to do? do i have to wait for the CR1 package that USCIS is supposed to send or do i take action and file for the CR1?

I really don't get is how the process is supposed to work? do i wait or do i take action?

I filed the I-130 to bring my wife to USA, and i was going to file for a K3 visa but now i see that if the I-130 and the K3 visa are approved then the I-130 is prevalent over the K3, and it will be closed. so only the I-130 will continue as an immigration process to bring my wife. My question is how do i expedite the process to bring my wife here? i read the other option is the CR1 but how do i apply for it? how long does it take? is that my best option?

Thanks for any replies!