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    Parents of US Citizen - Question on Process

    in Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America

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    15 minutes ago, Mike E said:

    The case is then moved to the state department. The state department then moves the case to the embassy or consulate that will host the interviews.

    This is all fantastic info - thanks Mike E.

    On the quote above - one geographic/health stipulation my in-laws have is that they can't go to their home country's embassy (in La Paz, altitude, bad news for older folks with high blood pressure). Instead, they intend to go to the US Embassy in Paraguay. This is nothing new to the embassy in Paraguay. Do you happen to know if I'm able to "select" the Embassy that needs to contact my in-laws?

    Thanks again Mike (and everyone watching).

    Parents of US Citizen - Question on Process

    in Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America

    Posted · Edited by stringged

    Hi all - I had an additional question on process.

     

    Once the i130 is sent, what should we expect to get back if approved?
    a. Approval, and a request for us to initiate setting up an appointment for consular processing (we choose date/time from available options)

    b. Approval, and a date/time already set up for us for consular processing (USCIS chooses date/time for us)

    c. Approval, and something else other than (a) or (b)

     

    Thanks!


    Edited for clarity.

     

    Parents of US Citizen - Question on Process

    in Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America

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    5 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

    Just for the sake of asking as you said biological parents. Was she adopted and has both adopted parents and bio parents? I just want to make sure because if she was adopted she would not be able to petition her bio parents.

    Thank you for asking a clarifying question. I didn't mean to cause confusion. These are her one and only parents, and they happened to be biological.

     

    In an effort to be fully thorough in my question, it backfired. Thanks again.

    Parents of US Citizen - Question on Process

    in Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America

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    Thank you to everyone for the fast response!

    On #1, this is not a tourist entry with intent to adjust status - not what I said. It's just that she wants to travel to the US and visit while the application is in progress. That's all. I'm good with it and it sounds like it won't be an issue.

    On #2, I looked up the USCIS fee and it's $220 - not bad compared to the $1200 AOS fee (which is irrelevant, not applicable in this scenario, but still!)

    Thanks again, will share updates once we begin.

    Parents of US Citizen - Question on Process

    in Bringing Family Members of US Citizens to America

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    Hi everyone. Any input appreciated.

    My wife is a US citizen now, and she'd like to petition both her biological parents to come and reside in the US permanently.

    Her mother is currently on a tourist visa, with valid entry/exit stamps in the last 4 years.

    Two questions:
    1. Can we begin the i-130 proceedings even if her mother happens to find herself in the US at the time? She is here periodically, and goes back home to Bolivia when the time is up.
    2. Once we apply and i-130 is approved, what happens? I know her parents would go to the consulate in the home country. Is this the consular processing I read about? Do they get green cards right there and then? Or do they get a visa for entry and then once in the US they have to adjust status (which means $1200+ more money, each!). This is the part that confuses and scares us at the same time.

     

    Thank you Visa Journey fam.

     

    -JR

    Question on pending AOS, EAD/AP and December travels

    in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas

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    Hi VJ!

    I have a question that I'll try to be concise on. What do I do next?

    My wife has an employment authorization card which serves as a I-512 Advance Parole document that expires 10/31/2012.

    We have been waiting since September 2011 for the Adjustment of Status to finalize, but there has been no movement until 2 weeks ago when I made an inquiry (she already did biometrics on October of last year). They just sent me a letter from CSC saying they know we exist, and they're working through it. I thought that they had given an expiration date of 10/31 on the card because they'd be sure to have everything approved by then, but now, I'm losing hope.

    To make matters worse, we have travel plans back to her home country in December, so if we don't get our act together, she may not be allowed to travel (because of her expiring document)

    My questions

    1) What can I do next? Should I contact my senator or congressman to make an inquiry?

    2) If AOS can't move fast enough, can she get a renewal work permit with Advance Parole so that we can travel?

    3) I was under the impression waiting time was 5-months for AOS... is this happening to many?

    Interview date in Bolivia!

    in US Embassy and Consulate Discussion

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    Hi there!

    I'm happy to report my NOA2 came in 4/20. Then I emailed the embassy to let them know that my fiancee's address had changed and they said they don't use snail mail -rather, they send an email to the petitioner. How cool is that! Anyone else go through that? I've heard horror stories of snail mail not arriving due to horrible country postal service.

    And I got the email with packet 4 today. I didn't know anything about packet 3 (is that ok?). But anyway, the packet has an interview date already. It's less than a month from now on 6/2. But now we have a bunch of stuff to do before then, I'm sure we could manage (although I didn't like the bit of "documentation must be received before 15 days of interview date") -we'll do what we can.

    Everyone else, best of luck to you!

    Ugghh, original signatures??

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

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    My fiancé mailed me the packet of everything he filled out and signed about a month ago and it's STILL not here. I'm frustrated and would prefer not to wait god-knows-how-long for him to try to re-send it, are there any alternatives for getting his signature? Fax, scanned, etc.? Or does "original" literally mean that he had to have put a pen to that piece of paper?

    Just send it express and pay up the $$. I did that and it was worth it, the last thing you want is to delay your petition -there are enough delays out there! You'll get it in a week tops.

    Full Bright Program

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    1) Treating a visit visa as if it were a K-1 visa is visa fraud, don't do it. You are proposing using a tourist visa with the INTENT to immigrate. If this were an option for tourists, then why does the K-1 exist?

    2) No other options, you can do like others, a couple visits while I-129F is being processed.

    3) You may consider marrying before filing a petition, then file an I-130 for a spouse visa, it has many positive aspects, this would require a visit in either country prior to petition filing.

    Compare:

    K-1 (FEES ~$1800)

    K-1 cannot take a job until getting EAD or Green-card, this can take MONTHS after arrival

    K-1 cannot get a DL until they have EAD or Green-card, can use foreign DL in most states though.

    K-1 becomes land locked and cannot travel out of the USA until having green-card or AP doc, which can take MONTHS to get.

    CR-1 (FEES ~$900)

    CR-1 gets green-card the moment they arrive in the USA so can take a job immediately

    CR-1 gets green-card so can apply for a DL

    CR-1 gets green-card so can immediately travel, conceivable the next day, passport is stamped I-551 which allows work and travel

    CR-1 does not take much longer to get than a K-1

    One more thing, you say J-1, does it have a 2 year home residence requirement?

    I thought the CR-1 (previously known as K3) took much much muchhhh longer than a K1. This is why my fiancee and I opted for the K1 because it was much quicker (regardless of the current delays).

    Shout Out Loud Or It Will Get Much WORSE

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted

    I have also been advocating that people write to their members of Congress expressing their dissatisfaction with the management of USCIS. My approach was a little different than yours but everyone pushing the same general direction is good. No matter my opinion, I'm afraid that complaining about the TPS/Haiti situation may not go over well since it is a humanitarian issue. But that's just my opinion. It seems better to me to focus on the lack of transparency and communication and just generally poor management. The difference between CA and VT seems like a very legitimate complaint since, assuming the figures others are mentioning are correct, us in the eastern part of the US are suffering more delays because of TPS processing when USCIS should be able to spread that workload around better.

    My fee was $455. I haven't seen the justification for lowering the fee and I would actually support raising it with assurances that it would help expedite the process. With such slow processing the last thing they need is a lower fee.

    I also had my reservations about that lowered fee... I wouldn't have minded paying up more for better service and standards. Every other fee went up except this one -were they anticipating huge delays that the best way to handle it was a lower fee? Hmmm.

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