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Process after Spouse visa approval

I-130's at NBC have been slowly been transferred to TSC, CSC or Nebraska service center. Some, a few, have been approved many have been waiting since September.

Next step go here to NVC filers thread read post #1 and #2 to get things together. Follow the thread now throughout until you get case complete. Much has changed at NVC and you need to read up.

http://www.visajourn...-december-2013/

Thanks for the response. Will surely look at the post , and i hope they speed up the process now once the case has been transferred.

abcl1980

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2013-12-08 18:14:00

Process after Spouse visa approval

Hi,

Our spouse visa application just got updated , case has been transferred to another uscis office ( was in NBC before , applied in May'13) . My question, is what would be the next steps once it is approved.Also , anyone who's case has been transferred recently did that speed up the approval process ?

Any inputs would be great.

Thanks,

Achal

abcl1980

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2013-12-08 13:54:00

Apply for tourist visa while I-130 is in progress

Thanks Aaron !!!

abcl1980

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2014-02-05 01:01:00

Apply for tourist visa while I-130 is in progress

Thanks Aaron .So if i understand from your point there is a possibility of she applying and getting a tourist visa , and that would not effect her I-130 application status ??

abcl1980

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2014-02-04 21:56:00

Apply for tourist visa while I-130 is in progress

Hi,

I spoke to a USCIS rep. and she said i can apply for my wifes tourist visa even when I-130 is in progress ?? is it possible ? if Yes , has someone done this ?

Thanks!

abcl1980

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2014-02-04 21:01:00

Case Transferred to Nebraska from NBC 60 days completed

Yeah , have mailed my rep all the documents and spoke to her yesterday.She has said to touch base in 10-14 days.

Don't understand why they transfer the case to Nebraska , which is equally as slow as NBC.Where as people whose case got transferred , to other centers are getting approvals with later priority dates.

abcl1980

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2014-02-06 15:49:00

Case Transferred to Nebraska from NBC 60 days completed

Hi,

Wanted to check if anyone's case has been transferred from NBC to Nebraska( on Dec 4th) , and have got an update.We completed our 60 day time limit today , but have not heard anything on the case.My lawyer also opened a case with USCIS and they said expect a response in 15 days and also agreed the case has crossed normal processing time , but have not heard on the case either.

Should i contact the local congresswoman ??

Thanks

abcl1980

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2014-02-04 12:22:00

NVC package IV Confusion

@BibnRuby :Thank you for the response.Will try calling them up and get an update.

@NLR: Yes , i did not apply 405 days back, there must be a mistake when i filled up the post.Thanks .

abcl1980

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2014-03-04 22:43:00

NVC package IV Confusion

Hi,

We have just entered into the NVC stage(got approval 405 days back) , still waiting for the package.I have been reading the forums and am confused w.r.t package IV ,

1.Do i have to mail the package , OR my wife who is in INDIA has to post it ? OR take it with her for interview

2.One form requirement is her signature as mentioned in one of the forums? as both the forms are online ? is it needed ?

Thanks !!!

abcl1980

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2014-03-04 12:17:00

I -130 approved and now I-129 also approved

Hi,

Our I-130 got approved on Feb 28th , and currently the documents are in transit to NVC.Today we got a confirmation saying that I-129F was also approved . We are confused ,should we proceed with I-129F , or just follow I-130 process ???

Please let us know if someone faced same situation and how they proceed.

Thanks !!

abcl1980

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2014-03-11 10:46:00

AOS - Full Time student

Thanks , how much should the assets roughly be ?

abcl1980

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2014-04-07 17:56:00

AOS - Full Time student

My last 3 years earnings are way above the poverty guidelines , so would bank/stock/asset statements be enough ? or do i still need a join sponsor ?

Thanks !!

abcl1980

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2014-04-07 16:10:00

AOS - Full Time student

Hi,

I am currently a full time MBA student amd while filing I-864 , Part 6 ( employment information ) we need to fillup employee information.What and where should i put this information ? Also , is their a minimum amount that they look at w.r.t finances ?

Thanks !

abcl1980

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2014-04-07 12:43:00

AOS Submitted waiting for update , Packet 4 ?

Hi,

We have submitted AOS package 3 days back and are waiting for update from NVC. Have two questions ,

1.Should we wait for an update , or can we send packet IV too,i have initiated the payment for it ?

2.In packet IV , is it fine if we send attested copies of marriage certificate and birth certificate with extra photocopies OR original is also needed ?

Thanks !!!

abcl1980

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2014-05-01 21:07:00

Actually today i got the apointment letter. So it is exactly 2 months after the application completed.

Thank you Minh. I really appreciate that! I'll keep this posted for you guys, especially for ones who may concern.

maivabi

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Vietnam

2013-03-29 18:35:00

Hi Minh,

Could you please send me the website of the case which took them 2 months to get the appointment
Thanks

maivabi

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Vietnam

2013-03-23 22:06:00

Thank you Minh. I really appreciate that! I'll keep this posted for you guys, especially for ones who may concern.

I know it might seem like a long time so try to hang in there.

On another forum, I read about another couple who had their NVC case completed on Jan 15, 2013 and they received an email on March 20 with their interview date scheduled for next month. The wait time seems to be about 6 to 9 weeks on average right now.

Minh

maivabi

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Vietnam

2013-03-21 19:53:00

Dear all,

I got my green card through employment based category. My wife and I married before the approval of the case. So then I started applying a greencard for my wife ( follow to join ) from last year 2012. The application was complete at NVC on Jan 29, 2013 and the interview date will be notified soon. Since we have waited for almost 2 months and are feeling so desperate, I created this thread so that people having similar situations would share and help each other. Do you guys have any ideas about the prospective interview date that would be scheduled ?

Thank you for reading.
Cheers

maivabi

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Vietnam

2013-03-20 13:21:00

Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)

how long to interview

more or less than 2 months. In my case it took exactly 2 month since the date NVC notified that case was complete.

When the NVC stage is completed does anyone know how long it take to get the interview and medical exam notification? please advice thanks

Edited by maivabi, 07 April 2013 - 07:15 PM.

maivabi

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Vietnam

2013-04-07 19:14:00

Traveling to Europe

What is his citizenship? D.R.? If so he will need a Visa. You can apply for a Schengen visa at the consulate of any of those three countries you [plan to visit. It allows him to enter into most European countries. Having the GC makes getting the visa much easier.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-01-21 20:47:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

USC Green Card Petitioner's Committee--Organization and Agenda Moving Forward

Ok...revised letter:

?If an amnesty is passed without provisions to reduce USC I-130 wait times those of us currently waiting from late last year (2013) and new USC I-130 filers could be facing wait times of more

than 1 year just for an I-130. This cannot be allowed to happen.?

-visajourney member

US Citizen and Family Unity From Abroad

Many United States Citizens are currently living in the United States, separated from their families. Whether they had been abroad for travel, work or relationship.

These citizens is someone's husband or wife, separated from their spouse and young child/children. Some returned to the United States to establish domicile, some returned to provide for their family abroad, some are living abroad, and filed a petition for Alien Relative. They are waiting for their I-130 petitions to be approved.

The current waiting time as indicated on USCIS website is currently 8.9 months....

JUST FOR THE PETITION

While they wait, their spouse and/or child/children are under intense scrutiny to enter the U.S., even for a brief visit. In the end, it is up to Border Control to allow you in. Doing so, one must provide ties to said country of origin. If it is brought up at the Point of Entry that one is in the process of immigrating, you must still prove the intent is not to live in the United States.

Persons already in the States can become engaged to a US citizen and are allowed file to Adjust Status and they can stay in the country. The relationship is not bona fide nor established. Yet, families have the burden to demonstrate the intent is not to move while completing the process.

In a nutshell, once the petition is filed, our foreign spouses are often advised by legal counsel against visiting the US while the petition is being processed. Even after we start the process to immigrate our family member legally, we are still subject to intense scrutiny and possible rejection to visit family members in the United States.

A K-3 spouse visa was originally introduced to allow the foreign spouse of the U.S. citizen to enter the United States on a temporary visa while awaiting processing of the I-130 immediate relative petition to backlogs that would cause you to wait years. Children of the foreign spouse were allowed to enter on K-4 dependent visas. This was to help reduce family separation time.

At the current time, only the I-130 immediate relative petition is being processed by the USCIS. If a spouse/Petitioner has filed for the K3, it is basically obsolete. Once K3 is processed, it is then married up with the i-130 with reduction of wait time but rather, increased wait time because of today's backlog.

Family members should qualify to immigrate to the US under a reasonable time frame.

They should not have to compete with other immigrants

who are coming to the US for employment; DREAMers or DACA's.

Current USCIS backlog:

USCIS were flooded with "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (?DACA?)" petitions. This program was signed into law and on August 15, 2012 they started processing this paperwork which basically pushed I-130's to the sidelines.

Then March 2013, Provisional Unlawful Waivers were introduced. ?certain immigrant visa applicants who are spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens (immediate relatives) can apply for provisional unlawful presence waivers before they leave the United States. The provisional unlawful presence waiver process allows individuals, who only need a waiver of inadmissibility for unlawful presence, to apply for a waiver in the United States and before they depart for their immigrant visa interviews at a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad. ?

This is only available to undocumented immigrants who can prove that their immediate family members would suffer "extreme hardship" in their absence, among other criteria. USCIS did not have an estimate for the number of people it expected to apply, but could impact as many as one million of the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. http://fusion.net/ju...-families-15378

The change will cut down on the amount of time that some undocumented immigrants are separated from their immediate family members during the journey to legal status. So instead of spending months or even years abroad, a person may face as little as a few weeks outside of the U.S.

What about US Citizens and their Immediate Family?

For US Citizens and Spouses, there is no waiting list. Yet, the petition takes an absurd amount of time. For example, Nebraska Service Center, up to 8.5 months. If you are lucky, you have not received an infamous Request For Evidence (RFE) which could delay you longer. The petition is to check validity of your Bona fide relationship in which you have to prove this again at the interview stage. The petition also does a background check which is redundant because in the instructions, the beneficiary (spouse) must provide bio data from their passport.....from the country of origin in which they do a check before they issue your passport and later in the process must provide a police clearance at the the exit interview at your Embassy.

???

If you have your receipt number, you can go to the USCIS website and see processing times. USCIS average processing times vs Service Center your case may be sitting at and no matter what day you check it, still says last update as of October 31, 2013. Your case is in the midst of all other immigration cases.

Meanwhile,,,,Mom and Dad are chatting on Skype, missed another wedding Anniversary, dad missed his daughter's first tooth or James' first day of school, waiting to hear something, anything, when they possibly can go to the next stage so they can ALL be together.

US Immigration Reform 2014 should be to overhaul and prioritize legal Immigrants rather than fixing first the illegal immigrants

This is not the first time USCIS experienced a backlog of this magnitude. Due to September 11, 2001, many changes were made due to Homeland Security. It was a very tragic event, not just for the US but around the world. USCIS created the Backlog elimination Plann, updated June 2004. One of it's points in regards to the i-130.

Form I-130.

USCIS has formed an Action Team to streamline

the immigration process for eligible family members of United

States citizens and permanent residents. The long-standing

process first requires adjudication of a Petition for Alien

Relative (Form I-130) to determine if a relationship exists that

comports with the statute. Once that petition is approved, the

applicant either files for adjustment of status to permanent

resident in the United States or files for an immigrant visa

abroad at a United States Embassy or Consulate, where the relationship

issue is again adjudicated. USCIS is exploring ways

in which to eliminate the duplicative effort that the current

process mandates.

It is now 2014. there is yet another backlog. In this day of technology, this process should be more streamlined. It states it was exploring in 2004 how to eliminate the redundant steps in this process and 10 years later, USCIS and the I-130 is no further ahead. At whose expense.

Maybe eliminate the Petition, raise the fee for the actual Visa Application to help eliminate the backlog or reinstate the K3. Assess cases on 3 categories:Low, medium and high risk. Foreign spouses are known immigrants. Easy to track through US spouse whereas fiance's are unknown. We have to clear Police/Background 3 times in the process when we have been married and can prove bona fide relationships!

If you can travel to the United States under a Visa Waiver Program and stay for 6 months for a visit, or come from Canada as a Snowbird for 6-8 months and have no intent to move when you are allowed to have a rental home in the United States and a home in Canada but you can not adjust Status to be as a family because you can no longer apply for K3 visa due to USCIS backlog?

Immigration Reform wants to try to grant Amnesty to the millions of illegals.....this is only going to be a recurring program when the system is not overhauled because it doesn't promote those who are doing it legally and suffer for insane amounts of time while it seems others are rewarded and yet, Dad misses out on another family holiday, mom wanting to tuck her children at night or Susie waiting to go for ice cream with bother her parents.

Conclusion

As United States Citizens and their respective immediate family members, we are asking you to at least look into the backlog/delays for family unity. We are not every other immigrant and we should have a streamlined process different and simpler than policies used across the board, whether it be USCIS or National Visa Center.

We ask you to not overlook and allow our cases to collect dust. We ask our cases be adjudicated in a timely manner. We ask for transparency and consistency. We ask that we not be separated from our loved ones for such along period of time and make the process easier to bear.

A few additions...

One thing that has made things harder for us is the Patriot Act, which impedes us from caring for our loved ones by placing barriers on giving our spouses access to our finances, like opening a joint account in the US. FATCA which is meant to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes has made it hard for us lower and middle income americans to open accounts overseas.

I would add another argument with respect to processing time of I-130. There is no quota for spouses, however the USCIS is illegally creating quotas by throttling the petitions. Lets suppose, if they only process 5,000 a month, they are creating a quota of 60,000 a year.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-01-28 16:01:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

September 2014 Interviews

Never got my case complete email, however this morning got the P4 interview letter. WooHoo!!!!

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-08-15 18:21:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

NVC Filers - August 2014

Congratulations! I am beginning to like hearing about case completes too. I hope and pray that NVC gets done with June and July soon and gets to August.

Thank you! Yesterday was our one year wedding anniversary. This CC is a great gift! :dance: :dance: :dance:

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-08-12 00:24:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

NVC Filers - August 2014

Congratulations
When was your last scanned date?

Both packages recevied by NVC on 6/19 and scan date was 6/25 for both. The IV package was completed last week and the AOS just today. One week shy of their 60 day deadline.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-08-11 23:12:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

NVC Filers - August 2014

Just got off the phone with NVC.

:joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

WooHoo!!! Case Complete!!!

:joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-08-11 23:04:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Did you fill out the ds 260 I don't see it at you timeline...

Yes. ds-260 filled on 6/15. It appears on the NVC spreadsheet. As for your previous reply, you may want to call at least to confirm they received both packages.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-07-30 16:41:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

AustinCanada

how do you know that you aos has been scanned????

Im a November filler but you and I are almost at the same stage at nvc

Unfortunately NVC's online system is useless. You have to call and ask when it got scanned in. Mine took one week from the day they received the packages to the day they scanned it. They say that it will take 30 business days for them to review the docs from the date it is scanned.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-07-30 14:04:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

I got my case number on 5/27

I went to CEAC and after I entered the case number, I got:

Please follow the instructions you received from the National Visa Center (NVC) for the next step in the processing of your visa petition. If you have misplaced the instructions sent to you by the NVC or did not receive them, please contact us athttp://travel.state..../info_3177.html for additional information.

Will this change once the AOS/IV fees are ready to be paid?

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-06-03 12:39:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

My impression after making two calls a week apart is that NVC is much more disorganized than USCIS.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-05-05 14:49:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Guys after waiting 192 days got approved! I am so happy, NOA2 date was April 30. I am so happy that it finished and just it is done! Thanks guys for being attentive and encouraging me. Austin thanks for making great work you made everything clear about our spreadsheets.
I wish all rest to get your approvals soon.

1. How can i join to NVC spreadsheet?

Congratulations!!!

:joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-05-01 13:08:00

IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Is it a holiday at NSC today?

No. Got a notification an hour ago that our case was sent to NVC with today's date.

fatblackcat

Male

Brazil

2014-04-21 14:25:00