I 130 approved now what?

[maymart3 0]

My husband is doing the petition for his two sons and so far we finally got the 130 approved. Now we do not know what to do. We hired an attorney and he is getting all mail from immigration but he has not been very helpful in telling us when he gets our mail. Last August, the cases of my two step sons were on hold due to ROE for more than 3 weeks!! When I realized this I called him and he finally got it fixed! but he never called us to let us know he got a letter or anything. Now my husband is afraid that he will not give us the information of what is next on time. We are really trying for my step sons to be here by dicember for chirtsmas. But so far I do not have a case number or invoice number to keep moving forward. My attorney should get that (or maybe he already did) and he is supposed to sent it to me. How long should it take to get the case number after the i 130 is approved? We got our approval notice on Sep 16. (and by the way my attorney has NOA2 we didn't get that either)

Any suggestions?

A little bit of background

My husband is a born USC

he lived in mexico for a few years and he had to sons there with his then girlfriend, they split after a few years but they have always share custody, expenses etc.

We met in US and got married, and decided to bring the children here, birth mom is very nice about it and helping us in this process.

He did the petition for both of his children on march.

Any help will be appreciated.

[dwheels76 5,466]

My husband is doing the petition for his two sons and so far we finally got the 130 approved. Now we do not know what to do. We hired an attorney and he is getting all mail from immigration but he has not been very helpful in telling us when he gets our mail. Last August, the cases of my two step sons were on hold due to ROE for more than 3 weeks!! When I realized this I called him and he finally got it fixed! but he never called us to let us know he got a letter or anything. Now my husband is afraid that he will not give us the information of what is next on time. We are really trying for my step sons to be here by dicember for chirtsmas. But so far I do not have a case number or invoice number to keep moving forward. My attorney should get that (or maybe he already did) and he is supposed to sent it to me. How long should it take to get the case number after the i 130 is approved? We got our approval notice on Sep 16. (and by the way my attorney has NOA2 we didn't get that either)

Any suggestions?

A little bit of background

My husband is a born USC

he lived in mexico for a few years and he had to sons there with his then girlfriend, they split after a few years but they have always share custody, expenses etc.

We met in US and got married, and decided to bring the children here, birth mom is very nice about it and helping us in this process.

He did the petition for both of his children on march.

Any help will be appreciated.

Okay first you need to be calling NVC and getting your case#. Seems you kind of want the lawyer out the loop. But if you want to keep him be sure your email is also added so you get all emails from NVC.

As far as what is next please read the NVC process wiki so you know what is happening and you can follow your case.

Hopefully the lawyer gave you the case# and IIN# so you can pay.

Here's the link.

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/NVC_Process

[Ryan H 3,810]

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