please please help me about I-130!it's urgent!

[pplljane 0]

Hello All,

My Dad is a US citizen who filed a petition I-130 for me ,his daughter in 2008. I was not married when he filed an application,

but now I got married, what should I do now when my status has changed from unmarried single to married daughter

over 21?

1.Should I inform the USCIS about my changed status now?

2. Or should I wait until my case is up to the processing time years later?

3. What kind of forms or documents do I have to prepare?where should I sent them to?

4. Will my changed status slow my processing time?

any suggestions will be very helpful, really appreciate any response, thanks in advance!

Edited March 11, 2010 by pplljane

[belinda63 3,047]

I'm not real familiar with this process but from looking at the DOS visa site your father should contact them and inform them you are now married. It will change your category from F-1 to F-3 which right now is looking like about a nine year wait.

When your number becomes current then the contact will begin and that is when the documents will need to be sent in. So not a lot to do between now and then but wait.

[Boiler 46,121]

Agreed

[Darnell 8,479]

prior to marriage - you had a 'priority date' based on 'type'.

Your 'type' has changed, so, IMO, yer priority date should change, as well.

Now - as to 'telling all' - pardon - you should tell all, you know -

marriage status is global, in the eyes of USCIS/DHS .

[pplljane 0]

I'm not real familiar with this process but from looking at the DOS visa site your father should contact them and inform them you are now married. It will change your category from F-1 to F-3 which right now is looking like about a nine year wait.

When your number becomes current then the contact will begin and that is when the documents will need to be sent in. So not a lot to do between now and then but wait.

Thanks a lot for the useful information! Another question: That means when my status changed, my previous one-and- half year wait has wasted,right? I have to wait in line of F-3 from the moment I get the new case number? Really appreciate your reply!Also welcome any advice!

[pplljane 0]

prior to marriage - you had a 'priority date' based on 'type'.

Your 'type' has changed, so, IMO, yer priority date should change, as well.

Now - as to 'telling all' - pardon - you should tell all, you know -

marriage status is global, in the eyes of USCIS/DHS .

Thanks a lot! when and how should my Dad inform the USCIS? just make a phone call? Does it matter if my Dad tell them

now or later? Does it effect my present processing time? Looking forward to the new reply!

[aleful 1,905]

pp,

it does not change anything for now for the i130, it's the years of waiting afterwards. It always takes more years of waiting for a married child than a single child.