Need some help : Filing I-130 for spouse

[LotofPatience 65]

If you become a U.S. citizen while your relative is waiting for a visa, you can upgrade your relative’s visa classification and advance the processing of that petition by notifying the appropriate agency of your naturalization. When you are a U.S. citizen, your husband or wife and any unmarried children under age 21 will have visas immediately available to them.

If you become a U.S. citizen after your Form I-130 petition is already approved and it has been forwarded to the State Department’s National Visa Center (NVC), you should notify the NVC that you have become a U.S. citizen. Requests to upgrade petitions due to the naturalization of the petitioner should be sent to:

National Visa Center

32 Rochester Avenue

Portsmouth, NH 03801-2909

Please include a letter with information regarding your relative, a copy of your Naturalization Certificate, and a copy of the petition approval notice. Once the NVC is notified that the petitioner has been naturalized, the NVC will immediately send the visa information on your relative to the designated U.S. Embassy or consulate abroad. To confirm that your approved petition has been forwarded to the NVC, you can contact the NVC’s automated recorded message system at 1-603-334-0700 and, with a touchtone telephone, enter your USCIS receipt number.

If you become a U.S. citizen and your relative’s petition has not yet been approved by USCIS, you will need to notify the Service Center where you filed your relative’s visa petition that you are now a U.S. citizen. You should send the notification to the Service Center address located on the receipt notice you received when you filed your Form I-130 petition. Please include a letter with information regarding your relative, a copy of your Naturalization Certificate, and a copy of the petition receipt notice. Call Customer Service at 1-800-375-5283 for assistance or if you are unsure about the status or location of your petition.

If you are in NVC stage, upgrade is not need since already your visa# is available when I-130 is approved.

If you are in pending I-130 stage, upgrade is needed to speed up your I-130 approval.

Loto

Please ignore my this post and read just above post.

Loto

[4Toms 0]

Thanks for your response. Couldn't there be a situation like this when you'd have to upgrade at NVC

- LPR Applies for I -130 for spouse

- I-130 approved

- LPR becomes USC.

- NVC has not acted upon approved I-130 because of lack of Visa number.

Don't we have to upgrade with NVC to have the approved I-130 treated as Immediate Relative of USC ?

If you are in NVC stage, upgrade is not need since already your visa# is available when I-130 is approved.

If you are in pending I-130 stage, upgrade is needed to speed up your I-130 approval.

Loto

[LotofPatience 65]

Thanks for your response. Couldn't there be a situation like this when you'd have to upgrade at NVC

- LPR Applies for I -130 for spouse

- I-130 approved

- LPR becomes USC.

- NVC has not acted upon approved I-130 because of lack of Visa number.

Don't we have to upgrade with NVC to have the approved I-130 treated as Immediate Relative of USC ?

Yes, you need to upgrade at NVC stage as well. Please read my above post at the top of this page.

Loto