Get Divorced to Remarry in NY State due to ON certificate wait time

[prakriti 0]

It does not seem possible to e-file an I-130. Which form are you referring to as "electronic"?>

[FireKari 4]

You also have to figure though with a lawyer I think immigration is like the last thing they are doing.

If they get called to court on a date they were supposed to file for you things get held up, etc.

Lawyers just don't sound like a good time to me.

It's not a form, it's the second stage when you send them all the original documents like:

- police clearance

- tax forms

- document of support

Read the wikis they tell you when

The i-130 is the first form, to start the process.

Then there is a package, some stuff.

Then you wait on your notice of action 1 and 2

THEN you move on to second stage, which is NVC and you can 'opt-in' for electronic and gogogo. =)

[prakriti 0]

Thanks I understand now. So the day I receive NOA2, I switch to electronic?

I wouldn't use a lawyer without seeing reviews of him or her online. I would assume the lawyer would have a minion do any in-person filing or mailing.

I paid someone $250 to review my I-130 package but he didn't catch the marriage certificate thing, he thought the Record of Marriage would be adequate.

Edited September 30, 2010 by prakriti

[FireKari 4]

I think it's once you get your NVC case number you can send off the opt-in email, then once you get confirmation then you proceed.

The wiki has the steps 100% outlined.

Just read it over carefully, tripple check everything, follow it to the "T" and you are golden =)

See my signature in the green where it says emails given to NVC operator, I think that was where we started the electronic, and with some delays on our end we got NVC stage done in 34 days.

Edited September 30, 2010 by FireKari

[prakriti 0]

So I will start calling NVC every day starting a couple days after NOA2... got it.

Thank you very much!

[FireKari 4]

Most welcome.

If you get stuck on anything dont be afraid to post on the threads or to make one.

We are here to help when we can =)

Good luck

[JoannaV 174]

If you haven't investigated the police certificates yet, you might want to do that. Depending on where your spouse needs to get them from they might take a while. Find out, so you can make sure that you will have them already when you need to send off the DS-230, but they won't be out of date.

[prakriti 0]

Got the police clearance. Toronto is quick. Thanks.

[warlord 73]

I agree, by the time you'd even GET a divorce decree, you would have gotten your marriage cert a loooooong time ago.

Here in Colorado it's a 3 month waiting period after you file for divorce and then it's legal assuming there are no court cases. If you have a kid, then it's mandatory to attend classes. My friend said in Tennessee it's a 9 month waiting period after filing. So not sure what it's like in Canada, but I'd assume you'd have to wait a couple of months just to legalize the divorce...

[prakriti 0]

Thanks for the help. It does look like it's not possible to get a divorce quickly. An anullment would require a reason the court would find valid, and we could lie and say we hate each other but the reason would be on the divorce decree which would probably have to get submitted with the RFE and they probably don't appreciate lying in court. Our next two best options would have been to either get a divorce in whichever state is fastest for divorces (it would be convenient if NY were quick) but we might not be able to do it without the certificate - or to just get married in NY and not tell them we're already married in ON.

For the life of me I CANNOT UNDERSTAND why government cannot just exist online and be fully automated for ####### like this. Paperwork processing times should not exist in 2010 at all.

Then again I don't believe in controlling the border either.

[Boiler 46,359]

Then again I don't believe in controlling the border either.

Perhaps we should continuar en espanol?

[prakriti 0]

You think Mexicans will keep immigrating after labor demand is saturated? We've already reached that point and more of them are leaving than coming in.

[Flames9_RN 359]

Not sure why everyone thinks its only mexicans! People from other countries suffer a lot, seen it first hand, and i shouldn't want to live there! The idea of a free border would be nice, but would not work now a days, too many radicals!

[Boiler 46,359]

You think Mexicans will keep immigrating after labor demand is saturated? We've already reached that point and more of them are leaving than coming in.

Mexicans, much more to it that that.

Everything suggests that numbers are still increasing, may be bad in the US but worse elsewhere.

[prakriti 0]

I disagree, I don't think there's anything more to it than that, besides the drug trade which is another thing that cannot be fought effectively at the POE. Keeping out Al Quaeda is a joke, they're not desperate for pool boy jobs and can get proper visas for their people.