after I-130

[mollypicon 0]

Hello. I know this info is elsewhere but some clarifications. I'm in the U.S., my husband of 6 years is in Russia. I've just received the approval for the I-130 and they're transferring the paperwork to Moscow (we had to leave London rather suddenly after 6 years). I'm just trying to get a ballpark idea of the timeline. We've received no further instructions, but should go ahead and do my I-864 and his police certificate and medicals, right? How long can I expect it all to take? Is the interview scheduled only after the embassy receives the police certificates or does he have to bring them to the interview? Do we, or rather he, need to bring proof of our relationship? We've been together so long I forgot about having to need this one day, and I don't even have copies of our various leases over the years on me, though I can show PDFs of our bank account and obviously wedding pictures from 2004. There are various emails over the years to landlords as well. Not so much to one another, since we were in the same apartment. We do have copies of leases in storage. Most of the people posting on the forums seem to be fiances or already in the U.S.; our situation seems to be a bit unusual. I'd always thought the green card app would have us going for an interview together, but now we've had to separate and he'll need to bring paper proof, right? Thank you!

[LotofPatience 65]

Hello. I know this info is elsewhere but some clarifications. I'm in the U.S., my husband of 6 years is in Russia. I've just received the approval for the I-130 and they're transferring the paperwork to Moscow (we had to leave London rather suddenly after 6 years). I'm just trying to get a ballpark idea of the timeline. We've received no further instructions, but should go ahead and do my I-864 and his police certificate and medicals, right? How long can I expect it all to take? Is the interview scheduled only after the embassy receives the police certificates or does he have to bring them to the interview? Do we, or rather he, need to bring proof of our relationship? We've been together so long I forgot about having to need this one day, and I don't even have copies of our various leases over the years on me, though I can show PDFs of our bank account and obviously wedding pictures from 2004. There are various emails over the years to landlords as well. Not so much to one another, since we were in the same apartment. We do have copies of leases in storage. Most of the people posting on the forums seem to be fiances or already in the U.S.; our situation seems to be a bit unusual. I'd always thought the green card app would have us going for an interview together, but now we've had to separate and he'll need to bring paper proof, right? Thank you!

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Once you have an idea, research on other guides too.

Loto

[Mononoke28 137]

Hello. I know this info is elsewhere but some clarifications. I'm in the U.S., my husband of 6 years is in Russia. I've just received the approval for the I-130 and they're transferring the paperwork to Moscow (we had to leave London rather suddenly after 6 years). I'm just trying to get a ballpark idea of the timeline. We've received no further instructions, but should go ahead and do my I-864 and his police certificate and medicals, right? How long can I expect it all to take? Is the interview scheduled only after the embassy receives the police certificates or does he have to bring them to the interview? Do we, or rather he, need to bring proof of our relationship? We've been together so long I forgot about having to need this one day, and I don't even have copies of our various leases over the years on me, though I can show PDFs of our bank account and obviously wedding pictures from 2004. There are various emails over the years to landlords as well. Not so much to one another, since we were in the same apartment. We do have copies of leases in storage. Most of the people posting on the forums seem to be fiances or already in the U.S.; our situation seems to be a bit unusual. I'd always thought the green card app would have us going for an interview together, but now we've had to separate and he'll need to bring paper proof, right? Thank you!

So did you send the I-130 to the USCIS for an IR1 visa? Or did you file it at the embassy for DCF? I'm just a bit confused where you said that you received the approval for the I-130 and they're transferring the paperwork to Moscow. If they I-130 was just approved but the USCIS, it will need to go to the National Visa Center (NVC) for further processing. There you will get a case number and you will have to send payment for AOS and the visa itself, as well as all other documents such as the I-864 and DS-230 forms.

Diana

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So did you send the I-130 to the USCIS for an IR1 visa? Or did you file it at the embassy for DCF? I'm just a bit confused where you said that you received the approval for the I-130 and they're transferring the paperwork to Moscow. If they I-130 was just approved but the USCIS, it will need to go to the National Visa Center (NVC) for further processing. There you will get a case number and you will have to send payment for AOS and the visa itself, as well as all other documents such as the I-864 and DS-230 forms.

Diana

I filed via DCF in London in May. I just received the I-130 approval at my new address in Florida and the case is being transferred via the NVC to Moscow as you said. I'm just trying to get an idea of the possible time frame and whether my husband eventually will need to bring proof of our relationship to his interview in Moscow, the only place he'll be able to do the interview since he can't come here to the U.S. Basically this started as DCF but quickly became the normal route as we had to leave the country we were living in and split up.