USCIS plan to eliminate DCF

[fromsps 0]

Have any of you guys done the DCF through the US embassy being not a legal resident but only a person living there for at least 6 months? Is that process easier than filing for it through the USCIS? Can anybody tell me what they did?

[cherriesss 4]

Fromsps, I have found that each Embassy works in a different way and the documents they want to see to evaluate your 6-month residence vary. In my case, all they asked for was for me to show them my work contract showing that I was employed to work in the foreign country where I live. That's it.

I would advise that you contact your local Embassy directly for what they would like to see: http://honduras.usembassy.gov/immigrant_visas/petition.html

From what I have learned, there are advantages to filing DCF; in general, the processing time is shorter and you can avoid some of the tedium associated with having to mail things and wait since you can often submit your documents in person at the Embassy.

Hope this helps!

[R.Tope 0]

thanks much.

here goes

http://cairo.usembassy.gov/consular/iv003.htm

1- The petitioner is a resident of the consular district. The Consular section is allowed to accept I-130 petitions from U.S. citizens who reside within the consular district and have done so for the previous six months.(here is where my confusion lies in these two)

2- The petitioner must have maintained continuous residency in the consular district a minimum of the preceding six months in order to demonstrate residency.

not sure if that is saying lived here since 6 months or actually need to be a registered resident

"Continuous residency" means you must not leave the country in which you are residing for not even one day for the six month period in which you are residing there. You do not have to apply for residency but you MUST be living there LEGALLY for over six months. I found this information out from the US emabassy here in my country and they advised that the proof of this is usually the stamps on your visa. So if you left for any period of time during your stay you will not be eligible for DCF.

I hope this explanation helped : )

[Om&Abo Malik 12]

"Continuous residency" means you must not leave the country in which you are residing for not even one day for the six month period in which you are residing there. You do not have to apply for residency but you MUST be living there LEGALLY for over six months. I found this information out from the US emabassy here in my country and they advised that the proof of this is usually the stamps on your visa. So if you left for any period of time during your stay you will not be eligible for DCF.

I hope this explanation helped : )

thank you, i have stressed enough about this one thing more then anything else. I have remained here without leaving so i am good. the ministry of justice here told my husband as long as i got married before my entry visa expired then i remain legal as i am wife of an egyptian citizen

[Luckywife2007 6]

Hey, everyone that has interest in the proposed plan to eliminate DCF... I just read the website where they have posted the results of the teleconference that was held on November 09,2010. Here is the link for your reading enjoyment! It appears that nothing will be done in the NEAR future to eliminate the DCF or so says the executive summary.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=32836bcc974eb210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=994f81c52aa38210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

[Christi85 86]

"Continuous residency" means you must not leave the country in which you are residing for not even one day for the six month period in which you are residing there. You do not have to apply for residency but you MUST be living there LEGALLY for over six months. I found this information out from the US emabassy here in my country and they advised that the proof of this is usually the stamps on your visa. So if you left for any period of time during your stay you will not be eligible for DCF.

I hope this explanation helped : )

We did DCF as my husband (USC) has been living in the UK for over 3 years (on a resident visa). At the time when we applied, he hadn't physically been in the UK for 6 months continuously prior to the application (as a matter of fact, he'd only been there a month after the trip we took to the US where we got married). And yes, the stamps on his passport reflected that he'd been away very recently. Our DCF was accepted without any problems.

This may just be the case for USCs who aren't on a resident visa and are living abroad- I don't know. But certainly not for people on resident visas.

What I do know is that some Consulates are very strict on the residency requirement (e.g. in London it's unlikely that you'll be accepted for DCF if you're not on a proper resident visa - although in some cases they have also accepted long-term students on student visas). Other Consulates (e.g. Philippines) have accepted filings in the past based on the 6-month residency on a valid tourist visa. Again, it's not clear if residency in these cases also meant physical residency.

[Christi85 86]

Hey, everyone that has interest in the proposed plan to eliminate DCF... I just read the website where they have posted the results of the teleconference that was held on November 09,2010. Here is the link for your reading enjoyment! It appears that nothing will be done in the NEAR future to eliminate the DCF or so says the executive summary.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=32836bcc974eb210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=994f81c52aa38210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Thanks for posting that!

Yes, it seems like eliminating the DCF process in the near future is a distinct possibility.

I do hope they hire more Officers (or bring back their foreign-based USCIS Officers) to respond to the increase in the number of petitions received centrally. Otherwise processing times will suffer!

I can also see a lot of potential problems arising, and I do feel lucky DCF was still available at the time when we applied.

[JLDNNYC 2]

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all of you that have posted valuable information with regards to the possibility of DCF being eliminated. I have been following the developments with great interest as it is something that might impact my future wife and myself. She's in the US and I am in the UK. Fact is though that she holds UK citizenship as well and could easily move here, spend some time here and we would file at the Embassy here.

Question remains though whether that could be taking a high risk by having her move here just to find out that DCF is being eliminated and probably having to go back to square one. I'm just trying to figure out the best possible way for us not to be separated for too long and having her here for some time would be the ideal thing to do but we're afraid that in the end she'll have to file in the US and her time here would not have brought us the results we desire. Any thoughts on this are appreciated.

[cherriesss 4]

Hey, everyone that has interest in the proposed plan to eliminate DCF... I just read the website where they have posted the results of the teleconference that was held on November 09,2010. Here is the link for your reading enjoyment! It appears that nothing will be done in the NEAR future to eliminate the DCF or so says the executive summary.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=32836bcc974eb210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=994f81c52aa38210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Thanks!