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:crying:so my story goes: I came back from Houston, TX in July 2010 and attempted to file my wife's I-130 visa. The agent at teh Jeddah, Saudi Arabia consulate said everything is fine, but you need to have latest 6 months of continued residency.

6 months later: I went back and guess what. The lady was soo damn rude and she rejected taking my application because I am on a business visa, not a work permit or resdential permit. I have a business visa for 5 years and when I visited the consulate in July 2010, they never objected. The result, I walked out of the consulate pissed off!

Problem: I am living with my wife in Saudi Arabia. I need to file my I-130 asap, but my question is can I send the package off to the Chicago Lock Box office or is there another way around it. I checked on the instrucitons that the Petitioner living oversees has to contact the US consulate or embassy to submitt the I-130.

Solution:That is where i need help from you all! Any help would greatly be appreciated. And God bless you all! And those who are struggling out there, I hope God helps you to the finish line. AMEEN!

Thank you!!!!!

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***** Moving from K3 to DCF forum as OP is trying to file directly with embassy *****

You can send off the package to Chicago, but that would mean the process lasts much longer. You do need to have legal residency in the country you file DCF, what does your visa say about that?

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Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Simply in the country as a tourist or business visa doesn't seem to meet the residency requirement. You need to be a legal resident before you file. If you have not met this (and according to what you say the consulate said, you don't) you'll need to file from Chicago.

You might want someone at home monitoring your mail although mostly everything is done online now

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:crying:so my story goes: I came back from Houston, TX in July 2010 and attempted to file my wife's I-130 visa. The agent at teh Jeddah, Saudi Arabia consulate said everything is fine, but you need to have latest 6 months of continued residency.

6 months later: I went back and guess what. The lady was soo damn rude and she rejected taking my application because I am on a business visa, not a work permit or resdential permit. I have a business visa for 5 years and when I visited the consulate in July 2010, they never objected. The result, I walked out of the consulate pissed off!

Problem: I am living with my wife in Saudi Arabia. I need to file my I-130 asap, but my question is can I send the package off to the Chicago Lock Box office or is there another way around it. I checked on the instrucitons that the Petitioner living oversees has to contact the US consulate or embassy to submitt the I-130.

Solution:That is where i need help from you all! Any help would greatly be appreciated. And God bless you all! And those who are struggling out there, I hope God helps you to the finish line. AMEEN!

Thank you!!!!!

It's a shame they didn't tell you about the residency requirement before because you could have filed in the US 6 months ago and would have been further along in the process by now. It makes sense to just file in the US and be patient, as you have no way of meeting the residency requirement in Saudi Arabia. Its a longer process but you're already with your wife so you won't have to worry about bieng apart for long. Good luck xx

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This is what has transpired since I have last posted.

I contacted the nearest USCIS office, which is in Jordan. This guy was super duper nice. I explained to him the situation and heard all my complaints. Finally, he instructed me to go ahead and send off my I-130 to the proper address and he said call USCIS to get the correct mailing address.

Few Hours later: In the meantime, i was waiting for USCIS office in the US to open since we are 8 hours ahead. I had e-mailed the Riyadh Embassy explaning in details how i was treated like a 3rd class citizen.

An hour later: Waiting for the USCIS office to open in the States, I retire to my room and check my e-mail. Hooray, i get an e-mail from the Riyadh Visa section asking me to furnish my mobile number to discuss the matter.

30 min ago: I call USCIS and the person In the Jordan USCIS office was correct. The lady at the USA USCIS office said I can apply to the following address

USCIS

P.O. Box 804625

Chicagom IL

60680-4107

Since nobody is at the house in Houston, I wont be able to check if anything comes in or not. So the kind lady said you can type a letter to the immigration officer explaining you are in the Kingdom and wish to have all further mail regarding your wife's immigration forwarded to your brother or cousin since no body is at the resident in Houston. I will have to furnish some goverment ID with my address in Houston ( a valid driver license will suffice).

And she gave me advise that i should lodge a complaint against this lady for not even providing any type of help, which I very much plan to do.

Now: Finished typing this:)

 
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