Follow to Join benefits after 10 years

[elkhris 7]

Hello everybody, I just wanted to share part of my journey here and also to sort of find an explanation to what happened then. Here it goes...

My Grandmother (LPR) filed a petition for my Mom (F2B) back in the late 80's or early 90's I don't have the exact date. By 1997 my Mom's pd is current and she follows trough all the process. She's got her visa and my big sister got hers as derived. At the interview the CO tells my Mom to "go and find a job" so we the rest of the "gang" (4 more kids) could get our visas.

She enters the US on April 1998, she worked for a while (about 2 years) and then returned back to DR, and inquired about our visas, at this time my big brother applied for a derived visa and was not issue because the AOS was missing.

3 more years passed by (2003) another try with the same results as the previous intents. As the years go by my Mom seems to be forgetting about the idea of getting us here. My big brother is worry because he had heard about aging out and all that and he really wanted to come to the US.

Early 2006 My big brother sends a letter to the US Embassy in Santo Domingo stating that we were ready to finish the case, this time all four of us apply for a visa, we did all of our medicals and everything related to the visa process.

At the interview we are told that we are missing a couple of documents from the AOS. By the time we were done with the process of gathering papers and redoing medicals it was already 2007 almost 10 years from my Mom's arrival to the US.

our DOB:

Bb: APR 1984

elkhris: OCT 1986

LB: NOV 1987

LS: AUG 1995

I felt like I had to post this because after I had read through a lot of post here and done some research, I still don't know how was it possible for us to immigrate base on my Mom's petition. The only thing that comes to my mind is that probable there was a visa application for each of us at the time of my Mom's original interview and this locked the benefit for almost 10?

Well, I would like to hear your thoughts in this matter, and thank you for reading.

[MrTee12 64]

I would contact the Embassy in Santo Domingo. See what the status of your case is as it relates to the Follow-to-Join regulations. The negative thing affecting you is that so much time has passed.

http://santodomingo.usembassy.gov/iv-contact-e.html

[elkhris 7]

I would contact the Embassy in Santo Domingo. See what the status of your case is as it relates to the Follow-to-Join regulations. The negative thing affecting you is that so much time has passed.

http://santodomingo.usembassy.gov/iv-contact-e.html

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough, but that post was just to try to figure out if people can "lock in" their follow to join benefits past the one year mark.

We did it, we are currently in the US and we came on that follow to join from 1997.

[MrTee12 64]

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough, but that post was just to try to figure out if people can "lock in" their follow to join benefits past the one year mark.

We did it, we are currently in the US and we came on that follow to join from 1997.

Ok, I did misread what your wrote. I'll see if I can find anything that would help you.