Amount of time to respond....

[mikediamond 0]

Hello everyone,

My wife and I have recently applied through the London Embassy for the greencard. We sent the I-130 with the payment etc in May and got the approval notice in June. We are now waiting for the next package to arrive before proceeding with the next part of collecting all of the required info and completing the necessary forms.

We would like to know how much time we have to respond to this next package that we will receive which is the DS-230 I believe. Do we have to send everything back within 3 months or can we wait 9 months or even 18 months to get everything back to the embassy? We started this process now as we do not plan to go back to America as soon as we anticipated.

I appreciate all information and guidance.

Thanks.

Mike.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

An approved I-130 doesn;t expire, but usually you have a year to send the next set of documents. You can probably string that out to 18 months by keeping in touch with the embassy/ asking for a late interview date.

[NikLR 13,227]

***moved to DCF forum from IR1/CR1 process and procedures as OP stated they were dealing directly with the London Embassy****

[mikediamond 0]

• Thanks Penguin.

This is great information as we are planning a move for late next year if possible.

So we have 12 months from the petition approval to send back the next packet that we shall receive?

Thanks.

Mike.