I-130 For Mother Approved what next?

[nab-400 16]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to give everyone my timeline, and ask a few questions :

I filed for my mother, is in Morocco, the Priority date is 5/20/2013, a few days later check has been cashed, i did not hear back from them until Dec-12th,2013 with an email stating that my case has been forwarded to local office, in my case the local office is in Texas, a few days later exactly on Dec,18th, 2013, and email stating my case is transferred and now is being processed, didn't hear back from them until yesterday 01/10/2014 about 9:30 pm email and text stating I-130 has been approved and transferred to NVC so total to get the I-130 to be approved about 8 months.

My questions :

What are the document i need to prepare?

and what are the documents that my mother will need to get for processing?

Does she needs to send me anything?

How long does it takes after approval?

Thank you

[finalempress 29]

Now be prepared for them to contact you with the fee payments (Affidavit of Support and the Immigrant Visa Processing fees) once those are paid you will have to send in the civil documents (police records, birth certificates and copies of her passport and fill out the DS-230 online) Good luck. The from now the process can be a speedy one. I just completed mines for my mom and it took 2 months from paying the fees and sending in the civil documents and conpleting that form online to get her interview day which is scheduled for feb 2014. One thing I have come to notice with them is they may take time and drag things along but once they starting actually working on your case things get rolling really fast. I did not get a month notice for my mom's interview it's more like 3 weeks inbetween her interview date and the notice because she has to go in advance to get her medical done.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/nvc/nvc_1335.html

[finalempress 29]

I did respond but I did not do the quote thingy so here goes:

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to give everyone my timeline, and ask a few questions :

I filed for my mother, is in Morocco, the Priority date is 5/20/2013, a few days later check has been cashed, i did not hear back from them until Dec-12th,2013 with an email stating that my case has been forwarded to local office, in my case the local office is in Texas, a few days later exactly on Dec,18th, 2013, and email stating my case is transferred and now is being processed, didn't hear back from them until yesterday 01/10/2014 about 9:30 pm email and text stating I-130 has been approved and transferred to NVC so total to get the I-130 to be approved about 8 months.

My questions :

What are the document i need to prepare? - for now you have to wait on them to contact you to pay the fees: IV processing fee $230 and Affidavit of Support $88

and what are the documents that my mother will need to get for processing? Does she needs to send me anything? - after the fees are paid then you will need the cover sheet that they provide to send in a copy of your birth certificate and one of your mom, the bio page of her passport and the police report and any other civil document that may be required for your specific case ( http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_3190.html) and to fill out the DS-260 online (PLEASE DISREGARD FORM # FROM PREVIOUS MSG ITS DS-260)

How long does it takes after approval? In my personal case once everything was submitted it took a month after for them to look at the case and then there was a glitch on their part (they misplaced my mom's birth certificate for a week) and then a week after they sent the interview notice letter. (so total took them a month and a half from me sending all required fees and documents to give an interview date.

Thank you

Hope this helps good luck.

[nab-400 16]

Thank you FinalEmpress for your prompt response, and i appreciate you sharing your experience. SO for Police records... my mom needs to send them here in US right? do you know if they need to be translated?

[finalempress 29]

Thank you FinalEmpress for your prompt response, and i appreciate you sharing your experience. SO for Police records... my mom needs to send them here in US right? do you know if they need to be translated?

As far as I know anything that is not in English they usually request an english translation. But see if someone from your region might be able to answer that as I have not personal experience with needing to have a document translated. Yes it needs to be sent to the NVC either one of you can send it. Like I said I had my mom DHL her civil documents to me as I had the cover letter to attach to it and it was just better time wise and have the ability to track the package I did it that way. Instead oh having to wait on the mail to send her the cover letter and then have her mail everything back and we wouldn't have been able to track it.