Do we qualify for expedite?

[Boiler 45,494]

Anybody can apply for an expedite.

It will be up to you to substantiate your case.

[Fernandezz 0]

Don't forget that you are dealing with USCIS (Just another American bureaucratic annoyance). They know nothing about love and human emotions.

My 'advice' is: forget about love for a while. Be a rock. Send your wife back to America (if possible today) and ask her to find a job as quickly as possible. Otherwise you two will be deep in ###### when you have to fill i864.

Edited February 12, 2014 by Fernandezz

[jajaju 33]

Sorry but I must say that it's quite offensive to the rest of us on here that you seem to think your love is more unbreakable and special that the rest of us. Many if not almost all of the rest of the couples on here feel clinically depressed being separated from our significant others. Being in love isn't a reason for expedite.. If it was, we'd all be with our loved ones right now.

If you really are as strong as you say, this time will be hard of course but you'll be able to deal with it and make responsible decisions for your future like your partner starting work asap to build savings for your life together.

Good luck!

[jan22 3,053]

Hi jan22. No offense taken.

I didn't immigrate to Europe, I am an European citizen. The only reason my wife immigrated here was so we could be together. The reason why we want to go to the US is because she is homesick and misses her side of the family nothing else.

Also, I'm sorry if I offended you in some way, that was not the intention, nor it was to badmouth the US in general. I was just ranting about this process that keeps getting the timelines extended more and more and in the process hurting the many US citizens that are kept apart from their loved ones by it. We consider ourselves lucky to at least being able to be together while this process goes on. Many are not so lucky and keep seeing the time that they have to be sepparated from their loved ones getting extended further and further and I empathise with them.

Thanks for your response. I knew you were the European citizen -- was using "you" in the plural sense (you and your wife). I appreciate you understanding that your post did push a couple buttons -- one of the reasons the US system is so bogged down is that almost the whole immigration system is tied to keeping families together (including adult siblings). In the attempts to do that, the law has become progressively more complicated and fraud more sophisticated (I'm not saying anything in your case if fraudulent -- it's just a piece of the overall puzzle that slows things down for all). So, I did respond from an emotional place and not a logical one. Thanks for your patience with that.

Unfortunately, it is a slow process, so I certainly understand your frustration. To go back to your original question -- there must be some emergent situation on the part of the US citizen for an expedite to be approved, generally. Unlike a lot of people, you are at least together now, thank goodness. Because of that, it is (as other posters have already said), highly unlikely that your petition would be expedited. In the eyes of USCIS, your spouse should already be domiciled in the US, so there's no hardship for her to be there waiting for you.

I wish you the best as you work through this process.

[dochas 0]

You have a point. Too bad that the auto-expedite of cases submitted from abroad no longer seems to apply.

Too bad things don't work the same way it works in europe where the priority is to keep families together and where there is such a thing called service levels...

Regarding the sponsor part, yes, we have that covered.

Were you approved for the expedite?