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I filed for my wifes visa at the embassy in Korea while I was stationed there. We are both now here in the United states and I'm trying to get our daughters over here. They were listed on her petition but we didn't file seperate petitions for them. According to the US Embassy Website where I got the following:

The spouse and children of a principal applicant are entitled to derive immigration benefits from their principal’s approved visa petition and may travel to the United States at a later date. Under no circumstance will the derivative spouse or child be allowed to travel to the U.S. ahead of the principal applicant.

Following-to-join applicants may derive immigration benefits only if:

a) the spouse or children were acquired before the principal applicant’s admission into the United States; and

B) the principal applicant gained lawful permanent resident (LPR) status or was issued an immigrant visa under the family-preference (F) or employment-based (E) visa categories or was issued a nonimmigrant K or V visa. Foreign nationals who immigrated to the U.S. under an immediate relative (IR) visa category need to file a separate Form I-130 visa petition on behalf of their spouses and children.

c) the principal applicant has not naturalized. Once the principal applicant becomes a U.S. citizen, a separate visa petition would need to be filed on behalf of the spouse and /or children to qualify for immigration benefits again.

She is on a CR-1 Visa...Does that mean we need to file seperate I-130 petitions here in the states and wait forever to get them here?

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