Immigration: free will

[rpd 0]

Can an immigrant having multiple family based petition choose future
time to immigrate to USA?

Lets say someone having F4 and F2B family based petitions on his name.

When F2B catagory visa becomes available but the person does not want
to immigrate and want to immigrate when F4 catagory visa is available
at later time?

USCIS treats petition separate petitions individually for the same person?

Thank you

[aleful 1,905]

hi

yes to all your questions, a person can have more than one petition on their behalf

why would the person want to come at a latter time? everyone comes as soon as they can, since it takes many years?

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Yes they can do that.

However, they cannot then change their mind- so if they choose to withdraw the F2B, and 2 years into the 6 year wait for a F4 they want to come to the USA, they cannot. Similarly, if during that time they fall out with family and the petitioner sibling refuses to continue with the F4, they cannot go back to the F2B

[newacct 688]

They wouldn't need to withdraw -- they can just not go through consular processing, and call NVC at least once a year to keep the petition alive, and they can start the process again whenever they decide to, assuming they are still eligible for the category (e.g. F2B requires the person to be unmarried), and a visa number is still available for their priority date and category.

[rpd 0]

Thank you all for your reply.

To Newacct:

Immigrant can keep F2B petition alive every year just by calling once a year and they can immigrate whenever they want even after they do not take advantage of its approval immediately.

They do not have to wait another seven years for the F2B catagory?

To aleful

Many things can change in life over so long time and the person may not want to move.