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[Coco8 1,042]

OP, understand that for the visa to take 7 years he cannot get married at all in those 7 years. If he gets married before getting the visa and coming to the US with the visa, he will be bumped to the visa category of "US citizen child & married" which takes 12 years. 

 

After coming to the US and living here, he can get married. But he cannot get married before.

 

I'm mentioning this because a lot of people don't know about this, they get married, and then regret it. Also, there was someone on VJ a few months ago who tried to "trick the system", got his visa, got married, and then came to the US, brought his family. Well, now USCIS found out about it and, as far as he told people on VJ, they wanted to deport him (and possibly his whole family) after being in the US for years. He committed visa fraud by getting a visa as "single" when he got "married" before entering the US in a "single" visa.

Edited July 31, 2017 by Coco8

[Kerstin 0]

he is not married

[geowrian 22,338]

1 minute ago, Kerstin said:

he is not married

Understood. I think the point was that all parties need to understand that he must remain unmarried until he becomes a permanent resident (enters the US on the immigrant visa).

[Boiler 46,131]

BTW those time lines are likely to increase, they are for people who are now coming to the head of the queue.

[mrtravel 40]

6 hours ago, Lain said:

Most likely he's not married yet, so he falls in F1.

 

1 hour ago, Springrain22 said:

There's no such waiting time for children of USC. The current waiting time is 7 years if he's not married and around 12 if he is.

 

If under 21 and unmarried it would be IR-2 (immediate relative) and no wait other than the processing time (Maybe 1 year or more.)
If over 21 and unmarried, then F-1 and it would be whatever the wait  for that category would be  (7 years) plus the processing time through NVC.

It should be mentioned that for the non immediate categories there is a limit of 7 percent per country, (25,620 people for FY 2017) . 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/WaitingListItem.pdf

So, if you look at Mexico in that list, you will notice what looks like a backlog of over 50 years (over 1.3 million people)

Edited July 31, 2017 by mrtravel

[Springrain22 427]

10 minutes ago, mrtravel said:

 

 

If under 21 and unmarried it would be IR-2 (immediate relative) and no wait other than the processing time (Maybe 1 year or more.)
If over 21 and unmarried, then F-1 and it would be whatever the wait  for that category would be  (7 years) plus the processing time through NVC.

It should be mentioned that for the non immediate categories there is a limit of 7 percent per country, (25,620 people for FY 2017) . 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/WaitingListItem.pdf

So, if you look at Mexico in that list, you will notice what looks like a backlog of over 50 years (over 1.3 million people)

If married and over 21, then it will be F3 category and time is around 12 years (the current priority date is July 2005).

[Coco8 1,042]

1 hour ago, geowrian said:

Understood. I think the point was that all parties need to understand that he must remain unmarried until he becomes a permanent resident (enters the US on the immigrant visa).

 

Exactly. He has to remain single UNTIL HE GETS INTO THE US WITH THE GREEN CARD or he will be put in the "married" category and the visa will take 12+ rather than 7 years.

Edited July 31, 2017 by Coco8