Surrendered Green Card due to being out of the country

[Dee elle 1,368]

6 minutes ago, Tomachi7 said:

yes, that makes sense, I would put the odds on the UK applicant.

You can put your odds wherever you choose to.. won’t alter the outcome nor the fact that the process is 99% out of your control 

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

8 minutes ago, Tomachi7 said:

yes, that makes sense, I would put the odds on the UK applicant.

But the applicant doesn’t get prioritized because she’s from the UK (the background check is an administrative procedure done on everyone, ),  or has been married longer, or has kids....  the applications are all sent in first come first served. If one’s admin takes longer than another that’s a different issue than “let’s process this one first”. You do get this, right?

 

 

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[Dee elle 1,368]

1 minute ago, SusieQQQ said:

 

 

You are going to pull uour head out of the sand, right?

“My minds made up... don’t confuse me with the facts “

[C&AH 104]

19 minutes ago, Tomachi7 said:

yes, that makes sense, I would put the odds on the UK applicant.

And why is that? What are you suggesting?

 

Like others have said, I would get in line like the rest of us if you want to bring your spouse to the US. It seems that your options are: stay where you are, find work there, establish a domicile in the US, and find a joint sponsor while you wait out the process or come ahead to the US while she waits there. 

 

My recommendation is to look up some timelines in VJ by country (i.e. compare data from Afghanistan to the UK) and you'll find that the process is usually a minimum of 12-14 months regardless.  Just prepare yourself for a wait because you are dealing witg tge federal government underpaid amd understaffed to meet the large amounts of petitions. I don't like it any more than you but as a USC, I do respect and appreciate the process. 

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[mushroomspore 3,044]

Just now, SusieQQQ said:

But the applicant doesn’t get prioritized because she’s from the UK (the background check is an administrative procedure done on everyone, ),  or has been married longer, or has kids....  

 

You are going to pull uour head out of the sand, right?

Exactly. Plus, in real life, there is no such thing as two cases being almost 100% the same with only country of origin being the difference. There are many cases that very similar. That is for sure. But the other enormous variable here is the officers who look at our cases. One officer may look at the Afghanistan case and actually be a very fast worker who manages to get everything done sooner than his supervisor expects. The officer looking at the UK case may take a while because the UK case perhaps belonged to a different officer who quit so this officer got stuck with the previous officer's workload. So again, it is useless to be asking such questions. None of us were able to pinpoint exactly how our cases would go. That's just how this works.

[Loren Y 2,756]

17 minutes ago, C&AH said:

And why is that? What are you suggesting?

 

Like others have said, I would get in line like the rest of us if you want to bring your spouse to the US. It seems that your options are: stay where you are, find work there, establish a domicile in the US, and find a joint sponsor while you wait out the process or come ahead to the US while she waits there. 

 

My recommendation is to look up some timelines in VJ by country (i.e. compare data from Afghanistan to the UK) and you'll find that the process is usually a minimum of 12-14 months regardless.  Just prepare yourself for a wait because you are dealing witg tge federal government underpaid amd understaffed to meet the large amounts of petitions. I don't like it any more than you but as a USC, I do respect and appreciate the process. 

Understaffed maybe, but not underpaid. making just shy of 82,000 a year for looking at applications seems pretty fair to me....

 

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/US-Citizenship-and-Immigration-Services-Adjudications-Officer-Salaries-E41353_D_KO40,61.htm

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

4 minutes ago, Loren Y said:

Understaffed maybe, but not underpaid. making just shy of 82,000 a year for looking at applications seems pretty fair to me....

 

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/US-Citizenship-and-Immigration-Services-Adjudications-Officer-Salaries-E41353_D_KO40,61.htm

It’s not like it’s applications for people wanting to study touch-typing at the local community college - fair bit of responsibility involved in this, no?

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19 minutes ago, mushroomspore said:

Exactly. Plus, in real life, there is no such thing as two cases being almost 100% the same with only country of origin being the difference. There are many cases that very similar. That is for sure. But the other enormous variable here is the officers who look at our cases. One officer may look at the Afghanistan case and actually be a very fast worker who manages to get everything done sooner than his supervisor expects. The officer looking at the UK case may take a while because the UK case perhaps belonged to a different officer who quit so this officer got stuck with the previous officer's workload. So again, it is useless to be asking such questions. None of us were able to pinpoint exactly how our cases would go. That's just how this works.

I'm guessing other variables come into play as well, such as how well the petition is assembled and front loaded evidence on the part of the petitioner. 

[Roel 7,193]

1 hour ago, Tomachi7 said:

 

If I was prioritizing applicants, I would certainly look at parents of USC differently than those who have not immigrated previously and do not have USC kids.  

 

It might be shocking to you, but people with kids are in no way better or more important that people with no kids. 

 

Uscis does not care about your children. The world doesn't care about your USC children either. You as a parent care for them but you don't get prioritize because of them. 

 

That would be an absolute discrimination against people with no kids and USCIS won't have any of that. The USCIS also doesn't care about your thoughts on immigration. 

 

Instead of this pointless arguing you'd do better spending your time preparing the i130 packet. The sooner you start the sooner the 12 months clock will start going.  

[mushroomspore 3,044]

Just now, C&AH said:

I'm guessing other variables come into play as well, such as how well the petition is assembled and front loaded evidence on the part of the petitioner. 

Yes exactly. RFE's are the other big variable in how fast or slow a case goes. I didn't think we were going to get an RFE because six months passed by without a single update but then we got one. So yeah, this part of the process is impossible to predict.

[Loren Y 2,756]

1 minute ago, SusieQQQ said:

It’s not like it’s applications for people wanting to study touch-typing at the local community college - fair bit of responsibility involved in this, no?

True, it does take some effort and knowledge I agree, but you do get a nice climate controlled office to work in, obviously you are not under any strict enforced guidelines to work faster than anyone else. It is what it is. I applied to be a CO at my local USCIS office, and I am only about 2 months into the 4-5 month hiring process, but even at that my E2 starting pay is close to 70k, then after 5 years works up to close to 80k, and if I really stick it out and get 10 plus years in I'll be over 100k, plus free medical and a pension to live well after my 20. If I make it 20 years LOL.

[Daniela M_______ 410]

1 hour ago, Tomachi7 said:

Does this mean you believe that each processing center, just processes the applications as they arrive without consideration of the applicants?

I found your attitude completely disrespectful to the rest of applicants. Facts are facts, and you seem to be the kind of person who thinks to be more special than others and that deserve to be treated differently. Experts members are giving you insights on how the process works and what is your best option, if you don't trust them, then find an attorney, or go to the USCIS website, or try expecting to be approved in 3 months and see how that goes.

 

If you think life circumstances should be prioritized, then the process would be a complete and extreme drama of people crying about why they deserve to get approved first because under each eyes your reality will always be harder than others. Not that difficult to understand.

[C&AH 104]

You said that you are "thinking about going back to the USA and applying from inside." Think it through because you are getting ready to spend at least a year maintaining two residences, not to mention travel to see your wife (and kids depending if they are with her). If they are with you, then I'm sure you might take them to visit, which equals additional travel expenses.  On top of that, you will have fees to pay for the process. I'm sure you already know this since she already had her GC before. Given the overall costs, could you make close to the same by working in Japan? Can you find a joint sponsor? I'm not sure what you do for a living and how much money you can make or what your resources are but the next year will be emotionally and financially draining. Is it worth it? Those are questions that you might want to be exploring with your wife rather than arguing with a group of strangers on VJ as to why you feel your case should be special. The cold hard truth is, if you plan to bring your spouse to the US, then you WILL be living apart for at least a year. 

[Tomachi7 1]

11 minutes ago, Daniela M_______ said:

I found your attitude completely disrespectful to the rest of applicants. Facts are facts, and you seem to be the kind of person who thinks to be more special than others and that deserve to be treated differently. Experts members are giving you insights on how the process works and what is your best option, if you don't trust them, then find an attorney, or go to the USCIS website, or try expecting to be approved in 3 months and see how that goes.

 

If you think life circumstances should be prioritized, then the process would be a complete and extreme drama of people crying about why they deserve to get approved first because under each eyes your reality will always be harder than others. Not that difficult to understand.

No disrespect intended Daniela.  Are you waiting in Mexico?  In Japan where I have received two spousal visas over the past decade, they absolutely prioritize parents of Japanese citizens.

[mushroomspore 3,044]

2 minutes ago, Tomachi7 said:

No disrespect intended Daniela.  Are you waiting in Mexico?  In Japan where I have received two spousal visas over the past decade, they absolutely prioritize parents of Japanese citizens.

And that's perfectly fine but that's not how the American immigration agencies work.