Advice: Delay in I-130 processing for my Wife. What are my options?

[dabm 0]

I am asking for some much needed advice regarding what to do with my wife’s green card process. I am a US citizen living in Colombia. My wife is a non US resident and we married in March 2015. We filed an I-130 while living in Colombia en August 2018, and received NOA1 on September 2018 saying they had received the forms. Since then we have not received anything else. We had been told that it would take a max of 1 year from filing to get my wife the green card, so we are coming up on having to renew many contracts for one more year, and I am scheduled to return to the US in October at the latest. The processing times now say up to 13 months.  We are currently in the US visitong family, and now have twin girls that were born in Dec 2018 and are already US Citizens. Could some please advise me as to what to do if all my contracts are set to expire and renew?  Can we while being in the US apply for an Adjustment of Status now with an I-485? Or can we do it once the contract are close to being renewed in Oct? Or do I have to wait the Consular process put? Please advise as I am scheduled to return to Colombia in a week and are worried the timing will not match.

 

thanks

[USS_Voyager 1,972]

16 minutes ago, dabm said:

Can we while being in the US apply for an Adjustment of Status now with an I-485?

Technically that can be done. I assume she entered on a visitor visa and the rest of you used your US passport to enter? So is she prepared now to leave everything behind because once that I-485 is filed, she cannot leave the US for a while? 

[twoworldsonelove 28]

You should have received a NOA2 by now. Which service center is your application at?. I would file an expedite. And then at NVC file expedite as well. If everything can get approved, she should have her interview around end of Aug or September

[dabm 0]

USS_Voyager thats correct, my daughters and I enter with out US Passports, and she enters with her visitor Visa. In reality leaving everything behind for us is not hard, because her parents and brothers all live there either with citizenship or Green card. So there is no problem there. Do you have an idea how long it would be her not being able to leave the US?  I am thinking my best option is waiting out until before my contracts renew, and if no word from NOA2, then traveling and filing I-485 then (in September).

[dabm 0]

1 hour ago, twoworldsonelove said:

You should have received a NOA2 by now. Which service center is your application at?. I would file an expedite. And then at NVC file expedite as well. If everything can get approved, she should have her interview around end of Aug or September

Its at the Nebraska center. I will try to see if I can contact someone at USCIS for an expedite.