Multiple visa application types same beneficiary

[StevenCarmen 0]

Hello. 

 

We have a unmarried adult daughter with an approved I-130 as an F1 category from Mexico.   THE worst place to be from.   She's been waiting in the line for 8 years now and the wait has actually grown longer. They are currently processing Feb 1998 for her category and she has an filing date of 2013.  So, unless something changes, she will die before she gets to the front of the line! 

 

BUT things might change; if the new policy proposal concerning family based visas is revised as proposed, then they have indicated that they want clear this backlog and increase the cap, so then she might become current soon.  Even so, the time it will take them to process 15 years of application backlogs for Mexico alone before her priority date will still likely be years.  

 

Meanwhile some friends she works for in Mexico want to hire her to come work for them in the US and believe that they can get her an employment based visa.   I don't know how likely that is to succeed but it's their intention.

 

My question is if anyone knows about or has experience with a situation where you have an approved but wait-listed I-130 and then simultaneously, a new petitioner applies for an EB(3) visa for the same beneficiary.   Would one application cancel or affect the other? 

 

We would hate to lose her I-130 approval to the EB application, especially if that application were rejected!

 

I have not been able to find anything about this, though I'm sure there is a policy stated somewhere!  

 

TIA,

Steve

Edited March 29, 2021 by StevenCarmen

[Timona 4,207]

Independent applications... they do not affect each other

[payxibka 10,045]

An immigrant petition will have no effect on a different immigrant petition.   An immigrant petition could have a negative impact on a nonimmigrant petition or visa.

[StevenCarmen 0]

Excellent!  Thanks for your help.  I think that we will run with it, then. 

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Been there done that. No problem, you just go with the first one that gets current and then the other/s lapse.