Parents green card Montreal consulate interview wait time and other questions

[hyoliyuli 1]

Hello everyone!

 

Does anyone have any direct recent experience with getting their ds260 interviews being scheduled at the Montreal consulate? If so, how long did it take you from submitting your ds260 to getting documentarily qualified and then to the interview? We are about to submit the ds260 and docs for my Canadian parents this week.

 

2nd question, for parents, do they automatically schedule the interview together or should I be contacting the consulate later to request it? Montreal is quite far away from their home (Toronto) and it would be so much more convenient to do it together.

 

Thirdly.. this might be a vague question.. could the consulate deny their immigrant visa at the interview when USCIS has already approved their I-130? The reason I ask.. their applications are very straight forward, except that they have a history of a 5-yr barred US entry 20 years for doing informal work at a family business under a visitor visa. We were removed and barred for 5 years. Since then, they were able to travel to the US frequently for leisure with no problems at all. But obviously this is a trigger for my parents and we can't help but be worried this issue may cause a problem again. This incident is all explained in ds260. Lawyer says it should not be a problem since it occurred 20 years ago and all penalty was served. We just want our parents to live with us in the US

 

Any insight will be helpful!

 

 

[Lil bear 4,211]

1 hour ago, hyoliyuli said:

Hello everyone!

 

Does anyone have any direct recent experience with getting their ds260 interviews being scheduled at the Montreal consulate? If so, how long did it take you from submitting your ds260 to getting documentarily qualified and then to the interview? We are about to submit the ds260 and docs for my Canadian parents this week.

 

2nd question, for parents, do they automatically schedule the interview together or should I be contacting the consulate later to request it? Montreal is quite far away from their home (Toronto) and it would be so much more convenient to do it together.

 

Thirdly.. this might be a vague question.. could the consulate deny their immigrant visa at the interview when USCIS has already approved their I-130? The reason I ask.. their applications are very straight forward, except that they have a history of a 5-yr barred US entry 20 years for doing informal work at a family business under a visitor visa. We were removed and barred for 5 years. Since then, they were able to travel to the US frequently for leisure with no problems at all. But obviously this is a trigger for my parents and we can't help but be worried this issue may cause a problem again. This incident is all explained in ds260. Lawyer says it should not be a problem since it occurred 20 years ago and all penalty was served. We just want our parents to live with us in the US

 

Any insight will be helpful!

 

 

1. Search the timelines for IR applications at the Montreal consulate to give you some info

 

2. no. Call/email NVC and request the two applications be linked.. they may already be.. ours were..  Also can contact the consulate to request a change to a joint interview time once the NVC has given them interview appts and forwarded the files to the consulate 

Montreal is the only option for IV interviews. Most of us have that sort of journey to the interview.. we had return interstate flights and one overnight stay.
 

3. as long as this has been  declared on all paperwork submitted and they answer truthfully.. no issue    USCIS and DOS already know about it all

 

I understand your heart to have them here. Thats what triggered our second US  immigration journey. Mind you,  if we hadn’t had the first journey, our kids would have been born in Australia rather than the US… and we wouldn't have needed the second journey 🤪

 

 Hopefully you have a workable plan for their health insurance once they immigrate here.  

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by Lil bear