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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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He can file for you but how do you intend to stay in status for 20 odd years until your PD is current?

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Ghana
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Your bro can file for you but you can only adjust your status from year 2037 onwards when your priority date becomes current. And only if you maintain legal status until then which is not feasible with F1 status. So yes, you brother can file you but it seems you will have to return home (when F1 status expires) and wait it out till when your case becomes current in 15+ years.

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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15 years ago there were far far fewer people waiting now the numbers are greater and the annual allocation has not changed

 

I see a lot of students stay many see it as a one way trip work marriage and asylum seem the common ways to stay sibling sponsorship less so

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Filed: Country: Sierra Leone
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Depending on where you are in your studies and what you are studying- there are programs of study that can take 15 plus years to complete depending on how you go about it  . Combine that with OPT’s, then maybe you would be here till 2037 while in status ? Unlikely though 

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Argentina
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1 hour ago, Kanja said:

Depending on where you are in your studies and what you are studying- there are programs of study that can take 15 plus years to complete depending on how you go about it  . Combine that with OPT’s, then maybe you would be here till 2037 while in status ? Unlikely though 

Which programs?

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Filed: Country: Sierra Leone
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53 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

Which programs?

I thought I posted this but now I can’t find it so forgive me if this is a Double post.

 

but mostly medical and some PHD programs. 
 

for example I went to a 5 year undergrad program then did 2 years of grad school. I planned to go to medical school but I didn’t but if I did that would have been another four years of school for a total of 11 years. Some masters programs can take longer(most don’t). That doesn’t include required medical residencies either. I think most folks have to do at least 2-3 years of medical residencies.

 

doesn’t include any OPT, externships, internships etc.

 

doctoral programs can take 6 years which may or may not include research for dissertation, though to be honest I don’t know how research towards dissertation counts towards allocated f1 visa time

 

for the OP, if your parents are alive you may have a better chance of your sibling petitioning for one of your parents and your parent petitioning for you (dependent on your age). If you are under 21 it will happen faster. 

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I-129F NOA2 : 2009-09-16

NVC Received : 2009-09-22

Consulate Received : 2009-09-28

Packet 3 Received : 2009-10-14

Packet 3 Sent :

Packet 4 Received :

Interview Date :

Interview Result :

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9 hours ago, Kanja said:

 there are programs of study that can take 15 plus years to complete

In that case, OP also wouldn't be allowed to leave the country at all in the next 15 plus years though, right? Because as soon as they re-enter, they're entering with a non-immigrant visa with immigration intent.

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Filed: Country: Sierra Leone
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6 hours ago, Noname93 said:

In that case, OP also wouldn't be allowed to leave the country at all in the next 15 plus years though, right? Because as soon as they re-enter, they're entering with a non-immigrant visa with immigration intent.

That’s such a good point and it sounds right but I can’t say for sure. 

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I-129F NOA2 : 2009-09-16

NVC Received : 2009-09-22

Consulate Received : 2009-09-28

Packet 3 Received : 2009-10-14

Packet 3 Sent :

Packet 4 Received :

Interview Date :

Interview Result :

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Wales
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With such long wait time immigrant intent is not really an issue at this stage.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Taiwan
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@Elizabeth Penny, the bottom line is that your brother can file for you, but there no real option for you to adjust through him for many years.

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