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How likely is it for marriage green card to be approved before 2026?

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So in January we submitted the green card application. Recently we got approved for the travel document. Still waiting for EAD. Called a customer service person and they said 2026 was the latest that we can expect the green card will be approved. Obviously we need it approved before then. Don't have social security number which we missed the window to apply for when I first got here. Have they really been taking this long for marriage green cards? I understand non marriage green cards but I expected them to be quicker with reviewing marriage green cards.

 

 

 

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Worst case scenario you can file a WoM after say a year.

 

EAD will allow you to apply for SSN

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4 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

marriage green card would have been  the I 130  spouse visa

u are doing AOS after marriage on  a K1 and this is a much longer process

Wait... what?? I never knew this. I thought the AOS was the same as the marriage green card and I didn't think the process was this much longer. I did so much research beforehand and still it seems like I chose the wrong option.

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6 minutes ago, yuruioh said:

Wait... what?? I never knew this. I thought the AOS was the same as the marriage green card and I didn't think the process was this much longer. I did so much research beforehand and still it seems like I chose the wrong option.

K is much longer, if you enter on a Spouse visa you do not have anything to adjust.

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Thread is moved from the K-1 Case Progress subforum to the "AOS from K Visas" Case Progress subforum.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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6 minutes ago, yuruioh said:

Why does it take so long for status to be adjusted? What exactly goes into the adjustment of one's status?

The other people in line adjusting is what taking time.

 

You will have to submit biometrics, USCIS will conduct a background check. Then there will be a long break. Then Immigration Officer will review your file, issue RFE or decision OR call you for an interview, then make a decision. Then USCIS will order your Green Card to be produced. Then it will be shipped to you.

 

On the positive side, I would NOT believe anything USCIS Tier 1 officer says. He or she must have made up 2026 so you don't bother them. It'll probably take between 1 and 2 years. I'd expect 2024 or maybe 2025 the latest. But you can check with fellow members of VJ to see how quickly cases filed around the same time get approved.

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7 minutes ago, yuruioh said:

Why does it take so long for status to be adjusted? What exactly goes into the adjustment of one's status?

It does not take long

 

Just sits in a pile for a long time like everything else.

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2 hours ago, yuruioh said:

Why does it take so long for status to be adjusted? What exactly goes into the adjustment of one's status?

A lonnngggggg line of people ahead of you in the queue.  Ours took 14 months in 2018/19.  ROC took even longer, 18 months.

 

This is why we always recommend to new members here that CR-1 is the way to go.  People get stuck on historical petition processing times, failing to realize that is only one step in a very long process.

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3 hours ago, yuruioh said:

Wait... what?? I never knew this. I thought the AOS was the same as the marriage green card and I didn't think the process was this much longer. I did so much research beforehand and still it seems like I chose the wrong option.

Then you did your research in the wrong place/places. It's never been a secret about the timeline of each process.


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4 hours ago, yuruioh said:

I understand non marriage green cards but I expected them to be quicker with reviewing marriage green cards

Immediate family of U.S. citizens are the highest priority family based I-485s.

 

I would expect marriage based  I-485s to take longer than I-485s filed by parents of U.S. citizens, or unmarried children of U.S. citizens, at least when the U.S. citizen or child  were born in wedlock. In those two cases, bonafide relationship evidence is rarely requested beyond birth and marriage certificates.  The decision is largely deterministic.
 

Whereas marriage based I-485s require a subjective decision as to whether a bonafide relationship exists.
 

IMO, over 10 percent of the time, it does not exist.  Mostly it is because one spouse believes there is a bonafide relationship, and the other spouse has no intention of behaving as they did before I-485 was approved. 

 

USCIS knows they approve marriage based I-485s from con artists each day, and it wants to improve. So slower approvals.

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2 hours ago, SalishSea said:

A lonnngggggg line of people ahead of you in the queue.  Ours took 14 months in 2018/19.  ROC took even longer, 18 months.

 

This is why we always recommend to new members here that CR-1 is the way to go.  People get stuck on historical petition processing times, failing to realize that is only one step in a very long process.

That said, our CR-1 just became an IR-1 because we've now been married two years. It's been 724 days since our priority date.  Everything had delays.  Original interview was in April. Had to do sputum testing which took 4 months. Now, after having been told she was approved, it's under Administrative review going on 50 days.  At this rate we'll make the Guinness  Book of World Records pretty soon.

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6 hours ago, Cathi said:

Then you did your research in the wrong place/places. It's never been a secret about the timeline of each process.

I'm not acting like it was... it's just that sometimes the process for a lot of immigration stuff can be a little bit confusing/complicated. I think most people can agree with me on that 

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