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Next Step After I-824 Approval? [split topic]

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1 hour ago, AAh23 said:

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My 824 follow to join was approved July 2, can anyone please tell me what’s the next step. Most of the information I’m seeing online is for persons who also filed i130, I didn’t. 

USCIS will forward the remainder of the I-360 for your kid(s) to the NVC, which will then forward it to whichever consulate that has jurisdiction. Then they'll contact you regarding paying for the DS-260 and submitting the documents (which will be stuff like proof of relation (consulate might insist on DNA testing if you're from a high fraud country), medical exam, I-864W). So you'll pay for those, file the DS-260s for your kids (or they can file if they're adults by now), and they'll get their consular interview, attend (you should go there if they're minors), get their immigrant visas, then you'll pay the immigrant fee (which is what you pay USCIS to print the green cards) and bring them over to the US. They'll be LPRs as soon as they enter.

 

You might want to break this question off into its own thread somewhere in the NVC or Bringing families of LPRs to America sections. Most of us here hadn't had to deal with this so most of us don't have first hand experiences. FTJ is pretty much the same regardless of category, literally the only difference between FTJ on a VAWA I-360 vs an I-130 or I-140 or I-526 is that you just need to attach an I-864W.

Contradictions without citations only make you look dumb.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
Timeline

Question & reply have been split and moved from a thread in the Effects of Major Changes forum.

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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