I-130 Wait Time Experiences for Colombian Adult Children

[VisaColombia 0]

My wife’s father is a US Green Card holder and will be asking for his son (brother of my wife). This will be the third I-130 in our family. One for my wife. One for her father. Being this an F2B, does anyone have any recent experience they can share about how long it took for their son or daughter to arrive in the U.S.?

[Frankjavir 63]

12 minutes ago, VisaColombia said:

My wife’s father is a US Green Card holder and will be asking for his son (brother of my wife). This will be the third I-130 in our family. One for my wife. One for her father. Being this an F2B, does anyone have any recent experience they can share about how long it took for their son or daughter to arrive in the U.S.?

I just pulled the above data. it seems to be not less than 8 years.

[appleblossom 3,789]

20 minutes ago, VisaColombia said:

My wife’s father is a US Green Card holder and will be asking for his son (brother of my wife). This will be the third I-130 in our family. One for my wife. One for her father. Being this an F2B, does anyone have any recent experience they can share about how long it took for their son or daughter to arrive in the U.S.?

 

Maybe 12-15 years as a rough estimate? Currently those who applied 9 years ago are just now becoming eligible for visas, so their wait will have been approx 9.5-10 years by the time the visa is granted. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-march-2025.html

 

But it’s not linear. For example, if you go back to March 2021, you’ll see that the date was July 2015, so it’s only moved forward 10 months in 4 years. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2020/visa-bulletin-for-march-2020.html

 

It’s a slow category that seems to get slower every year with more and more people joining the backlog, hence my guess would be at least 12-15 years if it keeps progressing at a similar pace - but that is just a guess.

 

Your FIL should just apply asap, and get things underway. Just make sure your brother doesn’t marry in the interim, unless your FIL becomes a USC. And it would be worth your wife petitioning her brother as well as backup, just in case.

 

 

Edited March 15 by appleblossom