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Beneficiary DOB: 25 Feb 2001

Petitioner: LPR father

Priority Date (PD): 07 Jul 2021

I-130 Approved: 03 Jan 2024

NVC case created: 03 Jan 2024 (initially shown as F2B/F24)

Category corrected (CSPA dispute): 25 Sep 2024 (CEAC showed F2A/F22)

NVC guidance to keep case active: 16 Jan 2025 (advised not to go more than 1 year without contact; logging into CEAC updates last contact date)

IV fees paid: 16 Jul 2025

DS-260 + civil/financial docs submitted: 04 Aug 2025 (CEAC showed F22)

Category reverted: 18 Aug 2025 (back to F2B/F24)

Category corrected again (per dispute): 29 Aug 2025 (email confirmation F2B F2A)

Interview letter: F22 27 Feb 2026

My questions;

For CSPA sought to acquire 1-year rule: What date should be treated as visa availability in a case where NVC initially misclassified (F2B) and later corrected to F2A?

Given the category flip-flops, how likely is it that the consular officer re-determines I m aged out and treats me as F2B at the interview?

Thank you so much in advance.

I am a German citizen who has not left the EU and Germany for more a decade. But I have an Iranian background. Due to this, I cannot travel to the US via a waiver program. So I recently applied for a B1/B2 Visa. Except having an Iranian background, all is normal with me. But to convince the interview officer I brought my bank slip showing a huge amount of cash, hundreds of times above the travel cost to the US, my rental contract, salary slips, resume,... everything you can imagine to the interview which happened in Frankfurt, Germany.

Note that I told you I have an Iranian background. It means before being German, I was born in Iran and was raised there and only as an adult could I leave Iran. With these facts comes the next question: an Iranian male can never leave Iran (they never allow him) until he does his compulsory national service.

So I was forced like anyone else to do my national service in the Iranian army (Artesh) before being allowed to leave Iran.

But now the US doesn't care that I am a normal citizen of Germany. Instead it purely sees me as trouble for being an Iranian male.

When I was in the Iranian army (Artesh) I was the worst soldier you can imagine. I genuinely am not a type of man who can use something called a gun. I cannot genuinely kill a bird. I have zero talent in it. In the army I was super afraid of the noise of gunshots and they merely asked me to hold a gun as I was miserable at doing it. I never touched a gun as such except for 2 or 3 days of compulsory shooting. They were not marked so they wouldn't care if you hit the target or not. Basically you had to show you can withstand the loud noise and empty like 10 bullets into the air and then it was the next one's turn. Again, every Iranian male has to do this and most do it much better but I was very horrible at it. But yes, I was still a normal draftee at most. I say this because on the DS-160 form there is a question: "did you have advanced training such as firearms and like that?" I asked Gemini what to answer to this question and it said due to your limited training as a draftee in the Iranian army by touching a gun, you have to answer YES to this. So to your surprise, I ended up claiming on the form I have advanced firearm training by ticking the option. I argued with Gemini for half an hour that this would be wrong but it STRONGLY rejected my argument and decisively asked me to just tick the option YES and it KNOWS it and it is correct as such.

So I ticked this option yes even though I clarified that "it was just part of my military training and was nothing else". But as I said, I checked this option and answered yes but later I learned checking this option causes a lot of trouble down the road.

On the interview day, the officer had no issue with my massive amount of money and ties to Germany. He was nice but we didn't speak much as he had to refuse my application based on 221g. He didn't call it a refusal though and said they need to process my case further and he asked me to send him the copy of my military service completion card and its translation plus the form DS-5535. Once they have these and processing is done, and my visa is ready "which can take weeks", they will inform me to send my passport so I get the visa.

Now it has been 3 weeks and I still have not heard back anything. On the CEAC website it simply says "refused".

I asked the same Gemini again which now says I made a mistake to answer yes to the advanced firearm question!!! and now my case will take a long time to process (stupid AIs, but yes, they can change their own recommendations!) Now all AIs I ask say I made a MISTAKE by answering yes! Long story short, the AIs now estimate it will take up to 6 months until I hear back from them and do not rule out not hearing until 12 months or even not hearing back at all!

What should I do in this case?

I have seen posts that on the off chance they do check for the I-134 at the interview they have been looking to see if the 125% poverty guideline is met. I know for I-134 it only asks for 100%. 2024 and 2025 I did not meet the 125% due do taking unpaid time off for a LOA (2024) and traveling (2025), but I have more than enough in assets to cover the difference in stocks. In 2023 I took no unpaid time and just barely squeaked by the 125%, so I guess my question is, should I bother attaching my tax transcript for 2023 and is any kind of explanation necessary? Same employer and I have gotten a raise since 2023, I may be overthinking things, but I want to make sure Aye has everything she needs. TIA

We re currently waiting for USCIS to send our paperwork to the NVC. We sent public enquiry forms. The first two times they responded saying that they haven t received the petition yet, but today they responded with .

The correspondence submitted is currently under review. An appropriate action will be taken once this review is completed.

Is this a standard reply? Is it essentially any different in meaning from the previous responses?

I m thinking it may be because I attached a copy of our NOA2 (I-797) this time as it s past the 60 day mark?

What do you think? Any advice?

Heya everyone,

hoping to use the hive brain here once again, since my search of the forum did not come up with any specific recent answer to this.

I am currently living in the US under CR1 spousal visa. Currently no open petitions, removal of conditions is still a bit away.

I was made aware that it is my responsibility to notify USCIS of any changes of address, if my husband/I move.

Since our petitions were filed through my husbands USCIS online account (as he is the petitioner) - Can we use his account to notify address changes, or would that only count for him? Do I need to create my own account and link any previous petitions in order to have that track record of changing the address?

I can t really find a whole lot about the online change of address process. Only that there is a paper form we could file..

Has somebody recently moved and any insights?

Thank you