US Immigration from Ghana

Hi everyone,

We're working on bringing my husband's teenage sons (from a previous relationship) to the US now that he is a citizen. One is 16, the other 14, and I really want them to do their first entry between the ages of 16-18 so that they are citizens upon arrival and get 10 year passports the first time around. We are planning to submit I-130 for the older one now and I realize that this is actually a dangerous timeline now with how slow things go.

They will definitely need to do DNA tests because none of the other evidence they ask for is possible to get (they don't have baptismal records, the school records from young childhood don't exist, etc.). I've heard that there's a backup of getting the DNA tests done at the Ghanaian Embassy right now. A few questions:

(1) Does it make sense to apply ASAP and wait for the USCIS to demand the DNA test?

(2) Or is better to submit the application along with an AARB approved DNA test, even if that means waiting 2-3 months to submit the I-130?

Other questions:

(3) Can we submit the I-130 (like, today) and then update the application with the DNA results once they become available?

(4) Does the testing HAVE to be done at the Embassy, or if there is an AARB approved lab in the country, can the two of them visit there together with their passports and have a chain-of-custody process done there? He visits his home country every few months to see the kids, so he could possibly do this in July.

Thanks for any help!

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My mum filed the an I-130 in 2016 when she was an LPR for my siblings aged me 20, 18 and 14. We did our medicals and an interview was scheduled but unfortunately our visas was denied.

Fast forward to 2019, a new I-130 was filed and we did DNA, and submitted forms to NVC we became documentary qualified June 2020, my mum naturalized and is now a US citizen so our case was upgraded to IR2.

We ve received an appointment date in April but we noticed the visa class has changed from IR2 to F11.

Please help, how can it be changed back to IR2?

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