US Immigration from Hong Kong

Hi everyone, I find this forum the most useful and encouraging one to keep me positive over my wait for my family's visa. Hope to get some insights from you on my questions:

Visa type: F-3

Applicant: My husband. The application includes me as spouse, and our 1 year-old kid. 3 of us are already on DS260 form.

Status: Currently at NVC. We submitted everything on CEAC by 3 Sep 2020. Now waiting to receive DQ notice. Hopefully it would be reviewed by NVC this month.

Priority date: July 2008.....sadly stuck at the front of the waiting line, where the final action date has not moved for 2 months already.

Country we are in: Hong Kong

Question:

We are planning for the next baby. I believe, due to COVID, we may only be DQ by 2020 and interview may only come late 2021.

In the following questions, I assume we already achieve DQ status.

1. What if I get pregnant soon, and new baby is delivered before Letter of Interview. What will be the impact? Do we have to add the new baby in our DS260, submit scanned documents for the baby, and wait all over again to be DQ again? Will it delay our interview appointment? For information, it takes 1 month to obtain a passport for a new baby.

2. What if the new baby is delivered after the Letter of Interview but before the interview date?

3. What if the new baby is delivered after the interview date?

4. Actually, what timing of delivery would cause the least impact to our visa application? We have been waiting for years for the Visa but we also want to have this 2nd baby to come sooner.

5. Finally, assuming we get DQ by 2020, what would be a reasonable estimate of wait time until we can receive Letter of Interview under the COVID circumstances and Travel Ban this year? Is it that even if we receive DQ by 2020, we must wait for all the applications under Travel Ban since Mar 2020 to Dec 2020 to happen before our case can be scheduled for an interview??? Then should I predict at least 6-9 months for this............

Thank you very much in advance. The wait and unpredictability just disrupted a lot of our (and perhaps your) plans. But we try to prepare for the worst and hope for the best!

Hello,

I know Im getting ahead of myself, but i have a question about affidavit of support.

I think affidavit of support is required for a k1 visa interview (if not definitely for aos). My fiance is planning to leave his current job early next year so when i go for a k1 interview, he may be between jobs and we may need to ask his dad to be a joint sponsor.

The problem is my fiance is the only one in the family who is usc. The rest of his family members are on G-4 visa. My understanding is that a joint sponsor is also needs to be usc or green card holder..

does that mean his dad cant be a joint sponsor, even if his income is far above the requirement? And im not sure if it makes a difference, but G-4 visa is quite unique in a sense that when his dad retires, he can automatically apply for a green card.

if not, can we ask someone who is not related to my fiance to become a joint sponsor?

Thank you so much for your help in advance!!

Hello everyone. So I and my USC husband has been married for 4 years. Before our 4th anniversary a couple of months ago, he left me alone in Denver, drove to his family in California. I didn t see it coming! We had misunderstanding and arguments as husband and wife, but we ve been okay for several days before he left. From then on, I ve been trying to fix our relationship, but he keeps shifting his feelings towards me. Like he just expressed he still love me and will drive back to Denver to be with me and few minutes or hours later, he said the marriage cannot work anymore. Or expressed love interest today and won t hear anything from him in the next 2-3 days. Last week, I went to San Francisco to meet him, to start getting back together again, as we agreed previously. He didn t show up, but his mom and her best friend showed up, and I drove with his mom to their hometown, where he lives now. We met there, we stayed at his mom s house, was okay for a couple of days but had to leave earlier than plan with so many tears because suddenly, he left again, went back to his dad s house and called me that he wants a divorce. I went back to Denver that day, still wanting to communicate with him. We communicated again on and off. For 4 years, his father has been feeding his thoughts that he married a scammer, that I married him for green card, that I am not a real Christian. My husband also had a history of Schizophrenia as a teenager. And I think, even his mother thinks, that he is showing again symptoms of Schizophrenia with Paranoia. I have loved him and I still do. I wish we could still fix our marriage. But there is no way to reach him now, as he sent back to me last week his phone I ve been paying for us. And today, I called his father s landline phone in California (he lives with his dad and step mom now) and my husband s step mom answered the phone telling me that my husband doesn t want to talk to me anymore and to stop calling them. Now, with a heavy heart, I want to file a divorce. My questions are:

1.) Will my divorce be finalized even if my estranged husband won t sign the divorce paper?

2.) Last August 2020, we filed together to uplift conditional status of my green card,

what should I do now that he won t be showing up during the interview (I don t have the interview date yet.)

3.) My husband had been jobless for 7 months until he drove to California and work at Walmart. I have been paying single handedly for our rent, phone bills, storage, auto loan. He has our car with him and he wants to own it alone. Can I still get back some money from all the payments I paid for the car? I make good money with my job now. And the car loan that is supposed to be 6 years maturity, I am able to pay it off for less than 2 years.

4.) Will he be entitled of my earnings and savings although I have it in my personal bank account?

Thank you so much in advance.

Hi VJ members,

I finally moved to the US 2 days ago. My POE was Dallas Fort-Worth. At immigration, I showed my IR1 visa to the officer and told him that I'm moving to the US. Then he handed me to another officer who led me into a room to wait with other people. I had waited for 1.5 hours until they called my name. The only question asked was to verify my U.S. address. The officer said the green card will be mailed to this address in 3 to 6 months. Then they stamped on my passport and let me out.

On the way out, I was showed to the baggage claim and then continued with my connecting flight. I was confused why I wasn't asked to do any customs declaration step.

Hopefully other stuff (like the unaccompanied personal effects sent through mail) would also be smooth.

Hi. I'm from Hong Kong. Just wanna create a post to record the process and time line of applying K-1 visa during pandemic and (removed) political situation around the world.

We received NOA1 26th Sept 2020.

Received date of application is 8th Sept 2020; Notice date is 13th Sept 2020.

Gonna wait a longgggggggggggg time for next step.

It's so hard to be in an endless long distance relationship again T^T