US Immigration from Ireland

Hi folks,

I had my interview for my NIW-EB2 case on October 2023. After the interview, the consular officer asked me to email my 212(e) waiver for my previous J1 visa and then they will grant my immigrant visa. As the process is very time consuming It took more than 7 months to get the waiver from USCIS. Finally, on 18th June 2024 I got my I-612 and emailed the copy of my waiver to the embassy. The embassy did not reply my email and I tried multiple times. I called them however the phone is never reachable. Its already more than 15 days I am getting very worried about it. Could you kindly suggest what shall I do in such situation? Your expert advice would really help.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, do you wait to be invited to file your paperwork or does the petitioner have to do it once the date for filing on the visa bulletin is passed your priority date without being invited? Thank you.

Hi,

I got my receipt from USCIS after 2 weeks of the favourable recommendation from DOS. Its now nearly 4 weeks I have not received the case approval from them. According to USCIS technically 4 weeks is the processing timeframe. Hope somebody can share their latest timeline?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

Looking to see if anyone else is having issues with getting the embassy to respond to email questions. My fianc is the Irish citizen and we are going through the K-1 visa process and we are getting towards the end of the validity period for his i-797. It expires 5/29/2024 but the medicals are booked up and he couldn't get an appointment until 6/14/2024. The only time they answered us was when they said that the i-797 can be extended once they receive the notice of readiness, but the documents they included in the email say that the notice of readiness can't be sent until he has the medical exam results. This whole thing is making no sense to us and we really need help. Anyone out there who can help us out? Thanks in advance!

I am not sure if this is the correct place. My husband from Ireland and I are in the Adjustment of Status process. His only ID is his passport still (it is NOT expired, but the stamp in there relates to the date he should have went back to Ireland), as this process is very long it seems. We are currently waiting for the interview step. We are wanting to travel to a couple other states within the US for some fun vacation times, but I have a fear that if they examine his passport they may want to detain him for being past his date. We have driven to other states close by, but we have a couple friends we want to visit quite a far bit away from us.

Has anyone else been in this situation and flown just fine?