US Immigration from Ukraine

Dear VisaJourney Community, your advice and help are needed! I can use some power of the collective mind!

I want to file an I-130 for my sister who is in the US under the U4U program (I am the sponsor), and I know this is an EXTREMELY long process that probably will take over 10 years to be approved.

My sister falls into the Fourth preference (F4) category = brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens and she is NOT an immediate relative (according to USCIS).

I ve started filling out file I-130 and I have a few questions:

1) Is concurrent filing (I file I-130, my sister files I-485) allowed for 4^th reference relatives inside the U.S?

My guess is that the answer is NO but I am not sure as USCIS information on different pages has been very confusing.

2) Considering the fact that I-130 processing can take over 10 years and U4U currently gives a person the right to stay in the US for only 2 years which option out of the two provided in i-130 should I choose?:

At which USCIS office will the beneficiary apply for adjustment of status to the lawful permanent resident? You should only answer this question if the beneficiary is in the United States and will apply for adjustment of status at a USCIS office in the United States.

At which U.S. Embassy or Consulate location will the beneficiary apply for an immigrant visa? You should only answer this question if the beneficiary will apply for an immigrant visa outside of the United States at a U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate.

I would much appreciate any suggestions and thoughts on this! Maybe someone had a similar experience.

Thank you!

Hello All.

I'm a U.S. citizen. My fiance is Ukrainian but living (1+ years) in Portugal with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). She is stable, employed, safe from the war, 6yr old in school.

We will be getting married next month in Portugal and eventually filing the CR-1. I would love for her to visit and meet my family and spend a couple weeks here in the U.S.

I see the K-3 is for this exact purpose but it takes nearly as long as the CR-1. One lawyer told me no way any Ukrainian will get a tourist visa, but she isn't in Ukraine in danger with a high chance to overstay.

I'm mostly just not wanting to waste the fee if there is really no chance?

Anyone have any info or thoughts on this matter? We sincerely plan to follow the rules to not risk the CR-1.

Thoughts?

Thank you all

Hi Everyone, Can I confirm that for self-petitioning NIW, we don't need to submit affidavit of support and any financial documents?

(I dont have any dependents, just me)

Thanks so much in advance for any help.

So, serendipitously and way faster than we have expected (all in all under 5 months), I ve just gotten a CR-1 visa through my wife to enter the USA until August 3-rd 2023 (expiration date). The thing is at the moment but we have pretty solid plans to stay here in the Philippines until March 1-st 2024 (newborn baby, US citizen herself, the lease for the apartment, studies). We have tickets to the US for November 29-January 14), already to visit family, apply for jobs. Please suggest/consult on how to better approach it. My original idea was (is, unless you advise otherwise), to go for like a week to Guam, the US territory, and just a 400 usd round trip from Manila, Philippines, where we are located and get the visa mailed to my spouse s usps address.

Please advise me, how should I proceed with this.
Options as I see them:
1. Go to Guam before August 3-rd and activate the visa. Fly to the US for 1.5 month in November. Come live by March 1st 2024.
2. Re-do my medical and get visa extended through the Embassy (the officer during the interview said it is possible). And go to the US first time in November, snd then go for a long term on March first 2024.

Also, even after reading the forum extensively, I don't understand if my spouse needs to enter with me. We have a newborn baby on our hands.

Thank you so much regardless,

We will have an interview on Thursday. Please tell me who was interviewed at the CG, can I get an interpreter? In the letter he writes that it is not possible to bring an interpreter, but on the telephone the stepdaughter was told that it was possible to bring an interpreter.