US Immigration from Venezuela

Today my wife got an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) card in the mail that's good for 2yrs which allows her to work and it also allows her to travel out of the country (I-512 Advanced Parole) its dual use card.

Very happy, now still waiting for the interview at USCIS and a Green card.

Hello,

My fiance and I met earlier this year, and after having an online relationship for a while, we finally met in Costa Rica on the 3rd to the 11th of this month to spend time together, gather evidence and do an official proposal. We had an amazing time :). She is everything I was hoping for, and more.are preparing the K-1 Visa, and she is from Venezuela, and I am a US Citizen.

Since Venezuela no longer has an embassy, they are directed to use the Columbian embassy in Bogota. Right now we are working with my lawyer to try to find another US Embassy that can process her since the K-1 is processed as an 'immigrant Visa' and the wait time is sitting on 717 days as of today. She has family in Costa Rica, in addition to other areas. Residency would likely not work out, since we'd pretty much have to wait as long as the Bogota wait time.

She has a passport, not she is not likely eligible for a Visitors Visa (since the turmoil in Venezuela happened a few years ago, they no longer have bank accounts and have been struggling, so proving she has anything of monetary value would likely be impossible). She has income from her clothing business she owns, but its pretty much just paying the bills. Below is a link to the countries that she has access to with her passport.

https://embassy-finder.com/travel-with_venezuela_passport

Basically what we are looking for is a country that will accept third country nationals and doesn't have a crazy wait time. I'd hate to wait 2 1/2 years to even get her to the US. Although my fiances are in order and I personally have no problems, me paying to fly her out of Venezuela for extended periods of time is financially not an option. We found that it usually costs me anywhere from 1.5-2k just to get her out of Venezuela and back. That doesn't count my travel or our hotel stays.

I've been trying to email and call each US Embassy separately, but I was wondering if there was any success or helpful links people have used in the past to find an US embassy that accepted third country nationals (TCNs). I've also been using this link below to quickly check the appointment wait times.

https://visagrader.com/us-visa-appointment-wait-times

We plan on filing on December 3rd with all the required paperwork, so any tips or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Rick

We got notified via the USCIS website my wife's I-131 was approved on 12 NOV, so now we can leave the country and go on a honeymoon, now if we could just get our embassy interview date that would be fantastic!

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since Ive been around here, but I was hoping y'all could point me in the right direction. I have a friend who is a greencard holder and would like to bring his daughter to the States. His daughter is unmarried, over 21, and she also has a 4 year old daughter she would like to bring along with her. What are their options? Could he bring his daughter and granddaughter over to the States?

Thanks,

This may be a bit long winded. Originally we filed for a K-1 Visa in 2019, and everything was approved and waiting for an interview, there of course Covid-19 came and everything got delayed. My wife came to visit for a couple weeks in FEB 2020 for a family function of mine and then Covid hit and she could not get back to her home country and was stuck here, she had a return ticket. So in June 2020 I filed an I-539 asking to extend her B1/B2 Visa because it was expiring in AUG 2020. I never heard anything back.

In December 2020 we decided to cancel the K-1, get married and filed for an Adjustment of Status (I-485, I-131, I-130). We then got notified this summer to do Biometrics for the I-539 which we did, then a month later we got notified again to do the biometrics for the AOS which we did. Then Bogota contacted us and said we are getting scheduled for an interview which I cancelled because we got married and no longer needed to do it and the K-1 was cancelled.

Then on September 20th 2021we got notified from USCIS we are getting scheduled for our AOS/Greencard interview, and we are still waiting for it. This week we got notified they want additional evidence for the I-539.

To me at this point I no longer need the I-539, and when we interview and hopefully pass that will negate the whole I-539 anyway. So what I am asking the community should we just tell USCIS to cancel the I-539? We don't really need it at this point.