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Hello, my father entered USA with the immigration visa (IR5) a few days ago. He has the passport sealed by the immigration folks at the airport, no issues. My poor mom still didn't get her visa (due to the issues mentioned here): So she is all alone back in Sri Lanka. My dad entered the US only because he had to before Nov 30th according to the visa restriction. My father wants to travel back to SL to help my mother get her visa as soon as possible. They are sure she is at the last leg of her visa process (lots of effort going on to get her issues resolved). My question is, can he travel now? He doesn't have a physical green card. All he has is the seal on the passport. He has only been here in the US for about a week.

Oh and by the way my Congressman's office did diddly-squat. This is Congressman Drew Ferguson's office in Georgia. I submitted the form and requested help in June. Nada.

Still waiting 🤦‍♀️

Hello, So the update - We are still waiting after submitting some documents for 221g on July 8th. It's August 29th now. - The foreign ministry of SL did try their best to help us. I have to applaud their efficiency in this. They contacted the Bahrain officials and asked them what could be done. The issue was the Bahraini officials took more than 2 months to respond and say nothing could be done without my mother's documents. The SL ministry typed up a nice official letter explaining that the Bahraini officials don't offer police report without the relevant documents. This document is good but it arrived too late. So we have not submitted this to the embassy. - After advice from 3 different lawyers, we made an affidavit explaining the situation and that we couldn't provide a police report from Bahrain. We also got another affidavit from a justice of peace in SL who knew about my mother's situation during the riots as he had personal knowledge. We wrote a longer explanation letter as well. We submitted only these 3 documents to the embassy on July 8th (about 1 month after the interview). - We didn't have the letter from the SL foreign ministry then (on July 8th). After receiving the letter, we are unsure if now submitting this as a document will prolong the process even more. Plus the letter basically states the same thing we have in the affidavit, that no police report can be given from Bahrain without relevant docs. I might create a ticket and ask them if we should submit this and at this point, we've got nothing to lose. - I have asked for an update from the embassy and they said they are waiting for certain clearance. They are not able to tell us when it will be done. We are very anxious. I really really hope my father wouldn't have to travel alone without my mother

-So we have asked the foreign ministry in Sri Lanka to contact Bahrain officials and get a response from them (any response really - yes, a police report can be somehow obtained or, no, there is no possibility) as that is one thing the US embassy is probably looking for -The destructive fire was due to riots that were taking place in 1983 in Sri Lanka. So we are getting a letter from a notarized justice of peace verifying my mother is one of the people who lost everything during the riots. -I am also looking into contacting the congressman in our area. -We are also trying to get some advice from an immigration lawyer either in the US or Sri Lanka. The lawyer's appointment is next week in the US. I'm just noting all this here for anyone who might face the same situation in the future. I will keep this thread updated on the progress.

Thanks.These are the directions she got from the embassy (and it's also found in the immigration department site) but as per this, she should have Bahrain ID and residence documents. She has nothing. It's been more than 40 years. She doesn't even have the old passport with the Bahrain visa.

Thank you so much for this response. We are pretty much clueless right now and this helps.

Hello, I'm sponsoring my parents for their green cards. They went to the interview at the US embassy in our home country (Sri Lanka) yesterday. Dad got approved but mom's has a request for a document. This is for a police report. She worked in Bahrain about 42 years ago for about 12 months. She doesn't have any documents related to that stay any more. No old passports, or any ID she might have had in Bahrain. It all got destroyed in a fire. When I tried to obtain a police report from Bahrain they informed me that they will not be able to do so without an ID she might have used there all those years ago. The person I chat with wasn't even sure if they had the same ID system all those years ago. So I mentioned this when submitting docs to NVC and we got DQ'd. We were able to get police report for other places she lived. At the embassy though they have sent her back with a request for a police report. She had tried to explain but they shut her down with 'Nope we need a report'. We don't even have a Bahrain embassy in Sri Lanka. What do we do in this situation? I'm sure people have gone through the same situation.

Hello, it took us 12 months for I-130 approval.

Hello, I am a US citizen applying for both my parent's green cards. We are at the NVC stage (the i-130s just got approved). I make enough to sponsor both my parents, so I will be filling out I-864. My question is is there any reason my husband needs to fill out I-864A? We live in the same household and my husband is very supportive and excited about my parents migration. But since I have enough income for i-864, do we have to worry about I-864A as well?