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Really? i was under the impression that it was the slowest one since the embassy is clearly backlogged...

can we find out if the processing time is dependent on the country

Okay thank you for that guidance on the time frame.... that link you shared seems to talk about Ecuador...it may not apply to Pakistan...

Do you know what the current time for this category for the country of pakistan. On the visa bulletin I saw that the final act was 2015 for the i130 and for NVC it was 2017...My calculation is telling me more than 9 year for i130 if I am not reading it wrong that is. Is that true? And what do you mean about Biden rolling out Parole, not sure I understand what that means...what is going on? Am I missing something? Honestly i could care less but I just gave a short version of what the husband and second wife did.

So there has been some development to this now: The husband passed away just 2 days ago... The husband and the other wife and youngest son were in canada recently and from what I understood since my SIL has no idea what type of immigration they went on, applied for change of status in canada. However the husband got sick and was admitted in the ICU twice a month and a half ago so the second wife sent him back to Pakistan. The wife stayed behind but sent the kid. The husband came back and few weeks later got very sick and had a heartattack and was admitted in ICU. Eventually the doctors told the family in Pakistan that he had only few days left to live. So that said, he passed away yesterday in Pakistan while his other wife was in Canada. Now she is returning and not sure what her canadian status will be but I believe she was working and had submitted her passport. Honestly I don't care about what will happen to her and her kid. Now that my SIL is widowed and she has 2 daughters, can we go ahead and complete the i130 application process? If yes, then do we need her husband's death certificate at this stage? What is the overall processing time from stage 1 to all the way to embassy stage? Are we looking at 7 to 8 years? does anyone know what year is Pakistan embassy is currently working on for F1 visa category? Would her having kids come into play here? Her daughters are 12 and 18 so what are their chances of immigrating with their mom under CSPA? TIA

oh definitely...but will need factual information in order to do that...but yes i am trying to convince my in-laws to do that... lol i never watched Meghan and harry and their family drama but yea i guess this qualifies lol

No I do not. What I have been told is that he applied for the visa last year and got a visa and did go to canada with his other wife and his other kids. at my SIL's visit visa interview they asked her and the youngest daughter if they had any family in Canada and she answered truthfully and that is how we found out that he applied for the immigration for the girls as well. so not sure what type of visa he has. I only know what has been told to me. please do not ask me about this because I don't have sufficient information about the husband and his canadian immigration or whatever the hell he did. all I wanted to know was about my SIL and the derivatives and choices my mother has.

good to know and interesting. I will keep that in mind. trying to convince my MIL to report the dad at this point. yes as far as I know the girls never been to canada on immigration visa. I don't even know if they got it. I feel like he only mentioned the girls or tried to apply for them under the pretense of his other wife as step children or real one, that I do not know and neither does the girls only the husband knows. anyways i am not sure what the girls' future is but it seems to be complicated...

okay got it. thanks.

i did exact search about the derivatives and who qualify, i found that not everyone qualifies as derivatives (aged out children) and step children was among that so unless i found something that was not correct but that is what I found.

when I first saw this my thoughts immediately was that the second wife is alive and is still married so they are not my SIL stepchildren so she doesn't include them but then I got different answers here. so now I am even more confused. so what will she list those 2 other kids as?

which is why I posted and I had confusion on what to do...now I am getting conflicting answers.

people are pointing out that she will have to list her stepchildren in the i130 process when my MIL files for her. She has 2 biological daughters and 2 stepchildren from the dad and his other wife.

Her 2 daughters are her biological daughters but her 2 stepchildren (sons) are not hers so the answer is that 2 biological children and 2 step children. and you are right Pakistan does not do adoption. My thoughts are that the father listed the kids in the immigration as stepchildren since the girls did not go to canada with him when he last traveled. that is what I know don't know the details of it. Like i said he keeps things secret from my SIL so half the time she doesn't know what he is doing.

I have a feeling that the Canadian immigration is already alerted of the dad's fraud at this point since he tried to get the daughters to immigrate with him on family visa and since he doesn't have any family in canada and since US and Canadian immigration talks, it is already flagged. plus the dad only went to Canada once and for 1 month and didn't go back to this date which if it is anything like US then it is already more than 6 months he is abroad. He applied for the daughters but never took them so not sure if they were given visa or not. I doubt it. state laws: noted, will do the research before MIL applies. and thank you appreciate the prayers. hopefully we can officially help her get out of this.