SalishSea

Service center processing times are not relevant to your visa category. All petitions in the sibling category will be approved long before there is an available visa, especially for India.

Regarding the house- I already owned my home before we got married. We are in our 50s, and I had bought my house many years earlier. It would have been a financial hit to either refinance what’s left on my mortgage, or do a quit-claim gift. We are 17 months into our ROC processing, but I’d be very surprised if they question that. We have purchased vehicles jointly, own joint cash funds, and have the usual shared insurance/named beneficiaries etc. I think we sent a smaller volume of stuff than most here, but for some reason I’m not especially worried. We’ve both been previously married, each have two adult children, husband is from very low fraud country. Maybe it will come back to bite me, who knows!

This was in 2018, when petition processing timelines were much shorter. . We were February filers, and I sent the documents in June. We were approved in August with no RFE.

Some on VJ (myself included) have had success in correcting or amending what was originally sent with the petition, by sending unsolicited items directly to the CSC in Laguna Niguel. I included a copy of my NOA-1 and a cover letter of explanation. May be worth a try.

Hope so! We still haven’t gotten around to the N-400 😅.

Not really. And for this reason, we all know that pregnancy is not a reason for expedite. All the couples who cannot or choose not to reproduce together do not have less legit marriages for immigration purposes.

Large age difference, with you being older?

Exactly. In the world of immigration, it is not a measure of someone's love or commitment to another person. Just like having kids is not.

It’s really not a big thing when it comes to immigration. You can include it of course, but there are other things that hold more weight when it comes to bonafides, such as commingling of finances.

You’re sure it’s 18, not 21?

Ah, right. Somehow I was adding the time it will take for the kid to become a USC. I did think it was 21 though, not 18.

That would not happen for years and years. At least 25+ years from now.

Our re-use notice was Dec 29, 2021, and received date was Dec 1, 2021.

I can't see how they would not - after all, you will need to submit your passport, which will clearly show your status.

Potential green card how?

Crazy Cat answered initially, and you still seemed to think it could be because of beneficiary's country, so that's why I was expanding on why it is not. You're in for a long journey, might as well buckle up and learn as much as you can about the processes involved

You are talking about travel, not immigration. Those are two very different things in terms of family court. Unless your husband can demonstrate that the mother allows the child to move to the US permanently (full-time), I don't see an immigrant visa being approved. In many divorce settlements for which children are involved, one parent cannot move the child to another school district without the other's consent, let alone to another country.

In what way does this make sense? The lockbox that receives and unbundles the packets, and processes payments is in no way looking at any detail about the packet, such as beneficiary's country or whether you're eligible. That comes like 15 months later, when the petition is adjudicated. The lockbox is simply making sure that the forms used are current and that the payment is correct.

16.5 months.

The burden is on you. They’re not going to do any of your legwork to help you get a visa.

You’re making it sound like the OP can just saunter in to the consulate with this stuff. Is that how it works? Are you suggesting he will get a B visa after all?

Your husband will need to complete an I-864, and you will need to complete an I-864A (I am assuming you file federal taxes as MFJ?). The intending immigrant's spouse is the primary sponsor, your brother can be a joint sponsor if eligible and if he agrees to it.

In the nearly 8 years I've been reading VJ, I have been both denials and approvals. You just have to use the search option, or look at the IMBRA/Special Topics lower subforum of K-1 for historical posts.

Petitions submitted by people with AWA-related criminal backgrounds take much longer to be adjudicated. There is no way for anyone on VJ to know whether you will get a denial, anything is possible.

Financial hardship for expedite in this case doesn't make sense. It could bring up public charge issues.