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We are still in administrative processing at the 90 day mark. It's pretty disheartening at this point. We were really hoping to be home for the holidays, especially since my parents were ready for us to come. I've tried calling and getting NVC to escalate the case and writing my congressman, but the responses have been the same: it's under administrative processing. Everything I read online about this stage is it's a black hole and we just have to wait. It just sucks waiting without any idea of a timeline because we can't make any plans. Our landlady will want to know when we're leaving (we're not month-to-month since our lease is up). We can get new jobs because we don't know when we will be in the US or how long we will be in SK. It's a pretty awful time and not having anything to do is the worst part.

Thanks everyone for the responses. It was enlightening to hear. He sent the information today. Hopefully we will hear back quickly.

I'm reaching out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar or has any advice regarding our situation. My husband and I recently had our visa interview at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul for his family-based green card, and we encountered several issues that have left us feeling frustrated and singled out. Our appointment was scheduled for 12:30 PM, but despite arriving on time, we were made to wait for an hour and a half before being interviewed. Other applicants, even those who arrived after us and had later queue numbers, were called in before us. We were waiting with our baby, which made the situation even more difficult. During the interview, we were told that my husband’s application was found ineligible under Section 221(g) of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. However, we overheard other applicants, all Korean nationals, being approved for visas despite having what seemed like weaker cases. It felt like our case was unfairly singled out because my husband is Pakistani. The consular officer also asked for several documents related to my husband’s professional career (CV, list of publications, job description, and his Pakistani ID card). These documents are not listed on the National Visa Center (NVC) website as required for a family-based visa. It feels like these requests are unrelated to our case and possibly due to my husband’s nationality. This isn’t our first issue with this Embassy. In 2022, we applied for a B2 visa for my husband so he could join me and our daughter on a trip to the U.S. for Christmas. Despite my repeated follow-ups, his visa was not issued until February 2023—well after our planned trip. We’re worried that this pattern of delays is happening again with our current application. Has anyone else experienced this kind of treatment or unusual requests for documents in their visa process? Is it normal for certain nationalities to face additional scrutiny or delays, even when applying for a family-based green card? How did you handle similar situations, and what was the outcome? We’re feeling quite stressed about this situation, especially since we need to leave South Korea soon due to my husband’s expiring work contract.

Filling out the DS-260 family information we are not sure if we should mark these questions yes or no: Is this child immigrating to the U.S. with you? Is this child immigrating to the U.S. at a later date to join you? Both our children are US citizens with CRBA and US passports. I assume the answer is no since they aren't "immigrating" but we don't want to make a mistake here.

Is the I864 going to take as long to process as Google says? It's good to see someone else who went through Seoul, thanks.

We filed with USCIS. It's being processed in Texas. Since my husband isn't a Korean citizen, we didn't see how we could file with the consulate here.

We are going through the Seoul consulate. We are both in South Korea.

We are getting anxious out here waiting for news on the i-130 we filed last April and we know one of the next steps is to file the i-864. However, everything I see online says they can take another 8+ months to process that form? Did we screw up our timeline and we are going to be stuck abroad longer waiting for them to process the financial documents?

Thank you!

We filed the i-130 last April and had another baby last September. Now that we have the CRBA we aren't sure how to include that we now have two children together not just one. My husband thinks we can just upload the additional documents, but the petition wouldn't have her name or birth date on it.