David54321

I agree with you and I know by experience that the other parent can change her/his mind anytime.. However, court order is just a nightmare, rather wait for my child to be 18 yo in two years.

Thank you for your reponse. I thought that a simple written statement from his biological mother would be enough..A court order would be as long as the whole visa process if it is not longer

Hi, I am married to a US citizen, we live overseas, and I have a child from a previous union. The child is under 18 and technically the stepchild of my wife. We applied a few years ago for my CR-1 visa, the I-130 got validated by the USCIS in 2018 and we have purposely kept the file at the NVC stage for 5 years. For a lot of good reasons, we decided a few months ago that it was the right time for us to move to the US, we resumed the NVC and got the "Documentarily Qualified" email a few weeks ago. Now waiting for the interview. We are planning to move to the US by the end of 2023. The question is about my child, for who I don't have custody and for who my wife did not file an I-130 back in 2018. Since then things have changed and he is now a teenager and he wants to join us in September 2024 to start his 11th grade in the US. My wife sent out his I-130 a couple of weeks ago, but when we add the USIC processing time + the NVC processing time we don't think he will be granted a visa by September 2024. Are we missing something, is there another faster way to bring him to the US? Thank you in advance for your time in helping me. David