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And bring the original certificate of naturalization! They'll make their own copy and update her record in the system.

J-1 if it comes with 2-yr home residence requirement is something you'll have to deal with and wait out before she can interview for immigrant visa. So, have her look in her passport - her visa will have the verbiage of 2YRHRR applies or does not apply. DS-2019 (I think that's the form for J-1 visa) will also have that listed.

What's with the crossed out text? F-1 visa is for international students - plenty of schools in Bogota to teach her English - hire a private tutor if you want to speed it up. But this will not be a quick and certainly not by fall as you envision. After she has requisite level of English, then find the school in the US that has the sonogram tech courses. How is she going to pay for this? If you want this done in Bogota, research the local educational options - you seem to be all over with what degrees to look into - sonogram tech, x-ray tech, bookkeeping, nursing. What does SHE want to do and why are YOU pushing for all this?

So you did this to yourself? Instead of holding off on the oath ceremony until family members had their visas and joined you in the US, you went ahead with the oath ceremony and now have to figure out how to get the children immigrant visas. I-130. There's a reason we tell LPRs who have petitions in the process to hold off on oath ceremony if they have children as part of I-130 for F2A visa.

Interesting but no, don't think your second tourist visa attempt will be successful. Online thing is online - you need to meet up for K1 visa, or do Utah marriage and then meet up in a third country (or Tunisia) before she could file for spousal visa. Either way, time together in person is very important especially in MENA countries. So she gets a cheap ticket for couple weeks in Tunisia and goes on unpaid leave if she doesn't have leave saved already.

You've got time until visa interview but you should look into steps to notify local authorities your passport is being held from you and what you can do about it - report it stolen? get a new one closer to the interview time? I am sure there are websites in your country to guide you through domestic issues at home social services, financial assistance and similar (local municipality, housing authority, employment office). For your interview, sounds like you're from a background (Indian, muslim?) that's very different from your US fiancee and where arranged marriages are expected. Figure out how to explain that in the interview when they ask if families approve (sounds like the fiancee's family approves, but yours doesn't).

Try this but looks like he is no longer practicing law: https://allpeople.com/orlando+c+dy_dycor-realty-inc_7Q-us

Just to confirm, you paid for the kids' green cards production, correct?

A K-1 arrival will only ever get SSN with restriction until they return with an EAD or a green card.

A lawyer in Hong Kong? Perhaps use the list of lawyers that Embassy in HK has: https://hk.usconsulate.gov/u-s-citizen-services/ Look for the list of legal resources.

To get passport - follow instructions on travel.state.gov to get the child's passport - you will need YOUR naturalization certificate AND child's passport with the immigrant visa that was issued to your child in addition to the documents for passport (birth certificate, passport photo, fees) - both parents have to attend with the child for passport appointment. To get certificate of citizenship: https://www.uscis.gov/n-600

Well you'd want to take active steps to 1. apply for his passport using your naturalization certificate and 2. apply for his N-600 certificate of citizenship. These things need your action as his parent through whom he obtained citizenship. Did you not figure out what steps to take after visa issuance for all this?

Go with blank then.

If your mother can guess at least month, just go with day 1 of that month and say (on/about - o/a). Your father is deceased, doubt they'll check.

Oh totally, I realized in March my son's passport was expiring in July this year - luckily we got it back in about two weeks. We also always ask for the larger book with 52 pages vs regular 26 pages as some places aim for blank pages to put stamps in. And now they look different than 4 years ago - passport number starts with A, then it has his picture in three different places - two on the bio page and one on the signature page, bio page is some heavy plastic type like a credit card with raised lettering - more security features. Kids passports are a pain as it's limited validity 5 yrs vs 10 years for adults but I totally get why they need to be changed more often given how much kids change - his first passport he was 10 days old in the picture - definitely didn't look like himself 4 years later... Still have to bring the kid for appointment, can't renew via mail like for adults. I now have calendar reminders for a year out for all the passports we have.

Department of State, not Department of Homeland Security.

Not quite sure what's not clear. Even the dvprogram.state.gov has info on what and how. He entered DV-2025 program (entry was October 4-November 7, 2023). Starting October 1, 2024 which is the start of new fiscal year (2025) is when the interviews will start for DV selectees. Depending on his assigned number, he may or may not get a chance to interview and get a DV visa, that's all I can tell you. If it happens to be September 30, 2025 and he hasn't interviewed and received a visa, he's out of luck. That's why I said look at the prior years' visa bulletins to figure out if he has a chance or not. It's also important he has his documents in order for KCC or they won't schedule the interview.

Depends on the region and how high his number is. You can check the visa bulletin on state.gov to see the past processing times of DV winners. There have been people who were selected but who did not get DV visa as they ran out of numbers in the past couple of years. Here's visa bulletin for upcoming June 2024: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-june-2024.html DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT (DV) CATEGORY FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE Section 203(c) of the INA provides up to 55,000 immigrant visas each fiscal year to permit additional immigration opportunities for persons from countries with low admissions during the previous five years. The NACARA stipulates that beginning with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NACARA program. Visa numbers made available to NACARA applicants in FY 2023 will result in reduction of the DV-2024 annual limit to approximately 54,850. Section 5104 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 amended the NACARA’s provisions on the Diversity Visa program such that the number of visas made available under the NDAA will be deducted from the 55,000 DVs annually allocated. These amendments will not impact the number of diversity visas available until FY 2025. DVs are divided among six geographic regions. No one country can receive more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year. For June, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2024 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number: Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately AFRICA 57,000 Except: Algeria 56,950 Egypt 32,000 Morocco 41,500 ASIA 9,000 Except: Iran 8,500 Nepal 8,500 EUROPE 21,000 Except: Russia 20,240 Uzbekistan 9,000 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 15 OCEANIA 1,850 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 2,750 Entitlement to immigrant status in the DV category lasts only through the end of the fiscal (visa) year for which the applicant is selected in the lottery. The year of entitlement for all applicants registered for the DV-2024 program ends as of September 30, 2024. DV visas may not be issued to DV-2024 applicants after that date. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2024 principals are only entitled to derivative DV status until September 30, 2024. DV visa availability through the very end of FY-2024 cannot be taken for granted. Numbers could be exhausted prior to September 30. C. THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN JULY For July, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2024 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number: Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately AFRICA 67,500 Except: Algeria 67,250 Egypt 40,000 Morocco 52,000 ASIA 13,000 Except: Iran 10,250 Nepal 10,250 EUROPE 27,500 Except: Russia 24,750 Uzbekistan 12,000 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 20 OCEANIA 2,000 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 3,000

As long as you're in the US when the beneficiary arrives to the US or you enter the US with the beneficiary, they don't care where you are when you submit the petition. They'll want to know you have a legit qualifying marriage, can take care of the beneficiary (I-864).

No. People overseas submit I-130s inline with no issues.

6 months minimum.

Can't do K-1 for your spouse (as it's for fiancee/fiance) and K-3 won't be issued as they stopped doing that long time ago. Stick with I-130 process.

I-864p form gives the levels needed per USCIS - HHS. Check if that's enough for your household size. And it should be total income as you claimed loss so $42k.

Send whatever new and updated you have since the submission. Can't go wrong with that. And get State IDs.

Get a state ID, why wouldn't you have that if you don't have driver's license?