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I am petitioning a family of five with the I-134A. Went into the USCIS office today and submitted biometrics (it's a new process, apparently). They had to take a bunch of photos and a bunch of fingerprints. 3 of 5 cases updated the same time indicating that USCIS is now actively processing them. Cases were submitted July 26, 2024. I previously applied for 8-9 U4U I-134As. This is looking promising for my beneficiaries, I think. It seems like they're doing the biometrics to limit the amount of U4Us that can come, since USCIS offices can only schedule so many biometric appointments.

I submitted I-134 U4U for a family of five 2 months ago. Today received notice that biometrics appointment was scheduled for me (the petitioner). Is this something new that USCIS is doing to prevent fraud? Never heard of this and never seen it on any forum. Usually U4U is pretty straight forward and does not require the petitioner to go into the office.

Any success? From what I've seen it's a one-time thing, which I wish they would have specified somewhere. It's somewhat unfair because the U4Us that stayed the full 2 years are now able to apply for re-parole, but those that left for urgent reasons are out of luck.

I want to provide an update about the status of our case. I filed the I-134A for 3 of my beneficiaries (1 adult, 2 children) in mid 2022 and it was approved, and then they were approved for travel authorization by CBP. They stayed here about half a year and went back to Ukraine. Fast forward to mid-2023, we tried to apply for them to come back here again after visiting family (there was a death of family member). I filed the I-134A for the same 3 beneficiaries, which was approved about a month later. We then sent a request for travel authorization to CBP. This request was rejected for all three beneficiaries. I suspect that the reason for the rejection is that you can only be paroled into the US under the U4U program once. What I'm wondering is what the next steps are. I know that they were eligible to file the I131 for an Advance Parole document based on their 2 year U4U parole when they were inside of the US. However, are they still eligible to file for the I131 based on that 2 year Parole while in the Ukraine?

Hey everyone. Any recent timelines for U4U applications? Our CBP Travel Authorization was submitted over a week ago and we still heard nothing. The 1-134A sponsor request took just over 3 weeks.

Hi everyone! So my U4U parolees were here for roughly 6 months and they want to go back to Ukraine to visit family for some time. Is there anything that will prevent us from filling out the U4U documents again and getting them a new 2 year U4U parole? They're thinking of coming back in a month. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks!

I-765 Work Authorization was approved the next day after my U4U beneficiaries biometrics appointment. Impressive compared to other visa categories...

I think that technically I was. My beneficiaries' father died, which I believe makes their travel eligible for "humanitarian reasons".

Hi all, I petitioned for my beneficiaries to get travel documents by filling out the I-131s for them and including the fee waiver I-912. The petitions were rejected because apparently the fee waiver does not work on the I-131s unless they are out of the country and are applying for a humanitarian parole. From my understanding, you can petition for I-131s for U4U beneficiaries, but they have to pay the $500+ fee per petition.

No updates yet. It's been close to a month. Wonder why its taking so long. Also, does anyone happen to know what will happen if beneficiaries do not attest to the tuberculosis screening within 90 days of arrival? Will this somehow impact them negatively? Just curious.