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Ah, kids! I am sorry for your loss. I guess he thought his forever home was the Philippines. I would still post on r/immigration.

Never what?

Are these his biological children? Wondering why they were not Americans at birth. I presume your son attended high school in the US. I saw you on Hacking. You were great. please post on Reddit. R/immigration. A few lawyers on there. Have you contacted the military? Looked like he was a vet. Have his benefits come through?

If you met her outside Indonesia, how did she get a passport without a birth certificate?

https://www.shusterman.com/ https://www.palacioslawfirm.com/ https://www.murthy.com/ I would start with the first 2 - they have won some complicated CSPA cases. Good luck.

OP has not locked in his/her age with paying of the fee because the priority date is not current for the principal beneficiary. If OP had locked in his/her age, there would be NO issue with them tagging along to the consular interview.

It does cover derivatives WHEN the principal is also in the country. The issue is that the OP has aged out for consular processing. Once they age out, can they get another bite of the apple by using the dates for filing? I'm not so sure about that. They can't be processed at the same time as the main beneficiary. OP needs a great lawyer, and maybe hire one who was involved in the original dates for filing litigation.

Anyway, hire a lawyer. Schusterman or Murthy - they were very involved in the Cspa aging out cases.

Sure, but you are not the beneficiary. She has to go by the later date. She arrives, CSPA is as of her priority date being current. If your i485 is denied, you may have trouble renewing your student visa.

@Milin2001, a few things wrong with your assumptions. You cannot use table B - dates for filing - you are not the principal beneficiary. She is not in the U.S. Even if you could, this was a new policy that started the beginning of this year and I don’t think would go back retroactively. The few cases I read about that were able to take advantage “retroactively” were aged out dependents of H1B visa holders. The principal beneficiaries lived in the US.

I don’t have such complicated issues and I am not an immigration lawyer. My knowledge is culled from deep reading of manuals and a good working memory of all the forums I read.

Maybe. Who knows? Sounds like parents will be more comfortable in Pakistan.

It is almost a lottery and will almost certainly take longer than i-130. Why not look for a job elsewhere in Europe? Or anywhere else, in fact?

I would then apply to the other European consulates.

You have other obstacles. Presumably your mom wants to come at the same time, and hers is not filed. Even if both were approved, Islamabad takes a long time. I would not bank on anything under 2 years.

It was reddit, not VJ and he was advised to fly to SFO or JFK. Yes, and maybe @Saadiah's parents should stay in Pakistan. Much more pleasant to live there in retirement.

In that case, let them stay in Pakistan. Much lower COL and I assume they have lots of domestic help and family around.

He came on here and was advised repeatedly to fly to SFO or JFK. And no visa free entry for him to Canada or Mexico probably - so not sure where he could have gone.

You can add up the cost of re-doing GC. 1) 2 X i-130 + i824. 2) 2 medical exams 3) 2 year wait + cost of your family flying to Pakistan to visit 4) 2 x DS-260 fees. It's a wash. Personally, I would just book them the Qatar trip and 2 1-ways to JFK. Cheapest hotel in Doha. I just priced it. $530 x 2 roundtrip to Doha You can only play around with Qatar airways website to change the return portion destination. Maybe save you some. $926 x 2 oneway Doha to JFK

I have a vivid imagination. Say she has a B1/2 visa and has a planned 3 week trip. I have vivid imagination. On the day before she leaves: 1) she gets into a bad car accident. She is in a coma for 6 months. She wakes up after her i94 expiry date. She needs extensive rehab. Totally fine to file i-485 regardless of whether i-130 approved. 2) she has a sharp stomach pain - goes to ER. Finds out she is already 20 weeks pregnant with triplets. No way to deliver without overstaying visa. Totally fine to file i-485. OR reverse the situation 1) YOU get in a bad car accident and are in a coma. There are a million and one things that can happen.

What do you mean by that? As in for that kid who has an NTA soon to leave and re-enter through JFK?

Where did you see/read/hear this?

Just saw a failure on VJ last week. Someone got an NTA through Houston, despite ASKING and ASKING on here and everyone suggesting JFK. Some kid who'd been out for a while and starting a new job in Houston. And presumably even worse situation as he has likely aged out of a quick family-based process.

It's not true that there is NO human interaction. You download the MPC app, and go through and there is minimal interaction with CBP. Certainly better than waiting hours in line, being tired and being asked questions by an officer in a booth. Sometimes the officer just stands at the end of the MPC line and scans, and waves you through. Depending on your financial resources, this is what I would do. 1) You buy parents round trip to Qatar - remember that you are NOT using the return portion - so you can make it a 1 week trip or whatever. 2) Book them a refundable hotel reservation in Qatar - remember they are going on vacation. 3) Once they are on that plane to Qatar - have them text you when on plane, you buy them the 1 way ticket to JFK. Don't risk any other airport. 4) YOU (I presume you are a US citizen) fly to Qatar to meet them there. 5) YOU return with them to JFK. You download the MPC too. And when you walk through the MPC line, you carefully put their passports inside YOUR US passport. Good luck.

Interesting. What evidence is there of the war?