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Please share your experiences and tips to enlighten me how this retrogression happend and how to ease the process. Is it better to change status from LPR to US citizen? My brother will be 21 soon and still not interviewed, was told to keep checking at visa bulletin and wait for our priority date 2019 to be current before scheduling visa interview appointment.

We have same issue with my brother F2A priority date 2019. We got letter from embassy in Philippines saying we are ready to process his visa so we go ahead and do all the interview preparations they told us to do. Only to find out on the day of interview appointment that he missed the cut off date and he is in included in retrogression.I did not get a letter from embassy or NVC about this changes so they sent my brother home not being interviewed and was told to re-schedule and come back and always watch online the visa bulletin changes and wait for the priority date to be current before making visa interview appointment at the embassy.Right now month Aug they are processing priority date year 2017 below so our priority date 2019, went 3 yrs back from July 2023 since our priority date became current and we missed it, so that means very slow and waiting game again until our priority date will be current.😔😔😔

That is good you contacted immigration law office for this matter. Yes, there is CSPA ( child protection act law) for those children that age out and F2A visa will remain the same regardless even the child turned over 21 yrs old. Some are approved for expedite but only for valid reasons like emergency or medical reasons. So we cannot do anything to speed up the process.We just need to pray,hope and wait patiently. Good luck to us!

@ Chipz,welcome back. Good to hear from you again. You can get a lawyer it is your choice. If you want to file for citizenship, you will have to change your status and submit all documents to NVC like your US passport and US citizenship naturalization, the visa case will change as well. Not sure how long it will take or if it will go faster this time due to covid backlogs. US citizen petitioners will not have cap limit each year with their visa compare to LPR petitioners. LPR petitioners all visa has cap limit each year, you can bring your wife and under 21 kids but if you become US citizen you can bring your wife but you need to file again separate filing petition each child, cannot bring derivative family or kids along the petition for your wife. We are still waiting for interview until now and still get email every 60days-nothing changed! We are worried my brother will turn 21 yrs old next year😔.You can try email NVC and Manila US embassy for expedite maybe they will accept it. Hope this helps and good luck!