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Ah, you said she’d visited multiple times so it didn’t sound as though she was living in the US permanently. If she is then all good. 👍🏻

Yes, sounds like WOM is the way to go. As an aside, your mother is risking her status if she’s never actually lived in the US properly on her GC. Is she filing taxes? What other ties can she show, does she have a property there?

It’s not an expedited case yet from what you’ve said? So you’re in the queue for your request to be considered.

What documents have you uploaded?

Which EB category? Please fill in your timeline, thanks.

Ah, yes not sure I've seen any cases from there. Good luck, hope it's not too long.

It totally depends on the consulate, and they're processed separately so not related to each other. But yes, generally those consulates with long wait times for NIV's will also have long waits for IV's. They don't provide similar information for IV applicants because it changes so often - for example, they'll give priority to DV applicants at certain times of the year, other times they'll prioritise spouses, but if they have a backlog in another category they may choose to prioritise that. So it would fluctuate too much I think, but you can usually get a rough idea of how long you'll have to wait from looking at the VJ timelines. Good luck.

Your employers lawyers will look at the options and tell you which visa route they plan to pursue. But you certainly wouldn’t have EB-3 by spring 2025, it’ll take years, so factor that in.

Could you fill in your timeline? Then people won’t need to ask and it’s so helpful to other EB applicants, we need as many as we can get. Same for you please @PACMAN82? Thx. 😊

It's about a year for the I-130. Good luck.

Seems to be a standard spousal visa app to me, which can be done without an attorney and with the help of VJ if the OP feels happy DIY'ing. I'm not seeing anything complex about it?

Anybody who has a visa available to them (i.e. whose PD is current) will be scheduled for an interview in turn. Anybody that doesn't have a visa available to them won't be, but that doesn't affect those who are eligible. So EB-3 or EB-2 PD's aren't relevant to you at all, as long as EB-1 stays current then you're in the line for an interview.

I don't think this would qualify as a life or death emergency tbh, but it doesn't cost anything to ask for one, so you could try on the off chance. Where is your case at the moment according to your online status, NVC or the consulate? As above, London is so quick that you're likely to have your IL before somebody would even look at your expedite request anyway. If you were at a consulate with a 2 year wait for an interview it would be different, but hopefully you'll hear soon if you've already been DQ'ed. If your relative has no conviction, then it won't have any effect on them applying for ESTA. So all you can do is make sure they don't have details of where you are living etc, keep everything very private. Good luck.

If you're interviewing in London, then it's going to be super quick anyway, I can't see any point in expediting even if that were grounds to (which I don't think they are). Good luck.

It's not 'one long interview', it's usually 5 minutes if that. But it's two steps, firstly you're called up to the window to hand over your documents. Then you sit back down again and wait to be called again for the actual interview. The interview waiver isn't for those apply for an immigrant visa via consular processing. It's only for those applying for non-immigrant visas. So you'll definitely have an interview. Good luck.

I don't think will help prove residency. You could have that in a rental or holiday property for your tenants, doesn't mean you live there yourself. Ditto for electric bills. As @Boiler said, you need things like signed lease in your name, job, car insurance, bank statements (that show you were physically in the US i.e. regular grocery/gas purchases).

Only if (a) she entered without the intention of doing AOS and (b) there is a visa number available to her. The latter is the problem as even if you file the I-130 today, there won't be a visa available to her for many years. So she must return to India and apply via consular processing.

Nairobi has one of the longest waits unfortunately. You can search timelines to find relevant ones, I think it’s about 18 months.

There’s a question on the visa app about previous arrests which you’ll have to answer truthfully anyway. But I can’t see it being an issue if you weren’t convicted, and you can say that on the form.

There's no typical time as it depends on the reasons for AP and what checks they're doing behind the scenes. It can be a week, a month or a year, no way of knowing unfortunately. Good luck.

You asked above if you needed to do anything and the link above says you do. Personally I’d follow the instructions rather than risk her turning up for the interview and being told she’s no longer eligible for F2B. Your call though.

‘No Live Trace’ just means he has an old conviction. If his record was clear it would say ‘No Trace’.

As said above yes, but for the current Visa Bulletin you need to look here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin.html As you can see, in this month’s the date for F4 is July 2007, so it’s only moved 4 months in 2.5 years. If you applied for him in 2020 then it’s going to be at least 2040 before there’s a visa available to him, but keep an eye on the VB every so often.

Yes, you do need to do something - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/national-visa-center/immigrant-visas-processing-general-faqs.html#ivp7 Ideally contact them ahead of time to request her case stays F2B, as you’ll have to wait until USCIS approve the request so it would cut down any further wait if you do it now. Good luck.

Only if they show the petitioner is in the US with transactions there. Just having a bank account there isn’t enough, lots of people have bank accounts in a country they don’t live in. But if they show transactions like i.e. grocery/gas purchases etc, then they’ll help alongside the other documents mentioned.