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What's your Priority Date?

I think 3 weeks is very optimistic, seems to take much longer for most. Ours certainly haven’t arrived yet and the status doesn’t even say they’ve been produced. But it’s really not needed, our I-551’s have been accepted as proof of permanent residency status for everything, so as long as they turn up at some point before next July then it’s all good. I’ll try and remember to let you know when they do arrive. 😊

I was EB-1 via London (visa granted in July after applying in Feb), you might want to look at my timeline for more details. For DQ timescales - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html And as this thread is for spousal applicants, you might want to join the EB thread instead - Good luck.

If it helps, mine just changed to at London once it was transferred, and status changed to ‘ready’. IIRC it was about the same time I got the IL. But I’m not too sure I’d rely on any status, my USCIS status still says it’s at DoS, and I got my visa in July and have already lived in the US for a month. 😂

You can, but just bear in mind you only get 6 months from the medical to use the visa, so it would only give you 3 months ish to move once the visa is in hand. Less if there was a problem at the interview i.e. A missing document you had to send it afterwards. I booked my interview before I had my IL, as we only had one possible week we could have it done in. And we planned to leave straight after getting our visas anyway. Re: the medical care summary, you should be able to download it instantly via the NHS website if you’ve registered for that, rather than waiting for a GP practice to send it. Good luck.

Please copy and paste the most recent table, then add your info in to that. Thx.

It will happen at some point. But yes, it's slow progress, it's only moved a month in the past 2 years. Fingers crossed it speeds up for you.

OK, so quite a while to wait then. No way of knowing for sure when it'll become current and an interview will be scheduled for you, all you can do is keep an eye on the Visa Bulletin and hope it moves forward. Good luck.

What's your Priority Date, is it current?

Looks like you only just became a citizen? So you’ve got many years (decades?) before you need to worry about this. But assuming nothing changes between now and then, she can enter at any international airport. And she can stop over wherever she wants on the way.

Mint Mobile - you don’t need a US address. You can get an eSIM and then just switch between your UK & US numbers as needed. HTH.

Just over a year it seems - HTH.

I'm surprised your employer is ok with you doing that - surely that's immigration fraud?! You can't claim to be an accountant if you're not. And you would need supporting documents to show you meet the criteria for that occupation. Is there any other visa option, how about a L1?

The quote above is on their website though.

Some consulates have a wait of a couple of months for an interview, some have a wait of a couple of years due to backlogs. A search of the forum may reveal others who've applied via the same consulate and given their timelines. The consulate website does say "Please be advised that the lengthy suspension of services and need to maintain physical distance among our staff and applicants has led to greatly reduced appointment capacity, which has created a significant backlog of immigrant visa applicants awaiting an interview", but doesn't give a timeframe for an interview unfortunately. Good luck.

Not relevant for Canada. If he's applied for PR, then he only has to spend 2 years out of every 5 in Canada to maintain his status once he's landed and activated his status - so he has another 2.5 yrs before he has to move there. But if the daughter's haven't been yet, then they can't have Canadian PR. And that will expire one year from the date of their medicals, if they haven't landed by then they'd have to apply again.

As asked above, what’s your Priority Date? That’s the vital bit of info. Being DQ’ed doesn’t mean anything if your Priority Date isn’t current, no interview will be scheduled until a visa is available to you. The current date for your category is 1st Jan 2015 so is your PD before that?

That’s the date as of 1st Sept - the current date is Oct 2017. But either way the OP still has a long way to go, hopefully his/her spouse can apply for citizenship soon to lessen the wait.

Mine was received on the Thursday after a Monday interview (last month) so 4 days. There’s a thread with timelines from others somewhere if you search. But I concur with the above - either wait for the visa to be in hand before booking flights, or make sure you book flexible flights in case you need to change the date. Good luck.

You could try, but I’d mail it too. Can’t imagine it would be linked to your application if you try to submit it via the enquiry form.

Because she’s married. You can see the dates on the link above, F3’s being given visa interviews now applied 14.5 years ago.

That’s fine, she can immigrate alone. it might raise questions if she’s married but her husband isn’t moving with her, so I’d suggest she starts gathering proof of them living separately and ideally get in writing that he won’t divorce her. Can she not divorce him or do both parties have to agree wherever she is? But as said above it will add many years to the process, so she needs to be prepared for that. It’ll put her in the F3 category rather than F1 - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2023/visa-bulletin-for-august-2023.html

She cannot lie, and must disclose the husband, but he won’t get a visa. Presumably she’s aware that if she’s married it will take many more years?

If you're still unsure about the masters, I'd recommend you start working asap and just see what happens - you can apply for jobs in the US, tailor your LinkedIn profile for the US job market and tap up any connections there. You could also see if you can find a company to work for that might transfer you to the US in the future. Then if in a few years nothing has happened, you can look at doing the masters if needed. Best of luck to you, hope you make it over.

I don't know if you have an advantage over a USC, you are still going to cost them a lot more (lawyer fees for my employer to apply for visas and green card for my family were $20k+) and they'll have to wait longer for you to be able to start the job. So I'd say even with a masters it's an uphill struggle, unless you have specialist skills to go along with it. But it certainly would help and make you stand out if other applicants don't have a masters. I'm afraid I don't know about the prestige of the college. I had no desire to move to the US so didn't do my MBA for that, I did it to progress my career as I'd reached a ceiling and couldn't go any higher without one. I just did the MBA that worked for me and didn't think about how it would be considered in the US job market. And yes, LinkedIn, but note that I do also have two decades of fairly specialist experience to go along with the MBA.