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Bit odd that your lawyer can’t do it, can you offer to put the money in their client account first so they’re not out of pocket?

No problem. My one question for the lawyer would be why they're suggesting EB2 for you if they think you're eligible for O1? EB1 is pretty much exactly the same criteria, so seems odd to me that they'd suggest EB2 instead. But that's just something to ask them, I'm sure there's a reason. If you get yourself a good lawyer, then hopefully it will all be good. Best of luck to you.

You're misunderstanding what people are telling you. You're quite right that AOS isn't illegal or fraudulent. But entering and pretending to be visitors when actually they have no intention of going home and are going to apply for an immigrant visa is. It's the misrepresentation on entry that's the fraudulent bit. Not worth them risking immigrant visa refusal or a ban, just apply the correct way and hopefully it will all go smoothly. Good luck.

It's a lot of documentation, you don't need things like birth cert for the I-140 app (that will come later if your petition is approved). What you submit will depend on which of the 10 criteria you're applying under - our lawyers said make sure you meet at least 5 of the 10 in case they don't agree you meet one of them (you need 3 or more to qualify). I met 7 and had to provide a lot of evidence to show each of those, the paperwork was a huge pile in the end! So for me it was high salary (payslips, job contract and evidence of the local salary in the US and how it is higher), media engagements (proof of appearances, screenshots etc), evidence of being asked to speak at globally important conferences, proof of publications (book and chapters/forewords for other books), evidence of awards I've received, evidence of executive leadership in organisations, proof of membership of association which is by invite only for my field, and published material about me. There were other categories I didn't meet - judging work of others (have never been on an awards panel), artistic showcases, and commercial success in the performing arts. I then also had to include other things including 3 (very lengthy) reference letters from people very high up in my field, and at least one of those had to be in the US (two of mine were, and one in the UK). Plus a case from my lawyers about my eligibility which ran to 12 pages. Our lawyers said was the first thing they look at is are you Googleable, and if so, is there lots about you - it's one of the first things USCIS do apparently! So Google your own name and see what comes up. And are you international rather than national? If you want the name of our lawyer or any other info just let me know. We've now had both the O1 and EB1 approved, similar criteria for both, so we submitted the EB1 the day after the O1 was approved just to make sure we didn't get the O1 refused or get an RFE. EB1 was applied for in February and should have immigrant visas in hand by the end of July so incredibly quick - once you get an O1 granted then hopefully the EB1 will follow quickly if you do want to go down the 'green card' route. Best of luck.

The only thing you have to wait for is the payment, once that has been processed (can take up to a week, as per the website below) you can then submit the DS-260 and docs in any order. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-3-pay-fees.html

They have in the past, but not many EB1's so it's hard to know for sure, there are very few of us around. Hopefully others in different categories have had their IL's today as well. There's one other on VJ that I've seen get an IL today and s/he was EB2 (interview date late July IIRC).

Just looked at @TVac's previous posts, seems his PD is August 2021. Congrats! Hope it all goes smoothly. Got our medicals booked for 10 days time, they didn't have as much of a wait as I'd expected just FYI.

I know I'm EB1 but I thought I'd share in case it's useful - just got IL, interview on 17th July (London). DQ'ed 21st April.

Yep, I was wrong, not the end of the month this time - just got ours! I’m EB1 but thought I’d share on here for anybody tracking when the batches of letters come out for London. Interview on 17th July, I was DQ’ed 21st April.

IL received! Interview on 17th July (London).

IL received! Interview on 17th July (London).

I have one - happy to help if I can. It’s a lot of paperwork and time to build a good case, but if you’ve already applied for EB2 you may have some of that done. You need a good lawyer, so use your current one if you rate him/her, and get a new one if not. It took us months to compile everything but that time was worth it. From application to getting my passport back with visa in was 3 weeks so super quick and speedy once we’d done all the legwork and presented a compelling case (London consulate, with PP). Any questions let me know, good luck.

Usually, yes for London (no idea about other consulates). Last 3 dates were 24th Feb, 27th March and 26th April, so once a month at the end of the month. Since last summer there have only been a couple of months that they sent out twice (i.e. December - perhaps because of Xmas?), but generally IL's are sent out in a batch once a month.

I've now been told by two lawyers that the rough cut off date for most consulates is around the 5th of the month for IL's, but that is unofficial and only what they reckon from years of experience! So they could well be wrong, and I suspect it also depends on the visa category - as spouses you may get priority over other categories that were DQ'ed earlier.

You’ve misunderstood the process, if your wife is outside the US then AOS doesn’t come in to it. This page lays it out for you, read all the steps to understand the process you’ll be going through to get her IV - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition.html Good luck.

What does that chart refer to, just K-1’s?

OK, so 13 months is the quoted processing time, hopefully you won't have to wait much more. Good luck.

You’ve not said which category you’ve applied under, but whichever it is you’re still well under the average processing time (https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/). Nothing you can do but wait, hopefully it won’t be too much longer.

See the response to when you asked this last time, you need to wait for your PD to become current. Once it is, it will then depend on the consulate, as interview wait times vary, and will no doubt have changed by the time you're in the queue. Good luck.

You said you didn’t include your police cert though (only the translation of it). You should get an RFI for anything missing but I’d send it off asap anyway personally.

One cover sheet is fine (that’s what I did and got DQ’ed). Yes, you needed to include the police cert (a copy of it, not the original) as well as the translation. You said ‘police certificate’ (singular) but also mention a family - did you submit certs for everybody over 16? And this page says colour copies - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-2-begin-nvc-processing/scanning-and-uploading-tips.html/ If you give a list of everything you submitted, forum members can check it for you.

70 days is great, sounds like it's like London and has got back to pre-pandemic service levels. As you say, other places like Montreal or Islamabad have huge backlogs still. Hopefully we'll both be interviewing at about the same time. 🤞

So am I reading it right, that's it's about 60 days from DQ to interview date? If so, that's excellent, probably about the quickest you'll get anywhere (similar to London). People in other places are having to wait a year or even longer for an interview.

Nice to see another EB1 join us @whitewizard! Good luck to you.

Neither of those are proof of residency though, they're only proof of citizenship. To prove that you live in the UK you'd need things like a rental agreement, bank statements, utility bills etc.