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You can just take the online tool yourself (will do the same as a consultant anyway) - https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/come-canada-tool.html And you need to check your CRS score as a first step, if you want PR via EE. Then you can see if you stand a chance for a general draw. Bottom line is that Canada wants young, highly educated people, ideally with specialist skills or French language, so if you don't fit that narrow criteria you're better off looking at other visa routes such as PNP. Most routes will need one of you to get a job offer, so start exploring that and seeing if either of you have a company that will transfer you etc. Good luck.

An immigration lawyer won’t help you with any of this anyway, it’s nothing to do with visas. 1. Depends on the bank. Some will close accounts for non residents, but if you have regular payments going in/out then you should be fine. Mine (Starling) has been happy to keep mine open. You can do all of the things you’ve mentioned from the US though if you needed to. 2. File a P85 with HMRC. And if you’re renting your home you need to inform them you’ll be a non resident landlord. That’s it other than the usual people you’d tell if you were moving anyway i.e council tax, utility companies, DVLA, car insurance etc. It’s also good to let your doctor and dentist know, just so they can free up the space and take another NHS patient. 3. Get yourself an AMEX card if you haven’t got one already. Then they’l let you open up a US one using their country transfer service, and you’ll get an instant credit rating in the US. I got a card with a $15k limit and a credit score of over 700 within my first fortnight in the US thanks to that. Get a US phone line set up before you leave so you have it from the moment you land - I did with Mint Mobile. Good luck!

It’s scheduled for you. You can reschedule if you need to, but I would only do so if you really have no alternative. If you receive an IL in Oct/Nov it may be for an interview in January anyway, there’s usually a couple of months between IL and interview date.

Could you report her Dad? And have her stay with your friend? She’s several years away from a visa. The only other option is you return to Canada, after getting a re-entry permit?

You'll need custody, unless she'll turn 18 soon? Just to be clear, she can't just 'go home every six months', she must live in Canada and visit the US. If it looks like she's trying to live in the US without the proper visa, she may well be denied entry and that would be far worse. But visiting regularly is fine, as long as she has plenty of ties to Canada and isn't trying to visit for too long/too often. If her father is neglectful, is there anybody else she could live with in Canada maybe? Best of luck.

As said above, if you're a green card holder she's not eligible to adjust status I'm afraid. But yes, knowing if you are married to a USC is critical - if so, your spouse could petition her and she could adjust status through him/her. Please give us more info on how you became a green card holder and when.

You got super lucky then. Let’s hope you get lucky another time. Good luck.

No. If you get married and submit the I-130 next month, figure about 15 months minimum before you can move, probably nearer 18 months, so the end of next year or early 2027 as a very rough guide.

Which visa? K-1 and spousal visa both lead to permanent residency ('green card'), you don't need to come back to France with them. If you mean the VWP, then yes, you can just visit on that, you can't stay longer. It's up to 90 days, but the recommendation would be less than that, partly so you don't risk overstaying (if for example, you stayed until day 89 and your flight was delayed, you could never use the VWP again and it would make it MUCH harder to visit in the future). But also because it's only for visiting, and any implication that you're trying to live in the US as a visitor could be being refused entry. So you can visit whilst you wait for your visa to be processed, but keep it to shorter visits with large gaps just to be safe.

OK, so you need to decide which visa route first of all. @Crazy Cat has a fabulous comparison which they'll hopefully share with you to help. If getting married in France is important to you, then it would have to be the spousal visa route. If you do the K-1 then you have to move first, then marry. May 2026 may not be realistic, but work out your visa route first and then timescales will follow from there. Good luck.

Is he a US citizen?

Was this your first year applying?

You can get married in the US, that's no problem. If you're looking at the K-1 visa, you have to get married in the US anyway, getting married in France isn't an option with that visa route. It's not really clear, you want to move to the US? On a K-1 visa, or a spousal visa?

Unfortunately yes. Until you submitted the DS-260 you didn't actually apply for a visa, so you were only added to the interview line in June.

Why did you wait until June to submit the DS-260? Monrovia has huge interview delays unfortunately, so I think your chances are slim now.

Agree with the above, if you only filed 2 months ago it’s just too early to be expecting a decision. Current processing times are here - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ 3.5 to 7 months are the quoted timescales, depending on your service centre.

You don't normally schedule the interview, it's done for you by NVC. How long it takes will depend on which consulate you're at. When you say 'submitted all the requirements' do you mean you've been documentary qualified at NVC? Or you submitted docs on 13th August and you're still waiting to be DQ'ed?

Then it's been printed, and will be on its way shortly, if it isn't already.

What does their online status say?

Not long at all - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/iv-wait-times.html

Hopefully you won't even need it. Good luck.

Oh that's a shame, I was hoping you'd married before he turned 18 so you could have petitioned him. Sorry but hope things speed up a bit, best of luck.

I think you do understand yes. Nothing that can be done other than keeping your fingers crossed, and an immigration attorney can't change the law unfortunately. But how old was he when you married?

Being reviewed and being DQ'ed are two different things. If yours Is F4 then it should be about the same (it's EB cases that take longer than the stated time), although there's presumably no rush for you anyway as the PD still isn't current I'm guessing.

You can find out the exact date by going to the processing times page. Put your relevant information in, then scroll down the page, add your receipt date and hit the 'get inquiry date' button - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/