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**Thread Moved to Bringing Family Members of Permanent Residents, as OP's Mom is a LPR**

The classification seems correct to me. By my calculations you were only a month or so short of your 21st birthday when your mother applied for you, and your PD didn't become current until July 2025. So by the time your PD became current your CPSA age was approx 21 years and 7 months, meaning you'd aged out in to F2B.

Only if you've lived there for 6 months or more, so from what you've said, it wouldn't be required. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-fiance-k-1.html

The documents will be on the checklist given with the interview letter. If it's Mumbai, then it's also here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/BMB-Mumbai.html Good luck.

Yes, of course. You can visit each other anytime throughout the whole process.

The IV scheduling tool is usually pretty accurate. On the plus side, it was 18 months wait not that long ago, so they've reduced the backlog massively - and possibly will speed up a bit more between now and then too. Good luck.

As @Boiler said, will be very dependent on the crime, the sentence, how long ago it was, whether the applicant has ever entered the US without declaring the conviction, etc. If you're worried, then a lawyer consultation might be a good idea. Best of luck.

Does her employer by any chance have has US locations she could request a transfer to? If her job will continue from the same source then she could use it. If not, then sounds like her only option is to go ahead and find a job in the US. You can visit in the meantime though, and most jobs would qualify her so hopefully you won’t be apart for too long. Good luck.

Do you have assets you could use? **Thread moved to the CR-1/IR-1 forum as it’s not a DCF case**

Ah, ok. In which case I'd definitely wait for the response from USCIS, no point in chucking more money at it if there's no chance of a visa anyway.

Doesn’t sound like it then. You need to have spent 5 years in the US but at least two of those must be after the age of 14. DCF isn’t an option if you’ve already filed the I-130 as said above. Looks like you’ve already tried for an expedite and had it refused? So nothing you can do but wait it out I’m afraid. And yes, back file your taxes asap! Good luck.

Why was the first case refused? What kind of case and what complications? It doesn’t sound great, the whole point of using a lawyer is so they make it easier and save you the stress of doing it yourself - but sounds like they’re doing the opposite!

It’s perfectly normal, just means they need something re-doing. My daughter had to do the same, apparently her photo wasn’t good enough so she had to have it re-taken.

When's the interview? Honestly I can't see any point in filing now and you may not have time to anyway. Not filing at all is far better than filing and declaring yourself non resident, and you probably weren't required to file anyway if you only earned $8000 that year. But are you absolutely sure you didn't tick 'yes' to that question on the application?

You may not have remember it, but you will have checked in. There’s no way to board an international flight without doing so.

And was 61 a/b left blank?

Oh, that might be it - maybe they meant the petition? Their timeline says they've just applied for a J-1.🤷‍♀️ Hopefully they can clarify exactly what they've applied for and where.

I-129f was quicker than I-130's last year too. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt

Just answered this on your other post, but no, because they're just not processed. Last year only 3 were approved, the rest are just ignored and the USC is usually contacted and told to file an I-130 instead.

Only 3 K-3's were issued in the whole of FY2024, it's obsolete and just won't be processed.

Sorry but I don't understand your question then. What are you asking about?

Yep, lawyer time. "USCIS presumes an applicant who claimed special tax exemptions as a "nonresident alien" has lost LPR status through abandonment." "An applicant who is a lawfully admitted permanent resident of the United States, but who voluntarily claims nonresident alien status to qualify for special exemptions from income tax liability, or fails to file either federal or state income tax returns because he or she considers himself or herself to be a nonresident alien, raises a rebuttable presumption that the applicant has relinquished the privileges of permanent resident status in the United States." https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-316/section-316.5 Good luck.

Without knowing the reason for the NOIR nobody can tell you - please answer the questions in your other thread on the subject and then the good folks of VJ will be able to help you.

OK, and they didn't intend to stay when they entered this time? It's just that you were planning on petitioning them last year whilst they were in India and now you're applying when they're visiting the US. Just to confirm, they still have jobs/cars/a home/other obligations to go back to and you could prove that if needed?

@dualcanus, just noticed in a previous thread you said 'I have visited the US here and there in the past few years, but I haven't lived there since i was very little' and then you say above you've only got 1.5 years of cumulative visits since you left. So are you sure your children qualify for CBRA? Did you definitely spend more than 2 years in the US after the age of 14?