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Yep, it’ll be delivered to the address you have given within a couple of weeks.

No. You can turn around and return on the next flight if you wish. As above, the endorsed visa works exactly the same as the plastic GC for the first year. https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/temporary-i-551-stamps-and-mrivs

No, your endorsed visa acts as a temporary green card for a year. And yes. But are you sure you didn’t tick the box on the DS-260 to have it sent automatically? Most people do and then you don’t need to apply in person.

AP can take months or years unfortunately, no way of knowing his much longer yours will be, although if they kept your passport that’s usually a good sign. But you can ask for your passport back if you need it to travel. Good luck.

No. As you say it’s only for spousal beneficiaries. In case you haven’t found it yet, there’s an excellent guide on VJ to go alongside the official website -

It will do if you’re in the UK - London is one of the quickest consulates out there. But other consulates have a 2+ year wait for an interview. NVC processing times are updated weekly here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html Good luck.

Just checking, you’ve filed taxes as resident?

Ignore Google, go to the official source - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/global-visa-wait-times-DEACTIVATED.html Good luck.

You’re all good then, no immigrant intent when she applied for her non-immigrant visa. Best of luck.

That’s fine then (assuming you didn’t apply for the EB more than 3 years ago?). It would only be an issue if she had got her F1 when she actually had immigrant intent and could be accused of misrepresentation - but doesn’t sound like that’s the case at all. If you ticked the box on your DS-260, then you should receive them automatically within 2 weeks of entering on your immigrant visa. Ours were waiting for us at our rental house 8 days after we arrived. If you didn’t tick that box, you’ll need to go to a SSA office and apply in person.

Or before - GC fee can be paid anytime from when the visa is received, most people choose to do it before they travel so the 90 day clock starts ticking as soon as they enter on the IV. Thanks for filling in some of your timeline, if you could complete the rest when you get a moment that would be fab.

That’s good. That means exactly as they said, he’s been approved in principal pending final checks. He can check CEAC and see what his status says, it may change to ‘admin processing’ (final checks), then ‘approved’, then ‘issued’ (visa actually printed and in passport). Or may just go straight to issued.

It did to start with last time, then later on John Kelly said GC holders from banned countries could be admitted on a ‘case by case determination’. Then it was finally blocked in court. I wouldn’t risk it personally. But if you do then make sure you keep everything in the US, bank accounts, mobile phone, car etc - and file taxes as resident.

Which consulate?

Then you should receive everything anyway. Good luck.

No, not at all. Assume she was granted the F1 long before you applied for your EB IV?

Sorry, just edited my post. It’s possibly extra background checks then but I still think too early to worry about that if it’s only been a few days. Best of luck.

Yes, visa status can change to ‘rejected’ (which actually just means Admin Processing) after interview, verbal approval doesn’t mean a lot unfortunately. Were you born in the UK? If so I doubt you’ll be put in to Admin Processing unless your occupation is on the TAL list. AP is usually for those from countries that are high risk. But I really wouldn’t worry at this stage as it’s still early, just keep an eye on your status. Good luck.

There can be 2+ years between being DQ’ed and interview though. And NVC doesn’t make the visa decision or require original documents, the consulate does that. When I was at my interview, at least half the people I saw being interviewed were sent away with a piece of paper saying they needed to send another document in. I’ve no idea why when the checklist is pretty easy to follow but it was usually simple things like only having a photocopy of the police cert rather than the original. Which then means that interview was wasted - hopefully this step will avoid that and mean people are only interviewed when the consulate is satisfied they have submitted everything required, and meet the criteria for the visa. It should also speed the interviews up if docs don’t need to be checked again, so they may be able to do lots more interviews each day. Which could really help those consulates with huge backlogs and 2+ year waits.

More info is needed. What kind of case, and which consulate? What’s the status when you check it online, does it say ‘at NVC’, ‘in transit’ or at the consulate? When is the beneficiaries interview? If s/he just had a child by someone else then I doubt they’ll still want to move to the US as they wouldn’t be able to take the child or their new partner with them. But it’s definitely worth making sure the application is cancelled just in case.

It’s all laid out step by step here. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition/step-2-begin-nvc-processing.html If your parents don’t check their emails much then you might want to ask them for their passwords so you can check yourself in case the emails don’t go to you. It’s all email from here on in until the visa is delivered by mail. And if they’re really elderly and won’t be working, make sure they have a good plan and plenty of funds for their health insurance - I’m sure they do but sometimes we see people who just don’t think about that for some reason, and then are taken aback by the cost! Good luck.

It’s the same one as always, but you just put your receipt number in from when you paid the green card fee, rather than the case number - https://egov.uscis.gov

Up to 90 days. What does the status say when you check it online, does it still say ‘card payment received’? It’ll tell you when the card has been sent for production, when it’s been printed, when it’s been mailed etc.

Please pop this info on your timeline to help other EB3 applicants going forward, thanks.

CEAC can show other stages, but often it’s super quick so can be missed - mine was only ‘Administrative Processing’ for about two hours before it changed to ‘issued’. DX are no longer the couriers for London consulate, it’s now Mail Boxes Etc.