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I totally agree with this - I also thought that she might suddenly change her tune once she realises that Trump has cancelled the TPS program. That’s only just happened so once she hears the news and realises that the OP might end up being her only route to a green card, I wouldn’t be surprised if she suddenly becomes a much more loving wife!

Then if she’s not leaving I agree with the above, I’d be cancelling the application personally. Too many red flags and it certainly doesn’t sound as though she genuinely loves you or sees a future with you. It does sound as though you were just ‘back up’ in case her asylum case didn’t work out.

OK, then you have to wait until you get your Interview Letter. It’s all set out on the usual website, you’re at step 9/10 now. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-8-scan-collected-documents/step-9-upload-and-submit-scanned-documents.html I think Bangkok has a fairly lengthy wait unfortunately. And please do fill your timeline in, there aren’t many of us EB applicants around, so the more data we have the better! Thanks.

Was his son born before or after he got his US citizenship?

Depends on the type of case - please do fill in your timeline so that people know when you’re asking questions. I think @JeanneAdil is assuming you’re a K1 applicants (who usually have to schedule their own interviews), but if you’re applying for an immigrant visa NVC schedule it for you.

Also, I assume you’re aware of the Visa Bulletin, but just in case, here’s this months - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-january-2025.html Assuming that your mother is a USC, and that your sister isn’t married, then maybe another 3 or 4 years as a rough guide?

ELIS makes no difference at all, it just means the case is now electronic. It will depend on if your mother is a US citizen or green card holder, and if your sister is married or not.

I’m sorry to hear that’s so tough, marriage can involve hard work sometimes but shouldn’t be *that* hard! That does sound very odd to me, every relationship is different, but most people would still be in the honeymoon ‘can’t keep our hands off each other’ stage after only 6 months of marriage. Personal question I know, but is there a big age difference? How long were you together for before marriage? I see from your other thread she’s thinking of going back to Nicaragua which will mean her AOS is abandoned. Maybe that will be the test of her true feelings and help you work out if she genuinely wants to be married to you for the rest of her life, or is just using you for a green card?

That’s over 5 years ago though, it may well have been the case back then.

You’re also saying you have a K1 in another thread and asking about entering the US, so I’m very confused as to where you are and what visa route you’re taking? Obviously if you have a K1 then you have to do AOS, that’s the whole point of it! I think we all assumed you didn’t have a visa other than the B? If you do have a K visa then there’s no way I’d marry and try to apply to apply via CR1/IR1 as your intentions would have been pretty clear and you can’t really claim to have changed your mind when you’d already applied for a visa allowing you to marry and stay in the US. But you can just leave the US, reenter on your K1, and then marry and apply for AOS without any worries. If you can clarify where you are right now, and what visa(s) you have, we can try and help.

The DS-160 is for all non-immigrants visas, it’s not specific to B visas so some of the fields may not be as relevant. I-134 is more for other visas like F1 (student visa - i.e. somebody whose parents are paying for them to study abroad). And you can’t assume that he’d be able to come ‘without any issues’ if he were a western European student, people are still refused ESTA or entry on the VWP. Unfortunately, rightly or wrongly his application is tainted by those who have come before him. The refusal rate for Georgia will be so high because his fellow countrymen have a history of overstaying or violating their visa terms, which then impacts everybody else that follows.

Far higher than that now, I rounded it up. 😂 https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/ https://www.census.gov/popclock/ And yes to Informed Delivery, it’s invaluable when you’re waiting for government docs to arrive! Definitely worth signing up for.

It’s sped up recently as they’re slowly getting through the backlog. It’s just over a year for immediate relatives now so I’d have said maybe 18 months for you as a rough guess? But I think there’s a very high chance Nigeria will have a visa ban or restrictions again under the EO from last week, so just keep an eye on that when the countries are announced soon. Good luck.

That’s a good sign. Hope it’s not too long.

SSN’s within 8 days for 3 of us. My daughter’s never arrived so we had to go to an office where they told us it had been cancelled because there was somebody else with exactly the same name and DOB that already had one, so they’d assumed it was an error. The idea that two people in a country of 350 million could have the same name and DOB was clearly too much for them. 😂 Green cards for 3 of us within 6 weeks (you’ll be able to track progress using the receipt number from when you pay the fee). My daughter’s GC never arrived so after 90 days (that’s how long they say to give it) we contacted them. That turned out to be an issue with her photo so she had to go and have it redone and then it arrived quite quickly after that.

They’ll ask you at the interview if anything has changed.

Congrats! It’s laughable how easy it is here, but you don’t quite win the world record. A friend turned up in her manual car in Florida for her test, the examiner said ‘oh, you can drive stick? You’re good then’ and passed her on the spot. She didn’t even pull away from the test centre! 😂

Return ticket means nothing, what about job, home etc? You didn’t give those up before arriving I assume? So should be fine if you do get questioned at interview. If you’ve got any concerns, it might be worth considering going home and applying via consular processing. But only you know what your true intentions were and what evidence of it there is.

She won’t get any envelope anyway, it’s sent electronically. Did they keep her passport?

Assuming your petitioner is a citizen then no, overstays are forgiven for spouses of USC’s. But with the current administration I wouldn’t risk being out of status for any time at all personally.

Please do. And as it’ll be so long before your daughter can get a visa via you, it would be a good idea for her to explore employment based visas and see if she’s eligible for any, if so she can speak to her current employer and see if they’d be prepared to petition her. It may just be a way for her to stay until she can apply for the green card rather than having to return home to wait it out. When does her current U4U status expire?

His ties will have been asked about on his DS-160, generally the decision is made from the info given on that. I’d leave it for a while, presumably if he’s early 20’s he’ll be done studying in a year or two? So wait until he’s got a full-time job and then try again to maximise his chances. If he keeps trying and keeps being refused that’s not going to help his case at all.

OK, so a very high refusal rate, realistically until he’s got more ties it’s probably just going to be another refusal. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/RefusalRates/FY23.pdf

You have nothing to do with it. Your SIL needs to apply for both of them.

It’s not going to reveal anything, there were probably hundreds of tourist visas refused at that consulate just this month alone. It’s just whether or not it’s a high risk consulate so advice can be more tailored. But if you don’t want to say that’s fine. Your BIL can try again, although not straight away as that would be a pretty much guaranteed way to throw that money away, he should leave it a while and then try again. You can’t ‘sponsor’ him but he can say you’ll support him financially if he gets the opportunity, but stronger ties would increase his chances far more i.e. waiting until he’s finished studying and got a full-time job/his own home/a spouse. And just checking, but you haven’t filed a I-130 for him at any point?