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All the time. My daughter lost her GC and so has to travel using an ADIT stamp. Every single time the airline staff in the UK have to phone CBP to ask if they'll let her in as they never know what it is!

You can try, and also contact the consulate and point out that he shouldn't have been refused a visa as he didn't age out, and it is their error. I wonder if perhaps they misclassified his case as F2B so thought his PD wasn't current, but if you didn't check it there would be no way of knowing for sure. Contact NVC and the consulate urgently, and if that doesn't work you'll need to file to reopen the case, I think it's a I-290B that you'd need to do, but I'm tagging @family as they are the pros for this kind of admin error.

No, there's no way it should have been delayed like that. It was current when the I-130 was approved, so should have been sent straight to NVC and his visa application should have been done in 2022. What does the status say online, and did it say F2B or F2A? Did you chase it up at all in 2022/2023? Double check the dates and that it was current back in 2022, but I think I'd be consulting a lawyer.

So working it out exactly, and if my maths is correct (it's atrocious usually, so please do double check the below!) - Petition took 1 year, 5 months and 11 days to be processed, so he was only eligible for a visa under F2A if his Priority Date became current before 2nd April 2022 (as that was the date his 'calculated age' went from 20 to 21, meaning he was no longer eligible as the under 21 child of a LPR). But looking at the Visa Bulletins from early 2022, his category WAS current. Are you absolutely sure that his I-130 was approved in December 2021? His case should have been sent to NVC immediately if so. When did you receive the Welcome Letter from NVC asking you to pay the fees etc?

Hard to say without knowing your PD etc - please fill in your timeline.

Any other ties to the US? Do you have a home there? Bank account etc? Have you filed your taxes every year? If not, then I agree you're probably out of luck. You can try entering but as @Crazy Cat said, this is a bad time to be trying to do that, and you're likely to be pressured to give up your GC, or referred to a judge. If your status is gone then your parents could petition you, it won't be quick though.

Which bit of that do you think applies to you? So using the dates you gave above, and assuming the first of each month just to give you an idea in the absence of exact dates - Priority Date 1st June 2020, 1st December 2021 I-130 approved so the petition was pending for 18 months. Meaning he wouldn't age out until he was 22 years and 6 months old (roughly - again without exact dates it's hard to give you a definite age). So for him to stay in the F2A category, his Priority Date would have needed to become current before he was 22.5 years old. We don't know his birthday so can't say for sure if that was the case or not, but you can double check it yourself. Or give exact dates for somebody else to do it for you (including his birth date). The email from NVC about expediting isn't anything to do with his age, for some reason it's the same for all Manila cases (spouses etc). They don't send interview letters regularly like other consulates, they do them in batches and claim they've been 'expedited'.

Ah, ok. I thought you were London for some reason - if you could fill your profile in then it would help for the future, thx.

I wouldn’t risk trying to adjust status personally if you’ve overstayed in the past - the link from @Crazy Cat gives you info on that. Are you the sibling or dependent of a sibling for your F4?

I’m sorry to hear this, but as said above there is nothing to appeal as if he’s aged out there is no visa available to him by law. The delay in hearing from NVC was due to this too, not Covid - they wouldn’t contact you until nearer the time of him actually being eligible for a visa (Table B on the Visa Bulletin) anyway. Are you saying that he was scheduled for an interview though? That is very odd, they shouldn’t have done that until his PD was current (Table A on the Visa Bulletin). All you can do is keep an eye on the Visa Bulletin and see when his PD is going to become current. He’s probably got at least another decade or so to go, so if there is any other visa route for him (employment based for example) then you might want to explore that. Best of luck to you.

Just checking, you’re doing it here? https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-gb/iv/information/iv_services

Please fill in your timeline! To ‘pay it forward’ for the help you’ve received and help others in return. As said above, not really sure what you’re asking either but you can’t usually update the DS-260, you just need to let the interviewing officer know of any updates or changes at the interview. Good luck.

You can search the forum to find timelines, most recent I can find was about a year and that seems to track with other threads. If you could fill in your own timeline too to help others it would be much appreciated. Good luck.

As above, be 100% truthful. My daughter had very recent SH scars (from the previous year) and was also on Sertaline at the time of the medical. Neither were an issue at all, but we did have a letter from her GP with the all important wording about her ‘not posing a danger to herself or others’ as @koriyal has said above. Good luck.

No idea about K1’s I’m afraid. CR1’s wouldn’t wait anywhere near 6 weeks, but as above it’s a very different process.

It looks like yours is a K1 case though? So a very different process.

OK, so 90 days from 14th then - so still 10 days or so to go but I’d have thought you’d have received it by now (or at the very least, the status would say ‘card in production’), so suspect you may have to fill in the form above to get it. Good luck.

It’s usually about 6 weeks. Has it been 88 days since you paid the fee, or since your spouse entered? The timeline starts from the later of those two things. Once you get to 90 days you need to fill in this form to report it as not received https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/ndc It’s usually something simple, 3 of us got ours within a few weeks, but my daughter’s never turned up - turned out she just needed to have her photo redone as it wasn’t up to scratch.

It’s all laid out step by step on the website, as said above you just need to follow the instructions. Make sure you read everything here very carefully and follow the consulate specific instructions too - 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

From your previous thread - Please do fill in your timeline. Good luck.

Ah, ok. I would suggest he joins us here with his own account.

Definitely do both. Being selected in the DV doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get a visa, so you don’t want to give up the H1B opportunity for it. Edit: confused, as your previous posts say you’re a USC? So are you asking for somebody else? And if so, it is your father that you asked about in this thread?

Goodness only knows, it does seem very odd advice. Perhaps you just misunderstood what he said. The fact that he didn’t know the answer to a really basic question (whether you can have a K1 and B2 concurrently - her B2 would be voided upon issuance of the K1) would ring alarms bells for me personally. As said above (and if you search the forum) then there’s no such 90 day guideline. As @Crazy Cat said then no, that’s immigration fraud. But also just wanted to say that there’s no rule requiring her to stay in Thailand whilst the K1 is being processed. She can visit you as usual on her B visa during it. We are just trying to help. There are plenty of attorneys that post on here whose advice you can also read, but at the end of the day it’s your choice. We’d just hate to see you end up with your gf being refused entry or only being admitted for a short period of time, or getting a ban because you get married and then USCIS think she’s committed immigration fraud. But we’re just telling you the risks, it’s totally up to you what you do. I’m going to unsubscribe from this thread now but I wish you the very best of luck.

The point was there’s no such thing as the ‘90 day rule’. Marrying earlier than that wouldn’t make any difference.

Presumably your case status says ‘at NVC’ now though? You don’t normally get any kind of notification, just the case updates on CEAC.