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Quite possibly. Ours didn’t, but I asked them to change it so it was all good.

You can just do an online Utah marriage.

If money is a real issue then you might want to look at the spousal visa instead? It would be cheaper (potentially considerably cheaper, depending on how long you’d have been married for by the time you enter the US). Good luck.

Update it at the interview, or if you’ve already had that, update it with the officer upon entry. I took ours typed up on a piece of paper and gave it to the officer just to make sure it was correct.

Far too early if it was DS-5535, that can take months or even years. There’s a long running thread about it in the Canadian sub forum. When does the course start? You may have to defer entry. Where are you from?

She needs to enter the US on her visa before it expires, then once she’s a green card holder she can get married and petition for her new husband/wife if she wishes. It’ll take another few years.

You don’t need to pay a biometrics fee. The only fee left to pay after this stage is the green card fee.

You are obligated to inform them of any changes that would change your category and supply evidence (marriage/divorce cert). You’d then be moved in to the appropriate category. You can Google for the INA but it’s simply a matter of eligibility - if you get married then obviously you’re no longer eligible for a visa category for those who are unmarried. Can you be more specific about your situation so we can help? Are you getting married and if so what stage are you at?

Assume you mean your ‘reasons not to vaccinate are NOT moral and religious’? Really we need to know your consulate to help properly (pls fill in your timeline), for instance at my consulate the flu vaccine requirement was waived for all of us as it’s only required in winter months. As for your vaccine history, as part of the medical you have to provide your medical records, so it should be on there. If not you can get titre tests done to check for immunity.

But it was current when you applied? Which visa category?

Where are you seeing 32 months? If you look at the official timelines page you’ll see USCIS don’t even give timelines for that category, and the explanation is on that page - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Basically, there’s no visa available to your friend for many years anyway (maybe another decade or so as a very rough guess) - hence USCIS don’t rush to approve I-130’s for that category. I don’t think there’s anything to worry about, it’s just taking a long time because of the reasons given above. It just sounds like your friend’s mother’s application for citizenship was rejected because she was outside of the US for too long and reset her continuous residence clock so she was no longer eligible to apply when she did.

You need to follow the consulate specific instructions, they’ll be very clear. Every one has different requirements.

Are you kids US citizens as well or would they need visas?

Then there’s no requirement for a masters anyway and what you’ve got should suffice. There’s certainly no need to spend the money and time in doing a masters - unless of course, things change between now and you becoming eligible for a visa (presumably many years away?). You may want to get it assessed by a company like WES just for career purpose, but it shouldn’t be relevant to your visa app. Good luck.

More info is needed. What job, what visa category, what stage of the application is she at, what’s her Priority Date etc? And what visa is she currently working on? It would be better if she joined VJ herself really.

Which visa application do you think you need a masters for?

We don’t even know if you’re eligible to file any of this. If you’re not prepared to share the basic info which you’ve been asked about then how do you expect people to be able to help?

I’m sorry, but again it depends on the consulate! Some (i.e. Montreal) are super strict on domicile and that wouldn’t be anywhere near enough (after all, anybody can own a car in the US, it doesn’t prove you live there at all). Without you filling your timeline in (which helps others in return) or at the very least telling us your consulate, it’s so hard for anybody to answer.

That would be a question for your lawyer. Our lawyers said 5, at least 3 of which needed to be from US based people. They had to be from very good quality people though i.e. industry experts, somebody random that isn’t well regarded themselves wouldn’t suffice. Should be fine, but again double check with the lawyer. Definitely a higher bar (as @OldUser said, it’s going to be tougher as it’s for a green card), but it depends on what you have to submit for the O-1. My evidence didn’t differ between the two, the same package was submitted for my EB1A as soon as the O-1 was approved (lawyers said to wait until that had happened just to be sure that it was good enough, they literally submitted the I-140 the day following the O-1 approval). But I had a very strong O-1 case, so it worked for both. Another company that are supposed to be very good for EB’s is https://www.wegreened.com/. Might be worth a consult with them, they’ll soon tell you if you’ve got a chance or not. Best of luck.

She says she stayed for 7 years on a previous visitor visa - and then it seems she left, which if that is correct would presumably have triggered a 10 year bar upon exit but somehow managed to get back in to the US when inadmissible. Which I think is what @Boiler is trying to establish. Hopefully @Jayne will be able to clarify though.

That will very much depend on your field office, so you need to check that to have any idea of timescales, put your zip code in here. https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-a-uscis-office/field-offices You can check current times here once you’ve got that - https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Good luck.

No, because there is a backlog at the Montréal consulate. You can see how long the wait is here, currently about a year (it’s reduced a lot recently, it was double that last year). https://ca.usembassy.gov/immigrant-visa-process/

It’s because it’s a non-immigrant visa, so far less to go through to get it. I had my O1 visa within 3 weeks, my interview was waived and I did premium processing.

It’s usually original (or certified copies) of everything you’ve uploaded to NVC. But again, without knowing the consulate it’s hard for any of us to say - please fill in your timeline, thx.

Depends on the consulate. She’ll get a full document checklist when her interview is scheduled, but in the meantime you can check it on the usual site - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-11-applicant-interview.html Follow the link at the top of that page for the specific consulate. Good luck.