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  1. appleblossom
    What is your other citizenship?
  2. appleblossom
    Hopefully somebody with experience of that consulate will be able to help. Good luck.
  3. appleblossom
    Which consulate? For London there's no queue for immigrant visas, only NIV's - if you have an IV appointment you go to the head of the line and tell them, and they let you straight in. But I assume other consulates have different systems.
  4. appleblossom
    Probably not many with such a small country, but that may mean there's also not much of a wait - fingers crossed for you, hope you are reunited with your sister/brother soon.
  5. appleblossom
    Ok so your PD is current, now as the email says it's just a case of waiting for an interview to be set. I've no idea how long the wait is in T&T, other consulates can be as quick as 3 months to get an IL, or as long as 2 years +. If you search the forum for other cases at the same consulate it should give you some idea of the wait there. Good luck.
  6. appleblossom
    Yes, you would. As @Damian P says the US is unusual when it comes to healthcare. A couple of Canadian provinces make you wait 3 months before you’re then covered (for free), but that’s the only wait I can think of.
  7. appleblossom
    The consulate specific checklist is in addition to the standard NVC one, and that says you must take original or certified copies of all docs uploaded to CEAC. So if you uploaded your fiancés birth cert on CEAC to be DQ’ed, you should also take it to the interview - but a certified copy will suffice. Good luck. 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
  8. appleblossom
    I’ve only been in the US a year but ditto to both of the above. My bank is Starling and they didn’t care that I was moving overseas, I have three accounts with them and they’re all still open.
  9. appleblossom
    2 years or more from DQ to IL in some of them. London has slowed recently, it usually does slow down a little bit in the summer anyway due to staff leave and the increase in student visas to process. But this year they’ve also got the Diversity Visa applicants (for the first time ever) to get through, and they have a hard deadline of September to be interviewed by. So that must be affecting things too I’d imagine, but it’ll still be a lot quicker than most other consulates. Good luck.
  10. appleblossom
    Thank you so much. You get both. The visa that’s put in your passport is endorsed upon entry, and that acts as a temporary GC for a year to give time for your actual plastic GC (which is valid for 10 years) to turn up in the mail.
  11. appleblossom
    Yes, nothing will happen until August. And even then it won’t be immediate, it takes a few weeks to receive the Welcome Letter & invoice ID. You can keep an eye on processing times here - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html How old are you?
  12. appleblossom
    Ok, but I was responding to your statement that your PD is current which isn’t the case. For submitting your docs then it is Table B, but the August bulletin isn’t in effect until 1st August, it’s still July now. Are you close to aging out, is that why you’re concerned about submitting asap?
  13. appleblossom
    This is the latest VB, assuming you weren’t born in India or the Philippines then the date is April 2010. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-july-2024.html Not sure where you’re seeing Jan 2011?
  14. appleblossom
    If your PD is October 2010 then you’re not current yet? It’s April 2010 on this month’s VB, and the same in next month’s too.
  15. appleblossom
    EB applicants are Tier 4, spousal are Tier 1. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visas-news-archive/immigrant-visa-prioritization.html The tricky thing for London is that this is the first time that UK applicants have ever been eligible for the DV lottery, so they’re having to factor those applications in for the first time, with a hard deadline. Summer usually has a bit of a slow down anyway, with student visas etc, but the DV interview may make it worse. Or IL’s may come out tomorrow, who knows?! It’s all just a guessing game tbh.
  16. appleblossom
    I’m confused, the DQ date given above is 2022 but then you say 2009 - which is correct? And what’s your PD date?
  17. appleblossom
    Could be anytime, or not at all. There’s a chance they’ll be prioritising DV interviews before the deadline, and EB applicants will always be behind spousal applicants etc. Or it may be that they’ll send them out later this month - later in the month is quite normal, it always used to be within a few days of month end. No way of knowing I’m afraid, but good luck, hope you hear soon. Please do fill in your timeline to help other EB applicants.
  18. appleblossom
    Did you not get an email? You should have done - check your junk folder if you haven't already?
  19. appleblossom
    Thank you for clarifying. I have a friend who was born to US parents but then adopted to his current parents who are British, an interesting scenario. Once they're permanent residents, they're expected to make the US their home. One of them could apply for a re-entry permit which would allow them to leave for up to 2 years, but that still wouldn't be enough time for your sister to get a visa. Maybe the best thing to do is wait until your sister is older and can be left, and then you petition for them, and they in turn for her? Only downside of that is that she'd probably be classed as F2B rather than F2A which has an even longer wait.
  20. appleblossom
    And it may be as easy as that, or it may not, hence my enquiry. It was a simple question directed to OP, I wasn't asking for people to speculate or try and answer on his/her behalf.
  21. appleblossom
    Yes, I'm aware of how it works if the OP was born in the US. But he says he's never lived there, hence my query. It was just out of interest folks!
  22. appleblossom
    He says he's never lived in the US though, which is what piqued my interest. Maybe he means just as an adult but he did live there as a baby, so that could well be it.
  23. appleblossom
    Also, just out of interest, how are you a USC if you've never lived in the US and your parents aren't?
  24. appleblossom
    1. Yes. Presumably the plan is for you all to move, you intend to move to the US as well? Be aware that as a USC you should be filing tax returns if you earn enough, regardless of where you live in the world. And you'll have to be sponsor, but your aunt can be a joint sponsor if you don't earn enough. 2. Yes. 3. You can, but it'll take 20+ years for her to get a visa.
  25. appleblossom
    Ignore the 'taking longer than expected', that timeline is notoriously inaccurate. The I-130 processing time is approx 12-14 months, so you're still well under normal processing times. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ What has increased since the pandemic is the wait time for an interview at some consulates - there's a big backlog now at some (others have no wait at all, it's very location dependent). Good luck.
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