juliagus

Hi everyone. Our standalone I-130 was approved a few days ago and we're getting started on collecting the civil documents for the NVC part of things. When I go to the website to see what civil documents my husband will need to gather, we find that the link is broken and we can't see the examples of the Brazilian Civil Documents. I was wondering if someone knows of a website outlining everything we will need or if you personally have gone through it and could point us in the right direction. It's mainly the police, court, prison and military records that we need help with. He was never convicted of a crime, never been to prison, he was dismissed from military duty and all that jazz.

Hiii we're also filing from Brazil! We got our NOA1 on August 1st 2022. Maybe we will have our interviews in Rio together?

I guess my original post was a little confusining. Before we even applied for the I-130, we had no plans of going back to the U.S. and were wanting to start a life in Brazil. This is when we applied for the tourist visa so we could at least have the option of seeing my family in the U.S. for Christmas and whatnot. However, after his denial for the tourist visa we had another conversation. We decided that since he would have no way of going to the U.S. to see my family and therefore my parents would be basically forced to travel to Brazil to see us, we started looking into the I-130. We decided that maybe moving to the U.S. would be better for us in the long run, and that's when we started the process for the I-130. But when we first applied for the tourist visa, we were already married, have apartment contracts together in Brazil, bank accounts here, my husband was working and had his own business here in Brazil. So to us, we had all the evidence in the world that we (he) would return to the U.S. simply due to the fact that we were married and had no immigration visa process going on, all we wanted was a tourist visa to visit family in the U.S. periodically. We thought that would show the consular officers that we really had no intention of using the tourist visa for any illegal purpose and we would return to Brazil. However that wasn't the case and he was denied. So now we're almost at the one year mark in the I-130 process and we're just hoping something happens soon

We decided against applying again. We're holding out hope that the timeline for our I-130 is correct and if everything goes according to plan we should be in the U.S. for Christmas. If nothing has happened by next year then we'd try the tourist visa again.

We have our 1-year apartment contract, plus my husband has a business here in Brazil that he currently is working at. We really just wanted to have the tourist visa so in case our I-130 takes a bajillion years to process we could spend Christmas or Thanksgiving with my parents this year.

I should probably add that before we submitted the I-130, we had somewhat decided that we were going to stay in Brazil and build our lives here, etc etc. But then we decided that we should move to the U.S. because of more opportunities for my husband. But during this decision making time we applied for a B2 visa in July 2022 to visit my parents over Christmas and he was denied. He literally got 30 seconds and didn't even speak besides "yes" and "no" and was denied. We had all the proof in the world that we were coming back to Brazil, that he had significant ties to the country and would come back, but was denied. Is it even worth the money and hassle to go through the process again knowing he was denied once?

We've applied for the I-130 on August 1st 2022. I just found out that our service center is not what was on the confirmation paper that they sent out but is actually the Vermont Service Center. We were basing our timelines on the Nebraska Service Center and now have had to change gears to the Vermont timelines. I graduate college in Spring of 2024 and would really like my husband to be there to see me walk and be able to spend some time with my family in the U.S. celebrating my achievement. Based on the timelines here and from what I've seen on Reddit, we probably won't have his visa ready to go by the time I graduate, or it will be very close. So now my question, is it possible to apply for a tourist visa for him to come to the U.S. for a couple of months WHILE the I-130 is processing? Would he even be approved at the time of the B2 visa interview? Would the embassy officials think it's suspicious and that he's going to overstay the B2 visa? Has anyone else applied for a tourist visa and gone to visit while the I-130 was processing?