Amandapaddy

@SalishSea We stayed with our lawyer we had who did our i130. She did the i130 and then I thought this was the next thing she does for us.. I didn’t have any reservations having a lawyer fill out official forms when I don’t feel confident doing it myself. Your response at the end pretty much clears up why I stayed with a lawyer instead of doing it diy. I don’t know much about immigration, not trying to sound arrogant but I can fill out documents yes- but was hoping having someone who specializes, who does this all day everyday could do a better job than me that I could easily and most likely do something wrong on the application and potentially getting delayed or even worse, denied or something. I was hoping having our lawyer handle it was the safest option to bring my husband back home to our family.

Our I-130 was approved April 25th. We are submitting to Dublin Ireland Embassy. I’m sorry I just need to vent and maybe some insight on a timeline? Is our lawyer taking an unreasonable amount of time, I’m not trying to sound impatient- I realize immigration law is complex and there are things behind the scenes that I am not aware of.. I just can’t wrap my head around filling out an application with info our lawyer has had for a year just now being filled out and I’m struggling really bad. My husband and I have been long distance for over 2 years now and we are not in a good spot. I think both of us are overwhelmed and over everything, I hate seeing what this process has done to us. I have always held onto hope and faith that this chapter is almost over and everything will be okay when he’s back home. Waiting over a year for I130 to be approved, I thought that was the hardest part over with but now we’re waiting to wait again. I understand the NVC will take time as well and it seems “easier” to wait when it comes to immigration officers because it is what it is we’re all waiting on them. But waiting on my lawyer to fill out these documents to submit to NVC is almost destroying me. Is this a normal time line for submitting documents? She has had all of our info this whole time, and her emails to ask questions etc to fill it out just seems to me that she could have had all this figured out before this.. idk. It doesn’t help she’s tik tok famous, posting all the time, so everytime I see her pop up I get angry all over again like can you maybe go fill out some forms? Ah idk. Our I-130 was approved April 25th. We are submitting to Dublin Ireland Embassy. Marriage- I am from US. Living in US while he is stuck in Ireland.