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Nelly & John's US Immigration Timeline

  Petitioner's Name: John
Beneficiary's Name: Nelly
VJ Member: Nelly & John
Country: Canada
Last Updated: 2024-06-03
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Immigration Checklist for John & Nelly:

USCIS I-130 Petition:      
Dept of State IR-1/CR-1 Visa:    
USCIS I-751 Petition:  
USCIS N-400 Petition:  


IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Event Date
Service Center : Nebraska Service Center
Transferred? No
Consulate : Montreal, Canada
Marriage (if applicable): 2022-12-29
I-130 Sent : 2023-01-23
I-130 NOA1 : 2023-01-24
I-130 RFE :
I-130 RFE Sent :
I-130 Approved : 2024-01-30
NVC Received : 2023-10-27
Received DS-261 / AOS Bill : 2023-10-27
Pay AOS Bill : 2023-10-30
Receive I-864 Package :
Send AOS Package : 2023-11-02
Submit DS-261 : 2023-11-24
Receive IV Bill : 2023-10-27
Pay IV Bill : 2023-10-30
Send IV Package : 2023-11-24
Receive Instruction and Interview appointment letter : 2024-04-17
Case Completed at NVC :
NVC Left :
Consulate Received :
Packet 3 Received :
Packet 3 Sent :
Packet 4 Received :
Interview Date : 2024-05-07
Interview Result : Approved
Second Interview
(If Required):
Second Interview Result:
Visa Received : 2024-05-10
US Entry : 2024-05-12
Comments : Spouse approved in late October, but children not approved until mid-February by USCIS I-130. After that, we were scheduled in mid-April for a May 7th interview (about 3 weeks notice). Interview was very straightforward and a positive experience. Whole process took about 16 months.
Processing
Estimates/Stats :		 Your I-130 was approved in 371 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 469 days from your I-130 NOA1 date.


Member Reviews:

Consulate Review: Montreal, Canada
Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Event Description
Review Date : June 3, 2024
Embassy Review : Because I have read a lot of reviews on here that discuss getting delayed and/or other negative outcomes, I wanted to quickly drop a note from a more positive experience. If anything, our bigger delay was the time between my spouse being approved by USCIS and her children being approved. USCIS issued my wife's approval in late October but then didn't approve the children until February. So that was very frustrating because the first approval triggered the NVC process and we were really hopeful to have things moving fairly quickly. However, this turned out to be somewhat good anyway, because in gathering all the documents for NVC, we found a couple of issues that took time to fix. So by the time the children were approved in February, we really had our documents correct.

As for the consulate in Montreal, after a February approval from USCIS, the NVC did their paperwork approval in a couple of weeks and then they notified us in April of an early May interview time. My wife went to the interview with the two children accompanying her. The process was fairly quick, with a very early 7:45am time. She was done by about 10am and we spent the rest of the day touring Montreal. She said the interviewer and other staff were very friendly and helpful. Now, our case was probably as standard as they come - both long-time residents and native-born citizens of our respective countries, with no recent international extended travel, no other red flags at all really. I do suspect that some people get delayed because of small issues, like being born elsewhere, living in other countries recently, etc. But I'm just speculating.
Rating : Very Good


Timeline Comments: 9

blank avatar B_P on 2023-10-27 said:
Congrats on your approval! Did you by any chance also send in a K3?
Nelly & John on 2023-10-27 said:
We did submit for a K visa also, but as far as I can tell, we did not get approved for that. At least not yet.
blank avatar B_P on 2023-10-27 said:
Do you mind sharing when you submitted k3? I also submitted k3 and also at Nebraska.
Nelly & John on 2023-10-27 said:
same time, like just a couple of weeks later. As soon as we got the receipt notice on the I-130, we submitted the I-129F for the K-Visa. We submitted for the K-visa in mid-Feb, and got a request for more info in April on that one, and then nothing since then. And the request was just for a copy of the I-130 application (which was included in the original submission, I'm certain). We were told by an attorney that they simply never issue the K-visa, however. It was free to try, but not to expect anything.
blank avatar B_P on 2023-10-27 said:
Okay, thanks! I mean you got it in 9 months when others are waiting 11/12 months so maybe it helped a tiny bit.
Nelly & John on 2023-10-27 said:
This is true. To the extent that applying for the K-visa somehow causes them to review your CR1/IR1 visa more quickly, it could be helpful. But what would be a lot better is to actually issue the K-visa and approve the I-130 at the same time, which would allow my wife to move here now. I don't understand why they even have a K-visa if they never grant it. It seems to go against the very reason Congress created the K-visa in the first place.
Nelly & John on 2024-01-18 said:
@B_P Just thought you'd appreciate the update that, even though they approved my wife's application back in late Oct, they actually STILL haven't approved her two young children. I had thought they would compile and approve together, but no such luck. So we're still essentially in the first step.
blank avatar B_P on 2024-01-18 said:
Ugh, sorry to hear that. I did end up getting approved back in November, so also took 9 months for us. Think the K3 helped a little bit.
Nelly & John on 2024-01-31 said:
So we finally got the kids' applications approved today and now waiting for everything to push over to NVC.
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