Recent content by 41john

This is exactly what I thought, thanks for confirming this for me. Do you know how long an appeal is likely to take? It is quite a simple one where they just looked at a date wrong. Will my girlfriend need to visit the UK embassy if she is in this under 21 and unmarried daughter category...

I have a follow up from this.... So my girlfriend (well her step mom) applied for a GC back in December 2010 (when she was under 21 and unmarried) and yesterday her step-mom had a refused letter... thankfully the reasons are in error (to cut a long story short they read the birth...

Many thanks for the clarification, i just wanted to be sure. I understand what you mean about travel to the US once I start the GC process. I suppose I will just need to have a few bits of paperwork to prove that I'm going to return to the US if they question it. Such as proof of owning a house...

Thanks Jack, very helpful as always. I appreciate your time. So I presume it won't be a problem to file for an F2a for me with her in the UK studying?

She is planning to remain in uk and pursue through consulate. Then once she gets accepted she will go to the US for a few weeks (a little longer if she needs too) and apply for a re-entry permit and then come back to the UK. She probably will be back in the US within a year but just for a few...

She is in the UK, so does my gf still file i-485 concurrently? Really? Ok cool, so when she has her interview with the consulate she can freely say that she is planning to come straight back to the UK for 2 years of education? If so, I'm glad because then it will be less of a problem at POE...

Hi Jack, Many thanks for your clarification on this, your opinion is highly respected. Any chance you could take a look at the questions I had in the original post and answer each of them? There are some things I'm unclear on and could do with help from someone like yourself. Many thanks

Your first paragraph makes no sense. She will get a GC "instantly" if she is unmarried and under 21, but if we are married she won't get it instantly and I believe we have to wait about 10 years under the F3 category. Can somebody confirm this? Your second sentence doesn't seem right either...

Hi, I'm 25 and my girlfriend is 20 (we have been together for 4 years) and both from the UK. Her step mother which she has maintained a relationship with since she was 7, is a USC and looking to sponsor her for a GC before she turns 21 in April 2011. I'm sure it will all go smoothly and she...

Thank you so much for this advice, that has clarified everything for me.

Thanks for your help once again. Just a few final things and then I'm all out of questions I promise. She would apply for the F1 Visa after I have started my GC process, but would probably have her F1 Visa before I get my GC or certainly before I actually move out there. Is that ok? What if we...

I don't think I explained it very well. What I mean't was she gets an F1 Visa, studies for 3/4 years and then once she has a degree she changes to H1B status. Once she is on a H1B we get engaged and married and then file for a GC as a spouse. When applying for an F1 we could say we are Friends...

Thank you so much again! She doesn't have a degree, by the time of filing she would have 7 years IT experience. Would that be a enough? Another option we thought of was for her to take a degree in the US (F1 Visa), then when she has completed it move onto a H1B. Once she is on a H1B I could...

Thank you ever so much for your time to answer my questions. Since your so good at answering my questions i have a few more :-) I'm planning to submit the papers for my GC just a month before my 21st birthday (5th April), I believe the process varies in time depending on each consulate, but if...

Many thanks for your answers, thats a great help. I didn't word my last question correct, I'll try again. After I'm sponsored by my step mother and I receive a GC and immigrate, could I then get married and then my step mother sponsor my girlfriend (who'd then be my spouse)? I presume if she...