Is any one familiar with this process??
If your spouse is stuck in chennai and your I-485 is approved, you can walk into a us consulate in canada and request to send a cable to chennai confirming your I-140, I-485 and GC status.
Pretty much to bypass the I-824 step!!
is this still valid??
excerpt from google cache:
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9 FAM 42.12 N3.7 Traveling Abroad to Confer Derivative Chargeability (TL:VISA-329; 10-26-2001) It is not necessary for an alien traveling abroad to confer alternate chargeability to travel to the post where the visa will be issued. If an alientravels to another post for the purpose of conferring alternate chargeability,the post of registration shall send the issuing post a priority VISAS OMEGA cable informing them of the alien’s appearance and registration. Inasmuchas the law permits a child or spouse to follow to join, in lieu of accompanying, this procedure will rarely be necessary. It would, however,be required in the case of an after-acquired spouse otherwise chargeable toan over-subscribed foreign state, (e.g., a family-based second preference applicant born in India for whom numbers are not available may derive the LPR spouse’s U.K. chargeability when “accompanying” the LPR to the United States.) [See 9 FAM 42.12 N2.3 above.]
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If your spouse is stuck in chennai and your I-485 is approved, you can walk into a us consulate in canada and request to send a cable to chennai confirming your I-140, I-485 and GC status.
Pretty much to bypass the I-824 step!!
is this still valid??
excerpt from google cache:
"
9 FAM 42.12 N3.7 Traveling Abroad to Confer Derivative Chargeability (TL:VISA-329; 10-26-2001) It is not necessary for an alien traveling abroad to confer alternate chargeability to travel to the post where the visa will be issued. If an alientravels to another post for the purpose of conferring alternate chargeability,the post of registration shall send the issuing post a priority VISAS OMEGA cable informing them of the alien’s appearance and registration. Inasmuchas the law permits a child or spouse to follow to join, in lieu of accompanying, this procedure will rarely be necessary. It would, however,be required in the case of an after-acquired spouse otherwise chargeable toan over-subscribed foreign state, (e.g., a family-based second preference applicant born in India for whom numbers are not available may derive the LPR spouse’s U.K. chargeability when “accompanying” the LPR to the United States.) [See 9 FAM 42.12 N2.3 above.]
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