Peince
Active Member
Yes some people reported that issue . I myself had it yesterday when I tried to log into my already submitted DS260 2020 . So maybe it's because of the traffic ( too many people trying to log in )
DV 2021 ALL SELECTEES
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Hi and congratulations to all! I know it’s still early, but I’m getting a little worried about my EU number being 39XXX. Similarly, I am currently in the US on OPT (F1 visa) that’ll expire on Feb 13th leaving me with 60 days to legally remain in the country before I have to leave. In my scenario and given the high CN, would you recommend that I go via CP route rather than AOS?
TheKey
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I’d wait before making any decision and/or completing the DS-260 (There’s more than enough time). You’ll have a better idea when there’s more information about the number of selectees, and of course how the numbers progress later on in the year.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Should be ok but we’ll know more when we see number of selectees
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Don’t think I’ve seen one - you can start it!
Excellent. Thank you very kindly for the very informative reply. So just to make sure on one thing: I don’t need to rush with my DS-260 application? If per say I was to wait for a month to gather more information on case numbers etc. would it hurt my chances of receiving an interview/green card? Or would I still have the same spot in the queue for an interview whether I submit it today or in a month from now?
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Your spot in the queue is almost exclusively dependent on your case number (bar a very late submission of documents).
joscok
New Member
Ok, I did it but I cannot post a link here for some reason
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
You cannot post a link because your account is relatively new - it is an anti-spam feature built into the website.
Xarthisius
Well-Known Member
Travel ban is just a minor nuisance. It only matters if you have visa in your passport that's about to expire. What's a real problem is the fact that embassies are closed due to COVID-19 and Executive Order partially suspending immigration that went into effect on April 22nd.
i have another question,
my dad was married and had child #1, then he divorced and remarried my mom, and since my mom was the one selected for the dv, i didn’t list child #1 on the DV form because she‘s well over 21 and she’s not my mother’s child. Do I still have to list her under my dad in the DS260 or not?
thanks!
my dad was married and had child #1, then he divorced and remarried my mom, and since my mom was the one selected for the dv, i didn’t list child #1 on the DV form because she‘s well over 21 and she’s not my mother’s child. Do I still have to list her under my dad in the DS260 or not?
thanks!
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
You were correct in not including her on your mon’s eDV entry form form since she’s over 21. However she’s still your mom’s step daughter. She needs to be listed on both your mom and dad’s DS260 forms respectively.
So a few days ago we were both celebrating our double lottery "winning" for myself and my husband.
We started to fill out the DS-260, until we got to the part of filling our children information.
As we are a gay couple who have had twin children through surrogacy - the biological "mother" is not relevant. I think i can put her name as the egg donor identity is known to us.
However, under the "father" part we don't know what to put. each one of the child biological tight to the other father. When we both applied to the green car lottery, from our perspective and our government (Canada) we are both the parents of the children and the biological ties are not the government business.
I tried to look around the internet just to learn that this issue is very complex in terms of acknowledging the children in our case.
SInce we both won the lottery, perhaps we should just indicate one child for each main applicant? I really don't know what to do and how to fill out this DS-260 section.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
We started to fill out the DS-260, until we got to the part of filling our children information.
As we are a gay couple who have had twin children through surrogacy - the biological "mother" is not relevant. I think i can put her name as the egg donor identity is known to us.
However, under the "father" part we don't know what to put. each one of the child biological tight to the other father. When we both applied to the green car lottery, from our perspective and our government (Canada) we are both the parents of the children and the biological ties are not the government business.
I tried to look around the internet just to learn that this issue is very complex in terms of acknowledging the children in our case.
SInce we both won the lottery, perhaps we should just indicate one child for each main applicant? I really don't know what to do and how to fill out this DS-260 section.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
You cannot choose to only list one child per parent. You must fill the forms in completely and that means all children (all - living , dead, step, adopted, whatever) on all parent forms.
There is guidance on surrogacy somewhere in the uscis manual, I would have to look for it if you haven’t found it.
Thanks. DS260 asks the names of the biological parents. We know unofficially by conducting a DNA test that one kid is mine, and the other child is his. If we are just going to put "unknown", isn't this going to raise questions? we are the legal parents of both children, but they were never adopted or something like that. I know from reading the news that biological ties are detrimental in asking US citizenship as a gay couple had a similar situation like ours where with one of the twin - got denied from a citizenship request as the biological father wasn't a US citizen. The US court determined that this was not reasonable by the government and the last appealed, but i don't know where things are from the law's perspective.
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