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1. The consultate needs more info as you mentioned and send it to them with the beneficiary\'s address, so that they can send pkt 3.
2. After they verify the documents asking for
3. approx 45 days.
Hope it helps.
 
Thanks luckyme

Some more Questions..

on 1. you said that they need more documents to send pkt 3, could i send this documents to the consulate before my I-824 approval is obtained??

on 2. Do you know how long they take to verify the documents that we submit??

Please keep me updated on your case too as i feel we are in a similar situation.

Thanks a lot
 
Reply to Indian Guy.

1. Even if you send information before it is approved, they\'ll still need to wait for INS to send the approval information.
2. 2-3 months before they send out pkt 3 after they get INS notice.
 
Hello Luckyme9

Can you help me out. Even I am in a similar situation.
1) You said that the consulate needs more info. What more info
   do they need. I allready mailed packet 3 to them. Do you think
   this is enough. INS send the cable to chennai on Aug 23.
3) How long do you think it may take before I get some response from
   the consulate.

Thank you
Reddy
 
Reddy

Hi,

I have a few question for you

1. Do you know if the cable has reached chennai? My cable was sent on Aug 30 chennai has not yet received it, any ideas why it takes so long?

2. What did you fill in for the case number on packet 3 ? Has chennai consulate accepted your packet 3?

thanks, any help is greatly appreciated.

cool-guy
 
Hi Cool Guy

Chennai has not responded to my case yet.
I contacted customer service unit in chennai (thru email).
But they dont seem to have a clue about my cable nor packet 3.

My packet 3 reached chennai on Oct 8 (verified thru airborne
tracking #)

I left blank for the case #.

Thank you
Reddy
 
Same here - what next

Reddy,

Looks like lot of us are travelling in the same boat, I am also calling the consulate regularly. They dont seem to have any answer and have not acknowledged the cable message from INS. I am not sure what to do now ? I have not filed p3 with chennai yet, is it ok wait for chennai consulate to respond to the cable first and then file p3. what is your thinking?

cool-guy
 
Hey Cool Guy

Cool Guy

My assumption was, we have to wait more, if we keep waiting
for acknowledgments.

My approach will work, if chennai is ready to accept packet3
even before they mail packet3 (most likely they will accept).
Worst situation is, I will end up waiting more (which I have
to do, even if I dont send p3)

Thank you
 
Reddy, keep us posted

Reddy,

Thanks for the reply, keep us posted on your case so that everyone in this board will be benefited from it. There are lot of people here confused about how to proceed a FTJ case.

cool-guy
 
Amending a petition---urgent

I am on H1 Visa here.
I married 2 years back and my wife is here on H4 visa.
My wife\'s parents are about to become citizen in next 1 year.
They filed for my wife when she was under 21 years and not married.

The Question is------
Can his father include my name now in the petition already
filed ? or he has to file a new petition including both our names.

Or is there any other way to get the process speed up as both of us are already here.
 
Luckyme9 (Please help me out )

Hi Luckyme9

Can you help me out in giving some information about the green card.

Nebraska send my I-824 approval to chennai directly, instead of
sending to NVC. I mailed packet 3 to chennai, before hearing
anything from them.

Do you think, chennai will accept my case?

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Thank you
 
Hi Folks

Heard that chennai started to accept Attorney certified I140.

Can someone post the message, if there is any news about it.

Thank you
 
No Title

Hi Sameer,
I am more or less in the same boat as you are. So, did you finally file under the 2A preference family-based category? Does it not take much longer as compared to employment-based?
Your response would be highly appreciated.
 
Reddy

Here is the deal, I talked with consulate couple of days back. What they mentioned is to send in the copies of the following

1. Approval notice 824 and 485
2. Copies of all pages of passport both petitionar and benificiary
3. Marriage certificate
4. Copies of birth certificate of petitionar and benificiary.

The interesting things to note is consualte says not to worry about the cable acknowledgement. Once they get the documents mentioned above they will verify it with the INS. This verification process takes 2-3 months. At the end of this process they will mail out packet 3 to the benificiary. What a drag???????????????

Hope this help, I am not sure this is the right thing to do but this what I have been told. So call up the consulate and check with them.

Cool-guy
 
cool-Guy

They asked also the same information from me. But did they ack once they received these documents from you. Otherwise how do you know they got it and started verifying.
 
luckyme9

How long to create packet3 once you send these documents?

Also to which address did you send this documents and did you keep any cover letter with it? If so can you post a sample

Cool-guy
 
Coolguy

Coolguy, thank you for sharing the info.

Let us hope, everything will be o.k

Atleast now we are sort of sure that the consulate is positive about our case.

If I happen to get any better news, I will convey it.

Thank you
 
Gurus, question on follow to join

I will appreciate if someone can answer these questions.

1) Will FTJ work for primary appicant who gets his/her I-485 approved
   in States. Then basically file I-824 to get CP done for spouse in
   home country. Is this correct?

2) What does I-824 really send to consulate? Just the approval notice of I-485, I-485 petition for the prim. appl. Please shed some
light on this.

3) Does the primary applicant have to be present during interview of
spouse?

4) Can someone confirm that these are the steps for filing follow to join,
I-824
Packet 3
Interview + Packet 4

5) How long does it take for each step in VSC and consulate?

Thanks for keeping up a great thread.
 
No Title

YCC,

1. Yes, it will work even for primary applicant who got GC through 485.

2. I824 really mentions that the primary applicant status has been adjusted as a permanent resident.

3. I dont think so, the real problem is it seems nobody has gone through FTJ at consulate. At present the consencus is nope.

4. I think there is one more step that starts concurrently with I-824. That is you must send the following to the consulate,

   - passport copy of every page both petitionar and benificiary
   - birth certificate of both
   - approval copy of 485
   - copy of GC both the side

5. dont worry about I824, my guess is it should be over in 6 months time frame from start to begin.

YCC, hope this helps. The real problem with FTJ is no one is sure what the procedure is. What I mentioned is not yet proved to be the right thing to do. I am also in the same boat not knowing what and when to do. Hopefully someone completes a FTJ and enlighten us.

Cool-Guy
 
Cool-guy

Thanks for your informative response. I gathered from your post that procedure for FTJ is unclear. But, is there complete surety that this process will work? Do you know if this process will work even if
you got married after filing I485, but before getting the approval (some attorneys disagree on this, some say marriage has to take place before filing I485)

I also read somebody mentioned about AC-140. Does that have to be sent as well for FTJ?

Here is my situation. My I485 is filed. I want to get married before approval. Then would like to do FTJ for the spouse in consulate. Can you give details about your case.

Thanks and Best wishes.
 
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