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Green Card for Dad and Me
- Thread starter Fimstere
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Jackolantern
Registered Users (C)
Your eligibility and the time frame depends on various factors: your current age, your age when your father got married, your age when your father's wife filed for you, whether you are inside or outside the US, and if inside the US did you enter legally or illegally. Provide those details and we can evaluate your prospects.
I am under 21, in fact under 18. I was under 18 when my father got married and his wife filed for us. We are outside the US. My father's wife visits him whenever she get breaks off from work in Florida, and my father visits her every other weekend. We are Canadian citizens, and we reside in Canada.
TheRealCanadian
Volunteer Moderator
You are both Immediate Relatives of a US citizen, and should get your GC at the same time after an interview in Montreal.
TheRealCanadian
Volunteer Moderator
The interview will be in a US consulate or embassy abroad to get an immigrant visa.
The only consulate in Canada that processes immigrant visas is Montreal.
The only consulate in Canada that processes immigrant visas is Montreal.
Jackolantern
Registered Users (C)
You can expect the consular interview in about 6-12 months after your stepmom filed for you.
However, if she did not pick a consulate in Canada for question 22 of the I-130, there may be a delay and she may have to file I-824 to transfer the case to Montreal (or another consulate in Canada that handles immigrant visas, if there is another).
However, if she did not pick a consulate in Canada for question 22 of the I-130, there may be a delay and she may have to file I-824 to transfer the case to Montreal (or another consulate in Canada that handles immigrant visas, if there is another).
If you were already in the US when she filed for you, and she filed the right papers, and you planned to remain in the US for at least 2-3 months after the filing to complete certain processes, you would have been able to interview in the US. But to switch to that now would be complicated and possibly disallowed.I was thinking the interview would be in Buffalo or Duluth or something.
TheRealCanadian
Volunteer Moderator
I think she applied for us back in June or early July. So what happens after the interview?
You get a packet with an immigrant visa, and you move to the US.
Jackolantern
Registered Users (C)
I think she applied for us back in June or early July.
Your I-130 should be approved by now. Do you know if the I-130 is approved, and if she selected a consulate in Canada for question 22?
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that she didn't select a consulate in Canada.
If she put down a Canadian address for you two on your individual I-130's, USCIS will just send them along to NVC for transfer to the consulate in Canada.
Jackolantern
Registered Users (C)
If she put down a Canadian address for you two on your individual I-130's, USCIS will just send them along to NVC for transfer to the consulate in Canada.
Unless adjustment of status was selected for Q22 of the I-130. Fimstere was expecting to interview in Buffalo or Duluth; the stepmom may have selected AOS on the I-130, erroneously expecting the interview to be in the US without understanding the conditions of the AOS process.
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