cookiemonster88
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I am from America, and my husband is from New Zealand. We were living and working in China for 3+ years as teachers. In May of last year, we began the application process for a Spousal Visa for my husband to come and live in America. We hired a lawyer, but his information is often incorrect or missing pieces, causing us a lot of grief and large delays. A few weeks ago, our lawyer had said it would be 2-3 months until my husband's application was finished and approved. We decided that I would come back to America and begin working and my husband would stay in China, to follow. However these dates are being delayed almost daily, and now we’re looking at 6 months of separation—something that we’re not willing to do.
We are both financially stable, were married in America, and have been married for almost 2 years. We have affidavits of financial support from family members. My questions are:
1) Is he allowed to come and visit on a tourist visa while his Spousal Visa application is pending?
2) His application is currently being processed through an embassy in China (where we had been living and working for the past 3 years). Is it possible to change the embassy that is processing the documents? Seeing as they’ve all been handed over to the NVC and the only thing left to do is the interview, can we change this to the US?
3) Is it wise to fire a lawyer mid-application? How do we get the paperwork back into our hands?
While we had been told repeatedly by our lawyer that our case was straight forward, his lack of foresight and inexperience in the matter has left me 5,000 miles away from my husband on a different continent, with no end to this process in sight. Any help or advice would be unbelievably appreciated.
Kindest Regards
We are both financially stable, were married in America, and have been married for almost 2 years. We have affidavits of financial support from family members. My questions are:
1) Is he allowed to come and visit on a tourist visa while his Spousal Visa application is pending?
2) His application is currently being processed through an embassy in China (where we had been living and working for the past 3 years). Is it possible to change the embassy that is processing the documents? Seeing as they’ve all been handed over to the NVC and the only thing left to do is the interview, can we change this to the US?
3) Is it wise to fire a lawyer mid-application? How do we get the paperwork back into our hands?
While we had been told repeatedly by our lawyer that our case was straight forward, his lack of foresight and inexperience in the matter has left me 5,000 miles away from my husband on a different continent, with no end to this process in sight. Any help or advice would be unbelievably appreciated.
Kindest Regards
