on GC looking to get married

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moseattle

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Hello i am on GC (since january 2009) and my fiance lives back home (syria) we are looking to get married next summer. what is the best way to bring her here?
i cant afford to wait 3 years for me to become a citizen

i read somewhere that the state department publishes visa numbers, can someone please explain those to me? it seems that she falls under category 2A?

"FAMILY-SPONSORED PREFERENCES

First: Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Citizens: 23,400 plus any numbers not required for fourth preference.

Second: Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any) by which the worldwide family preference level exceeds 226,000, and any unused first preference numbers:
"

so as per Nov 2010 bulletin,

category 2A has priority date of "2A 01JUN10 "
does this mean that for people who get married and filled their documents before June 2010 there paper work is now in the process?

what i am trying to get at, it used to be that Green card holders have to wait for years to sponsor their spouses, did this change? it seems that the priority dates number are somewhat encouraging?

or i am really stupid :)
 
The F2A category used to have a 4-year backlog, now it is under 6 months. For November, the consulate is preparing to interview people in F2A whose I-130 were filed before this June.

So if this trend continues, your spouse can have a GC in 6-9 months.
 
Jack, people on this very same forum are reporting that even though they filed their petitions in 2008 in 2A category, they are not even being processed by NVC at this point, let alone preparing for their interviews at the consulates... Backlog for PDs may have been cleared/reduced drastically, but it doesn't mean that people who filed their petitions in June are getting interviewed next month. I actually haven't read about a single person yet interviewing with that PD.
 
Nobody in June will be eligible for an interview next month, since the cutoff is June 1st and the PD must be *before* the cutoff to be eligible. Everybody who is interviewed at the consulate next month would have filed before June. How long before June is another question.

For October the cutoff is April 1, so only the people who filed in March or earlier would be eligible right now.

The PD movement has been so large that now the I-130 processing and NVC are the limiting factors.
 
thanks folks, well for me anything less than 4 years is a blessing :)
so seems best case scenario is 6-7 months, worst case is 1 year? (i totally understand that these are estimations and there are no guarantee's)

if thats the case, i think we might get married in december, she will be visiting here on visitor B1 visa and then we will fill the papers
Q1- is it better to get married here (US) and then she leaves and waits in Syria?
or better for me to go down there and get married in our home country?

Q2- can someone please highlight the next steps after filling the I130?
thx
 
Does she already have a B1/B2 visa? If not, she'll have trouble getting one, since she would have to mention on the application that she has an LPR fiance.

If she already has the visa, for Q1 it doesn't make a difference where you get married, except that if she travels with the visa there is a small risk of her being refused at the port of entry in the unlikely event that the immigration officer happens to ask if she has a fiance in the US.

For Q2, see post#5: http://forums.immigration.com/showt...d-CP-Information-Source&p=1347945#post1347945 (note that those extra forms are only required after I-130 approval, and only when they have crossed or about to cross your priority date).
 
yeah she already has B1/B2 visa, she is coming here with her mother for some tourism...
thx for the help...
 
hey folks.. I have this fear that since the PD number have moved really fast within the last couple of months, could it be that there is another delay (bottleneck)
in the process somewhere else? like in NVC?
also is it possible that the PD numbers might retrogress again? or move backward?
 
Yes, retrogression is possible, and yes the NVC might be backed up with a small flood of approved I-130's that are current. Previously there was no urgency for the NVC to send them to the consulate because there was still a long time for the PD to become current. They're not accustomed to having to quickly forward the F2A I-130's.
 
thanks Jackolantern
well i am confused about this, lets say we get married (outside the US) in december and file for I130... while the case is pending, can she still use her valid b1/b2 visa and visit me in the US? her B1/B2 is valid for another 1.5 years, i would like for her to come visit every 3-4 months and stay here for 3 months each while the I130 is pending and PD is/isnt current....

if she asked at the port of entry the reason for visit, can she say "visiting my husband"?
 
She would have to state she was married to a GC holder. She is not likely to be admitted since she is a potential overstay. She may not in any way LIVE in the US on a visit visa which is what you seem to be proposing.

She should never lie about being married as it could result in serious consequences for misrepresentation of a material fact.
 
moseattle said:
thanks Jackolantern
well i am confused about this, lets say we get married (outside the US) in december and file for I130... while the case is pending, can she still use her valid b1/b2 visa and visit me in the US? her B1/B2 is valid for another 1.5 years, i would like for her to come visit every 3-4 months and stay here for 3 months each while the I130 is pending and PD is/isnt current....
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If you want her to use the B1/B2, have her enter the US with it, and then file the I-130 (with consular processing selected for question 22).

Then she should leave before the I-94 expires. The next time she visits, which should be at least 6 months later if her prior visit was over 3 months, if harassed at the border she can say that she was previously in the US when the I-130 was pending but she left without overstaying, and she plans to do the same for the current trip.

if she asked at the port of entry the reason for visit, can she say "visiting my husband"?
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Better to keep the answer more generic unless pushed for details, e.g. "to see interesting places in New York and Massachusetts like the Statue of Liberty and Cape Cod" (or whatever places you plan to take her).
 
yeah we dont plan on here abusing her b1/b2 and overstaying or living here, just so she can visit me and we can spend some time together every couple of months...
 
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