Question reg. filing I130 at consular posts

[Participant]

My freind is an US.citizen and wanting to file I130 for his parent.
Now as in TSC the I130 approval is taking considerable time,
is there a provision to file at consular posts,eg. chennai and if so will be it be a faster approval relatively?getting his parent here has become urgent due to some personal issues.
For filing at chennai, does it require the person should be staying
for a period(say a month) or can just visist file and come back in about two weeks time?
One way is to get him on Visitor Visa and filing I 130 after 3 months here is one option but it has some risks.
Any thoughts and experiences on this please.

 

[tanaats]

You may also want to try posting your question elsewhere while waiting for responses here...

On news:alt.visa.us.marriage-based (if you don't have a newsreader, you can also access it via web browser at http://snipurl.com/4bcz which is the same as http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=alt.visa.us.marriage-based). There's a lot of experience there, including an immigration lawyer who often responds.

You can usually get quite good advice on http://forums.about.com/ab-immigration/messages/. Someone who seems to be a knowledgable CIS official (if he's not a lawyer) often replies there.

Someone who seems to be a knowledgable CIS official also often replies here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/immigrationforum/ .

There's a US immigration lawyer who responds to posts here: http://chat.lawinfo.com/forum.cfm?FID=1023 .

IM lawyers often respond here: http://forum.freeadvice.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=9 .

Here is an IM lawyer's private forum: http://www.jdmillsesq.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 .

I got some quite decent free advice here: http://www.visalaw.com/chatlive.htm . (It's really not a "chat", it sends an email containing your question).

Good luck,
Joe