Unmarried Daughter become Married & Petitioner becomes citizen from PR - now?

n.resh

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My father has applied for me (Family based sponsorship) under 2FB category (Unmarried son/daughter) back to 2001. And I got married after 2 years of that i.e. 2003. And I become Canadian citizen in the last month. My husband lives in USA on H1 (employer did not file for him yet). My father has recently become US citizens. In this context, do we need to update the old application to reflect my marriage and include my husband? We did not want to do that before as permanent resident can not sponsor married son/daughter.

a. If we do that, is there a risk of they might cancel the old application and make us to apply again as a new.

b. what's the chance they will include my husband in the existing application and change it to category three (married son or daughter of citizen)

We are trying to avoid the new application - it will put us 8-9 years behind. And whereas the current application could be another 3-4 years.

Please advise us, how could we adjust the application if its doable.
 
Your dad's petition under F2B was voided when you got married in 2003 since he wasn't a USC at that time and PR cannot sponsor their married children. He should file another petition for you under F3 in 2003 (once you got married) in order to save waiting time.

In response to your questions:

a. Your dad has no choice but file another I-130 asap since your dad's previous petition for you is no longer valid.

b. no, there is no way to do that. :(

Hope this helps.
 
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