Dear David:

If an I-130 visa petition was filed for you on December 20, 2000, and if you are still unmarried and under the age of 21 on December 20, 2003, you would be eligible to file for a change of status to V-1. Good luck.

Sir, thank you for your kind assistance in answering my question. and unfortunately, i am 22 yrs old now. can i expedite the visa processing time? or nothing could be done but wait? thank you for your further information!
yours
david

Dear David:

Unfortunately, all you can do is wait for your priority date to become current. Good luck.

Dear Immigrationhelp

What on earth is happening to the Family sponsorship waiting times?
The F1 priority date last month was March 1999,this month it has gone back
by 4 years to March 1995.By slowing down the process,the INS is only adding and piling up their own
backlog which has now swelled to millions of pending applications with no
signs of speedy process in sight.
Mus

Dear Mus:

This is one issue that we cannot blame on Immigration. The problem is with Congress, which has failed to pass any new legislation increasing the number of visas for family members of US citizens and permanent residents.

INS is simply prohibited from issuing more than the alloted number of visas each year; and there are simply more applicants than the number of visas available.

Hopefully, the family-based first preference category will move forward somewhat starting in October. Good luck.

Hi,

Please could you help me understand how could it be that the priority for f1 is jul95 and the for the f2 is apr97? Dont understand! , so why is f1 first class?

Is the f1 priority date going to jump back to lets say jul98?

thanks in advance.

Dear Confused:

It is easy to understand how you can be confused by the situation you describe. Rather than go into a two-page explanation of why the F-1 category is backed up further than the F-2 category, suffice it to say that we believe that in October the F-1 category will move forward again. How far is not certain, but you should be better off than in the F-2 category. We'll just have to wait and see. Good luck.

Hi,
Where can I find the status for I-130 for F2b approved at June,95? This is for my friend who doesn't speak English. He gave me the Form-I-824 that he sent last year, there was a recipt number in INS USE ONLY but nothing was checked there.

Hi,

I have entered the US by B2 visa to visit my spouse (he hold F1 visa). I get permission to stay in 6 months.

Is it possible if I want to change my visa status from B2 to F2 in the US and how long does it take?

Student's spouse

hi,My category is f2b november'1997 mom and dad had gone to us in november'97 and also filed my papers on same month as a legal permanent residence.now they r going to b the citizen there, so tell me how much time will it take for me to get green card.i am still unmarried and 25 yrs. of age,if i do marriage will it take more time or its the same thing.

hi , my friend files in I-130 form , they called as F2B? and his age over 21(from india), so can u plz tell me that when he gonna get his visas , his unmarried and his parents apply july,2000. so i ll be really glad if u send me mail and let me know that when he had chance to come usa.

Sir,

My mother filed for me under F2B category. After that, I got married. Unfortunately, last year, I was divorced. Would my original petition be still valid? If my mother becomes a US citizen, would it help?

Thanks

My mom has filed for my ummarried brother who lives in India while she had greencard on 1997.

Now Mom is citizen and Brother is married.

Do we have to file again or updated the old file?

Thanks

hi, my category is f2b priority date is feb95,i got hold of ds230 last jan04,since then nothing follows,is there any problem with my paper,that's why i aint receiving the other document? is there any new guidelines or requirement that we need to accomplish in order to speed up processing of my paper?