squentna wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2:46 am, "Mr. Travel" wrote:
>
>>For the step daughter to come, she will need her own I-130 to be approved.
>
>
> Yea and get that I-130 done right away. I didn't get the child's
> I-130 in the first application because I mistakenly thought the kid
> was a 'derivative'... (not that she's not ;-),
> It has cost me at least 6 months of wasted time. One of the
> problems with immigration is, it's impossible to 'recover' from any
> error in paperwork. They always put me in some sort of 'pause' mode,
> so they can review the obvious. After the obvious is documented and
> the confession is extracted... eventually things resume at a slower
> pace. now I'm 14 months into this mess but fortunately I can afford
> it.
I learn all of this from this wonderful newsgroup a few months over 8
years ago. I was lucky as I filed the I-130's directly with the INS
people at the Embassy in Moscow. They quickly approved it, passed it to
the Consular staff (State Dept) and 40 days from the filing date they
had the interview.
If it is taking 6 months for I-130 approval, maybe you can get them to
keep the other I-130 active until the child's I-130 is approved.
Or, you wife can wait until the last moment for the visa interview, then
she still has 6 months to use the visa. Then hopefully the I-130 will
be approved in the mean time.
Good luck.
One other piece of advice. Remember I don't know what is going on with
the child's father..... If you are going to adopt your stepchild, I
recommend getting the father's approval before the child comes to the US
Adopting the child also speeds up the process to the child becoming a
citizen (Reference: The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 ) |