Your wife is a U.S. citizen, and then she applied for a CR1 immigrant visa for you, right? Have you already submitted your application in the United States? I've been waiting for 3 months and still haven't received the follow-up payment notice?
1. After applying, there should be a 10-digit file number starting with 3 letters. 1-2 weeks after the application, USCIS will send you a receipt with this number on it. You can ask your wife and lawyer for this number, and then go to the USCIS official website to check the progress of the case. Some lawyers will delay the case and refuse to hand it over to you. Please remember to receive the case number before you apply. I have seen many cases that have been delayed by lawyers for half a year or a year.
2. After you have the above number, you need to wait a few months before USCIS will process your case, send you P2, notify you that your case has been approved, and then transfer the case to NVC. Your current stage should be waiting for P2. Please wait patiently. The recent approximate speed is about 5 months.
3. After receiving the P2, you are still waiting. It will take about 1-2 months to receive a new file number starting with GUZ from NVC. Then go to the CEAC official website to pay and fill out the form. Guarantee materials and notarization required by NVC. Submission materials can be processed electronically, that is, all submitted materials are scanned into PDF files and sent to NVC. Electronic processing will be 1-2 months faster than traditional processing. However, lawyers are generally forced to do traditional processing. If you want to process electronically Yes, you need to communicate well in advance, especially with Chinese lawyers and intermediaries, but it is estimated to be difficult. Lawyers find it troublesome, and some do not even know how to process electronically. Some even have poor character and secretly send out documents first when the materials are incomplete. If you choose the traditional one, you will be asked to replenish the materials, because once you leave the traditional one, you cannot change the electronic one, and replenishing the materials once will take an extra 30-60 days to process. . .
4. After the $120 AOS fee shows Paid, there is no need to wait for the IV Fee bill for the electronic package. The I-864 form signed by your wife, tax returns for the past three years, W2 (not self-employed), employer letter (Non-self-employed), a copy of your wife’s passport, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a notarization of a pending sentence, a divorce certificate (if you have a marriage history), and a copy of your passport. Traditionally, the AOS fee is 120 knives after paid. A guarantee package is issued: Form I-864 signed by your wife, tax returns for the past three years, W2 (not self-employed), employer letter (not self-employed), a copy of your wife’s passport, Cover sheet; a notarized package will be issued after the IV Fee shows Paid. : Birth notarization, marriage notarization, pending sentence notarization, divorce notarization (if you have a marriage history), a copy of your passport, and cover sheet are also indispensable, and the originals must be submitted!
4. For electronic contracts, you need to bring the original documents for the interview; for traditional contracts, you do not need to bring them for the interview.
5. If your wife’s income is not enough to guarantee the contract, you need to find a co-guarantor when the contract is issued. The co-guarantor needs to fill out the I-864 form and provide three years of tax returns, W2, employer letter and passport copy ( Citizen) or a copy of the green card (for green card holders). If the joint sponsor files a joint tax return, his or her spouse needs to fill out Form I-864A. As for whether the guarantee is sufficient, please refer to the instructions for filling out the I-864 form, which has specific calculation methods for family size. Then based on the family size, refer to the 125 poverty line on the I-864P form. If your income exceeds the limit, you do not need to seek joint insurance.