I want to petition my wife how long will it take her to get in the united states?
Answer:
Most of the people who have posted here don't have a clue.
You are a Green Card holder. You cannot petition her as a fiance. Only a citizen can do that. You must do it as a wife.
The wait will be about 5 years.
Here's the web site for the visa bulletin. As a Green Card holder your wife will be Priority 2A.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bullet...
Right now visas are being issued for people who filed in March of 2002.
will be a bit easy if you have already your greencard.
oh good luck with this!! My stepson married a Canadian and they're having problems getting citizenship from either country!! And it's getting more difficult! Best of luck to you...it's not an easy process!
5-6 months usually. But if the US embassy in Philippines supports direct consular filing - you should ask them, it means that after the marriage you can go there together and file for the visa - it can be as quick as 3-4 months!
Each case is different and may move at a different speed depending on the information you provide to the government.
Except for the spouse and children of a US citizen, all immigrants must wait for an immigration visa number to become available.
Your new wife would be in the second waiting category.
It may take quite some time to get her to the US.
As of recently, you can no longer apply in an embassy. All petitions must be done directly in the US by mail.
This could take a long time, maybe even a year or two.
Please check out the site below. You can find all the information you need here.
If you are eligible, you may chose to become a US citizen. That would make her move much quicker, as she would move up in category and also be eligible for a K1 or K3 visa (only US citizens can ask for this), which would allow her to wait inside of the US for her immigration visa to be approved.
First of all, it's a lot easier to bring in a fiance then it is to bring in a wife. So get a fiance visa and then get married once she is here.
I'm in this process right now. Getting the fiance visa is a multi-step prosess. First you submit an application to ICE and they approve/disapprove her visa. My application was submitted on September 13, 2006 and approved on November 30, 2006. This is actually a very quick turn around, particularly when you consider that several years ago this initial step took almost one year to complete.
(It should be noted that this part of the process requires considerable documention - official and otherwise - from both you and your fiance. It would be a good idea to research the required documents and start accumlating them ASAP. You can Google "K-1 visa" and go to a gov't site for an official list. It's not necessary to pay thousands of dollars to an attorney to handle this for you, but it is a good idea to get a professional visa service, just to make sure that the application is properly prepared. Go to a Chinese or Korean section of town and find a visa service there. I paid $200 for a service to process my paperwork, and it was approved without a glitch - which doesn't mean a whole helluva lot at this point, but it's a step in the right direction.)
When the petition (visa application) is approved you get a nice, very official-looking document, almost suitable for framing, from ICE. It pleasantly informs you of the visa approval, then tells you that application has been submitted to the Department of State National Visa Center (NVC) for further processing. You are assured that the processing typically takes 2 - 4 weeks and provides a phone number to call after four weeks if the approval has not been received.
My application was submitted to NVS on Nov. 30, 2006. As of today I have heard nothing from NVS. I called there two weeks ago and was told by a very stone-voiced agent that NVS conducts "9/11 related investigation" into all immigration-visa applicants. They will give absolutely no information regarding the status of the file nor any prognostication of when it will be completed.
Once NVS approves the visa applicant, the visa application is sent to the embassy in the applicant's home country. That embassy contacts the applicant and makes an appointment for an interview. There, the interviwer will "determine" if you and your fiance have a "legitimate relationship" and whether or not the visa should be approved. This is actually the most important step in the process. Up to this point, the entire process has pretty much been rubber-stamp beaurocratic BS, but now a low-level career employee has the decision making process entirely in his/her hands and those little weasels get great pleasure from telling people "NO".
It is vitally important that you attend the interview with your fiance!
If some low-level beaurocrat is having a bad day and decides to deny the visa, it can take a year or two to get the decision reversed. If you are there with her, it makes it a lot harder for the interviewer to deny the application.
If the interviewer approves the visa (the decision is made right then and there at the interview), your fiance leaves her passport at the consulate and it is genarally available the next day with a single-entry visa pasted inside.
You and she then have six months to get married, or not. If you do get married, then a whole new lengthy process starts - but a least you aren't sleeping alone during this part of the process so at least it is a little more tolerable.
I agree with Yak Rider about the clueless posts; all of the visas that would get a fiance or spouse into the United States in a few months can be used only by US Citizens. As a legal permanent resident your only alternative is Form I-130 Petition for Alien Relative. Depending on the processing center you send it to it will take 2-3 years.
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