U.S. Family Based Immigration Consultation, U.S. Family Based Immigration Options Checklist

The Immigrant Visa Section of the U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou wants to address your questions and process your application as soon as possible. To achieve this goal, USCIS requires that the questions described below be directed to the U.S. Visa Information Center.

Regarding whether the visa file has been submitted to the Library.

The conditions for scheduling an interview have been met.

About the waiting time for scheduling an interview appointment.

On the progress of the current interview arrangement.

In order to allow the Immigrant Visa Department to devote more resources to processing the petition for the benefit of the applicant and the beneficiary, the U.S. Visa Information Center will answer some of your questions right away. The U.S. Visa Information Center is currently available for inquiries in Mandarin, Cantonese, Taishanese, and English.

Call 4008-872-333 from within China and 86-21-3881-4611 from outside China. The center is open Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (China time) and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applicants are required to provide:

Chinese name and its pinyin, file number, identity card number, passport number, ** number and date of birth. Access to the Visa Information Center system is subject to a fee of RMB54 per 12 minutes or RMB36 per 8 minutes, which can be prepaid at CITIC Industrial Bank or online,** Yes.

After prepayment, you will be given a prepaid password, which you will need to provide when calling the Visa Information Centre to verify that you have paid.

That's a problem. Let me briefly talk about it here

Now it is a bit difficult for relatives to immigrate to the United States. If you're just starting to apply now, wait at least 8 years. If it's slow, it's 12 years.

For more information, please visit the consulate in Guangzhou.

The United States is an economically developed country, and many people want to immigrate to the United States, so what are the ways for American relatives to immigrate? I have compiled a list of family-based immigration methods in the United States for you here, and I hope it will be helpful to you.

1. Immigration by close relatives

This includes spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 of U.S. citizens, as well as parents of U.S. citizens (who are 21 years of age or older).

2. Priority is given to family-based immigration

First Preference: Unmarried children of U.S. citizens;

Second preference: spouses, minor children, and unmarried children of U.S. permanent residents (green card holders);

Third Preference: Married children of U.S. citizens;

Fourth Preference: Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens.

1.Timing of immigration for biological children

Generally speaking, it should be done as early as possible. However, it is important to consider the current situation of the child.

If the child is an F-1 student in the U.S., consider when she was in school and whether there is an immigration bulletin. If you have a long backlog and you are moving to another F-1 visa near the end of the semester, you can postpone the filing of your immigration petition accordingly. This is because it does not allow the child to apply for the F-1 again with "immigration suspicion".

If the children are still abroad, the immigration application for them should be made as early as possible so that they can queue up.

2.Timing of immigration for spouses

U.S. citizens immigrate for their spouses, and the petition should be filed as soon as possible after the marriage to allow the couple to be reunited as soon as possible.

However, if the alien spouse enters the country on a tourist visa, it may not be appropriate to file an immigration petition immediately after entering the United States. This avoids the suspicion of fraud.

3.Timing of applying for immigration for parents

U.S. citizens filing immigration petitions for their parents depends on the circumstances of the parents.

If the parent has been to the U.S. before and is likely to come back to the U.S., the petition can be made after the parent has re-entered the U.S. and has been granted a longer period of stay in the U.S. If your parents have never been to the U.S., have been denied visas multiple times, or are not ready to come to the U.S. in the past two or three years, you can file an immigration petition for them first and let them wait for their visas in their home country.

4.Timing of immigration application for siblings

U.S. citizens filing immigration petitions for their siblings should do so as early as possible.

Because the waiting time in this category is very long, it usually takes up to 12 or 3 years. Moreover, the immigration reform currently under discussion proposes to eliminate this category of applications in the future. It may be difficult for siblings to enter the country on a tourist visa once the immigration application is made before it is cancelled.

If the person is already in the U.S., the alien sibling cannot wait for immigration in the U.S. and must return to the U.S. for a long time to wait for the immigrant visa to be backlogged.