Question:
I have a question regarding the green card wait times :-
If my parents petition for my green card today.
According to the USA visa bullitin, I need to wait atleast 10 years for my
green card petition to be approved ???
I thought that the wait times are only around 7 years ???
Is there some kind of a mistake with the visa bullitin ???
Now say my petition was done early 2001, how long more do I have to wait for
my petition to be approved ???
Answer:
There is no mistake. the wait times change, and tend to get longer.
So, in your scenario, expect the times to be substantially more than 10 years.
All this would depend on
- Are your parents US citizen or resident?
- How old are you? -
- What is your marital status?
Depending on which category you fall in (see visa bulletin), the
waiting time would be different.
I am single
My parents are US residents
I am 35
I have a good bsc degree from australia
I communicate fluently in english
I have working experiences
I thought that the wait times are supporsed to be 7 years ???
why all of a sudden, it is streached to 10 ???
Is there any resonable explanation for this ???
Are you serious? The number of applications grows every year... it is
not static. The more applications... the longer it takes to get through
them! Ten years is very optimistic... I'm thinking it's closer to 13 or
15 at this point in time.
Yes, they wanted slave labor (low-skilled people and pay minimum wage)
and so started DV programs instead of using those visa for the ones in
waiting list for family-based application :)-
These DV winners call their parents, siblings, and some committing
fraud via marrying someone for money when they win which makes the
waiting time longer for family-based application while their senior
citizen parents reap social security benefits which comes from average
citizens's pockets, not from the rich who gets tax break for all kinds
of raesosn.
Anyway, if you are single and an adult child of US citizen, you fall
under the 1st opriority for family-based; wating time is about 6-7
years.
If your parents are residents, then it' about 9 years if you are
married. I know this because, in 2001, my nephew married a girl who
just turned 21 and missed the opportunity to emigrate to US with her
parents hwo left right after their wedding.
The US resident Mom filed the petiton for her and her husband (my
nephew) and they have been waiting. Lats I heard, it'd be in 2009 for
them to get immigrant visa. She 'll be 30 by then.
This page says that permanent residents cannot petition for a married
son or daughter
You're very confused, Amanda. They already have a plenteous supply of
slave labour: it's called turning a blind eye to undocumented migration
and creating apartheid. I could also see making some weak argument for
this with the H1b visa. But for all my imagination, I'm afraid cannot
see it in the diversity visa program at all. Winners come over with
permanent residence status and all the rights that entails. They might
take low-paid or high-paid job; they might be highly skilled or
educated, or not.
You've obviously got a chip on your shoulder about something here,
but you don't seem to have thought it out very well. Why all this
ire against DV winners? You make little or no sense at the moment in
your arguments
True that not all winners are not high-skilled but most of the winners
from *my home country* were. A distant cousin of mine won DV. She
knew a winner, who took a husband and brought him here for $$. A
friend of my brother - happens to be a medial doctor - came the same
way.
I have stories about refugees and asylum too. Using the political
situation backhome, some people (including a reknown author, the father
of my older brother' s best friend who never got involved in politics)
came via refugee program, got his daughters and sons (not my brother's
friend as he is not talking to his not so ethical father) and their
families.
And there are many who got asylum granted, some of them I know
personally, who were not politically involved. Most of those who got UN
letters that give them refugees status as well as the ones who got
asylum are the ones who know how to play the system. In one case, it
was a son of high-profile military officer who got the asylum. Yes, I
have a chip on my shoulder, if you remmeber my story of not having a
full citizenship back home while US Immigration granting asylum to
these people.
Hmmm... then, how come my nephew's wife has a receipt notice date some
date in 2001, the year her parent emigrated US. In her case, her was
filed along with the rest of family by the uncle and then was refiled
by her mother.
Hey! People do what they want to or have to for their own lives and
those of their families! With American immigration in such a
hypocritical shambles, don't blame others for the route they choose to
take through the nonsensical maze. If it worked for them, fine; if not,
tough! Work on taking the path that will be best for you in life, not
wasting your time sprouting jealousy against those who have chosen a
different path and succeeded in it.
