I FINALLY got a Resident Visa for my mom!

silviat says on Dec 12, 2005, 13:38:

Congrats! I am so happy for you

What a great holidays news!

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mrgizmo says on Dec 12, 2005, 15:42:

I don't want to rain on your parade but.. keep in mind that if she stays in Colombia a year, she'll lose her residency and also if she travels back and forth staying months at a time in Colombia, they'll give her a hard time at the airport (at the U.S. side). Becoming a U.S. citizen is the best way (she'll be eligible in 5 years). Congratulations on your accomplishment.

Behind every successful man, there's a nagging woman

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tequendama says on Mar 28, 2006, 22:36:

Congrats Rapi, I have a few questions, I too am in the process of bringing my father, but I don't think it will be as fast as you were able to get your mothers residency. I assume that you went through the whole thing of filing an I-130 and all that right?
I've been a US citizen for many years and every time I try to start my paperwork for him, something else comes up. He is very old now, +40 plus your mothers age, and I really am desperate to have him here with me, but I just sent the application 1st of February 2006 and the processing time is way too long, the website states 900+ days!, it used to be that US Citizens didn't have to wait that long to bring parents to the USA, do they now have to wait for a visa number? or what?. I don't even know if he'll be alive by then. How did you get a response so fast? Could it be that I am in California and you are in D.C.? do processing offices have different time frames for processing the same petition? (I-130).

Do you know if even though I already filed the I-130 to the California Service Center that if I travel to Bogota, and speak with the immigration councils there at the embassy that it would help to speed up the process? or would that cancel out the I-130 from here in the USA? My father has had numerous tourist visas to the USA and never broken one, except for the last one that he overstayed 1 month because of a cataract surgery that I had done for him, so that he could se a brighter Bogota when he went back, he's lonely and with dementia as it is.

Thank you for your response ahead of time, again I hope I can be as happy as you are now to have your loved one with you.

Sincerely,
Tequendama

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utopiacowboy says on Mar 29, 2006, 05:43:

No, he does not need to wait for a visa number. Speaking to the embassy is not going to help any because the petition is not in their hands. Embassies are part of the Department of State and the USCIS is part of Homeland Security. It will not take 900 days.

Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult.

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landcruiser77 says on Apr 18, 2006, 11:40:

happy for you finally you can drag her ass to u.s,she's so unhappy in the aldea she lives

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