CASE: Consular Processing (Immigrant Visa)
CLIENT: US Citizen Petitioner Wife; Pakistani Beneficiary Husband in Pakistan
LOCATION: Petitioner: Pennsylvania; Beneficiary: Islamabad, Pakistan
IV APPROVED: August 15, 2017.
Our U.S. Citizen client retained us to bring her husband over from Pakistan. She retained our office in January 2017, and our office prepared and filed the I-130 petition for her husband on March 16, 2017. This I-130 Petition was approved by the USCIS on August 15, 2017. Once the I-130 petition was approved, we then started the immigrant visa processing phase of trying to get her husband over to the United States.
On October 10, 2017, we filed the immigrant visa packets to the National Visa Center who in turn forwarded our client’s materials to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. An interview notice was set for our client’s husband at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and we prepared him for his interview. He did his interview on January 8, 2018. Eventually, on March 10, 2018, the U.S. Embassy approved and issued his immigrant visa.
With the approved immigrant visa, our client’s husband can come to the United States immediately, and he will get his green card within two months of entry.