hi friends here's the video that I
promised you that I would be publishing
and it is about the F2A family
category F2A is current in the July
Visa Bulletin stay tuned I'm going to
break it down for you and tell you
exactly what the next steps are
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we're gonna talk about the F to a
category F to a as some of you may
already know you smart folks out there
you know that F to a is the second
preference category for people who are
green card holders who are petitioning
for their spouse and children children
are those who are under the age of 21
and on married F2A category is for
those specific people and now we know F
toy is current which means two things
let's talk about what that means so in
the final action date chart which is
chart a on the Visa Bulletin I'm gonna
put that up here so that you can see
what that chart looks like it's it
indicates that F two way for all
countries including China Mexico
Philippines India its current for all
countries so what that means is if you
are number one counselor process and
meaning that your overseas your foreign
spouse or child that's overseas and
waiting for your immigrant visa to be
approved and it
to you you are going through conciliar
process and what this means for you is
actually nothing what why do I say that
I say that because you're still gonna
have to wait the i-130 has to be
approved and then you're gonna have to
wait for notification from the
Department of State or the National Visa
Center the NVC to tell you that it's now
time for you to submit your support and
documents and other required documents
that they want you to submit such as
your visa application
you can't proceed yet until you get that
notification from the NVC you can't just
say okay my category is current I'm
gonna pick up the phone tomorrow and I'm
gonna call the US Embassy in Accra Ghana
or in Nepal or wherever it is and say my
categories current and I'd like an
interview it just doesn't work that way
you're still gonna have to wait until
you get that official notification from
the NVC now let's just talk about those
who are here in the United States those
who are looking to adjust their status
now this has big consequences I should
say or an impact on those people
adjustment of status is that one step
process to applying for a green card
here in the United States with
adjustment of status ordinarily if
you're an immediate relative of a US
citizen you're able to concurrently file
the i-130 family petition and the i-45
application to adjust your status
however if you are being petitioned for
by a green card holder it not a u.s.
citizen if you're being petitioned for
by a green card holder you cannot
concurrently file the i-485 not until
now up until this point you could not
have done that but now that that
category is current you are able to file
the i-130 and the i-485
at the same time however be careful
because you must be eligible for
adjustment of status I have a really old
video that I did about adjustment of
status and eligibility I'm going to put
a link to that in this video so go ahead
and watch
that if you're wondering well am I
eligible anyway to adjust my status you
must be eligible for those of you who
are eligible you're here in the United
States and you're eligible to adjust
your status it means that your i-130 and
the i-45 can be filed together and the
process should be much faster where am I
getting this from what's my source my
source is this so on USCIS is website
they typically update a page call
adjustment of status file and charts
from the Visa Bulletin this tells us
lawyers and practitioners out there
doing immigration work it tells us when
a person may file the adjustment of
status application those who are not
immediate relatives of the US citizen
according to this page it says in the f2
a category there is a cut-off date on
the date for filing chart however the
category is current on the final action
dates chart
this means that applicants in the f2 a
category may file using the final action
dates chart for july 2019 this sounds a
little confusing and friends essentially
what this is saying first of all there
are two charts in the Visa Bulletin
chart a and chart B and what it's
telling us is that we should rely on the
information that's in chart A which
notes that the F to a category is
current so therefore you can file the
adjustment of status application right
now actually because it's current that's
essentially what that means but again in
summary if you're overseas and you're
going through consular processing you
still have to wait until you get that
notification from the National Visa
Center that it is now time for you to
submit your visa application along with
other supporting documents so for those
of you overseas you're waiting because
if you take a look at that second chart
chart B if you take a look at chart be
the final date chart it'll tell you that
actually the government is up to a date
in March 2000
so friends that's what I'd like to share
in this video I hope you found it
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