Hi this is a Jacob Sapochnick immigration attorney based in San Diego.
And in this video, we're using "show me" it's an application that allows us to present information
in the written format and recorded and I'm excited to use it so a lot of our clients
and people visit our website are always interested to know what is the process to immigrate a
foreign spouse to the United States.
When we have a foreign national who is currently out of the US waiting to come, what is that,
what are the steps.
So the first step is the US citizen spouse must file an application a marriage petition
application and that application is called the i-130.
The i-130 consists of forms supporting documents to establish to the government that there
is a marriage and that the US citizen is asking to immigrate the foreign spouse.
The process of i-130 is filed with the USCIS which is the US citizenship immigration services
and it's it's a form that is filed in the U.S. it's not sent to any foreign country
but it is filed in the U.S.
And the process itself may take about four to five months for this application to get
approved.
Once the application is approved, the petition is sent to the National Visa Center also known
as the as the NVC.
This is a kind of like a middle agency of the State Department this is no longer the
USCIS and at that point the National Visa Center will require more documents more fees
from the US citizen and the foreign national as they prepare this case for the interview
before the US Embassy.
That process may take another three to four months once the MVC is done with the process
they will send the case to the US Embassy in the foreign country once the petition arrives
the US Embassy that's going to take another two or three months for them to process it
until they set up an interview and the interviews is the final step where they will question
the foreign national verify some documents and if all goes well they'll issue an approval
and that's going to be an immigrant visa.
The visa is good for six months and the for national can enter the US and present documents
at port of entry and upon entry they're going to get their green card in the mail and they're
going to be US residents.
So the whole process takes about ten months to a year to bring a foreign spouse at the
US and of course it varies from country to country but if done correctly you will be
successful.
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