hi friends I'm continuing my series on
case processing times so in this video
I'm going to speak about how long does
it take for a u.s. citizen parent to
petition for his or her child
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in this video we're going to talk about
the u.s. citizen parent who is
petitioning for the son or the daughter
but before I talk about how long does it
really take for the child to get through
I wanted to let you know that there are
millions of people today who are on the
waiting list for a green card millions
of people are waited and so there's a
backlog right our system is incredibly
slow because there are just so many
petitions to get through under the
family preference category we under our
law we only allow a certain number of
visas to be issued each year immigrant
visas to be issued each year and so
because we have millions of people on
the line waiting for a green card and
our law only tells that tells us that we
can only process a certain small number
of immigrant visas people are waiting
people are waiting some are waiting 10
years 12 years right depending on what
category they're in and so that's the
first thing you need to know the system
is super slow because of the backlog
secondly what you need to know is that
the pride the system works based on
prior
and I've talked about priority dates the
priority date in other videos and so
essentially the priority date is the
date that the government had received
your Apple in your petition your i-130
petition and so the what I'm going to
speak about shortly is based on the Visa
Bulletin the most current Visa Bulletin
for October 2018 that tells us the
priority date or the date that the
government is up to so that's what I'm
going to be speaking about in this video
the other thing that you should know is
that certain countries right certain
countries face a much longer wait time
and that's because we've received so
many petitions from those countries
countries such as the Philippines right
India Mexico for certain categories
these people are waiting people have
been waiting since the 1990s for their
green card petition to be approved okay
from vote for those three countries but
for everyone else
generally for everyone else their wait
time is based on the dates that I'll
share with you in this video a US
citizen parent can petition for a child
the child can be under 21 we've talked
about that before if the child is under
21 and the child is unmarried
that child is conducts an immediate
relative of a US citizen and that person
does not face any wait time at all
one the approval process is very quick
that is a high priority candidate to the
US government and so immediate relatives
don't face the wait times that I'm going
to discuss in this video but for
everyone else those who are over 21 and
particularly if they are married they
will face a much longer wait time so
marriage does impact the immigration
petition process so for an unmarried
child over the age of 21 the US
government is working on petitions that
were filed as of June 2011 June 2011 as
of the filming of this video right and
this video is being filmed in octo
20:18 so that's the Visa Bulletin that
I'm relying on today so June 28 2011 so
what that means is that people in that
category that's the f1 family preference
category those people are facing about
six or seven years wait time for that I
1:32 be approved now for married sons
and Orang daughters the situation
changes the wait time is extended
significantly okay
now the government is processing
petitions that were received as of June
2006 so you're looking at a potentially
a twelve year wait time and unless
something happens and you're bumped up
somehow and that's another subject but
you're looking at a very long wait time
so marriage does impact the immigration
petition process I hope this video was
helpful to you
in my next videos I'm going to talk
about the green card holder who is
petitioning for his spouse and child so
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