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USCIS Approves an I-130 and Drops a K3 Visa – What Happens to the Children Over 18?
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John Buda
Guest post by Immigration Attorney John Buda
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Approvals of an I-130 after filing for a K3. USCIS approves the I-130 and the NVC drops the K non-immigrant visa in the process.
What happens to the Children over 18?
Mr. Buda welcomes your questions in comments below.
My name is John Buda. I am an immigration attorney practicing in Los Angeles, California. I am writing today to help clarify a complicated and clumsy part of the immigration code that deals with K4 children over 18.
Changes to the K3 Visa – New Rules for Marriage Visa Petitioners
Posted by: | CommentsU.S. Congress adopted the Life Act of 2000 for the purpose of reuniting families that could be subject to a long period of separation during the process of immigration to the United States. The result of this act of Congress was the K3/K4 visa. The K3/K4, non-immigrant visa allows spouses of U.S. citizens and the children of those spouses who are under 21 years of age and unmarried to enter the U.S. while their I-130 petition was pending.
The I-129F, filed by the U.S. spouse on behalf of a K3/K4 spouse and their children was to speed things up. Recently U.S. Citizens and Immigration Service (USCIS) has eliminated much of it’s backlog, including the I-130, reducing the process time to where some say, it takes the same time for the I-130 as the I-129F to be approved.
