20 year old step daughter, k-2 visa holder

[jim&huiyun1]

My wifes 20 year old daughter entered the u.s. two days ago on a k-2 visa. My wife and her other daughter (9 years old) entered in august 2008 and are scheduled for their A.O.S. interview on April 24, 2009.

 

My questions are these: 1.) Will my wifes 20 year old daughter facing different A.O.S. challenges, in particular being granted a green card, than her younger 9 year old sister. Again, both hold k-2 visas. 2.) Since my wife and her younger daughter both have interviews scheduled in April, would it be worth a telephone call to the USCIS in attempt to add my wifes 20 year old daughter for an interview on the same date? I understand we will still need to submit the proper paperwork for her and have her do her biometrics prior to this happening.

 

Thanks for all input !!

[Randy W]

It's best to get her interview in before she turns 21

[Sebastian]

I think if you wanted some 'speed' to get her officially interviewed on same day as your wife and younger daughter - you should set up an info pass appointment and have it all set up during the infopass appointment. If you haven't filed AOS for her yet, do so. In a previous post, I had recommended that you file her AOS package within 48 hours of her hitting the usa border. Bring a complete copy of her AOS package (the one you filed moments ago) and the notices about your wife and 9-year old daughter, WITH YOU to that info pass appointment.

 

BIOMETRICS , mostly, is contracted out , so it's not a scheduling PROBLEM for the company doing it, but you have to have some kind o appointment to get it done (a topic you should cover at the infopass appt) - though I vaguely remember someone doing a walk-in biometrics process, somewhere, listed here in the last 5 months.

 

Randy W has first hand experience with that '21st birthday age out' problem - so if you can hurry things along, at any step of this process, it will be helpful to her, to keep her in the country.

 

 

FWIW - there were dozens of good nuggets in

http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?...c=35141&hl=

 

I strongly suggest you re-read it, paying particular attention to the usage of red-markers and the verbiage to write. She turns 21 in September 2009 - so the usage of red-markers, imo, is gonna be important.

Edited March 12, 2009 by Sebastian (see edit history)