If it is a family petition and you filed the appropriate family petition form and the immediate relative form the process takes some months.
Once that’s approved, it is then forwarded to the National Visa Center. At the Center, the petitioner and the beneficiary have to complete documentation.
One important aspect is that the petitioner, if applying for a family member, has to show that that family member would not become a public charge.
That petitioner has to make a specified amount which varies depending on how many family members live with them.
For example for a single person applying for a wife who’s living abroad, that person has to make $19,612 per year to be eligible. That’s 125% over the federal poverty guidelines.
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