Comment by grahamgooch
2 days ago
This is a good thing. Adjustment of status for those within the USA is backlogged- by years for people from certain countries. Going to the home consulate for the final stamp will save years for many people.
F1 and h1 are non-immigrant visa.
American law only allows a person to reside in the country with one Visa type.
The green card is an immigrant visa - and the new visa is issued through an adjustment of status for those inside the USA (backlogged) or by consulates (nearly immediately).
So this is a good thing. It’s easy to get alarmed.
Why is it "nearly immediately" at a consulate but "backlogged" in the US? Why can't that be fixed?
This is not true. It is not nearly immediate at US consulate and backlogged in US. The parent doesn't know what they are talking about.
I went thru CP myself. It saved me 3 years
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Because America only has a few processing centers in within the US where is that literally hundreds and hundreds of consulates that can now take on this activity they have always been doing this activity but the vast majority of the backlog is caused by the slow processing of the US processing centers.
So why not… expand the processing centers?
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USCIS serializes it and they have a limited number of workers. CP shards it based on country so it will be much faster for many people.
That's a what, not a why.
Why can't USCIS shard it based on country within the US in a similar fashion?
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Exactly. An extra points for using HN lingo.:)
From what I've gathered, the consular route is nowhere near immediate, especially if they are from one of the countries typically backlogged (e.g. India). You're saying that someone who gets married while on F1 + OPT/STEM should leave with their partner, potentially for months if not years, while pursuing the consular route.
No. All it leans that you go to the consulate on your appt and get your immigrant visa stamped - you get an appointment date and that’s it’s. It was a 3 hour process for me. I flew into Frankfurt and flew out the same evening.
Consulates are not nearly immediately. You have to wait months-years for appointments at some.