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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

201 points proberts | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

I'll be here for the next 5-6 hours. As usual, there are countless topics given the rapidly changing immigration landscape and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and I'll try to do the same in my answers.

Edit: I am taking a break now and will return later this afternoon/evening to respond to any comments and answer any questions. Thank you everyone for a great and engaged AMA so far.

1. thisisauser123 ◴[16 May 25 20:24 UTC] No.44009492[source]▶
I'm a US Citizen who married a citizen of New Zealand, we met while she was a international student studying CS at the school I was studying at. Since graduating, we moved back to New Zealand.

Over a year ago we filed a for I-130 to move towards her getting a Green Card and being able to live with me in the US.

Right now the USCIS website estimates that it will be another 20 months until our form is processed. This seems like an absurd amount of time? I've tried reaching out to the White House, who passed my case onto USCIS, who told me to pound sand, and to my congressional representatives, who told me they would "look into it".

Is there anything I can do to move this process along?