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Ah, I see. Admittedly anecdotal, but my experience was the opposite. The US overseas staff (Germany in my case (yes, I'm a Dane, long story)) were sharp, responsive and efficient. The US stateside personnel were the absolute worst. Not actually mean-spirited, just slow, uninterested, incompetent. It's not as if anyone is going to complain.
This has been my experience as well. In the country of my son's birth, I went to the US Embassy to obtain his consular report of birth. The staff at the Embassy were all US citizens and were efficient and prompt. I later obtained son's social security card with little effort, and when we all decided to move back to the US with my then foreign national husband and our son, the process was simple and we were able to submit all the paperwork in one afternoon and received everything we needed to move to the states (green card/permanent residency and SSN for now-ex husband) within a few weeks.
When I went to my local post office to renew my son's US passport, I was met with quite the 180. Needless to say, after hours of wasting my time and having the shiftless agency employees , make rude comments and innuendo (mine were actually mean-spirited too), I ended up going to the office downtown and doing everything myself.
This isn't true. You can apply for a parent who has overstayed their temporary visa. My husband did for his mother without issue. She didn't have to leave and we were easily able to adjust her status.
Honestly, I find this appalling. Did she somehow not know that she had overstayed her visa? She should never have been allowed to stay, IMHO. (You didn't mention any extenuating circumstances ... just that she "overstayed her temporary visa." Ugh.)
I checked online and found the process time for I-130 and I-485 are both around 15 months on average. It's very different from what I heard(3 months). Is that true?
I checked online and found the process time for I-130 and I-485 are both around 15 months on average. It's very different from what I heard(3 months). Is that true?
Sounds pretty likely, though. This is a slow process and there's no incentive to improve - people are smart enough to not complain.
At least you can check the status now. Back in my day, the only way to know that someone had started workong on your file was when you saw the check clearing on your bank statement.
Sounds pretty likely, though. This is a slow process and there's no incentive to improve - people are smart enough to not complain.
At least you can check the status now. Back in my day, the only way to know that someone had started workong on your file was when you saw the check clearing on your bank statement.
Then I need to apply extension stay(half a year) for my mother. Otherwise she has to leave.
No such requirement. You can apply with the parent being (legally) present in the US, or with the parent being in his/her country of residence.
However... It is generally not a good idea - it is, in fact, a terrible idea - to enter the US on a temporary visa (say, tourist) and then start filing for permanent residency. In the fine print for temporary visas (or visa waiver paperwork) is verbiage that you're not entering for the purpose of immigration. If the USCIS gets a whiff of someone skirting that rule, they will quite likely deny permanent residency.
That's why people wait 60 days in general before making adjustments--try to avoid the blame.
That's why people wait 60 days in general before making adjustments--try to avoid the blame.
How would that help?
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She should never have been allowed to stay, IMHO. (You didn't mention any extenuating circumstances ... just that she "overstayed her temporary visa." Ugh.)