Thanks for the reply. My lawyers are IAS
What some lawyers are doing is attaching family membersā documents to the main applicantās.
Of course this doesnāt work in cases where the main applicant already got their card and added family members later.
I donāt know if that is technically ācorrect,ā but I wish mine had rolled the dice doing that. Thanks for the info.
Hi!
My application date is December 2022. Iām planning to file a lawsuit next week.
I want to understand an average timeline from the experience of this forum as Iām not getting a concrete response on this from my lawyer. As per my lawyer if the date of Filing Lawsuit - 10th March 2025
Order from the court - 1mnth - April 2025 (approx)
Reply from AIMA - 2mnths - June 2025 (approx)
Biometrics Date - 2mnths - Aug 2025 (approx)
Issuing of the card - 3mnths - Nov 2025 (approx)
Is this correct for people who have got their cards after summons are sent to AIMA?
I filed our lawsuit after the US election in mid November and have heard nothing back so I think your timeline is wishful. We filed before AIMA went digital and from what Iāve been reading all the lawsuits seem to have stalled. I have no idea if it will give us a time advantage at this point, and given hindsight I honestly Iām not sure I would file until there was more data about whoās applications are getting processed first (lawsuits vs non-lawsuits). But thatās just my 2 cents.
That timeline might have been semi-realistic 18 months ago, before PT visa lawsuits started pouring in by the thousands. Now itās just fantasy.
Have a read of the existing lawsuit thread, where youāll find a backlog of over 50,000 against AIMA now:
Or you can take my experience, where our appeal was accepted into the Higher Court of Lisbon last Sept/Oct, and we have seen zero progress since. This has already gone through two levels of the PT court system, been accepted at Appeals, and still nothing five months later. To suggest youād start from zero today and be at Bios in five months is just BS.
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Thatās horrible. My lawyer said once the petition is accepted, AIMA gets only 7 days to respond to the courtās order.
Surprised to know 7 days are stretching beyond 5 months.
Sounds extremely frustrating.
After reading messages in this forum, I thought filing summons was the quicker method. However, now I think Iām very late in action
That is true, and often AIMA does not even respond at all. In that case you win automatically, just like I didā¦ in August 2024. Since then I received the final approval in mid-January 2025, five months after the judgement. My wife still has not received anything at all. And my card is still not issued, two months since the payment of DUC.
Now, if I were to file my lawsuit one month earlier - in April 2024 instead of May 2024 - most likely we both would have had our cards in hand. The court system and AIMA are just backed up so badly now.
Ask your lawyer what is the consequence when Aima does not respond within due date? When you know what it is, then you can estimate the future of your court case.
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No , i have filled lawsuit in Aug last year, until today no reply from AIMA or my Advocate, not sure she rely done the right thinks or not
For those of you with spouses - was it enough to take your years-old original marriage certificate and just get an up-to-date apostille on it, or did you have to get a whole new copy of the marriage certificate issued within the last 6 months and apostille that? Thanks!!
IAS made me send an email stating that I was still currently married. We did not have to get the certificate with apostille again.
Any clue if they really started giving appointments for the applicants who updated their documents?
As of 7 days ago in this very thread (scroll up), seems not.
We had an official copy of the marriage certificate re-issued by the State of California, and had it apostilled by the Secretary of the State of California. That was sufficient to apply for GV in 2021. For biometrics in Jan 2023, we repeated the whole process all over again.
I was just informed today that the certificate has to be āfreshāā¦ Cannot use one that is over 6 months old with a new apostille.
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@mwwilliams10, many thanks for the information.
AIMA has mandatorily required all applicants to submit renewed/updated documents, under threat of their application being deemed to be āabandonedā if not done within 6 months of receipt of the email demanding updated documents.
At the same time, the promised āautomaticā issue of biometric appointments, due to begin from 15th January, show no signs of starting.
Is it only me, or do others also feel that the entire exercise was for AIMA to re-confirm from applicants that they continue to be interested in their GV applications, and to prune from the list of pending application, all those names who do not respond. Thereby showing a reduction in the number of pending applications.
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Im slightly optimistic because itās beyond any acceptable slivers of competency to renege on yet another assurance. Itās not even like issuing biometric appointment is even a complicated task.
If i was the made the head of AIMA, i can solve everything in 1 week. I am only talking about the technical, logistics and operations part. Politics of immigration is a different story.