Edwards, CA Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

If you also already filed the DS-260 and submitted the Affidavit of Support, you should get notification from NVC that they have everything they need. Then, you should get a notice of the interview anywhere from 4-8 weeks after notification that they have completed processing. Interview dates depend on availability at the particular US Embassy.

Generally a single absence of 180 days or longer creates a (rebuttable) presumption of discontinued residence, and a single absence of a year or longer creates a legal determination of discontinued residence. Even if no single absence is as long as 180 days, if a Permanent Resident is outside of the U.S. more days than he/she is inside the U.S., that person can be regarded as having abandoned residence in the U.S. Based on this, a single absence of 2 - 3 months will not create any problems about continued residence or physical presence for naturalization eligibility. Some immigration law firms, including mine, offer legal services on a "flat fee" basis so that a client will know the total expense from the very beginning, and a few immigration law firms, including mine, offer an initial consultation free of charge.

They are a private entity and have chosen their own terms. A deferred action does not make you a legal resident, so it sounds like you do not fit the X Factor's terms. You could try and contact them to see if they will change their policy, but they probably won't.