Waiting time in LA is about 7 years. Waiting time in Chicago is about 6 years. The longer the wait, the higher the chance to get approved, because...

Hire an immigration attorney to draft and file a motion to certify your filing as timely.

First, hire an immigration attorney to handle all and any immigration matters. The issue of bigamy is all over you and must be properly addressed...

You absolutely should not file any immigration application without a lawyer. Asylum is for those who fear persecution in their own countries....

USCIS may in its discretion to certify a post-deadline filing as timely.

No need to reopen, what you desire is ti re-calendar the administratively closed case. Yes, it is possible.

There is not, unless you are and have always been in a valid non-immigrant status. Pending asylum is not a status.

The slight name discrepancy s not going to matter.

No, a foreigner that infiltrated through the border illegally is not eligible to legalize through marriage. Your friend should hire an immigration...

Try annulment instead of divorcing that fraudster.