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I am writing this thread to help my fellow vietnamese about this process and maybe it will become a permanent to keep updated procedures. My mother in law has been in the states since Feb. 29th, 2024. She immigrated as a parent of over 21 US citizen. I flew to vietnam and traveled with her to get to the US last month. Normal paperwork with USCIS until medical exam. We got notice to interview and at that point one can schedule the medical exam with interview notice. Mother in law's son was diagnosed with TB September -October 2023. Her interview was in november. We had her visit a doctor in Da Lat and she had what is called Latent TB. One has the virus but it is not active to be contagious. It can wake up and she can have TB and contagious. I do not know who has to do the test because I had another far relative do a K1 fiance and she did not have to deal with TB headaches. Vietnam with another 10 or so countries have been flagged as high TB countries. My wife who did the K1 came to US without TB issues. I think if one is asked being exposed to TB and answers yes or x rays at medical shows questionable stuff then one would have to do the spitum test like mother in law did. She went to medical in saigon and had to stay 3 days to do 3 consecutive days of spitum test. She had to go to a facility and gag up spitum to be tested. She then a few weeks later did her interview. Interview was simple. Two questions Who is sponsoring her and what state does she remember will be living in the US. After 8 weeks she received notice she was negative and sent her passport. She then received a 2 1/2 month visa to travel. From what I researched TB spitum test are as follows if after 6 weeks and the cultures are still negative then one gets a negative notice in 8 wks and can travel. If after 10 weeks and culture has grown more since the 6 weeks then notice received 12 weeks and one has to go through six months of hell to be treated for TB in Vietnam. Now that she has arrived in the US she received 10 yr green card March 27th, 2024. I took her to apply for a SSN and they declines saying her visa type will be automatically mailed an SSN after green card issued. I will wait 2 month from now and if not then go apply at SS office.

We are waiting for the embassy interview appointment for my mother in law and we answered YES to that question. Explained it was a tourist visa and was denied. Not a big deal. I am sure they can see all the prior applications. It seems CEAC or NVC someone has reviewed all items because we have had to submit corrections and additional information for them.

And you are seeing someone who was approved for not disclosing a sealed and expunged record. This was my personal experience. Now if it were an adult record and not sealed and expunged I would disclose. There is a reason why it is sealed and expunged so that it does not count against a person unless a serious crime the is related to that prior offense. The op can decide which path he/she takes. I am stating what I did and my reasoning.

Also if you think about it the US views crimes committed as a minor cannot be used against you except in certain serious situations or habitual offenders.

No lawyer and my process was about 9 months normal time in 2017 -2018. No RFE and no delays . Those records are not easy to access. They typical background check I would think is for anything publicly available so there would not be anything to trigger a further search. They are so booked up right now with illegals that red flags is what triggers further reviews. You have to think of how the system works. Good luck.

My personal experience I did not declare my expunged but that is in the US. If your fiance is out of country I can't advise. I would logically guess that over 20 yrs those records are not easily available and you would also have trouble getting records to show resolved. Personally I would not declare in case you get a person on a bad day asking for RFE that it was resolved.

Why would you want to enter US citizen line??? Be respectful and show you are helping an elderly go through the process. My wife said to go through the tourist line. She remembers GRAY coded signs. This was Dallas airport. This line would be less people than any line if you think about it. I was thinking and getting ready to post the same thing and asked her experience. I plan to do the same thing as you are this fall helping my mother in law immigrate to US.

Reading and looking at pictures from the article I am thinking these are people who are filing to attempt to get a visa to GO TO the US. A K1 you have a set interview time and day. You line up with ONLY a group for that set appointment time frame. If you need to bring back documents you are advised to come back and they give you easy access different door. This was 4 yrs ago when my wife had her interview and she was at the HCM office. My wife never had to do anything except gather paperwork and the med exam. Good luck

I filed wife's in August 202 at the 3 year 9months. No Bio done. Interview late march 2022 and due to name change had to swear end of April 2022 Orlando FL office

Not one question was asked. I have used the Passport since the K1 application. No question. Pointing out to the op a birth certificate or naturalization certificate is not needed to show US citizenship and or birth certificate is needed

I am the spouse who is naturalized with NO certificate and NO birth certificate. My spouse from K1 received her US citizenship in april

I do not have a birth certificate. We only submitted my passport and I do not have my naturalization certificate either. Spouse is now a US citizen

https://www.uscis.gov/i-864a

I just completed my wife's I130 for her mother. Her line of work does not show a lot of income. I am joint sponsor and filled out the I-864A. I caught that part luckily because I had completed an I-864. I think if your joint sponsor is sufficient than you need an I-864A

US Dept. of State Charleston Passport Center 45132 Mercure Circle PO Box 1031 Sterling, VA 20166-1031