Stay with wife in Philippines

[100518 2]

So I was just curious about staying with my wife in the Philippines while waiting for approval. I would have to quit my job, but I have a joint sponsor on our cr1 petition...

opinions , suggestions??? I know this isnt much info...

 

Thanks in advance 

[payxibka 10,044]

21 minutes ago, 100518 said:

So I was just curious about staying with my wife in the Philippines while waiting for approval. I would have to quit my job, but I have a joint sponsor on our cr1 petition...

opinions , suggestions??? I know this isnt much info...

 

Thanks in advance 

As long as you maintain domicile in the USA 

[user555 195]

That's what I'm doing. Make sure you have enough money to survive if you don't have monthly income. And make sure you have enough for a flight, visa, and all the CR1 fees. Some  can survive on $500 a month. Some more, some less. 

[100518 2]

1 hour ago, user555 said:

That's what I'm doing. Make sure you have enough money to survive if you don't have monthly income. And make sure you have enough for a flight, visa, and all the CR1 fees. Some  can survive on $500 a month. Some more, some less. 

Thank you for the information. Kinda what I figured but wanted to hear it elsewhere 

[Falcon Cara 378]

1 hour ago, 100518 said:

So I was just curious about staying with my wife in the Philippines while waiting for approval. I would have to quit my job, but I have a joint sponsor on our cr1 petition...

opinions , suggestions??? I know this isnt much info...

 

Thanks in advance 

just last month you could of filed a DCF in Manila and been done in a few weeks and had greencard in hand, They are closing that office on July 5th, and quit taking application at the end of May.

 

Have fun in the Philippines

[100518 2]

7 minutes ago, Falcon Cara said:

just last month you could of filed a DCF in Manila and been done in a few weeks and had greencard in hand, They are closing that office on July 5th, and quit taking application at the end of May.

 

Have fun in the Philippines

What is DCF?

 

Oh man... I should've posted here long ago😔

[Falcon Cara 378]

23 minutes ago, 100518 said:

What is DCF?

 

Oh man... I should've posted here long ago😔

Direct Consular Filing, Just be married and have some type a valid visa in PI staying and go to US embassy and file directly, it used to take a few weeks to get approved.

[100518 2]

Wonder how/why some cases are processed so quickly while others can take months....

[Just Paul 4,591]

43 minutes ago, Falcon Cara said:

Direct Consular Filing, Just be married and have some type a valid visa in PI staying and go to US embassy and file directly, it used to take a few weeks to get approved.

DCF is no longer available in Philippines.

[Ryan H 3,790]

Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures.

[Nitas_man 3,100]

6 hours ago, payxibka said:

As long as you maintain domicile in the USA 

Bad post.  ^^^^^^

 

Correction:  as long as you show intent to domicile in the US when you decide to return

 

Have fun over there!

[John & Rose 7,237]

19 hours ago, 100518 said:

Wonder how/why some cases are processed so quickly while others can take months....

With DCF everything is handled at the Embassy.  Things move quicker when you aren't dealing with 4 million petitions!  You are assigned a case working in the Embassy and they move you through.  I think when they did DCF there the entire process to green card only took a couple months.

[Just Paul 4,591]

19 hours ago, 100518 said:

Wonder how/why some cases are processed so quickly while others can take months....

We DCF'ed in Mexico with my Filipina wife.   We finished the USCIS part in 3 days and whole process took 105 days to interview/ approval.  Unfortunately DCF is gone in Philippines, Cuba and Russia and parts of Mexico.  She needed a visa to go to Mexico with me.  We got that in 5 hours in Hong Kong and it costs $36 to get it.   She got a permanent resident VISA.  Talk about a different process! 

 

If we didn't get the Mexico Visa we might have stayed in Philippines.  Have to good time there.  

[100518 2]

Thanks for the info

[pushbrk 12,109]

On 7/2/2019 at 4:36 PM, Falcon Cara said:

Direct Consular Filing, Just be married and have some type a valid visa in PI staying and go to US embassy and file directly, it used to take a few weeks to get approved.

Um, the petitioner had to actually show evidence of living in the Philippines at least six months prior to filing DCF.  Water under the bridge anyway but let's be accurate.  "Some type of valid visa..." is also not correct.  Tourist status was OK, if you had other documentation like utility bills, lease, I card etc.