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I was issued a 221(g) after my interview, and I submitted the requested documents. In late November, I was asked to complete a medical exam and submit my passport because the medical exam I had done earlier had expired.

On December 17 (about two weeks later), my case status changed from Refused to Ready. Since then, the last updated date keeps changing, but the status still shows Ready.

Has anyone had a similar experience? What was the outcome?

Me and my fiance are both rather boring people who don't do much nor do we have a work/life balance that lets us spend a lot of time together in person.

We will be together again for 2 weeks soon and wanted to use this time together to better document our relationship as we don't really have much to so for given how boring and simple we are. As of now we just have call/text logs and a few trips spend together, a handful of photos and nothing more.

Would anyone have some general advice or tips on things we could do to better.

Thanks in advance

My wife and I got married last October via Utah Online wedding. She is currently living in Brasilia. We have apostilled documents such as marriage certificate/license.

Wife is trying to register her marriage and name change in Brazil to get updated documents like passport, CPF, ID. She got the marriage certificate and license translated.

However, she is having issues with the name change. She's at the local cart rio, but because the marriage certificate we have only lists her maiden name, they won't allow her to change her name and get updated documents. The thing is US marriage certs list maiden names and not married names.

What can we do?

Hi Everyone,

After checking https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-864ez.pdf I see this note

`NOTE: You MUST attach a photocopy or transcript of your Federal income tax return for only the most recent tax year.`

I'm assuming that since 2025's tax return will be due in April I can still submit my 2024 tax return as my "last" tax return right?

Thanks!

USCIS are asking if me and fianc met within two years (Feb 2023 - Feb 2025)

We met twice in October 2024 in USA when I was travelling before submitting for a K1 visa (Feb 2025) We didn t take photos together as didn t think of needing them but have a few videos from the dates.

We supplied receipts from the dates, travel documentation of me coming into the states but they re asking as the petitioner and I cannot be seen in the photos (screenshot from video) next to each other.

Due to our cultures and religion we didn t meet multiple times after and have hotels booked. We had stayed in contact daily since then, planned our engagement, had talks with families over the phone / video call. We then had our engagement recently (November 2025) will this help our cause or not as it s not within the dates specified by USCIS.

They re asking for affidavits but stating it ll hold minimum weight so a waiver is allowed if extreme hardship or we have violated the terms of an K1 due to not meeting.

I am in limbo of what to do and stuck as I don t want to submit with the new evidence of our engagement and it not matter as it isn t within the time frame they re stating.