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My husband and i got married last December 2024. He is a US citizen who s currently working overseas (Oceania), he has been working overseas since 2019 from different countries while i am a Filipino citizen who s currently working in Middle East. We got married online, met twice after the marriage. He owns a house in US where his ex partner and kids are currently living in. We are planning to move in the US together and stay at his sister s house temporarily to establish smooth transition and build a relationship with his kids. What can you advise us to help us have a better case of approval process for our US spouse visa application

We are still very early in the CR-1/I-130 process. We had our case accepted a little over a month ago and at this point we are simply waiting for status updates. My question is: given that there are no requirements for additional or missing information, when should we expect to get our next status update? I know that the process is long and unpredictable, but on average how soon do you get progress updates on average when everything is going at a normal pace?

Hello,

My partner is currently completing medical training on a J1 visa and resident of Turkey. They have a 2 year home requirement upon completion of training, but based on what I read there is an option to apply for waiver with a no objection statement from their home country. I am curious to hear if anyone has experience with this process and specifically with Turkey. Is this a feasible option to pursue for adjustment of status? The hope would be that I can petition for green card after marriage, but my understanding is that they would still need to complete home requirement without a waiver when going through this process. Any advice and experience would be much appreciated.

Hi VJ community,
Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm quite sure I filed form AR-11 in June this year online via the myUSCIS portal after my husband and I moved but I'm wondering if there is any way to check its status because nothing is showing up on the portal (no history, nothing) so I am slightly concerned about it. (Our I-485 and EAD cases are both closed and I received my 2 year conditional GC in May.)

And also an oversight - my husband did not file the I-865 at that time because we were under the mistaken impression that just my filing the AR-11 would suffice. We had informed the IO at our GC interview that we were moving and she had told us about the AR-11 but we rather naively assumed that my husband as the main sponsor of my I-864 didn't have to do anything. Would we be able to file the I-865 ASAP? Or is there another process we have to undergo since we are tardy on that form? We have a joint sponsor but they are still residing at the same address, so that doesn't affect them, I'm sure.

Thank you so much for all your help everyone.

Hi there everyone!

We got our RFE letter in the mail today and it's asking us to "submit a passport for proof of citizenship for you and your beneficiary".

Just to make sure we're gonna do everything right, this is just to provide a scan/picture of the information page of the passport, right? I was thinking just because of the wording that we could submit both our passports just be sure, even though it doesn't seem like the beneficiary's is required? Just to make sure we're not gonna get denied.

It's a little bit scary, especially since we sent in the petitioner's birth certificate but oh well, these things happen!

Thank you in advance for the help !