US Immigration from Brazil

Hello!

I'm wondering if there's any K1 beneficiary here from Brazil that instead of going through the medical exam in Rio, chose to do it in S o Paulo? What was your experience? Can all the exams and the medical appointment be made in a single day contrary to Rio that asks for the exams beforehand? And how long does the doctor take to send the results to the embassy in Rio? Do we need to go back to the doctor's office and retrieve anything to take with us for the interview?

I ask because I'm closer to S o Paulo so it would save me time and money to go through it there instead of Rio. I searched VJ and only found one person that did that, but it was for EB-2 visa. I wonder if it's the same for S o Paulo. I also already emailed the SP doctor to ask, just waiting on a reply.

Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I received a case number from NVC through email yesterday. I found one website that says the next step is to login to CEAC to pay fees and submit forms, is that right?

Because I read on another website that the next step is to fill out DS-160.
I m confused.

Another thing is if the next step is to login to CEAC, they are asking for an invoice ID number , and I don t have it. What can I do? Are they going to send me that yet?

Thank you!!!

As the title says, I can't fill out certain parts of the I-864 specially the Sponsor's Physical Address. I have tried Adobe Reader and a few other apps. A search on this forum suggested I use DocHub which indeed works but any idea why this is happening? Am I doing something I am not supposed to?

Hello,

Me and my husband are filling out the I-864 form, and we have some doubts. He is in Brazil with me during this process and for his last tax return he made only 5k, so his brother will be a joint sponsor. His bother claims his wife and also his mother on the tax return and last year he made 100k. We don't know if this it will be enough money or if we need to find another sponsor.

Here's a report on our combo I-751/N-400 interview this morning at the Atlanta USCIS field office.

The interview was scheduled for 8:50 am. We arrived at 8 am so we used the extra 30 minutes to review all of our documents, well-organized in labeled file folders, and the N-400 application one more time. We entered the building at 8:30 am, showed the two interview notices (I-751 and N-400), and went through security, then checked in at the reception window where an employee took my husband's photo and fingerprint to confirm his identity. Then we went up to the 3rd floor waiting area. About 45 minutes later, an officer came up to my husband and confirmed our names, then said he would be back in five minutes. When he returned he asked both of us to follow him to his office. Once seated, he asked for our driver's licenses, also for my husband's passport and expired green card. I noticed an open file on his desk, with all 500+ pages of the I-751 submission we sent two years ago. He then had us stand up and do an oath to tell the truth. Then he said he would first consider the pending I-751 and ask questions that either of us could answer, and some questions directed to one of us to answer. The first question was how we met (online initially, three months later in person). He asked a series of questions about why I proposed so quickly (on my second trip to Brazil, only five weeks after our first in-person meeting), and why my husband was willing to commit so quickly to marriage and potentially move to the US. I got the impression that the officer was skeptical about our relationship (we have a 27 year age gap, big income and education differences). We explained that we fell in love immediately when we first met in person, and wanted to be together, so we got married seven months after we first met. He then asked for additional documents to support our relationship, new information from the last two years while the I-751 has been pending. We gave him two years' of quarterly joint bank and credit card account statements, also five years of IRS tax return transcripts, married filing jointly. He looked at these additional documents, kept them, and then said "I am a big photo person, do you have any photos?" My husband handed him a file folder with about twelve pages of photos, 2 per page, from marriage to now, each with a brief description and date. As he flipped through the photos, his countenance changed. The look of doubt from before left his face, and he glanced up and said he was approving the I-751, then asked me to leave. I went to the waiting area while he continued the N-400 interview with only my husband. The officer did not ask to see any of the civil documents we had brought with us, but did ask or review most of the questions on the N-400 application. Then he asked six of the 100 history/government questions, and my husband answered all of them correctly. After that the officer did the reading and writing tests. Following this, he gave my husband a form N-652, Naturalization Interview Results, with two marks checked: "you passed the tests of English and U.S. History and government," and "Congratulations! Your application is recommended for approval." The oath ceremony letter will be sent via regular mail. We were all done by 10 am and drove home very happy and relieved that things went so smoothly.

Based on my prior research, Atlanta USCIS schedules oath ceremonies for 4-6 weeks after the interview. Once that happens and he has his naturalization certificate, his US immigration journey will be over, five years after it began when I filed an I-130 petition for him back in July, 2018, a month after we got married in Brazil. I would like to thank all the regular contributors here on VisaJourney for your very helpful advice during this long process, as it has been invaluable to benefit from your experience and sense of community. Good luck to everyone!