US Immigration from Canada

I am petitioning for my wife s green card, and we are at the NVC stage. My father is joint sponsor with me. I have a question concerning supporting documents for the AOS.

The platform clearly states: You MUST bring all of your original documents (not a photocopy) to your interview at the U.S. Embassy or Consulate.

We have a scan of my father's passport bio page. Does this mean my wife would have to bring his original passport to the interview? Or would a regular color printout of this page work? Or a notarized copy?

I assume that in this case, a regular printout is OK, but does anybody have any experience with this?

So I'm definitely not like most lol - I filed for the K1 Visa in August of this year.
For background, I am the petitioner - Male, I filed for my beneficiary in Canada - female.

Now for the odd-ball situation I'm in. My parents never married, they are still together (I believe they filed Domestic Partnership). I have my mother's last name and not my father's.
I have been wanting to do a last name change to match that of my father's plus my wife-to-be wishes to have this last name also.

Now, for the question you may not have the answer too.
I, the male - should I initiate the court proceedings now to get a legal last name change or should I wait until after the K1 is approved, get married and do a name change and my wife would also have to do the same - essentially a not so "bang for a buck" idea haha.
Really what I'm trying to figure out, is if I can do a last name change now and send the documents to USCIS as an "update" to my name.

• I am in California so I cannot put my father's last name on a marriage certificate because... California doesn't allow it cause I'm not "associated" even though my birth certificate says otherwise but hey! whatever, its the gov't lol. I wish I knew this sooner cause I would've updated it prior to filing...

Is there possibly a way to reach out and find this information out from USCIS? I have tried googling but unfortunately I'm the minority here ... since I'm a guy...

tl;dr - male petitioner wants to change last name but already filed K1, can I do court proceedings to change legal last name or should I wait?

I don't want the K1 Visa to be null and void for something that I see as submitting as a simple update/supplement.

What is going on with Vermont service center? They are approving October and November 2021 and some 2022 applications and I am a September 2021 applicant with no news. It does not make sense

Hi everyone, m

our i130s we re approved two years ago and we have been DQ at nvc and are waiting for our interviews.

Can someone tell me if some I-797s don t have an A number anywhere at all on the paper? Not close by beneficiary name, or anywhere at all on there.

I have yet to see an A number anywhere on any document

Hi everyone,

our stuff all said accepted and we were DQ. I just logged onto one of our ceac accounts and the police report under required now shows missing, and it is listed under optional civil documents.

is that normal?