US Immigration from Canada

My wife came out K1 visa in 2019, and at the time we did not apply for her child (under 10) to come with. Now we are ready for that process but have some questions.

Do we follow the I-130 with me as the petitioner since she is not yet a citizen?

The child is in Philippines with my wife's parents. My wife has full custody. We live in Pennsylvania. Does anyone know what the adoption process is like? Do we do that before or after the child arrives in the US?

Anything else we need to consider now? About how long does this process take?

Hi. My application to expedite E2 visa interview was approved about 10 days ago. I haven't heard from the MTL consulate, Canada ever since. Anyone had this experience be4? I have a few questions, plz:

- What are their response timelines?

- Am I supposed to get a new police certificate, considering the one sent to NVC is past the 12 month mark I.e. expired?

- Are minor (below 10years) dependents required to attend in person interviews?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Everyone - need some advice on this section. My husband has a previous DUI from 15 years which was disclosed during the Permanent Resident process. Does he still need to mention it again in this section? TIA

Hopefully that title isn't too confusing.

We're in a weird spot. Our interview is scheduled for Feb 1st. On this ais.usvisa-info.com website, our appointment is registered. We were never prompted to pay the fee.

We've gone back and forth in email with the tech support for this website and had a few calls with their customer support. This morning they told us the visa was misclassified as an 'immigrant visa', despite us picking the K-1 option while registering. They said we should contact the Consulate and have them sort it out with the NVC.

I called the NVC this morning and had good and long conversation with someone there who explained how it works, this is supposed to be an immigrant visa and there's nothing wrong with what they sent this website. They even went over some recommended next steps for talking to the website people and then to the consulate for last-resort stuff.

So, a few questions. I'm mostly wondering if anyone else might be running into similar issues.

• Has anyone had this issue where they just can't pay the K-1 interview fee?
• Is there some other way to pay it?
• Finally, I'm trying to email the consulate at montreal-iv-dv@state.gov to ask for their take but I'm not getting an automatic reply. Which tells me they haven't actually gotten my email.

Hi all! My wife (the petitioner) and I (the beneficiary) received our Receipt Notice on October 19, 2021 for our I-130 petition. Since then, we have not received any other communications. We have received an estimated timeline for approval of around September 2022. We understand that time is something we can't change (duh!) but we wanted to make extra sure that we had our file submitted correctly, so that it can hopefully move as smoothly and efficiently as possible!

At the time we submitted our petition, we uploaded the following documents:

• Form I-130A
• Petitioner's 2 passport sized photos
• Beneficiary's 2 passport sized photos
• Petitioner's birth certificate
• Petitioner's information page of passport
• Marriage certificate (married in 2017)
• 2 separate lease documents showing joint tenancy
• Bank statements from joint account from 2019, 2020, and 2021

These are still the only documents we have on our USCIS account's Documents page. Our questions are:

1. Are we missing anything obvious? (we've double-checked the requirements list, but you never know)
2. We currently only have the information page of the petitioner's passport uploaded. Should we upload all pages of the passport to our file? Also, we have stamps showing a trip we made together to Mexico, and the beneficiary has numerous entry stamps to the USA over the past few years too. Would it be worthwhile to also upload all passport pages of the beneficiary?
3. On Form 1-130A, Part 4, 6.a. (Spouse Beneficiary's signature), the beneficiary did not sign this section digitally or with pen. I remember reading that if this form is submitted digitally, no signature is necessary. Can anyone confirm this is true?
4. Should we also upload 5-10 photos of ourselves in various places, or will the leases and joint accounts likely be enough to prove our relationship is legit?
5. The beneficiary has previously lived abroad in 4 different countries (including the country we are applying from - Canada). We understand the next step in the process will require him to get a Criminal Record Check from each of those 4 countries. Should this be something we begin now? We are happy to get them organized and ordered now, but our only concern was if USCIS had a time limit for when they can be ordered. I.e. Please submit criminal record checks dated within 3 months of today. In that case, the CRCs we order now could potentially expire' down the line. Any help regarding this too would be much appreciated!

Have a great day!