US Immigration from Costa Rica

My son got his fiance's petition approved in Dec 2022 (mailed Oct 2021).

My question is about the timelines these days for the wait remaining till the interview. The embassy in question is San Jose, Costa Rica.

Thank you.

I recently submitted the I-485 along with credit card authorization for the filing fees. I saw that there was an attempt to charge but Discover blocked for fraud protection it, which I later approved. I saw on the USCIS website that they will not attempt to re-charge the card if this happens.

Will they send the packet back to me or what happens?

To refile can I just send another copy of the whole packet right away rather than wait for some kind of notice saying it was rejected? (I will be paying with check this time.)

Good Morning,

My first post here, I'm wondering, if, when my fiancee gets her interview date, I can visit her in her country and accompany her during the interview.

I'm in the military, and a fellow servicemember from Honduras told me he actually went into the interview with his wife and kids to get their visas. He even pre-bought plane tickets for them, before he knew the results of the interview.

Little background (you can probably see it already in the timeline): My Fiancee is from Costa Rica, we got our NOA1 on 19 Nov 2021, and have heard nothing since.

The Processing times have been going up as the months progress (15.5 months now, was 13.5 months August last year, and around 12 months a few months before)

Anyways, to me, it seems like a good sign to the interviewer if they actually see us together in person.

The only tricky part will be scheduling the leave on a moments notice when we get the interview date (and plane tickets, etc.).

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

My Fiance's K1 visa was finally approved. Do we need to buy her a round trip ticket to go from Costa Rica to the US even though she will obviously be staying to get married?

Hi everyone,

My husband will have his oath ceremony soon, and we will be applying for his passport shortly after that. His foreign passport does not include his middle name. His green card has his middle initial only. I was reading the thread about which passport to use when travelling, and it has occured to me that it would probably be beneficial if the name on both passports match exactly so that his flight reservation will match his passport exactly, no matter which one he travels with.

I am wondering if anyone here has left their middle name off of the U.S. passport application. I have read online that a middle initial is acceptable instead of the full middle name, but I am wondering if the middle name is strictly necessary. If anyone has first-hand experience on this topic, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance!