US Immigration from Ghana

My fianc interviewed for his SSN 15 days after his arrival in the US on a K-1 visa. Everything at the interview went fine and the SSN official said he would get the approval in the mail in 2 weeks and the SSN card in a month. A month came and went and we thought maybe there was a delay due to the holidays. After the holidays, we checked in with our local SSN office and they informed us that Dept. of Homeland Security found an error on our application and it was still pending. SSN office couldn't say what the error was, but they would check and get back to us. After a week of calls with our local SSN office, we were told the error was fixed (SSN office said they were never informed what the error was) and we would be receiving the letter of approval in 2 weeks.

Well, another two weeks went by and we never received the letter. I called the SSN local office and it was back to the story of there was an error on our application (again couldn't say what said error was) and because the K-1 visa was about to expire in a couple of weeks, my fianc would not receive a SSN. The SSN office informed us we could reapply once my fianc 's visa was renewed or extended.

I am pretty confident there was no error on his SSN application/supporting documents (we checked everything over multiple times and the SSN officer we interviewed with also confirmed that the SSN application was filled out correctly and matched the supporting documents). I'm not sure what we could have done differently except checked in earlier when we didn't receive our letter within 2 weeks, but not sure it would have made a difference anyways.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone else experienced this particular issue? Does this happen frequently? (From reading here on VJ, I know many people have issues arise when dealing with the SSA)

2. Any ideas what the error could be that Dept. of Homeland Security was referring to? Just wondering if this issue will pop-up again when he reapplies.

3. From everything that I have read, it seems he will have to wait for his EAD/AP to reapply for his SSN (contrary to what the local SSN officer said) but I wanted to confirm.

Thanks for any insights,

KateD

A friend of mine ran to me for advice regarding to his IR-1 visa interview. He told me that he had no more means to contact his wife because she told him that she want to move on beacuse the long delay with the visa process. Now the emabssy had invited him for interview and needed him to bring his wife 2020 IRS transcript along with him to the interview but he has with him a duely signed public notary/affidavit of same 2020 tax returns which his wife used in completeing the filling of I-864 and this notary/affidavit will expire on 03.09.22. So he is confuse and worried. He want to know if he can still present the notary/affidavit of 2020 tax returns in place of his wife 2020 IRS transcript.. if yes, what will be his response or answer if the consulate officer ask why or what about the 2020 IRS transcript?

Our F2A petition was dq'd in July 2020 and the petition was upgraded to IR1 in May 2021. My question is, how is our petition going to be placed in the IR1 queue at NVC? Are they still going to use the dq date or the date that the petition was upgraded to IR1?

Hi guys,

i am a Ghanaian citizen, resident in the UK on a skilled worker visa (junior doctor) for sometime now. I just received my NVC case ID and I have been assigned to US embassy in Accra. Does anyone have an idea how to change consulate to the embassy in London, and also do I wait until the new case ID is generated or go ahead and upload documents to my CEAC while I await NVC to effect the consulate change.

TIA

Hi all! So happy, we just received our interview date for next month!

When we originally filed at NCV (way back in 2020), I filed the I-864 as I was working full time. I submitted tax transcripts from 2017, 18, and 19. I have since quit, but I expect another job offer before March (I am actively interviewing). Either way, the I-864 is incorrect. My parents have agreed to act as the sponsor for now just in case I don't get a new offer before March. But I'd like to wait a bit to see if I get an offer first. Just as a note, we never got any request to update anything or submit new documents.

My questions:

1. Do we have to upload my (or my parents') new I-864 to CEAC or just bring it to the visa interview? Will this impact our interview if we upload new docs to the CEAC website?

2. Will a new job contract (signed and accepted) count as proof of income?