US Immigration from Japan

Hello VJ members,

Every day a new doubt comes up and we want to be as prepared as possible. The i130 NOA1 and i797 approval original notices which came in the mail are in the US with my spouse. Will I need the originals while going to the embassy for my interview? I'm trying to figure it out so that they can be fedexed to me in time. Any advice is helpful. Thanks!

Hello. I just had my medical for my CR1 visa. The clinic mentioned that everything would be sent directly to the embassy and only a vaccination worksheet would be emailed to me.

I showed them the note on the state gov page that says chest x rays must be carried when entering the US. However they wouldn't budge and said they don't give anything to the applicants in hand and that I should contact the embassy instead, when I go for the interview.

Has anyone else faced this before? Is this the new process?

Is there a specific timeframe for when it should arrive? How do we track it s delivery? We re we supposed to do something else after my wife arrived to the US?

My wife s port of entry was July 19. It s been one month now. I was under the assumption that it should arrive in a few weeks. We did not change address because we are still living in the current resident addresses in the I-130 and NVC packet. We logged into our USCIS account and saw the choice to change address but no choice to track or locate the green cards status.

I noticed this today. We used to be able to select our specific Service Center on the official USCIS processing page. It has now been replaced with a generic "All Service Centers" option. It's disheartening because our service center previously had a far lower processing time (according to their own data in the prior 6 months) than the overall average across all service centers. Could they be consolidating I-751s or moving them to different Service Centers? I don't see why they would remove this option.

Any issues with my beneficiary visiting the US on a tourist visa after NOA2 / I-130 approval?