US Immigration from Kenya

Hi all,

Just inquiring if any CR1 Visas have been scheduled for their interviews at the Nairobi consulate since they were deemed mission critical.

This information was on the I-129f page but i'd like some thoughts from posters here as i'm totally confused now.

1 - I am an American, met my beneficiary in Kenya 6 years ago and we've been living together since then. We have two children together. They have american birth certificates and passports issued by the US Embassy that list her as the mother. We are not married.

2 - I came back to the US last year to seek employment and had begun filling out the I-129 paperwork to get her over here.

3 - As i'm finalizing the paperwork, the covid-19 pandemic happens and everything sort of comes to a standstill for a minute. In the midst of all that, the US Embassy organizes an evacuation flight for all US Citizens in Kenya. My children are to be on the flight, but they're 4 and 1 so they need an escort. I ask the embassy if a non-citizen can get on the flight, and given the circumstance, they make an exception for her. They give her a b1/b2 visitor visa in a particularly unusual way. No wait for the interview, in fact the embassy was closed and they opened it that day just for her (at 8am appointment, by 12 noon when she went back to pick her passport all embassy employees were on their own chartered flight back, local staff did the rest of her paperwork). She didn't have to pay for it and was maybe asked one or two questions. Anyway, she got a visitor visa.

4 - April my beneficiary and two kids touch down in America and we're all together again. So recently i revisited by I-129 paperwork to finalize it and update the recent events of her coming over. I post my story to the I-129 forum here and immediately several people recommend i toss that idea , get married, and file for I-130 and then AOS.

5 - To me this would be awesome for many reasons, but i have my concerns. We legitimately wanted to do the normal I-129 process, but the covid19 scenario led us to where we are now: physically together in the US. I would very much like to get married right away, but i'm concerned that USCIS will think we tried to pull a fast one on them and that they'll see this as some sort of visa fraud. Are my concerns legit or not? What can you guys advise given how odd this whole thing is? I was always under the impression that marriage on a visitor visa (to someone you already knew, not met and fell in love with) is a big red flag to USCIS.

Thoughts?

1. I am in Virginia so I believe i'm supposed to send to the Texas Service Center. Has anyone sent one recently... like this week? Do you know about the new address?

https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/texas-service-center-moving-new-address-june-26

2. Anything that does not apply to me on the I-129f, i have left blank. Should I write in pen "N/A" or just leave it blank? The online form doesn't allow you to use the "/"

I think those are actually my main questions. I've compiled my documents in a binder, with dividers for each section (payment, notification, passport photos, form 129f, explanation of how we met, statements of intent to marry, proof of meeting in the past two years [photos and passport stamps, and a birth certificate we were issued by the US Embassy for our child], proof of ongoing relationship [long list of money transfers i've been sending since i came to the US for school fees and maintenance and stuff]).

I have separated every page of every form and put them in individual paper protectors (the transparent thingies), which are then grouped into sections. So for example, the form 129f is in 13 different sheet protectors, and in between two manila dividers.

I had started filing the 129f before covid started... then covid19 happened and i had to put it on hold. The reason is that in April the US Embassy organized an evacuation of Citizens stuck in Kenya (there were no flights) and my beneficiary, being the mother of my two US Citizen children, was granted a Visitor's visa to escort them to the United states. So now we're all here. Now i'm just worried she'll have to go back before 129f is sorted.

Hello,

I'm hoping a Kenyan or Ugandan member could help me out here (wasn't sure how to post on those forums). I obtained my police certificate from Uganda in Jan but wasn't able to use it due to interview cancellation in April. Will the consulate accept the certificate even though it indicates that it's valid for 6 months? In other words, it the police certificate good to use for a year even though it states that it is valid for 6 months? I want to know if I should get a new one to avoid being stuck in AP.

Please assist. Thanks in advance

(Hope i'm clear with my question).

First congratulations to everybody done with ceremony. Does anybody have a clue about rescheduling interviews ? The USCIS website doesn't show any hope.