US Immigration from Malaysia

We got approved for our K1 Visa and they told us that we needed to register for the Aramex delivery, we went on the cgifederal website to register it and at the MRV page none of my receipt numbers are working. Shows "No valid record can be found for the entered receipt number. Please validate that your receipt number is correct and that you have paid the correct amount for the visa which you are applying for."

So our co-sponsor, (my future mother in-law's boyfriend) marked out his SSN on his tax returns because its a sensitive detail will this be okay to bring to the interview?

Also for the relationship to beneficiary we written "family friend" is that going to be good to go aswell

Thanks in advance

Let me preface by saying that I have a fair amount of experience dealing with the USCIS in my own past journeys and am currently managing several outstanding petitions including five I-130's cases (2 for my parents, 2 my parents in law, 1 my brother) and two I-485's. In all my time, I have never found the online USCIS case status to be incorrect in anyway and my experience has been that the online information always matches up with the information the L1 call center USCIS reps have.

However oddly as of late, I have seen 3 cases as of late that have proven that the USCIS online case status to be inaccurate and is inconsistent with the status which L1 and L2 reps have. This seems to be only affecting I-130's and not for cases like I-765, I-131, N-400, or I-485 from my experience.

For both of the I-130 cases for my in-laws, we received Notice of Action of approval by mail stating both petitions were Approved on August 9. I have also verified with an L1 and L2 call center rep that the cases were indeed approved. However the USCIS online case tracker status today still shows it is still pending adjudication and the status has not been changed since January after the NOA1 receipt date.

The same thing is also true of one of my other parent's case I-130 case status. We received the Notice of Action of approval by mail on August 26 and the approval has also been validated by an L1 and L2 call center rep. What's odd is that I had re-sent the service center (Texas service center thru email) evidence supporting an expedite service request I opened on August 26 not knowing it was already approved behind the scenes. The online status changed on August 28- two days after receiving the paper NOA2 approval letters- that they have accepted my expedite documentation and are working on processing the adjudication.

I mean how in the world can one start processing an adjudication when the case was already approved 2 days ago???

Anyone want to share similar discrepancies they have seen as well?

Neither my wife nor I wanted to change our names after marriage, but some mix up happened at the marriage clerk's office and her last name got changed, so now her green card name now has my last name.

We're thinking of legally changing her name back via court order (and at the same time changing her first name to her English name she's been using all her life).

What would be the process to do that? Do we have to replace her green card first before changing SS card and driver's license? How long will it take to get a new green card in her new name?

Hoping someone went through something similar and can provide some advice.

Thanks in advance!

Hi friends, we are waiting for the USCIS to send my wife's parents' approved I-130 to the NVC. Can someone share their NVC checklist so we can adequately prepare these documents ahead of time? Looking for a MNL specific checklist as my wife's parents are from PHL. We already have all the AOS related evidence (tax transcripts etc) all set- just curious on all the other stuff needed. Salamat!