US Immigration from New Zealand

I went throught the LAX POE reviews and there are only a few recent reviews. Has anyone else recently had a POE experience in Los Angeles? How was the process? Did it take long to go through customs?

My husband has his IR-1 visa interview on September 30th, 2020 at the US embassy in Auckland, NZ. I'm just wondering how long is the usual wait time to hear if the visa has been approved? I've tried searching for other threads with this info but can't seem to find one. Also, once he gets it approved can he travel to the US? Any help is appreciated! Hoping and praying everything goes smooth!

My fiancee and I are getting married in two weeks and as such, I am getting everything prepared to send off for the I-130 package. I am the USC petitioner but was born and lived my whole life in New Zealand. My wife-to-be is from New Zealand also.

We have dated for 5 and a half years and so we have a lot of photos together. So far, I've assembled all of the evidence I can possibly find that our relationship is bona fide. As like everyone else, I want to expedite this visa process as much as possible and avoid any RFEs. On the other hand, as people have noted in these forums, there is a danger in overloading evidence to the point where the officer won't look at it all. It seems that Quality over Quantity is the best approach.

I have assembled 18 photos of us together over the last 4 years (we don't have many photos together from the very beginning of the relationship), with a focus on photos of us during vacations to the United States and from small trips around New Zealand, with landmarks in the background where possible. I've put these into a Word document with a cover page that says:

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To whom it may concern,

The following is a timeline of the relationship of (my full name) (Petitioner) and (wife's full name) (Beneficiary).

We originally met in 2011 in middle school. We were friends throughout middle school and high school, and we began dating on April 4^th, 2015. We married on October 5^th, 2020. Below is a number of photos of us together to prove our marriage is bona fide.

Is this a suitable cover page? The photos begin with one from August 2016. For every photo, I've written a small caption with the date and location the photo was taken. If there are others in the photo (I have a few with some of my other family members), I have named them and included what relation they are to me. For some photos, I've put a little extra detail, such as "waiting for the fireworks to begin" on a photo of us taken on the 4th of July. Is this a good idea, or totally unnecessary? I suppose I'm just trying to humanize the application a bit. I'll also be sure to include some photos from the wedding. I'm planning on saving the file as a .pdf and including it as evidence.

As for other evidence, I'm trying to decide which of the following would be best to include. Please advise!

• Flight itinerary from our two trips to the US with both names, seating assignments etc.
• Airbnb booking confirmations with both of our names
• Travel insurance documents with both of our names
• A notice to our old landlord that we were moving out. It's via email but has the date, my full name, and wife's first name, plus the address of the place we were renting.
• A tenancy application with both names
• A copy of our current tenancy agreement which has both of our names
• I'm linked to her Google account as the recovery email, so an email stating this.
• Screenshots of bank transfers between the two of us. I pay the rent out of my account, so most of the transfers are from her account to mine which I thought may raise suspicion (although there are a few from my account to hers too). I also took a screenshot of my continual weekly rent payments which I'd include if I used this as evidence. While we don't have a joint checking account, I thought this would be good evidence of inter-mingling finances but the last thing I want to do is raise suspicions.
• Call logs between us from the last 6 months. Most of these are less than 5 minutes long as they tend to just be one telling the other we're on the way home or asking what we want for dinner. We don't have many that are very long since we live together.
• Message logs from Facebook, Instagram and text. Rather than include one long log, these are just screenshots of messages with the date on them. There's quite a range of messages, so what would be best to include? Some are talking about moving house, others are what we want for dinner, that I'm on the way to pick her up from work, there's a few about money and bank accounts which might be useful, a few lovey ones (they all have x's at the end) and a few that are discussing trip plans to the US together before we went on our vacations.

One last thing, I'm planning on filing the I-130 online and when I went through the application form, there was a section that asked for a U.S. Birth Certificate, Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of Citizenship (from memory). I have a current U.S. Passport and a Consular Report of Birth Abroad, but not a U.S. Birth Certificate or any of those other citizenship documents that are suggested. Would the CRBA count as a Certificate of Citizenship? When I googled it, that looks like a totally different thing. Some clarification would be much appreciated.

Apologies for the lengthy post! Thanks in advance to all of the helpful and intelligent people on this forum! You are appreciated.

Hi everyone! I am trying to complete the I-134 (Affidavit of Support) and I have quite a few questions.

1. For the areas that don't apply, should I just leave them blank? Or write N/A? I know in Part 3, section 22.a onward, it says to write "none" but should I do that for the other places as well?

2. I feel like I'm getting mixed messages regarding the bank statement portion. I have the letter from my employer regarding how much I make (it's more than enough to not need a co-sponsor). I've been trying to look back at old posts and some people say you don't need it, others do. The P3 packet from Auckland doesn't say much, just that they need the I-134.

3. I do have investments (mutual funds), do I need to show proof of that as well? It's through Vanguard and I don't know how to really contact them about it...unless a screenshot is fine?

4. Regarding Part 3, question 38; I don't really understand the question? I don't think that I'm intending to set aside specific contributions to my fiance...I mean, he's going to bring all of his assets over to the States and help contribute to our living expenses. So I should just tick the "do not intend" box, right?

Hi Everyone -

Quick question, we filed i-485 and i-130 concurrently back in late April and I haven't received anything regarding biometrics - is this normal? When I check on my case status on USCIS it says there is nothing else I need to do at this time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks so much! Sending to everyone else hanging in there.