US Immigration from Norway

So while wating for NVC to work on our case I am getting my ducks in a row! Yesterday I reached out to the police to ask how to attain a certificate. Luckily they offer one to use abroad in English, so that is pretty straightforward. What they could not answer me was how long it is valid, they just told me that is probably up to the US embassy. The process only takes a couple of weeks, but I am trying to prepare as much as possible, so I was wondering how long I should wait to order it? What is the expectation from the embassy? Unless you get the certificate the day you have your interview it will never be truly up to date, but still, what should I plan for here?

We have gotten an NOA1 and NOA2, plus a letter stating our case has been sent to NVC. But when we filed the i129 petition, we also added the one that would allow for email updates, since mail can obviously get delayed. Does this not work a lot of the time?

I did not know where to put this, so please move if needed but I need help, and I need it quite quickly.

I am sending my kids to Oslo in two days to get their CRBAs and American passports. For this I need to fill out a ds3053 since I cannot go with them. This needs to be notraized. I am running out of time because I asked their dad what he needed from me and he just said to send my physical (norwegian) passport to prove I am a citizen. I took his word for that, but remembered a discussion here in the forum last year so I looked it up and found out about the form I needed. On that post someone also linked notarize.com which says.

"On-Demand 24/7 US Notaries Serving Norway

Notarize a document from Norway in a matter of minutes"

Super! I was filling out all the information but then i got to the point of putting in my address and then a US address is required. I asked customer support and you need to be tied to a US address. So that just does not work.

Does anyone know any online notary services that would be valid at a US embassy without having a US address?

So my norwegian passport expires in november 2025. My passport number is registered in my application, and I still have an active ESTA that is good until july this year. I will be visiting for 2 weeks in april, but the passport still has more than 6 months left at that time, so I assume that will be fine. My best bet is probably to get a new passport right as I get back, and luckily it will probably arrive pretty quickly after, I have had it in hand after a week previously.

Is changing the passport number at this point going to mess with my application or delay anything? The way I understand it I obviously have to bring it and leave it when I go to my interview in Stockholm, and then they put a physical thing in it to show my K1 visa, right?

I probably should have done this last year before I even applied for the visa, that was an oversight on my part.

Hi. Hopefully I put this in the right area of the forums.

I am moving to the USA on a K1 hopefully sometime later this year. My kids are about to get american passports and ssns beause their dad is an american and they will be dual citizens. We are moving together to live with my partner in the USA, and I just wanted to ask if anyone had any experience with what sort of documentation I should bring from their dad, showing that he consents to the move? How does it work with insurance and taxes over there? Their father is american, but he does not live in the US and has not for many many years, and I have full custody of the children. Would a translated version of our custody agreement and a signed consent letter be enough? He lives far away at the moment so getting things signed is kinda hard, but the kids are going to the american embassy in Norway this month to get their papers, so I have a chance to get him to sign stuff and would like to prepare for that as much as possible. Would I be better off paying for an online notary service for these things?

Thanks.