US Immigration from Philippines

Hi and thanks in advance for any advice or tips.

My now wife and I originally filed for the k-1/k-2 visa and were approved. She and my step son came to the US December 2023 after the approval. She loved it here, he HATED it here, did not adjust well and long story short we had to take him back home to live with her family. We explored other options like me taking him back home and leaving her here but there were some concerns about a foriegner traveling alone with him in the philippines, she didnt have a family member here that could travel back with him and we were not going to send him unaccompanied. So she unfortunately had to leave to take him back home. While I'm sure many will say that we should have made him wait and then filed for the parole adjustment but you will just have to trust me, that would not have worked so we made the decision that we did. He just wasnt doing well here in the states. We never broke up, never withdrew anything as we didnt feel there there was any need to. We just planned to get married later than we originally anticipated.

She did leave before the k-1 expired so there would be no problems with overstaying her visa, we are now going to have to go back through the long, hard process of filing for the cr-1. We did get married via the Utah online process but I went there to the Philippines for us to be together with her and her family during the ceremony. We could not get married the tradional way in the philippines because I could not get away from work long enough to meet their guidelines to legally marry there.

So now we are legally married, filed CR-1, ROM, etc and are concerned about them asking why we are doing this again and didnt just get married when she was here. As simple as it may sound no-one can walk in your shoes when trying to make such a difficult decision. We dont want them to deny us and we cant imagine what kind of RFE we could get since they have all of our previous records on file. In fact I wish (of course not) that it would expedite the case having already been approved and familiar with our file.

I searched for a similar case on here but couldnt find one. If anyone can give us a little insight as to what to anticipate or if we should anticipate delays due to the unusual nature of our filing we would appreciate it.

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Hi, everyone. My and my fianc 's I-129f got approved recently. The embassy told her to bring a copy of the completed I-129f form. I had saved all of the information and evidence except some work history dates. The problem is that during 2020/2021 I had several jobs, and I don't remember the exact hire and end of employment dates for all of them to the exact day. It is not possible to get this info from all of the employers because they don't exist anymore. I did file a FOIA request for a copy of the I-129f, but don't know how long that will take. Looking on previous posts I can see a copy of the I-129f is not needed in most countries, but we're not sure if it's the same for Philippines since the embassy specifically requested it. Are we panicking over nothing?

I need advice on what my first step should be.

I am US citizen, my mom has a green card but she has been in the ph for 7 years without coming back to CA. She refused to before and now she s sick and finally willing to come back. Her green card expires next year and she has her ph passport. She was married to my dad for 20 years and living in CA for that whole time, but after he passed she decided to stay in the ph. Now I m not sure what to do to get her here. Is it as easy as just buying a ticket? Or will she be turned away at the airport immigration? Does she need to go to DFA OR US EMBASSY in the ph? I live paycheck to paycheck and I don t have money to throw around. Any advice would be super helpful.

thank you!!

My fianc is going to the Manila embassy soon for her interview. I already gave her my tax returns from the IRS for the past three years. Do I need to get her a copy of my W-2 s as well? That sounds redundant. Shouldn t that information already be provided in the tax returns?