US Immigration from Philippines

I posted this in a differend area but didnt get a response so forgive me for the report but I need some advice. Prior to filing my 129-f I knew that I had 2 things on my record from the many times I have had to request background checks over the years.

1. For a bounced check in the 90's

2. For what I thought was for a incident in walmart that was ultimately dismissed from 2008

I disclosed both on my 129-f because on my FBI background check it only provided the case number and limited info and I just assumed that was what they were for this whole time. I have never been denied anything from firearm purchases to police clearances to state licenses. I went to both the police departments and the courts and after both essentially sending me back and forth claiming to no longer hold records of dismissed cases over 10 years old. So I filed my 129-f and thought I was fine by sending a certified letter from the court sayign that they no longer have those records.

Just trying to cover my bases I (months ago) requested the actual police report (it took FOREVER) and just got it back and as it turns out the 2nd one is a totally different case. I was never arrested but they gave me a ticket (cited me) to appear in court for criminal damage. It was a domestic incident (ex trying to get custody) and the judge dismissed the charge and I ultimately got full custody because my ex has an extensive criminal history and drinking problem. Leading up to the divorce she has at least twice tried to claim domestic violence that I was never arrested for, cited or charged with. I just went to the court the next business day and they were dismissed as nonsense. I have the court record dismissals as well but I never disclosed these because they was never a case, never an arrest and sumarily dismissed as soon as I showed up in court. These were civel and I treated it as such. The judge always explained they have to give the order and err on the side of caution whenever someone shows up requesting one.

My concern is that I never disclosed the incident where I was charged with criminal damage, the case was never in criminal court. I didnt even know there was a charge written up because I went to family court, they address/focused on the custody issue and immediately dismissed the criminal damage charge. In fact they never brought it up.

On the form I focused on the words arrested, charged, jailed, etc and completely missed the word "cited" I am now feeling pretty confident that this conflicting information is going to come up and I am not sure what to do.

Should I try to amend my application? I only submitted it in August 2022

Should I just wait until they ask and then provide the updated information and corrected application?

Can we ammend application information prior to review?

I just want to be completely transparent and do not want to cause unnecessary delays. We have the NOA 1 but I want to try to do anything I can to fix this as soon as possible or reasonable.

It appears that the Philippines no longer requires foreigners to be vaccinated to enter. The only requirement for unvaccinated people is a rapid covid test before departure. Also no one is required to quarantine any longer. Thought this info might be useful to some people here. We are going December 10th and this happened just in time for us. The Philippines airlines website has been updated to reflect the changes.

SORRY! I know this is oft-repeated question but I have not found anything recent (aka last year or so). Most of you know that Joan and I are moving to the Philippines when I retire next year (I just posted some replies to someone else who is thinking about the same thing!) Our house(s) (duplex) are moving along beautifully and on schedule (and have already survived two earthquakes and a typhoon, so we got lucky and found a terrific architect/builder.) We are scheduled to start paying for the second half of the project next month--which is a hunk of change even spread over ten month. We stand to save a lot of money with the current and projected exchange rates and we want to get the best we can. So, here is the oft-asked question: Who do you use (now) to send money? We have used:

Xoom--stupidly expensive for the kind of money we need to send with a lousy exchange rate

Remitly--Our current choice. Reliable, reasonably fast, not "fees" for transfers over $1K, clear daily, monthly and 6 monthly limits (which fit our needs), BUT not the best exchange rate (even 1 PHP per $ could save us a LOT of money)

WU--Better exchange rate even with the debit card fees (I understand that there are no fees bank to bank, but I even WU said they would be cautious giving the actual bank account information!), but we have had problems with transfers going through with them before and they don't tell you what your transmittal limits are ("You will know each time you log in." Yeah, but what if I need to make a house payment and you tell me I have reached my limit!)

Wise--Wise has been highly recommended on this site. I opened an account and found their fees to be more than I want to pay.

Has anyone used XE or World Remit? I've read ok things about them, but...I trust all of you.

Salamat as always!

Is it normal and customary to apply for all three of these documents at the same time? Trying to get this done in the easiest and fastest time possible. Are there other documents that should be done first? TIA.

With the 2-factor identification, I have to give my wife a code each time for her to log in. Is there a way to give access to my wife to our USCIS online account through her email? Can she create her own account and then just add our cases and if so would she have access to the files I uploaded?