US Immigration from Philippines

Hello,

My wife's children had their IR2 interviews recently. According to her, everything went well and they will receive their passports in about 1-2 weeks.

We had originally scheduled the interviews on ustraveldocs.

I had two questions:

1) How will they know when to pick up the passports at the courier address website? When we log in to the ustraveldocs, it doesn't say anything anymore. I think my wife said that they will contact the phone number we provided or something.

2) "What do I need to do before I travel? You must pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) after you receive your immigrant visa and before you travel to the United States." So, if we do not pay this, will they (the children) be allowed to board a flight to the U.S.? My wife is a U.S. citizen.

Sorry for the stupid question here...

1. If you create an account and do the "file online" option, can you enter as much as you can now and save your work to complete later or do you have to do it all i n one shot?

2. Do you scan documents to upload there as well or do they need actual physical copies of the documents (birth certs, divorce decrees, etc.)?

I searched VJ archives but didn't really come up with good answers.

What is an efficient way to reduce the quantity of pages printed for the ROC packet, without sacrificing quality? I want to present lots of high-quality evidence, but I also don't want to overwhelm the adjudicating officer.

I'm about a year away from filing ROC but I'm being proactive about saving evidence. Everything's in digital form right now, but already I can see that it will be a LOT of pages when the time comes to print.

The main problem is that the following items are our strongest evidence of a bonafide marriage, but they take up a LOT of space. We have monthly statements for:

• 3 credit cards
• 1 joint bank account
• 1 joint investment account

I don't see a way to eliminate the CC statements because 99% of our joint expenses are on these cards. We rotate between the cards to maximize CC rewards. Our joint bank account doesn't have too many transactions, but we use it to pay off all the CCs. Most of our assets are in the joint investment account.

We have plenty of other evidence that won't take up too many pages:

• tax return transcripts
• proof of common residence
• flight/hotel bookings
• joint insurance
• joint phone plan
• select photos with family

But the way I see it, the CCs, bank account and inv account are our strongest ROC evidence. Do I just suck it up and accept that it'll be a fat stack of papers to print next year?

Hello VJ!

Today I renew my Phi passport in Chicago, waiting period is 4-8 weeks or early. Now my question is im confused if my new passport arrive can i change my passport # and my maiden name to married name during gc interview? and if my AP comes first do i have to tell them to change the passport # cos i renew it?

I dont know if you understand what im saying, pls bear with me. Thank you

Hi! My parents got their visa and they have to leave the Philippines before November. I am currently overseas because of work and won't be back in the states until next year. On their application and during interview, we told the embassy that they will be staying in GA. With our family situation, it might be best for them to stay with my aunt in California. Will it be an issue if point of entry is different? Anyone here can lay out the process once they arrive in the airport as far as immigration is concerned? They can barely speak English so I would like to give them a rough rundown of what's gonna happen before they leave the airport upon arrival in the US. Thank you!