US Immigration from Philippines

Hello everyone. My mother-in-law just passed her tourist visa interview the other day, visa has been issued, so we re expecting her to have it in hand within the next week. Does anyone have the most up to date departure requirements? My main concern is the travel insurance. When I look it up, some sources say it s still requested, others say it isn t. If anyone has had someone fly in the passed week, what documents did they have? Thank you.

I got married to my Filipina roughly two months ago and we are already having issues. I know no marriage is perfect and all relationships require constant work. But I'm at the end of my rope and need some help.

I'm 41 and she's 27. Neither of us have been married previously, but she has two young children who believe I'm their real dad. We are very attracted to each other. She's currently 6 weeks pregnant.

She's a bit immature in my opinion. I currently work full time while she stays at home. Many times, she spends all day on her phone or watching TV rather than helping with household chores. I come home from work frequently to the house messy. Food from breakfast and lunch and dirty dishes all over the place. Sometimes she will do laundry and then leave the clean clothes in the basket for days staying wrinkled.

We seem to argue a ton about money. I am a very frugal person and this immigration process and the wedding cost me a ton of money. I'm still young and trying to save for retirement, keep a budget and provide for my family at the same time. Her idea is that I provide even if I have to take out loans to buy things she thinks we need but are more wants than anything else.

Anyhow, yesterday we took the kids to their biometric appointment as part of the AOS process. Afterwards we were going to take the kids to the local zoo. On the way, as I was driving through busy afternoon traffic, she was teasing me and pulled on my face and nose covering my eyes so I couldn't see the road. I nearly caused an accident because of it and got upset. So I hit her in the shoulder to get her attention. I don't think I hit her very hard, but according to her it caused bruising.

We got to the zoo and she was obviously upset and crying. I tried to get her to talk, but she just pushed me away and told me she wasn't going with us. She ended up staying with the car while I took the two kids. We came back two hours later and she's vanished. She wouldn't answer phone calls, or messages for hours. I had no idea where she, so we just waited and waited. She responded to messages, but it's vague responses not to worry about her, that I don't care about her and that she doesn't love me anymore. She says she's with friends. Yet, I wasn't sure and didn't want to leave her.

So we ended up waiting 9 hours and she never shows up. So I end up driving an hour back home with the kids and no wife and no answers really as to where she is.

Today she messages me while I am at work and asks me to bring the kids back to where we were the previous day. She's obviously still upset by the way she's responding and very vague answers. I drove the kids an hour back and we wait almost 90 min for her to show with a Filipina friend that I don't know. Anyway, my wife is not making any visual contact. Keeps her back to me the entire time I am helping the kids into their car seats and handing over some clothing to her friend.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do at this point. I'm upset because my kids are gone and they are upset that daddy is gone. They were pulled out of school a week before their last day. The youngest is supposed to graduate kindergarten on Tuesday. I have all their stuff at the house. Clothes, toys, identification including passports. With my wife being pregnant, she has upcoming prenatal appointments to be to and I'm concerned about her and the kids getting the care they need. Especially now that she has no money, nor insurance information on her.

Is this just some silly tampo fit and she will realize the predicament she's put herself and the kids in?

My wifes sisters are 12 and 23. Both would like to come to the usa but the family cannot provide evidence of financial ties to the Philippines as they are very poor. Is there any chance that their very modest house which they do not have a title for would be considered by the visa officer? Is it even worth applying for a J1 or student visa without being able to show financial ties to the Philippines?

I can provide tax returns to show I can support them in the USA but we have no evidence of their financial ties to the Philippines. Should I just give up? It seems the visa officer will think they will overstay their visa and deny them.

I am happy and grateful to announce that my filipina fiancee has been issued her k1 visa according to the ceac website. I have messaged her about it and I'm waiting to hear from her. I am guessing she will receive notification when her visa is ready to be picked up. She is in her province in Eastern samar right now and she will have to go to Manila to pick her visa up. The reason is due to the fact I didn't realize at the time that I scheduled her interview that I would have to decide where her visa would be delivered to and at the time I didn't think it would take very long so I picked the nearest lbc residence in Manila. So she will have to fly to Manila to pick it up once she is informed that it is ready for pickup. I assume once again she will be notified about this but I'm hoping someone can let me know for sure. I will help her with getting her cfo seminar scheduled after she has the visa in her hand.

I am waiting for my Filipina fiancee's k1 visa to be approved and issued but in the meantime I am thinking in the hopeful near future. I am wondering how soon after she finally has her visa in her hand can she schedule to have the cfo seminar? I will pay the uscis immigration fee first and get that taken care of but I am wondering if there is any kind of waiting time for this seminar or can she get scheduled right away. From what I am researching it looks like she will be able to to do everything online and not have to go anywhere for this but I want to make sure. I am slightly confused about what all she needs to do with the seminar itself. I believe she will have to do another interview with a counselor or someone like that but I am trying to find out if she needs to do anything else to get the sticker and certificate. I don't want to get too far ahead of things because she is still waiting for her k1 visa to be issued but I am trying to get ready in advance.