US Immigration from Philippines

Hi, This is really Patricia, Ruby's MIL and I have questions.

I am making up their Interview packets for 5 people. I have pictures for each, but can I just have one set of pictures that she can show for all of them, or does each packet need the pictures. Basically the same question for taxes, marriage certificates, and my son's passport. does each packet need an original of PSA, and copies of other stuff. So much paperwork for 5 people plus a 6th one coming to me in Mexico, where she was accepted to University!

Gracias everyone and best of luck to you all.

I'm trying to get information on bringing my Filipino wife children to the US. the son is 12 and the daughter is 8. I was looking on the site and it says I have to file a K4 but it also says I-130. I'm confused on which to file. She is already here on a K1 visa and she has been here for 2 years and we are about to upgrade to a 10 year green card for her.

Hello,

I just want to ask if I can petition my parents while they are in the US on a tourist visa? For example, if my parents arrived in the US as tourists but while they are here, I changed my mind and decided to petition them to live permanently in the US instead. Is this allowed without the need to go back to the Philippines because they are only tourists and to wait there while the papers are still in process?

i would appreciate a response please.

Thank you.

When my wife obtained her Fiance Visa and came with me to Florida, it was July 2009. After about half a year, when she was a Permanent Resident, she filed a Petition to bring her Son here too. His category was Non Married Son Over The Age 21. The Visa was immmediately approved, and that started the absurd 12 Year Wait for an Available Visa. I personally tracked the changes every month with the date of his Priority Period, and that date was finally reached around March of 2021. That began a need to send more documents, because NVC insisted I wasn't added as a Family Member eligible to be on the application. Moral of the story is a couple of additional requests from them for more evidence and documents stretched things to this past March 10, 2022. This is when we received a letter from the NVC stating that ALL DOCUMENTS WERE NOW RECEIVED AND APPROVED.

Now this whole ordeal just continues to go on and on, since the NVC sent the Completed Documents to the Embassy in Manila Philiippines for an Interview. In the two months that have passed, we have not once received anything from the Embassy in Manila regarding receiving her Son's papers and scheduling of an Interview. I've gone online to the US Embassy in the Philippines to see if I can get any sense of what they are doing. The best I came up with is a page called the CONTACT page, on which you can file an Inquiry. That page also has a paragraph saying how slow things are right now, and indicating that as of April 30, 2022 they were currently working on Interviews for cases whose Documents were COMPLETE at the NVC in the Month of January 2022. I completed for my wife an Inquiry back those first days of May, asking if they could expedite her Son's Interview. I mentioned that my Wife sent him back to a four year University degree as an RN, while waiting for the twelve years to pass. I suggested in the Inquiry that it would help the US to bring him here sooner than later. We've of course heard nothing.

Can anyone give us some input on what we are in for; especially, with the Embassy being the one in Manila. Has anyone had their Son or Daughter get an Interview in the last few months in Manila? If so can you tell us what the date was that the NVC said your documents were ACCEPTED AND COMPLETE.

It's been many years since I was first one who looked for answers, and then helped others by contributing answers, after I filed a Fiance Visa for my wife to get here in April 2008. My fellow members back then were wonderful with help and advice, and I'm hoping that now fifteen years later I'll receive some help again.

Thank you,

Carl

Hello,

Asking a question for my sister. They filed IR1-IR2/CR1-CR2 last year. They received a letter stating that they didn't send a document that's needed for her daughter's paperwork in March. My sister's status has changed yesterday to appointment ready for interview, but her daughter is still not updated. Is there any of you guys know how long will be the waiting time for her daughter's status change to interview appointment ready? Thanks in advance!