US Immigration from Philippines

I m guessing others who are doing the k1 visa process with the Philippines are probably going through this as well. St Luke s medical extension clinic rescheduled my fianc e s swab and medical exam appointment without even asking us first. Now we will have to reschedule because the appointments are way too soon and she doesn t have all her paperwork together. This is really not a question but just a statement of frustration. I will probably have to make a new interview appointment as well for the visa. Just wondering if anyone else is going through this type of issue with the medical exam for the Philippines.

My fianc is attempting to do the DS-160 application. I have been attempting to use the State Department image tool https://tsg.phototool.state.gov/photo to prepare a picture to upload. We have been spending an unreasonable amount of time just trying to figure out how to get an image to work on here. It seems it will only accept a low quality image, however, when I try to reduce the image size, it gets compressed and the image is always rejected due to compression. My fianc has no electricity this week, so it is extremely difficult to transmit images because there is no light and it is hard to charge the phone. The cell coverage is so spotty that we can only get a few messages a day to each other but that seems to be normal where she lives. I have an image from her, but obtaining a new one will be difficult. We've spent almost a week on this step and it has delayed our process. If anyone has any tips on how to get an image ready for upload, I would appreciate it greatly.

- I have been in a relationship with my Filipina wife for over 4 years, and we just got married through Utah zoom call in December of 2021.

- I have come to the Philippines 7 times to see her. We have lots of pics together in different places, and with her family and friends...but none of them were taken with the camera timestamp feature turned on. I can add time/place captions underneath the pics, but I don't know whether those are considered valid.

- I can print the flight tickets and hotel reservations that were emailed to me from all my previous trips, but I have read that you need the actual boarding passes. I threw those out once I was done with my flights.

- We are young (both in our 20s) and we have no combined finances or jointly owned property. I have sent her money plenty of times through Western Union and World Remit, but that's it.

- Last month I filed my taxes for 2021 as "married filing separately" because I had read that it is difficult to file jointly with the IRS if your spouse is a nonresident alien. However, I'm now reading that the USCIS only considers joint tax returns or combined finances as strong evidence of a real marriage.

So basically, I'm worried that they will deny my application because of lack of evidence. Should I try amending my tax return, opening a joint bank account etc. in order to create stronger evidence for my case? Wouldn't they consider it suspicious if I do that right before submitting my I-130?

Thanks for the help.

So I've been scouring this site for some information but I cannot find a thread with my exact dilemma, I kindly ask for some wisdom. My wife arrived here in the US on Sept 2021, got married Nov 2021, and filled for Adjustment of Status (I-485) short after. She got her Biometrics on January and we've been waiting for the next step ever since.

Tax Season.

She has not worked the entire 2021 foreign or domestic, and we applied for an SSN through the AOS (I-485) form. I'm aware that I cannot file my taxes jointly without SSN or ITIN, however, I don't quite understand how the W7 form works. As I've read, W7 has to be sent off together with my forms when I file my taxes but I thought it would be rejected without the SSN/ITIN? And then I have to contact an Acceptance Agent to verify her foreign status in order to receive the ITIN number? How will I include that number in my file?

1.) Is it possible to re-apply for an SSN through the SSA?

2.) File for an extension to wait for the SSN?

3.) Married Filling Separately since she has no work/income?

Kindly,

Thank you

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