US Immigration from Philippines

Do I still need to go to VAC or is this good enough being done at St Lukes?

Hello, I am preparing to file a K1 visa petition for my fiance.
I have followed some helpful guides found here and on YouTube to prepare the form and packet.
A few questions remain, I thought others with similar experiences might have advice:

1. When listing petitioner's address history: petitioner has been staying in the Philippines (mostly) for about 1.5 yrs (including full duration of the relationship with beneficiary) as a temporary visitor (tourist visa extensions), (during which made a few short trips to other nearby countries). I have a home in the US (my official 'residence') (and file taxes there the normal way, with no foreign income exclusion).
   Is my assumption that address(s) 'lived' at in PH while a tourist, not a resident of the Philippines should be excluded under petitioner's address history, with my current address to 'present' being my US address?
2. When listing petitioner and beneficiary's employment history, both of us had a period of self-employment during a portion of the past 5 years. Should we list: 'Employer: Self-Employed' with 'Employer's Address' matching our personal residential addresses at the time?
3. When utilizing G-1145 for e-notifications, do you get notified only once for the NOA1 upon case being received, or do you also receive text/email notifications when NOA2 and next steps like NVC processing starts? Since I will be staying overseas during the processing, I am planning to have the mail deliver to my US address with family able to retrieve it -- would be nice to know when a document is likely to have been delivered there.
4. If either party has a legal name change in the past, apart from listing the former name under 'Other Names Used', is it smart and/or necessary to include a copy of the name change court order with the petition packet? Was planning on including a scanned copy. (note: all documents/IDs used in petition reflect current legal name).
5. Any issue with initially mailing the packet from a family member's different US address (different from petitioner's address) to the USCIS Lockbox? I (petitioner) will still use my own US address in the petition itself.

Thank you

Hello,

I would like to know what will happened to my approved petition to unmarried daughter over 21yrs old. I over stayed abroad due to covid and I now back to U.s from repetition process.

Brief Background: My fianc had her consulate interview on 12/3; the consulate officer said she passed, but she would need to submit a new National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Clearance. My fianc submitted the correct NBI few hours after the interview (same-day). We never received an actually G221 form, but her CEAC status changed to 'REFUSED', which after having a heart attack assuming REFUSED = DENIED, we called them and found out that 'REFUSED' is used for G221. Well it just updated today to 'READY', so curious if that is a positive sign? PS: I know this is completely independent of the decision, but due to some miscommunication and me being an idiot, I already purchased the travel ticket for her to come to the US at the end of January, so I'm praying she receives her visa before then and just curious if there is a reasonable chance?

Timeline:

• Medical: Nov 5
• OFC: Nov 23
• Consulate: Dec 3
• G221 Submission: Dec 3
• CEAC Update From 'Refused' to 'Ready': Dec 27

My wife just took her oath ceremony last week for US citizenship and now we are looking to the next step which is getting her dual Philippines citizenship. It is my understanding that she would go to the consulate and would submit the required paperwork and possibly have an interview (what would this consist of). Then she could apply for a new Philippines passport and have dual citizenship. Am I missing anything here? To complicate things a bit my 17 year old step son is also now a citizen. But we have to file his N600 to get his certificate. Are we better off doing both of their dual citizenships at the same time and waiting for my step sons naturalization certificate or should we just get my wife's done right away and do his when he gets his certificate? There is a possibility we will be traveling to the Philippines before he receives his naturalization certificate and would be staying longer than 30 days so im wondering if this would affect balikbayan visas in any way.

On to our next issue. Report of birth to the Philippines consulate for our 11 month old and 7 year old born here in the US. Looking on the Philippines consulate website it says children reported over a year after birth require a notarized explanation for the delay. My wife and I simply didn't know about this requirement when our 7 year old son was born and our daughter is right on the borderline at 11 months. What explanation should we give for the delay in registering our son? What benefits does this process give our children?