US Immigration from Philippines

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?

My sons are 9 and 11. Everything is done, interveiws are on January 6th. I'm not sure about the process for CFO's. I thought it would be better information to just ask all of you. We're in Tacloban City. I read the kids don't have to come, but we can't do the seminar until we have visa stamped passports.

I've been reading on what the process is for getting my wife's kids their citizenship and it might as well be written in Greek to me. I'm a multi generational U.S. citizen. My wife of 6 years has been a U.S. citizen for over a year and now her kids (ages 12 & 14) are here and we are trying to figure out the process of getting their U.S. citizenship. It's not clear to me if we need to do the same process as she went through to get her citizenship or is it much more simple and quicker? Thanks ahead for any advice...Jo&Ro

Hi Everyone - I just wanted to share our experience filing our ROM with the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Timeline and a Screen Grab of our cover letter are below. We followed the information on the consulate's website exactly. This includes the "ROM Checklist" PDF that is downloadable from the site.

Timeline:

ROM Package completed and mailed via Priority Mail on 12/5/2024

USPS Attempted Delivery - 12/7/2024 Consulate Closed on Saturday

USPS Delivered to Front Desk / Mail Room - 12/9/2024

Return package with Signed & Sealed ROM and Receipt delivered back to us - 12/20/2024

Total time for processing and return delivery from date of receipt by consulate - 11 days

Screen Grab of our cover letter with itemized contents of package (Personal Information Removed):