US Immigration from Philippines

Thank you all so much!

Still waiting for the visas to arrive, but we are at least approved for the visas!

Hi all,

I'm just double checking what is acceptable at the Interview for Financial Documents. I have my 2023 tax return and supporting documents for that already uploaded and accepted on the CEAC website and my wife's IR-1 interview is scheduled for next month. On the travel.state.gov website it seems to indicate that my wife needs to physically bring the AoS I-864, tax return and supporting documents linked to that to the Visa Interview, but doesn't specify that these docs need to be original or certified in some way. Most of my financial docs are just printed, but SOME were mailed to me like W2s and I can use those. I have 2 tax docs from Uber/Lyft that were available on their website and I just printed them, is that okay to use or does it need to be mailed to me from them? Also I'm assuming I can just print paystubs my employer emails to me for proof of current income as well? Thanks so much!

Hello, my spouse received a 221 g for my low income. I'm retired and have well over the minimum amount of 125% of the poverty level. They are cash assets in the bank. It's as if the consular officer in Manila didn't look at any of my bank account statement. I submitted 12 months. I have a brokerage account and an IRA.

I'm retired and I don't have any joint sponsers. I don't need any because I qualify to use assets based on the policy.

The consular absolutely refused to look at the financial docs that my spouse brought.

Hey all, just hoping for some clarification on document requirements for all the immigration appointments my wife will attend.

For all 3 appointments (Biometrics, Medical & Interview) it lists either an Interview Appointment Notification or Interview Appointment Letter as a document requirement. The US Embassy Manila never notified us of an interview date, we had to self schedule my wife's IR-1 interview once her case status changed to "ready." The only notification I ever received was the NVC telling me that the Manila Embassy had "expedited" our case and everyone in the immigration community told us that meant we had to schedule ourselves. The Embassy never contacted us after that.

My questions are:

1). What would we use for that document requirement then?

2). I'm assuming Interview Appointment Notification/Letter is the same thing? Screenshot of the VAC requirements attached.

3). There is also a requirement of the completed DS-260 on the VAC checklist. Does this mean that in addition to the DS-260 Confirmation we need the entire printout of the filled out form?

Thank you!

I petitioned my 2 unmarried children above 21 yo in April 2018 at the same time and I am a US Citizen. One case has an update in May 2024 that it was moved to ELIS while the other one has not been moved yet as of this writing.

Will there be any difference in processing their petitions?

How long would you estimate before their visas will be available? They're in the Philippines.

Thanks and God bless.