US Immigration from Philippines

Is there anyway I could follow on the interview schedule from the US Embassy/Consulate General in Manila, Philippines. It's almost 3 months since we got the notification that NVC will work with the embassy to schedule an interview appointment but as of the moment, we have never received any interview date or any update.

Does anyone here knows what's causing the delay (I know COVID for obvious reasons)? Anything else? what's the timeline now in getting scheduled for an interview?

This is for my minor child.

FYI....For those of you who had sputum TB testing at St Luke's Medical Center in Manila....St Luke is sending medical clearances to USEM prior to the completion of their 8 weeks. My wife finished her TB sputum clearance on 11 Nov 2020, however, when she asked St Luke when they sent the medical clearance over to USEM, they said they sent her clearance over on 16 Oct 2020. Crazy!!

We interviewed in February 2020, application was approved. I have posted several times all of the problems we have encountered with this application, lost medicals, problems with SLEC and so forth. After the last mess up with USEM we increased communication with them and it seems to be working. As of today they updated status to be Administrative Processing. I thought we were in Administrative Processing for the last ten months. Does this mean we are finally get close to issue? There are no problems with our application and we have been approved so is that a light we see at the end of the tunnel or another train wreck from the Embassy?

Long post ahead*

Hello guys!

This is Lyn, the beneficiary. I would like to seek some advice here or tell us about our case. My fianc and I has a 1 year old daughter, we are currently here in Manila since last week of July. We have been waiting for my interview sched and even emailed NVC and Embassy Manila at least twice to expedite our case and we also had called them but we got no luck. NVC won't forward our case to embassy coz they have not resumed their routine visa services. Embassy then sent a response to us that they can't do anything for us until they have our case from NVC and that they have no jurisdiction of it yet. But one of their replies to us was that they have noted us for interview but can't provide a date yet.

My fianc went back to US just last Oct for work as a nurse plus his savings were getting low and gladly after a week he got his job at a covid nursing home facility. He was hoping that he could bring us with him to America this year that is why he stayed here with us. He was here since Dec. 14, 2019 then covid came so he chose to stay longer until October in order to help me with stuff as there are restrictions that I cannot do outside with the baby like groceries plus he was worried. Lockdown was still new at that time. I have no relatives with me especially with the lockdown situation.

After all our inquiries, emails, calls to NVC and US Embassy and we got nothing but wait. Depression and frustration especially for him being away from me again three times since pregnancy and now he's missing our baby's growth, he's worried of her development coz of this lockdown.

Bringing her in America with him was an option but nobody is going to take care of our daughter while working. His mom and bros are working too. (Our daughter by the way is already a US citizen(dual) with passports from both countries, we completed the CRBA last January, 2020.

He plans if we can visit him and his momma in US as a tourist while we wait for my interview for holidays and for our daughter's 2nd birthday to be held. And also in order for his momma to spend time with me and her granddaughter. So I called US embassy Manila customer service 2 days ago to check if we can apply for tourist visa with a waiting K1 interview sched. And the customer service said yes I can apply after she put me on hold to "check her resources".

I am not sure about this bec when the times we called NVC and US Embassy Manila, they were very nice and told us yes our case should be expedited but email response is different.

Anyways my questions are, is it okay to send an expedite request again to NVC for the 3rd time. And second question, what is my chance of getting a tourist visa? I am unemployed since 2019 after I gave birth, no properties etc, only thing I would come back is for my K1 Visa interview. I told these also to the cust Rep in Manila Embassy.

Thanks a lot!

Just got a review note on my step-son's IR2 I-864 file. Seems the review officer only looked at my Adjusted Gross Income on my IRS Form 1040. The note claims my income is too low for my family size of four but will leave it up to the consular officer (Manila) to sort out. I tried to point out in the remarks of the I-864, that Social Security Benefits recipients, such as myself, don't get much of their SSA benefit taxed and that only the taxable amount is included in adjusted gross income for tax purposes. Am I missing something?

Summary: My 1040 adjusted gross income was 30K, 32K is required. But, if you add up my two1099s (SSA and Army) you get 44K. I am fully retired. On top of this my fourth household member, a dual citizen son, age 17 gets his own SSA monthly benefit and its actually not a dependent for tax purposes.

So I wrote a clarification letter to the Consular for my wife and step-son to carry on their interviews.

Any words of wisdom??