US Immigration from Philippines

My wife & I were married in the Philippines on October 4 2024.I just filed our I-130 spouse visa today. It took just over a month to get the marriage certificate from PSA. I had 15 areas of extra evidence and hoping for the best.

Hi all,

Thank you so much for any advice. So finally the NVC sent me an email that told me they expedited my wife's IR-1 case to the Manila Embassy and told me to wait for a notification from the embassy regarding the Interview date. I still have not received any notification from them, but I have been told on this forum that they are not consistent at sending notifications at the right time so once my wife's visa status changes to "Ready" that this means we can schedule the interview online as well as the medical, etc. So yesterday I realized that it now does say "Ready," but I just wanted to confirm that I can go to the online appointment website at USTravelDocs to schedule it without worrying about waiting for any official word from the Manila Embassy itself? Thank you!

My mother in law filed a petition for her unmarried daughter and son last 2016. My in law was a green card holder that time. My sister in law is currently pregnant but is unmarried with her boyfriend. My question is, will she be able to bring the baby here in the usa? And how will she be able to bring her partner as well?

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