US Immigration from Philippines

Hi! My case was ready to be scheduled for interview since April 2020. I know processing times takes between 9 to 35 months but just wondering who got their interview scheduled (not rescheduled) or had it recently.

Thank you.

We filed our 485 with 130 last june. my biometrics was taken aug10, and now uscis emailed me that they are to schedule us for testing and interview. How long will it take for the letter(noa) to come in to the mail and around how long do you think will we have to wait until the interview.

thanks.

Has anyone gone through a Psych Evaluation for their medical (specifically in Manila)?

How does this affect your application?

I just finished mine literally a few minutes ago. We were going through my timeline then the psychiatrist kinda struck a chord and made me a little teary eyed (basically still grieving for my grandpa who died 2 yrs ago).

After that detail, we wrapped up immediately and he kept saying "Good luck to you," in a creepy way. I feel like I'm being paranoid???

But how many people actually get their visas affected by things like this?

Hello! I've been browsing the forums about a week now, trying to learn as much as I can about the process.

I'm posting in the Philippines section because there's some very PH-specific context here, but please correct me if this should be moved to another section.

My fianc is actually living with me in the Philippines right now. We spent 2019 Q4 planning his move to the Philippines. He has the luxury of being able to work remotely for his US employer, while we live together for one year as a trial period before marriage.

The idea was for him to travel back and forth regularly between the PH and US. He also planned to open a PH bank account and possibly relocate for good here, depending if our relationship worked out and if he liked living in the PH more than the US.

He arrived in January 2020 on a tourist visa, and we processed his PH visa extension and ACR I-Card in March 2020. Tourist visas being so flexible in the PH, it wasn't a problem to extend his visa for several months.

However, all that changed because of the pandemic. He chose to stay here with me in the PH for most of 2020. We cancelled all our joint international and domestic travel. However, for work- and family-related reasons, he will travel back to the US in November 2020. We also decided that it's better for us long-term to live in the US.

For personal reasons, we decided to go with K-1 instead of getting married in the Philippines and filing the IR-1. We filed the K-1 visa petition for me in June 2020. We're trying to plan ahead as much as we can, and we'd like the feedback of more experienced members.

OUR QUESTION:
In other posters' opinions, are the documents we provided below sufficient? Obviously the adjudicator will evaluate our documents based on their own internal criteria, but we'd like to get others' feedback too. We're trying to anticipate possible RFE scenarios.

Supporting Documents and In-Person Meeting Evidence
1. Signed statements of intent to marry

2. Background and timeline
- we described how we met and how we both visited each other's hometowns in the US and PH in 2019, before fianc relocated here to PH in 2020.

3. Passports, visa and travel history
- For petitioner: includes passport stamps, PH tourist visa, long-term visa extension, and ACR-I card (Alien Certificate of Registration Identification card), flight and hotel bookings.
- For beneficiary: includes US B1/B2 visa (valid 10 years), passport stamps, I-94 arrival/departure records
- For both: our booked international and domestic flights showing we planned to travel together extensively. We explained all 2020 trips were fully paid but later cancelled because of the pandemic.

*** For our 2019 flights, we don't have the boarding passes any more, but since we booked everything through Expedia, there are itineraries showing the flights/hotel/trip as a whole were completed. An adjudicator could possibly check this independently by looking up the Expedia itinerary numbers.

4. Personal photos in both US and Philippines

5. Shared residence in the Philippines
- Contract of lease is under my name (beneficiary) but both our names are included in the tenant application approved by the landlord and the condominium certificate of residency.

6. Birth certificates

7. Divorce decree (petitioner)

8. Certificate of no marriage (beneficiary)

9. Passport photos

10. The usual forms (I-29f and G-1145)

I'd love to get feedback from other people on any possible RFE scenarios / other pitfalls we may need to prepare for.

IR2 NVC sent the case to US embassy Manila. What s next? NVC sent us a message that the expedited my sins case and sent it to US embassy Manila. We still didn t get any mail or phone call. We don t know what to do next, do we need to just go to St likes for medical without any notification? What papers need to be completed... thanks for the help