US Immigration from Philippines

Hi everyone,

I m seeking advice regarding my N-400 naturalization application, which was denied recently. I applied under INA section 319(b), as my spouse is a U.S. citizen employed as a civilian pipefitter for the Department of Defense (DoD) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. His job requires annual temporary duty (TDY) assignments abroad, including multiple deployments to Japan over the past 10 years.

The denial was based on the officer's determination that my spouse didn t meet the one-year continuous residence requirement overseas. However, TDY assignments are unpredictable and can be cut short or extended based on the nature of the job. I ve read that under INA 319(b), spouses of U.S. citizens regularly engaged in qualifying overseas employment may be exempt from the continuous residence and physical presence requirements.

Can anyone confirm if my spouse s role with the DoD qualifies as "qualifying overseas employment" under INA 319(b)? Has anyone faced a similar situation with TDY assignments and successfully received naturalization?

Thank you for your guidance!

Hi folks,

My step son got his AOS approved last month (November 9th). As part of the I-485 application process, we requested a social security card for him. We have not received any information on his SSN since receiving his green card. We initially tried to get him a SSN when he initially entered the country like we did with his mother, but the SSN office told us that he could not apply for it before the AOS. I am not sure if we need to continue to wait for his SSN to arrive or if we need to go down to the local SSN office & try to get him one ourselves. Can anyone shed some light on the subject?

Thanks!

Kawika

Fianc had her visa interview about 3 weeks ago for a K1 visa in Manila and they told her that she was approved and collected her passport. We are still showing as "Ready" on the CEAC website. Before the interview, we did have to submit a different DS-160 due to a couple mistakes on the first one. We brought that to the interview and they accepted it, as they told us to do. We have still not received her passport back so I made an inquiry and received this response:

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I was notified today that our case has been transferred from the NVC to the U.S. Embassy in Manila. I have completed the DS-160 and filled out most of the visa application on the U.S. Visa Scheduling website. However, I am encountering an issue on the final page, where it requests our NVC case number and payment option. When I attempt to submit the information, I receive the following error: "The Case Number entered is invalid. Please confirm your Case Number and re-enter it."

Currently, our CEAC status shows as "In Transit." Do I need to wait until it changes to "Ready" before I can pay the visa fee?

Hello VJ!

Does anyone know the current process to get an NBI clearance for travel to the US? Is this something that you're supposed to make a regular multi-purpose appointment for and then ask for verbally for travel to US purposes?

On the NBI website we don't see this an an option, no matter what we select the receipt says "multi-purpose." My wife's parents already have the multi-purpose one, so we're trying to get another more recent one with the correct verbiage/color or whatever is needed.

I keep finding conflicting information.

Thank you!