US Immigration from Philippines

Hi all,

I helped my wife schedule her biometrics and interview appointment for her IR-1 visa on the https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/en/immigrant-visa website. I saw on one of the guides that you need to pay a visa fee of some sort before you are even able to schedule an appointment, but it never prompted us to pay. Did we do anything wrong? Thanks so much for any advice!

This would be for TB follow up mostly. I see the website says M-F only, just asking.

I am currently living in the Philippines with my fianc and we are trying to decide between getting married in the Philippines and applying for a CR-1 visa or waiting to get married and applying for a K1 visa and get married in the US.

Currently the processing time for a CR-1 visa in about 12-16 months and the processing time for a K1 visa is showing at about 4-7 months. We would like to take advantage of the shorter processing time but only if we can continue to live together in the Philippines. Looking at all the information I can find on the internet, it is not clear to us weather I need to return to US to process the K1 visa and wait for her to travel to the US after she receives the visa or if I can file for and have processed the visa while we continue to live in the Philippines. We are both retired in our respected countries so getting her a work permit upon arrival US is not an issue.

If anyone has had experience with this, can you please let us know.

I ve been staying primarily in the Philippines for about 1.5 years (as a visitor with visa extensions, and I ve also made a few trips nearby countries).

My original residence is in the United States where I still own my house, and have continued to file normal US tax returns.

My question is this: When filling out the petitioner's address history on the K-1 petition, should I include or exclude the address I ve stayed at in the Philippines, since I m here as a temporary visitor and not a "resident", and list only my U.S. address as my present address, along with my previous 5 yrs of US addresses?

Curious if any other folks who have filed a K1 Petition while living or staying for extended periods overseas have faced this dilemma.

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