US Immigration from Russia

Greetings to everyone! We submitted documents for my mother's green card who is currently staying with us in the US on her B1/B2 visa for over 4 months. According to USPS tracking they were delivered over 2 weeks ago, but we still have not received a NOA and the check has not been deposited. We reside in Texas and sent the documents to the lockbox in Arizona. Later we found out that there's an address in Dallas, TX where we were supposed to submit the application to.

Can the delay of NOA be related to that and what can we do in this situation?

Hello! Me (Russian) and my partner (US citizen) have been on the process of collecting everything needed for filing the I-129F petition. Since I come from a not English-speaking country, I got confused regarding translations of our proofs. I would be really happy to know your advice or experience on following:

1. Since I've been adopted as a child of 8 y.o. I need to attach the proof of Legal Name Change, am I right? I don't use the surname I had before being adopted, but I listed it in the petition form just in case cause I'm used to do it in this kind of questions when I do paperwork for Russian legal affairs. My certificate of the adoption is in my native language. Should I hire a third party translator to legally translate it into English? I should not translate it myself since I'm not a professional, should I? If so, what are the requirements for the translator to hire?

2. We also need to provide the proof of having met in past two years and ongoing relationships. Since we gathered all proofs in one place, we realized a lot of our proofs have some parts either in Russian (since my fianc travelled to Russia to see me and used my native language in his postcards and stuff) and in Thai (since we both travelled to this country a lot to meet up). Does this mean that we also should hire third party translators to legally translate it all into English? If so, should each and every foreign word be translated? Or only those parts that make the most sense and meaning?

Thank you so much for your help to solve our confusion!

Hello, guys,

I have just received the following message from NVC:

Please submit every 2022 W-2, 1099, and Schedule form for Petitioner.

What is Schedule form, please?

My mom's I-130 petition was approved, and I've just submitted the second package of personal and financial documents at CEAC. My mother's case was sent to Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Does anyone know, how long it might take now, before we can schedule the interview?
Or maybe, there's a topic on that, if you could send me the link, where people share their terms?

Thank you!

I did dig around and found a couple of travel discussions from 2022, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to start a fresh one.

Is it possible to research flights to or from Russia these days? I've used Kayak in the past, but now they won't display search results "due to government restrictions".

The Aeroflot site won't let me on at all. I haven't tried any other carriers yet.

Do I need VPN or some <Deleted>

But seriously, what is it that people do these days to arrange travel?

Thank you.