US Immigration from South Korea

Hello, I need the most recent info on this.

My fiance is a U.S. Navy, and he's currently living in the base barracks.

We're preparing for the upcoming interview at the U.S. Embassy in Korea right now, and we aren't sure if we have to provide the U.S. residence address to the interviewer and/or the physician at the clinic.

Since the interview requirements said he needs to submit his financial evidence that he can support me, he said we need to get the lease as a proof for the interview and other stuff.

But since he already showed that he is able to support me financially, can I tell the interviewer that he's living in barracks right now but we plan to get an apartment when I arrive to the states? And that I will stay at an inn or something while he's looking for a place for us to stay, if need be.
I just think it's a waste of rent money for each month for him to get a house when I won't even be able to stay with him.

Would this be an issue during the interview process and providing the U.S. address at the health examination?

Please help!

Thank you.

Hi everyone!

My husband and I are gathering everything we need to submit his I-751 application this summer. We currently live in an apartment and we will probably not be living here for the next 4 years as we want to buy a house. Obviously, processing times are horrible right now, so we want to get a PO Box for our mailing address for all his communications moving forward to ensure there aren't any issues (so many horror stories online of cards getting lost)

I can't find a straight answer on many topics here. Can you use a PO Box for the mailing address for the i-751 application? Do we also update his AR-11 with the mailing address and just repeat the physical address in the "previous physical address" and "new physical address" sections?

Thank you for any guidance and help!

Hello folks, come first week of April we'll be submitting my wife's I-751. So far these are what I've gathered and hoping to get some feedback since we don't have a joint bank account, thank you!

- Copies of both of our state IDs, one from previous state & current state we live in

- Copies of apartment leases, first & last page only, showing both names as the tenants at the same address and signatures

- Print outs of IRS Tax Return Transcripts, filed as married filing joint (2024, 2023, 2022)

- Copies of my latest employer provided medical and dental insurance card/plan, showing both names

- Print outs of previous year's (2024, 2023, 2022) employer provided insurance and benefits selections, showing both names

- Print outs of wife as beneficiary for 401K, IRA, and HSA

- Copy of our current car insurance card, showing both names

- Print out of car insurance policy update when wife was added back in 2022

- Print out of credit card confirmation page adding wife as an authorized user

- Copies of photos: one with just the two of us (2022), one at a friend's wedding with friends (2024), and one with another couple during NYE (2024)

- Copies of mails and contents addressed to both of us (2022, 2023)

Hello, so we are waiting on my wife's IR1/CR1 visa interview at the US Embassy in Seoul. I have found the NVC stage to be much more opaque than the USCIS stage, with few data points to go off of. So I am posting this information here, in case it may be helpful for others.

So there is a Naver Cafe called Mijunmo ( ) that my wife uses. It is all in Korean though, and obviously focuses on the Seoul Embassy primarily. People there are pretty good on there about posting their timelines, including DQ dates, interview letter (IL) received dates, and actual interview dates. I do speak Korean, so I went through posts there from this summer and last summer to collate those timelines into a spreadsheet. I didn't record every single one cause it was a bit time-intensive hunting through the forums, but tried to get a good sample. I will attach a PDF of that spreadsheet here.

You can see for the past year DQ to IL wait times average about 30 days, and DQ to interview wait times average 80 days. However, do note that recently the Seoul Embassy is taking a lot longer. Many of us who were DQ'ed in May still have not received interview letters (roughly 90 days ago). You can also see in the spreadsheet that there is a lot of inconsistency in how cases are handled. Even though NVC does mostly go "first in/first out" as they say, there are times that doesn't happen. Also occasionally cases seem to get skipped over for later ones.

Seoul Embassy Interview Timelines.pdf

I recently got an RFE because when we submitted tax documents for my joint sponsor we submitted 2022 tax documents, she filed an extension for 2023 because she has such complicated taxes to do. My question is, if we can't get the tax documents for 2023 right now can she submit her significant assets INSTEAD of the 2023 tax return? Or do both need to be submitted?

The tax return probably will not be ready until October of this year.

Thank you in advance.