US Immigration from South Korea

Hello all!

As of this weekend, the validity of me and my fiances 129f will have expired. As a police certificate took so long to acquire, we were held up in scheduling the interview. We just got the final document yesterday, but no one has revalidated our petition.

The letter to revalidate our petition arrived at the embassy on June 23 while the petition expires on the 4th of July. We have basically called every day but a week went by before they even opened the letter and though I called today and let them know everything, we never ended up hearing back. They never confirmed if they would extend even though we've paid our fees and have everything ready, and we even asked if we could schedule our interview now but they said that we should not on the phone today.

As the petition will now expire, my fiance and I are so anxious. Even though we have no reason to not show our intent to proceed, we are so worried why no one is extending. Does anyone have advice

Hi all,

Anyone still waiting for their case from Texas Service Center (SRC)??? We have been waiting for over 2 years now which is crazy.

My wife s case was filed in 05/24/2019 and her NOA1 was 05/31/2019.

She did her Biometrics on November of 2019 and no update since. Her 18 months extension expired and we had to call and schedule an infopass. They did give her another year of extension and took her expired green card away.

we have done two case inquiries online and all we are getting from them is they said they are sorry for taking this long and they are trying hard to move things quicker blah blah blah. But I ve seen people get approved within 4 months at the service center...

Any idea what we should do next?

Thank you all.

Hello everyone,

My fiance has acquired all of his documents for our interview , but one last police certificate has held us up. He spent a little under a year in the Philippines when he was 16, and thus needs a police certificate from there.

The whole process from getting an appointment and sending in the materials and waiting for it in the mail has taken him almost 3 months, and still he has yet to receive the police certificate in the mail.

I'm pretty much guessing that all we can do is wait ( we also requested for our petition approval to be extended just recently too as it has taken so long. )

We have been unable to contact anyone in the Philippines about the status and he also has no contacts in the Philippines that can assist.

Does anyone have advice for how we can proceed? Is the only option to just wait it out and hope for the best? Pretty sure that they wouldn't be able to exempt us from needing the certificate, correct?

Thanks so much in advance.

Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is a correct forum to ask but I have a question for my wife that had been approved as a conditional permanent resident.

We did the civil ceremony for the wedding on August~September on 2019 and applied for the green card and my wife got her conditional green card a couple of months ago.

We are now planning on doing the actual wedding in our home country, which is South Korea, this coming winter.
People are not advising us to go out of the country until the condition has been removed just to be safe for more than a couple of months while my wife is planning on staying there for at least 3 months.

Is this not a safe thing to do while you have a conditional green card?

Hello all,

I am currently married to my wife who came from South Korea through a K-1 visa. She has since attained permanent residency and has a green card. She is currently in the process of trying to be naturalized here in the US (which I know will take some time). She has a son in South Korea (from a previous marriage) that we would like to bring over to the US to live with us.

I was looking through the immigration guidelines and I understand that I have to file I-130 to bring him over, but I was looking also at the Follow-To-Join Benefits section and it says:

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Your spouse and/or children may be eligible for following-to-join benefits if:

• The relationship existed at the time you became a permanent resident and still exists, AND
• You received an immigrant visa or adjusted status in a preference category.

My wife and I obviously still are married so the first part applies, but I am confused about the second part. If my wife came to the US through a K-1 visa and has since attained her green card (permanent resident status) here, do I have to go through the process of filing the I-130 or can I just file Form I-824 for the Follow-to-Join benefits? I am not sure if the K-1 visa is in a "preference category" as the second part states.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!