US Immigration from Thailand

Good morning, something has been in the back of my mind so I thought I would ask here. My fianc and I are planning a wedding in October in Thailand. We have been together for over 2 years and I have traveled to Thailand last year to meet her. We decided on the CR1 path for us. My question is she has 3 boys, 2 are over 18 and have their own lives, but the youngest is 14 and he lives with his father. Also none of them have any desire to move to the USA. Will that be an issue when we apply for the visa to bring her here? Thank you.

Currently in Thailand scheduled to return to states in mid-September.
Baby is due in Jan 2024.

My work rotation won t allow me back in Thailand until March or April 2024.
Already planning the consular birth report to get everything setup for citizenship/passport. Putting as much together that I m aware of for impending applications.

So should we wait until after the birth to apply for the K1?

I think we even still have time to get married here (Thailand) if that helps. Looked at the Zoom Utah wedding too to try and understand if that s an option. One concern with leaving unmarried is getting the birth legitimized in Thailand if we do wait and get married in the states. Birth certificates here mean very little in terms of if anything were to happen to the mother. And the visa situation is getting worse by the day as immigration is seriously cracking down on nearly every visa scheme which is why I m worried to come back in as a tourist instead of applying for a marriage visa or at least showing immigration upon return that I plan on changing to a non-o visa based on marriage or Thai child.

if we wait until after I will probably have to hire an attorney in Thailand to help facilitate as much as possible because of my work situation and other personal issues.

is there a prep thread here for getting everything together for the application and subsequent requests for other docs?

Thanks! And I ll prob be floating in many threads from here out so if I post in the wrong category my bad !!

Hi all, our I-129F was approved on 6/19/23 and we have still not received anything from the NVC. The letter said it should be processed within 4 weeks - are they just delayed right now? I submitted an inquiry through the NVC's system on 8/1 and received an automatic reply that it had been received but nothing sincer.

Also, was there some step we missed in terms of sending forms? The letter says we just wait until processing, then are assigned an interview time, and while waiting for that time to come it was my impression we'd complete any required forms as well as medical exams, etc. Is that how it works?

Thanks,

We are 80% finished completing our I-130 online. Just wrapping up the final proof of marriage docs. I logged in this afternoon to attach the files in the relevant spots and I received the error: Unable to upload your documents. Please try again later. I chalked it up to higher than normal traffic or some other tech phenomena that should not be cause for panic. Just tried to login again and was unable. Waited an hour, tried again and was able to login but received this error and I am still unable to upload files.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I think everything is probably ok but I want to check.
We filed our I-130 in Aug 2022 and just received the approval notice (which I think is also known as NoA 2, is that right?).

There seems to be some contradictory information.

Our Case Status Page says "nothing is outstanding at this time" and they'll let us know if they need anything.

but

The Approval Notice PDF doc says "submit a copy of this notice, along with a Form I-485".

Do they mean that we should do that right now, or is this just sort of a heads-up as to what we'll need to do down the road (and so we should do nothing right now)?

Also, the visajourney Step-by-Step guide says that the NoA would "indicate... the forwarding of your approved petition to the NVC" but I don't see where our approval notice says anything about that. It acts like the NVS has it, but doesn't say anything about it being forwarded to them - but maybe I'm just not understanding the process. Is the simple fact that we got this document the "indication" that the Guide is talking about?

I've attached screenshots of the bits below. Is there something weird going on, or is this the usual procedure (and so we should just wait for further contact)? If we do just wait, is the next thing expected the "welcome letter" people mention and then the interview preparation packet with its associated To Do list?

Thank you.