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Thanks Lucky Cat!

My wife has been in the US for over 5 years now.  She is preparing to apply for citizenship.  However, we moved 3 years ago and she never gave USCIS our new addresses.  If she changes it now, will she get in trouble? 

We’re supposed to provide a “self-addressed return envelope, with appropriate stamps for express or priority mail with tracking numbers via US Post Service, if Passport is to be mailed back.”  I assume the passports will be mailed to us from the Embassy in Washington DC, not Manila (since they instruct to use US Postal Service).  Correct?  Also, both my daughter and wife are getting their passports renewed; do I need a separate envelope for each of them or can they mail them together?

Thanks again everyone.

My wife is going to renew her Philippine passport at the Embassy of the Philippines in Washington DC.  On the “Renewal Regular Passport Application Form” it asks for a “Present Address” and a “Home Address.”  Since my wife is a permanent resident of the US, wouldn’t the addresses be the same?

Thanks again Hank.

Thanks to everyone, especially Hank.  They define dual citizen by birth as a child born in USA when either parent was a Philippine citizen.  However, my child was born in the Philippines with one parent a Philippine citizen and the other (me) a US Citizen.  I would assume that she would also have dual citizenship by birth, but it doesn’t say that anywhere.  

My daughter was born in Philippines and resides in the USA.  She has dual USA and Philippine citizenship.  She has both a US passport and Philippine passport.  I want to renew her passport at the Philippine Embassy in Washington DC.  On the Philippine Embassy website it says I must bring “Proof that the applicant is not a US/Foreign citizenen.”  Well, she is a US citizen, so obviously I don’t have such proof.  Does that mean she cannot renew her Philippine passport.

My wife's POE was Guam. In Guam they gave her a thin envelope with USPHS written on it and told her to turn it into the Public Health Service. How do we turn this into the Public Health Service? We asked our local health department, and they didn't know what we should do.

My daughter has both a US Passport and a Philippines passport. Do I need to show both when checking in for flight out of Philippines to US? Since she was born in the Philippines, her US passport does not have stamp showing entry ino the Philippines.

The Varicella vaccination is unavailble at St. Lukes and my wife leaves the Philippines for the US on November 23rd. Does anyone know if that will cause her a problem on entering the US?

Her passport has a middle name. I Goolged visa and looked under "images" and there are many photos of real visas and none of them show a middle name. So I'm thinking that Ian H. is correct, i.e., the middle name is just included with the given name on visas. However, if that is the case, they really need to correct the form you fill out to pay the immigration fee, because it is misleading. Of course, there are many things in this process that needs work.

Thanks everyone! My wife and daughter will be here in 3 weeks!!! Visa Journey has been a HUGE help!!!!!!!!

My wife recently received her Visa and will be coming to the USA soon. However, I noticed Visa does not show a middle name. Rather, it shows her middle name is part of her first name. Specifically, the visa shows a “Surname”, which is her last name, and a “Given Name”, which shows her first name and middle name. The Visa does not have a field for a middle name. When I went online to pay the $165 immigration fee, the instructions said to be sure to put her name exactly as it is shown on the visa and that if a middle name is not on the visa, then check “no middle name” on the form. Also, the first name field on the form has in parenthesis “Given Name.”

My question is, do all visa’s only have a field for a “surname” and “Given Name”, or did the Embassy make a mistake on my wife’s by not including a middle name? Does anyone from the Philippines have a visa that has a “middle name” field on it?

Thanks. She has gotten many vaccinations in the Philippines. Her mother is obsessive about that. Thanks for the info!!

My wife should be getting her visa soon. Her IV interview is at US Embassy in Manila on Wednesday. We have a 4-year old daughter. We have the CRBA for my daughter and she has been issued a US Passport. Can I just get her a plane thicket and bring her to USA? Or is there something else I need to do, like proof of vaccinations, or something?

St. Lukes will rescedule my wife's interview correct? So my wife does not need to contact the Embassy to cancel her interview, correct?

My wife had her medical exam at St. Lukes yesterday and they saw something on her X-ray, so she has to undergo 3 days of sputum tests. Her interview date was August 15th; however, they have to culture the sputum tests results for 2 months; therefore, her interview will probably be rescheduled for October. However, if the sputum results are postive, she will have to undergo 6 months of treatment and, it's my understanding, she will have to live in Manila during those 6 months. We have a 4 year old daughter, so my daughter will have to stay with her.

Does anyone know how often the sputum tests turn out postive?

Thanks everyone

My wife is going to St. Luke's in Manila for her Medical exam on Thursday and asked me to ask this question. She wants to know if the following is all she needs to bring to the appointment: Original Passport, 2 photo copies of biographical page of passport, 2 copies of St. Luke's online registration confirmation, 4 photos for Visa, and a copy of the interview appointment letter?

Thanks Hardrockangel.

They do have a NSO seal and the front of the documents are yellow. However, with a color photo copier, they can be easily duplicated. I just expected "security paper" to mean that it had a special texture to make it difficult to duplicate, but apparently that isn't the case. Thanks for your input.

My wife's Visa Interview at the US Embassy in Manila (USEM) is on August 15th. USEM's Interview instructions state that she must bring her birth certicate and that it must be issued by the NSO and that it must be on security paper. It states the same thing in regard to our marriage certificate. The documents she has were issued by the NSO; however, I'm not sure if they are on security paper. It looks like regular paper to me. In fact, when I made color photo copies of the documents, I couldn't tell the differnce between the copies and the originals. The paper is the same. I had to submit the originals with the DS-260 and NVC did not have any issue with them. Is my wife going to have a problem with these documents at the interview?

I'm completing the DS-260 for my wife and I'm at the question "Do you have documentation to establish that you have received vaccinations in accordance with U.S. laws?" And if I answer "no" a block comes up asking me to explain.

My wife does not have such documentation. She is 39 and does not have documentation of the vaccinations she had as a child. Will she have to have all the vaccinations that you get as a child, like for Polio, again?

Thanks everyone.

I submitted my I-130 packet on 11/25/2013. If I submit the DS-260 supporting documents with the same passport-style photographs of my wife that I submitted with the I-130 within the next week, will I have any problems? I' ll be very close to the 6-month limit and by the time someone actually reviews the documents, it may be longer than 6 months.