I did some reading and found this.

If you're born after August 3, 1988, Birth certificate already registered and child is under the surname of the mother and the father executed an affidavit of acknowledgment. If your father executed and affidavit of acknowledgement then you don't need to do anything else. You using your father's last name is totally fine. You can contact the registrar's office where you were registered and see if this has been done. I think they did because they we're able to get you a passport under your father's name.

If born before August 3, 1988, Child under the surname of the mother and acknowledged by the father through authentic writing. Under this you're also fine. 

For more info click here.

2 hours ago, Myf said:

I’m not really sure cause I was only 10 when we applied for my passport. But when I applied for the driver’s license they didn’t ask for my bc. Would that be a reason for 221g later on? 

Did your parents get married after you where born and before you got your passport? If they did, bring your parent's marriage certificate and your birth certificate to the local civil registrar's office where you live and ask them what you need to do, also tell them that you were born out of wedlock. It does not take that long and not too expensive either. I had my bc's annotation done in two months. Cost me probably around Php1,500 - year 2013 tho. Have you been approved with uscis and are now on the NVC stage? Is your father in your birth certificate?

38 minutes ago, Myf said:

Hi. Does the usem allow affidavits on birth certificate discrepancies? I just recently found out that I’ve been using my mother’s surname on my bc. However, on my official documents like passport, school records and driver’s license I have my father’s surname. I was born out of wedlock but I was able to use my father’s surname when I applied for a passport when I was 10. 

You would need to have an annotation on the side of your birth certificate. When you took your passport your id and birth certificate had different last name, did they accept the affidavit?

On 4/13/2019 at 11:16 AM, lovecherries said:

Wow! My sincere congratulations @GreenGem! That was a really fast approval. Good luck for us waiting 😊

Thank you. Hoping that everyone will get their approvals soon too.

I would call them to verify if your address has been changed on file and tell them the service number request you have for your AR-11. Usually it should not take more than 30 days for them to update your address. No need to freak out. I don't remember changing my ex-husband's (USC) address with uscis when I did a change address before and we didn't have any problems.

I don't think it's possible to apply for AOS concurrent with the I-130 based on a second marriage. You're removing conditions based on your first marriage and got denied. I don't see how you will be approved for a green card on the spot. You will need to have all evidence you can get to prove bona fide marriage with your first. 

7 minutes ago, Ben&Zian said:

https://www.manilatimes.net/parties-aged-between-18-and-21-need-parental-consent-to-get-married/387710/

 

Believe only 21 or under needs it.

Interesting. Thanks for this. I didn't know about this. 

2 minutes ago, jskibo said:

 

 

 

Folks there's some specific Philippines requirements here so your advice is incorrect.  Also this would be for marrying ion the PI I assume, so the IO has nothing to do with it, its a Philippines requirement for a license

 

Up to 21 needs parental consent, 21-25 needs parental advice letter.  

 

Good luck!

Yup. I stand corrected. I just found out about this.

3 minutes ago, chellie said:

Hello everyone. My question is do I need to present a parental consent/advice on my interview. Are they asking for it? I'm 24 yrs old from Philippines. Thank you

For yourself? No. You’re more than 18 years old. You don’t need parental consent. IOs are not going to ask for it either. 

51 minutes ago, gloriat said:

We are in the process of filing an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative for my mother in law who lives in Mexico. My husband is the petitioner, he is a US Citizen.

 

Her initial application was approved.

Now we have to upload documents to the CEAC website before her interview is scheduled.

 

One of the requirements is to upload a Police Certificate. My mother in law received a police certificate ( carta de antecedents penales) from the State of Guanajuato where she lives. I included a screenshot of just the header which shows that it came from the State.

 

The document was rejected. We received this message: 

Please replace this with an acceptable police certificate. Please use our Document Finder at https://nvc.state.gov/find for acceptable documents guidelines.

 

I've reviewed the instructions for this document and don't see what's wrong with what we submitted. Any ideas what the problem could be? The instructions make it clear that a certificate from the state government is acceptable but I'm wondering if they actually want one from the federal goverment. To get a federal certificate would take quite a lot of effort as my mother in law would have to travel to Mexico City so I don't want to go this route if it's not necessary.

 

Any advice is much appreciated! We want to keep this process moving.

I'm not from Mexico so I am not sure. But I found this interesting comment. Here's the link. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Mexico.html

Comments: Versions of the police certificates vary from state to state. Police certificates from the local town halls or cities are unacceptable. In Mexico police certificates are only available for applicants 18 and over.  A police certificate from every state in Mexico is generally not required for an IV application. A single police certificate is sufficient.  Only when an IV applicant has lived in Mexico for six months or more and after the age of 18 is a police certificate required. 

However, consular officers may request a state police certificate where an individual was resident for more than six (months) on a case by cases basis. 

25 minutes ago, honeycake said:

Hi,

 

After over a year and a half of waiting (PD September 2017 in NYC), we finally have our interview! I was hoping to get some feedback on what I'm putting together for the evidence portion.

 

We've been together for ~8 years, married for 4. We didn't have a wedding due to financial reasons, though we have matching rings.

 

- Photo collage for every year we've been together with ~10 photos on each page and a little caption of date and description

- Leases and subleases for past 5 years
- Renter's insurance (past year)
- Utilities (three companies -- I just pulled two most recent months of each)
- Joint tax returns for past two years
- Separate returns from two years before that (he was on his dad's but you can see I filed as MFS)
- 401k and life insurance beneficiary (he is on mine; he doesn't have any)
- Health insurance (cards and page showing both of us on account)
- Joint bank account with statement activity
- Credit cards showing him as authorized user and bank statements (some of the cards don't have much activity, hope that's okay -- we've been sticking mostly to a couple same cards)

- Various pages of flights, reservations, couple trips we've been on

 

Does our evidence look ok? I hope that they can see we've been together for a long time, especially with the photos that follow our relationship throughout the years. I'm confident we will make a great impression but still a little nervous about the papers part.

 

Thank you!

I don't know what you're applying for. You've been married for 4 years, are you in the US? Or are you applying for a visa? Photos are just secondary evidence and the joint bills, insurance, bank accounts, etc. have more weight than the photos so I suggest loading those up. 

6 minutes ago, iceclub said:

I see folks receiving their 10 year green cards from Texas and California. Vermont has been slow, and I haven't seen a single approval from Nebraska so far, even though lots of transfers have taken place to them. Nebraska also seems to be the center that reportedly has less problems than the other three, yet the processing time for it seems to be the slowest. My application was transferred to Nebraska in September last year and I haven't heard anything from them besides getting a receipt. Can folks comment about whether they've heard anything at all from Nebraska?

I just got approved from Nebraska last month. Sent my I-751 last October 2018. When did you send your I-751 and where was it before it was sent to Nebraska? A good way to monitor activities from the service centers is to join the thread when you submitted your petition. Every service centers are different. In Nebraska, those who submitted the same time I did are receiving updates that their bio metrics where being used from their AOS. I got really lucky and got an approval so fast without an interview. So there's really  no way of telling what they're doing or how fast they're working on the packets they have.

21 minutes ago, aug/rags said:

How do I schedule the medical appointment and the interview? Where do I go to pay the visa fee? Can someone let me know what you did? Specifics please 

Thank you in advance 

You can get more information here. 

https://mx.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visas/fiancee/

15 minutes ago, sampacomosexy said:

Hi y'all 

   I recently completley removed conditions on my GC about 6weeks ago after a long wait and interview.  About 2weeks ago I filed in for citizenship N400 and am scheduled for biometric next week. But my question is that this morning I just got an email saying:  

We are still reviewing your case and there are no updates at this time

We will notify you when your case status changes. We last took action on your case on March 15, 2019.    So now do they now send you updates to your email when you file N400 without requesting an updates??  Has anyone experienced this lately???     Thanks.

I believe this is a regular monthly update.

11 minutes ago, POA said:

I will have my mom applied for a tourist visa and I am well aware that it is based on her own merit. However, I have a little dilemma with her name and wondering if it would in any way affect the application.

 

Her first name and birth date in her birth certificate are different from her marriage contract. Why? because she did not apply for the marriage license and my dad's admin applied for it. My dad was in the service and has already passed (over 30 years). However she continued using her incorrect married name because she apparently didn't know how to fix it. I know some might be thinking why but my mom is not exactly educated and a shy and weak personality. So she let it just happened that way.

 

Fast forward, over 30 years later, I came to the US now I want her to TRY to apply for a tourist visa. Her passport will have her correct first name and birth day. But the DS-160 ask for the additional name used which of course will list her married name with the incorrect spelling. She is a widow. I will have her get an affidavit of the same person(which she has been using for other government transactions).

 

Questions:

1. Has anyone had similar situation and did the embassy actually asked for a legal document showing why she used that name?

2. Will that have any effect on her visa application if she has 2 different names? 

 

I appreciate any input!

Have your mom ever used any id's that has the name that appeared on the marriage contract? Did she ever use that name? I honestly don't see any problems about this affecting her visa application for you mentioned that she's already a widow. Having that affidavit handy might help.

24 minutes ago, Peter Parker said:

Thanks for the reply :). That's what I was discussing with USCIS on the phone (going to Milwaukee) until they pulled the carpet from under me a few days later. But I didn't know the specifics, so thanks, that helps! Maybe I can just make one of these appointments myself outside this particular query.

You might want to check out this thread. I haven't had the chance to check it if it actually helps. But if you have the time you can check it out.

Anyone?

23 minutes ago, Grantman1987 said:

We have the approved I-129F but the fiance is stuck in Saudi Arabia until the end of May. We have to pay the visa application fee in cash at Bank Of Philippines Islands to proceed with the DS-160. Is it possible to have my fiance's sister make the payment at the bank on her behalf? Or will the bank require my fiance to pay in person?  

Your fiance's sister can definitely ask BPI if she can do that on behalf of her sister. 

I found this. It can also be done online. http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/PayMyVisaFee.html

9 minutes ago, Honeybun said:

My husband and I filed the travel document along with the 485 and i130 (we didn’t file for EaD) because he has Daca. This is taking so long !!!!! We filed in October 20th. I am tired of waiting! He has a family emergency and needs to travel. Okay I’m done venting. 

 

 

Thanks! 

Hang in there!

On 3/20/2019 at 8:56 AM, Sanctus1 said:

Hi Guys !

 

I received my I-797 Notice of Action Receipt for my I-751 application since 3weeks ago, today I tried checking the case status on https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus but I received Validation Error message for my case number that started in W. What does that mean and has anyone experienced thesame. If Yes, what shoulld I do for the case number to be accessible. 

Positive answers needed please.

 

This is totally normal. What I did was sign up on this site to view my case. https://myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov/ then 4 months later my receipt number suddenly worked on the egov site. I didn't get any biometrics letter, they re-used mine from my AOS. 

22 hours ago, Mrsjackson said:

Yes, lucky you. I am really hoping I won’t have to pay 89 freaking dollars all over again for the same card just one day later but most likely will haha. Just thankful I get some good advice on here at least!

That is a very expensive ID. Lol

3 minutes ago, MLR14 said:

I applied for EAD and AP together, along with AOS from K1. I've been notified that my EAD card is in production, but no news on AP which I found a little odd as it's a combo card. I'm not overly worried as I have my AOS interview next month, but just wondered if this is normal/happened to anyone else!

You might will be receiving a combo card. Same happened to me and when my EAD came it was a combo. Congrats!

Have you checked the poverty guidelines yet to see if your husband's income qualify? (https://www.uscis.gov/i-864p) If he does not have any 1099 then you don't need to send that. Make sure to include the IRS Tax transcripts of the past 3 years. 

14 minutes ago, Mrsjackson said:

Hello, 

 

I got an SSN when I first arrived on K1 visa. Then married. Then filed AOS (in maiden name). Yesterday finally got myself to the DOL and got a WA license. Surrendered my Canadian one. While there, the guy asked me if I wanted to do the name swap, since I had to bring my marriage certificate with me as it had my address on it and I have few other things that do. I just spontaneously said yes even though changing my name to my married name was not a huge deal to me but here we are. I thought why not. So my WA license is in my married name. The guy said now I just need to go to the SSN office and change it there, because it can be an issue if they don’t match up. So I go to SSN right after. The guy there says that because my K1 is expired he can’t change it. He asked me to come back in when I have evidence of being in legal status. I asked him if my notice of action from USCIS proving I’ve submitted my AOS petition (pretty dim of me not to bring it in the first place I was in a rush) would suffice and he said he wasn’t sure. S***. So now I’m just unsure of whether or not to inform USCIS of my partial name change lol. Wouldn’t it be weird to show up to my interview with my SSN in my maiden and my drivers in my married name? Would this cause confusion? Should i inform USCIS of a name change or just leave it because I can’t do the SSN right now. 

 

Side note: I am going to go back with the NOA1 from my AOS petition but I don’t have high hopes of it working. 

 

Thanks!

Hi. The same situation happened to me as well but my AOS was in my married name. I had to wait for my EAD to update my SSN to my married name. But since your situation (your AOS in your maiden name) I'm not sure how this is going to affect your name change.

On 3/12/2019 at 7:33 PM, ihaveadream said:

My biggest worry is the divorce was very short period after I landed and I have nothing joint... no wills, no accounts, no real estate....  

Did he not add you in his health insurance? How about the place you both lived at? Did you have the same address in your id's. Do you have any bills that is under your name or does he have any bills under his name that show's both your residence?

If you can't present a record that you had the vaccine you will be vaccinated for it again.