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Just got our interview date set today: Sept. 18th 

Just got our interview date set today: Sept. 18th 

thanks, my husband is really excited

Congratulations to you and Tones of Good Luck on interview .Now you know, happy dance for you don't stop to dance it is real .

Just got our interview date set today: Sept. 18th 

She is in General Santos that's southern Mendano. I can't figure out how to reply, I can only reply to the thread and not your comment directly. Also send me a friend request on fb, search Rickey Voncannon. I'm the only one as far I know, I have the Philippines group here in Fayetteville and I'll introduce u and your fiancé to them. 

Personally never had issues with using USPS for all my wife's immigration paperwork, and we've always used express mail. Maybe bad luck.
 
Same goes for overseas USPS, and the issue for us was the custom for the other country.

As we have said before, the DS-260 will not unlock until both fees show as paid. So you will have to wait till the paynebt goes through and it updates in ceac. They have to show as "paid".

Hahaha, I told you yesterday that every step takes waaaaaaaaaaay longer than it should. 
 
From what I have seen/been able to figure out, the AOS fee gets invoiced right away as they set up your case because that is related to the petitioner, who has already been dealing with USCIS. However, the IV fee does not get invoiced until after the beneficiary selects their agent (DS-261). You can call to have the DS-261 reviewed over the phone to speed things up (otherwise they can take up to 3 weeks to review it), but it can still take up to a week from when it is reviewed until they invoice the IV fee.
 
However, I believe that I have seen somewhere that if you are using a lawyer/agent at the USCIS stage then they will automatically assign them as the agent for the beneficiary and then both fees are invoiced immediately. But that definitely does not justify the cost/frustration of hiring a lawyer for this process.

Hahaha, I told you yesterday that every step takes waaaaaaaaaaay longer than it should. 
 
From what I have seen/been able to figure out, the AOS fee gets invoiced right away as they set up your case because that is related to the petitioner, who has already been dealing with USCIS. However, the IV fee does not get invoiced until after the beneficiary selects their agent (DS-261). You can call to have the DS-261 reviewed over the phone to speed things up (otherwise they can take up to 3 weeks to review it), but it can still take up to a week from when it is reviewed until they invoice the IV fee.
 
However, I believe that I have seen somewhere that if you are using a lawyer/agent at the USCIS stage then they will automatically assign them as the agent for the beneficiary and then both fees are invoiced immediately. But that definitely does not justify the cost/frustration of hiring a lawyer for this process.

Meanwhile, read everything on the first post of this forum. Everything.:-)  You can already start ordering your birth, police, marriage certificates. And court records if police certificate isn't clear. 
 
 

Get used to it, in some ways the NVC is worse than USIC. With USCIS it is just a big black box and you know you will be waiting for quite a while. With NVC it is a series of little black boxes, and every one of them seems to take longer than it realistically should. We paid our AOS fee and after 3 days it still didn't update to "paid" I kept calling and they would just say "oh, give it a couple more days", "oh, give it a couple more days", ........ then it finally updated, turns out their system was having issues and lots of people were held up by it (many for much longer than me).

Check your email (junk mail, etc.) for an email from "asknvc@state.gov" the subject will start with your case number. Maybe it got filtered out of your inbox.
 
Also, is the AOS fee showing as available to be paid?

Check your email (junk mail, etc.) for an email from "asknvc@state.gov" the subject will start with your case number. Maybe it got filtered out of your inbox.
 
Also, is the AOS fee showing as available to be paid?

CC today, yay! Sorry for those of you having to wait for review of paper submissions. We were one of the lucky group that get to do email processing. If anyone has the choice, you really should choose email processing. Our review only took 1 week from when we submitted everything until CC.

CC today, yay! Sorry for those of you having to wait for review of paper submissions. We were one of the lucky group that get to do email processing. If anyone has the choice, you really should choose email processing. Our review only took 1 week from when we submitted everything until CC.

CC today, yay! Sorry for those of you having to wait for review of paper submissions. We were one of the lucky group that get to do email processing. If anyone has the choice, you really should choose email processing. Our review only took 1 week from when we submitted everything until CC.

Which fees have been invoiced? If a fee is available for paymebt, then pay it. The visa application will not unlock until both fees are paid.
 
It took us about 30 days from when USCIS mailed our case to the NVC until we got through the 6 steps and had everything submitted.

I agree that I don't think that you can have him working but try to argue that it doesn't actually count as work just because he isn't paid or because it is a non-profit. People working for non-profit organizations still get paid.
 
However, one idea might be to make him a job offer as you are filing for AOS and request an expedite for the EAD based on that job offer. Not sure if they would question that since it is actually your company, but I thought I might toss that idea out there and see what people thought.

This was probably in the period where the official documents had been updated to the new I-129f form but people were still using the old form. You probably looked at the info for the new form, but were using the old one.

Read through the instructions for the I-130 (https://www.uscis.gov/i-130), the guide here (http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1) is helpful but it is a little out of date since the form was updated earlier this year. The biggest change in the process was that the G-325A's are no longer used, and an I-130A must now be completed to accompany the I-130.
 
Mostly you will just need to help make sure your SO has the correct information to fill in the forms (I-130 and I-130A). They used to require two identical color passport-style photos of you (taken within 30 days of when you file); however, the new instructions seem to suggest that this isn't required if you are not in the US, but if you can I would suggest including them to be safe. The guide also says that a birth certificate of the intending immigrant is no longer required; however, several of us have recently gotten RFE's from USCIS specifically asking for this. Therefore, I would recommend that you also provide a copy of your birth certificate if you can (remember to have it translated if necessary), even if you don't include it with the I-130 you will need a copy (with translation) later on in the process).
 
Here is a list of the documents that are required or that you guys should think about including (text in bold is stuff that you can probably help the most with):
G-1145 - this is optional, but it is good to include so that they will notify you when they receive the packet Personal check or money order for the fee payment Cover letter describing what is being petitioned for and the documents being provided - optional but recommended I-130 Citizenship/permanent residency evidence for your spouse Copy of your birth certificate (with translation if not in English) - as mentioned above this is not listed as a requirement, but several of us have recently received requests for this for our cases and I would recommend including it Copy of your marriage certificate (with translation if not in English) 2 passport-style photos of the petitioner (the US citizen or permanent resident) - see instructions for how to label, etc. 2 passport-style photos of the beneficiary (the intending immigrant) - see instructions for how to label, etc.; seems to be optional if you are not in the US, but if you can it would be good to include (possibly send your spouse a digital file and they can print it out themselves) I-130A Evidence of a bonafide marriage - both the online guide and I-130 instructions provide lost of examples of potential evidence; since you are not in the US you may not be able to produce many of them but try to provide what you can, such as airline tickets and other evidence of travel together, photographs are fine to include but are not considered to be strong evidence (when including pictures, if possible, try to include pictures of both of you with friends and family of both of you) Also, I have assumed that neither of you have been married previously. If either of you have then you also need to provide evidence of divorce or death of the prior spouse(s).

The deed may not be available yet, but what about mortgage paperwork. They don't really care about the home itself, only that you are both financially linked and sharing the responsibility.

The deed may not be available yet, but what about mortgage paperwork. They don't really care about the home itself, only that you are both financially linked and sharing the responsibility.

No to both. You are not immigrating at all.
 
Immigrate = to come to live permanently
 
You are already living permanently in the us so you can not immigrate to the us. You would simply be traveling with them.
 
This would be more appropriate if you were sponsoring your parents. Are they both immigrating together? Would one remain and immigrate later?

No to both. You are not immigrating at all.
 
Immigrate = to come to live permanently
 
You are already living permanently in the us so you can not immigrate to the us. You would simply be traveling with them.
 
This would be more appropriate if you were sponsoring your parents. Are they both immigrating together? Would one remain and immigrate later?