Ruben466

Hi my wife received  her green card in June of 2020.  She had to fly back to her home country while the green card was in processing so she doesn’t have the physical card. The plan was for me to fly there with the green card and we were to fly back after she finishes selling her house and transferring funds. Due to covid the whole thing got messed up as travel was hampered and South Africa went into numerous lockdowns due to increasing covid numbers.

so due to the above we missed the 6 month rule fotr when a LPR is supposed to enter usa

will this be an issue? I’m planning on re attempting to go there once the covid cases start decreasing and lockdowns are lifted.

are we potentially facing an issue with the green card due to missing 6 months rule? It’s mainly due to covid hardships and nothing we can control. 

Hi

my Wife will be coming in June and she needs proof of payment of the uscis immigrant fee.

I paid in April and all I got was an email saying payment confirmation. Will that be proof enough?

Ahh ok thanks for clearing the license/marriage issue. Ok good we have a certified copy from the county clerk.. 

thanks for your help guys! My wife’s interview is in a week and I’m freaking out 

In Texas they only give us a Marriage License which we get signed by someone who has the authority to perform weddings.  We take the signed license back and it is filled. I’m just worried that the co won’t accept a certified copy from the county clerk

Hi guys I have another silly question

We sent NVC a county clerk certified copy of our marriage license. however on the interview checklist it states we have to bring the original marriage license. Does this mean the certified copy that we uploaded to NVC or the original one we filed with the county clerk ?

would a certified copy be sufficient??

Hi sorry for asking so many questions previously but my wife’s visa interview is coming up next week.  
just wondering if the DS-5540 ‘Public Charge’ form is still needed.  I notice that the public charge rule is on hold due to an injunction at the moment. I make way above the required amount to sponsor my wife but I was looking at some sites and they say it is still required regardless. 
is this true?

So will all the documents we sent to uscis be sent to the consulate for the interview? Just asking because we sent evidence (pics, plane tickets, etc) with our I-130 and we don’t want to bring duplicate evidence to the interview?

Hi there’s been something that I’ve been wondering throughout this whole cr1 visa process. Why is it that we have to submit the same forms (civil docs) at different times? Doesn’t the paperwork we send with I-130 from uscis get sent to NVC then to the consulate?  

I’ve sent few pictures of the two times she visited me plus her plane tickets she paid herself.

About her: she’s educated and lives in a wealthy coastal town of South Africa . She has steady employment with anheiser-Busch as a procurement specialist.  She’s well off and owns her own home and cars (which she will sell when she finally gets to move here).  Hopefully the interviewer will look at her background to see that she’s not trying to cheat the system. Due to us working and limited vacation time 

we met each other twice (communicating for few months prior) and don’t have a lot of pics for the times we met prior our marriage besides what I’ve listed

Hi 

my wife’s cr1 visa interview is coming up and I’m worried about the evidence we have due to covid. 
We got married pretty much when the crisis started so the travel ban was in effect.

I purchased a plane ticket prior to the beginning of the outbreak but obviously couldn’t use it.  We don’t have any new pics because weren’t able to see each other after getting married

evidence I’m sending consists of

plane ticket booking confirmation for the flight I was supposed to take with resort bookings. I have evidence of my wife and I communicating back and forth with travel site for voucher of flight

a weeks worth of WhatsApp chat to show an example of how much we communicate (we have a total of 500+ pages altogether so a week was about 22 pages)

marriage pics (sent to uscis previously)

few honeymoon pics

hotel booking /restaurant booking for honeymoon

Evidence that I put her on my health insurance

evidence I put her as beneficiary to medical insurance (previously sent to uscis)

thats pretty much all I can send due to not being able to visit due to covid.  Also the fact that she lives in South Africa was cause of concern due to the variant of the virus that is running rampant there.  I’m wondering if the interviewer might give us slack since we were unlucky that our marriage pretty much started on the eve of covid outbreak

Thanks

would you happen to know how long results usually take?

tge consulate is in South Africa which is normally not busy especially since covid has decreased the amount of travel visas

Hi

my wife has an interview on the 18th of feb for a cr1 visa. She scheduled her medical exam on the 15th and I’m wondering if that’ll be enough time to get the results or should she reschedule. She was told that the dr doesn’t send the results and she’ll have to deliver  them herself

Thanks

That must be a mistake. I’m in the USA

South Africa 

Hi my wife who’s the principal applicant has her interview coming up.  according to the letter they sent I’m (the petitioner) is listed as additional applicant and the letter states that additional  applicants must appear for the interview.

to my knowledge petitioners don’t have to attend the interview so the rule changed  or could this be a mistake?

I’m a US citizen and I’m sponsoring my Spouse who lives in Durban, South Africa

Thanks everyone. My guess is that the speedy process is due to the covid crisis. My I-130 was submitted in December 2019 was approved in May. At that time all travel and anything requiring to be in person was pretty much nonexistent. So I’m thinking that uscis was shelving interviews/tests, tourist and work visas and were working on cr1 and similar visas which normally take backseat to everything else.
My wife and I were taking our time on getting the docs ready for nvc and we submitted on Monday then getting qualified day after

im thinking, if this isn’t a mistake, that there are a lot more people getting speedy case processing due to covid pandemic

Hi everyone 

I know I asked before but I submitted the required docs to NVC yesterday.  I just checked my messages in CEAC and it says I’m documentarily qualifiedD. Has anyone else gotten qualified in one day? I’m just worried that it might be a mistake.

thanks 

Yes. I just got it this morning

Hi

we submitted all required docs on Sunday and on Monday, according to the ceac site, it shows all docs as accepted.  Does this mean review was complete or just telling us that they have received all docs?

I believe things are going faster. Mine was approved in 4 months

I think they might being speeding things up. I submitted the petition 22nd of December and got notice today that my I-130 was approved. Was expecting at least a year since I had Nebraska as the svc but took only 4 months

Same here!!!! Application was being processed in Nebraska so I was expecting to wait for at least a year or so!

was so out of the blue today!🤗

USC applying for spouse in south africa

submitted Dec 22 2019 approved may 1 2020.

nebraska service center 

paper application

Not that I’m complaining but mine was approved in 4 months!!

I’m a USC and I-130 was submitted 22Dec19. Approved today 01May20.

nebraska service center