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  1. top_secret
    I saw one recent anecdotal account of someone who DID get a same day oath in San Diego with an afternoon appointment. I also saw someone state they were told there is no same day oath in San Diego on Fridays if that has any relevance. Good luck!!!😀 and do please update your experience for other San Diego applicants still waiting.
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    Brides taking their husbands surname is a pretty widespread practice in multiple cultures and countries across the world. It's hardly a Philippines government conspiracy. I suspect that most filipina brides want to take their husband's surname and the few that don't want to, don't have to. The Philippine Government charges $25 for the ROM and P950 for a new passport. OTOH, the US Government charges $415 to change the name on a Green Card once it's been issued. Which of the two government is the more financially predatory?
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    It's totally up to the consul at the interview. If the interview is next week and you don't have the originals, at least bring copies.
  10. top_secret
    If the birth certificate is late registered there should be a second page with an "Affidavit for Delayed Registration of Birth" which would list when it was registered. You will definitely need an original PSA copy of your Birth Certificate at your interview. No exceptions on that. If you do not have the one you submitted to NVC then get a new one, upload it to CEAC and bring that to your interview. You need to bring ALL of the original documents you submitted to NVC to your interview. DQ just means that NVC thinks you have all the correct documents. It's the Embassy that approves or rejects the originals.
  11. top_secret
    There were some SLC timelines on Reddit from couple of months ago showing about a 1 month wait for an oath ceremony. I haven't noticed any reports of same day oath at that particular office.
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    I wonder if this would impact US Embassy Manila's apparent severe constraints on Immigrant visa interviews for spousal visas. Earlier this year they had been interviewing over a thousand EB-3/EW applicants a month, while at the same time interviewing only like two hundred CR1/IR1 applicants a month with a year long backlog. If they would shift that extra thousand a month interview capacity towards spousal interviews for a few months maybe they could maybe clear out a bit of their huge backlog.
  14. top_secret
    That's what ours says too. It is also the same on the approved and closed I-751 case so I assumed that is just "normal". I am intrigued by those who seem to have some kind of date associated with it rather than just "true". Are these dates that don't correlate with anything outwardly visible?
  15. top_secret
    Whether or not you need additional evidence in the case of a late registered birth certificate is up to the individual consul at the interview. It may also depend on just how late it was registered. Two years late registered and a friendly consul may not require any extra evidence at all. 10 years late registered and/or a strict consul might issue a 221g for more evidence if you don't bring any with you. A Baptismal Certificate is one type of additional evidence you might submit in the case of a late registered birth certificate but it is never a requirement. For many Filipinos they could easily get a new copy of their Baptismal Certificate from the local parish where they were baptized. If you can't get that, there are other types of evidence that you could use too such as school records, old ID’s, etc. My wife was 5 years late registered. She got her baptismal certificate by actually messaging the Facebook page of the local parish in the province where she grew up. They found it in their records and let her sister pick up a new copy for her. Then her sister went by her old high school and they still had her form 137. (I noticed that she failed English😆) Her elementary school issued a letter on DepEd letterhead stating that her Form 137-E was destroyed by a typhoon but certifying that she had attended that school as a child.
  16. top_secret
    The whole issue does not apply much to a foreign spouse. It is the Filipino Citizen that is required by the Philippine Government to report an overseas marriage. What the foreign spouse does is not much concern to the Philippine government and they have no jurisdiction over a foreign spouse outside the Philippines. My own opinion is this. If the neither of you have plans for maintaining significant ties to the Philippines then it probably makes little difference. If you feel that your marriage is likely to end in divorce then it is very beneficial to the Filipino Citizen spouse NOT to file it. If either of you ever think of retiring there, having a bank account there, drivers licence, business, property, etc etc etc, it will be an issue that could constantly come up at every dealing with the Philippine Government and it is probably easier just to file it. Plus, juggling multiple names on multiple travel documents is doable but kind of a hassle.
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  20. top_secret
    BPI ATM's will let you do 20k if you hit "other amount" and then key it in manually. I never got shut down so far doing two 20k withdrawals back to back. I haven't tried pushing it past that. HSBC ATM's might give you 40k but there's not so many of them. Schwab also gives you some amount of free wire transfers if you are talking big bucks but someone needs a local bank account to receive.
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  22. top_secret
    She doesn't even need a Philippine Passport at all for the I-751. A scan of the new passport would be a good identity document with the name change. I don't think there is any specific requirement to update USCIS if the foreign passport changes.
  23. top_secret
    Log into your USCIS account. While logged in paste the following URL into the address bar and change "IOE_YOUR_CASE_NUMBER" to your actual IOE case number. https://my.uscis.gov/account/case-service/api/cases/IOE_YOUR_CASE_NUMBER Chrome has a "Pretty print" checkbox that formats the output a little easier to look at. All it shows on ours is that it updated when we uploaded some additional evidence a couple of weeks ago. No great fantastic revelations but it is a little interesting.
  24. top_secret
    A free checking account at Schwab Bank remains about the best way to get pocket money while traveling in the Philippines or just about any other country. Not only do they not charge any conversion fees at all, they even rebate the P250 fee the ATM's charge.
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  28. top_secret
    When you receive your visa it will almost certainly be annotated “IV Docs in CCD” which means x-rays and everything else that used to be in the hand carried packet has already been been transmitted electronically to the Consular Consolidated Database. So there is nothing to carry other than the visa.
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  32. top_secret
    I just got back from there and noted crews out hanging up parols in the medians of the roads like two weeks ago.
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