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Just a copy of the biographic page, certified by whatever agency that issued the passport.

Just fold it back over the stapled corner. Unstapling it might be considered to invalidate the apostle.

If it were me,,,, I would amend it just to be safe but I wouldn't delay filing N400 based only on that. More than likely USCIS wouldn't even question it and if they did, you would have a filed amended return you could show them that you have corrected it properly.

You have revived a very old thread so much of the information above is outdated. To get the details you are requesting for a ROM filed with the Philippine Embassy in Paris you would e-mail oca.crd-eu@dfa.gov.ph with a scan of the ROM the Embassy returned and ask them if the "Transmittal Details" are available yet. They would usually reply in one or two business days. That is what PSA is asking you for.

Judges certainly have been known to order the more monied spouse to pay the legal expenses of the less monied spouse. But that is a divorce court issue not an immigration issue. If one spouse was literally going to be put out with no immediate means of support even being possible I imagine a judge would probably order that too for at least the immediate short term. Assuming the guy has any common sense he definitely should shoulder whatever costs and living expenses are involved along with repatriation until she gets resettled. Beyond that it doesn't seem like either of them has much to loose or gain from having lawyers involved. If it's California(?) it's just a summary dissolution which is pretty straightforward DIY.

Coordinating two people meeting in Manila for the first time arriving from seperate flights all on a 2 hour layover could be a little bit tight timewise. Delays are very common at MNL. Is it all from the same terminal????

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I just got back from there and noted crews out hanging up parols in the medians of the roads like two weeks ago.

Thank you very much for coming back to follow-up. I'm happy it worked out for your wife. We are still waiting to see when my wife will naturalize but it seems likely before our holiday trip and EVA Air is the airline. When they issued the boarding passes, was it in the US Passport name or the Cambodian Passport name? I'm curious what they put in the APIS data.

US CBP is only concerned with scheduled controlled medications, namely opiates, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, medications that may be banned in the US or obvious commercial quantities. Unless it's Vicodin or Chinese rino horn vitality pills etc, they could literally care less about anyone's ordinary health related medications and would ordinarily give maximum benefit of the doubt to anything even remotely reasonable. They are not looking to take away anyone's medicine.

Well here's a one week update for San Diego specifically. Nothing much has changed but I have located an additional seven San Diego cases self reported online so it adds some breadth to the sample size. So now, based on 33 San diego N400 cases who have been scheduled for interviews so far in 2024, the statistics are as follows. Time from filing to interview in San Diego in 2024. Average time: 144 days Median time: 131 days Fastest time: 72 days Slowest time: 245 days # of cases in less than 4 months: 15 # of cases 4 to 6 months: 13 # of cases over 6 months: 5 more specifically # of cases in less than 3 months: 3 # of cases 3 to 4 months: 12 # of cases 4 to 5 months: 6 # of cases 5 to 6 months: 7 # of cases 6 to 7 months: 2 # of cases 7 to 8 months: 3

It seems a big batch of NVC scheduling did go out yesterday. Covering DQ dates up until somewhere in November 2023. CR/IR-1/2 and IR5's. This is in addition to last week's mass expedite. That is at least a little progress on the backlog.