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Good to hear such an apparently fast approval for the I-90 to fix USCIS's mistake. I have seen several people recently reporting very fast approvals of I-90's submitted to correct IR cards that had been incorrectly issued as CR. It seems they may now be expediting such corrections(???)

The US will accept a legal Australia divorce. It does not have to be recognized by the Philippines. She still will need to order a CENOMAR. She will receive an Advisory on Marriages from PSA that incorrectly shows she is still married. The embassy will accept that when presented with a valid Australian divorce decree explaining WHY it is incorrect. But she still needs to bring it to the Embassy. Additionally her NBI Clearance must have her previous married name. Either as civil status "married" and including his surname as husbands name OR she can have her former married name as an AKA if she gets her NBI clearance as single. one way or the other her former married name must be included.

It can be changed up until the day of the interview. LBC at MOA/SM Mall of Asia is traditionally considered the fastest and most direct pickup location. Scheduling CFO has been fast and easy recently.

I think a lot of that is due to CR cases all converting to IR cases by the time any visas are issued because the embassy is taking so long. CR cases are becoming an endangered species in Manila.

Congratulations! They certainly might need to talk to the US Citizen spouse so good that you were available. But he probably just felt the I-751 submission was strong enough on it's own so interviewing you was unnecessary.

I just type "live agent". It seems to go to the same queue as "infopass" but has the option "connect to live chat" (last button on the bottom) without filling out as much information first. According to the fine folks on Reddit (so you know it's true), the queue holds a limited number of people waiting. Once the queue is full it will kick out any new persons trying to enter the queue and you have to keep trying until you get in or try at a less busy time like in the morning.

We took that question literally and answered what they asked. "Do you wish to provide information about your presence on other websites.........?" Answer "No." (I do not wish to.)

I 'think' they would have changed my wifes name if she had a US issued marriage certificate. I 'think' the reason they refused to change her name with a foreign issued marriage certificate unless she changed her green card first, was they want USCIS to be the ones to evaluate and decide if the foreign marriage is legal for name change purposes.

What was it you had from the US Embassy????? My wife was refused changing her name with Social Security using our Costa Rica marriage certificate. They told he she has to change her green card first. The Costa Rica marriage certificate is obviously Spanish but we have a certified English translation. I was not there and am not sure how well my wife was prepared to argue with them so I would certainly be interested in hearing the experiences of others with foreign marriage certificates.

If her or her family can go down to the LCRO they might be able to get a legible copy from them and have them endorse a new copy through to PSA. The LCRO copy is not valid for immigration by itself but at least one person here got them to accept an illegible PSA copy accompanied by a legible LCRO copy.

Is it the best possible scan of the paper document you have from from PSA? The old handwritten part may be what it is but is the modern PSA seal and security features on the paper the best possible scan and is it from a crisp brand new copy from PSA. You can order another one from PSA and try your luck. If it is "almost" legible you could try playing around with contrast and darkness with your scan. Some people have had success getting a copy from the Local Civil Record Office (LCRO) and submitting it as reference along with the PSA copy. If it is truly illegible and there is nothing that can be done to fix it then the final resolution would be to go to the LCRO and have them re-endorse a legible copy to PSA. It would be initiated at the LCRO and there is a nominal fee. Plus pay the expedite fee.

You just log into CEAC and click the "IV APPLICATION" tab. Click "view" and then "review" and go through to the end and you get your confirmation page and all the options for printing. It has the option to e-mail you a pdf too. It's still there and available from my wifes completed 2 1/2 years ago.

Expired K1 visa and I485 receipt notice should be fine. I think these days any actual illegal aliens would look to those checkpoints as an opportunity to expedite their free EAD rather than any risk of being detained or deported. We enjoy driving around the Southern California and Arizona deserts and encounter a number of those checkpoints with some regularity. We never had any problems with them and they have always been perfectly polite. Anecdotally, since some time last year I have not personally encountered a single one of them that was manned. Even ones that I usually would have expected to be manned are closed. So at least for us in SoCal and Arizona they seem to be on some sort of hiatus.

You order a CENOMAR from PSA. If PSA has you recorded as single you will receive a CENOMAR. If PSA has you recorded as married you will receive an Advisory on Marriages. Whatever you receive from PSA is what the embassy wants to see.

Did you check the documents tab in your online account? We had one notice that was delayed and not available online. I was successful getting "Ask Emma" live agent to e-mail me a pdf copy of that missing notice.

It won't affect the K1 at all. We submitted evidence highlighting our trip to Europe, including the visa and matching passport stamps, as relationship evidence with our spousal petition. Your fiancées previous B2 denial won't affect the K1 either. She must declare it honestly on the DS160 but they won't ask questions about it and if anyone did ask, she was "denied due to insufficient ties to her home countries". That's the same reason everyone is denied B2 visas. They gave her a slip of paper that said so. No need to elaborate further. Just a note on the Schengen visa. Denmark has the second to highest denial rate for Schengen visa applications in the Philippines. The only Schengen country with a higher denial rate for Filipino passports is Finland. Before we were married my wife applied twice for Schengen visas. She was denied by France so we went embassy shopping and after some research discovered the Netherlands is traditionally the most generous with Schengen visas in the Philippines. She was approved by the Netherlands a few months after the France denial. Also, be aware that the Schengen visa process is a fairly arduous, paperwork intensive effort for Filipino passports. It can be done. We did it. But Schengen visas are not easy with a Filipino passport.

It will also have your spouse's name, and marriage is a legally valid reason for taking your spouse's surname in the US. But the passport you bring the day of your interview is what really determines the name that goes on your visa, green card and social security card. So you would mainly want to look at what the requirements are for changing the name on your passport in your country.

At every point where USCIS, NVC or the embassy asks your name, they will follow up by asking ALL names you have ever used. As long as your documents match one of "ALL names" it is fine. They know people change their names during marriage. It is not the slightest problem. You could change at any time during the whole process up until the day of your interview. The name on the passport you bring to your interview is the only one that really matters because it will go on your visa, green card, social security card and from those, all the new documents spawned during immigration to the US. So it is highly preferable that it is the name you really want to use. If you are married and choose to change to your spouses surname, filling the I-130 is as good a place as any to start using that name. You can change your passport later as long as it's changed before your interview..

We had uploaded our 2023 IRS tax return transcript about a month before our cases was approved. I could not say if they even looked at that and I can't imagine it would have made any difference, but I can very affirmatively say that uploading additional evidence did not cause any kind of delay.

It's more an issue were you might rightfully be annoyed rather than worried. It's probably something simple like they randomly chose to verify some document with PSA. Which would of course get verified according to Filipino time. If the embassy asks for anything respond immediately. Otherwise it is probably all good and will resolve on its own before long. Even though it seems really long.

On NBI Clearances the embassy is very strict about all possible name combinations being covered. They are not strict about marital status on the NBI Clearance since they rely on different documents to determine that. Your former husband's surname should suffice for including your former married name. Having it as an AKA is double extra good above and beyond what you need but certainly can't hurt.

The US will accept the divorce decree without it being recognized in the Philippines. If the Philippines still considers you married then your NBI Clearances will stay as married. US Embassy Manila is known to accept incorrect marital status on a NBI Clearance with concrete proof of why it incorrect. IE, divorce decree. Your former husband's surname on your NBI Clearance seemingly completes the list of possible name combinations you may have, so if there are no corrections, annotations, or any other alternate names on any of your documents you shouldn't need an AKA. The embassies website is not quite clear on why an AKA might be required. The example above seems fine as is. The embassy will also accept your Advisory on Marriages incorrectly showing you as married in combination with the US divorce decree. They know about that marriage but they still want to see that there are no other marriages they don't know about. CFO might or might not give you a hard time about it. But the worst they can do hassle you or make up some extra requirements. In the end they still have to let you go.

I would also just mention that international treaties and court orders aside, mom has defacto absolute control over her children in the Philippines. If she chose to dispute you on her turf you might find yourself in a much weaker position than the US.

To very specifically answer the direct question.. If the children are not Filipino citizens then I am pretty sure their visa status will be directly the same as their foreigner parent or guardian. The Philippines does not have a student visa category for minors that is separate from their parent. Almost anything to do with a non Filipino citizen minor will be dependent on the patent's status. I do not believe children would need anything more than a valid extended tourist visa to attend a private school at the parents expense but I would verify that with the school.

I have formally been yelled at by a Filipino immigration officer for going through the Filipino line with my wife. We were very affirmatively sent away to the back of the foreigner line. I suspect we just encountered a BI agent with a bad attitude and we probably would have been wrong no matter what we did. But at least for us, it seemed to set a president that we should use the foreigner line together so that's what we have done since with no further issues. Your mileage may vary.