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J.M.'s answer is probably your best advice. Calling the LBC hotline might get more timely results than e-mail. You can also try checking on https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/ph-niv-passportretrieve.asp or you can get an automated response by e-mailing passportstatus@ustraveldocs.com with just the subject and body of the e-mail containing the passport number. Just about everyone I've heard of recently got it really quick like 3-4 days if they sent it to MOA, with the tracking email coming the night before the passport was ready to pick up. But remember the Philippines almost totally shuts down for Christmas and New Years so results may vary wildly because it 'tis the season.

The US would recognize and accept a divorce that is legally completed in accordance with Norwegian laws. There would not be anything required in the US other than showing a Norwegian divorce certificate if you ever had to prove you are divorced.

Since maybe about May of this year pretty much all I-751's have been receiving IOE case numbers and are being scanned for electronic processing by USCIS. Allot of people, ourselves included, have been finding poorly scanned .tif files in their online accounts that only contain a tiny fraction of the packet they submitted. In our case it has the photos we submitted in our packet and an unrelated payment form USCIS apparently inserted, and nothing else. Consensus is that they obviously do have the rest of the packet scanned into their system somewhere and everything is probably fine. It's probably some widespread IT quirk in their system. But what most folks find scanned into their online accounts does not reflect all that they actually sent. But since it apparently affects almost everyone. It must be normal and OK(???)

With my wife, her status changed from "Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Sent" to "Case Is Being Actively Reviewed By USCIS" about 4 hours after she completed her biometrics appointment. So there is a strong correlation and almost certain causation of the data entry of the biometrics being the "active review" in her particular case.

Yea. So if you look there and see that Nebraska is processing I-129F's in 5.5 months, that is how long they are taking to reject I129F's from K3's that people filed along with their spousal I-130's. A totally different situation from I-129F's filed for K1's so it's a deceptive comparison.

Where you do see I-129F processing times for other centers they are most likely from K3 cases that people in the hopes of speeding up their I-130's. All those I-129f's get denied but probably skew USCIS processing time statistics is strange ways.

CFO has been undergone all kinds of wild changes this year but they seem to have somewhat emerged from the total meltdown they were having in like June and July. As far as I can tell, at this time there is no way you can find out when you could get an appointment before you actually have the visa on hand, but people who do have visas no longer seem to be having difficulties getting appointments in the reasonable short term future. As far as I can tell they only do in-person GCP now. The online option seems ended. Take your choice Manila, Cebu, or Davao whichever is most convenient.

If you haven't received the Green Card after three months I wouldn't even worry. USCIS is slow. If you haven't received the SS card after 4 weeks, it's time to go down to the SS office. SS is usually either fast, or else nothing at all. If it took that long probably something got missed and it needs intervention.

You could print what you want them to see on the website. They will look at paper copies of websites.

Ordinarily I think one would apply for the child's Philippine passport at the same time they filed the report of overseas birth with the consulate. The consulate should be able to process both simultaneously. Also, are you sure the PCG in San Francisco is the correct consulate? Just asking because your profile says you are in San Antonio and if the child was born in Texas then only the PCG in Houston can process the ROB.

Since pretty much all I-751's since about May of this year have been receiving IOE numbers and are being scanned for electronic processing, it seems predictable that in the future frequent changes of service centers may become more common. Also, since all these new IOE cases have not started being processed or approved in large numbers just yet, it would be difficult for anyone to predict what impact electronic processing will have. But it is predictable that things will be "different", once all the paper cases start working their way out of the system. So predictions about how new cases will be processed based on how older cases were processed may not be valid.

I have seen several instances of various agents mistakenly following procedures for someone who is "in the US on a visa" because they see a visa in a passport and don't know any better. What has to be explained to them is that it is no longer a visa at all, it is a temporary I-551 Green Card. So they must follow whatever the procedure is for a green card because it is NOT a visa, it IS a temporary I-551 Green Card.

No chance whatsoever you could register your marriage in the Philippines. Any ROM would be rejected. It is no issue at all for US immigration purposes.

Apparently she decided to fight after about shot number four. Mom had to hold her down for the last two. She was fine once it was over. It was six shots in our case. Some of them contain more than one vaccine. In the Philippines they routinely vaccinate children with a shot they call "Penta" which combines 5 vaccines all into a single shoot. I'm not sure why SLEC doesn't just use that rather than going one by one.

Ouch is correct. My 9y/o stepdaughter got SIX shots. Two in each arm and one in each leg. My wife only got four shots.

Yes. The existing history will update with the social security number whenever a creditor reports the information in the future. My wife even had one where she was an authorized user 6 years earlier and I had closed the account 4 years before she got here and she was even using a different surname. Somehow the credit report agencies still put two and two together and correctly attached the old closed account to her credit report. She arrived with a 760ish FICO score.

Not directly applicable to immigration but Social Security could care less about middle names. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110205120#:~:text=A middle name or suffix,shown on an SSN card.

For my wife we had to put several good faith best guess estimates for dates, and for addresses the best we could do was narrow it down on a map to specific neighborhoods within the respective cities so we wrote the addresses as just that. It worked fine for us.

She just re-clears security and finds the next gate. NRT is super easy.

Just come to whatever POE works out best for the flights. They are all going to admit you. Leave plenty of extra time if there are any domestic connecting flights. My wife and stepdaughter came through LAX and they were quite friendly.

It seems the CFO rona era madness has settled down a bit and they are getting back to normalish. Such as that ever was. CFO has simplified the appointment process. Basically you fill a form online and they handle it by e-mail. For added confusion they also still have the old system too where you had to sign up at 7:00AM exactly on Mondays through Thursday. So older advice may work but is not the easy way. They will ignore you if you do not have an actual visa so don't waste your time trying to be prepared or to get a head start. They are generally more or less responsive once someone actually has a visa and imminent travel plans. https://manila.cfo.gov.ph/GCP-Manila-Appointment/

SS On a DS-260 those seem like completely valid and correct answers. I can't see how it would make any difference for immigration. Presumably they would request SS issues a new card when the immigrant arrives. SS would most likely look up the old number and process the request as a replacement card rather than a new number. If you want a new number due to fraud, just get whatever card SS sends you and go down to the SS office once you get here. They will want hard documented proof of the fraud to change the number. Whatever SS does or does not send , it would be an easy problem for the new immigrant to solve with a trip to the SS office once they get here. No need to worry about it before arrival and not an immigration issue.

My wife stubbornly rounds her height up by one inch and becomes defensive and vehemently questions the validity, calibration and measurement skills if anyone ever gets any different result.

It seems they arranged 300 immigration fraud sham marriages for Filipinos. Used the same props and backgrounds in allot of the wedding photos. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/los-angeles-man-convicted-large-scale-marriage-fraud-scheme

From a legal and immigration standpoint camera tickets are generally not charged as infractions. The fine is a "civil penalty" or in the case of NY State it seems it is a "notice of liability". It's legally equivalent to a glorified parking ticket. While there certainly are infractions or more serious charges that could be made, if they did that on camera tickets then everyone would have the right to their day in court, right to be served notice, etc etc. It's unprofitable applied to a camera ticket scheme. In terms of immigration, I don't think a "civil penalty" or a "notice of liability" has any significance at all. It's not even an infraction.