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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.

The only one they don't do at Saint Luke's is Covid vaccine. They should get that one done now if they haven't already. The rest are all included in the price of the physical. My wife and stepdaughter went in with no records other than their rona-vax. At her physical my wife got Tdap, HepB, MMR, and Flu. Four shots. Two in each arm.🤣 Her daughter got all of the above plus Polio and Varicella. Six shot's total. Two in each arm and one in each leg.😧 If you have any records bring them since they may avoid a few shots. If they don't have records that's fine to. Even if the child got the full course of childhood vaccines they are probably due for boosters and Saint Luke's will give any needed. Also keep the vaccine worksheet Saint Luke's will give her plus any other records for the child since you will need those to enroll the child in school in the US.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/limited-validity.html Here they list issues with a naturalization certificate as a possible reason??? There could be different reasons too. Was it a first passport or a renewal? It sounds like you need more info from the passport office.

If they told her to come back for her results January 22nd and they don't call her back any earlier than that, you can be pretty confident it's a negative result. When someone tests positive, the results are usually known in the first month and they call them to come back immediately and start treatment. The more time that passes with no news, the more likely everything is fine.

There should be no "new medical" and no new x-ray. If everything goes according to plan she goes back, gets her negative test result and gets sent upstairs for immunizations. Medical completed. Ready for interview.

Why would you need that?

On the screen with the "Prior spouse history" the table is not actually empty. There is a blank entry where it says "Edit Delete". So while it is blank, the system still sees it as a former spouse. It probably got there by inadvertently clicking "yes" on the "Have you been married previously?" and then clicking through the subsequent screens leaving them blank. The glitchy part of the form is that once you went down that road, it hides the "Have you been married previously?" question entirely and you can't back up to it. The question is gone. The solution is to delete the blank entry and then go back to the "Current Spouse" question using the link on the left rather than the back button. Then proceed forward through the screens. until you get back to the "Have you been married previously?" question. Also a great example of why it was wise to review the actual pdf form before submitting online.

The school here let me complete all the enrolment formalities before my stepdaughter even arrived. They just said bring her there and stop by the office whenever she was actually ready to start.

General global responses do not apply in this particular case. Philippine law is unconditional and without the slightest ambiguity that an unmarried mother has absolute sole custody over her child born out of wedlock. Period. US Embassy Manila is 100% totally aware of this and abides by Filipino law. As do all Filipino authorities when exiting the country. She needs nothing whatsoever from the father and everyone knows and accepts that. It's irrelevant if the father is on the birth certificate or the child has the fathers surname. The proof of the mothers sole custody is on the child's birth certificate indicating the parents were not married.

Yep. Something like 100% you will get referred for sputum testing. Saint Luke's could care less what any other outside doctor or authority said or did, so don't waste your time worrying about that. If the treatment was successful you should pass sputum testing easily.

I should also be more specific. They were not denied at the interview. Rather, they were refused with a 221g requesting proof of a meeting they could not possibly answer. No way to resolve it but to start over.

I now have seen 2 actual real world cases that were denied at the interview over not meeting in person before filing the I-130 after a Utah online marriage. They even had fairly solid rona-travel-ban excuses. It didn't make any difference. They are starting the I-130 over from scratch which is a very sad situation. Both cases made it all the way through USCIS and NVC. The issue wasn't even raised until the interview. Like a year and a half was lost and hearts are broken. Follow the advice given above. The lost filing fee is nothing compared to lost time.

As a general rule of thumb, CBP will be quite strict about any prescription medications that are scheduled controlled substances. But, they could generally care less about any non-scheduled prescription medicines. I feel extremely confident that no one ever got any grief over 5 or 10 non-scheduled asthma inhalers. CBP would only care at all if they suspected they were counterfeit or if they were commercial quantities. Even if they were just fishing for a reason to hassle someone they wouldn't do it over a few asthma inhalers. I wouldn't have the slightest qualms about carrying them myself.

You can also get your return transcript by paper letter in the mail without using ID.me at https://sa1.www4.irs.gov/irfof-tra/start.do .

It sounds perfectly normal and like she did everything the embassy wants. Everything is probably fine. It's a guessing game how long the embassy would take from the time she sent in everything. For US Embassy Manila? 1 week would be incredibly fast. 2-3 weeks might be average. 6-8 weeks is probably unlikely but not unheard of.

I was able to get "Ask Emma live agent" to e-mail me the pdf copy of a biometrics notice that was missing and not visible online due to some ongoing glitch. I would definitely take the other advice given here first, but I was surprised how easily we got the missing notice from "Ask Emma". It's also worth a try.