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The reason that estimates vary wildly without any obvious rhyme or reason is because actual outcome times vary wildly without any obvious rhyme or reason. It is completely true that there are normal cases that have finished in just 9 months or less and it is also completely true that there are normal cases have taken 3 years or more. Sometimes with no outwardly obvious difference in the cases. Anyone claiming they can make an accurate prediction in advance is not being truthful. You could make guesses based on the experience of others but that is no guarantee your case would be the same.

The Utah marriage is all you need for US immigration. So long as your divorce is recognized by the US it does not matter what the Philippines says. No problem getting the visa with a Utah marriage certificate. CFO would give you an extra ration of difficulty but would eventually let them still pass.

The parish will issue a new baptismal certificate based on the ledger that the church holds. It's as valid as the original.

It is at the discretion of the interviewing consul and often depends on how late they were registered too. Being late registered at 15 years old is more likely to draw requests for additional evidence than being late registered at 5 years old. Schools in the Philippines are often good at keeping records. At least to the extent that paper records survive tropical humidity and typhoons. Request her "form 137" from both elementary and highschool. If they can't come up with that they may at least give a certification from DepEd that she attended. My wife also pretty easily obtained her baptismal certificate by simply messaging the local parish on their Facebook page. The other evidence you mentioned is good too. It should pass but the more evidence she brings, the more certain the outcome.

The e-mail IS the "letter". They won't mail a paper letter. Just print the e-mail. Congratulations.

It's not quite that complicated to file the ROM or change your Philippine passport. It can all be done mail, and ordinary mail between UK and the US is reasonably fast and reliable. They generally tell you it takes 6 months to a year to file a ROM and have it available from PSA but 3 months is probably more realistic in practice. Ours took less than 2 months. If you DO want to use your married name, changing your Philippine passport now will be faster, easier and cheaper even after you factor in the additional step of filing the ROM. My suspicion is that the mistake of the birth place on your passport would not cause a major problem since your birth certificate would be the definitive legal document that establishes your birth place and I don't see that the mistake on your passport invalidates it as a Philippine passport. But if it were me, I would still start fixing both that and the name now since if you are just now filing the I-130 there is plenty of time and it would save trouble later on.

I also agree with those who say it's a bit premature to start worrying to much about the possibility of a positive test result. While it is theoretically possible,,,, I think it is also fair to say that a positive sputum test is unlikely. For the vast majority it turns into an annoying and frustrating 2-3 month delay but nothing more. Once she is actually told when her results date is, you could already go on ustraveldocs and start trying to schedule a new interview a few days after that.

You can try to get their vaccination e-cert here. https://vaxcert.doh.gov.ph/ How successful that is without a copy of the LGU card kind of depends on how well the LGU did its record keeping. As far as I know SLEC will require documentation that COVID vaccination is at least started and will not do it there.

Has he been successfully extending his visa until now even with an expired ACR-I card????? If his visa is still current he should count his blessings and renew the ACR-I card. He definitely needs to go to BI for ECC exit clearance. Figure out for sure that his visa is current before you even approach them though.

Who is the ACR-I card holder and what is their visa status having an expired ACR-I card? If they need an ACR-I card at all they may require ECC exit clearance from BI.

My wife's birth certificate was annotated with a name change. We submitted the annotated birth certificate itself as the legal name change document along with a brief explanation.

Although it is a pdf with a QR code these days. They did eliminate the actual stickers.

The consul notified my wife how much money I make.🤣

In the Philippines, US Embassy Manila would generally require a married woman to include her husbands name in her NBI Clearance (police report) whether she actually uses the name or not. Because it is a legal name name that she could use. If there were any further background check on a married woman in the Philippines they would automatically include the husbands name as well. 100% certain it will not cause any delay. One can literally show up the day of their interview at US Embassy Manila and explain that they have changed their passport to their married name and ask at the pre-interview document check that their DS-260 be updated. It takes them 10 minutes to do. It's just that simple. Or, if they wait to get to the US, it is $540 for an I-90 to change the name on the green card. That could take over a year. Social Security doesn't want to change a name of a permanent resident based on a foreign marriage certificate that does not explicitly change the name. The state most likely won't do anything until USCIS and Social Security does. They ask that the green card be changed first. In the meantime one is accumulating new documents from state, work, insurance, banking etc all in the old name. They will be facing hassles of traveling with documents that may be in maiden name or married name. If they wanted to change their name It's a big mess that doesn't get resolved easily. Or, they could have paid the $23 and changed their passport in the Philippines prior to their interview. Very highly recommended and definitely will not cause any delay at all.

You could change your name at any time during the process up to the day of your interview, or not at all if you don't want to. However, if you DO want to change your name, the only document that counts is your Philippine passport that you bring to your interview. Your green card and social security card will be issued in that name. It costs P1200 (~$23), including the expedite fee, and takes a few weeks to change a Filipino passport. It costs USD $540 and can take over a year to change a US green card once it's issued, plus all the other documents generated in a year in the US. On other words. If you DO want to change your name, it will be far far far easier and cheaper to just change your Filipino passport now. But there is no requirement that you change your name at all.

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Yes. That's all they give these days. Assuming it has the QR code with the serial number. It's all you need.

You will have no trouble at all in the Philippines. With USCIS being as slow as they are, a significant number of Filipino green card holders are traveling with an extension letter. Anyone at NAIA who deals with US bound passengers is seeing extension letters daily and knows all about them.

Don't feel bad. We DID include that form and have not received a single text message. So to us it seems kind of like it doesn't make much difference if we sent the form or not.

In September it was about as normal as it has ever been. I think theoretically they may still have the eTravel QR code requirement (???) https://etravel.gov.ph/ so probably good to fill that out. But functionally, no one cared or checked in our two entries and exits in September.

Everything is transmitted to the embassy electronically. Saint Luke's only gives a sheet listing listing vaccinations. The embassy doesn't even need that but hang on to it because your children will probably need it to enroll in school in America.

It cutting it close but should be ok if everything goes well. Theoretically results are transmitted electronically the same day, or the next day if Saint Luke's doesn't get around to it right away. There is always the risk that someone gets tagged for sputum testing and I'm not sure if the IGRA test shortage has been resolved yet or will have been resolved by then for the children younger than 15.

The biological mother is deceased. The biological father is applying for a visa for his child. Although he was not married to the mother, he is still the biological father.

Well if they scheduled it for today, then today would be the day. If everything goes well she should have a completed medical by the end of the day.

In the case of my friends wife they already had scheduled it for the following day at the time she received the referral. What were your fiancée's instructions when she got the referral? Isn't there already an appointment date?