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I wouldn't be at all worried just yet. Both USCIS and USPS tend to randomize the delivery of important mail. We are still waiting for the biometrics letter where we can see the 9/15 notice date online.

Was your I-130 a paper filing which provided you an online account number to use with the I-751?

I was thinking think that may basis of the problem. But furthermore it seems it would be an anomaly to have the same case fully accessible simultaneously under three different accounts. I assumed they could access it because their names and info was on the I-130 as beneficiaries but it seems that may not be normal. I am quite certain that none of my info is anywhere in their accounts. I created the accounts for them after they were already here but every piece of info used for the verification was there's not mine. I'm trying to remember how the I-130's got in there and I believe I tried adding them by receipt number and it errored out so I gave up. Several months later they miraculously appeared there without me doing anything more.

Well, I finally got the online accounts mostly working. I gave up on the existing accounts but it would not let me delete them since they had previous case history in them, so I had to change the e-mail addresses and "park" those accounts on some unused e-mail addresses. Then I was able to create new accounts with the online access letters. So yesterday we received extension letters and online access letters. The service center on the receipt notice is National Benefits Center which various sources say means your case is headed for an interview. (?) Now that I have online access, I can see my wife is scheduled for biometrics Oct 2 which is only a little over a week from now. My stepdaughter has an "Appointment Scheduled.pdf" showing in her documents but when you click on it you only get "<"data":null,"error":.....}" Consensus here seems to be to wait a few days and that error will go away. In any case, I assume she is also scheduled for biometrics Oct 2. We have not received the mail notices yet. Under uploads they have very dark and low quality black and white scans of only my photos and a "Transaction Payment Form" for the credit card payment. Nothing more. I have heard many others comment that IOE cases scanned by USCIS only contain a fraction of what people sent in the online account. So, I assume they have access to the rest of it in their own network.(?) I did think it's odd the "Transaction Payment Form" is with the photos, since the photos were in the middle of my packet and I'd figure anything they added would be at either the beginning or the end. So next we are waiting for the paper biometrics appointments to arrive. 9/6/2023 -- I-751 packet mailed by USPS Priority Mail. 9/8/2023 -- Packet received by Phoenix lock box. 9/12/2023 -- Credit card charged. 9/21/2023 -- Received extension letters and online access codes. 10/2/2023 -- Biometrics scheduled.

So I received the extension letters for my wife and stepdaughters and online access letters for both. However, still no online access. When trying to add the case by Receipt number I get the following error and no option to use the online access number. It says. "You cannot add this case to your account because it has already been linked to a USCIS account". What I suspect happened is somehow they created a new account rather than adding the cases to the existing accounts that have their I-130's. I think maybe I could create new accounts with the online access codes they sent but multiple accounts per person seems, not ideal. I sent them a message and see if they offer any solutions. Case status for both is "Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Sent.

Yay! Finally some exciting action.🤣 This Removal of Conditions was getting boring. Informed Delivery just popped up with four letters from USCIS scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I can already see that two of them are the 48 month extension letters for my wife and stepdaughter. I can't tell what the other two are yet. I'll see tomorrow. 9/6/2023 -- I-751 packet mailed by USPS Priority Mail. 9/8/2023 -- Packet received by Phoenix lock box. Tracking said "Delivered, Individual Picked Up at Postal Facility". 9/12/2023 -- Credit card charged. 9/20/2023 -- Extension letters and other letters from USCIS appear in Informed Delivery

We had almost exactly that situation. A bunch of receipts, pictures, flights, etc, from a trip we had taken. Really high quality, strong evidence. I actually thought I had uploaded it with the original submission, but reviewing it a month later discovered I had not. So I uploaded it to unsolicited evidence a month late. About two weeks after that, my I-130's were approved in record time. I have no way of knowing if the late uploads had any positive impact or if they were even reviewed at all, but it most certainly had no downsides or negative impact on our case.

Yes. Usually it is just an extra one day annoyance if someone answered a question wrong. Costs P3500 additional fee.

My credit card was also charged on the 12th but nothing yet here and no e-notifications or myUSCIS updates either. By USCIS standards you really couldn't call it past due though. I'm not sure if anyone in the September group has actually received the paper I-797 receipt notice yet. Most of those who commented here were seeing the pdf copies materialize in their MyUSCIS account. That does not work for us either, so I assume we are waiting for the online access code letter so we can add the case.

I think lately CFO is playing a game of totally ignoring anyone who does not have a visa on hand. I tend to believe any e-mail that does not have a scan of a visa attached goes straight in the trash. I think they will be much more responsive once you have a visa.

They would only ever apply that requirement to someone traveling to meet a foreign sponsor who is paying for the trip, where there is no petition. They won't ask for it from someone who has a spousal visa.

https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1671?language=en_US However, the "green card number" is just the A number which is also on the visa itself. So you could probably apply immediately since conditional approval will probably take longer than it takes to get the green card. (my wife took almost 6months to get conditional approval)

I made 3 pages of something like collages, with dozens of all different size pictures from postage stamp size to quarter page. In many cases overlapping in non important areas of the photos. Important ones I labeled but many were just to show us together as a happy smiling family in many different places and circumstances. Anyone could take 10 seconds looking at the 3 pages of photos and see that it is very obviously a real relationship. It worked for us. Many others had great success with a more formal approach too. What you describe sounds just fine.

Nothing here yet. It seems clear that the G-1145 failed. I double checked that it was included, filled correctly and nothing went to spam or anything. Since they charged my credit card I suppose it really doesn't matter and hopefully I should get a letter next week but it's annoying that we are in the dark over a USCIS failure. I have seen that complaint many times with paper I-130's that got IOE numbers and were scanned into the system. It never seemed to cause anyone any problems with their case but it seems to be a known phenomenon with cases scanned by USCIS. I wish we could do an online filing as I'm confident I could make PDF's that are much easier and more coherent to review than a big stack of scanned pages.

I just double checked on mine with a freshly downloaded I-130A. Anything typed into Part 1, 3.a 3.b and 3.c instantly auto fills Part 7, 1.a 1.b and 1.c. Thus those fields are not writable otherwise because they are only auto filled. I'm using Acrobat full version but Acrobat Reader should definitely work the same. Whatever the reason, the it's the failure of the autofill function that is why the fields are unwritable. https://get.adobe.com/reader/ edit to add. I should have been more specific about which 3.a 3.b and 3.c. It gets its values from whatever is imputed in Part 1, 3.a 3.b and 3.c on page 1.

You are probably using something other than Adobe Acrobat Reader to fill the form. When opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader those fields automatically populate with whatever you answered in 3.a 3.b 3.c. Most likely whatever pdf viewer you are using is not compatible with that pdf function.

Did you have an USCIS Online Account Number in question 9. on the I-751 itself? I had assumed whether that was answered or not would be the difference between it automatically showing up in myUSCIS or having to wait for the mailed access code.

Well, while everyone else already has their cases showing up in myUSCIS and giving status updates, we are still waiting for the text or e-mail with our case number. They charged my card late Tuesday night so I know all should be well. But the success of the of the G-1145 E-notifications is starting to look a little more dubious. I'm guessing those of you who are already seeing it in myUSCIS must of already had an online access code from your previous paper filings?

I guess from CFO's perspective, if the Philippine Government doesn't recognize your marriage, how could they possibly complain that you did not file a Report of Marriage? I think it's a non issue. They would probably want to see some relationship evidence for a holder of an immigrant visa with an overseas partner and I bet a marriage certificate would work great for that. As far as I know you dont stand much chance on the phone. CFO changes all the rules like every other week but the screen captures from the recent post below are the most current rules I've seen. Which says you have to e-mail them to cancel an existing appointment and schedule a new one online once you have the actual visa. If the website is completely down (403 Forbidden error) it is probably because they geo-block US IP addresses so you have to access it from the Philippines or use a vpn to appear like you are in some non-US country. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/807795-please-clear-up-my-confusion-is-the-k-1-visa-an-immigrant-or-a-non-immigrant-visa/

Well in that case it's impossible for you to file a report of marriage so you got your explanation for CFO. Similar cases I heard of went trough CFO trouble free.

Before you submit you can and should review the filled pdf I-130 it creates from your answers to the online questions. If anything in the actual filled pdf I-130 differs from what it should be on a paper I-130, it's best to go back and review what ever question fills that particular answer and change it until the filled pdf I-130 matches what a paper one would be.

GCP only They no longer accept anyone without an actual visa in their passport. CFO is going to give her trouble about the lack of a Report of Marriage. CFO a Philippine Government agency and the Philippine government says a Filipino citizen married overseas is required to register the marriage with Philippine Embassy or Consulate that has consular jurisdiction over wherever the marriage took place. For an Australian Marriage it woud be the https://philembassy.org.au/consular/civil-registry/report-of-marriage or one of the Philippine Consulates in Australia depending where you got married in Australia. CFO is going to try to enforce that. The US Embassy has nothing to do with it. If the passport is in the US Embassy now, waiting for a visa then obviously she would not have a Report of Marriage completed in time for CFO in which case the best she can do is go in what she has, maybe beg and plead a bit and promise she is working on it with Philippine Embassy in Australia... but they said it's going to take 6 months and her flight is next week..... It would be up to the CFO counselor how much trouble they will give her over the issue but usually people in that situation do make it through anyways. There are some couples who could never register a marriage with the Philippine government like same sex or if they have a valid overseas divorce that is recognized by the US but not the Philippines and they still make it through CFO. But yea. CFO is going to raise the issue of no Report of Marriage.

Depending on what phone you have, it might (or might not) be able to use an eSIM concurrently with a physical SIM so you can have calls on one network and data on another. Another possibility is renting pocket wifi at the airport and returning it when you leave.

Personally, I would place the highest of all priorities on having mobile data. Both for Grab and if you just need to look stuff up since it's an unfamiliar place or if you need to message anyone. I would not rely on WiFi. Most of the western oriented restaurants and hotels do have WiFi for their customers but you would generally have to ask for the password. You can pick up tourist SIM cards at kiosks in the arrival hall in both Bangkok and Siem Reap airports for $6-$10 that provide data for a week, or longer for more if you need it. They will even set it up your phone for you. It's cheap and super easy. I'm not sure if they have any that roam in both countries but in the past I have used DTac in Thailand and Smart in Cambodia. The Grab app is really like the greatest thing ever for South East Asia. Like Uber or Lyft it removes all guesswork and uncertainty about getting around and is also cashless so no possibility of dispute or negotiation on pricing. As long as you can find your destination in a search or pick it off the map you will get there even if the driver can not speak or understand a word of English.

I can confirm seeing recent detailed firsthand accounts of petitioners not being allowed in the embassy when their fiancées or spouses were interviewed. They were most certainly turned away. Didn't make it past the first checkpoint.