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As others have stated, a nephew can't have family-sponsored visa. The nephew can apply for a tourist visa on his own, but he will not be able to work on a tourist visa. What is common for Chinese students is they get accepted by an accredited educational institution for F-1 student visa or J-1 exchange program visa. The institution starts the process with the I-20. You and your wife can be part of the proof of financial support while your nephew is studying. Keep in mind, unless the institution grants him some financial support package, tuition for international students are very expensive. Unless the international students are from wealthy families, most foreign students depend on the educational institution for financial support. Traditionally, if the international students want to stay after graduation, they gain employment from a company that sponsors their H1B.

If you are waiting for the Packet 3 email, what is in Packet 3 is no secret and listed at https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Kingdom&cty=London Use the information links to start preparing.

Both the petitioner and the beneficiary can track the receipt number with the USCIS online case status. https://egov.uscis.gov/ Or download the case tracker app on your phone. After USCIS forwards the approved I-129F application to NVC, the State Department assigns it a different case number, which can be tracked with the CEAC stat tracker by both the petitioner and beneficiary. https://ceac.state.gov/ceacstattracker/status.aspx

As @wildbug100420 said, don't even think about the tourist visa marriage, which is fraud. Putting together the pieces from your previous post, https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/836171-divorced-from-filipina-in-usa-but-not-recognised-in-philippines/ Marrying in a 3rd country, and filing for CR1 from the 3rd country, or filing for K1 from a 3rd country, may technically be feasible, but you will also have a lot of explaining to do for why you are applying from the 3rd country, especially if neither of you are working or living in the 3rd country.

Congrats! Please fill out your Timeline

That link is the State Department data. I don't think it includes the USCIS data like AOS, ROC, etc. This is the same link that I included above, which is the reference for the Newsweek article in the original post.

I don't quite follow you here. The previous Filipina showed the death certificate (fake) along with her Cenomar (at the time) to the US Embassy, so you could marry her and register the marriage in the Philippines and the US? You married the previous Filipina and registered the marriage in the Philippines and the US (which state?)? You divorced the previous Filipina in the US (which state?)? The previous Filipina is still married to you in the Philippines registered in the PSA? Could all these be done without the US Embassy reporting back to the Philippines? My understanding is that Philippines Cenomar and US Embassy are independent and do not "work" together. The US Embassy depends on the Cenomar for the Filipina to be eligible for marriage along with any death certificates or marriage annulments of previous spouse. With your US divorce papers, you are eligible to marry in the US. So since you are technically still married to the previous Filipina in the Philippines, you will not be able to Report of Marriage (ROM) in the Philippines with your current Filipina. This may have some ramifications if you have assets in the Philippines such as bank accounts, when you pass away. The previous Filipina could claim your assets as the spouse on record. Other than that, the previous Filipina will have problems trying to marry again until you two get the marriage annulled. Or am I missing something?

The 2024 Bier's report already shows the green card approval rate declining to record lows which may loosely correlate to the site traffic empirical drop starting from 2024? https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/836021-site-traffic/#findComment-11101002 One conclusion might be less green cards were being applied? Bier's current 2026 report referenced by Newsweek correlated the continued green card approval drop on the current administration to help ICE arrests (which sounds like some political overtones). But Bier's interpretation is that the overall trend continued even with the 2025 spike. Notice I did not once refer to the current administration as I'm hoping to see thru the data noise, or even incomplete data. To answer if Bier's interpretation of the stats/data and however the current administration means to stem illegal immigration correlate to VJ members experience in increased wait times and lower approval rates, the VJ stats need to loosely correlate with some of the Bier's stat/data. Since VJ Timelines are self-selected data, the Bier's stat/data trend may not be reflected in the VJ processing times or approvals rates (does VJ even have data graph for approval rates?)? Maybe one reason is that mostly the successful members seem to be self-reporting? However, the current USCIS processing times estimates are currently showing upticks, but does USCIS even show a history of processing times estimates to identify trends? Or does USCIS even report green card approval rates? My premise is that Bier's stats/data may reflect better the experience for those currently waiting for green card approval than the current self-reported VJ stats/data along with the empirical info for the VJ site traffic decline. Or if VJ stats/data are more accurate, then the change in green card wait times or approval rate has not changed much since 2024.

@Crazy Cat Maybe I should have included the referenced Cato Institute report by David J Bier along with the Newsweek article. "USCIS Cut Green Card Approvals in Half to Help ICE Arrest Legal Immigrants" https://www.cato.org/blog/uscis-cut-green-card-approvals-half-help-ice-arrest-legal-immigrants Bier's 2024 report, 'Green Card Approval Rate Reaches Record Lows" https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/green-card-approval-rate-reaches-record-lows Cato Institute is a libertarian think thank funded mostly by the Koch brothers.

First, please fill out your Timeline. Second, you can file for I-131 anytime. Third, the N400/I751 combo interview may have cause for denial if your travel history show you have little intent to reside in the US.

"As cases remain pending for longer, applicants may face prolonged uncertainty over their legal status, work authorization, and ability to travel, while some risk losing underlying protections if their temporary status expires before a decision is made." https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-approvals-cut-in-half-impact-11873933 Well, we now have real data for what we suspected all along with denials and wait times. This may even correlate with the drop in traffic to this VJ site. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/836021-site-traffic/ Any thoughts?

USVI is US Virgin Islands? It is US territory so should not be a problem.

I highly recommend prioritizing paying the 120 for Global Entry. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/799684-global-entry-with-conditional-green-card/ If anything, the extra background check may facilitate USCIS processing, since GE, TSA, CBP, USCIS, etc. are all under DHS information sharing along with the airport benefits of TSA and GE. However, with GE, there is also the extra responsibility of self-enforcement of customs. For example, you complete the self-declaration form on arrival and breeze through the GE kiosk with no checks. You may have forgotten you brought in some restricted items like fruits, but your luggage CBP x-rays already recorded the fruits. Don't be surprised if your GE gets revoked with no warning, and your USCIS processing or any DHS-dependent processes get more scrutinized with no clear explanations. This is just an example of some posts I've been reading.

Thanks for sharing! Please post updates to VJ community as that may be of interest to some.

I may be missing a few details but my wife has a Filipina RN friend who came on an EB2 which is different from EB3 since EB2 starts with a permanent residence green card on entry. She recently bought out her 3-year recruitment agency contract after 2 years and got hired direct with another hospital system. For EB2, it is a matter of how much can be saved to pay off the remaining part of the contract since immigration-wise, they already have a green card. If your friend already has her permanent resident green card, then she could have came on an EB2? Paying off a 2- or 3-year contract in 3 to 6 months is fairly rare unless she already had huge savings coming into the US.

One VJ member filed 2025-06 Nashville and was approved. https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/citlist.php?op6=All&op7=Nashville+TN&op1=6&op2=&op4=1&op5=5%2C10%2C11&cfl=0

Did you at least receive a biometrics appointment or biometrics reuse NOA? If you check your processing time for Tampa and get inquiry date? https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Depending on your field office and receipt date, you may be eligible to send an inquiry.

The consulate may have grounds for denial as they may expect tax transcripts for 2022, 2023, 2024 for I-134. Or you show your current income to exceed the required. Please post the outcome from the K1 Interview.

The joint sponsor still needs to file late and settle any taxes for 2024, and have the IRS tax transcript to be a joint sponsor. So even if you submit the I-129F before April 15, this year before the 2025 tax return is filed, the time to NOA2 is currently around 10 months, which is still enough time to file the 2025 tax return and download the tax transcript. So by K1 beneficiary interview time, the K1 petitioner and joint sponsor should include the 2023, 2024, 2025, tax transcripts as part of the I-134.

So around 2024 is when the traffic started to drop?

@Syed Jamshed Ali First of all, you never asked a question to the VJ members to help you. Second, if your purpose is to ask NVC and the US consulate to restore your 1993 priority date, a VJ post does nothing to accomplish that. AI generated or not, not much may be done outside of hiring a lawyer.

@Cacolina inputing "When is your receipt date" with Sep 17, 2025 https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ The earliest you can submit questions is October 23, 2026.

NVC used to have a phone number. I would try to find the phone number to call NVC directly to address the issue ASAP because the case may get forwarded to the consulate fairly quickly. If the case does forward to the consulate in Manila, then you have to contact the US embassy in Manila to try to transfer your case to AIT-Taipei. When our case was at the NVC, we had to call the NVC phone number to get our TAI**** case number and invoice number so we could track our case at the CEAC visa status check site. Fortunately, NVC assigned and forwarded our case properly to AIT-Taipei. Double check your I-129F, Part2, if the K1 beneficiary mailing address listed is a Taiwan address or Philippines address?

@James-Celine @Edward and Jaycel Does the NVC case number start with TAI********? Is the K1 beneficiary currently in Taiwan? Has the case already been forwarded to the consulate, or is it still at NVC? Did NVC email you a copy of the marked-up I-129F?

@TomAye I don't believe I-129F asks for social media. But the DS-160 does ask for social media account(s). The K1 beneficiary could conceivably leave that field blank. The only posted stories I've seen regarding social media are that the case officers are looking for consistency or discrepancy to the case presented. For example, if the K1 fiancée is posting online the petitioner as hubby or wifey, it would invalidate the K1 visa since that would insinuate the couple is already married. Use some basic common sense, and as @Crazy Cat suggested, don't overanalyze with mental gymnastics.