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Hi! Got my approval but it’s taken a while as I had moved countries and had to get the US embassy in Australia to request and then get the file from my previous country. 
now that headache is over…
on the portal.usatraveldocs website to register for my interview I need to enter a priority date but my I-797 is blank in that section. 
What date should I put? 
 
(edit: got my approval in April)

I wondered what happened to this case? 
I feel like I’ve been reading days of our lives and really want to know the ending. 

I wondered what happened to this case? 
I feel like I’ve been reading days of our lives and really want to know the ending. 

I can't say it's really hearsay if her loving husband is on here telling us that she admitted to him that she lied on entry. Pretty open and shut to me, but hey...I don't know what the bar is for triggering VJ's ToS.
 
Would be a whole another matter if it was a scorned ex on here telling us that. I have every reason to believe OP's claims, which is why I advised the way I did. As much as I hate the fact I had to provide that advice, given a different situation I'd be more than happy to tell them to AoS otherwise.
 
Personally and as someone who came through Consular Processing, I don't give two damns about the whole 'jumping the queue' thing. It's all artificial rubbish at the end of the day, rules that were in place because they were meant to be cruel by design which is drawn out from a system that had racial quotas and said immigration law that is on the grand scale of things, pretty darn ancient. Those people who AoS aren't making Consular Processing take longer, if anything, it's one less person in the queue for interview at the Consulate.
 
This is why I'd never advocate for AoSing from tourist visas/ESTA to be banned. All it's going to do is clog up the diplomatic missions even further, cause more heartache and separation for couples. I get a lot of people here have the mindset of 'well I suffered through it, so should you'. We should advocate things to be better for the people who follow us in their journeys, not worse, rather than just saying 'rules are rules' and because of that saying that the rules must be made worse.
 
Anyway, before I get reprimanded for going off topic on this thread, I'll leave it at that.

Thank you so much for this! 

Some other answers I found on vj for your reference:
 
As the sponsor, you'll be the one to receive the NOA, so no issue there. 
A case number will be generated once the case reaches NVC, so you can call them to change address. Or just wait until the K1 beneficiary fills the DS-160 to update the address. 
 
Guess it's not the USCIS you need to notify but NVC first, because they will be the one to mail documents to beneficiary. When it comes to schedule appt, you can put in new address in the DS-160 form.

OMGGGG....I saw your date is 12/23 which got approval, and mine is 12/17. So I just did a random check, and found out I also got approval on Feb 9?!!!! After 419 days of waiting...What a start of my day 💗   

I'm in discussions with two immigration lawyers. The first one went over all my documentation and facts and said the same. This RFE was requested in error. I should respond with a cover letter reminding them I am not married, pointing to my application being for K1, and showing that K1 does not require a form I-130. If the second lawyer says the same I will go with that. Hopefully this helps anyone else who randomly gets this specific issue like I did.

My wife was visiting from Japan while we had a pending K1 Application. Covid hit, Japan locked down their borders even for citizens, all return flights were canceled and she was stranded here. We ended up getting married so she wouldn't overstay. Her interview in Tokyo was canceled,  She lost her job, and the apartment tied to it, fortunately her boss was pretty great and sent all her stuff to her parents house. We still haven't been back yet.
 
There are many plausible reasons, I'm sure we were not the only ones in the exact same situation. Our interviewer was very sympathetic to our situation and even said she was sorry that she had to go through so much and approved her in the office with a print out. 

Hi, Feb 22 K1 filers!

I know there are not many of us here yet (not even 3 months into this ordeal), but as I am an extremely anxious person, I'm tracking our cases already.

I worked on a table format that has been used by the 2021 groups and I intend to update it weekly for those who are curious. I started only tracking my group from the start but then moved on to the whole month – doing this actually helps me calm my nerves as I have a false impression I'm in control of something (haha really!).

I believe most if not all of these approvals you will see here are expedites – I wasn't tracking the expedite requests before but now I am, so I hope to clear that up in the future.

Let me know if you think this can be improved somehow, and if that makes you more nervous instead of helping you, just ignore it completely.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15yTdQDjmS6ik3bPNGmThSc0jFUszsiGcXurI1hT_Jcw/edit?usp=sharing

 

~~ Topic moved from K1 forum to Moving to the US & Your New Life in America where health insurance related questions are discussed ~~
 
Usually, you’d get coverage through an employer. Is your husband going to work here in the US? You can be insured through his job. 
 
Alternatively, you can use marketplace but that is usually more expensive than health insurance through an employer.

Welcome to the wait! 
 
Here are links to the previous month spreadsheets:  
 
March-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-KrCTr9vliewjQfS0omnCI7eW8IqiLPJ2US4rRtpxAE/edit#gid=1226240405
April-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1USXTWEww37JnWiCxW6ftP1UZjE6fKU2gn2Mk4OSVGLw/edit#gid=0
May-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bYbU6iImqwTZCF2awJ5_IEPxH7IhON8do1YlMlhytAI/edit#gid=1226240405
June-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hUb8mdiE2N7peEHhU5aUN0r4GXNFBcm5hGHjbGIYr6Q/edit#gid=1226240405
 
Checking the overall progress helps me stay sane. Hopefully they will help you as well. It's going to be a while until they get to us, but I'm still hopeful that we will see progress in July before the 12 months mark.
 
 

They sent it by mail to the beneficiary's address that appeared on the I-129F (my fiancee's was then forwarded to her new address since she had updated the post office of her move).
 
Here's a copy of the English pages in the packet 3 (I removed the cover page with my fiancee's info).  The document had Japanese translations as well, but we did not scan them.
 
@Greenbaum - in case you want a more legible version of packet 3 for Japan.
packet3_japan_english.pdf

You are the bomb! Thanks for the new P3. Yes, mine was in bad shape but you were the first to step up after receiving a better copy and helping the community. I thank you!!!  

There's actually a combined spreadsheet for all months now.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hWeQrdLEcA0DgskIUNKoEGF3fVOri66Q63jiF0c3_YE/edit?fbclid=IwAR2ArRmql7LTLMSAzs0HOnLe51mCNfk-dw6a-fujkYeyC3ulZHEvhHgJWxU#gid=832321707
This has all cases from February-September so far

Hey guys! Just wanted to tell you all I finally got approved! It was on Monday, but wanted to tell you guys since I’ve been in this community for a while and it was nice having a community that understand you and someone you can vent to during this long long process of just waiting. I am hoping for the best for all of you! May you all get approvals soon, best of luck ❤️ 

It does not work like that, lot of people got confused but an expedited approved is not that the case is approved is that they approved the expedited petition, they still have to wait up to 5 weeks for a response that can be an approval, a denial or an rfe.

I don't know how to give a link, but on Google Store (assuming Apple Store has the same), this is the app:
 

For what it's worth when me and my wife went through that the lawyer we consulted with basically said that there's no real reason it should be a problem, but yes in the end it's gray because it's not specifically defined and the immigration process is based on the discretion of the agents assigned to your case

Someone else asked a similar question. You will find useful information and responses in this thread: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/699302-working-remotely-while-waiting-for-ead-k1-visa/

Let's keep our hopes up and wish for the USCIS to continue the speed it went today   I'm manifesting that it goes back to 6-8 month processing time