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USCIS lately doesn't schedule interviews in the 90 day filing windows. It does happen, but most often it doesn't get denied, person is placed on hold until they reach 3 or 5 year anniversary. It's filing too early that gets people denied 100%. But filing in 90 day window is acceptable.

No, because vaccines don't give 100% protection. The more unvaccinated people around, the more probability the virus keeps living amount people creating a risk of infecting vaccinating people. Plus mutations occur, reducing immunity provided by vaccine... There's even mathematical formulas explaining what percentage of population needing vaccine to ensure the virus cannot spread. I agree, I do not see a strong case for waiving vaccine requirement for OP so far. Any waiver needs to be factually based and backed up by solid paperwork to be taken seriously.

If waivers were easy, everybody would get them. In reality, receiving any special treatment, exceptions, waiver and expedites from DOS / USCIS is difficult. This especially applies to vaccinations and medical conditions (TB etc), as we're talking American public safety.

That's a nice position to be in. Good luck with the process and keep us posted 😊

This is misrepresentation by omission. I agree with you, OP needs to check the laws and penalties before the travel.

Also, why are you tying I-130 to job offer?

You can file I-130 whether they are in or out of the US. What you cannot do is come to the US with intention of them staying and adjusting status, because that would be fraud. Adjustment of status will also be more expensive route compared to N-600K.

True, but it will be a shorter journey for them immigration wise. Yes, they'd visit on ESTA, but CBP can always deny entry.

Yes, you need to prove relationship between you, US citizen and foreign spouse, the beneficiary. I-130 is a must

This is irrelevant as you're married.

And also reducing the visibility into processing times... What a shame. But until they start password protecting case status pages, external websites and apps will be able to gather the real data and provide useful insights into current state of things.

Official processing time right now is 80% in 7.5 months based on https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ I'm not sure about consistency? https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/citlist.php?op6=All&op7=San+Francisco+CA&op1=6&op2=d&op4=1&op5=5%2C10%2C11&cfl= Just look at the entries. 1) 5.5 months 2) 3 months 3) 9 months 4) 8 months 5) 3 months 6) 5 months 7) 15 months 8 ) 4 months 9) 9.5 months 10) 11 months So based on 10 latest entries, only 2 took 3 months. On average it took close to 7.5 months , which is close to USCIS timelines... Of course, I only looked at small sample of data. But I also sat in N-400 / I-751 groups watching timelines and people complained about SF taking long in the past year.

If I-130 is approved, beneficiary shouldn't be too far off from receiving immigrant visa. This is a clean and easy path to get GC. Why bother with the visit now? Can you visit beneficiary instead?

You can always try, just have to be honest about marital status and pending I-130 etc when filling forms for visitor's visa.

Immigration is expensive. This is just the beginning, you'd have more other types of expenses getting immigrants settled, other than fees. It's still cheaper than AOS. Good luck!

The fastest route is for you to become a citizen first.

Depends on the office and how busy it is. Also sometimes if you change name during N-400 this requires judicial ceremony which puts you in a different queue. 10 days since interview is OK. I'd give them 4-6 weeks before starting worrying.

Writ of Mandamus. Essentially, you can sue USCIS for decision. If you hire a lawyer, get the one who can file WoM for you, otherwise a regular lawyer won't do much. Also, before hiring lawyer and filing WoM, file FOIA, it's free. Ask for complete immigration file. When you get reply, it may contain hint why case is taking so long. Maybe case was already denied. Maybe there's suspected fraud etc. At least that will help to address any issues before you file WoM. WoM forces USCIS to make a decison. But what decision - approval or denial, it depends on USCIS and your case.

By looking through the list of what vaccines I had paperwork for and didn't. The ones I didn't, he checked whether it could be administered. Some vaccines are not issued after certain age. The ones he could still issue he went through and I got them.

SF is pretty slow, from historical reports on VJ.

This is typical. If you come prepared, IO doesn't see value in wasting their and your time. If you come unprepared, then yes, there is a chance of getting grilled. Congrats!

An immigrant needs their own account. Technically, US citizen's petitions are I-130, I-864 and I-865. Petitions such as I-485, I-131, I-765, I-751, I-90, N-400, AR-11 belong to an immigrant and require their own account.

There's also an option for public transportation or even rideshare or taxi to get to SSA. I wouldn't restrict myself, because you never know how long AOS will take. Either way, good luck!

Opening bank accounts, cards, getting added to lease, getting added to insurance... all of this requires SSN. I believe DMV asked for SSN when getting state ID / DL. I think majority of people actually need SSN as soon as possible. Start building that credit score too...

Because lying to government? And pretending to be somebody else... And how are you going to hide it if US passport has place of birth and it's likely Tunisia for OP? With no ways of renouncing citizenship, I'm sure they'd figure out OP should be travelling on Tunisian passport (if this is a requirement by laws in Tunisia).