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Mine is in transit today too. For sure, you had a case number more than a week ago. If you want to know exactly when, you can figure out the exact date your case was created by subtracting 500 off the 3 digit number that follows 2023 in your case number. That is the Julian date of your NVC case creation date. Google "julian date" to translate that number to a month and day. Its probaly around 9/13

Thats weird, my case is Philippines too and my NOA2 was after yours, yet our case number was created 9/14. But still waiting for it to go to transit. The next Interview data at Manila is now 12/5

Your lawyer's advice sounds correct. The recognition of the US divorce decree for you is automatically recognized everywhere in the world, so you are free to marry. I wonder what would happen if you got divorced with your 2nd Filipino wife before the recognition of the foreign divorce decree by your 1st Filipino ex. Then the Filipino court would have 2 foreign divorce decree's to recognize with the same husband. I suppose the court could just annul the 2nd one if they had a problem with that. In anycase, I am sure you are going to have many replies here that will recommend you simply do the Utah zoom wedding. Then you will avoid the whole issue while your ex is getting the divorce recognized. I suggest getting a 2nd and 3rd opinion with lawyers in the Philippines, or even call the Philippine embassy to see if that would have an issue with issuing a ROM to you.

You can try to make a NVC Inquiry here. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/ask-nvc.html You are the applicant. Just say "I no longer intend to marry the petitioner. Please revoke the approval." Either they will then notify the embassy to send the case back, or else they will advise you who to contact. It will take about 3 days before they reply to you. Let us know what they say,.

Whatever you do, stay calm, and don't let him trigger you in order for him to gather proof for a VAWA claim against you. And you shoudl start documenting everything, with a time and date log, to give to USCIS proof he is just scamming you. call the police if he gets violent, that will help your case that he is the violent one trying to scam you. collect all the proof, and send it to uscis. Divorces take a long time, so you better get that on file asap. Its way better if you can agree, and do an uncontested divorce.

Hi As explained above, all USCIS needs to see if that the protective order, and other related charges indicated on the police report were disposed of, and that it did not involve children. You are overthinking it, to be polite, writing a letter saying he is/was mentally ill and was assaulting his mother really doesn't seem like a good idea. The fact that you are aware of it and know the details is important but that is handled at the embassy interview. They will ask you if you are aware of it and will ask you to show them a copy of the paperwork For the new drug charge, that does not disqualify him, so if you can get documentation to prove that issue is disposed of, my guess is that you'd be preventing a future issue or delay by enclosing that too and stating this happened after you did the I-129F. Though, probably you'd be making a new delay as they would need to pull his FBI record again. But again, that's my guess, and you'd be advised to get real legal advice and consult an attorney with experience dealing in this rare specific sequence of events,

Your NBI is then 6 months old. Despite the fact that the embassy and the NBI says its valid for 12 months, the embassy does not like it to be more than 3 months old. When this happens the embassy takes a few weeks to request a new one themselves to be sent directly to them.

In that case, when she went for her interview, was the NBI clearance more than 3 months old?

For the lack of anything else at the moment, you should ask your Congressman to send them a request to expedite and to ask what is going on. This usually doesn't work, but its worth trying. Let us know how far you get with the Sept 22 appointment, it will be interesting to everyone here.

Do you mean you made an appointment with the US Citizens's Services department in the Embassy? I very strongly doubt they will or can give you any info about your case, and they probably couldn't even if they wanted to since they would need a release from your fiancée. . Or did you somehow manage to magically make an appointment with the VISA department there? Just imagine if it was possible to go in chat with them about your 221g, everyone would be doing it. They are not going to open that door.

A protection order is not really a criminal charge, although it can be associate with a criminal or civil case A protection order is often a restraining order, which orders a person to stay away and do not make any contract with the person requesting the order. Usually they are abusing or harassing someone and the victim requests the court to order a restraining order to keep them away. They probably just need a copy of the protection order from the court, since there is no arrest record to go with it. Typically you should only send them what they ask for, so you don't need to send a corrected I-129F. For the new drug charge, I don't think a court "no records found" would be adequate. Seems like you need a police report saying there were no charges filed. You really need some paperwork to show there is no pending case and no charges were filed, otherwise I don't think its a good idea to volunteer this new arrest to them. But it does seem like a good idea to provide it if you can provide the paperwork to also prove no charges are filed since it is now on his FBI report. You did nothing wrong as there is no rule that I know of that requires you to update them, but they may ask you at the embassy if he has any criminal convictions, or even ask about the arrest, so you should be prepared to show no charges were filed for the embassy interview. Disclaimer, this is NOT legal advice. For this issue, you need to consult a couple of very experienced lawyers on this. Be careful, many immigration lawyers will provide you with incorrect info.

What evidence did you submit?

Check if you entered your passport number in another location in the DS260 or in your profile, then check if it matches the passport number that you are trying to sign the DS260 with. It seems like there is a mismatch.

That makes sense since I believe ustraveldocs is an separate agency that the embassy contracts with. Not sure if they are co-located in the embassy or not. If they told you it is under admin review, then thats your answer. Something triggered it, and they are not going to tell you so you can't interfere.

You must have called ustraveldocs, .. https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/ph-main-contactus.asp The NVC is in NH

you are correct. My other comments were regarding a tourist CFO not the K1 CFO. A tourist CFO is when you want to travel with your fiancé as a tourist to another country even though that she will return back to the Philippines after the trip, for example, if you wanted to meet in Canada while waiting for the K1 visa. at the end of this month a tourist CFO is no longer needed if you want to travel with your fiancée, but the CFO is still needed if she js traveling on a K1 visa

Congratulations!!!!!

Did you have the Utah marriage today? How did it go?

One inadvertent "trick" we did was to get a tourist CFO because we wanted to meet in Canada while waiting for the K1. The tourist CFO was really easy, They said when we get the K-1 visa in hand, all we need to do is to go to their CFO webpage and choose the "update registration" or something option and send them a copy of the VISA. Then they will update the CFO from Canada tourist to the K-1 USA status. No need to re-take the class or anything. But now that they are doing away with the tourist CFO, that is no longer an option. I think it is really terrible that they stopped the tourist CFO, because now you need to bring all the supporting documents when you depart and now at the mercy of the airport immigration officer whether they will offload you and ruin all your plans, tickets, hotel reservations, etc.. At least with the CFO, they let her proceed to Canada after they verified it. And besides you still need the CFO for the K-1 so was nice to get it earlier and out of the way.

Sure, there are fixes that will gladly claim to make you a real CFO certificate, but will really give you a fake one. Then she will be offloaded when trying to board and you will be screwed and lose everything,. You should just follow the email, Cancel the appointment by sending a copy of the passport and confirmation code, and then reschedule after she has the visa on hand,

How did you speak to a human at the NVC, as they have disabled their customer support phone lines to focus on the backkog?

My NOA2 was just after you, and NVC received my case .. so most likely they recevied yours too. Now we just need to wait about week or two for the case number

The purpose of the FBI record was to see what is lurking or "forgotten" in his criminal record and to partially see what USCIS will see so that she can get a step ahead of the expected RFEs to come. Sure enough, the RFE is on the way and they are going to be asking for the court and police records for the arrest. And right, they really just need the court record with the disposition. The problem with this case is we don't know if it was disposed of. There is conflicting info. On one hand the parents said he was just on hold and they decided not to charge him. If that is case, then correct, he needs to get an original/certified document stating that he charges were dropped. All is good .. no problem. On the other hand, if the charges have not been dropped, and it is still under investigation and awaiting formal charges and then waiting for a trial, then you are going to have a big problem if you can't get it disposed of within the time period in the RFE letter, I think 3-4 months. But if you can then no problem again. But it seems unlikely as the courts are usually backed up. The only solution is for him to go to the criminal court house, police, and/or prosecuter and find out if the case is disposed of, or if its still under investgation or what.

HIPPA rules apply to health insurance companies and medical providers to protect your own privacy. Court record privacy rules are different. In anycase, you can usaully get a copy of your own records.

If they are very old then they might even be on microfiche and take a couple of days to get. It would be easiest to just order them by mail. If you go to their webpage they should have a records department page and provide instructions on how to order certified copies. I would recommend that you just call them and ask for instructions and costs for ordering them, and exactly what office to mail them to. You can enclose a pre-paid priority mail return envelope for faster return mailing. And what is critical to get is the "disposition" of the case. They want to make sure the case is not pending or that you are not a wanted criminal with arrest warrants out there. You can also order a copy of your FBI record to see your arrests