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Nice. Yeah, i think that is a reasonable bet.

Hey @Evan757, checking in. Did you guys get the email today?

🤣 I'm here for it, but I doubt either outcome would settle the matter. 🤣

No doubt. I've been here 10 months this visit. If it could have been avoided, I would have; but in retrospect there is no substitute for enduring alongside my wife. We are confident our relationship is stronger because of it.

Did you wife get the CFO yet? My wife was sharing the chika in the group chat about an impatient American husband pushing his way in to CFO, past the guard, to try get some special treatment. Word is that CFO told them if he ever does that again, she will never get the clearance. 😱🤣 She was able to get her schedule bumped up pretty easily with a phone call today. Was Oct 3, now Aug 16.

You'll get an email to the email address you used with ustraveldocs. It will include the tracking number. And they will probably call your wife when they are near, and need directions. Our email arrived 6:35pm of Aug 3. It said the shipment would arrive on or before Aug 7. But it was literally the next day.

We're in Laguna, near Los Baños. Two days for us.. maybe a little longer if you're in one of the further provinces. Have ₱440 ready, and she'll need her postal or unified ID. Side story, when FedEx delivered the documents, it was "signature required" but they never ID'd me. My skin color was all the identification they needed. 🤣 You know how it is, here. I wanted to see if LBC would do the same, but no, they followed the protocol. 👍 Edit: My wife just mentioned this: "it's ok if they don't have a postal id or unified id. They accept any other gov't id as long it's current / updated."

Yes, we received it on Aug 4. How about you? We were also able to get her CFO moved up. That is next week. After we confirmed the CFO schedule, I bought plane tickets back to the US in September.

I take issue with this representation of my statement to you. The framing may imply that I support the argument that a original or certified copy is not necessary. I am not making that claim. Further, I would strongly discourage presenting a photocopy as a sworn certified copy. I would entertain (and have) that there is a degree of absurdity to sending original or certified personal documents, which could (in some cases) even contain PII data of minor children, half-way around the globe--to a 3rd world country where postal items regularly go missing--just so the immigration officer can glance at it. Were it not so plainly absurd, I might not have hesitated to rush those documents sooner, rather than later. I do claim that it may be possible to deceive the interviewer with a high-quality, but not certified copy, but I would also say, "do so at your own peril." I asked my wife about exactly what the immigration officer did. She said the immigration officer went directly to the last page, made a comment, "There should be wet ink, this is a photocopy. I need the original."

Thanks. 🙂 I couldn't say what order might be used. Order doesn't seem to have much to do with it. At every stage, I've seen a portion of folks who filed later get approved sooner, and a portion of folks who filed sooner and get approved later. Not as a rule, but certainly a non-negligible amount. Maybe luck has a hand in it all.

I just logged on to CEAC and saw the status changed to "Issued" today. Woohoo! We are very excited.

I asked my wife if she heard anyone in the facebook group getting expedited since the June 26 batch, she said she has not. Good luck, there is reason to believe that it won't be a 6 month queue, like the last batch.

I just noticed that the "Case Last Updated" date has changed to today (July 31). It changed within the past few hours. The status page still reads, "Refused". I also noticed that the documents we uploaded to CEAC on July 27 are still in status "SUBMITTED" but not "ACCEPTED". I'll update when/if this changes, or if we receive back another 221g.

Status update: Said documents arrived Thursday, July 27. We followed the instructions on the 221(g), including scanning/uploading the documents in CEAC, filling out a document submission letter, and sending it all back to the Embassy via LBC. FYI, there was a fee at LBC of ₱440. LBC said the documents will be delivered to the Embassy the next day (Friday, July 28).