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Thats what I mean, it was the same case as me. I’m about 21 months into the process and about to go to the interview, plus the waiting time to reiceive the visa back. At the end it should be close to 24 months total for me… when we got started we looked at the data from the uscis website and the timelines here and the average was 18 months. It’s a wild bet

No, my reasons not get get vaccinated are both moral and religious, and very sincere. I feel very strongly about this. i’m in Spain, right now the flu shot goes until April apparently. We were hoping to go to the us to start the greencard process in the summer. I believe it would greatly impact the timeline of the visa being approved if we waited until april for the flu shot to be waived…. besides, the flu and the covid shot are the main ones. However, they also require vaccine against chickenpox which while I have gotten chickenpox so I’d have the antibodies, my daughter is 6 and never took this vaccine nor do i want her to take (any). So it wouldnt make sense to wait just for the flu… i also dont have the time to wait nor the money to apply for the i-601, it seems like a waste of money. Thus, I wonder if there would be any other way? my medical interview is tomorrow, i’ll update once i hear what they have to say

For us it took from may 2023 to now, end of february 2025 to get to our interview. Granted, we changed the location of the interview to 2 different countries because we moved countries in the mean time. Thus, it can take way longer than 1 year

Hello everyone, I have my doctors appointment next week and the US visa interview at the end of the month. I just found out that me and my 6 year old daughter would need to be FULLy vaccinated before the medical exam. I didnt know this was mandatory and I just came across this form I-601 which is a waiver from the vaccine. It’s my understanding that this form costs about $1k per person and adds another 18 months into the process, is that correct? 😮 Would there be another possibility than this? I dont wanna have to pay $2k for that… could we perhaps get a letter from a local doctor saying WHY we’re not apt for the vaccines? my daughter is actually fully vaccinated— except for the flu vaccine and covid. I’m also fully vaccinated even with the covid vaccine but in my country of residence the US requires another shot within the last 12 months. My 2nd and last shot was about 2-3 years ago maybe. And the problem with presenting my vaccine history is that I dont have the book anymore!!! It was from when I was a child and it’s been decades I’ve seen it ANY TIps on how to go from here? I have other 2 american children (recentle born within the last 20 months, exactly when we first applied for the marriage visa) and my reasons not to vaccinate are moral and religious. But as I mentioned, it doesnt make sense to pay $2k to attest that AND also wait another almost 2 years… Or is there a waiver to the waiver 😅 so we dont have to pay for the I-601v

Hi everyone. We submitted our IR1 almost 3 months ago in Brazil where I reside and am a citizen. Now we’ll be moving to europe as I have a pending residency request which is moving forward. So in the next couple of months I should also hold a Portuguese residency and we’ll be living there until the US visa is approved and issued. My question is: 1) is it possible to change the US embassy interview location once the IR1 has been submitted? It seems like it is but we’d need to send a written request to rhe embassy. If you have experiences doing this I’d appreciate to hear about it. 2) If it is possible, is it easy/attainable or does it add more time to the process? Or possibly less time depending in the embassy/country backlog? Thanks in advance for the answers. We need to know this because this will affect our move and logistics in terms of extra flights and luggage we’d need to take with us.

I'm the beneficiary spouse of a US citizen and we are based in Brazil. We haven't officially got married yet because the marriage procedure here in Brazil is long (takes 30-45 days to get the license) and requires a birth certificate from the US citizen issued within the last 90 days, which we also don't have and is a hassle to get. We're in a hurry because our baby is due in about 1,5 months. That's why we're now considering getting married in our neighbour country, Argentina, which apparently can be done within 7 days more or less. The idea would be to get married there and then transcribe the marriage certificate in the US consulate (since it needs to be "translated" officially to english) then apply for the IR1-CR1 visa. HOWEVER, as I, the spouse, am based in Brazil and I have no residency or ties whatsoever to Argentina, we're uncertain whether the Argentinian marriage certificate would be accepted in our green card application OR if it would just be flat out refused and ending up wasting us time at the end of the day. I have Brazilian residency so all the process will be done through Brazil. When researching online, I've found no peculiarities as to "the marriage certificate must be issued in the spouse's country of residency", but because the US government already doesn't recognize the online Utah marriage, we're hesitant to get married abroad. Has anyone had a similar experience? p.s: We have requested a new birth certificate for my fiance 2 months ago to be shipped from the US to Brazil, but it got stuck in customs and after 2 months waiting for this document specifically on top of 4 months wasted, we're looking for other options to get married asap after wasting 6 months. We also looked into online marriage from Utah but all the lawyers we talked to recommended against it. We might or might not be able to transcribe the argentinian marriage to Brazil depending if they request the updated birth certificate or not, which is a hassle to get.