DutchNtheDutchess

On 1/10/2023 at 5:50 PM, Jendoxx said:

I'm a bit embarrassed to say this really as i know many people like yourself have been waiting far longer than I.  My waiver receipt was dated 23rd November '22.  It took 44 days to be approved.

Also, did you do anything extra other than submitting the 601? I mean did you file for expedite? Call USCIS? Etc 

Just curious bc we submitted ours in March and we are trying to make plans so I can go home to see my kids (it's been 2 years) and don't know what to expect with the waiver processing time- 3 months or 15.. you know 

Thanks for the info and update:)

On 1/10/2023 at 5:50 PM, Jendoxx said:

I'm a bit embarrassed to say this really as i know many people like yourself have been waiting far longer than I.  My waiver receipt was dated 23rd November '22.  It took 44 days to be approved.

We're you AOS or consular processing? 

@spikes746

We are about to file my husband's I-601 for vaccine waiver on religious grounds, but are abroad, doing consular processing. 

We have a couple of people to write attestations for him, and have come up with a somewhat coherent statement, but if you could private message me a little more detail on how your summary went, I'd be grateful. We are just nervous about it all, as this has taken far too long already, and don't want to end up prolonging the process any more than necessary so we can finally get home. 

TIA

😊

On 8/19/2023 at 5:45 PM, Jason and May said:

This is probably common knowledge to so many folks who have petitioned, but.... In the event you are about to make the mistake I did, here you go: 

 

I filed MFJ for 2022. When we hit the NVC stage, we were prepared, man. Ready to rock CEAC. I uploaded my tax return transcript and other required documents. We uploaded my wife's civil docs. 

 

10 days later, we get a message that says to please upload my W2(s) and any 1099s. 

 

Okay. We uploaded that. 

 

10 days later we get another message to please upload my tax schedules. 

 

I started getting irritated. If you provide your tax return transcript, you are not required to provide your tax returns or schedules. Right? Sort of. (I can see CCat, Mike E, etc., laughing about right now.)

 

Because I'm so busy during the week, I generally don't have time to make personal phone calls during the day. So, today, I was going to pop an inquiry off to NVC to ask some questions about why they keep asking for more documents, which is delaying the process for us. 

 

As I was looking up the exact USCIS language to quote, I realized.... Oops. My mistake.

 

AoS instructions state: "If you provide a photocopy of your Federal individual income tax returns, you must include a copy of each and every Form W-2 and Form 1099 that relates to your returns.  Do not include copies of these forms if you provide an IRS transcript of your Federal individual income tax returns rather than a photocopy unless you filed a joint income tax return with your spouse and are qualifying using only your income." ....Which is our exact situation. 

 

Read. Everything. Carefully. And then maybe read it again. I read those I864 instructions a dozen times, but I glazed right over that last part. So far, due to my error, we will have wasted at least a month's time in this process. At least it's not COVID timeframes each time we get bumped back to the beginning of the queue, but it's frustrating nonetheless. 

 

I hope this helps someone else avoid this mistake.

 

 

Thank you!! You definitely saved us some time bc I forgot to include my 10-99 from cashing out my retirement before I came to NL. And that's why the RFE for w-2 didn't make sense when I had already uploaded it. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I honestly don't think I would have thought of it any time soon. 

On 9/5/2023 at 12:25 AM, mapi said:

Passport says "Joe Maria Theodore Last name"

 

But as I said, I would like to leave out Maria

I believe you can change your name when you get to the states if you want as far as I understand.