TiffAndMike

With the address history, they only really care about where she's lived at since the age of 16. Before that isn't important. But yes, an estimate is okay as most individuals don't know exacts dates of their residences.

I'd personally over bombard them with evidence. You do not have to innitially submit all the evidence with your petition though. Once your petition is recieved, you can create an online account with USCIS and submit evidence at anytime while you wait for approval. What I did was take about 4 screenshots of phone logs and messages a month that showed dates on them and I submitted them monthly until we were approved. Every time we saw each other, I'd upload our flight itineraries and pictures of us together. They want to see constant communication between the two of you during the process as well. The CO doing my husband's interview specifically asked us "How many times have you visited each other since you've been married?" We came to his interview highly prepared and with a three inch thick folder of evidence. The CO spent less time asking us questions than he did the other couples before us, his Visa was issued the very next day and we had his passport back via carrier two days after that.

You won't hear a peep out of USCIS until you either recieve an RFE, approval or denial. Until then, it's nothing but silence and waiting. It took us 15 1/2 months for USCIS to approve our I-130. The rest of the process went by really fast through. My advice would be to go ahead and have your wife start getting all the required vaccines that she doesn't have record of. Hold off on the flu vaccine though as it may nor be flu season when she goes for her medical exam. Also, during this time start creating a folder of things to establish that your marriage is bona-fided. Plane tickets, lots of pictures, etc. The earlier you start to prepare for the interview, the less stressed and better off you will be. The thicker the folder of proof is, the less questions the officer tends to ask. Our folder was at least 3 inches thick and the officer spent less time questioning us than he did the 3 people before us who hardly had anything with them.

My husband had his interview on the EXACT date you asked this and was approved at the consulate. His IR1 was issued in his passport the very next day. My husband also come to the states to visit me on an ESTA for 6 weeks while Trump was in office. Right now, there is a lot of half truths, distortion of reality and fear mongering going on. My advice would be to ignore it especially since you are from one of our allied countries where immigration fraud is not a major issue. If you were from a country like Nigeria where marriage based immigration fraud is common, then you might have some cause for concern. The government shutdown didn't affect anything for my husband and I nor did Trump's immigration policies. I fully believe it helped speed things up. If Harris would of gotten elected, our case would still probably be stuck at USCIS because the I-130 was a very low priority immigration benefit during Biden's administration.

My husband and I just had his interview less than 2 weeks ago and I ran into this same issue when trying to register his appointment as well. My attorney was even baffled by this. We were emailing EVERYONE from the consulate to the Dept of State over the exact same issue. The DS-160 is a completely separate issue that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the IR1/CR1 visa so just ignore that. If NVC sends you an interview letter for an IR1/CR1, you actually do not register your interview. You just show up at the consulate/embassy at the day and time of your interview. You do need to sign up for your passport delivery option though. They can either ship it to you via courier service or you can pick it up at a lock box.

The medical exam isn't exactly cheap either. We spent around $500 for my husband's medical exam and lab fees. The immigrant visa fee was $235. We paid that fee last week.

When I was going through the process to bring my husband over to the states, I applied for an expidited request with USCIS. It took OVER 4 MONTHS for USCIS to respond back to my request, which they ultimately denied. Being that your wife's condition is not considered "life or death" you will most likely be denied. I hate to sound harsh here, but due to the bad financial situation you and your wife are both in, I'd be in no hurry to get past the USCIS phase of the immigration process. Once you get to the NVC part of the process, finances are going to come into play in determining if you will be issued the CR-1/IR-1 visa. You will not be granted a visa if the Department of State believes you will be a burden on US taxpayers. If your wife were to come back to the states and be put on Medicaid for her health issues, then she would be receiving tax payer funded benefits. Someone who is on tax payer funded benefits is not financially stable enough to support their immigrant spouse. She would have to get a family member to co-sponsor you which would put them on the hook to financially support you for 10 years. That is a big thing to ask of a family member.

They didn't even ask us for the Affidavit of Support at the interview.

For the interview, she needs to bring her passport, recent passport photos, the police report from her home country and any other country she has lived in since she was 16 years old, the marriage certificate, your divorce decree, her birth certificate, possibly a certified translation of her birth certificate( if her interview is in a country other than the one she was born in) photos of the two of you together ( if you have photos of the two of you with family, even better) past plane tickets or itineraries of your in person visits since marriage. ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE ORIGINALS. You DO need to upload your divorce decree to the CEAC portal and she will need to present the original at the interview. What consulate will she be interviewing at?

It's a good thing to visit your spouse as much as you can during the process as it helps to prove the marriage is bona-fided. When we were going through the process, we made sure that we didn't go more than 6 months at a time without seeing each other and he came to the states more times than I did Germany. He never had any issues entering the country on a ESTA while our I-130 was pending, not even under Trump. My husband was actually asked "how many times did you and your spouse visit each other since your marriage?" by the immigration officer during his interview.

Hey everyone! We got our interview date at the consulate in Frankfurt. We recieved our interview letter on August 8th, 2025. There is no barcode on the bottom of it so I am concerned. Also, I am trying to confirm our interview date that was set up by NVC but can't seem to figure out how to confirm it. I already set up the passport delivery part and paid the delivery fee. When I'm on Visa scheduling site that I signed up for to have his passport sent back to him, it says "no interview scheduled ". Help please! *Ignore the 1st attachment. I uploaded the wrong screen shot*

Thank you!!!

As long as you have a return ticket home, I don't see what the issue would be. CPB already knows that you are currently in the process of legally immigrating here so I doubt they'd be too worried about you not returning to your home country. Why would someone jump through all the hoops to immigrate here legally overstay their ESTA? They are focused on national security threats, public charges and over-stayers.

We were December 2023 filers and we got approved in March. Idk why you haven't gotten an approval yet unless maybe you had some serious red flags that warranted a more stringent review. If your congressman and representatives won't help, I would contact JD Vance or Donald Trump. Their offices do make inquiries to USCIS on behalf of United States Citizens. I know this for a fact as I contacted Kamala Harris' office when she was VP due to the ever growing processing times and I recieved an email back from USCIS as a result.

My husband didn't have any record of his childhood vaccines so he just went to a private doctor and started getting the required vaccines as soon as we started the process. He will have to get the titer test done for the polio vaccine as the DR wasn't comfortable giving that one to him in case he had already recieved it. All of his vaccines were a one dose except for the Hepatitis one, that was a 3 dose vaccine. Not to be judgmental but why did your wife waited until right before her medical exam and interview to worry about the vaccines?

Hey everyone! So all our documents were submitted to NVC on July 4th. On July 16th, we got an email from NVC saying that they needed the divorce decree from marriage #1. (Mike is marriage #4, no judgements please) Anyways when I provided all my documents to my attorney's office almost 2 years ago, I forgot to scan in the first page of my divorce decree to husband #1. The paralegal handling my case caught it and I sent it to her. Well when she uploaded my divorce decrees, she didn't add the first page to it. I am beyond livid about this. My question is am I gonna be stuck waiting almost another 2 weeks for them to DQ us now because of her error? Or since we already were under review will they just go ahead and check it?

So you are one of the people on here who went to the interview right before your two year wedding anniversary?

Does CBP tend to forget to endorse people's visas? And what happens if they don't endorse it?

Thank you for that advice. I took a screenshot of it for the hubby so that he will know what to try to do at the airport if they issue it as a CR-1. How much of a pain is it to have to get USCIS to re-issue it as a 10 year if they screw up?

Thank you everyone! Yeah I thought the paralegal was wrong too as I saw a post in the past about someone interviewing right before their anniversary date but not entering the country until after it and getting a 10 year.

Thank you! The paralegal assigned to my case at my attorney's office told me that you have to be married 2 years at the time of the interview. As a result, we have waited since we got approved in March to submit all the documents. We are going to to be at the Frankfurt consulate.

Forgive me if this has been asked before but how long does it take NVC to issue your interview date after you have been DQ'd? My husband and I are about 3 months shy of our 2 year wedding anniversary so we are trying to time things out perfectly so that his interview date falls the week after our anniversary.

Mine said "your case is taking longer than expected "

Congratulations! I'm so happy for everyone!!! I literally just recieved the notification from USCIS saying they submitted our petition to the Department of State! It's all uphill from here! Happy days ahead!

Congratulations!!!! It is nice to see all of us early December filers getting approved within days from each other!