Willie_Overall

Looks like we got skipped over. I knew this would happen. I hate how our government treats its citizens. I'm sure we wouldn't be treated so poorly if we were trying to do this illegally.

PD July 28. Hoping this week is our week!

Eh. I'm an independent too and strongly dislike both parties. However, while Trump might be a bit better for legal immigration (though, like another poster said, this is questionable), he's a hell of a lot worse on many other non-immigrant related issues. Add to that that he's clearly having similar age-related issues as Biden. The truth is that we simply have horrific options in the US.

Not to rain on your parade, but even the USCIS portion will take quite a bit longer than 10 months. Right now, for July 2023 filers, the wait is about 14 months. May 2023 filers waited about 12 months. January 2023 filers waited about 11 months. So you can see the trend here and the speed at which that trend is progressing. You'll be lucky to be approved at just the USCIS level in 2025 at this rate. The Philippines embassy is also a disaster. Wait times for an interview are about a year and this has also been getting worse. I'd say you're looking at 2027 (at the earliest) before your wife can legally immigrate to the US. In terms of the tourist visa, your statements are conflicting. So I can't tell if your wife has one already. If she doesn't, it's unlikely that she'll be approved for one with a pending spousal visa. If she does have one, just have her come visit, stay for a few months, then go back home. Rinse and repeat until her spousal visa is approved. Not much else you can do.

That's where my estimates are now as a July 2023 filer. However, things have been getting significantly worse. In May of 2023, the estimates were around a year. Now we're looking at 13.5 to 14 months at least. It seems to get worse every month. 15 months is on the horizon.

Yeah, I saw someone in the Facebook group get approved today too. PD was July 2 or 3. We're late July PD and I got a notification today from VJ that we're in the range of approval for the first time. Very hopeful that this will end soon!