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As @PGA requested, can you fill out your timeline for us? There's mutual benefit here, the community can receive data related to cases similar to yours, and we can assist in giving you a greater perspective on how long it could be. Half the battle here is being in the dark through a long process that involves starting a life with your favorite person. But with a timeline, and others doing timelines, we can shed some light on the scenario. I wish the best for you and your fiancée. Please take care of yourselves. We all know the difficulties of waiting here. Use this time to strengthen your relationships because being together after the K1 also provides relational strain and challenges. You're signing up for a lifetime of that. Continue to strengthen your bond, and your personal fortitude. None of this is easy --just don't tell my husband that

Please read MalloryCat's response again. The inquiry is most effective around 30-60 days after your case was sent to the Department of State, but based on workloads at the NVC can vary. Tracking is available through the link she provided as well, once you have a case number in the NVC reply. Persistence AND patience are key with the NVC. This stage is nebulous and extremely varied in terms of length, as other have mentioned. For the Philippines specifically, it may be useful to consult your country's thread in the regional discussions section. @maryaaaa is also correct, as we waited almost five months at NVC and even received a second, updated NOA2. You never know.

If he still doesn't, a human trafficking hotline and a lifeline to supportive family members abroad, perhaps through community contacts, would be my next steps. I wouldn't bother with the word abuse in this case. Human trafficking is a familiar topic for me and this is clearly it.

Assuming you are the attorney, I see no issue in applying a G-28 to each form. I have no idea if that's necessary, but seems a pretty innocuous redundancy. If you're not the attorney, let your attorney handle it.

I'll let others weigh in greatly on the tax situation (my only advice there is sort your own financial status, since you are looking long term work towards earning more on your own) but I want to advise you on this one thing: you cannot time this yourself, as hard as you want to try. Legislation in immigration policy, world events, YOUR personal events, all of that can change the timeline. You're not going to get a good sense of your timeline until you're actually in the moment of filing, and even then, this is a very nebulous process which is near impossible to predict. Work on the now, get your financial status under control and continue to work on your relationship until graduation.

I've been questioning if since our case was received in October but the NOA dated November, we are one month or another. Ignoring batch I've decided to identify as a November filer because it's more fun over here lmao

1) my now-husband worked with Docassist to get a quote based on a variety of expedited timeframes for the PCC. I won't give you our quote because it may have changed given current workloads, but worth looking into. Suffice to say he was able to get his PCC in something like 3 weeks. 2) It'll be in Joberg, but you can do your medical in Cape Town. Look up Dr. Marcus Brauer, he's the civil surgeon you need to see in the Cape. Since we did the process last summer the trend has been that your medical needs to be 3+ weeks out from the interview in order for it to pass administrative processing. Even then, it's no guarantee. Luckily if you poke the embassy a bit after the interview they will connect the dots and bring the medical documentation to the surface. 3) Brauer's got you covered. Just schedule your medical once you have heard that your case shipped out of the NVC to Joberg. If you have prior vaccination records, bring them, but honestly you can take care of them all in one appointment. Now-husband didn't have any prior records, and we got it done. Any further questions about the K1 process from ZA, feel free to reach out <3 Also, get that timeline started, it helps the community by contributing current data!

I take it this means you received your NOA2? NOA2 has a four month validity period, which can be extended should the wait time require it. When our case was projected to take longer than the four months, we were a bit rattled because USCIS sent us a new NOA2 with new validity dates.

That was such a weird exit. I was watching the Kash Patel vote and when McConnell went aye I was like, what's the catch Mitch? Immediately followed with his retirement speech. Senator Turtlehead perhaps thinks the Patel vote will save his tarnished legacy. Cute.

A completed timeline is the best way to thank us, and assist others on their visa journeys. Please contribute by sharing your timeline! https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=484229

For us the shipping time was just about a week. However that may be longer or shorter for you out there in Hawaii. Depends on where the card is produced. Congratulations!

Agreed, you will be fine with copies. Have your fiance review his packet letter from the embassy with the instructions but ultimately if they demand originals over copies, there will be time to fix that. In regards to the amended declaration of intent for the interview, signatures do not have to be "wet": a copy will do.

Again Trump being hyperbolic but I love the hot take:

Man this is the hot take of the day, lol Trying to figure out what it has to do with the Munich speech: which yes, everyone should watch. The tepid claps of the globalists filled me with glee.

OMG why am I even in this thread, please go easy on the directed cynicism because we actually had an awesome 1st Valentine's together. Jon and I have seen seven "v-days" since we met, this is the first one we've enjoyed in each other's presence. We went to the symphony and watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with a live performance of the score. We met over being mutual Potterheads and thought it apt. Great night, involved some really good halibut cheeks and Chilean sea bass before hitting the theater.

Stop getting my hopes up, damn you! 😆🤣😂 I'm trying to be PATIENT HERE

I think this can be achieved in the Declarations of Intent. Providing a summary of the relationship will carry weight to match any evidence provided. 99% this. As most of us who've done K1 know, a common question during the interview is "How did you meet your fiance/e?" so supplemental evidence as to where/how you met is key, in addition to the meeting within two years. Heard this one a lot lately. Same sex marriages are very much recognized by the US, and this will not be changing. Be thorough, honest, and accurate in your petition. Your partner's sex has no bearing on the strength of it.

Entirely subjective take here. CBPs can be jerks. But what you perceived as intimidation, may have been an interview with a bad CBP. We hear your frustration. You sound like you're looking to be mad about something, or have your side of the story approached with validating words. In this community you will receive honesty, even if it's cutting and perceptively brutal. I've learned it's key to accepting that the K1 visa process pulls no punches either. You two will get eaten alive at every turn if you continue to see yourselves as victims through this. Immigration is hard, and even sometimes risky. As mean and unaccommodating as officers can be, USCIS and Customs Protection do not owe someone entry to this country. Vetting is normal, and sometimes none too fair.

The hardest part of the process is the patience required, and keeping yourself from comparing your case to others as they proceed, sometimes faster than you. The process can be very opaque at times and that stress can weigh on a relationship. It is a difficult journey, emotionally. Administratively, if you are honest and thorough it will be no problem. Review all directions on the USCIS website and be fastidious about completing paperwork with accuracy. If in doubt, come see us. This community will help you hammer out the logistics. The real weight comes from the waiting.

You're missing the point. Reducing the instances of her interacting with customs, as well as showing a travel record that goes both ways for your AOS application later, is a win/win. By the way, I'm fluent in written sarcasm. I was only trying to help, no need to get defensive.

At their present ages, they would not be entering high school. Your nine year old would be in elementary (primary) and depending on the district, your eleven year old will either have some time in primary before junior high, or will be entering middle school. Freshman year (first year of high school) is usually the school year when a child turns fifteen. That being said, you would do well to research the school districts in Michigan in which you are apt to reside. Michigan has a high immigrant population especially in the mitten (lower peninsula) and would likely be able to answer your questions about introducing your daughters to the education system. Considering English is one of their learned languages, I imagine they would do just fine, from my face-value opinion.

It's Howzit, that's how it is LMAOOOOO jaykay

My husband and I are now living in a perpetual state of irony. lol We've been looking into getting a small holding here in Iowa. If the Boers are granted asylum status, well, they will make amazing American farmers. As much as we'd love to see the farmlands claimed by these hardy folk over the CCP, there's a bit of anxiety over the potential impending competition over land, and the resulting hike in values. Additionally, as Jon is an English/Afrikaner mudblood Saffer, he'll be back to square one with the Boers getting a good laugh out of his funny accent/stilted attempts at Afrikaans. Man can't catch a break

Very excited for you but please, please, please, addend official ceremony with unofficial. Not the other way around. In other words, don't count your chickens.

Hear hear. Want to strengthen the validity of your relationship on paper, so you don't get into arguments with customs? Maybe time to pack your bags once or twice. Even the scales.