Edward and Jaycel

I had a similar issue to @Crazy Cat the last time but this time I am having no issues. I have been up on the site successfully, no VPN since their post yesterday

Yes ours is July 23rd! Great news and thank you for sharing!! When you handed the sealed I-693, did you explain it was because of the missing Polio vaccine?

Yeah not anymore... with the new administration, pretty much all waivers for marriage based GC applications are now forbidden

Business casual - Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Good luck!! 🍀

WOW.... that is crazy Not too bad for us. The interview will take place 8 months after filing

Yeah I had no idea and apparently this is kind of a new thing since the new administration's rule change getting rid of most interview waivers. One officer told an applicant that it is their way of trying to streamline the process to help manage the influx of interviews that now need to be done.

I will take the unusual (for me anyway ) position of disagreeing with you on this. As Jaycel's GC interview is coming up in about 3 weeks, we have been reading lots of reports of interview experiences around the web. May folks have been uploading updated evidence to the "Unsolicited Evidence" part of the documents tab in their portal before the interview and in a vast majority of those reports, the applicants report that the ISO thanked them for doing it because it saved them the time and effort of scanning in the documents there at the interview. There are even some field offices sending out an email to applicants a week or so before the interview asking them to upload evidence into the portal before their interview. See below 👇

Jaycel had a 4 hour layover at LAX for her K-1 POE and her flight inbound was delayed by 45 minutes which put her at passport control with 4 other international flights. While her inspection and admission with the officer only took approx. 10 minutes, it took an hour just to get to him. By the time she made it to her terminal for the connecting flight to Denver, she had about 25 minutes before the flight started boarding, so she had time to use the restroom and get a bite to eat and never felt rushed or panicked . Glad you found a flight with the 4 hour layover

Congrats! That's really fast!

Woo Hoo!! 🎉 Congrats!!

It's been taking 4-6 weeks recently

Congrats! 🎉 Best of luck to you!

Mine either

I've been seeing the same for the best part of the last week

Today's stats: June 26, 2025 23:15 MDT November 2024 Filed I-485 Stats • Approved: 13,547 (+230) • Denied: 1,448 • FingerprintScheduled: 64 • InterviewCancelled: 593 • InterviewScheduled: 7,350 (-161) • Processing: 17,933 (-89) • Received: 500 • Rejected: 101 • RFE: 431 • Terminated: 207 • Withdrawal: 67 • Others: 26

Your biometrics appointment should cover all concurrently filed applications

Congrats!! 🎉

Today's stats: June 25, 2025 23:15 MDT November 2024 Filed I-485 Stats • Approved: 13,317 (+372) • Denied: 1,420 • FingerprintScheduled: 65 • InterviewCancelled: 593 • InterviewScheduled: 7,511 (-262) • Processing: 18,022 (-124) • Received: 510 • Rejected: 101 • RFE: 432 • Terminated: 206 • Withdrawal: 64 • Others: 27

We booked Jaycel’s ticket through Expedia. Direct flight from Manila to LAX on PAL.

Congrats man!! 🎉

We just picked up Jaycel's sealed envelope from the civil surgeon for the vaccine assessment to add her Polio vaccine to the record. One more hurdle cleared. LOL

Great news!!

You will not get an invoice # for a K-1 visa application. Those are only given to immigrant visa applicants. Depending on your consulate, when you sign up for the website to schedule the interview, you will either pay the fee there or some places have you pay at a partner site or a partner bank there in-country. I know last summer when we did it in Manila, Jaycel had to go to a specific Philippine Bank and pay in cash there with a receipt generated from the website where we scheduled her interview. Once we paid the fee at the bank, they validated the receipt, we had to wait 24 hours for it to be registered in the system and then and we had to input that receipt number into the website before it would allow us to schedule the interview. The K1-FTP letter should come in your email once the case status changes to "In Transit". I know in Manila we had to bring that to the medical clinic to prove we had an active case.

Today's stats: June 24, 2025 23:15 MDT November 2024 Filed I-485 Stats • Approved: 12,945 (+99) • Denied: 1,400 • FingerprintScheduled: 69 • InterviewCancelled: 591 • InterviewScheduled: 7,773 (-64) • Processing: 18,146 (-35) • Received: 518 • Rejected: 102 • RFE: 428 • Terminated: 207 • Withdrawal: 62 • Others: 27