Edward and Jaycel

Did you also provide proof of current income for your wife? This is also very important.

Update to this - The new, rescheduled Biometrics Appointment notice showed up in the documents tab about 3 hours later. It replaced the original notice issued on 12/21. That one is no longer there.

Congratulations!! 🎉🍾🎊

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HAHAHAHA Yes! December 26th! And yes we will be taking Jaycel's passport, the part about her driver license I meant it to say that because of the, she is unable to driver herself to the appointment thus why we had to reschedule. We will also be taking our marriage certificate because her passport is in her maiden name.

In case anyone needs to do this.... Our status changed to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" on Friday. Within an hour we were able to see the appointment letter in the Documents tab online. We saw that it was scheduled for 01/07/2025. This was a problem as Jaycel doesn't have her driver license yet and I have work that day with meetings that would have been difficult to get out of. So we went to the online portal and under "My Account" there is a link for "Reschedule Biometrics Appointment". We went there and selected the reason for the reschedule request, put in the receipt #, the date of the original appointment, the service center and her DOB. It then gave various available dates to reschedule and when you select one, it gives the times available that day. We selected 12/26 and there were like 8 slots open that day. Once we submitted it, we got the email that "An Action Has Been Taken on Your Case". Our case status updated that Biometrics Appointment was scheduled on December 24. 2024 and about 15 minutes later we received another email that "An Action Has Been Taken on Your Case" and this was the completion of the reschedule and the notice was available for download. Be aware, you have to go back into the "Reschedule Biometrics Appointment" and look under "View Submitted Requests" in order to get the new notice. So far it has not shown up in the regular "Documents" tab.

Agree with @OldUser 100% here. You paid the attorney to file the case and the fact that they are saying they need money to respond to an RFE from the case they filed gets my back up and my suspicion-o-meter pegging at 100 that they are doing just what was said above. i.e. - Don't send the divorce decree, thus creating an "easy" RFE for them to respond to and extract more money out of you. Definitely check their status at https://www.ailalawyer.com/ and even if they are a real lawyer, I would push back hard on them charging you. On your other question, it seems like a straightforward RFE. They just need the proof of marriage termination. It's your call how you want to come at it but as far as RFEs go, that's about the clearest one I think I've ever seen as to what they need from you.

Good deal thank you for that info!

Ugh.... so sorry man. Praying for you guys and a quick resolution

Yes… from what I understand, you can now attend the interview and they will give a “Refusal under 221g” until they receive the medical with the completed, negative sputum tests. At that point they will then process the visa as long as there were no other issues at the interview.

Hahaha I figured but I read some posts here of people sending their original and never getting it back so I wanted to make sure 😁

When does it expire? My thought would be to have her reach out again, remind them of the medical expiry date and ask them if she should prepare herself to take another medical. Kind of prod them a little like, “Hey you have this long to screw around with this until I have to pay for another one of these.”

Make sure you send only a copy and keep the original 😊

If the foreign spouse had a medical overseas for the K-1 visa within 1 year of filing the I-485, you are exempt from the requirement to file the I-693 with your I-485. If your DS-3025 is complete and the box on the back of the form that says "K Visa applicant voluntarily completed vaccination requirements" is checked, then I would feel confident just including a copy of the completed DS-3025 along with your AOS package to remind them that you are exempt from the requirement and will also serve as a reminder to your adjudicator to look for your medical exam report that CPB took at the port of entry in your yellow packet and should have sent to USCIS to add to your A-File

Hi Everyone - I just wanted to share our experience filing our ROM with the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Timeline and a Screen Grab of our cover letter are below. We followed the information on the consulate's website exactly. This includes the "ROM Checklist" PDF that is downloadable from the site. Timeline: ROM Package completed and mailed via Priority Mail on 12/5/2024 USPS Attempted Delivery - 12/7/2024 Consulate Closed on Saturday USPS Delivered to Front Desk / Mail Room - 12/9/2024 Return package with Signed & Sealed ROM and Receipt delivered back to us - 12/20/2024 Total time for processing and return delivery from date of receipt by consulate - 11 days Screen Grab of our cover letter with itemized contents of package (Personal Information Removed):

Typo that I didn’t get to edit in time… Jaycel arrived in the US on August 30th not 20th

Jaycel arrived on Aug 20, 2024 and we got married on October 25, 2024. We filed AOS Packet (I-485 & I-765) on November 14th, 2024 (13 days before her visa expired) at the Phoenix Lockbox. We sent it via FedEx so we mailed it to the physical address and not the PO Box as the website instructed. It was received on Monday, 11/18/2024 and our checks were shown as cashed on the morning of Friday 11/22/2024. We also received the text messages with the receipt numbers on Friday 11/22/2024 in the afternoon and received the Account Acceptance letter with the Online Access Code on Tuesday 11/26/2024. We got the NOA1s for both applications in the mail on Monday 12/2/2024. Nothing happened after that until yesterday, Friday 12/20/2024 we got an email from USCIS that said, "We have taken an action on your case and it needs your attention". We logged in and saw that the status of the I-485 application had changed to, "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled". We were able to see the notice in the Documents tab and the appointment is scheduled for Tuesday, January 7, 2025. That's our experience so far!

I don't know how common it is but there's lots of questions here in VJ forums so I would imagine it happens quite often. We got an RFE on our I-129F petition. We gave them exactly what they asked for and they approved us 3 days after they received our RFE response. When the RFE comes, post it here with the personal information blacked out and we will try to help you as best we can

and you are still waiting for biometric appointment ? Case status updated to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" today!!! 🎉🎉

Case status updated to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" today!!! 🎉🎉

I think you're right because when Jaycel got her Online Access Code when we filed her I-485 and she signed up and added her case number, it has a documents tab

When I filed my I-129F for Jaycel, the online account they allow you to have for that did not include a documents tab. When I got an RFE, I had to wait for it to arrive in the mail.

That's a good philosophy! If Jaycel wasn't wanting to get to work so bad, we would just let it go too. I hope you guys have a great holiday together!

Oh Jeez.... sorry to hear

Oh Good deal! Best of luck!! It usually goes to Ready pretty quickly after it goes In Transit