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Turns out they avoided an overcooked steak disaster by choosing pork ribs. Becoming Texans may not be an uphill battle for them after all.

First time is actually a special case of the (100%/110% of last year's total tax) rule. Because 110% of zero is zero, all first time filers automatically are exempted from the penalty.

"Perfect" is $1 less than triggers the penalty, which can be higher than $999 if you have one of the other safe harbors, such as filing for the first time or withholding 110% of the previous year's total tax.

It's pretty clear. They want both a true copy of the original document and also the translation into English.

Interview was today. She received verbal approval and congratulated! Hee-haw @TBoneTX! She's gone to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate with her sister.... it's better that I'm not there to see them ruin perfectly good steaks by ordering well-done.

When you replied to the RFE, did you follow all the instructions such as including the RFE in your response?

Calling your fiancee's baby daddy "husband" is not compatible with successfully getting a K1 visa. They are not married at this time, are they?

For making an appointment before the immigrant fiancee arrives, do you recommend scheduling by phone or online? There doesn't appear to be a way to simply request an appointment online, only after completing the entire application which I suspect isn't possible prior to issuance of I-94 at point of entry. Alternatively, anywhere that has statistics on how long far in advance the scheduling calendar is booked at various offices?

Based on the question, I assumed that you knew it was possible to apply before marriage, but wanted to avoid having to go a second time.

Weird that they just acknowledged your public inquiry and didn't say anything about seeing the attachment. Hopefully your next attempt gets seen by a different person and looked at more closely.

Surely people in New Hampshire aren't scared by a little snow. Even the government employees. And I'm confident the Norwegian can handle it fine too, maybe even enjoy it.

They may not process it with less than 30 days remaining on the I-94. For a lot of people, that means it has to be done before marriage, but with your schedule you should be getting married and applying for SSN within 60 days of arrival, which is fine. Make sure to allow time to get your certified marriage record back from your county clerk -- SSA wants evidence of filing not just the signed license. (They need to know about the marriage for two reasons: (1) if your bride is taking your last name, the marriage certificate serves as the name change document and (2) to establish her eligibility for future spousal benefits based on your work record) Congratulations on getting through the process! Please complete your timeline so that others can know what to expect / the VisaJourney system can use your dates in its statistical analysis of how long different steps are taking.

A lot of people do public inquiry based on the NOA2 saying it's been transmitted to NVC (which isn't true), so they send this form letter back if it's not in the computers yet. You correctly waited until after the online status changed to "Sent to Department of State", but NVC doesn't know that. They told you to inquire at 60 days past your NOA2 date, so you should. But this time you should attach a copy of your NOA2 to the inquiry. This will trigger them to actually check whether they have your file. If they don't, the forthcoming response will say they've initiated an investigation with USCIS to see where it got delayed.

The information I can find about EBE ("Enumeration Beyond Entry") is that it should still be issuing SSN along with green card, only stopped giving them along with EAD or naturalization. But there could be a difference between the public statements and the actual practice.

You may run into trouble with the Polio, it's marked "not age appropriate" which is not correct. Per the 2025-03-11 chart from CDC the inactivated polio vaccine is appropriate for anyone 2 months of age or older. https://www.cdc.gov/immigrant-refugee-health/hcp/panel-physicians/vaccination.html However, there are additional instructions for polio for immigrants from "at-risk" countries. https://www.cdc.gov/immigrant-refugee-health/hcp/panel-physicians/polio-addendum.html Philippines isn't on that list. For comparison, my fiancée DID receive a polio dose from SLEC Manila this month. The general rule for filings with USCIS is to only send ordinary copies and bring the originals/certified copies to your interview, or if specifically instructed by an RFE to send originals.