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@FolieADeux Because of the I-864, your husband needs to leave the country. If he does voluntarily, great. If not, you may need to get law enforcement involved to document the substance abuse. If illegal substances, that should crater any solo attempt at removal of conditions. Once he abandons residency, your obligations end. If he remains a US resident, your obligations continue potentially for his entire life. You definitely should consult an attorney to protect yourself.

Has your petition status (the USCIS status website) changed? A week or so after it changes to "Sent to Department of State", NVC will have a case number assigned which they may tell you in response to a public inquiry. With that case number you'll be able to start checking NVC status through CEAC.

There's a note on the requirement for Polio which ends up saying it must be given to immigrants examined in "at-risk" countries, and Philippines isn't listed as at-risk. So perhaps that is why.

Assuming some sort of family visa needing I-134 or I-864... if not, skip directly to the last question below and clarify what type of visa Are you planning to provide petitioner's tax IRS transcripts up to and including TY2024, and trying to justify not having a TY2025 one? Or are you trying to justify not providing any IRS tax transcripts or tax returns at all? Will you be providing petitioner's W-2s? Is petitioner working? In the US or in Philippines? Or is this regarding beneficiary's Philippines ITR / lack of one?

By definition a lawful permanent resident of the US is a resident of the US. They can visit other countries, but if they transfer residence, they cease to be an X Y Z resident of the US for any adjectives X, Y, and Z, and in particular when those are "lawful" "permanent". And the US government does indeed rescind LPR status which has been abandoned by not remaining a US resident.

That's not your case. Your case was "created" months ago, after your approved I-129F petition was sent to NVC. (Your timeline shows 2025-10-09) Double-check that you entered the correct case number from the K-1 FTP letter, and if you did (it will start with MNL2025) then there's something scrambled. It shouldn't be possible for any case starting MNL2025 to have a creation date in 2026. Your screenshot shows status of a non-immigrant visa, but in CEAC status tracker, you have to use the "immigrant visa" option... and the status tracker for non-immigrant visa doesn't accept case numbers starting MNL. And the line above "creation date" shows "Immigrant Visa Case Number" when checking status. If you really did enter the MNL number on the "immigrant visa" status check, and got back that non-immigrant visa information, try messaging https://ph.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visa-inquiry-form/ (you'd think "non-immigrant" but K-1 appears on this page), they do respond pretty quickly.

Most likely USCIS is under political pressure related to https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ilhan-omar-accused-of-marriage-scam-by-trump-investigator/ar-AA1SfexT

This is definitely the explanation. Searching online, I've found some banks that have a policy that a new SS card must be brought to process the name change, and others accept one photo ID (drivers license) and one additional proof of name and address (like a utility bill), plus the name change document (marriage certificate).

Sounds like the entry officer didn't file everything correctly, or something was missed from the packet back at the embassy. Hard to tell since neither you nor your wife were allowed to look inside. I've also read that in some cases, a portion of the packet is returned to the arriving beneficiary and not retained by the entry office. This reminds me that I need to have my fiancée specifically ask for extra copies of the medical report when she goes to her medical exam.

Feels like you are missing the forest for the trees. You can open joint accounts, using your wife's married name, by providing a copy of the marriage certificate to the financial institution along with SS card even though that card still has maiden name (as does her identity document - Filipino passport). The marriage certificate is a name change document that allows the bank to use a newer name than on the card. You can simultaneously file ROM with the embassy and start the process of getting a passport in married name, and that also won't need married name on SS card.

Quite confident that you're right that the overseas medical satisfies the requirements for AOS, however it sounds like you might not have provided documentation of the medical to USCIS? If your wife showed it at the embassy that was enough to get K1 visa, but USCIS wants to see it themselves, not just know that it should theoretically have been part of the process. Do you have the packet given by the embassy for your wife to show at port of entry? As I understand, that's supposed to have the medical forms needed for AOS, and you need to submit all of them. DS-3025 isn't a replacement for the I-693, it's what's you would add to an I-693 that showed incomplete vaccination.

Does he have the old one in his possession (even if marked invalid/cancelled such as by hole punch or clipped corner)? If he can present both at the appointment it will assuage any complaints about the mismatch.

Getting the ROM is slow, but don't they give a filing receipt in just a couple weeks? That would prove to CFO that they are not hiding the marriage from the Philippines government.

There's a pretty good indicator of processing times: For us, each of them (up through the "received at consulate" stage) has been within a week. You may still be waiting for USCIS California Service Center to send your packet to NVC. That's now taking them around 82 days after they mail you the NOA2. Two to three weeks after your USCIS online status changes from "Approved" to "Sent to Department of State", you can inquire with NVC for your case number and start checking status with the CEAC tool.

I don't think petitioners, who are US citizens, normally have USCIS accounts... those are for applicants, just like A-numbers. (If he had immigrated himself in the past, he would have an account) Try the contact form and include your WAC receipt number when you write them.

So, our case shows Ready today (a day and a half after it changed to "In Transit"). Yay! But we're not sure what to do next. The VisaJourney details on the Manila embassy say that waiting for contact from the embassy is an unnecessary waste of time. Obviously, we need to submit a DS-160 (we've started filling that out), schedule interview and medical, and pay some fees. I believe things recently changed to require scheduling a biometric appointment at VAC, that used to be done during the interview appointment. But what order should these all be done, and are there dependencies between steps (like needing a fee payment confirmation code or DS-160 submission code to sign up for an appointment?) The K-1 guide jumps straight from USCIS approval to interview and leaves out all the things the beneficiary needs to do -- probably because they are embassy specific. And the embassy-specific guide doesn't distinguish between visa types, and I believe not all visa types are handled the same at Manila (e.g. NVC schedules the interview for some types, but not K-1). So a checklist for Manila K-1 steps, from CEAC Ready until Interview (possibly including documents exclusively needed for CFO, if obtaining them takes longer than return of passport), would be super useful!

I don't have your answer but I'm sure someone here can guide you with some additional information: Did you get married in the Philippines or another country? Did you get AOM (Advisory on Marriage) from PSA? If not, maybe they don't have the marriage in their database yet. Did you list aliases when ordering the NBI report, including maiden and married names? BTW you have a (nearly empty) timeline for K-1 even though your profile says filing for IR-1/CR-1.

I knew the passport will be returned by courier, didn't realize the packets were sent only electronically. Seems that the guides named "K1 Flowchart" and "K1/K2 FAQ" on this site are becoming very outdated. If everything is emailed, that makes me glad that this weekend I sent an NVC inquiry to add my fiancee's email address to the file, since it wasn't requested on the I-129F.

But the embassy does mail the beneficiary so it's best to get it updated while at NVC so the embassy doesn't receive it with a wrong address. Although it may make sense to do that after the case number is assigned, others have recommended to combine the request for case number and updated address into a single inquiry.

Doesn't the beneficiary address need to be corrected so that they physically receive packet 3? I am under the impression that some documents from packet 3 will need to be brought to the medical, documentation review, and/or interview.

Officially, you didn't fill out the I-129F, your petitioner did. Mismatching answers between I-129F and DS-160 is a red flag for *possible* dishonesty between beneficiary and petitioner. Be prepared in case of questions at the interview such as "Does your fiancé(e) know you are a dual citizen?", "When did you tell him/her?", "What was his/her reaction?". You could consider including text messages or emails from the conversation about what your two nationalities mean to you in some of your "evidence of relationship", if you had that conversation in writing. There are many things during the process that won't directly disqualify you, but may create suspicions. Have healthy conversations with your fiancé(e) about such topics; don't let your interviewer raise questions for the first time.

Yes it did change, that fact was mentioned in the post before the one you quoted.

You don't need to write an affidavit letter, IRS will provide one through your personal IRS online portal. Same place where you would get a transcript if you had filed. Because you haven't filed, they provide an official certificate saying they haven't received your return for that year.

I was only able to get results by selected "immigrant visa" (even though K-1 officially is not) and "NA" for both passport and surname. Filling in the form completely gives no search results, same as you show.

Follow what the form says. If it says "petitioner's name and A number", do not use the A number issued on your RFE or RFIE. If it says "beneficiary's name and A-number", do use the A number found on the RFE.