Sarah Lynn

congrats!!!!

Thank you! It's been a long process I'm so glad we are finally finished.

Congratulations!

Thank you!

My husband and I were married in the Philippines back in 2009. He immigrated to the USA March 2011 (getting his visa took about 1 year) and now we are finally finished removing the conditional status from his permament resident card! It was approved! We were told it could take 8 months to 1 year for Vermont USCIS to process all our paperwork, but it only took 5 months. So happy to finally be done with all the paperwork! His 10 year card arrived in the mail yesterday! :-)

I've made a timeline on my personal blog showing our entire immigration process. from 2010 until now. It may help someone out in the future:

http://www.tunaynamahal.com/2013/05/immigration-update-approved.html

It's been quite awhile since I posted in this topic! Immigration has been moving along.

I got word the other day the NVC had forwarded our paperwork to Manila and my husbands interview is at the US embassy consulate in Manila on February 4th!!! So soon!!!

He has to get his medical clearance on Monday and our lawyer sent us a list of everything he needs to bring with him. So fingers crossed!!!!

http://tunaynamahal.blogspot.com/2011/01/yikes-just-2-weeks-until.html

It's been 3 months we finally got back an approval receipt from the USCIS. And within 2 weeks our case was forwarded to the NVC. I just got word from our lawyer today the NVC received everything, we have to pay our fee and we were given a case number. Then we'll be preparing our I-864.

Thanks! And yes my husband has never been to the US, though his Mom was a school teacher and visited NY before and he has relatives in Virginia that I've met. So this would be his first Xmas if our immigration process goes smoothly! I've spent two Christmas' in the Philippines out of my 4 trips so far.

Hi Sarah Lynn!

Welcome to VisaJourney and congratulations on your recent marriage in the Philippines! You two are such a cute couple!

Will this be your husband's first Christmas in the U.S.? Wishing you two all the best!

Thanks for the advice, it seems like such a long wait until we hear from the NVC! So far the lawyer has been good at answering all my silly questions. We were contact for 2 years before I was even his client.

Hello! My name is Sarah Lynn. One of my blogging friends Jacki told me about this forum a few years ago. I've been looking around and there is definitely a lot of useful information here.

My husband & I were married in the Philippines December 2009. (I am American, he is Filipino.) While we were engaged I looked up immigration lawyers and we are currently working with one. Our I-130 was received by USCIS back in Feb so now we are waiting to hear from the NVC in May or July so we can prepare our I-864 and other supporting documentation. I was told my husband may be here by Christmas 2010.

You can read about our immigration process on my blog here: http://tunaynamahal.blogspot.com/search/label/Immigration%20Process