Jimmyzr1

Hello Kevin, I'm in the exact some boat you are, looking to proceed but was wondering if it would be accepted, except I don't have the availability of a co-sponsor. I, too am hoping to get visa at the 2-year mark so we're able for the 10-year GC. My adjusted Gross income is right around $550 only, although my income is over $73k per year. I'm hoping we can keep in touch to update each other on our progress.

So, I'm a US citizen and filed my I-130 application for my wife in April of 2022. I've seen others asking Emma about their service centers being changed, so I went on there and got transferred to a live chat agent asking which service center our case was located at. Originally, it was at the Texas service center and now it is in Nebraska. She also said that it should be processed in November??? I'm thinking what the heck! Originally, going by the original Texas site, it was saying it should be adjudicated in 11.5 months, then it went to 12.5 months, now Nebraska shows 14 months supposedly. I've been watching other's cases getting processed right around 12 months after submission, so I'm hoping it will still be processed in April, May at the latest.

Great, thanks guys!

About a month away from USCIS approval date, my question is: When would be the best time to submit her new updated Passport with my last name? Do I submit it now, before the NVC stage or once I pay AOS and IV fees and submit I-864 docs?

All people should have to wait their turn, in my opinion, for the processing of the GC visas and shouldn't expedited over another's case, unless medically needed. We all are wanting to be with our spouses and/or children.

Thank you very much for your advice!

Yes, I filed a separate I-130 for her son, hopefully I didn't make any mistakes on either I-130 except for the date marriage ended, which I accidentally put on both I-130's. I put the date my previous marriage ended by mistake. I think I had changed positions of marriages and didn't notice my mistake. Hoping that doesn't end up causing a problem.

We got married Online in December, consummated marriage in March, filed paperwork in April, which date would be used for determining if we receive a 2-year or 10-year Green Card. We're really wanting to avoid going through another step further down the road if possible. Do they count from interview date or date of entry into the US? If we need to delay a month or two at NVC stage is that pretty easy? Another question we have is, Wife used her previous name at time of marriage, we submitted our petition using that name, now she has changed her name on her Passport to my last name. We should be to NVC stage in a couple of months, should we upload the new Passport in our list name at this time? Also, should we start listing everything with the new last name, even though we went through the USCIS stage with prior name? Do we need to do a Ds-260 for her 13-14 year old son separately as well? Thanks for the help!

Well that's good, at least. I was lucky 12-13 years ago with a fiancé visa, gf didn't get flagged. This time, hoping wife and son make it through though. Neither has had Tb test before.

But that's how St. Lukes makes a lot more money!

I had read that Immigrant Visas do not have to get the Covid vaccine to get into the US, only the non-immigrant Visas, when I checked a few months ago. My wife has been vaxxed, but only the initial 2 China vaccines and her 13 yo son has not been vaxxed at all. So where are the rules on this?

We luckily already got ours through and approved in April. Wife already has Psa and new passport.

We are getting closer to the time to file the NVC submission too. Im hoping that I don't forget anything that needs to be included in that submission, do you know if there is a cheat sheet or something to not omit anything? Thanks

We married online, through Utah in December as well, I had to travel to Philippines to consummate in March. Our paperwork had me living in the US and her living at her address in the Philippines. We submitted our paperwork after I returned to the US. Utah county never said she couldn’t use her address in the Philippines. Maybe they changed that after you filed.

I’m wondering if I have a problem about a civil document being not really clear from the Philippines. I’ve just submitted the I-130 paperwork a couple of months ago, but used an overly inky birth certificate for my stepson. I’ve since gotten a clearer copy that took my wife a couple of months to get back from PSA. Does anyone know if it’s best to submit that after the fact of my online submission, ( will that change my submission date?) and if it will be seen before they issue an RFE? I think there is a place, (I believe) to add to my file on the USCiS site. My approximate date for review is next February, as shown here on VJ.

Great, thanks for the information about the name change!

We have the same problem about a civil document being not really clear from the Philippines. I’ve just submitted the I-130 paperwork’s couple of months ago, but used an inky birth certificate for my stepson. I’ve since gotten a clearer copy that took my wife a couple of months to get back from PSA. Does anyone know if it’s best to submit that after the fact of my online submission and if it will be seen before they issue an RFE? I think there is a place, (I believe) to add to my file on the USCiS site. My approximate date for review is next February, as shown here on VJ. Another issue we have is I made the mistake of not changing my wife’s name when we married online, while now the ROM paperwork is in the process of being mailed to Philippines from consulate and we want to change her name before getting too far in this process, does anyone think that would be a problem? Thanks