jswalker86

sweet! thanks for all your help guys!!!

Oh, another question...

Should I staple or paperclip the separate documents??

Hi everyone! Me and my wife will be mailing form i-751 on march 3rd to remove her conditional status. I just have a few questions that I hope everyone could help me with

1. On the instructions for the i-751 it says I need to mail a copy of her Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Card (green card). I had heard before that it should be the actual original card. So do I mail the green card or just a copy of it???

2. The $590 fee, can I just use a personal check from Wells Fargo for that?

3. Is form i-751 the only USCIS form I have to mail?

4. I am an authorized user for my wife's credit card (a credit card with the same card number with my name). On the credit card website it doesn't have a place for me to print showing that. So should we just photocopy the 2 credit cards (one with her name and the other with my name) on a paper? Is that allowed/safe?

If I think of any more questions I'll be sure to ask more, ha ha ha

Thanks for helping us!!!

Mr. Walker

Hi everyone!

Me and my wife will be having a baby this February and she will still be a conditional resident when we have the baby. My question is this, can my wife get short term disability? I know we're not supposed to get government assistance, but I don't know if it is or not or if she would qualify since she's a cr-1. If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated

Jason

Thanks Everyone!!!!!!!!!!

hi everyone, me and my wife are leaving the Philippines on June 4th. My wife is starting to worry if we have all the proper documents for the airport/POE. so this is what we have....

Passport with Visa

CFO certificate/sticker

Packet for the POE

I know we also have to pay the travelers tax (me too since I've been here for over a year), but besides that, does it look like we're forgetting anything???

thanks so much for your help

The Walker's

Hello! This is one of my concerns too. We are still waiting for our NOA2 and we feel that it will be anytime soon since we reached the 5-month mark. After getting my visa, I will be flying from Philippines to SLC and my in-laws there are asking for knock off bags. I am curious on how your trip goes.

Anyway, where in Utah?

we'll be around Logan, how about u?

Im not really sure what your concern is? but your fiance should be fine your worrying over nothing

not my fiance, she's my wife

I doubt that they are going to look at your jeans. If you bring a dozen unwarn jeans than that migth be a problem if they take a look at your luggage cause than that seems like you are bringing it over to sell. If you are just bringing your own clothes than real or counterfeit I don't think it makes a difference.

so if it's for our own personal, and not for selling, then we'll be okay? I think she has 5 or 6 pairs of the counterfeit jeans. i don't know why we feel so paranoid about this, ha ha.

Hi everyone, well me and my wife will be leaving the Philippines for Utah on June 4! But I have a question about what can be brought through our POE (our POE is salt lake city international airport)

As you all know, tiangge is a common thing here. And they more often than not sell counterfeit clothing. My concern is that a lot of the jeans my wife has were bought from the tiangge (greenhills tiangge to be exact). I was wondering if we were going to have any problems with those jeans if they decided to check our luggage? I believe her jeans say they are either 'guess' or 'levi'. Is there anyway they can tell if it's counterfeit or not? I'd hate to get this close and then all of a sudden have something happen at the POE.

Thanks for your help!

jason & kim

you should be fine, but it's always better safe than sorry when it comes to something important like this

If you're american and you're looking for a job here in manila (ortigas), my former job is open. it's a trainer position in an english teaching company for koreans. if you're interested just let me know

That's Cool.

But once you get to America and been here a little while, you will understand how you got ripped off and screwed by the Immigration System.

We have over 20 milliions Illegals Aliens and thousand crossing the border illegally each day, who come her and bring in drugs, crime, poverty and they are basically immune from the law and police will not touch them.

We pay all this money and jump thru all these hoops to get our loved ones in to the USA, and these Illegals circumvent the system and get rewarded with US Citizenship

Our Immigration Systems is seriously flawed.........

I agree 100%

congratulations!

I am still waiting for my interview and I am nervous now, and ur post made me feel a lil confident and calm.

I am planning to have my husband beside me but i guess that will make me more nervous.

Youre right im gona bring all sorts of evidence and documents. it's pretty safe to be loaded of evidences than leaving the embassy with a grim on the face.

good luck to both of you!

Thanks. Yes, don't be nervous. And I think it will help a lot that your husband will be there. Just bring lots of stuff, just in case.

Congratulation on your approval! Small world.. my husband is from Salt Lake City, Utah too!

Utah Jazz fan?

congratulations and best wishes to your future life in the US.

only thing i noticed though, i dont understand why USEManila let people come as early as 4am when they dont open till 630 or open or start interviewing 730 or 8?

I just find it so stupid to let people hang out outside the area that early. i have never seen that in Bahrain or heard it in other country i knew of.

they let you schedule interview online and show time available you can select and strictly ask you to be there an hour before otherwise appointment will be considered cancelled.

hay....one of the things that happens only in the philippines lol

yeah, i think it's strange too. My wife said maybe it's because some filipinos are often late, lol.

i got a little confuse. i thought visa payment is done days before the interview at a bpi branch, please enlighten me

That's true..... for a K visa. But you don't pay at the BPI if you are doing a CR-1.

We arrived at the Embassy at around 5:15am. We had to wait in a big line for awhile before they finally let us in. Make sure you have your appointment letter with you. Then you fall in line to get your number for the day (ours was 6052) After you get done with all the lines and metal detectors, you sit and you wait.

While waiting, you must pay close attention to the numbers on the board. It's very easy to see, but some people were lazy and weren't watching, which made some of the embassy workers mad at those people. So when they showed our number, we went to window 55. The man gave us a paper and told us to go to the 2nd floor to pay. for our visa, we had to pay 17776pesos. After that, we went back down, our number flashed for window 55 again. So we go there, they ask to see our ds-230, marriage certificate, birth certificate, i-864, and NBI. He asked a few extremely simple questions, then he said good luck and go sit down and wait for our number to be shown for the fingerprint scan.

Then we sit down, wait again (while watching the same thing on CNN over and over). Our number then came up, we go there and do the fingerprint thing. Something funny was that my wife was nervous, and when he asked her to do her left hand, she did her right one, lol. The guy just smiled and told her to be calm, he was also kind. So after that, he said go sit down and wait for you number for the final interview.

Finally, our number is called. We were so anxious and excited! So go over to the window. and the man instantly smiles and greets us. At that point I knew it would be okay. He was so kind to us! So he asked us a few questions, we talked about Pepperidge Farm cookies (I work for them in the USA), he asked me who was our co-sponsor. He then opened up our I-130 packet, and looked at the photos from the I-130. He didn't even ask to see the other hundred pictures that we had brought, ha ha. Then he asked a few more simple questions and said "everything looks good, your visa is approved". Then my wife was so happy she said, "Can I jump for joy now?" the man just laughed and said yes. Then he said that we looked like a really nice couple, lol. Then he said to wait for our number again for receiving our visa.

After our number was called again, we went and filled out a form with our address, and then they said they would mail it within a week. we were done by 10:15am.

Everyone there was super friendly and professional.

*tips.

-have your interview early! I felt bad for the tons of people waiting outside in the hot sun.

-Even though they didn't even look at our evidence, still bring a lot just in case. We heard someone getting scolded for only brining one photo.

-Pay attention to your numbers and just be respectful the entire time and it will be great!

hi hi, on April 1st we finally have our final interview!!! I'm so excited and nervous at the same time. But I just have a couple of questions left...

Me and my wife are doing a DCF for a CR-1 visa. I'm currently here and will be present at the interview.

1. Do we have to bring another copy of the ds-230 to the interview? We mailed it with packet 3, so will they have that copy there for us? I'm a little confused about it.

2. We are bringing the following items (as it says we should): I-864 (me and co-sponsor), old emails/letters/receipts, marriage certificate, birth certificate, NBI clearance, photos, bank account statement, house contract (usa)................ do you see something we're missing? I've read the lists a dozen times before, but I just want to know if you spot something else we could bring to help.

3. Besides the I-864, are there any more forms we have to bring?

thanks for any help or insight you can give us. I'm just really anxious and I want to make sure I dot my i's and cross my t's.

hopefully my last question

thanks

Jason & Kim

april 1st

thanks for the help!

filed in december, now we have our final interview on april 1st (this friday)

Hi everyone. I'm looking for advice from people who have had a similar situation to mine (which i'm sure is a lot of people, ha ha)

Me and my wife have been married since 12-28-09, and I have been living here since since 11-27-09 (Although I did have to go back to the states for 3 weeks from 01-26-10 to 02-21-10).

On April 1st we have our interview, so here is my question.......

Since I have been living here with my wife for well over a year, is it still important that I bring proof of courtship??? I feel that since I have been living down here for so long should be all the proof we need. But do you think they'll still ask for like old emails/letters from when we were just BF/GF when I was in the states? I tried to search the forums for an answer like this but I couldn't find one, so any help or ideas people can give me would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Jason & Kim Walker

me and my wife are doing a DCF (interview april 1st!).... send me a message if you ever need help with anything.

yes, you can DCF if you are living with your wife here in the philippines. i think it's the best option to use.

jason

Hopefully all of our interviews will go smoothly!!

i'm doing a dcf with my wife, so we called the philippines number and it was very fast and smooth.... benefits of doing dcf i guess.

how did you schedule? we just called the number early in the morning. it was very fast that way

Hi there. me and my wife have our interview on April 1st! Just wondering who else has an interview in April?

Does soymilk work as well?

I'm not sure. We were told Sterilized milk. And she didn't drink it the day of the medical exam