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Hi Everone. Can anyone that knows about the phillipine medical and interview answer me this ? because My fiance'e lives so far away from Manila, I have to fly her there for the Medical and Interview. How long do we have to wait for medical Ok before she can Interview? If its a long time I will have to fly her back to Davao then she has to take a bus for several hours to get home. Then take the trip again for the interview. Thanks for any answer

we just finished our medical exam yesterday. I flew my spouse in from tacloban to get it done early, in case there was a problem, and because she has some other legal issues to resolve. In our case, the medical exam toke two days. At the end of it, they leave you with two items. That appear to provide proof of medical exam. a) CD with chest xray, b) Summary document. Our original plan was to fly her there 1 week before the interview. Be careful to check availability of the hospital. this week they were closed mon and tues.

I noticed that on the ds-230, the expiration date is on page 1 and page 3. What we are doing, is reprinting pages 1 and 3 but keeping 2 and page 4 (page 2 has the signatures). Assuming that the only thing that changes is the expiration date, our strategy should work fine.

Guess I'm getting divorced then....

It is going to be very hard on you and you may find that you dont want him after all said and done. Firstly, regardless what has transpired, you now are at a crossroads. If there is a possibility to save the marriage, it will be after drastic steps on your part are taken. The one scenario where you might stay ultimately married is if you shock his system, he comes to realize that this is a major mistake, and then correct it by getting back together with you. This would mean you moving out, and having him deal with life on his own, while you deal with being alone as well. For awhile he may feel great, however, a small chance of staying married is for him to wake up and realize what he is losing. And he has to suffer (hit bottom) to recognize this, and that means you would have to, for all intensive purposes, give up on him. Which means moving on with your life. Its possible, in most likelihood, that you wont want him after you've moved on. To me, it appears he was never really an adult when he signed up to marry.

You really are hurting, and right now, its hard to make any good decisions. Take comfort in your friends. They will be the blessing during this hard part in your life. It is hard to be in the spot your in; take comfort in knowing that there is a better plan for you in your life.

You omit a few items. Am i correct in that the wife is still in the philippines, waiting for immigration?

You also don't admit to how you found out this information, Unless the wife, maria, tells you first hand, the information is gossip, or 2nd hand.

I think the situation is too far gone for you to act of kindness towards him. The husband, thru his courtship, engagement and marriage has failed to see evidence of her possible cheating. Any input/help? from you would appear to be an act of sabotage to their marriage. Regardless whether she is cheating or not cheating, news of infidelity(fact or fictional) destroys trust. Trust takes forever to build but a second to destroy. If this woman is as you stated, the husband will either recognize in the future and act on it, or decide to live with it.

On your side. its a sad note to hear this farce playing out and it hurts everyone to hear of intentional schemes of scamming for money.

I find many philipino's are competitive with neighbors. My question for you is: Were you also playing 'competitive-neighbor' when you told her initially of all the material things your Kano provided you? Do you feel any remorse for possibly giving her the idea of fishing for Kano?

My wife is still in the philippines. She has to deal daily with competitive neighbors. Many of her neighbors ask. How much do i give her? How much is he worth? She, in her better wisdom, gives no details regarding her allowance and benefits of our marriage.

To answer your question. Unless you know first hand the information. Dont act on it. Secondly, since you dont know the husband. Dont act on it here, even if its first hand.

The IRS now allows the w-7 form to be attached to the filing of your tax return, so you dont need to wait for the ITIN to come in. In fact i think that is the preferred method. Download the w-7 instrutions and read the section regarding attaching the w-7 and where to send your tax return. Also with w-7, you may need to file 2555 form and you cannot efile the return.

I am in the same process of doing this for my tax return.

Good luck.

Hi everyone. I'm pretty much done with my taxes this year and I was going to file Married filing separately since our petition is still pending approval. I'm using TurboTax btw. However, doing so, I would owe a lot on my taxes. Now, I switched my filing status to Married filing jointly and I'm going to get a refund instead it seems. Now, this would mean I need to get an ITIN for my wife. She's not working right now and is studying part time. Would getting an ITIN for her affect our visa petition in anyway? Also for those who had filed before, how long does it take to get an ITIN? Thanks

Starting a thread for everyone who filed their I-130 in December. My priority date is December 12. (I also sent an I-130 for my step-daughter this month, but that's a separate conversation.)

By the current looks of things, this thread may last awhile. I also saw today on VJ 2 CSC filers got their NOAs from December filings - it makes no sense.

Anyway, hope others share. It's too early to start fretting too much, I mainly just need to vent with others as this painful, long process continues.

Good luck to all!

Our NOA1 receipt date for our I-130 is Dec 11, 2011, philippines. Still waiting. Good luck with yours.