top_secret's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Scot Beneficiary's Name: Sandra VJ Member: top_secret Country: Philippines Last Updated: 2021-11-01 |
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Immigration Checklist for Scot & Sandra:
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Timeline Comments: 10

Did you submit a I-129F to get the NOA2 expedited? 48 days is fast.

No I-129F. We didn't have any tricks or anything at all special about our cases or expedited in any way. Just lucky I guess and we tried to make sure everything was done correctly and would be easy to approve at first glance.

I see. Probably got lucky being on top of the pile during the transfer.
Nice going!!

Wow! What a fast processing timeline! All the best! I hope and pray, we will have fast timeline too! It is hard to be apart and just seeing each other in a small screen. How long was the interview in Manila?

I hope the best for your quick success. I think for IR/CR-1 US Embassy Manila is caught up and processing them quickly. My wife said the interview was really fast and the counsel was very friendly. She was very comfortable and relaxed talking with him. Not intimidating at all. Judging from her phone blackout time the whole entire process with the Embassy took about 2 hours. I'll write a proper review of the interview when I get the rest of the details from her.

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Scot and Sandra! I was wondering how long did it take for you to receive your Green Card in the mail. I entered the US 2 days before you and still haven't received mine.

No sign of any Green Cards yet but we're not to worried. They got SS cards within a week of and my wife got a job with that and the endorsed visa in her passport. We'll start calling at 90 days but I've read recent accounts of it taking up to 6 month. Until they come, the endorsed visa is a valid temporary green card.

Wow, a very fast approval! Were you hoping to get approved after 2 years from marriage to avoid the extra step with extra paperwork and extra cost or were you just wanting her to get to the US asap? I'm thinking we should be hopefully approved within a couple of months of our marriage date, give or take, so would hope it's just after for her to get her 10-year GC.

Well since her visa was issued and she was already here in the US two months before our FIRST anniversary. it wouldn't have made sense for us to stall over a year just to get out of removal of conditions. However onerous that may be. More or less most of he paperwork we need of removal of conditions, we would still have needed to gather up a year later for naturalization anyways. But if you are deliberately trying to push the date out to get a 10 year green card you can stall indefinitely in NVC.
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