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Hi All!

Will be doing my sons CRBA in Cebu's U.S. Consulate tomorrow morning.

Hope all will go well!!!

Will be needing his CRBA and passport by next month. *crossing fingers*

2007 - Came back from the U.S.2008 - Met Nic (L)November 27,2009 - Had first daughter :goofy: - June 19,2010 - Got Married at a Church (F) - February 2011 - CRBA my first child at US Embassy Manila and officially a dual Citizen Baby October 12,2011 - Had our 2nd child/son :dancing:August 23,2013 - Petitioned NicAugust 30,2013 - Petition APPROVED :thumbs: October 2013 - Received Approval letterOctober 2013 - Received Packet 3 + Case NumberJanuary 2014 - Moving foward with DS-260January 2014 - Problem 1: thought we didn't have a case number coz we were looking for a NVC number -_- Took 3 months to noticed we already had it in our hands :bonk: April 2014 - Problem 2: Wrong input of the applicants birthday on their system, and didn't notice it until this month... <_< :bonk: :idea:May 2,2014 - Out of no where, i tried the wrong birthday and POOF! Finished the form right away, by the way. DS-260 = DONE!!! :content: :idea: May 9,2014 - Finally found an available slot for VISA INTERVIEW! Yeyy!! :dancing: May 15,2014 - Wrong birthday finally corrected - USEM just received our DS-260 Form which was done 2 weeks ago :clock: [Next should be setting the interview and medical and doing CRBA for 2nd child... :clock: Hoping my husband will get his visa in a month because I need to leave for U.S. by July because we are having our 3rd child this October 2014 :dancing: ] May 28,2014 - Medical at SLEC = PASSED!!! June 6,2014 - Interview at USEM = ?????? - CRBA <p> (L)(L)(L)
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  On 6/9/2014 at 3:08 PM, kparz said:

Hi All!

Will be doing my sons CRBA in Cebu's U.S. Consulate tomorrow morning.

Hope all will go well!!!

Will be needing his CRBA and passport by next month. *crossing fingers*

I think you're cutting it too close. I don't think you'll have both in a month. I can't remember exactly how long it took us, but it was considerably longer than a month. We also went through Cebu. John Domingo is the Consular officer there, he's a really good guy.

Edit: my wife says it was about a month to six weeks. You may be ok.

Edited by Jon and Sol

Met in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines: 2007-05-17
Our son was born in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines: 2009-04-01
Married in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines: 2009-10-24
CR-1 Visa - California Service Center; Consulate - Manila, Philippines
I-130 mailed: 2010-04-13
I-130 NOA1: 2010-04-24
I-130 NOA2: 2010-09-30
NVC received case: 2010-10-14
Case Complete: 2010-12-01
Interview scheduled: 2010-12-06
Medical, St. Luke's, Manila: 2010-12-09 and 2010-12-10
Interview at US Embassy in Manila 8:30 AM: 2011-01-05 - Approved!
Visa delivered: 2011-01-08
CFO Seminar completed: 2011-01-10
My beloved wife Sol and my beautiful son Nathan arrive in the U.S. (POE San Francisco): 2011-01-26
Lifting Conditions - Vermont Service Center
Date mailed: 2012-11-01
Receipt date: 2012-11-05
NOA received: 2012-11-09
Biometrics letter received: 2012-11-16
Biometrics appointment date: 2012-12-10
Biometrics walk-in successful: 2012-11-20
Removal of Conditions approved date: 2013-04-27
10 year green card mailed: 2013-05-03
10 year green card received: 2013-05-06
Citizenship
N400 mailed: 2013-10-28
N400 delivered: 2013-10-31
NOA1: 2013-11-04
Biometrics: 2013-11-18
In Line: 2013-12-26
Interview scheduled: 2013-12-30
Interview: 2014-02-03

Oath ceremony queue: 2014-02-07

Oath ceremony: 2014-03-28 Sol is a U.S. citizen

Applied for expedited passport: 2014-04-01

Passport received, Priority Express: 2014-04-09 This is journey's end at last!

Naturalization certificate returned, Priority Mail: 2014-04-12

Passport card received, First Class: 2014-04-14

1457 days, I-130 mailed to passport in hand

Posted

Really? =( Well I dont have any other choice actually. I am 5 months pregnant and need to leave for the U.S. by next month because I cannot travel past 6 months, from what my OB says. My husbands visa got approved last week and called him that he will receive his visa in 4-5 days. I couldn't do the CRBA in Manila because i've been checking available slots for a month (when i found an available slot for my husbands interview first week of May. So we could do the CRBA and husbands interview at the same time or in 2 days so we can save from the fare, since we are all the way from Mindanao. I wasn't convinced before that we could do the CRBA in Cebu.) and still no vacant. And we are planning to leave all together. My daughter's CRBA was done in Manila 2 years ago, didnt have a problem with that. Took less than a month to receive both her passport and CRBA. My sons CRBA would have been done last year but I didnt know the requirements for a non-married and wedlock were different. For my 1st child, i gave birth to her but not married to my husband. after 6 months we got married.

When did you exactly do your childs CRBA in Cebu? Do i need to come early? Ive read they open at 9-11am only. And ive also read it would take 4-6 weeks to receive it if done in Cebu. But taking our chances :cry: May I know where your from? and did you have it delivered to your home or for pick up?

Thank you

  On 6/9/2014 at 3:24 PM, Jon and Sol said:

I think you're cutting it too close. I don't think you'll have both in a month. I can't remember exactly how long it took us, but it was considerably longer than a month. We also went through Cebu. John Domingo is the Consular officer there, he's a really good guy.

Edit: my wife says it was about a month to six weeks. You may be ok.

2007 - Came back from the U.S.2008 - Met Nic (L)November 27,2009 - Had first daughter :goofy: - June 19,2010 - Got Married at a Church (F) - February 2011 - CRBA my first child at US Embassy Manila and officially a dual Citizen Baby October 12,2011 - Had our 2nd child/son :dancing:August 23,2013 - Petitioned NicAugust 30,2013 - Petition APPROVED :thumbs: October 2013 - Received Approval letterOctober 2013 - Received Packet 3 + Case NumberJanuary 2014 - Moving foward with DS-260January 2014 - Problem 1: thought we didn't have a case number coz we were looking for a NVC number -_- Took 3 months to noticed we already had it in our hands :bonk: April 2014 - Problem 2: Wrong input of the applicants birthday on their system, and didn't notice it until this month... <_< :bonk: :idea:May 2,2014 - Out of no where, i tried the wrong birthday and POOF! Finished the form right away, by the way. DS-260 = DONE!!! :content: :idea: May 9,2014 - Finally found an available slot for VISA INTERVIEW! Yeyy!! :dancing: May 15,2014 - Wrong birthday finally corrected - USEM just received our DS-260 Form which was done 2 weeks ago :clock: [Next should be setting the interview and medical and doing CRBA for 2nd child... :clock: Hoping my husband will get his visa in a month because I need to leave for U.S. by July because we are having our 3rd child this October 2014 :dancing: ] May 28,2014 - Medical at SLEC = PASSED!!! June 6,2014 - Interview at USEM = ?????? - CRBA <p> (L)(L)(L)
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  On 6/9/2014 at 3:46 PM, kparz said:

Really? =( Well I dont have any other choice actually. I am 5 months pregnant and need to leave for the U.S. by next month because I cannot travel past 6 months, from what my OB says. My husbands visa got approved last week and called him that he will receive his visa in 4-5 days. I couldn't do the CRBA in Manila because i've been checking available slots for a month (when i found an available slot for my husbands interview first week of May. So we could do the CRBA and husbands interview at the same time or in 2 days so we can save from the fare, since we are all the way from Mindanao. I wasn't convinced before that we could do the CRBA in Cebu.) and still no vacant. And we are planning to leave all together. My daughter's CRBA was done in Manila 2 years ago, didnt have a problem with that. Took less than a month to receive both her passport and CRBA. My sons CRBA would have been done last year but I didnt know the requirements for a non-married and wedlock were different. For my 1st child, i gave birth to her but not married to my husband. after 6 months we got married.

When did you exactly do your childs CRBA in Cebu? Do i need to come early? Ive read they open at 9-11am only. And ive also read it would take 4-6 weeks to receive it if done in Cebu. But taking our chances :cry: May I know where your from? and did you have it delivered to your home or for pick up?

Thank you

We did the CRBA in Cebu I believe in January 2010. I've been searching through my emails here, it appears it may have been a bit faster than I had thought. We got our marriage license from NSO around January 17th, 2010 (we felt we needed this to not have problems applying for his U.S. citizenship - we got married after he was born), must have gone to Cebu days later, and I know we had the passport by the middle of February. So contrary to what I said, you should be fine with your timeline. I remembered wrong....

Met in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines: 2007-05-17
Our son was born in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines: 2009-04-01
Married in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines: 2009-10-24
CR-1 Visa - California Service Center; Consulate - Manila, Philippines
I-130 mailed: 2010-04-13
I-130 NOA1: 2010-04-24
I-130 NOA2: 2010-09-30
NVC received case: 2010-10-14
Case Complete: 2010-12-01
Interview scheduled: 2010-12-06
Medical, St. Luke's, Manila: 2010-12-09 and 2010-12-10
Interview at US Embassy in Manila 8:30 AM: 2011-01-05 - Approved!
Visa delivered: 2011-01-08
CFO Seminar completed: 2011-01-10
My beloved wife Sol and my beautiful son Nathan arrive in the U.S. (POE San Francisco): 2011-01-26
Lifting Conditions - Vermont Service Center
Date mailed: 2012-11-01
Receipt date: 2012-11-05
NOA received: 2012-11-09
Biometrics letter received: 2012-11-16
Biometrics appointment date: 2012-12-10
Biometrics walk-in successful: 2012-11-20
Removal of Conditions approved date: 2013-04-27
10 year green card mailed: 2013-05-03
10 year green card received: 2013-05-06
Citizenship
N400 mailed: 2013-10-28
N400 delivered: 2013-10-31
NOA1: 2013-11-04
Biometrics: 2013-11-18
In Line: 2013-12-26
Interview scheduled: 2013-12-30
Interview: 2014-02-03

Oath ceremony queue: 2014-02-07

Oath ceremony: 2014-03-28 Sol is a U.S. citizen

Applied for expedited passport: 2014-04-01

Passport received, Priority Express: 2014-04-09 This is journey's end at last!

Naturalization certificate returned, Priority Mail: 2014-04-12

Passport card received, First Class: 2014-04-14

1457 days, I-130 mailed to passport in hand

  • 5 weeks later...
Posted

From what I heard from other moms who did it in Cebu recently, they send the application to Manila so it takes longer. Not really sure how that works but in an FB group for crba applicants that I'm a member of that's what they were talking abt.

Married in Texas Sept. 16, 2013

Sent I-130 Nov. 3, 2013

Received NOA1 (email) Dec. 19, 2013

Requested Expedite Jan. 2, 2014

Approved Expedite Jan. 4, 2014

Case sent to NVC Jan. 15, 2014

Received NOA1 (mail) Jan. 22, 2014

NVC Received Case Jan. 27, 2014

Received NOA2 (mail) Feb. 25, 2014

NVC Assigned Case Number Mar. 11, 2014

Paid AOS Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Paid IV Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Submitted DS-260 Apr. 4, 2014

Mailed in IV packet Apr. 8, 2014

Submitted AOS packet Forgot the date

Case complete May 31, 2014

Medical Jun. 26, 2014

Interview Jul. 8, 2014

POE (LAX) Sept. 16, 2014

Paid ELIS May 16, 2015

Received GC May 23, 2015

I-751 Receipt Date July 5, 2016

ROC NOA July 15, 2016

I-751 Biometrics Aug. 5, 2016

ROC Approved Sept. 18, 2017
Received GC Sept. 25, 2017
 

CR1 Spousal Visa Guide

 

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  On 7/9/2014 at 2:00 AM, SennaBrigante said:

From what I heard from other moms who did it in Cebu recently, they send the application to Manila so it takes longer. Not really sure how that works but in an FB group for crba applicants that I'm a member of that's what they were talking abt.

Thought so and I agreed. Someone in this CRBA forum at VJ had cried out: "it is consulate, not embassy(!)." American Service Center, Consular Section in US Embassy now only accept mail-in appointment. Even through their website stated the effective date is August 1st, but consider the new change on the day when new policy went in effect on July 1st. See other comments I respond at end of this post.

Same way as Philippine Bureau of Immigration in Manduae adjudicates my wife's petition to upgrade my visa status, but then this attorney (no longer there) sent up to headquarters in Manila for approval of my 13a visa, Resident application through marriage. It took more as 3 months for all approval to come back.

I concur. Save your energy and money going Visayan route. It will take like eternally if doing in Cebu. What if well-known John Domingo, Cebu American Consul, decline to adjudicate your petition? So it is best to resist temptation to do easy but non-exist way.How do I know? I scanned "Cebu Consulate" within Embassy website, also did further with goggling it. Even I found my old bookmark too and clicked it, and it took me tight back to frontpage of USEM. Appear that sub-page along with Virtual Mindanao sub-page was taken down by new rotation of Foreign Service staffs. . :ranting:

Don't play by ear. See the post I made in http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/503959-new-changes-for-crba-manila-filers/?p=7116939 and http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/499643-crba-no-available-appointments/?p=7116858 :reading:

Landed in Cagayan de Oro : August 4, 2007 (same Port where General Douglas MacArthur arrived as he escaped Japanese Naval)

Met in Assembly of God church : October 28, 2007

Civil Union Marriage : May 12, 2008

Birth of our son Ryker : November 8, 2010

CRBA interview, result: approval : August 20, 2014

CRBA + US Passport received: Sept. 11, 2014

USCIS DCF accepted @ U.S.E Manila: August 20, 2014

NOA2 via snail mail received, bypass G-1145 request: August 29, 2014 *LATE (Tsk-tsk, did you forgot to e-Notification us, USCIS?)

U.S.E Manila IV Unit assigned case #, notified us with Packet 3 : September 3, 2014

AOS (part for Packet 3) sent and received, from Applicant (me) to Beneficiary (my wife) : Sept 8-10, 2014

Medical examination @ SLEC) : passed : Sept 15, 2014

IV Interview : approved and issued : Sep19, 2014

Visa packet: next stop

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It takes abt 3 weeks for the crba and passport to be delivered to a Manila address after an approval. About +2 weeks for a provincial address. Add another month if a DNA test is required.

Married in Texas Sept. 16, 2013

Sent I-130 Nov. 3, 2013

Received NOA1 (email) Dec. 19, 2013

Requested Expedite Jan. 2, 2014

Approved Expedite Jan. 4, 2014

Case sent to NVC Jan. 15, 2014

Received NOA1 (mail) Jan. 22, 2014

NVC Received Case Jan. 27, 2014

Received NOA2 (mail) Feb. 25, 2014

NVC Assigned Case Number Mar. 11, 2014

Paid AOS Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Paid IV Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Submitted DS-260 Apr. 4, 2014

Mailed in IV packet Apr. 8, 2014

Submitted AOS packet Forgot the date

Case complete May 31, 2014

Medical Jun. 26, 2014

Interview Jul. 8, 2014

POE (LAX) Sept. 16, 2014

Paid ELIS May 16, 2015

Received GC May 23, 2015

I-751 Receipt Date July 5, 2016

ROC NOA July 15, 2016

I-751 Biometrics Aug. 5, 2016

ROC Approved Sept. 18, 2017
Received GC Sept. 25, 2017
 

CR1 Spousal Visa Guide

 

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  • 2 weeks later...
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Walk ins in Cebu as far as I know. There's a new process for setting appointments in Manila, you have to mail in your application and USEM will be the one to schedule your interview. Slots for July and August has been gone since at least last month.

Married in Texas Sept. 16, 2013

Sent I-130 Nov. 3, 2013

Received NOA1 (email) Dec. 19, 2013

Requested Expedite Jan. 2, 2014

Approved Expedite Jan. 4, 2014

Case sent to NVC Jan. 15, 2014

Received NOA1 (mail) Jan. 22, 2014

NVC Received Case Jan. 27, 2014

Received NOA2 (mail) Feb. 25, 2014

NVC Assigned Case Number Mar. 11, 2014

Paid AOS Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Paid IV Fee Mar. 29, 2014

Submitted DS-260 Apr. 4, 2014

Mailed in IV packet Apr. 8, 2014

Submitted AOS packet Forgot the date

Case complete May 31, 2014

Medical Jun. 26, 2014

Interview Jul. 8, 2014

POE (LAX) Sept. 16, 2014

Paid ELIS May 16, 2015

Received GC May 23, 2015

I-751 Receipt Date July 5, 2016

ROC NOA July 15, 2016

I-751 Biometrics Aug. 5, 2016

ROC Approved Sept. 18, 2017
Received GC Sept. 25, 2017
 

CR1 Spousal Visa Guide

 

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Posted

I mailed my application to USEM about 2 weeks ago. I got an email from them last week and scheduled for August 7. I didn't think it was gonna be that fast since July/August were already filled up on the site. Don't forget to use a courier so you can track your mail to USEM.

Posted
  On 7/21/2014 at 10:53 AM, rawkus212 said:

I mailed my application to USEM about 2 weeks ago. I got an email from them last week and scheduled for August 7. I didn't think it was gonna be that fast since July/August were already filled up on the site. Don't forget to use a courier so you can track your mail to USEM.

Make sure all your supporting documents are spot-on. Good Luck.

'PAU' both wife and daughter in the U.S. 08/25/2009

Daughter's' CRBA Manila Embassy 08/07/2008 dual citizenship

http://crbausembassy....wordpress.com/

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Hello, may I ask what happened with your application via Cebu Consulate at this time of year after this new announcement of mail-in application. I had my experience with Cebu Consulate application last March 2014 and took us til June 2014 to receive the passport and the certificate of our baby. I wanted to know if we will do it again this March 2015, what would be the possibilities or route to do it so it will be more faster to bring back our child to USA? Thanks for your reply. Have a nice week.

  • 4 months later...
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Hi! Just wanna know if anyone here requested by ACS to do dna testing? Im worried because my daughter might undergo dna testing if they are satistified in all the documents i sent to them. Our schedule is on April 8 it it's stressing me big time.. *fingers crossed*

  • 6 months later...
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  On 11/2/2014 at 11:56 AM, mdvivienne said:

Hello, may I ask what happened with your application via Cebu Consulate at this time of year after this new announcement of mail-in application. I had my experience with Cebu Consulate application last March 2014 and took us til June 2014 to receive the passport and the certificate of our baby. I wanted to know if we will do it again this March 2015, what would be the possibilities or route to do it so it will be more faster to bring back our child to USA? Thanks for your reply. Have a nice week.

  On 11/2/2014 at 11:56 AM, mdvivienne said:

Hello, may I ask what happened with your application via Cebu Consulate at this time of year after this new announcement of mail-in application. I had my experience with Cebu Consulate application last March 2014 and took us til June 2014 to receive the passport and the certificate of our baby. I wanted to know if we will do it again this March 2015, what would be the possibilities or route to do it so it will be more faster to bring back our child to USA? Thanks for your reply. Have a nice week.

 
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