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Hi MrsHips, everything's fine since she instructed you guys to pay. If it wasn't accepted she wouldn't have asked you to pay the $420 fee. My husband was in the Philippines for 6months and 2days when

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He doesn't need more than 1 ID to prove that he's been staying here for more than 6 months. When we applied we only have ACR as well and she didn't ask anything else, she's really grumpy the entire t

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Thanks for the info and I'm really happy for you guys!!! We're leaving 2nd week of May but i'm still trying to convince my husband to stay til end of July that way I'll have 10 years GC and not worry

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@DaveShep Thanks for the clarification. It has been a while since we went through the process, but if I'm remembering correctly, it stated to give some time from the date of the medical exam & the interview so that if for some reason you'd need to repeat something at the medical, you'll have enough time to do so and to receive the final results. They may be doing things differently now than before as far as processing results go, but I don't think my husband came home with his results that same day. I believe they made him come back the next day and thankfully, he was cleared & didn't have to repeat anything or take any additional steps.

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Hi Guys,

Is it possible to change the information in DS-260 after submitting it? My husband quit his job and got a new job and we want to update the DS260 to write this.

Thanks!

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You can call National customer service center.

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to change the information in DS-260 after submitting it? My husband quit his job and got a new job and we want to update the DS260 to write this.

Thanks!

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Does a rental lease need to be notarized? And I have lived at a couple different places and have the leases for both of them and the address on my acr card is the address for the first place I stayed, will that be a problem? And we just got a lease for the place we are staying at now after asking for one for four months and the address is different than the address the guard told us and my wife and I already got id's with that address. So I have two id's with different addresses and a lease with a different address from any of the id's.

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I am USC divorce Filipina. I am trying to get my fiancé in the Philippines but the consul during the interview did not convince with our relationship. I am planning to cancel the petition, it is under Administrative Processing. I found out this thread about DCF and wants to go to this route. We are planning to get married in Hongkong and file DCF. But my worries are, I am not a dual citizen but I have a house in Manila which will show my residency. Another question, I am scared that I am still married in the Philippine Law but went to get married in HK, they will run my CEMAR and find out. Would that be a problem? My fiancée medical will expired on May 2. And I am planning to go on March in the Philippines and get married in HK and stay there for the whole process until we got approved. I hope this time the consul will convince about our relationship... Please help me what is the best thing to do.. I really wanna be with my fiancé..

Jane

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On 3/31/2016 at 1:07 AM, Lhanz0729 said:

No sis. My baby is a USC through CRBA.

  Hi Lhanz0729. So did you get your baby a Philippine passport as well as a U.S. passport?  I was just curious because you mentioned getting exit clearances for you husband and your child. 

  I've heard of some people in our situation that only got their child a U.S. passport, and during immigration at the airport, they were forced to pay for the total "visa overstay" of the child because they considered the child a U.S. citizen only.  Doesn't make sense to me since the child was born in the Philippines and is half Filipino.

 

  I plan on getting my child a Philippine passport also, so I wouldn't think I would need an exit clearance for her too.  Just me.  Do you know if that's correct?

🇵🇭 CR-1 via DCF in Manila 🇺🇸

10/01/11 🖇️  1'st Met Online via DIA (Date in Asia)

04/21/12 🖇️  1'st Met in Person

09/15/12 🖇️  Moved to Cebu, Philippines

07/21/16 🖇️  Married Abroad in Cebu

10/28/16 🖇️  Birth of Our Daughter in Cebu

04/21/17 🖇️  Daughters CRBA & US Passport applied for via US Consulate Cebu ($205)

05/18/17 🖇️  CFO program attended and Certificate issued (For wife to attend only) (400 php)

05/24/17 🖇️  I-130 Immigration Petition Filed at US Embassy Manila ($535 or 27,285 php)

05/25/17 🖇️  Philippine Passport renewal for wife & application for daughter via DFA (No need for appointment as children under 7 are prioritized) (1,200 php each...so 2,400 php total for both)

06/07/17 🖇️  Daughters CRBA & US Passport Arrived via courier (Scanned and emailed to USCIS Manila per request)

06/08/17 🖇️  Wife and Daughters Philippine Passports ready for pick up

06/16/17 🖇️  Email received of Approval Notice of I-130 Petition (No case # in this 1st email)

06/29/17 🖇️  Received Case # in an email, with instructions on filing DS-260, scheduling interview, & submitting mailing address for Visa delivery

06/29/17 🖇️  Filled out DS-260 ($230 I think) online and set interview appointment for 07/20/17.  Also pre-registered for medical exam at ST. Lukes (SLEC)

07/17/17 🖇️  My Wife arrived at 2:45 a.m. at St.Lukes for medical exam.  Finished in 1 day including results (16,043 php)

07/20/17 🖇️  Immigration Visa interview at US Embassy Manila. Passed and Issued (on ceac.state.gov) by the following day

07/27/17 🖇️  Passport and Visa delivered by 2GO to my house

07/28/17 🖇️  USCIS Immigration Fee (green card) paid ($220)

08/02/17 🖇️  Plane tickets bought for September 11th 2017

2 months (65 days) from petition filing to Visa in hand.  Total cost of $1,575 including daughters CRBA and US Passport (not including plane tickets & hotels in Manila)  I spent a total of $2,235 including plane tickets and hotels.  The visa agencies I looked at before starting this process, quoted me around $2,500 total, but not including my daughters CRBA and passport, plane tickets, hotels, and Philippine passports.  So in my opinion, it was well worth the journey.  It was about a 4 month journey for me  including the research and preparation before I started, but still worth it to me.  Thanks everyone here for all of the help along the way.  I couldn't have done it without you.

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