tracking report of marriage progress

[bigpot38 0]

sent report of marriage package to san francisco consulate, any way to track the progress on this? ive been checking the prepaid self return envelope but no tracking movement on it yet either. ive emailed a couple times, to no avail. do they ever respond? id like to know where stuff is at. at this point im paranoid they never actually received it despite tracking showing delivered. 

[top_secret 2,394]

San Francisco consulate has been backlogged lately du to the large number of Utah online marriages lately.  I haven't heard of people having much success getting any updates out of the consulate prior to the stamped original ROM and documents getting returned and that has been reported to be taking two or three months lately.  As you have stated they don't seem to answer e-mail enquires about ROM progress.

 

But are you sure it's time critical?  Now that the travel ban is lifted, ROM filing is far less time critical since 9a visas are no longer required for US Citizens to enter the Philippines.  Other reasons you may need the ROM such as changing names on Philippine passports and such are frequently less time critical.  You can certainly file an I-130 without a ROM as long as you have met in person after an online marriage.

 

AFTER the SFO consulate returns the original stamped ROM to you, you can check the progress towards being sent to PSA by e-mailing oca.crd-us@dfa.gov.ph .  In the e-mail, ask if the "Transmittal Details" for you ROM are available yet and attach a PDF scan of the stamped ROM you received back from the consulate.  The people at oca.crd-us@dfa.gov.ph seem quite competent and helpful.

 

If they reply with the "Transmittal Details",

 

(1) REFERENCE NUMBER
(2) DISPATCH NUMBER
(3) DISPATCH DATE
(4) TRANSMITTAL DATE

 

You can attempt to order a PSA version of the ROM from https://www.psaserbilis.com.ph/

Just order a "Marriage Certificate".  They have a procedure for recently registered ROM's where you are supposed to first order the ROM and then e-mail the "Transmittal Details" to info@psaserbilis.com.ph .

[hunny&me 274]

We mailed ours in February.  All we got was our USPS tracking number that it was delivered.  We marked it No Saturday Delivery coz it is not a working day.. and of course it was delivered Saturday so panic sets in.  We followed up via email, web inquiry to at least tell us the packet was received. Also tried our luck sending via FB messenger as on April 14.  Finally got a response on April 18, reply to our FB message that they are currently processing applications received January 2022.  Of course, we still do not know then if our packet was received.

On April 19, we got a reply from our March 7 and April 4 email, acknowledging the receipt of our application on March 22 with this statement >> In view of the voluminous applications we receive on a daily basis, the turnaround time for processing applications is approximately twelve (12) weeks.

Hope this helps!

[jmc672 0]

Honestly, the biggest rush I have for completing the ROM is that my wife can't leave the Philippines until it's done.  So the sooner they process the faster she can join me.  It's absolutely frustrating! 

Hopefully, the backlog is going down since the online marriages should have decreased as well.  Hopefully!

[hunny&me 274]

4 hours ago, jmc672 said:

Honestly, the biggest rush I have for completing the ROM is that my wife can't leave the Philippines until it's done.  So the sooner they process the faster she can join me.  It's absolutely frustrating! 

Hopefully, the backlog is going down since the online marriages should have decreased as well.  Hopefully!

Hello.  Is this with CFO processing?  Has she tried to register and mention that her ROM is still in process, and SF Consulate has backlog?

[jmc672 0]

We are about to submit the paperwork to the DFA today.  I spent way too much time trying to figure out a different way to go about submitting to San Francisco due to the backlog and unfortunately slowed the process down even worse. 

 

Everytime we speak to the CFO, they say that she needs a ROM or marriage certificate on PSA paper... Once the documents are officially submitted, I think we will try again to talk with them.  Have people been successful in getting a CFO that way in the past?

[hunny&me 274]

On 4/21/2022 at 7:11 PM, hunny&me said:

We mailed ours in February.  All we got was our USPS tracking number that it was delivered.  We marked it No Saturday Delivery coz it is not a working day.. and of course it was delivered Saturday so panic sets in.  We followed up via email, web inquiry to at least tell us the packet was received. Also tried our luck sending via FB messenger as on April 14.  Finally got a response on April 18, reply to our FB message that they are currently processing applications received January 2022.  Of course, we still do not know then if our packet was received.

On April 19, we got a reply from our March 7 and April 4 email, acknowledging the receipt of our application on March 22 with this statement >> In view of the voluminous applications we receive on a daily basis, the turnaround time for processing applications is approximately twelve (12) weeks.

Hope this helps!

Follow-up to my post... I got a surprise in the mail today... Our ROM has arrived!  Registration Date is May 23, 2022.  So that is a little over 3 months of processing from the time they have received our document. I thought my pre-paid USPS priority mail has expired, but it is what was used to send back to us!   We just sent email requesting Transmittal details.  Hopefully we can get PSA document within a month or two, in time for the CFO seminar. 

[hunny&me 274]

On 5/26/2022 at 7:42 PM, hunny&me said:

Follow-up to my post... I got a surprise in the mail today... Our ROM has arrived!  Registration Date is May 23, 2022.  So that is a little over 3 months of processing from the time they have received our document. I thought my pre-paid USPS priority mail has expired, but it is what was used to send back to us!   We just sent email requesting Transmittal details.  Hopefully we can get PSA document within a month or two, in time for the CFO seminar. 

Update on my post DFA Americas told us in end of May to check back end of June. - After few weekly inquiries, we got the DFA Transmittal Details today - it was transmitted July 8, 2022.  DFA transmits to PSA every Friday.