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2 hours ago, flicks1998 said:

When I applied for the K1 for my wife, I had been out of the US for 25 years.  I just included a short letter in the initial documents that stated I would be moving back to the US between such and such dates.  I gave a range of about 3 or 4 months.  I had nothing tying me to the US except some brokerage accounts.  I had no US bank, no US credit cards, no drivers license, all the credit report items had dropped off so had no credit which hasnt been an obstacle to anything.  I listed my sister's address as a mailing address. Nobody ever asked about it through the entire process and it was never an issue which included USCIS and the embassy in Manila.  I filed US taxes every year but the IRS never inputted my overseas address correctly, so when I returned to the US, it took multiple days and a total of about 10 hours on the phone to confirm my identity.  This was during Covid so no offices were open.

The domicile requirement is very different for the i134 for the k1 compared to the i864 for an IR visa

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4 hours ago, IWander said:

The domicile requirement is very different for the i134 for the k1 compared to the i864 for an IR visa

There are quite a few I knew and know in the Philippines who applied for the IR visa while having lived and still living in the Philippines for 10+ years.  They had no issues.  The few I know going through the process now have not chimed in this thread, but I think @Chancy got it right in her fourth post.  Manila does not seem to care much.

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The United States is now a country obsessed with the worship of its own ignorance.  Americans are proud of not knowing things.  They have reached a point where ignorance, is an actual virtue.  To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they're wrong about anything.  It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that arent true.  All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.  The fundamental knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of "uninformed", passed "misinformed", on the way down, and now plummeting to "aggressively wrong."

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On 8/18/2023 at 7:33 PM, IWander said:

Proof of domicile is an affidavit thing.  Proof can include things such as your DL, voter registration, tax returns etc...  Really not all that hard to prove.

thnx, do you mean getting a notary here in PH to notarize a letter that I write saying I've temporarily lived in PH for last 4 years but still have my bank, credit, car insurance in US and will move back there with spouse on CR1 approval?

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