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NVC just received our case from USCIS. My spouse is currently in the US on a 90-day tourist visa, and we forgot to get her police certificate before coming. I understand we need this to submit our documents to NVC, and it takes 2-3 months from the embassy here, but only a week or two in Japan. So, we plan to wait until she returns to Japan to get it, which will delay our NVC review by about a month. Is this correct? Can we proceed without the police certificate, or is there any way to get it faster while in the US?

Hi Everyone - I just wanted to share our experience filing our ROM with the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Timeline and a Screen Grab of our cover letter are below. We followed the information on the consulate's website exactly. This includes the "ROM Checklist" PDF that is downloadable from the site.

Timeline:

ROM Package completed and mailed via Priority Mail on 12/5/2024

USPS Attempted Delivery - 12/7/2024 Consulate Closed on Saturday

USPS Delivered to Front Desk / Mail Room - 12/9/2024

Return package with Signed & Sealed ROM and Receipt delivered back to us - 12/20/2024

Total time for processing and return delivery from date of receipt by consulate - 11 days

Screen Grab of our cover letter with itemized contents of package (Personal Information Removed):

I just want to share my experience with everyone

I'm applying for N400 under 3 years rule based on marriage and i have i751 pending i applied 90 days before 3 years I'm in san Antonio Texas i applied December 16th 2024 got my receipt notice same day and reuse biometric also same day and now I'm waiting

If anyone here wants to share their experiences you are most welcome

Hey everybody,

after a joyful wedding we are now preparing our aos packet. As we all know the marvelous decision has been made to require all i-485 forms to have an I-693. Woohoo

Anyhow. I am trying to find a civil surgeon who a) does not try to scam me into a full medical and b) doesn t ask for 300-500 dollars for a bit of paperwork.

My question to everyone is: is this amount of money normal for this bit of paperwork? And: if it isn t, does anybody know a civil surgeon in the Orlando area who doesn t try to get you to do a full medical exam and/or make you pay full price?

don t get me wrong, if this is a normal price I m a-ok with it. I just want to make sure I m not getting conned

Hello,

Wife and stepdaughter both successfully entered into the US. with CR-1 and CR-2 respectively. The visas were appropriately stamped and we already received 1 SS card. Is there a way to track the status of the physical green card? Thanks in advance for any information or help provided.