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They own a large 20 hectares farm where he harvest wood for his furniture business. He also owns the land and building where he builds it. They both own the home they are in too. So three properties.

It's not their biological son. Like I said at birth the child was given up by the original parents. They didn't want it. This is something I found about when I married my wife. The kid isn't related in anyway to their family, but just being raised, so I said if you're going to one day immigrate and you want to take your son you're going to have to properly adopt him. Which they got a lawyer and are on the court process of making it official. The original parents are cooperating and I think they already got all the testimony and it's like on the final stretch of that ordeal, and he will officially be adopted. He's 8 years old. I mean they got a good life over there so I don't know if they can handle american life, so we just want to hopefully get a multiple entry visa for the maximum at their discretion so they can visit us. As much as we like to visit yearly now that we have a daughter of our own, it's economically challenging 2 year old with their own airline seat. Hoping they can visit every other year and vis versa Figured it might be a reason under the strong ties to the Philippines. They definitely wouldn't leave him behind despite I know plenty of parents abandon their kids for many reason up to being good for the child since they provide afar. I'll just have them make sure they bring their proof of employment, and business along with like 3 months of statements just incase. I know it doesn't ask to bring anything other than the documents requested. I am sure they got their sources to vet visa applicants.

I am looking for insights into what others have experienced with the tourist visa interview for their family members. They got a few more weeks till their interview, but just seeing if I am missing anything. MIL works for the area gov't in her province and FIL has his own business. So they are pretty much like middle class in PH standards. They are also in the process of also doing a proper adoption of their son which they have informally adopted since the original mother and father abandoned the child at birth. They are a year in that process.

I flew to Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand with my wife before our paperwork actually started. I married her in the Philippines. She only did her CFO like a few months before her interview at the embassy but that was like a year later.

I'm telling you what she said. I didn't even go in. I showed her we paid our taxes in the waiting room. I stayed with my daughter out there. That was the only thing she wanted to know. No questions were asked of other than Was the 2020 taxes paid? I pulled out the phone and logged on to irs.gov and showed the 0 balance. I know the rules and law. but if you look around nothing is consistent

When I went to the combo interview for my wife. The lady only had one question for me since she saw that I submitted our taxes jointly. She wanted to know if I paid my 2020 taxes as we got a paper audit that wanted us to pay an extreme amount but I appealed it took 18 months of back and forth to resolve. If I didn't have that issue she said she would have waived the interview for me since I had solid relationship evidence she enjoyed our photos with our child in various national parks.

@Mike thanks we can breathe a sigh of relief the customer service phone reps wasn't a big help. Despite the letter saying to call.

I knew this was going to happen. I told my wife to do the same day oath and we would get a urgent travel passport. But she took the advice of the interview officer after our combo interview. I wasn't there to interject. I'm currently at home with a broken leg. I just noticed that USCIS sent a notice through the mail. So I logged into her account and I saw that they scheduled her interview for May 9th. The USCIS officer I guess didn't schedule the date correctly. Or didn't do as promised. Who knows. Now I can't reach my wife as she's in middle of nowhere Philippines. I'm not sure how to solve this issue. Is it possible for her to miss the oath. Then reschedule afterwards?

Yea pretty much then they got it on the same Friday and approved everything. Now we wait till my wife comes back and she will get am interview after June 1 since the lady said she will schedule what they call a "administrative oath" Sorry I haven't updated anything. Broke my leg in a car Accident

Well looks like my wife's i751 packet isn't here during her n400 interview. So we can't do a same day oaths. We might have to delay the oath since she's going to the Philippines to bring the baby to her parents to meet. She's getting her passport stamp and they will schedule oath after June 1.

Congratulations! I can't wait for my wife to finish. Lol. She will be getting her passport immediately too. I want to send her to the Philippines so her family can meet our daughter. We had planned on January but with n400 moving fast we didn't want to risk getting an appointment while being there.

Yea for sure but psychologically it was terror lol. We are excited she's going to hit those flash cards hard now even though she's pretty on point averaging 98-97/100 correct. So she should have no issues answering the first 6 questions off the bat. @Talo was it closed?

Freaked out and saw my wife's eta jump to 9 months but there was a interview notice for 3/21 updated on 2/13

Here's my observations from my wife's case. 8/22 - 13 months 09/06 - 9 months 09/30 - 8 months 11/27 - 7 Months 11/30 - 6 Months 1/1 - 5 months 2/1 - 4 months

Yes sir. I comment my congratulations on your timeline I hope all goes well and you're offered a same day oath