US Immigration from Cambodia

We have been married now for almost a week, waiting on the marriage certificate, which I won't be able to get while here, which doesn't cause an issue as my wife can email it to me to print off, I am wondering if anyone knows how the last names work with regards to the petition, I know many Khmer woman keep their maiden names, my fiance wants to take mine, we talked but we couldn't figure out how to change her name here and if we did, would it cause issues with her work and daily life until she is in the U.S with me?

Or does her last name automatically change once she would enter the US on her spousal Visa? Would the embassy find it strange if I file the CR1 with her maiden name, or are they expecting her to have my last name on the paperwork?

I created a new topic since my last topic was in general about overseas travel during covid and not specifically about the covid tests, but I started thinking about this and trying to search.

Next month my wife is visiting her home in Cambodia. The tickets were purchased using her maiden name since that is what s in her foreign Passport.

It s my understanding that the Passport (maiden name) is the travel document so tickets must match that. And the Green Card (with copy of Marriage Certificate for name change) is just used to enter back into the US. (I assume a copy of the marriage certificate is acceptable, and the original is not needed?)

So my question is, should her Covid tests (one taken in US before leaving, and one taken in Cambodia before returning) be done in her maiden name since that matches the passport and her plane tickets?

Secondly, since she s fully vaccinated, will there be any issue overseas, and when returning, that her Vaccine Card is in her current married name?

Thank you for any information.

So my wife is thinking about traveling overseas next month to visit her family. But with Covid and testing requirements everything seems crazy and I m not sure how anyone travels these days.

Looking for some insight or experience of others that have traveled recently.

She s looking to go to Cambodia, with a stopover in Singapore (just transiting). Requirement is a Covid-19 negative test withing 48 hours of departure (even though Cambodia s requirements is 72 hours, Singapore requires 48 hours, even if just transiting).

The flight (nothing booked yet) would leave around 10:20 PM. So 48 hours is 2 days before, at 10:20 PM, obviously can t get a test then. So she can t get a test until next day (assuming you can get a test scheduled). That leaves little room for getting the results back, especially when time is never guaranteed.

Do airports accept showing it on your phone in case we get it emailed while on the way there?

Then coming back, the US requires a test within 24 hours before departure. Again, since her flight is at around 6:20 PM, it doesn t seem clinics in Cambodia are open after 5 PM (still trying to check around). So that means she would have to take a test the morning of her flight. And I ve heard they don t email it to you, you have to pick it up.

So how can anyone make this work? I would be very worried of her missing flights (going and coming, especially coming) and getting stuck in Cambodia. I worry if they don t give the proper test could she get turned away when arriving in the US, etc.

She is fully vaccinated, but that doesn t exclude tests.

What are people s experiences here?

Thank you for any information.

Hi all,

First-time poster here, and I m very happy to find this community. We all know about the recent pushback in dates due to delays at USCIS for the K-1 visa, and it has me seriously considering trying to file for expedite in a few months.

Here s my situation:

Fiancee and I have been together for 3 years, living together for 2.5, and engaged for about 2 years. We met when she was managing her family s restaurant. It s a super-cute story, but I ll spare you the details

I filed an I-129f and received NOA1 on June 18th, 2021.

My employment contract as a teacher in the beneficiary s home country (Cambodia) is finished on June 31st, 2022. The school can t renew my contract because they need someone who is able to stay the full year, so I am out of work as of July 1st, 2022. My school and I are on very, very good terms. They understand the situation and have told me they are willing to both provide character references and documents stating the reason that they aren t able to continue my employment.

I am the only one currently able to financially support my fianc e here in her home country, and I really do not want to have to leave her here just to go back and work in the US without her. I have plans to take a couple of courses and start work as soon as she and I get to the US, so support won t be an issue. Knowing that alone won t be enough for the me to establish enough support, I also have full support from my parents on the Affidavit of Support. They make roughly 3-4x the minimum household income required, so that shouldn t be an issue.

I see on some of the gov t webpages that job loss could be a possible reason for expedite as a Severe Financial Loss or something similar(?), and I m wondering if anyone has any experience with this, or could give me some perspective as to my possible chances of being approved for it. One of my parents has a relationship with our local congressperson who I would be filing this request through, in the hopes that it will actually get looked at/considered.

Thanks so much for reading, and double thanks for any help or advice

-Eric (Tasty)

I'm starting to get things together for my wife's removal of conditions. I plan to submit statements and bills for every month. I know some people submit a few per year, others submit every month. I prefer to submit every month to help avoid any possible RFE.

Since they do not want double sided, so it will be alot of pages, is it ok to leave out the "intentionally left blank" pages of bank statements? And also the list of phone calls on the phone bill statements?

I was going to include them on the first statement, and then remove from all others, but I'm worried they will think pages are missing and not accept it.

Was wondering what others have done.

Thank you.