US Immigration from Cambodia

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.

My future daughter in law passed her visa interview and when she went to pick up her visa there s a stamp on it Cancelled Without Prejudice . The embassy didn t explain the reason for the stamp but only to wait to hear from the embassy. Anyone has similar experience like this? I d appreciate if you could shar and provide some guidance. Thanks.

Does anyone have any experience doing this, I've been in contact with my fiance and about getting a person that handles the paperwork side for you with the ministries etc.

My main question is that there are documents I need to collect here, but I have no idea where I am supposed to get them. The embassy does not help in any of this on where to go.

I've attached a screenshot, I don't even know what #2 is, most seem easy to get. It wants a single certificate, being from the US, that isn't something that is common, I have my divorce decree still from when I sent it in with our K1 previously.

I've lived in a few states, but it doesn't say if it requires something from all states or if just going to my local courthouse will pull a nationwide criminal background check? Which either way works, I have nothing on my criminal record, just not sure what is exactly needed, I'd rather go over prepared than need something when I get there.

Does anyone have time frames on the length of the process, I've been told $2k will get it done in 3 weeks, $2500 for 2 weeks, which is the time you land to the time you can have your wedding.

I know Cambodia is a much less common topic on this forum, but hoping someone sees this that has gone through the process of marrying a Khmer national in Cambodia and has a better walk through than this paper I received.

Thanks.

My wife went to her n-400 interview today at the local Santa Ana field office. She has a pending I-751 so I went with her just in case I was needed for a combo interview and she bought her ROC documents also. We checked in at security and they let both of us inside. At the first check in they asked for her notice and ID. They then said I could not go with her bc it was an N400 case and not 751 and told me to wait downstairs just in case the officer asked to see me also. After 30 minutes of waiting my wife called me to go upstairs bc the officer had asked to see me at the interview also. We ended up doing a combo interview with the N400 questions first. After my wife passed the N400 test the officer asked questions about my divorce and kids and where we met. He didn t ask for any of the paperwork and evidence we had bought with us. He then said he would need a few minutes to process paper work and told us to wait outside. After 10 minutes he came back to get us and proceeded to ask my wife some more yes and no questions. He then said he recommended her for citizenship and that we needed to go upstairs for the oath ceremony. The oath took about 30 minutes with another group of people. I m not sure why some people had their ceremony scheduled for a later date and some people like my wife had same day. Out of the people at the ceremony there were 5-6 that were same day. I just want to say visa journey was a great help with the immigration process and everyone else on this site was so cool and helpful. I wish good luck to everyone on their journey and don t worry it will be such a relief when it s all said and done