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I864 and poverty guideline

9:10 am April 8, 2025

R2DMom

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We are currently collecting documents to submit on nvc website.

Our household size is 3 including my husband who is a petitioner, me as beneficiary and our son. Our son was born in the states so my husband is only sponsoring me.

When I look up poverty guidelines on USCIS website, it says household size of 3 (125% of HHS poverty guidelines) is $33,312. This number $33,312 is referring to the total income on your Federal Tax Return? Or can we use total wages ?

If anyone could inform us, that would be great! Thank you.

Expedited Request Response from the US Embassy

10:45 am March 28, 2025

fiftytwo05g

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Hellox, I made an expedited request due to family health emergency through the NVC expedite email after my DQ, and I got a reply from the embassy in Tokyo. The request is quite vague. Are they requesting documents pertaining to the applicant or petitioner? I (petitioner) sent a letter to the NVC on behalf of my spouse.

Documents A and B isn't possible if it's pertaining to the applicant becuase my spouse has no SSN. Also we both reside overseas and still using the national health insurance in Japan. I'm not employed at the moment and we used a co-sponsor. Any thoughts on what I should upload? We are in a pinch right now, and we just needed to move our interview date closer.

"Thank you for your request.

Please provide us the following documents.

a) A scanned copy of job offer or contract in the United States.

b) A scanned copy of health insurance in the United States.

c) Any other proof of financial support/mean in the United States.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

IV Unit"

Email from Manila Embassy

4:50 am March 14, 2025

smokeface

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Hello,

We submitted and IR2 for our son (my step son) and have received the documentarily complete notification and now the following email:

Date: 14 MAR 2025

Dear :

We have received your immigrant visa petition from the National Visa Center (NVC).

You must bring originals of all required documents to your interview. Make sure all documents are updated and uploaded. Refer to the Pre-Interview Checklist for all document questions and instructions.

IMPORTANT: If you are not prepared for your interview and are missing documents, your appointment may be cancelled, your application delayed, and there may be additional costs. Make sure you have everything on the checklist, and any other helpful documents or evidence with you. Please schedule your medical exam at least a week before your interview.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

Biometrics and Photo Collection: Complete the biometrics and photo collection process at the Visa Application

Center (VAC) before your visa interview. Schedule an appointment and create a profile online at

https://www.usvisascheduling.com/en-US/.

Only visa applicants will be allowed entry, no petitioners or others. Derivative children 13 years old and younger do

not need to come to the U.S. Embassy unless specifically required. Parents or guardians should bring the required

documentation for these children instead.

To reschedule your interview, visit https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/en/immigrant-visa

For inquiries, contact the Customer Service Center at (632) 7792-8988 or (632) 8548-8223, Monday to Friday, 8:00

AM to 5:00 PM (Manila time). Callers in the U.S. should call (703) 520-2235 during Eastern Standard Time operation hours.

If you have a disability or need reasonable accommodation during your interview, visit

https://ph.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visa-inquiry-form/ to make a request as soon as you have an

Please be aware that section 203(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that an applicant s registration for an immigrant visa will be terminated after one year. Your case will remain open, and you will be able to reschedule your appointment for one year from the date of your scheduled interview.

Sincerely,

Immigrant Visa Unit, Manila

Case Number:

Preference Category: IR2 - PHIL

Your Priority Date : 05 JAN 2022

Name (P) :

Traveling Applicants:

Do we need to do anything at this stage? We tried clicking the link for the bio/pictures and registered, but we are not sure if we should select the bio/pictures as the post visa category because it says only when an interview is scheduled and there is no interview date in this email. If we click IR2, it wants a DS-260 confirmation number which we also cant seem to find anywhere. Are we supposed to wait for another email with an interview date? Or should we be doing something?

“ASAP” about I-129F Alien fiancé criminal history

5:27 pm March 7, 2025

summer_07

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Hi I m working on my paperwork for I-129F and I m Beneficiary(not native English speaker)

here s my question :

Civil litigation record is include to criminal history?
should I answer yes to the question [4.a Have you ever been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, convicted, fined, or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance in any country, excluding traffic violence ( unless a traffic violation was alcohol- or drug-related or involved a fine of $500 or more?)]

and continue to 4.b

these question from part3(page9 of form I-129F)
then I need to add documents of my civil litigation record?

*I have one civil litigation record (dismissed case)

and this case was not about any criminals like police stuff.

it was about delaying my payment to finance company.

In my research on internet

it says civil litigation record is not necessary for visa application.

but I want to make sure if I need to add my court case or not. also I want to make our application goes clearly and smoothly .

first picture is instruction of question 4.a and 4.b

Birth Certificate Problem and sick son

3:43 pm March 6, 2025

fiftytwo05g

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Hello, this may be long and complicated so bear with me.

We are at the NVC stage and I got a second RFE for my wife's birth certificate. And we're in a pickle. We live in Tokyo and plan on going to the embassy there.

But the NVC is giving us the run around. We followed the scan directions on the website.

"Part of this document is missing or is difficult to read. Please replace this with a scan that shows the complete text of the document. Please ensure all sides of every page are scanned and visible."

Her birth certificate was translated to Japanese, but she self translated to English and signed our own affidavit with her info.

Is this a scan problem? Do we need a bigger scanner? Or does it need a "certified translation" page on the white book (birth certificate).

Trying to get another one is very difficult because she changed her citizen to Japanese.

Another big problem we have is our son has severe mental illness and we need treatment in the US and seperating him away from my wife would worsen his condition. We are considering on sending a expedited request to the NVC and bring all the documents to the embassy and show and explain the situation there. All our documents, including the AOS and Civil documents are all accepted but the birth certificate.

What shall we do? I feel this can turn into a problem down the road. Anyone have advice on what we should do?

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