US Immigration from Philippines

I am asking for a friend who is a LPR trying to get his family over to the USA to join him. Next year he becomes a US Citizen (we hope). He filed for his spouse and son back in 2000 and is DQ'd already and waiting for an interview date. He is asking me questions but I cannot answer some of them as I have filed for IR1. So far, I informed him after receiving his Naturalization Certificate and/or Passport he will have to file a separate I-130 for his child, he filed for him as a derivative of his spouse.

What I can't answer is:

1. Will he have to pay the fee for the separate petition?

2. Will his child's separate petition have to undergo approval from USCIS, thus delaying his case?

3. Does he report this to USCIS, NVC or both?

(I have recommended checking out Visa Journey, just not sure if he'll actually visit the site. Forums aren't for everybody)

When does NVC release the visa backlog report?

when my fiancee scheduled her interview, she forgot to add her 14 yrs old son in ustraveldocs. we look in my dashboard but there is no option there to add his name. how do we do it?

so my fiancee have successfully register online and scheduled an appointment but at the end of the process there was no confirmation she got in their website or in her email. Is this normal?

Hey all,

Just an update on our NVC process so far.

We submitted all documents by July 23.

Today, August 3, NVC responded.

AOS was accepted.

Civil docs:

We were pretty concerned about the PCCs with my wife s Jordanian issue, but as Mike E. suggested, we uploaded the Jordanian Certificate of No Criminal Conviction since the Dept. of State noted PCCs are unavailable from Jordan. And NVC did accept that. Thanks, Mike!

They also accepted our explanation of my wife s Qatari PCC scanned evidence that we submitted the application to Qatar and we are waiting to receive it. They just cautioned to upload it when we receive it and bring original to interview.

Ironically, the PCC they rejected was my wife s Philippines PCC, because she uploaded her NBI clearance, not the official PCC. So, totally on us.

Additionally, they want us to upload into her civil docs section my 2022 W2, 1099s, and divorce decree. I kind of wish they would have a tab for those, but in case someone sees this and it helps them just something to be aware of I suppose. You can upload them under additional docs.

So, overall, it has thus far been kind of painless and they moved quick.

Also, they read what is submitted. When they put the note to please upload a valid marriage termination document, they used my ex-wife s first name, e.g., Please upload a valid marriage termination document indicating marriage termination between Jason and [my ex-wife s name].

Not that I didn t expect them to read documentation, but it was a little surprising to see them call her by name. Pretty thorough.