US Immigration from Philippines

Hey everyone,

I just received my NVC K1-FTP on May 7th, and I'm eager to move forward with the process. I've heard some conflicting information about when to fill out the DS-160 form, so I wanted to clarify a few things.

Firstly, I checked the status of my case with the provided case number on CEAC, and it currently shows as "in transit." My understanding is that I can start filling out the DS-160 form now, but I shouldn't submit it until my case status changes to "case ready." Is that correct?

Another question I have is regarding the visa fee payment. Should I pay it now while my case is still "in transit," or should I wait until it's "case ready" before paying the fee and scheduling the interview?

Additionally, for those who have gone through the process for the Philippines, I'm curious about the typical timeframe from "in transit" to "case ready." Any insights or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated.

So we filed the paperwork a little over 10 weeks ago and despite seeing any other case taking upwards of at least 7 months we are already approved. The thing is this is way too fast of a timeline for us due to extenuating circumstances. Is there any way to slow down the process going forward? We were expecting all of this in total to take at least 14 months or more.

We've been married just two years and I'm filing for divorce. I can't stand my wife. I've fallen out of love and don't like the way she treats me. She's also been neglecting our baby.

She has two kids of her own that I'm a step parent to, but never adopted. She's dead set on fighting the divorce and says she doesn't have to work and expects me to support her and her two kids for the next ten years because of the Affidavit of Support I filed on their behalf.

She does have an education and she is working, so she has the ability to support herself.

Am I expected to support her for ten years when she's capable of working? For her sake and the sake of her kids she should be working. As I am asking for sole custody of our baby, she would be required to pay child support.

Hi and thanks in advance for any advice or tips.

My now wife and I originally filed for the k-1/k-2 visa and were approved. She and my step son came to the US December 2023 after the approval. She loved it here, he HATED it here, did not adjust well and long story short we had to take him back home to live with her family. We explored other options like me taking him back home and leaving her here but there were some concerns about a foriegner traveling alone with him in the philippines, she didnt have a family member here that could travel back with him and we were not going to send him unaccompanied. So she unfortunately had to leave to take him back home. While I'm sure many will say that we should have made him wait and then filed for the parole adjustment but you will just have to trust me, that would not have worked so we made the decision that we did. He just wasnt doing well here in the states. We never broke up, never withdrew anything as we didnt feel there there was any need to. We just planned to get married later than we originally anticipated.

She did leave before the k-1 expired so there would be no problems with overstaying her visa, we are now going to have to go back through the long, hard process of filing for the cr-1. We did get married via the Utah online process but I went there to the Philippines for us to be together with her and her family during the ceremony. We could not get married the tradional way in the philippines because I could not get away from work long enough to meet their guidelines to legally marry there.

So now we are legally married, filed CR-1, ROM, etc and are concerned about them asking why we are doing this again and didnt just get married when she was here. As simple as it may sound no-one can walk in your shoes when trying to make such a difficult decision. We dont want them to deny us and we cant imagine what kind of RFE we could get since they have all of our previous records on file. In fact I wish (of course not) that it would expedite the case having already been approved and familiar with our file.

I searched for a similar case on here but couldnt find one. If anyone can give us a little insight as to what to anticipate or if we should anticipate delays due to the unusual nature of our filing we would appreciate it.

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