US Immigration from Philippines

What does anyone know about the process of getting married in the Philippines? There's no CENOMAR here, so how do you prove that you're eligible for marriage? Does PSA accept scanned copies and emails for filing? It's nearly impossible to send something to the Philippines in my experience. I saw there's a premarital counseling requirement. Can that be done by video call? Would it be acceptable to have your Filipina fianc e act as a Power of Attorney so she could sign on my behalf? If I have to be present to originally sign everything, it looks like it could take 6-8 weeks between all the different filings at the different agencies. Who has that kind of time?

How do people go to the beaches and get married? There's a lot of that.

Hello,

I apologize if this has already been mentioned in another context, but I haven't seen a relevant thread yet.

I filed form I-129F in December 2024, and I check my case status daily with a paid service that collates data from other cases. In the past few days, the number of cases between mine and "the front of the line" has hardly shifted; it has moved on the order of 10 cases per day. Additionally, the service I use has a banner that states that "USCIS has paused movement at the front of the line." I'm currently somewhere in the ballpark of 4,500 cases from the front of the line, so at the current rate of processing, my case would be processed well over a year from now (after already waiting five to six months). The estimated processing date for my case slips backward each time I log in to check my case status.

The service I use has a "current wait time" histogram, and in recent days, it's changed from a right-skewed distribution with a peak around six months to a bimodal or uniform distribution spanning six to ten months.

Has anyone else experienced something similar with their case? Does anyone know the cause of the recent slowdown, and is it a temporary measure or a signal of a shift in policy or strategy?

After such a long journey the day is here.

My wife passed her citizenship exam and we are awaiting the naturalization ceremony.

I am so excited for her !

I'm waiting processing on a concurrent I-130 and I-485 filing. I want to send in an I-765 to go with it. Do I need to send this to the Chicago Lockbox where I sent my original concurrent filing? Or should I send it to the Missouri address on my Receipt Notices, i.e. NBC U.S. Citizenship and Immigration, Lee's Summit, MO? Thanks for the help!

So my wife's n400 has been rejected twice. I am a bit confused as to what we are doing wrong in regards to the reduced fee amount. I have included pics of our receipt letter and part 10 of the form. Our check was for 380 which the fee schedule shows. Any idea what we are doing wrong?

As for the other things mentioned in rejection we figured out and believe we have corrected. My wife messed up filling out page 3 of n400. When she reprinted a new page a new edition of the form came out. Page 3 was new edition and rest was old edition. Old edition is accepted for few more weeks but the mix of the 2 had them put page 3 back by the evidence and say it was missing. Could this have anything to do with the fee problem?