US Immigration from Philippines

Hello does anyone have any knowledge of how to obtain a copy of a Malaysian birth certificate? I was born in Malaysia but I have been living abroad in the Philippines my whole life and I need to get my original Malaysian birth certificate for my interview however it is lost. Please if anyone has any advice be kind and help me! I am desperately looking up how to do it and I can't find any answers. My mother lied to me about my birth certificate here in the Philippines being my original but I found out today during my interview that this was not the case and now I need to get my original birth certificate. I am so distressed and upset that I got denied and have to reschedule so please don't make things harder on me with lectures of how I should have known. My life with my mother has been sheltered and I'm learning everyday that the things she told me growing up are not true Thank you.

Another snag in my process to get my fiance. For those applying on a K1 visa you might run into this problem trying to reschedule another appointment. The portal will not allow you to reschedule until the system resets. I been waiting over a week and sent massages and spoke to the service center. They said my case will be investigated ( i suppose a better choice of word would be checked) and escalated, I don't know again. Over a week is not escalated enough for me since her medical exam results will expire July 20th. Yes this is because of the problem of appointment making that is so hard to get. That biometric appointment was so hard to get then having to face the availability of getting the appointment for interview which had to be done together. Now with biometrics completed, her final step to having her in my arms was the interview. They sent her home because of one document that slipped in the crack. We both never heard of it. They need an Advisory on Marriage. She's a widow and we have the death certificate. Further, why is this a concern when it should have been questioned in the initial filing of her I-129F? She been given the approval! It is another bureaucratic mess adding to the inconsistency of processing applications. The other issue is medical record expiration when immigrants have no medical expiration dates. I'm not even going to touch on this matter. If you are a K1 applicant, try to understand it. If you experience with the portal not available to reschedule let me know how long it took to make an appointment for an interview.

Good day everyone!

I don't know where to ask but Im currently on a removal of conditional (I1751). So, My previous GC i had my maiden name and now Im changing to my married, however my passport this entire time has been changed as my married.

We are going on a cruise and my MIL asking me these info and im confuse if I use my maiden or married? The family cruise will be next year Feb 2026, she asked my passport name or any legal name of any legal ID i think/ atleast what i think. I don't know if my question make sense.

Should I give her my what's in my maiden name? what about my passport that has a married to it? Any other documents need to bring verify everything?

I appreciate who can answer

Thank you!

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?