US Immigration from Philippines

Hello All,

With the current visa bulletin for F4 (Philippines) how many more years I have to wait.
DO you think 10-12 yrs? I have waited for 12 years already.

Thanks.

Filed March 2008

April May 2010.

For those that have K1 Visa approvals in the Philippines and have not left yet: What are your plans?

If the shut down continues for a few more months, my fiancee K1 visa will expire. Can we ask the US Embassy to extend the visa due to the corona virus? Do we reapply and start the process again?

Just wondering what options we have. Thanks in advance for any replies and stay safe.

Need advice on getting dual citizenship for my children. But its very complicated and ill explain as best i can so perhaps yall can give the best advice. The first issue is i am divorced from their mother and i have full custody. Before our marriage, my ex wife had been adopted in the philippines by a US citizen. But was to old for the adoption to be given citizenship or dependent visa. She came over on a b2 and never left. The b2 was in her birth name (not her adopted name). So she continued to use her birth name. When we got married she dropped her maiden last name and took my last name. She recieved her greencard with no issues despite overstaying on her b2 visa and being denied a greencard based on her adoption. On our first childs birth certificate her name was her birth name (not adopted). Her passport was about to expire so when we went to the embassy to get a new one. It was shown that her adoption had gone through and her birth certificate was now recorded with her adopted name. So they issued the new passport in the adopted name. But did not use my last name as we got married in colorado and the Embassy in washington didnt have the jurisdiction to issue a report of marriage for colorado. So at this point she has used three names. Birth Name, Birth name with my last name, and Adopted name. However she still used her birth name when our 2nd child was born. Then we filed her US citizenship, and through the process they wouldnt except her birth name or married name as it wasnt her legal name since she was adopted. So they issued her naturalization with her Adopted name and my last name. We then went overseas and had our third child in korea. On his report of birth abroad certificate her name is her adopted name with my last name. three years after, we divorced. i have full custody of the children. One was born in colorado (also where we were married), one was born in South Carolina, and the third born in South Korea at a military base. So i need advice on how to get their dual citizenship with the issues being i am now divorced, two born in different states, one born in different country, and her having 4 different names on the various documents (Passports, birth certificates). We never filed a report or marriage with the consulate or embassy. I hope ive given enough information and hope you all are able to give me the best advice to get their dual citizenship. Thank you all.

Hi everyone. She is here under a 6mo tourist Visa from the Philippines.

How can we best handle the situation; being sure if they're going to want her to fly back on her May 7th return flight we have booked? Will the airlines reschedule if UCSIS allows the delay, or expect us to cancel and pay again later?

Anyone dealing with this with a more recent return flight or one upcoming sooner who can speak on this and what happened?

Thank you.

Well I was not going to post this as it could be a HUGE error, but I decided to post anyway as it serves to give other VJers information and also something to perhaps look out for if you are in the same boat as us. I'm a September 2019 AOS filer my AOS interview was scheduled for April 17th and due to the virus situation it was cancelled as I expected. My status changed back to case ready for interview on April 1st. Enter today April 3rd I get a text from USCIS get this..... that a new card is being produced for the I-485 form (GC)!!!!!!!!

No interview no advance warning no nothing. I immediately logged on to my account at USCIS and low and behold the status is New Card Is Being Produced!!!!! Can you believe that? USCIS has been known to error before, so I really can only hold my breath until the card arrives in the mail. I'm sure this will happened to other folks here on VJ if in fact this was not an error. So we all can be on the look out for other people getting their GC without going on a interview. I know no interview was a common thing several years ago, but USCIS changed that to where everyone interviewed. The only thing I can think of other than being an error is USCIS decided that all the cancellations of interviews was going to set them way behind so they decided to clean out a few cases and approve without an interview.

For your information we submitted the standard AOS packet (pre February 24th). In addition to the supporting documents for the I-485, I-864, I-765 and the I-131 we did not send any other documents or evidence (besides the marriage license). I have no explanation other than what I have laid out here. I'll for sure post here once the card reaches us! What a Friday!!!!!!!!! And it's early still!!!!!