US Immigration from Philippines

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Hi all!

Got a question about health insurance. Went through K1 visa and we are now married. We are currently working on his AOS packet. I (US citizen) have health coverage through Covered California since I work part time so my employer doesn't offer health insurance. if I add him to my covered california account, will he be considered a public charge since he has $0 income and will be on Medi-Cal? I would appreciate any input/suggestion on this matter. Thank you so much!

My wife came to the US on a Fiance Visa in July 2009, and sometime in the year that followed she filed a Petition for her Son. He was and still is an Unmarried Son over the age 21, and the Petition was approved quickly. We received a Priority Date of Jan 13 2010. My wife is from the Philippines, so the number of years to wait for an "Available Visa" back then was about 12 years. This July will mark her 11th anniversary married to me and living in the USA, and the April Visa Bulletin shows a Priority Date for F2B of February 01, 2010. That means we have finally, and a bit under the original 12 years, reached her Son's Priority date. If April Visa Bulletin shows Feb. 1, 2010, and his Priority Date is Jan 13, 2010, I imagine that technically his date will come up sometime between today and April 1.

I don't know what we do now. We have never heard from the National Visa Center, ever since my wife's approved Petition was forwarded there from USCIS over ten years ago. We moved once from our original address about four years ago, and I mailed the National Visa Center about three months ago to update our address. I never heard a peep from them after that letter was delivered either. I tried calling them a few times over the last year, but they never answer the phone. It seems the only way to communicate with them is by mail.

Can anyone enlighten me on the process, now that the Priority Date is upon us. Is it our responsibility to complete a form and send it to them asking for the supposedly now Available Visa? Do we do nothing and expect that magically the NVS will awaken out of a decade long sleep and contact us? Should her Son be receiving something from them instead of us? He just moved within the same city in the Philippines, and in the letter I sent to the NVS three months ago I also updated that.

My visa application was approved Feb 12. I am in Manila waiting for the interview to fly home with Amelia. I do not yet have a case number. I tried calling NVC last night right at 7 am and was on hold for 20 min before calling card expired (Trac Fone does not work here). Last time I called at this time I got through on first ring. If staffing at NVC is this bad, how is it affecting the rest of the process? If I stay till approval and there is a problem flying her home, what would the effect be if after visa approval we get married here. Would I then be able to fly her home as my spouse?

Hello,

My mother has become a US citizen, while my brother was a juvenile, so she was going to get him a passport, using her Certificate of Naturalization to show citizenship. They request his birth certificate with father's name, but the father was not in the picture at the time of the birth, so he's not on birth certificate. Currently, the father's family doesn't know what happened to him to get any type of statement paper. My brother has turned 18 since my mother's citizenship, if that matters. He has a Baptismal with the father's name. Also, he has an expired Philippine passport with visa stamp, and his green card. What can he do for evidence without his father's name on birth certificate since the father is no where to be found?