US Immigration from Philippines

Hi,

My wife and I have a unique situation and we re looking for some helpful advice, please.

I may be moving out of state for a new job at the end of January. My wife is currently a pre-school teacher, a new job she started at the beginning of the school year. So, we ve been discussing the idea of her staying behind at our friend s apartment here for the remainder of the school year (until June 18th or so) so she can fulfill her responsibility to the school, parents, and children.

With the above in mind, her 2 year green card expires on June 19, so we would need to start the ROC process in the middle of all this (around March 19 or so).

So, we have a few questions:

1.) How should we go about informing USCIS (or any other agencies?) with regards to updating our separate addresses during the move, and 5 months later when she joins me at the new location?

2.) Is this even possible to do while temporarily living separately, do you think it might create any problems for us, and if so what, if anything special, should we do?

3.) How should we go about documenting this situation in preparation for the ROC interview

4.) Regarding sending/receiving mail during the process I m assuming it would be best to have it all sent to my new address, is there anything I should get sent to her temp address instead?

5.) is there anything else I may not be thinking of that we need to ask or consider?

Thank you so much for your replies, this community has helped us so much, we are very grateful for you all!

my wife was a OFW , and im told we must get a back ground check form the Philippines/ government as well as were she worked before .

How do we go about the OFW country ?

and do we submit this with the I-130 package ?

ok here we go

instead of filing a I-130 paying $500 + 12 months wait .

Can i file a DS-2029 for her citizenship , pay $100 and be done in only4 months ?

what do you know about this ?

https://blogs.lawyers.com/attorney/immigration/can-a-child-born-in-the-philippines-to-an-american-father-apply-for-u-s-citizenship-2-23883/

this site says its the way to go .

I am just about to submit my I-129F packet and wanted to make sure everything will go smoothly. Prior to meeting my now fiancee, she had been engaged...Somewhere around early 2018. Her then fiance had submitted a I-129F packet. I do not know where in the process it went. She had not yet gotten a medical or interview. But I believe they had contacted her to schedule an interview. They ended up breaking up before the petition went any further.

Is there anything I need to be concerned about or any extra paperwork needed?

Hi to All VJ'ers,

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE:

Finally my Immigration Visa Journey comes to an end!!! 15 months of waiting and I am American now! After It was the easieast 10 minutes interview but spend 35 minutes chitchatting hahaha. I had a chance to ask questions to clarify issued about backlogged and transfers of interview venue. I don't remember my IO name, at first she has the poker face - very serious and started the normal routine for interview.

Date of Interview: December 12, 2019

Time of Interview: 9:45am

Field office: Seattle office

Checked in: 9:20am

Time called: 10:00am

OATH TAKING: 1:30PM (same day)

78 applicants attended

28 different Nationalities

IO asked the following:

• Birthdate
• Phone Number
• Current Address

Then went directly on Reading Test, Writing Test and Civic Test. It went so fast that I don't recall the Civic questions hahahaha, then proceeded with Yes and No questions. I just don't remember details but I informed the IO that there were discrepancies from the TRAVELS history that I submitted online and also I have some travel updates. And she asked "You been to Canada a lot?" and I answered yes because we are boating every summer. That started breaking the ice and we started chatting. I then took the liberty to ask questions about "A lot of people are wondering why Seattle Field office is so way far behind." She replied with this:

1) Just for example if there are 20 Intervew Officers and there are 20,000 applicants and they can do so much a day. It is self explanatory.

2) Another example if there's a bus and the capacity is only 50 then the people waiting to get a rid are 200. Again its self explanatory.

I did not ask further questions about the delay since she told me this examples and they are no brainer to understand. So there's no reason to stress ourselves when "The Estimated Processing Time" takes months or years. Again it won't change the fact that they don't have enough Manpower and if we RANT about it! IT WILL NOT CHANGE A THING HOW THE PROCESS VISA APPLICATIONS!

Then I asked about "Why other applicants are being transferred from Seattle field office to Portland or possible to Yakima?". She responded that "It doesn't matter where your address is, some applicants are being tranferred because the other field office wants to help Seattle. So my thought is this ---- I'm not sure if anyone of who were tranferred made a differencen or shortened the WAIT Time.

Here you go! I am not sure if this answers some confusions about Seattle Field office but I just thought to take the courage to ask the IO for you guys. It may not be satifying answer but this is it! I compared any visa applications to a "SLOW COOKER", when you cook and use a slow cooker "You set it and forget it right?" You don't rush it because you know it's a slow cooking process. This is probably the best way to compare the DILEMA why the visa proccessing is way slower in Seattle.

CHEERS to all!!! Good luck and remember PATIENCE IS VIRTUE.

BTW please take time to UPDATE YOUR TIMELINE so we can help other VJ'ers.