US Immigration from Philippines

i'm appling for my wife children to come to the US. they are currently in the PH. We did the I-130 and got approved for both. one case was already sent to NVC and I have the case and invoice number. the other case approved yesterday so hopefully i'll get a case number next week. I asking if I wait until both are at the NVC and then pay the fees and paperwork at the same time or just start doing the one I have now and wait for the other and start that one? Also how long is the general waiti time for the interview? I want to have both on the same day instead of them being far apart because we are flying over for the interviews and we have one month to go to both interviews and hopefully get the visas and come back here. How long is the wait from documents complete to the interview time in the PH. I know 5 years ago when my wife came here it was 2 weeks from documents complete to the interview. and after the interview she had her visa in 2-3 weeks. but we are trying to go over there in march or april hopefully. Is there a way I can contact them and ask if they can do both intervews at the same time?

I haven't posted here in a long time. My wife immigrated to Tennessee in 2009 to join me. She was a teacher, and then Principal in the Philippines. Here in the USA she reinvented herself. She is a Captain (soon to be Major) in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps. We were stationed in Germany for 4 years, and now have been in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for over a year now. Currently, even while on active duty, she is working on her PhD in Healthcare Administration. We share a 14 year old son who plans on going to the U.S. Air Force Academy when he graduates high school (a gpa of 4.0, straight A+ student!)

Just posting this to show how this journey really can work out great!

God bless you all in the journey!

My fianc e and I are planning to be married hopefully by the end of next year. She hails from a province in the Philippines but is currently working under contract in Hong Kong as an OFW. She has been married in the Philippines and thus needs a divorce. We are going through a consulting agency so I anticipate it would go by rather fast. If anyone has a good idea on a time frame - please comment on this and let me know what kind of time I am looking at.

Regardless - I am posting for the reason that her contract ends in July and she does not want to renew it. I had seen in another discussion that she had a choice of processing her part of the K1 visa either in Hong Kong or back in the Philippines where she comes from. Is this still true and what would needed to be done should she move back to her home in the Philippines to finish with her part of the K1

Thanks for the replies in advance

I would like to ask if after I accidentally opened the visa yellow packet, informed the Us embassy and emailed back the document to be resealed together with the request letter. What is chances that it will be ok?

Hey all. We were DQ'd in June 2024, and my wife wants to get her medical early because we know some scarring in her lungs will lead to more testing. She wants to schedule it for January, but I read you cannot schedule it without the appointment letter. Can we schedule it before receiving our appointment letter from the NVC, or do we have to wait? Thanks!