US Immigration from South Korea

Hello everyone,

My fiance has acquired all of his documents for our interview , but one last police certificate has held us up. He spent a little under a year in the Philippines when he was 16, and thus needs a police certificate from there.

The whole process from getting an appointment and sending in the materials and waiting for it in the mail has taken him almost 3 months, and still he has yet to receive the police certificate in the mail.

I'm pretty much guessing that all we can do is wait ( we also requested for our petition approval to be extended just recently too as it has taken so long. )

We have been unable to contact anyone in the Philippines about the status and he also has no contacts in the Philippines that can assist.

Does anyone have advice for how we can proceed? Is the only option to just wait it out and hope for the best? Pretty sure that they wouldn't be able to exempt us from needing the certificate, correct?

Thanks so much in advance.

Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is a correct forum to ask but I have a question for my wife that had been approved as a conditional permanent resident.

We did the civil ceremony for the wedding on August~September on 2019 and applied for the green card and my wife got her conditional green card a couple of months ago.

We are now planning on doing the actual wedding in our home country, which is South Korea, this coming winter.
People are not advising us to go out of the country until the condition has been removed just to be safe for more than a couple of months while my wife is planning on staying there for at least 3 months.

Is this not a safe thing to do while you have a conditional green card?

Hello all,

I am currently married to my wife who came from South Korea through a K-1 visa. She has since attained permanent residency and has a green card. She is currently in the process of trying to be naturalized here in the US (which I know will take some time). She has a son in South Korea (from a previous marriage) that we would like to bring over to the US to live with us.

I was looking through the immigration guidelines and I understand that I have to file I-130 to bring him over, but I was looking also at the Follow-To-Join Benefits section and it says:

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Your spouse and/or children may be eligible for following-to-join benefits if:

• The relationship existed at the time you became a permanent resident and still exists, AND
• You received an immigrant visa or adjusted status in a preference category.

My wife and I obviously still are married so the first part applies, but I am confused about the second part. If my wife came to the US through a K-1 visa and has since attained her green card (permanent resident status) here, do I have to go through the process of filing the I-130 or can I just file Form I-824 for the Follow-to-Join benefits? I am not sure if the K-1 visa is in a "preference category" as the second part states.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Good day Visa Journey.

My fianc and I were approved on a K-1 Fianc visa through USCIS on April 16, 2021. Our case arrived at the NVC on May 11 and we got our case number on May 13, we have been patiently waiting for it to ship to our embassy (Seoul). We have been checking the 'alleged' second-Tuesday ship dates and coming up short thrice now (1st one we just missed, 2nd one the embassy didn't request any and this 3rd one we were told we were not on). After multiple calls to see if we were missing anything, the agent at NVC informed us that we went into Administrative Processing shortly after arrival (13 May is the date he told us). What does that mean for a case at NVC? I was under the belief that Administrative Processing was more of a dead zone during the consulate process (after it arrives at the embassy, after the interview). Has anyone run into this? If so, what do you do.

We are completely lost at this point and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

My fiance has contracted a chronic medical condition requiring medication and he wishes to avail himself of his home country s free healthcare to get the medicine while waiting for a work permit and/or green card.

Can he use advanced parole or travel document done under humanitarian reasons with a doctor s note to go back to his home country for a short period without jeopardizing his green card application?