US Immigration from Taiwan

9 minutes ago, Faraz Hanif said:

also i just signed up for Visa Journey and I got a notification that two devices from Chicago logged into my account

Your Visa Journey account? From whom did this notification come?

This is my annual reminder for older immigrant couples (like my spouse and I).

Social Security monthly retirement benefits (Age 62+)

Can be earned:

1. Based on immigrant's own work record OR

2. Based on spouse's work record (must be married for 1 year or more). This does not affect the SS retirement benefit of the US spouse. The immigrant is not required to have any SS work credit. I believe the amount is 50% of spouse's monthly deposit.

Medicare (non-special qualifications)

1. Immigrant must have been a Green Card holder for 5 years.

2. Normally, immigrant must be 65 years old. Immigrant can be entitled to receive FREE Medicare Part A (Example: US Spouse is already receiving SS retirement benefits and US spouse already receives free Medicare Part A). Immigrant will pay the normal Medicare Part B monthly premiums (currently about $174.00) which is deducted from any monthly Social Security benefit deposit.

In our case, I was not aware of the spousal Social Security benefit, so we applied for wife's Social Security and Medicare at the same time (on the same Social Security form) when she turned 65 years old. It took Social Security only a few days to approve her SS retirement benefit and to start her Medicare Parts A & B. Coupled with a good Medicare supplement (ours is Tricare For Life), this provides really good health care coverage.

Myself (US citizen) and my wife (Taiwanese citizen) just got our CR1 interview date set at AIT in Taipei in a month.

We also have a 7 month old baby who was born the week after we sent out all of our NVC paper work. We still have not done his CRBA to report his birth (and no passport yet either of course). We may not have time to bring him in to AIT to get his CRBA complete by the time of the CR1 interview.

Will this be a problem?

Should we push out our CR1 interview date until we can get our baby's CRBA complete or is this irrelevant?

And would we have to change anything for her paperwork that reflects we have a child now? perhaps household size in the i-864?

Any info or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.

Just started getting that error again using Windows 11 laptop. I will clear cookies again and test.

A couple days ago, I suddenly started experiencing a long delay when clicking the "unread content" link. It now takes approx. 80-90 seconds to respond. I have cleared my browser, but the issue persists. Others have also informed me of the same issue. Thanks for looking into this, Captain.