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OP, keep in mind that with the Utah marriage, you will not be eligible to file the petition for a spousal visa until you next meet in person. It may be filed online.

Good point, they would have no way of knowing that OP is married to a service member - maybe to her advantage to mention?

Would prior unauthorized presence be retroactively forgiven when the petitioner naturalizes?

It could be from Covid, previous TB infection, or smoldering TB. The only way to know is via the well-established TB sputum testing protocol, which is quite routine at Saint Luke's and for Filipino visa applicants. The source of the scarring isn't really relevant - what doesn't make sense is that it would be given as a reason for inadmissibility. An expected result would be for the applicant to get a 221g pending testing. But as @Chancy points out, someone with a suspected or confirmed TB infection would not even have an interview, as it seems the medical exam is required to be done prior to the interview for USEM (not a requirement for many other embassies). In the totality of OP's posting history and stories, something here isn't adding up.....

His response is "do I look like a criminal?"

Right, but until relatively recently, there was a functioning embassy there to assist Americans with urgent issues.

Husband reacts strongly if asked if he’s an Aussie….. 😅

I can assure you that Americans generally do not know where Wales is. Once when I was getting ready to travel to NZ, a patient asked me if the currency unit there is the Euro.

My point is that most people do not have the type of lifestyle where they can spend more time in the US than out. This will raise suspicions and your ESTA privilege may be removed. We see this often here on VJ.

Good point!

Probably referring to the state department "DO NOT TRAVEL" warnings, and the fact that Americans who need embassy assistance while in Russia will be SOL.

The ESTA is not for living in the US.

That makes no sense from a medical perspective. Even confirmed TB is not a permanent inadmissibility, as it is treatable. There must be more to this story.

This is the risk you take when choosing to adjust on an ESTA, and waiting until the very end of the authorized stay to do so.

Not sure what you mean about registering. She needs a visa to be able to live in the United States. That process will take at least two years. I recommend you start reading and researching as much as you can about it. US immigration is not cheap or fast. It’s very unlikely she will get a tourist visa.

I wonder if sending 1000 pages actually does slow things down, as in perhaps there are policies about adjudicators reading every scrap of what is sent? I know that when I was closely monitoring K-1s, it did seem like some of the people who got RFEs sent kitchen sink type petitions, and that sometimes the content opened a Pandora’s Box of questions resulting in RFEs. Every step of our process, from 1-129F filing to ROC has been bare-bones….no photos sent, no extraneous “love story” written, no affidavits of any kind. Our evidence has been high quality though. Maybe it has been fairly smooth sailing because we are old and husband comes from a country with equal socioeconomic standing as the US….who knows.

All of this was addressed, at length, in your previous posts about this topic. And you were also told that the potential SS benefit for the kids is not considered, because it is only potential at this point, and it will eventually stop.

We went with minimalism: quarterly joint bank statements, quarterly joint household bills (all since the beginning of our marriage), joint health and auto insurance, two jointly owned vehicles, designated beneficiaries for retirement and other accounts, and that's about it! I owned the house prior, so it's only in my name. We sent no photos. YMMV.

No. If that was the case, those of us who are done having children (or who choose not to) would be at an unfair disadvantage.

And your wife doesn't mind?

I'm sure the typical US salaries don't hurt, either 😉

Right. That may or may not be congruent with true love, which is what it sounds like the OP is looking for.

A quarter is 3 months. The evidence should span the entire marriage to date.

No. Quarterly statements, like Mike said. This is what we sent.

So he was petitioned by another American previously?