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I just checked his profile and they are in the US. I don't know anything about sending the file to other agencies.

Oh, sorry, I confused you with another guy I talked with several years back when I was living in Vietnam waiting for my wife's visa. He also lived there and was having issues getting his visa for her.

I can't believe you are having issues with this. You have been physically living with her in Vietnam for how long now? Most people don't live with their petitioner in their home country. A couple of visits, marriage, then go home and file paperwork. Yet they question someone that has lived with their spouse througout the whole process?

Still could file, get I-751 moved up, finish I-751 then withdraw the n-400. Sucks it would cost some money but could get resolution. That said, I suspect the I-751 would come by itself at this late date before the n-400 would come.

If the job thing doesn't work out does it make sense for both of you to go to Vietnam, marry there with her family present and then let her stay with her family until she can arrive in the US? This would be the least expensive while living apart while giving her a support structure while you are not in the same household. I hate to say your chance of a tourist visa isn't great. Better than a normal single VN girl who has never left the country but still very slim odds.

Why are you sweating one day? You are going to now wait 2-4 years before anything happens. One extra day won't matter in the long run.

It's a good way to lighten your wallet by $165. If you have already filed i-130 you have shown immigration intent and that drops the chance of getting a tourist visa fron PH from almost zero to zero. But, it's your money. Anyone can apply for a tourist visa as long as you are willing to pay the non-refundable application fee. They will give her an interview. It will probably be three questions and then they will deny her. It's just a money grab with no chance of sucess.

Vietnam definitely allows petitioners to attend for CR-1, not sure about K1. I attended ours. I actually answered most of the questions in the interview. I think my wife answered one. Ours was pretty short, maybe 5 minutes. A good portion was just talking about home since the officer was from a city less 30 minutes from my pemanent address in the US. I think it also helped because at the time the border in Vietnam was closed for more than a year due to covid so any petitioners that actually came were virtually guaranteed to be bona fide since we already had to have been in country for more than a year at the time of the interview. I was the only petitioner there out of 60-70 people that day.

All they would need to do one one parts is submit the tax transcripts and compare them to the tax returns that were originally submitted. Pretty easy to prove if they are fake or not fake.

I would include that with a ote that the lease was already in your husband's name.

VK = Viet Kieu, or overseas Vietnamese. Generally USC or European citizen that was born in Vietnam.

They must have been really on the edge between approve and deny to go that far. DId they facetime her as well? I suspect that they really DON'T want to make a mistake and deny a real marriage. I personally think that with a concerted effort to defend the NOID it will be overturned. Kind of like, "we weren't sure but based on the new evidence it pushed it over the edge to approve". Just my gut from reading everything here.

If you mean you did a facetime call instead of a regular call, I don't know the answer to that. Maybe because it's a free call instead of paying for an international call or maybe it's common that they do that so they can see facial reactions that often tell more than the words.

Reading your other thread about the phone interviews I think the birthday thing pushed an iffy approval to NOID. They already weren't confident so sent it to AP and the poor phone interview sealed it. Any other questions not match answers?

No, 10 years isn't bad. Missing the birthday question is kinda big because there was something substantial and she said "nothing". Meeting through family is always a bit of a flag but shouldn't be huge. Pretty much going to need to wait to see what they say on the NOID. I don't see any one major thing. I think that a lot of little things added up to not having confidence in being bona-fide.

I sent my Fiance $50K in cash before we were married and sumbitted those payments as part of my evidence and we got through fine. I don't think cash payments alone got him a NOID. I really don't think it is the second wife thing if the first was 10 years ago. I also don't think it was limited visits as many have gotten through on three visits. I assume the petitioner is Viet Kieu since the met with "both of their families" when he visited so that I would have thought was a good thing as opposed to a mixed marriage, which is more common. I'm kind of stumped as the OP is on the denial unless there is something that he hadn't mentioned. Could be her work history or something she said in the interview that they didn't like. Legend of Summer, is it a big age gap between the two of you? That alone wouldn't be a deal breaker but could be adding to this. Heck, we are 23 years apart. EDIT: I just-reread and saw you went to the interview with her as well. That's also usually a big positive at HCMC.

What is CoC? I'm in the same position as the OP but stepdaughter is 16 now. Filing for citizenship for my wife December this year.

I got one of the rare 36 month and a month later got a 48.

Stop giving bad advice. The court can request records of bank accounts prior to filing the divorce so even if you pulled this stunt it will backfire. And I really don't see her paying him alimony.

You seem to be preoccupied by little bit of money. It will be to the date of the divorce, not separation. My last one cost me well over $1M dollars. It happens. Deal with it. They say you can't put a price on happiness. Yes, you can. It's called HALF.

We filed ROC in January. By February it showed fingerprints were taken on my wife's case. Just got a letter for her daughter. Why would they use the old fingerprints for my wife and not a 16 year old who was on the same application? Now I have to take her out of school, take her an hour away on the 28th because of course they scheduled the appointment for 10:00.

It doesn't matter what you want. It's what the law says you have to do when you divorce. The court will decide. In most states that means 50/50 of assets accumulated during the marriage. So assets you had before you married would remain yours and the same for her as long as you can prove it. So if you could show a bank statement the month before you married with a $30,000 savings balance or a 401k you probably could get that exempted. But that said, 401k accumulated in the last 2.4 years could be attached to the split. And if she worked for a year and didn't contribute to expenses and just saved all of that money it would go into the split as well. Now if she worked and got paid and spent it or sent it all home to her parents it would likely be treated the same as spent on rent. If she still has it then it gets thown into the pot to split as it was accumulated during the marriage. Divorces at 2-3 years don't end up with a lot of alimony in most cases. It's longer marriages where you can get wrapped into paying alimony and/or if one spouse makes significantly more than the other. But you do still have the I-864 so hope she keeps working after divorce.

I don't know if K1 is different than CR-1 but I definitely went with my wife for CR-1 and they not only let me inside but I ended up answering 80% of the questions from the immigration official. She literally answered 2-3 questions. I was unique in the sense that our interview was almost a year after Vietnam closed the border due to COVID so there were no other CR-1 petitioners there. I was the only one as I was living there from the time we married until she immigrated.

My wife is now pregnant (3 months) and the doctor didn't want to schedule the first appointment until 8-10 weeks anyway for the first ultrasound so no reason not to wait until April 1.

Oooooohhh, you really DO need the elusive 36 month!